I haven’t played the game yet but i wonder if the sequel would have same effect as Hogwarts legacy, given that it is probably the best Harry Potter game in decades. More of same might not be a big global phenomenon maybe.

KCD perhaps? It gave my very Skyrim vibes despite being far from it and mechanically superior in my opinion.

Unpopular opinion but I actually like ubisoft, they’ve their own space in gaming and their games are good junk food games.

It’s simple. Chase money.

If I were young I would totally play all the games I could. They young ones saw 2008, pandemic, wars, inflation. If not escapism then what?

I guess we’ll see one or two games do this every 1-2 years, and I think that’s actually fine. Baldur’s Gate 3 did it but in the end optimising for Series S improved it for everyone. Alan Wake 2 devs said it was hard to fit things into Series S memory but they got there in the end and even delivered a 60 FPS mode. Even Immortals of Avuem got it working at 60 FPS for Series S.

It sucks for the devs for sure and they should leverage it to get some concessions from Microsoft for making them do all the hard work. Maybe a smaller platform fee, or partial funding.

Xbox has tried very hard to convince you to play their games on anything but the Xbox. Cloud? Sure. PC? Sure. PS5? Sure. Switch? Most definitely.

And replacement can be very easy in a country like India. Sounds like a sinister plan.

Truth be told, every single person can only give so much of their brain or body to a job in long term. You may think you’re working 14 hours a day regularly, but it’s usually 2-3 hours a day of productive use of time, rest can be busy work, at least in the tech industry. I don’t mean there can never be times when you actually work for 14 hours daily, but it’ll burn you out so quickly that you’ll end up taking longer breaks, quitting or just becoming toxic in other areas of your life. Not worth it.

It’s like induced demand. Wider roads don’t necessarily mean faster traffic. More working hours doesn’t mean better productive use of time. That’s why we see reports telling how 4 day work weeks actually improved productivity. Less time for BS.

Various forms of sunk cost fallacy!

This time it’ll be different

I’ve suffered for this long, what’s another month of misery.

Bottom tab bar, ublock origin.

Idk man, feels like it’s rigged from top to bottom. The country I come from, the media is fully controlled, the opposition is barely functional, and the public support for the current leaders is tremendous, despite all the hate speech and unscientific temperament. One person speaks up, 10,000 silence it back.

We are in the end game now.

Update; seriously though. At one hand climate emergency is at its peak, on other we see extreme polarisation and marginalization of minorities and other communities within most societies that used to be relatively stable. How does one remain calm knowing it’s impossible to fix it all alone.

Everything is f*cked.

Google maps

Think about the work that is to be done and try to break it into smaller tasks. Usually I get excited at the chance of finishing something easy and quick from the list and before i know it I’m already in the flow.

I think such content gets most engagement. Dunking on leftist ideas brings right wingers celebrating and parroting the piece while pissed left wingers trying to explain why the argument doesn’t make sense.

I played this Pokemon PC game back in the day. It was a simple Windows UI game with radio buttons for selecting your attack in a turn based setting. The only graphical element was the images of pokemons on the boring gray Windows panels. I played way too much of it back then but it was basically a simple luck game with a leveling system.

Update: it was Pokemon Simulator