If you want a more historic version, Tasting History did an episode on semlor a few years back where he made both a modern and a traditional style. They are very different pastries, but great in their own right. The old style is a little more cumbersome to make, granted.

Probably. CSAM is CSAM, I’m not sure the law would differentiate. Probably one of the reasons Dataset 9 has taken time to get restored, as I believe it was said it had some accidentally unredacted/uncensored CSAM in it?

Yeah I haven’t played it but I heard the stories. I haven’t played every year, but in general I would recommend either

• FM 2024 The latest “classic” version, has the most support, mods, relevant player database etc. Probably recommended for most players. Most feature-rich while still not being completely fucked like 2026 apparently is.

• FM 2017 I have this game still installed, though I haven’t played it in over a year now I think. I have my longest running save on this edition. Often comes up on top in votes for which FM has the best match engine. It still has some exploits if you look for them hard enough (every edition does), but for the most part all tactics are viable, the match engine feels good and you’re not forced into any one archetype.

You can rage against the machine if that makes you happy, but DLSS is patently not a useless feature. It lets you sacrifice visual fidelity for performance, that’s it. Many people find it useful. Any hardware you buy will be obsolete at some point. You may be able to play new releases in native resolution now, but in a few years your card won’t keep up anymore. Instead of buying a new card, you can keep using your old one and turn on DLSS. That’s useful. DLDSR is also a fantastic use of AI that is especially impactful on older games, but will make almost any game look better if you use it, particularly games that don’t have good native anti-aliasing.

DLSS is also a very minor part of the AI landscape - in fact I think the only reason Nvidia hasn’t scrapped selling gaming cards entirely is that it’s part of their “legacy”. If you want to hate on every scrap of AI in existence because of a dogmatic hatred of AI in general then that’s fair enough, but then say so instead of calling a technology useless and inefficient when it’s neither.

Like the other user said, DLSS is literally more power efficient than native rendering if you care about power draw or whatever. You can harp on it all you want for not achieving perfect visual fidelity, especially on modes like Ultra Performance, but efficiency is literally the whole point of it.

Right now he is essentially an untouchable king according to the supreme court, so the only way I see him getting tried for anything is if he happens to die while still in office but before he gets the chance to pardon himself, and the trial goes ahead posthumously.

Okay, good to know. Thanks for the writeup! I am also one of those players that like to keep resting to a minimum in order to maintain immersion, which punished me hard in BG3 as I missed out on like half the campfire scenes in Act 1. Silly me for actually taking the game seriously when it said things were urgent.

I’ve heard a lot of good things about Rogue Trader so maybe I will check it out one day, but the 40k setting never really did it for me personally. I was actually into painting minis for a while in my youth, but it was always the fantasy setting that appealed to me. There were some guys who were into 40k around me back then, but those were all assholes who were incredibly demeaning towards fantasy and constantly denigrated the Warhammer Fantasy group for using a silly and “uncool” version of the game. I think that period has tainted my perception of 40k subconsciously.

Anyway I got wildly offtopic there, sorry 😅

That’s good news. With the amount of people interested in these files and in data preservation it’s bound to be only a matter of time until the whole dataset 9 is restored. Someone out there’s gotta have the rest of the files.

Interesting. Will have to look deeper at some other comparisons but I guess preset K is still the go-to for Quality and Balanced?

Very sad. He is a visionary for sure. Having recently played The Last Express I think what impressed me most about him was his writing. I hope he gets the chance to make another ambitious game at some point.

Does anyone have any ideas for games where you can have shorter or longer term “projects”? Like building a character in an ARPG or building a base in a base builder? Or grinding for something specific? I want to have my brain locked in a project for leisure. Sorry if not the right place to ask, thought I’d throw this in here.

Build a dynasty at a lower leagues club in Football Manager. That’ll be the next few months of your life sorted.

I think the idea might be that even if your instance is defederated from the instance of the linked post you can still view it.

Signed up! I still might stick to this account mainly, but a Nordic oriented Piefed instance is definitely appealing.

Where is the five o’clock shadow? Is it not a beard?

I’ve actually played three games this past week, so I think I will split up my ramblings into spoiler tags to not fill out the entire screen with a wall of text.

I have noticed this too in recent versions. I don’t remember the exact point it changed unfortunately, but it used to be almost instant and I am now seeing very long load times after clicking “view in my instance”. I thought it was just something with my home instance.

I like Team Ninja and the way they do character action, so I’m happy both Ninja Gaiden 4 and Nioh 3 were well reviewed and successful. Probably won’t jump into this for a long time due to my backlog (I’m working on Ninja Gaiden 4 at the moment, though!), but will most likely tentatively wishlist this for a future sale.

I’m afraid you’re conflating “Fallout” with “Bethesda”. Fallout 1&2 are peak Fallout, and they are neither shallow nor janky. Well, maybe slightly janky but more in the sense of “dated” than Bethesda type jank.

Pentiment isn’t perfect, but it shows there is still some talent, artistry and vision kicking around in Obsidian.

Well sure, if you’re not interested in the brewing recipes you need the Switch for then just buying a ceramic V60 will be fine. But I was thinking about wanting a Switch anyway so this might just push me to it. And I don’t think something like this looks hideous, although taste is of course subjective.