I had the exact same thought. By the sounds of their announcement, yes!

The Stardew Valley preview is an opportunity for you to get involved, test it, and let us know what you think. It currently has all the features needed to help you easily mod Stardew Valley, such as mod updates and installing collections.

I need to remind myself to install this when I get the chance. Navigating the site for every mod, downloading them, extracting them, deleting old mods, and moving them over is very tedious to do on a steam deck without an external monitor/KB+M

One of the many games in my steam library that I bought and still haven’t played. I need to force myself to play some games…

I think Bethesda didn’t have a choice but to partner with someone, as they don’t have the in-house experience with UE5.

I imagine part of why they’re even doing this with an old (and internally well-understood) game is so that they can use it as a good starting point to learn UE.

I actually think this is why Sony keeps remastering The Last of Us anytime there’s new hardware. It’s not so much they feel the game needs it and it’s the only way they can keep people playing the series, it’s a way for their developers to properly test new hardware and software, using assets they broadly already understand and have on hand.

At least it’s not Skyrim again, but god damn it, Morrowind is what we really need a remaster of.

I tried to play it recently and it’s just one of those games that was great at the time but has aged extremely poorly. It’s not even about the graphics, more how ‘clunky’ everything is.

UE5 is interesting. Obviously a big change with a lot of benefits, but modding will certainly be more difficult. Bethesda will actually have to put serious effort into this – pushing a game out and letting the community fix it only works if your game is extremely easy to modify.

I also feel somewhat bad for the people who’ve worked tirelessly on the Skyblivion project.

Lamarr!

Seeing this late, but thank you very much, that’s very kind ☺️

Because GOG doesn’t want to support it. They’d rather the community do it.

You’re right. People say “1984” to mean “dystopia” or “things I don’t like about modern society”.

Tangentially related, there was a survey a while back that found most people who say they have read 1984 haven’t actually read it. So that may be part of it.

Personally, if we’re going with the classic dystopian novels, I think we’re more aligned with:

• The anti-intellectualism/distraction from the real issues like we see in Fahrenheit 451. Arguably we have already started the book-burning. (Tbf, there’s also practically no pre-big brother material in 1984, so clearly they went down the same route, although Orwell didn’t go into that as deeply as Bradbury)

• Keeping people docile with an endless stream of entertainment content and consumerism like in Brave New World.

…than we are with the “Oppression through fear and brainwashing from an all-powerful, all-seeing government” that we see in 1984.

But even then there are significant differences. E.g. unlike in Brave New World, there’s no government-provided Soma drug to further placate us. Well, not unless you believe the chemtrail conspiracy theories lol

My birthday today too, although I’m unfortunately not 25…

I didn’t have a PS2 (Dreamcast and Xbox in my household), but I do remember frequently staying at my cousin’s house and playing NFS, GTA, Simpsons hit and run, and SpongeBob battle for bikini bottom on his

There is no chance Valve will make HL3 SteamOS or Linux exclusive.

I said it in another thread, but…

Good guy EA.

It is unlikely I will ever say that sentence again, but I hope they prove me wrong.

Good guy EA.

Weirdest sentence I’ve ever written lmao

I’m sorry my corrections to all your many errors are bothering you.

You got a pro managing it?

\sigh

Spaces before a full stop? Really?

Last.

Why do you keep putting random double spaces in half your comments?

I can’t speak for everywhere, but the UK has recently banned the approval of any more North Sea oil drilling, approved several zero carbon energy projects, and is changing planning permission so that people won’t be able to block onshore wind and energy infrastructure projects. They’re also doing an ICE car ban 5 years earlier than the EU (2030).

Then there’s a bunch of new standards for new homes built (e.g. gas boilers not allowed anymore), grants for improving home energy efficiency, and a few other policies like that.

The UK has done a pretty great job so far of decarbonising. Despite having more technology and a population 17% higher, the UK uses less energy now than in 2002. So the UK has been willingly using less energy for years now already. Additionally, the grid has went from being mostly coal and gas to 72% emission-free, with coal being completely eradicated.

There will still be difficulty, though. Most homes in the UK use gas central heating, and since the UK has the oldest housing stock on planet earth by a considerable margin, most houses aren’t suited for air or ground source heat pumps. I truly don’t know what the answer is for that in regards to net zero.

For anyone wondering who the 5% are:

• UK

• Switzerland

• USA (though this will probably be reversed or ignored under Trump)

• Andorra

• United Arab Emirates (wait, really?)

• Ecuador

• Brazil

• Uruguay

• St Lucia

• New Zealand

A PS5 Pro is far more powerful than the average gaming PC.

And I don’t know why you think an APU can’t achieve good performance. The PS5 Pro manages it despite being a small die size and an old CPU architecture.

You talk of the need to make it manufacturable cheaply - that’s what APUs are good at. Having it across several chips that need more expensive board layouts, far more memory, and more advanced cooling adds cost.