It reviewed pretty poorly, but that's no guarantee.
I have to say, even with a good game it would suck to release something kinda niche this year, and the Warhammer brand means so little these days, games under that release through a firehose at this point, it's hard to know what's coming up, let alone if it's any good.
There's a bunch more than that, and many just... come and go and often people don't even notice.
I mean, come on, how many people on this thread wouldn't even have known this game existed if Frontier wasn't slightly higher profile than most devs working on these?
The 40K soulslike idea is... probably gonna happen eventually, I dunno. I'm not a big soulslike guy. Hey, maybe Space Marine 2 is good. Looks nice, anyway.
For what it's worth, what I really would like to see is a 40K game that is not about the space theocratic fascists for once. I should go back to play the Dawn of War sequel that nobody remembers happened, either, since that was the last time you got Eldar as a faction. And even then only because it was a throwback game to the first Dawn of War.
If that entire franchise's fanbase needs a sanity check for a reason, it's for that.
I know they look cool and they're easy to paint because of all the flat surfaces, but come on.
It's fine for your dark fantasy setting to have no good guys. It's EXTREMELY not fine for your dark fantasy theocratic racists to become the good guys and for you to do nothing to stop it from happening.
Honestly, the Orks may be the most intellectually honest faction in that whole mess. They mostly just like to fight and thing everybody else is a dick. And they're right.
But nah, when teenage me came to the idea of haughty, elitist space elves in hoverbikes there was never any other option. But they're not the good guys. Nobody should be the good guys in that. ESPECIALLY not the human factions.
Those are even after my time. From the outside it looked like them starting to step away from "fantasy races in space", but it didn't intrigue me enough to pay attention and they never really became the core of the videogames because space marines everywhere, so...
I've pivoted back to 4K BluRays for a while now. The image quality is perceptively better than in most streaming services, it's given me a great fallback to tell Netflix to GTFO with their ongoing price bumps for their 4K tier and I am no longer worried that I'll lose access to them.
Plus there are actually good ways to serve your own multiplexed video out of those now if you care about it that much.
I mean, in fairness their strategy for space exploration seems to be to point a starship in a random direction, hit "go" and beam down to every planet with a remotely breathable atmosphere in their PJ onesies.
The impressive part is they still seem to be the dominant superpower in half the galaxy, so... yay for them.
Nah, the right time to criticize is after they win and before the next election. The alleged left of the US is seemingly more than happy to chill for three years until it's time to usher in a fascist again.
Where are the massive protests demanding reform of structural issues on year two of the term? I missed those. I remember protracted arguments about partial student debt relief for months, now it's back to "oh, crap, the electoral system is messed up".
I promise there are better tools to improve a decaying worldwide superpower than advocating for it to be run by a fascist nutcase. I would say you can learn from Argentina and the Netherlands' mistakes... but you already did Trump once. You know how this goes.
I mean, not really, Biden did win a primary and he's the incumbent President. But even conceding the point, you get a choice between a couple of options. One of those is the guy that told people to drink bleach during a pandemic and has overtly stated he'll weaponize the US government to hunt down his political rivals.
They could run a rock and I'll still blame you personally if you collaborate with the rise of fascism. For the second time. With the same guy.
I genuinely can't believe we're gonna have to have this conversation for a whole year again. Americans are broken.
Well, then vote for the democrat forever, regardless of who it is.
I swear, Americans always fall back to this when pushed on their inaction during terms. If you think that's a lost cause, then it's all a lost cause. Live with the system you have.
If you don't think it's a lost cause (and it isn't, there is plenty of power at the state level, and a ridiculously unelectable GOP should grant much more power to leftists over time, plus honestly you should be pushing for a full Constitution rewrite anyway) then go out and protest and campaign to get the ball rolling on whatever level it's possible, on that and other issues.
But do that AFTER the actual fascists have been pushed out of power. Getting the fascists in power won't fix the problems you're too overwhelmed to tackle.
Well, I guess in this case it will, in that sham elections don't need electoral reform, so I guess a perpetual Trump presidency does reform the electoral system. But if that's what you want then why are we having this conversation?
You will give up the only bit of power you have if Trump is elected. Which is why you're arriving at this choice between three years and three hundred years too late.
But hey, if you think activist action in between elections is "crying in the streets so they can keep ignoring you" then you already have given up all the power you have. So the good news is you have zero agency and you can stop thinking about it and just go vote for whoever the democrats run every time forever.
Is this why Americans don't get stuff done? They literally think it all comes down to a performative vote in presidential elections and then they are cut out of the political loop entirely? No wonder they can't even get the most common sense reform with universal support done.
Because it's a campaign and people campaign for things.
But also, voting for Bernie wasn't shamed. Voting for Bernie and saying you'd refuse to vote for the democrats unless he won the primary got shamed. Rightfully so.
I hear this so much from Americans. The utter inability to conceive that reform of any kind is possible.
Weirdly, I don't hear that as much from most comparable liberal democracies. That narrative I get much more frequently from Eastern European friends in post-soviet states that recognize themselves as a kleptocracy. Both have mostly access to a troubled but functional representative democracy, both capitulate to corruption (or in this case outright fascism) out of disbelief that either their vote is impactful or that any other political action is possible. Both are wrong, IMO.
I explicitly reference the student loans stuff elsewhere. That's not structural change.
Structural change at this point is changes to the governance and Constitution of the US. You don't have a functioning governance with the current Supreme Court, you don't have it with Citizens Utd in place, you don't have it with the current set of state level and federal level election rules.
That's step one. Minor tweaks to policy are not structural.
And until you get a functional democracy yes, advocating for not voting for the sole liberal democrat on the ballot is advocating for the rule of his fascist alternative. No ifs and buts. If you want that to no longer be true, see point one. That's the flowchart. You can't have a different flowchart until you take the steps required to change the current one.
So if you want to pretend that the US is a functional liberal democracy where you can use your vote as a form of self-expression that is a dangeroud delusion at this point. I do believe in representative democracy, but you no longer have one of those, so go get one so I don't have to keep having this dumb argument every couple of years with a bunch of delusional Americans threatening to set actual fascists at the helm of the most influential western superpower because they don't feel self-actualized enough.
Go set cars on fire until you get a funcioning system, France-style or go vote for an endless stream of Bidens until the heat death of the universe, but those are your two options.
You're arguing against yourself a lot here. Somehow you have a working democracy, but simultaneously you have zero recourse to get the policy you want implemented. You can't possibly get the policy you want implemented, but somehow protest voting is a healthy democratic act that may be more useful than voting for a compromise candidate.
Which is it? Is the democratic system going to eventually get you where you want to go, and so you should push for your candidate in the primaries and then back whoever ends up winning them or is the system broken and fossilized and so you should be utilitarian in the election and then use non-electoral action to seek profound reform? Because you're munching on a lot of that cake and you can't still have it after.
For the record, I absolutely support endorsing whichever candidate is closest to your position and has the best chance of winning at all levels of administration. Engage in every single election, put forward the most leftist candidate, then vote for whoever is running against the Republican. If you do that consistently, then a) you'll vote for Biden in the next election, and b) we have zero disagreement.
Also for the record, you guys keep misrepresenting Biden's term and that's already a pro-fascist take. I'm not saying you need to align with him or can't argue that he and the party should be further to the left, but if your take on things is to put forth misrepresentations while actively ignoring the views held by the opposition on those issues you're campaigning for Trump, as well as voting in his favor. It's a tired, boring playbook that has been deployed forever, because the average terminally online democrat is somewhat to the left of their leaders will not push back on the misrepresentations. It's not holding up any better than the disingenuous takes you get from the alt-right, frankly. Don't think I didn't notice the US cosplay left arguing that Biden was in favor of genocide in Gaza and against a ceasefire until he effectively pushed for a ceasefire, at which point it was crickets until he pushed for lifting restrictions on Israel military support, at which point it was a deluge again.
Man, I'm far to the left of the guy, but I swear sometimes it seems like US leftists actively hate when the government does what they ask.
Look, I know it sucks, but that's not how it works. No more Trump can absolutely be your rallying cry because Trump isn't just Trump, it's an entire structure of actual fascists with explicit plans to dismantle the democratic system. I don't know what people thought was gonna happen after Biden got elected but this is reality now for the foreseeable future.
I understand the exhaustion, I understand the frustration, but I'm genuinely sick and tired to see countries conflate being tired and frustrated with their current balance of liberal democracy and vote in fascists only to reel in horror after the fascists rule like fascists.
The US did it with Trump, bailed out after they realized what that meant. Bolsonaro in Brazil? Bring back literally the previous guy, please. Maybe Tusk wasn't so bad, says Poland now. The UK is about to bounce off of the mess left by Boris Johnson by bringing in the most milquetoast centrist.
Can we just skip the part where you let the fascists run the show to be remembered how much it sucks? Please? If you don't see any version of sustainable democracy you need to get involved in politics. Hands-on. Reform, revolt, protest, lobby and set the world on fire until it gets better.
But sitting at home thinking it's the centrists' fault for not being exciting while you let the actual nazis reach power is not a valid answer, no matter how tired and frustrated you are.
I know I'm not the norm and this isn't going to change anytime soon, but I find the US-style customer service thing to be straight-up creepy.
The first few times I was in the US and a server or a reception desk person asked me how was my day in a cheerful way I was thrown all the way and actually answered, which then threw them and made me feel super self conscious. To this day when one of them approaches me that way at any point during the interaction I just wanna say "it's just me, you can stop that now, I just want a sandwich". It honestly makes the entire experience feel terrible to me. I kinda hate going out in anglo countries that do that.
I've even been to a few spots whose gimmick is "being rude to customers" as a gag and they're not rude, they're just acting like normal human beings who are at work and honestly it's much better. I don't need a man-servant, I just want to buy some food from you and for you to let me eat it there on the table because I don't have anywhere better to be right now. We don't have to make it into a whole thing.
So much. Yes. How do we all agree on this and yet it hasn't sunk in after twenty five years?
I mean, Blender got it. Be like Blender.
Gimp never even needed to be as robust as Photoshop. All anybody needs is a OSS alternative to casually touch up a photo every now and then if you aren't forced by life to be one of Adobe's hostages. Just give me a vaguely Photoshop-like thing with a semi-competent context aware filter that isn't physically painful to use. Kryta and others will pick up the slack for all the painting stuff.
This thing bothers me. The relative positions of the areas are wrong and the choices about what gets a named slice versus getting lumped with the "rest of" segments is suspect. It's like the visual equivalent of accidentally scratching your plate with your fork.
Ukraine is shown to the east of Russia, which is backwards, Southern Europe appears north and east of Western Europe, and inside Southern Europe Italy appears to the west of Spain. Turkey is east of Iran and Iraq, which are both separated by "rest of ME", South America is effectively flipped left to right, a bunch of African countries to the east of Nigeria are instead north and west of it...
It's the map equivalent to those memes that seem like they have a sentence but it's all garbled and some of it is harder to do this way than keeping the relative positions, so I'm not even sure it's not on purpose.
It's not close, though, it's entirely backwards. And there is plenty of low hanging fruit here to keep things roughly aligned that they didn't take. South America, for instance, if you just mirror that shape everything would be roughly fine. But nope. Brazil is on the west coast now for no reason.
If it was just the "rest of" shapes being in weird places I'd think about it, but there are plenty of cases where you could fix the issues for free and they chose not to.
LinkedIn was just as much of a destination for the Twitter exodus as Mastodon and they had been adjusting in that direction for a while beforehand.
LinkedIn is just Twitter for the most annoying people you know now. And that's saying a lot, because Twitter was already Twitter for the most annoying people you know before it became Twitter for the most annoying nazis you know.
You’re about to take your first steps in the wonderful world of Linux, but you’re overwhelmed by the amount of choices? Welcome to this (I hope) very simple guide :)...
I am always amused by how "Linux newbie" guides are consistently tons of pages of choice paralysis and esoteric concepts but they all take a stop at "well, the UI looks kinda like Windows on this one, so that will probably help".
Look, I'm not particularly new to Linux, but also don't daily drive it. In my experience the UI is not the problem. Ever. Compatibility and setup are the problem. Every Linux distro I've ever seen is perfectly usable, nitpicks aside. The part that will make a newcomer bounce off is configuration. Especially if they're trying to mess with relatively unusual hardware like laptops driven by proprietary software, with MUX switched GPUs and whatnot. Only people deep into the ecosystem care about the minutia of the UI and the package management.
I'd agree that can be an issue, but my guess is that trying to resolve those preemptively just adds to the perception of flamewars and drama around the platform. I'm a big proponent of not bringing stuff up to newcomers unless it's very directly in their way.
Ultimately a new user moving to a new OS needs two things: for everything that used to work for them to still work AND for at least one thing that didn't use to work to work better.
A useful guide for newcomers should drive to making those two things true, IMO. Sitting there choosing the nicest looking UI is a great passtime for tinkerers, but newcomers need exactly one option: the one that works. They can get to the fun customization later.
To me at the moment this reads less like a welcoming introduction to a exciting new alternative and more like a cautionary tale of why I shouldn't try. Oh, so my Nvidia hardware is a no-go, most of my apps may not work, I have to choose from a bunch of stuff that all looks the same to me and apparently there is a crapton of drama about things I have never heard about or understand, but that people seem to have very strong opinions about. Well, I guess my old printer no longer being supported on Win11 is not that big of a deal...
I'm not trying to be mean or anything, I'm saying this constructively. Experts have a tendency to underestimate how lost newcomers can get and to misunderstand what the real roadblocks and churn points are. I'm trying to provide a perspective on those.
A lot of of this article is in a very familiar tone for "are we the baddies" corporate employees, and it's less a deterioration of conditions than a realization of ongoing facts.
The language is everywhere. "We made data-driven decisions" is a big red flag for me, for instance. It often translates to "we obsessed over a maximizing a single data point because we confirmation-biased it into a justification for the thing we wanted to do". Real data driven decisions are called science, and nobody in corporations has the time to do actual science, outside of hard research funding, which is not the case of building a UX toolset.
Likewise for his passing defense of tracking cookies or the lack of firewalls between search and ads. And how telling is it that he at one point defines the essence of "don't be evil" as "long term success at the cost of short term losses". That's not what that means.
It really does sound like the culture had convinced itself that it was working for "the greater good" as a strategy for long term success, but you hear the same thing from a lot of other large corporations. It mostly sounds like what actually changed for this guy to dislike Google is management style and working conditions. Which hey, sure, it's a part of it. But not what lies at the core of the issues. If you take short term losses for long term success you're just a corporation with a long term plan for growth, not a nice corporation. It's techbro speak and the attitude that has driven startups through the entirety of the VC-dominated era of business.
The degradation we see in Google is not triggered by a change of ethos, it's the chickens coming home to roost now that tech businesses are switching from a focus on growth to a focus on profit as the tech business ecosystem matures and free money goes away for a while.
Well, I am now baffled about two pieces of content, so... that worked?
Look, I don't mind the link being up here. It's fine.
But if I had stumbled upon it I'd very much have noted somewhere that
a) you could play DOS games on the Deck since day one.
b) there are many ways to run DOSbox on Deck, including through Retroarch and emudeck
c) there are plenty of ways to buy and play DOS games legitimately that way, especially by purchasing GOG builds that come with the original DOS files as a bonus, and
d) that if the entire point of a product is to streamline the look and feel of the process to match Steam Big Picture/SteamOS but it requires a bunch of command line stuff in desktop mode maybe it's not ready for prime time, or at least not as much as EmuDeck is. But also,
e) there are probably much easier ways to get a third party browser to boot up on SteamOS and go to this place than doing all that, right?
I don't understand how this piece came together, why it's framed the way it is or what it's even trying to say. I do understand posting it, although maybe not for any of those reasons you list. I don't think I'm being elitist here, there are much, much easier ways to point people to ways of playing DOS games on the Deck that require less fiddling than this and the innovative bits aren't the ones being mentioned in the article, which just adds to the confusion.
On the other subject you bring up... I genuinely think that just engaging with this space in the way that makes more sense to you works better to generate new engagement than trying to game the system to promote people not going on Reddit. But then, I was never on Reddit in the first place and I do enjoy the 90s forum board feel of this iteration of it, so who knows.
Like, I get the self-reinforcing bubble that Linux communities exist in and all, but... nobody did that.
The vast majority of Windows users are random people that never touch anything beyond the Start menu in their entire computing lives. What segment of the Windows userbase is out there celebrating any features, let alone command line anything? This is not a thing. At least not in numbers large enough to matter.
Sorry, I try not to get involved in these arguments. Frankly, grown adults taking sides on operating systems of all things like it's Sega vs Nintendo in a 90s playground seems very strange but I don't begrudge people finding communities wherever. It's just... you know, come on.
I'm obviously not Dutch, but can an English speaker around here break down to me in simple terms what this means for majorities looking forward? Not familiar with the inner workings of parliament in the Netherlands.
How to make that relevant again: Get a time machine.
The fascists are already on the ballot, in case anybody missed that detail.
I swear, this stuff barely played back when it seemed like an idle concern of the politically inclined. Today it seems entirely detached from reality.
But hey, by all means, absolutely get the kind of reform that would make this make sense again. I want a world in which this thread doesn't feel like either disingenuous trolling, a conservative psyop or entirely delusional. I want a world where Americans can vote for multiple parties and get proper coalitions and stuff.
But seriously, until that point, just vote for whoever the Democrat is.
This. There is zero chance of creating change by voting for a third party selectively in a FPTP system.
Electoral systems are known to be extremely stable because all the power is in the hands of people who benefit from the current system, again by definition. Crucially, it doesn't matter WHO they are, if they won with this system, they are for this system.
To get electoral reform you need those who benefit to find it either ethically important or politically expedient to enact reform. Right now is actually a good time to start bringing up that issue, because one has to assume there is a growing realization in Democrats and at least a segment of semi-reasonable conservatives that the current system is exposed to very, very bad things in a short timeframe.
So if the US is going to get electoral reform done without going through the process of setting the country, and subsequently the planet, on fire you need a) a Dem in power, and b) a massive consensus and outright downpour of activist pressure for this on every level of government. Probably forever, seeing how the entire rest of the system is a mess, but baby steps.
OK, just to sanity check, because it's not clear from the comments below.
We all realize that metric areas do use hp for car engines as well, right?
And a lot of them also do inches for TVs, which is weird and forces you to go digging into the specs for the cm measurements whenever you want to see if a TV will fit in a space.
EDIT: Oh, I'm wondering now, do people use liters/cc for engine volumes in the US? I don't know, but I also haven't ever heard of a different way to refer to engine volume ever, so they must. What would they use instead?
EDIT 2: For my money the most annoying unit conversion in car measurements is the US going for miles per gallon, keeping the volume of fuel constant and giving you the distance while metric uses liters per 100km, keeping the distance and giving you the volume of fuel. It may as well be impossible to convert between the two.
Don't make me break out the spacetime diagram, young man. Because I WILL break out the spacetime diagram.
Anyway, doesn't matter. Star Trek has messed with time travel since TOS season 1. And that was after they started introducing magic men with god powers, which they did in episode 3. It makes zero sense to get nerdy about it. That's my point here.
Bonus points for starting with the point that forget warp, subspace communication breaks causality already, so you don't even need to boldly go anywhere for any of it to be kinda busted.
If that's a bit too dry you can search for a similar subject line, there are TONS of explanations like this one out there.
Anyway, none of it makes sense, it's all for funsies anyway. Suspend disbelief, ye nerds, and enjoy your sci-fi.
It depends on whether the movie says it or it's a thing from an interview, in my book.
As in, if the movie is making a case that something went down a certain way in real life when it didin't (say, JFK) then... yeah, well, that's a bit of an issue, sure.
If the movie is out there being a movie and the director is just saying he liked it more this way and you weren't there to check and get off my hair and watch the movie... well that's not an unreasonable response to people well acksually-ing a movie.
And again, haven't seen the movie. No idea what this is like. All I'm saying is this attitude is not new for the guy and his historical dramas are all heavily stylized and put drama ahead of accuracy for narrative purposes and that's... fine. At worst it's an excuse for people to make nerdy videos about the actual history, which I'm also fine with.
Yes, we've established they are a first party like any other. For the record, if you manage to get Microsoft/Activision, Sony, Nintendo, EA or Ubisoft to publish your game they'll also throw QA, marketing and localization into the mix.
The difference is you'll sign a specific deal and have a publisher at that point. Valve will tell you what they want you to do, then poof out into the distance and give you a link or at best an API to access all of those things at no extra cost to themselves. Their entire business model is for others (both devs and users) to work for them within their systems. Which is fine. I'm also less hostile to the gig economy than many around here, but even I am not gonna actively cheerlead for it.
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