I get the feeling that "Techdirt" may be a bit biased.

you have to consider the cost in terms of real wages though, inflation only makes production costs higher for producers, for customers money is worth about as much as it has been since the 70's; though this changes from income quantile to income quantile, and from market to market.

the price increases only reflects confidence Nintendo has in their DRM.

Happened twice, both to my #1 games. Tried Chrono Trigger as a kid and didn't like it, then came back and played it as a young adult and was like... damn... this is an actual treasure.

In 2015 I tried FFXI due to the XIV crossover event, and I could not get past the eccentric and clunky UI and the pacing of the combat. I tried again a couple of years later and committed to finishing all the stories. It became my new #1 and I think genuinely one of the best games ever made, in terms of revealing and pushing the artistic potential of online games, and games in general. Actual masterpiece and a massive innovation, and unlike Chrono Trigger I think the lessons are going to be a lot harder to learn and replicate.

Yeah, I only learned this by chance because of a builder in my Civ!

Planets actually have two kinds of pole. The magnetic poles at ±90 latitude on your scanner, and the geographic poles with short to no nights, which have to be found through trial and error.

There's also a method using trigonometry that I'm going to have to sit down and learn.

The reason this works is because planets have no rotation about their axis. The time of day is completely determined by their orbit about the sun. That way the sun is always shining on the equator and you can make a more educated guess about where the poles are.

nano for editing config files, emacs if I'm writing code... kwrite or joplin if I need a scratch pad or to share notes between devices respectively

tbh the extropians were the last of these TESCREAL NRMs that I actually kind of understood

Ooze or you lose!

this is the entire cycle that keeps undergrad computer science going

Think this time was just right place, right time. A lot of retention mechanics are online now, like Wizard's Vault, and also having a cosmetic set that interested me to keep playing for a while (Astral Ward). Rerelease of LWS1 helped me feel connected to the story as opposed to having no idea who the new Destiny's Edge 2 crew was.

The sad thing is, after I bounced some time during the very first release of LWS1, I spent the following period constantly thinking "man, I wish this game was more like GW2". But I'm back now for good, and loving it!

Hello everyone! First time posting here, does anyone know any fighting game groups around Brisbane?

Oh yeah, the improvement to resource economy is probably going to be huge for WvW. I know some commanders were saying they felt they had to be running Signet of Rage instead of banner or the new paragon elite just to maintain enough motivation.

I think the mind control device is speaking to values people actually hold and then doing something completely different, kind of like mainstream political parties here in Australia. There's an imaginary honest, oldschool merchant Valve that lives in people's heads, and there's the actually practicing Valve the megacorp.

Or, more broadly, just the incredible power of cultivated charisma and rhetorical prowess and a cult of personality. The fervour with which people take any impersonal criticism of a business as a personal attack on a close friend, family member, or community is evidence of that.

See also a certain Square-Enix director spouting conservative, transphobic rhetoric and somehow being hailed as an ally, minus a small amount of people who saw through the smoke and mirrors act.

I swear there's a cohort of people that could have gotten into politics but decided the games and tech industries would make them more money.

Eeeeeverything! I've been getting into VF5 (Aoi), Guilty Gear (primarily Dizzy and Potemkin). I also used to play a lot of Smash Ultimate (Robin, Zelda, Mii Brawler). I'm also into retro fighters too: Smash Remix, Fighters Megamix, Asuka 120% LimitOver. Been interested in Mace and Dual Heroes too.

It's pretty good, I like the class changes, especially to tank. Absolutely fell in love with Bear tanking, it's aggressive to the point that my rage can become unlimited and I can reach top DPS when RNG is on my side. Will spend the remaining time testing out the other two tanks, who are currently at 20.

I am a bit sour on the changes to dungeons. I was forced to quest in Thousand Needles due to running out of exp in Hillsbrad, and had to deal with competition over interactable items and infrequent spawns, and one bugged quest with a 10 minute wait and no shared quest over an interactable. I've never wanted more than to just go into a dungeon and grind some levels out. Genuinely may have actually had more fun grinding Scarlet Crusade elites outside the monastery for a level.

I also got a cold call from someone that wanted me to tank Wetlands, and I had to decline, because a 30 minute dungeon and a 10-15 minute continent change, flight and jog down from Hammerfall was just not worth it to me, even as a zippy Feral Druid.

Something really interesting, cyberspace has its own unique aesthetic, but all the digital signage in the real world is really reminiscent of Mamoru Hosoda's vision of cyberspace as seen in the first movie and Summer Wars.

I'm really enjoying the queer aesthetic in Wolvermon and Murasamemon. It feels like a small welcome mat, even though I don't expect anything at all from a highly commercial series like Digimon.

Big thing: improvements for alts, like the Warband system of account-wide reps like on retail. Looking at the potential for multiple Argent Dawn or Furbolg grinds on non-raiding alts like... maybe I don't really need the profession recipes or dungeon sets.

I think I read arms is basically an abandoned spec and you're not really meant to run it? Like not even in PVP, they just dropped support for balancing it.

yeah, I think the problem was having a rotation of randoms, so lots of time waiting; although clear times were pretty consistent overall. also a lot of time spent doing quests. the post-dungeon voyage for handins always nuked the exp/h rate.

I finished up at 303 hours to 60, which was an extremely long journey. I think questing you can do it in 75-80h if you're really efficient.

They had me at Razah! Immediately rolled a Revenant, and will be playing it alongside my new Warrior while I figure out which I like more.

Really excited for the livestream to see more Conduit.

As a newly hatched Revenant main, I'm both really excited to sink my theory teeth into Conduit, and also seriously nervous about how it's being talked about, as if the spec just isn't coming together in design terms. This interview was done a while ago though, so hopefully there's been enough time to let the spec finish cooking.