They have the potential to. But these days, I personally focus on indie, AA and large mods of older games (Morrowind, New Vegas).

CDPR is still good though.

From reading some articles on this topic, the pushback against AI generated code was indeed a culmination broader issues with the management of GZDoom.

It sounded like a fork would have happened sooner or later.

I also dislike the use of Synty packs (I am surprised they haven’t added more variations), but I don’t think Tavern Keeper uses Synty.

Might have to try playing it with mods. I’ve never actually played KOTOR, but as a fan of CRPGs, I have of course heard of it.

To be fair, lots of American media has rebellious motifs, but its mostly merely product packaging and doesn’t really reflect American society.

I lived in the US at one point and while repetition of various freedom themed polemics was extremely common (it initially got annoying, until I learned to simply filter it out), I didn’t really find the whole thing convincing. It felt more like posturing.

That being said, there is a lot of American literature, cinema and art more generally that is truly non-comfortmist.

No, there is no Patreon.

I bet Elite with a hotas feels great.

I thought Elite was solid, but I am more of an X3 person, I like the economic strategy elements.

You should post this separately!

I wonder what the mod scene is like for KOTOR.

Yeah, Deus Ex is great in terms of flexibility. Although even when I first played it, I did wish the maps were much larger and that there were lore/world-building side quests.

I prefer Mad Games Tycoon, but Game Dev Tycoon was good too (played it before discovering MGT).

This looks to be one of those “games for decades” that you come back to years later.

Tried the demo last year. Even though it was bare-bones, you could see the potential of the game.

Haven’t tried this yet, but it does look pretty cool (although I am not sure I like the empire tax mechanics).

I wonder if they are trying to capitalize on the success of Timberborn.

Obsidian games require spyware (Windows)

I would recommend reading Apple’s privacy policy. There is a lot of comforting language, but they collect a lot of data and de facto can share it with whoever they feel like.

The key issue is their definition of “third parties for their own marketing purposes” and “partners and service providers” which they control. Let’s be real, do you honestly expect to able to beat Apple in a court (US no less, which is a highly corrupt society) around the exact meaning of these definitions.

As designed (e.g. inability to use alternative to iCloud sync, selection of defaults for say “Share [Device] Analytics” or “Help Apple Improve Search”) Apple is just as bad as Microsoft or Google or Meta.

Just consider what % of Apple ecosystem users have iCloud syn enabled? A service that you cannot run your own server or connect to a third-party provider.

Don’t get me wrong, I am only happy for companies to release games on MacOS. But the notion that Apple is any better than Microsoft, Meta or Google or privacy is false. In some cases they are far worse, for example they all data of Chinese Apple users with the CCP. Google at least claims to not do that.

The guide is for Piefed.social (I have an account there two).

I recommend avoiding the on-boarding and directly selecting the proposed gaming communities via links.

I will post in piefed_meta in the coming days. Maybe I can come up with a draft/mockup.

I can’t code, but I do have significant experience in dashboards and associated business logic (PowerBI, tablaeau, Looker Studio).

Those are high level examples.

Last Firaxis game I bought was Civ6 and while I played it for 50 hours or so, I mostly play Civ5 and Civ4 (and a whole variety of mods/conversations).

Fuck Rockstar and fuck Take Two (even though other than CDPR, Firaxis is the only “AAA” studio that I buy games from).

That’s a good point.

A post-apocalyptic setting with a good story, interesting gameplay mechanics, well written characters, but not Fallout (as in the brand).

Obsidian has definitely gotten more corporate following the Microsoft acquisition.

While I haven’t played Avowed or Outer Worlds, from the gameplay videos they don’t look very appealing to me. Too much “console style” FPS combat. I strongly prefer 3rd person for RPGs if we are not going with the classical top down view and turn-based combat.

Not sure if there is any point in just posting the guide somewhere random.

Perhaps it would be best to reach out to the Piefed devs, maybe they might have a better idea how to integrate this into their on-boarding process.

That’s too bad that the lead decided to get involved in such posturing.

Awkward and overzealous messaging can feel out of place at times, but it’s a small thing compared to much more pertinent things like attrocious monetisation, overly polished, marketable game design, generic writing and lack of innovation. Not to mention that “anti-woke” polemics are shallow and tedious.