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Cheaper price tag AND doesn’t beg you for more money constantly. Helldivers 2 has premium content but they don’t shove it in your face unless you bring up the specific menu for it.

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Don’t forget that it’s $70 for the Disappointment Standard Edition and $120 for the Disappointment Deluxe Edition.

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Back in the day I was drifting in Mario Kart DS on the Dpad until my thumbs hurt before the Wii version (with Nunchuk) and later.

The switch was fine, of course in handheld mode its inferior to the larger/heavier, newer and more ergonomically designed Steam Deck. These days at my friends house I bring a Pro controller around which works and feels just fine.

Oh and yeah the best Switch gaming experience is via emulation of the games you own and using nicer controllers.

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I enjoyed Terran 3, my favourite of the TerrN themes.

As for suggestions for next, I think you should do what you desire, but if I were to pick it might be Civilization 6 themes.

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I don’t get why companies everywhere think that making a promise, then quietly editing it out before breaking the promise is going to work at all for them?

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The Beach DLC was distasteful, you still can’t even make convincing beaches with the terrain.

I’m very glad Paradox reversed course here. It sounds like they are starting to take seriously what it means to make a finished, solid game. Cities:Skylines fans are tired of half-baked shit.

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We have Стим Дек at home:

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He’s right, but I don’t like the framing of TV companies are going to spy on you anyway so we’re the best option since you get a free TV. I would like the option to not be spied on. In fact I’m choosing that by not having a TV to begin with.

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Yep. Biden and administration has been improving stuff for both freight rail and passenger rail, possibly after letting them getting away with being too lax on safety. If he gets another term I really hope they can bring back Conrail which would bring back NS in good hands.

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It’s not a perfect replacement and single player only if that matters, but have you tried Transport Fever 2? It’s got a TTD feel with beautiful modern graphics.

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Sorry I meant a TTD feel in terms of basic mechanics, but with beautiful modern graphics.

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Stupid stunt notwithstanding, the Counter Strike game is about terrorists vs. counter-terrorists so it’s at least thematically on point?

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My worry and the main reason I’ve not jumped for one, is that with the requirement of a Meta account and stuff, Meta could decide to just have all their headsets of a certain generation stop working after some date even if you only use desktop streaming.

Are there any known workarounds/safeguards against Meta remote control of the device?

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Thanks for the research. It seems like their discontinuation of Oculus accounts made some of the steps harder or less effective, and I’d worry about messing something up.

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Does it come with the random fly that hits the windshield?

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Did you see the news The Crew is Shutting Down their servers in April? If you bought this game, and live somewhere where your consumer protection agencies might have teeth you could help this guy put up a defense against companies bricking games you paid for.

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You know, if I had millions lying around I’d want to build or buy a small <10km line in rural buttfuck Saskatchewan and ride train cars around, just for myself and letting people that made it here use it for fun. I haven’t tried estimating how much that would cost.

Have a look at the West Coast Express, opened in 1995 from Vancouver BC to 43 miles out at an estimated cost of 40 to 80 million Canadian dollars, equivalent to 53.4 to 106.8 million of today’s USD. There were musings of it as far back as 1971, but it sounds like design started sometime after 1981 and construction started in 1994, finishing late 1995.

The price tag would include 5 engines and 5 sets of bilevel railcars, leasing tracks for CP and BNSF, building a handful of turnouts and sidings to hold the trains when out of service, build or contracting wash and maintenance facilities, maybe some small track and signalling upgrades along the route, and station facilities in 7 places.

Another example is the Rail Runner Express in New Mexico that runs 96.5 miles from Santa Fe to Albuquerque. The NM Governor Richardson announced it in August 2003. Construction began in October 2005. The first portion of service began in July 2006 and the full line went into service by December 2008. The cost to build the line was about 285 million USD total equivalent to about 438 million USD today. A operational deficit of 10 to 20 million USD annually was reported and criticized, but roads and bridges of that length cost as much to maintain anyway.

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Now you’ve got me imagining a budget version of an invisibility potion/spell/item that gives 30% translucency.

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🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲… OK that looks good enough.

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I was under the impression that they had fully shelved PvE for OW2. They basically lied and released the same game with a few tweaks to the match format. Was there actually any hope for even a pared-down co-op mode?

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They mention that at least some of this money is to complete the application for big boi federal grants.

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Related video/Animal Well Ad Spot:

youtube.com/watch?v=_HjRyDRW-V0

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He’s a dad with a kid in that growing up phase. I think it makes it very accessible for people to learn the history of decades of design decisions.

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Ancora’s plan, though some of it sounded nice on the surface, includes more “Precision Scheduled Railroading”, reducing headcount, and this is how Regan put it:

“Once Ancora has extracted value from the company, it will move on and leave shareholders, employees, customers, and the government to pick up the pieces.”

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Might be because it was in the 3rd bullet of OP’s body text.

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Having fun? When you gave us $80, that gave you access to the shit version of our game which makes you nothing but a lowly boatswain. If you actually wanted the “Full Game” you need to cough up the whole $120, bucko. Also we have a Battle Pass, that lets you speed through it like a Pirate Boss through if you go Premium.

Long Live Piracy!

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Case in point there is some evidence that Nintendo might have used a dumped and illegally distributed version of Super Mario Bros. in their Wii Virtual Console

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I’m no legal expert but Nintendo’s argument seems to surround a video game emulator being a tool whose primary use is to facilitate illegal circumvention of DRM and piracy. Nintendo’s use of emulation for a legal means to resell their games on another platform, could suggest otherwise. The possible use of a ROM illegally distributed by a 3rd party as inputs in a legitimate Nintendo emulator (though Nintendo denies this) could help separate the issues between ROMs and emulation, because Nintendo’s emulator isn’t used for piracy.

Nintendo could use a copy of the freely available Yuzu to emulate Switch games on their rumored Switch 2, if they were so inclined, and it would be a legitimate use case.

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As Linus Torvalds eloquently put it:

Nvidia, 🖕 Fuck you!

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The Starcraft series (I enjoy playing RTSes casually)

Slay the Spire

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At one point I tried running Halo Infinite on my gaming laptop from late 2020 with the dedicated graphics card disabled, and the AMD APU did run it at 55fps on low to medium settings in a 4 on 4, surprisingly.

There’s a big gulf between that type of computer and your barebones “works for office use.” An older laptop I had rocked an AMD E1-1200. In 2015 I got to play League of Legends at 10fps with minimum settings. Strangely, Windows 8.1 runs faster on it than the other i5-7200U laptop I replaced it with later on Windows 10.

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As much as the praising of Precision Scheduled Railroading is annoying to me and reads like a pacifier for money-hungry shareholders, the promise of putting safety back to the top of the priority list and putting more rail and transportation experience into management seems good.

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Nederlandse Spoorwegen

You are right… title updated for clarity.

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title clarified, my apologies. It was copied from the article verbatim.

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Big congratulations to them! It’s a very impressive accomplishment for a sprawling network with a long legacy.

(Edited to add): The US could honestly do big things like this too if they actually valued their railroad network as a matter of national security like they did with highways.

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Do they have large red and yellow springs instead of elevators?

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It was that way in the US and Canada before too (Conrail and CN specifically). There’s no good reason it couldn’t be feasible today.

If you are in NA, get the word out to your people you know, then direct it to state legislators, congress people, MPs, MPPs.

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Thanks I thought it was TPropT hunT.

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