Armengar wrote on May 24, 2025, 09:02:

Simon Says wrote on May 23, 2025, 23:08:

NKD wrote on May 23, 2025, 20:53:
I was going to start this but I guess there's no reason to now.

Or... Watch the show and pick up where it left off by reading the books for the rest of the story.

the books really started to drag though. the last 3 were a slog.

I think you are confused. The last 3 are the ones written by Sanderson, which have a much faster pace than the middle books. The slower-paced ones are books 8-10. Robert Jordan put out a fantastic book 11 though before he died.

subx wrote on May 24, 2025, 11:25:
Well, it was quite shit. Some terrible acting coupled with bad writing.

I hear the books are worse, with the story stretched out in unnessary ways until the author eventually died and someone else finished it.

You heard wrong. The books aren't perfect, but they are a lot of people's favorite fantasy series of all time (e.g., mine). The show was CW-level dreck that abandoned the books entirely in favor of the showrunner's own newly-created storylines and changes for the sake of changes, without regard for how it would screw things up down the line.

I launched this and tried a bit of Kaboom, and the controls were janky as hell. Although that is somewhat understandable since it was originally a paddle game, the Atari 50 collection also had that issue in some games and they controlled a lot better. And of course, nothing beats just firing up my MiSTer and using my spinner controller.

Prez wrote on May 8, 2025, 19:27:
I don't really care about ultra rich old dude slap fights. I'm glad that you are supposedly doing things to help people with your unimaginable wealth Mr. Gates. But you don't get a cookie for that; it's what you're supposed to be doing. And maybe ease off of the ideological hyperbole if you insist on talking.

I mean, it's truly not hyperbole. Musk cut funding that was being used to save poor kids' lives, more of them will now die. This isn't controversial.

Pardon my ignorance, but what's the point of making an NT-compatible OS? As I recall, lots of games in the late 90s were compatible only with Win 9x, and wouldn't work with NT.

That thewrap.com article uses the word “cache” when it means “cachet.” One of my biggest grammar pet peeves, and I see it everywhere these days. Pretty soon it’s just going to be added as an accepted alternate meaning, like how literally now means figuratively. Argh!

I've been most blown away by the combat in this game. It's actually fun! It's actually hard to understand how Microsoft could have released Starfield with its ultra-boring combat when they had this game in development at another studio. For as much as it annoys me how formulaic all of Sony's AAA games can be, there is something to be said for adopting best practices and gameplay elements on a publisher-wide basis.

FYI, there are ways to get Game Pass much, much cheaper than sticker. I just renewed for a year, doing this: I let my existing sub expire. I buy three EA play 1-year gift cards from Best Buy and Target for $30 a piece. I activate them on my account. I now have 3 years of EA play. I now subscribe to game pass ultimate, paying $20 for the first month. The existing EA Play time gets converted to Game Pass Ultimate at a 3:1 ratio. So now I have 1 year of game pass ultimate for only $90, or $7.50/month (plus a 13th month for the full $20 price, since you have to buy the one).

At that price, I don't care that I won't own the games permanently, nor do I feel any rush to play through them. I played Nine Sols, Mechwarrior 5: Clans, Indiana Jones, Avowed, Jedi Survivor, Gears Tactics, the Quarry, and Chants of Sennar in the past year on Game Pass. Very happy with that value.

I would agree that private forums don't seem to be of much value. I support because bluesnews is a thing I value, and I'd be sad if it went away. It's not about any perks.

I think you probably *could* get away with a sponsored post each week without alienating people too much. Something like what John Gruber does over at daringfireball.net. I would think that your audience is older and more affluent than average, and there might be some PC-gaming-focused advertisers who might value that.

Another idea is to note on the "support blues news" button itself that doing so will allow you to turn off ads. If that's a draw for people to subscribe, then hiding that perk behind a click seems counterproductive.

There was a Civ-style turn based strategy game released for the Oculus Rift and Vive in the early VR days, called Skyworld. It was simpler than Civ (probably simpler than even Civilization Revolutions, iirc) but it was fun. It used this same kind of tabletop diorama.

That Atlantic article is really all over the place. "Sure, age-verification laws don't meaningfully restrict access to porn because they don't apply to mixed-use websites like Reddit, and foreign websites don't comply, and if anything they just push kids into viewing sketchier porn on those foreign websites.... but it's a good thing that those laws are happening now, because reasons."

My kid finished up Portal 2 last night, and I realized that game is coming up on 14 years old. In other words, about as old as a lot of NES games were when the Dreamcast was getting released. Time, as always, keeps moving forward.

I wonder if this "requires" an i7 10700 and "recommends" an i7 12700 the same way that Indiana Jones did. That game ran great on my i7 8700 (with a 4070 super).

FAFO. You put the arbitration clause in your agreement, you suffer the consequences.

Happy Anniversary. And thanks for continuing to be a bastion of the old-style Internet in a world where that is a rarity.

This sounds like an infinite money glitch in a cyclical, hit-driven business. Take your business public after a string of hits, and make bank. If the stock price tanks after a string of misses, take it private at a big discount. When the valuation climbs back up due to a string of hits, go public again.

Wow, surprised to see my trust 8700k get listed as minimum. It's been rocking everything I've thrown at it until now. Could it be time to upgrade?

This is why I won't buy another Meta headset. 5 years is far too short a time for a game console to go unsupported. Not to mention the fact that they recently borked the authentication servers for the Oculus Go and now paid apps don't work on it anymore. It's newer than the Nintendo Switch; it should not be a brick.

Too bad the Apple Vision Pro isn't better, and the rumored Steam Deckard is still nonexistent.

Ooh, this is one where it's hard to figure out if the plaintiff or the defendant is more contemptible.

Sony, I didn't even buy a PS4 for Bloodborne or The Last of Us II, and which are sequels (or spiritual sequels) to some of my favorite games of all time. I'm certainly not going to buy a PS5 to access your games 12 months early.