suddenly craving ube

The speaker of the house is second in line to assume the presidency if both the president and vice president die, and they run the house of representatives. It’s a rather powerful position.

Amazing how I played this on my PC last night, guess I wasn’t aware of this new definition for “exclusive”. Happy about it tho!

Its good. Not perfect, but better than I expected.

Headphones definitely recommended, a halfway decent Atmos home theater system sounds great but I still picked up subtle sounds better with even just bluetooth headphones.

Ambience is very much on point. Dialogue is a good mix of well-acted, and a tad “off” like the original. Angela and Eddie seem faithfully redone, so far. James too honestly.

Apartments were a nice change-up from the original, not too different thematically but still essentially a whole new layout, not at all a copy and paste job. Showdown with big knife guy was a big departure, though. Not sure if better or worse, but different from the original

Some graphical glitches (something like ghosting of the fog around objects moving on the screen, also flashes of light in the distance) sometimes that are frankly unacceptable for a $70 game, especially a game of this sort of mood, but hopefully they get those patched soon.

Combat is not exactly great. Nor was it in the original, to be fair. The dodging mechanic is a bit much, and at least on the hardest combat difficulty, it feels like you gotta already be familiar with enemy attack patterns, since it doesn’t give you much chance to learn and survive. But it does all feel learnable, so we’ll see if I just need to get gooder.

Steam achievement notifications at least one broke immersion for me, I might try to mute those next time I play.

But overall I’m very eager to resume playing after work, I left off after the apartments (and stayed up far too late doing so!)

why?

Don’t blame the worker for results of working conditions they didn’t create.

Amazon is known for micromanaging every aspect of warehouse work, do you really think Amazon lets workers take the time and initiative to select which type of box a thing gets put into? Hell no, all the company cares about is getting shit shipped as fast as possible.

This is a symptom of Amazon’s management, not the fault of any one worker.

don’t listen to Crassius Curio

You were part of the problem. I’m glad that’s past tense.

Regardless, why bother running or using a short URL service? QR codes can easily hold a full URL and more, and QR codes are not (nor are they meant to be) human readable, so what’s the benefit?

what’s the difference?

Why is that ideal? Seems more prone to problems if the short URL service shuts down or suffers outages.

yeah, qr codes have different levels of error correction that you can specify, could very be well turned up to the max

or the url has a ton of tracking params appended to it for some reason

Me too. I work for none of the above, but yes I would.

Fun fact, rail workers had more demands than just “extra sick days”.

And it shouldn’t be necessary for anyone to work overtime just to make ends meet. Hell, it shouldn’t be necessary for anyone to work overtime even to have a few nice things. The shipping companies can afford it, and they wouldn’t be making billions in the first place if it wasn’t for the workers.

They were offered a 50% wage hike tonight, yes, FIFTY, and still declined

If they still declined, then it pretty clearly wasn’t good enough. Unless you’re a longshoreman and have anything meaningful to add to the conversation, you should probably stop just blindly repeating corpo talking points.

probably when it hurts the most, which is kinda the whole point

Gotcha. For sure the jump from 30fps to 60fps is a lot more significant than a jump from 60 to 120+

All that stuff about exclusive games just sounds like sunk cost fallacy. I don’t understand how a consumer benefits in any way from exclusive titles, or how a consumer is harmed from having access to multiplatform games.

If someone gets a PS5 for a PS5 exclusive game, why wouldn’t they want the option to play other games on there as well?

I do ultimately agree with you though, the PS5 Pro is dumb - and neither the regular PS5 nor any Xbox seems worthwhile compared to PC gaming