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That's the reason that consumables and money don't carry over between levels in Thief: The Dark Project. No point in hoarding stuff, you might as well use it. Except of course that if you're good, you don't need to use any items at all - not even the blackjack.

Need to stop and stare at this image for twenty minutes and listen to chiptunes before I continue scrolling Lemmy, be an old-school gamer again.

I think that Unreal's real advantage is its ubiquity - all the tools that you might want to use for game creation, from mocap to modelling, with with it; and there's a near-endless supply of programmers and artists that know how to use it. The licensing is just a bonus. idTech is infamous for its bad tool support; Raven software basically needed a whole pile of direct contacts in id in order to develop games on that engine. But yes - Unreal 5 basically means that you'll struggle to hold 30 fps even with framegen and upscaling, whereas idTech is silky smooth and efficient.

Carmack was at his best working near-solo, solving some tricky optimisation problem and getting Mike Abrash to tweak up the resulting assembly. Some of the comments that came out of Meta suggest to me that he finds large teams frustrating and stilting. Can't blame him there, really. Am not sure he's the man for modern AAAA+ gaming, with huge teams and massive pipelines. Besides, he's more interested in messing about with AGI now; best leave him to that.

In fact, I don't think you could even get tired of punching it.

Likewise, but the code is pretty far from perfect. "Future maintenance hazard", but half my colleagues can't even see what's wrong with it, and the bot tells them it's all fine so they don't think about it any further.

Can't wait for that bubble to burst. Burn the whole lot down.

Might be a controversial take, but Raspberry Pi's are pure ass as media servers. They're profoundly i/o limited, which extends to access to external USB devices as well as ethernet, and lack the oomph required to decode hi-res video streams locally. 1080p can be choppy, forget about 4K.

Pi5 occupies the unhappy spot where it's too expensive for enthusiast and hobby applications, but inadequate as a desktop PC which benefit from a bit more power.

A mini-PC is a much better fit. An N100 might even be overkill - mine has a Skylake from a decade ago in it, and it crushes 'media' activities while gently sipping at electricity.

A shame. I liked Enslaved, loved DmC, and really liked Hellblade. They made quite a big thing at the time they were making Hellblade about wanting to be 'double A' publishers - making highly polished indie games on a sensible budget, basically. And then they sold out to Microsoft, which has screwed them over - all those publishers needing to make a non-stop stream of big budget megahits or they'll be hung out to dry.

Consolations to all affected. It has been an absolute bloodbath in games development recently.

There's hard mode, and then there's hard mode.

Does hard mode uncap the enemy AI so that it can use all of its moves, and allow it to attack from offscreen so that you need to be more aware of positioning, like Ninja Gaiden? Does hard mode add additional objectives so that you need to interact with the levels more, like the Thief series? Does hard mode increase certain kinds of damage, so that you have to engage with the systems more, like alchemy in the Witcher series? These are 'good' hard modes, that make the game much more interesting.

Does hard mode simply make all the enemies spongier, so that everything just takes longer? Well, that's a lot less interesting. Might as well play those games on 'normal'.

Should take revenge on them by breaking into the station and stealing all their toilet seats. The police will then drop the investigation, as they've got nothing to go on.

For me;

• the download is absurdly massive. Although it makes sense that you'd need an Android OS image to run Android, it's bigger than the copy of Arch I used to run it

• integration with the host OS is poor - be nice if copy-paste worked, and file transfer was easier

• super-sluggish, even on quite powerful computers

• never idle, makes my laptop run hot

Okay, it's emulating ARM64, and emulators need a lot of CPU, but since Android apps are compiled to "Google's own version of Java" and are JIT compiled to suit the phone CPU, should be possible just to compile them to AMD64 instead and run native.

If there's an app that only exists on Android and has no desktop / web equivalent, it's a workable solution, but it does entail compromises.

His face is far too big on his head, doesn't even look like him.

Hey! Mine not only tells the time, but also the day of the week and month, and has an integrated alarm clock and stopwatch. Battery lasts for seven years, keeps time to within a few minutes per year, is cheap enough so that I don't mind wearing it when I'm cycling as I can just replace it if I break it, and it has a celebrity endorsement. Of sorts, anyway.