Been listening to the Indelicates album Avenue Qanon from last year. Was released before the Trump re-election but ended up being more relevant than I think they expected. First four songs are bangers but it’s a great overall concept album all told.
I never could figure out why this band never found bigger success.
Was Windows XP Bliss peak PC wallpaper or am I blinded by nostalgia?
The Voynich manuscript is such a fascinating thing.
The faction thing is especially puzzling as factions play more or less zero role in STALKER 2. I guess one faction does crumble during the course of the main quest, and there is a bandit leader you can kill if you want. But this ain’t really what anyone would call “faction based gameplay”, nor is it close to what they’re suggesting during the deep-dive.
Enjoy it! BG2 is still my favourite in the series, even having played BG3. Savour ever line David Warner utters as Irenicus, there have been few performances so perfect in a video game even all these years later.
Hey, it’s Harry DuBois’s car!
I’m pretty sure Wrath of Heaven is considered the best, but I haven’t played all of them. You’re making me itch to jump into it again though, for some nostalgia.
I never played Stealth Assassins but I have so many fond memories of Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven, particularly multiplayer.
That’s kind of a trend on the Fediverse to be honest. Mastodon has the same problem with their chronological-only feed.
I actually forgot about the Walkman/Discman split terminology, I didn’t realise they changed the name to CD Walkman reasonably late.
Otherwise yeah you’re absolutely right, this car record player sounds like an absolute nightmare of needle skipping and ruined vinyl.
Like… the Walkman?
A lot of the details do unsurprisingly sound rather derivative, and it will be very, very difficult to reach the bar of writing set by writers who are no longer around. But the absolute worst part of this is that some of their ideas do sound interesting. A more elaborate thought cabinet is something I assume most Disco fans have wished for at some point, especially knowing the initial concepts floated around that had to be cut.
Also I didn’t know Anton Vill still worked there.
System Shock 2. I’m basically also holding off on playing the SS1 remake until I hear official confirmation that the sequel is getting the same treatment.
Mastodon users can subscribe to Lemmy communities I think, but it doesn’t really work very well. The Mastodon feed isn’t really made to support threaded content so all the Lemmy comments will fill and mess up your feed.
Huineng’s poem is still one of the most succinct summaries of the concept, 1400 years later.
I don’t know if I’ve been ruined by the Swedish tradition of strong black coffee but I can never get a brew I enjoy from only 15g coffee per 250g water.
I also tend to get better brews when I do a double rather than single cup brews. Though it’s not always convenient.
Kurvitz, Rostov and Hindpere are working together for a company called Red Info, but there has been no further info at this time. I think rumours are they might be ready to announce something this year.
Argo Tuulik is heading up Summer Eternal, so that is another one to keep an eye on. Sadly his work got halted by a legal injunction made by the people at Longdue.
Longdue themselves though have managed to recruit Martin Luiga. Whether he will actually contribute much or is there to lend credence to the project by virtue of his name remains unclear.
Wait, that’s Lord of the Rings movie trilogy themed though. How can that be 25 years old? …Oh.
Oh no.
Mastodon and Lemmy have only limited interoperability. You can’t follow individual users on Lemmy, so most of it is one-way. Mastodon users can post to Lemmy communities by @-ing a specific community, and Lemmy users can then reply as normal and their replies will show up in the Mastodon users feed.
That era of Nokia was just the best ever. I used to have a Nokia E70 phone, and it’s still probably my favourite phone I’ve ever had. That full physical qwerty keyboard was so good to type on, even compared to smartphones of today.