Quest is cheap and good hardware, but its software layer is dystopian hell. Obviously, I mean, it’s meta.

I love the cheap access to decent PC and embedded VR on my quest 3, I absolutely hate this OS and its constant corporate spam. I know, this is kinda why its so cheap. Doesn’t mean I have to like it.

Not sure I’d want pizza from beyond the veil.

I was watching a reaction streamer that does a lot of (mostly chill) social commentary, and he got a video from a Belgian investor guy in his playlist. It’s the kind of video they watch when they want to cringe for an hour.

The guy did basically nothing but buy full buildings to turn them into appartments. So he gets one, spends the whole video telling us how he will put walls everywhere to split it into the absolute maximum number of barely livable spaces. And the whole first two floors? no, those are not for real people to live in, it’ll be AirBnB, that’s where the money is. All friendly with a big smile but absolutely zero concern beyond making the most money.

I thought the comics was clumsy satire. Turns out it’s basically straight infographics at this point.

Great.

We have at least one dev from Motion Twin, who explicitely wanted to stay there and work on new games, being told to leave the company after trying to get them to do something for months.

https://deepnight.net/blog/going-rogue/

So yeah, even the part of Motion Twin that wanted to move on seems to have been messy post-Dead Cells.

“A great AI-generated game before the end of next year”

Mark those words, and prepare to have a good laugh.

Probably not. Even the thing that was shown several years ago, and that hasn’t been mentioned again since, wasn’t a sequel. It was a completely different style of game, and a prequel with different characters.

The first game ended on a sequel hook, and left a lot unresolved. People who asked for a sequel mostly wanted to know what happens next. They weren’t asking for a procedural multiplayer open world with different characters in another time frame.

BGE ends like the Empire Strikes Back. It’s a bittersweet ending in which main characters have evolved, but the conflict is not resolved at all… and there’s even a good guy still in deep shit. Obviously it needs the sequel to wrap everything up.

BGE2’s announcement is like we got nothing after Empire Strikes Back for a decade, so no Return of the Jedi, and George Lucas came back to tell us “we’re doing the prequel trilogy now, no plan on ever concluding the old storyline”.

A shinobue, a transverse flute made of bamboo (well, traditionally, mine is not too bad but it’s plastic. One day, maybe).

The game is Xenoblade Chronicles 3. The two protagonists play the shinobue as a ritual to send off people who have passed.

I like Okami too, and I believe Waka’s flute in that game is also a shinobue.

Yeah, I was going to say, unless there was a mysterious time period when grand pianos were a product of mass consumption, first panel is like the 0.01%.

And even then. I’m sure some people played music in the evening (including more accessible instruments). More than today, sure, maybe. Some might sing once in a while to, why not.

The full-on family choir around an instrument every evening, as a thing that happened widely, is where I’m calling bullshit.

I have a very mild case of that in that I bought a weird traditional flute from Japan a couple of months ago. It looked cool and a game character I like has one. A bit hard to play, but I’m getting there.

It’ll certainly be a lot more expensive, but I wish you a future crisis full of epic sax all the same.

I really doubt the first panel was representative of a random “evening at home” for most people, even in the 1900s.

I guess so. Is that really a crisis if it’s basically what you do though?

I’m not sure how a midlife crisis would look for me because I’ve basically kept the same weird interests I had as a teen.

The way I see it, it’s a lot less under pressure than usual. That must feel nice.

Yes we did. Don’t you like the new roof whale feature?

Since some guy from the 19th century could tack a random spire on it for no particular reason, we thought, hey, may as well.

I was in the same boat as the previous person. That comic is basically alien speak if you don’t know a very specific variation of that meme.

It doesn’t even leave a clue that it might be a reference to something, and it’s practically nothing but a reference.

I have zero interest for Bloomberg in general, but, that’s Jason Schreier.

He’s one of the very few you could reasonably call a videogame journalist non-ironically, and I really don’t think “conservative” describes his views.

It’s not seeing through the box, it’s a Discworld-style future prediction paradox.

She already knows that when she get there, there will be nothing in the mailbox.

But she has to check anyway, because if she doesn’t, causality is broken and she shouldn’t be able to know it will be empty, since checking inside is not in her future anymore.

According to Discworld rules, it won’t break the universe or anything but it’ll give her a massive headache.

Somewhere an advertisement company is already trying to flood psychic waves with spam, just in case.

The question here was if RuneScape gold is a product or if it is legal tender. If it was legal tender then you don’t pay VAT on it, similar to when if you trade one currency to another VAT is not applied.

Even if they went that way (good luck with that), doesn’t that mean farming gold regularly and for profit should still be registered as a professional activity? Or at least the result of it declared as revenue?

I don’t think they want that.