The one that really impressed me was the capital on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. At one point I was walking on top of the walls surrounding it and looking around for a nice screenshot and I was just in awe of how great that city was.

I skipped it for the same reason at launch. Eventually I dropped windows completely and that was no longer an issue, but I had already moved on.

Recently I had an opportunity to play it for a while and I was quite surprised that despite having many flaws, the game also has a ton of good things. Mostly quality of life changes but they improved so many things in relation to civ 6 that it’s an absolute shame they butchered the game itself with its main “selling point”. If they made a game with all of those changes but without the Eras system it would probably be criticised for not innovating much, but people would be playing it.

Personally I’m not necessarily against the Eras system, but the way they implemented it is just the worst. I’m fine with the idea of changing civs every era, but the eras themselves now feel like different matches of a game. Once an era ends, you have to drop anything you didn’t finish and start new goals, but everything you did finish will give you powerful buffs in the next era - so you basically need to work into achieving everything every time. There’s no room for playing the long game, or doing your own thing. If you set up the game to be so long that each era lasts for 400 turns, then you can achieve every goal and kinda get back that freedom to do whatever you want (to some extent) - but then by the time you reach the modern era you’ll have so many buffs that you win the game before you do anything modern.

Oh Honey, do you really think it matters if he “has the power” to do it or not?

Well there’s two different things that people who relate to this picture may want: either the nature or the solitude (sometimes both); for the second, part of the fantasy is that they would never have to deal with anyone.

In reality what people want may be completely different, but the picture passes the message better.

As someone with no interest in predominantly NSFW games, it does bother me a bit that that is the most common type of game that show up for me unless I disable NSFW completely.

But my problem is exclusively with the algorithm and not with those games. I’m surprised that in 2025 a 200+ hour rpg with one implied sex scene may get tagged with the same ‘NSFW’ category as a Sex Simulator type of game, with no way to hide one without also hiding the other.

All itch.io had to do was create a “monetization-unfriendly” tag and aplly it to those games and hide them behind an opt-in toggle (with some proper notification for current users). They could even target their ads based on that toggle and get even happier advertisers with it.

I think I had a Mandela effect. I had clear memories of news breaking out about Epic Games acquiring itch.io, but googling for it now, all I see is references to when they added it to their own store.

Tbh it took longer than I expect for the new owners to start ducking itch.io

Sorry I think I hallucinated some events.

As long as it runs the same code, yes. But things may change, clients may pre-emptively split the string or stuff like that.

Imagine getting a multi byte character at the right position to get it split so that one byte gets in and the other doesn’t.

A second vote for Core Keeper here. I think it’s a safer option than Terraria, which could also be a good option but isn’t for everyone.

June and July deserve to share the same U too. In some languages it’s only the N/L that changes between them.

I’m not saying it’s good, I’m saying I expected it to be even worse.

Damn now how am I gonna live without “Change my cursor to Sims 4”?

Reading the paper, AI did a lot better than I would expect. It showed experienced devs working on a familiar code base got 19% slower. It’s telling that they thought they had been more productive, but the result was not that bad tbh.

I wish we had similar research for experienced devs on unfamiliar code bases, or for inexperienced devs, but those would probably be much harder to measure.

Worked on a personal game for 7 years nearly every day. Signed with a publisher and gave up on the project the following year.

I kinda agree with you to some extent. At the time my general reaction was something like: “everything it does, it does wonderfully. But I wish it did more”.

When TotK came out, my first impression was “I guess I’m never playing BotW again”. Mostly because they kind of overlap with each other in many aspects.

But I still thought BotW was a great game, before TotK existed.

The same folks who made Bazzite also have Aurora and Bluefin. Those are general purpose distros with the same ideas as Bazzite, just less gaming stuff bundled in. The difference between the two is just the desktop environment (gnome for bluefin, kde for aurora).

But even though Bazzite is focused on gaming, it is still a pretty good distro for general use too. The same stuff that enables windows games to run on it also help run any windows program just as well, so it might be a good pick if you use any software that only runs on windows.

I’ve gone through all tabs of the eShop and don’t see any filter like that anywhere.

Is there any third party game on switch 2 that wasn’t on the first switch? Looking at the Nintendo store I can’t even tell.

Anything from Ubisoft