It's not much of an exploit when your older brother beats the living crap out of you for getting his account banned.

LRG is really frustrating. A friend of mine didn't get his physical Turrican Collection for over three years after the digital version was released. I ordered a premium collector's package from them two years ago, the standard physical edition that was *not* published by LRG released last year, and yet LRG's collector's package has still not released.

Beamer wrote on Apr 22, 2024, 13:26:
Can't wait to invest in the tabletop gaming company!

They put all of the debt (900 million euros) into Asmodee, didn't they? It sounds like they want the tabletop gaming company to die.

This kind of reminds me of the Golgafrinchams in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. They threw all of the "useless" people into an ark ship and sent them away to supposedly colonize another planet (except the people who stayed behind had a civilization-ending calamity because they were missing the useless people).

Ooo, I'm flattered! I was a developer on some of those early '00s-era Nintendo sites.

I live on the side of Haleakala on Maui, and I get earthquakes like that every couple of months. No biggie. I'm heading to Japan in a few weeks, though, and I'm a little bit leery of the probability of 6.0+ earthquakes while I'm there. I've traveled to Japan four times previously, and during every single trip I have experienced at least one 6.0+ earthquake.

If we're all a family, then during Thanksgiving dinner I'm heading to my room once Beamer, Cutter, and Prez start arguing over politics.

It's also really easy to set a dedicated server up. It's way easier to run it than the official instructions would suggest. Their instructions talk about console commands and folder setup and whatnot, but all you really have to do is go to your Steam library (you may have to turn off the filter that shows only games) and double-click on "PalWorld Dedicated Server". The port forwarding (8211 is default) is straightforward if you have done it before for other games.

The only thing I don't like about running the current version of the dedicated server is that it seems to generate no log files, so if there is a crash, I can't look at the log to see if it's something fixable on my end and I can't send them a decent bug report.

I am amused by the rerelease of "Renegade: Battle for Jacob's Star", but I hope they also rerelease "Renegade Legion: Interceptor". I enjoyed the risk/reward maneuver system and the unique battle damage system.

The link to Slamcity VR just goes to their X page, which isn't very useful.

Here is a link to their gameplay video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOLilIYfGfc

It looks... bad right now. I really hope the in-game framerate is better than that displayed in the video. I got sick from the choppiness in the video, and I am relatively resistant to in-game VR motion sickness.

None of the linked reviews mention the quality of the multiplayer co-op feature that was announced a few days ago (except RPS', which only tags the game "multiplayer co-op" and doesn't actually talk about it). I know that the reviews were probably written before the announcement, but that's one of the most important features for me.

Prophecy Games was spun off from Hi-Rez.

I just want another MissionForce: Cyberstorm tactical game with HERCs.

Apparently, Reddit was also never designed to be profitable.

Barbie Fashion Designer definitely deserves a Hall of Fame entry. It outsold Quake and Doom in the same yearly sales period. It launched the first wave of girls' games by proving that there was a viable games market for young girls.

I started playing Spacebourne 2 last weekend. It costs $19.99. It's not perfect (it is, in fact, janky in many ways), but I think it is really fun anyway. It gives me what I wanted from Star Citizen so many years ago when I backed the original campaign. I don't even feel like I want to play Star Citizen at this point in time, especially given that Everspace 2 is in my play queue once I'm done with Spacebourne 2.

Acleacius wrote on Mar 26, 2023, 21:41:

Bubicus wrote on Mar 26, 2023, 18:12:

Acleacius wrote on Mar 26, 2023, 13:42:
What? These aren't the assault cases. Several game companies investigated inhouse and found enough evidence to fire him, iirc.
My best guess, is he went after low hanging accusations, after the fact. Afaik, this doesn't clear him, at all. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm going to call you on that, Acleacius. Which companies fired him, and on what evidence?

Techland ended a contract on mutual agreement, and there was no evidence made public of any wrongdoing while he did work for them.
Owlcat said they were disapppointed and surprised, but his work was already done.

Ok, did you actually read the post? There are literally two listed there, and you want me to type them out because your reading me not the post?
Do you research, they did their own in house investigations, isn't that the way all corps do it?
What am I missing here, you clearly didn't even read the base post and now I need to do your research for you?

Ok, my turn to ask questions. Why don't you tell us how it works, then, pick a corporation and give us a break down.
How, you put, I'm call you on this one?

No one said there was evidence, all I said was there was an internal investigation, which you just corroborated.
They never give out the details, well unless it's some idiot like 'tiny hands mcdrump'.
Just like the damn public post, that was ambiguous as hell, and as mentioned they are generally sealed.

Yes, I did read the original post. I also did research, reading Techland's and Owlcat's official statements, plus interviews by their representatives with media, plus Avellone's side of the story on his Medium page. I also tried to find any evidence made public showing illegal behavior by Avellone and found none... only hearsay.

You, on the other hand, claim "no one said there was evidence", yet it is clearly visible in the original post and in the following quotes that you used the phrase "several game companies investigated inhouse and found enough evidence to fire him". You are contradicting yourself. You yourself say there is enough evidence found to fire him. And anyway, if no one said there was evidence, then there was no public reason to fire him other than fear.

Perhaps you are correct in your generalized assumption that all corporations operate that way, but if a corporation found evidence of illegal behavior and did not report it to the police during an official crime investigation, the corporation may be breaking the law, and I doubt they would hide such evidence when lawyers come requesting it.

Acleacius wrote on Mar 26, 2023, 13:42:
What? These aren't the assault cases. Several game companies investigated inhouse and found enough evidence to fire him, iirc.
My best guess, is he went after low hanging accusations, after the fact. Afaik, this doesn't clear him, at all. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm going to call you on that, Acleacius. Which companies fired him, and on what evidence?

Techland ended a contract on mutual agreement, and there was no evidence made public of any wrongdoing while he did work for them.
Owlcat said they were disapppointed and surprised, but his work was already done.

I'm interested in War of the Lance. Of all those games, that got the most playtime from me. I had the Apple II version, and the number of disk swaps in that game were ridiculous (although understandable once I became a programmer). My memory is kind of fuzzy, but I think I bought a second disk drive because of that game! Even then, it would take 2-5 minutes for an AI turn. I assume the PC version is a lot easier to run.

Once I got a PC, Fantasy Empires got some playtime as well, but I couldn't help but exploit the AI bug that allowed a single archer to defeat ANY army on defense.

Wow, nearly 10 hours of documentary film about arcade history?! Very impressive.

Well, the Game Awards went way over 3 hours. (Valve gave away over $150k in Steam Decks because of that...)