Of all the cool characters in D&D we could try to be, we choose the Dabus?

It doesn’t work in the real world, but does PokePunch evolve into Harambe?

Word is Josh Sawyer started working on a Fallout game, but couldn’t get Bethesda to let him call it “Fallout,” so things were reworked into a completely standalone game.

Now that MS wants more Fallout, they pressured Todd to loosen his grip, and the Sawyer game is back to its original intent. It’s still in development, but it has had some time to get actual work done, so it’s closer than if they just started last week.

Again, lots of whispers and rumors, so take that with as much salt as necessary.

Bowling for Soup got it right. High School never ends.

It really is all about trust. Of all the digital storefronts, Sony is the only major one I can think of that has actually reached into people’s libraries and pulled things out[1]. So far it seems to be limited to movies and TV shows, so it’s not a perfect 1:1, but they are the worst company to trust on this.

Buying from any digital store with DRM is a risk. Some have failed completely, but the big three of Sony, Valve, and MS are unlikely to go under any time soon. By establishing a precedent of tying your access to their behind-the-scenes licensing agreements, Sony’s model is more risky for consumers than the others.

1. Ok, Amazon/Kindle was actually maybe the first. I haven’t heard of that happening for a long time, and obtaining another copy of a book is trivially easy, but they get a dishonorable mention.

Other examples are welcome, I’m always willing to put another company on the naughty list.

This is for commercial users, so if your company mandates MS Office, none of the free alternatives are much use.
On the plus side, the prices don’t really matter to those end users, so anyone outside procurement won’t notice any difference.

Raising home user prices would lead to a lot more backlash, but I wouldn’t put it past MS to try it anyway. They just can’t seem to get out of their own way.

1,205 games. $6,516 as of today. 19 year account.

The depressing part is that of the 1,205 games, 986 (81.8%) are showing as unplayed.

I haven’t actually fired it up in a while, but Gedonia might be up your alley.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1114220/Gedonia/

Looks like a sequel is currently in early access, too.

But it protects the company’s freedom of religion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burwell_v._Hobby_Lobby_Stores%2C_Inc

Private employers in this country (including Ramsey) have more rights than workers.

Hopefully the story or progression is engaging enough to keep my interest.

The devs have promised that the story and progression will be getting a change from previous entries. The past few have gotten some flack for just throwing all the currency and all the cars at you without much challenge to it. Recent editions are bordering on being a car-collector-simulator as much as a racing game.

Personally, I’ve loved them all for just messing around and driving hundreds of different cars, but a bit of change in formula would be welcome, if they can pull it off.

Remember when gas prices spiked after Russia invaded Ukraine? Biden’s fault. But when Trump invades Iran and gas prices spike? Also Biden’s fault!

/s

Our family computer at the time was well below the minimum specs, so i played for the first year or two at like 5 fps. Good game, not good as a slideshow. lol

First game I specifically asked for from my parents: Stunt Driver. Must have been in the first half of 1990.

First game I saved up for and bought myself: Super Mario Bros 3. Much of the money I saved came in the summer of 1990, so that would have been in late summer of that year.

Transformers?

They had some cool software like 20 years ago. Then they doubled down on the subscription model, and I haven’t thought about them much since then.

Hopefully they don’t lean into live service games or DLC traps.

Solid stainless steel at that weight would be roughly 17 cm per side (assuming a cube), depending on the exact alloy.

There’s no perfect reference scale, but the diagonal width of the cube is 60% the width of the drawer (by pixels). My kitchen drawer measures 40.5 cm, so the cube is some 24.5 cm across diagonally. A 17 cm cube would be just over 24 cm. I did a lot of rounding at every step, but it seems to check out pretty darn well.

Property records, in particular, are public. In any luxury area, there are probably homes owned by celebrities that are registered to some LLC.

This article should be Exhibit A in any class on “correlation does not imply causation.”

1. Gambling was made more accessible in the US because of a SCOTUS case in 2018. Starting later that year, Delaware became the 2nd state to allow sports betting (after Nevada). The list of states allowing access to online sports betting keeps growing, with Missouri the latest to join less than 3 months ago. 39 states now have gambling in some form, with 7 more considering legislation in the next year or two.

2. Gaming revenue took off in 2020-2021 because more people were spending all day at home. It has since flattened, or slightly declined as a) pandemic-era games that were written and designed in those tough circumstances turned out poorly. b) gaming company execs thought the gravy train would never end, so set projections too high. c) acquisitions and mergers due to a combination of a) and b) meant massive layoffs and low-effort slop. d) VCs bought up the shells of former successes and accelerated c). Oh look:

A new report by Epyllion, a gaming industry advisory company headed by venture capitalist and market guru

These two things have nothing to do with one another, besides coincidentally happening at roughly the same time.

Wreckfest 2 is in early access, if that counts as upcoming. Same developer as Flatout 2, so it should feel similar, just more modern.

The original Japanese release of The Legend of Zelda was February 21, 1986, making it 40 in just under three weeks.

North American and European releases were in the summer and fall of 1987, though.