Noxy

Its good. Not perfect, but better than I expected.

Headphones definitely recommended, a halfway decent Atmos home theater system sounds great but I still picked up subtle sounds better with even just bluetooth headphones.

Ambience is very much on point. Dialogue is a good mix of well-acted, and a tad “off” like the original. Angela and Eddie seem faithfully redone, so far. James too honestly.

Apartments were a nice change-up from the original, not too different thematically but still essentially a whole new layout, not at all a copy and paste job. Showdown with big knife guy was a big departure, though. Not sure if better or worse, but different from the original

Some graphical glitches (something like ghosting of the fog around objects moving on the screen, also flashes of light in the distance) sometimes that are frankly unacceptable for a $70 game, especially a game of this sort of mood, but hopefully they get those patched soon.

Combat is not exactly great. Nor was it in the original, to be fair. The dodging mechanic is a bit much, and at least on the hardest combat difficulty, it feels like you gotta already be familiar with enemy attack patterns, since it doesn’t give you much chance to learn and survive. But it does all feel learnable, so we’ll see if I just need to get gooder.

Steam achievement notifications at least one broke immersion for me, I might try to mute those next time I play.

But overall I’m very eager to resume playing after work, I left off after the apartments (and stayed up far too late doing so!)

Fuck Andy Jassy.

ah yes, for professionals

Oh I definitely agree. I also should be able to play games on Steam that I have previously purchased on PS5 without paying for it again.

But if the game devs are gonna push kernel level shit, they might as well have a console-like experience that exists independently of a user’s OS.

Just put it on consoles where there is no expectation of ownership over the OS, where it’s expected to be an appliance.

Shit like this has no place in PC gaming.

I would ditch the SD cards entirely and boot off of USB attached SATA SSDs. But your idea still sounds cool if you can’t or don’t want to invest in SSDs!

I’ve enjoyed btrfs on my laptops, definitely seems stable, and using BEES foe dedupe is rad (maybe don’t do that on an sd card tho…)

If they can sell a $650 desk lamp they can keep these people employed.

Fuck Dyson and any other company that lays off workers in any situation that’s not literally the last option before literal collapse and failure.

it’ll be interesting to see how this

shakes out

fascists opted out of the social contract. sometimes being a decent human being means forcing dairy treats into a motherfucker’s face.

it was right when it happened to Anita Bryant and it was right when it happened to Nigel today.

They’ll do that anyways tho

Caves of Qud is an outstanding game. If you’re on the fence, allow me to push you over: just gat it!

nazi fuck