Although Moon Studios are not owned by Microsoft, the Ori IP is.

Bit late on that, they are already doing it. Claiming that Labour are “anti-motorist” with ULEZ expansion, LTNs the 20mph limit in wales and also delaying the ban on petrol/diesel cars.

I didnt actually realise the PC version was a year later(it was the PC release date I was looking at). Well… shit.

Ori and the Will of the Wisps(Great)
Sunset Overdrive(Good)
Battletoads(Good, at least I enjoyed it)
Forza Horizon 4 and 5(both are good, but definitely feeling a little repetitive and overly done now for me)
Flight Simulator

That is all I got though. and technically Forza Horizon 4 is 5 years and 12 days.

Cyberpunk was fundamentally a good game at launch, but needed cleaning and tidying(if you ignore the last gen consoles, it was terrible and should never have come out on them). Redfall is fundamentally bad, it doesnt need a spit and polish, this needs a meteor.

The title should read “Redfall can be the next Final Fantasy XIV, if Microsoft wants it to be.”, Nuke it from orbit, and release a basically new game. Except Redfall doesn’t have the long standing francise name attached to it.

Firstly, Galaxy and Cadbury chocolate taste different, so a Ripple and a Twirl which are the same type of product are of different tastes, similar to a Cadbury Dairy Milk bar and a Galaxy bar.

But a flake is different, and not just a naked twirl. Different and increased crumbly texture as well as different type of chocolate, you supposedly can not melt a flake, unlike a twirl which you can.

And Flake always had the better adverts when I was a kid.

It is already a lost race though.

For instance, when humans were asked to solve distorted text CAPTCHAs, they were able to solve them in 9 to 15 seconds. That sounds great until you learn that they were only able to get the answer correctly 50-84% of the time.

On the other hand, bots taking the same texts were able to answer the same tests in less than a second, and they were able to do it more accurately—99.8% accurately, specifically.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/bots-better-at-solving-captchas-than-humans

I Finished A Video Game

If you want some long indepth coverage of games, both lore and around the games I have really really enjoyed this channel.

Very unlikely a tesla would make it with charging stations every 400km - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/angry-tesla-customers-sue-firm-over-grossly-exaggerated-ev-range/

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I presume a day off work.

Another Venu 2 owner here. It is great, does what I want from a smart watch(notifications, calender, heart rate, sleep and some other stuff), ties in nicely with the Garmin cycle computer I own, and allows for tracking between the two. And I get 3 - 4 days(or more depending on how much I am using it to record activities) in a single charge. I do kinda wish I had gone for a forerunner, but I dont wear it when cycling and it tracks walks and runs and everything else under the sun perfectly well.

Definitely recommend a Garmin if it fits your needs.

You can cancel, and stop selling the game, which is what Cult of the Lamb is threatening to do(and others should do if this actually goes ahead). But if you continue to use and sell your game, you have to agree to the new terms and conditions.

Because it is a subscription service. It is not actually a product you buy outright. It is still bullshit, and should probably be illegal to change to charging for installs though.

“Stupid Birds, can’t believe he is feeding these government drones!” - His Neighbour (just as probable)

Eh, I don’t like the idea of getting rid of my smart phone. But I did get rid of all the shit I didnt actually like. I use my phone for Music, maps, the camera, messaging a few people, and a few other things. I got rid of all the crap social media, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, even reddit(and have not put a lemmy/kbin app on there to replace it), there is not shit mobile games installed. Just does what I need it to do, and doesnt constantly bug me about Person X and what they had for lunch.

However, if I ditched the smart phone, I would need a phone still, but then I still need the MP3 player, a camera. And I would much rather have 1 bit of kit that does all that well, than 3 items.

You can see all the games here - https://play.google.com/googleplaygames/allgames

From what I could see there was basically nothing of note. Maybe Jetpack Joyride if you want to indulge some 12 year old mobile game.

I kinda dislike this excuse for the higher prices these days.

While it was pretty valid for the PS3 era and before, the PS4 and the PS5 have both been sold at profit well within the first year. This is just a console tax to make more money from people.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/sony-says-499-ps5-no-longer-sells-at-a-loss

PS4 - 6 months to be profitable
PS5 - 8 months to be profitable(despite the chip shortages as well).

So quick break down is:

OS and programs on NVME 1, this also includes gamepass games. NVME 2 is Steam games and other launchers that might be installed.

HDD1 is downloads, pictures, music and documents, HDD2 is Videos.

My PC has 4TB of NVME storage(2 drives), and then 8TB of HDD space(another 2 drives).

Games, and actual used stuff all live on the NVMEs, with things like Pictures and Videos stored on the HDDs. Plenty of space to never have to really think about what to keep installed.

I also have a 512GB Steam Deck, which also has a 256GB SD Card in it. My Switch also has a 256GB SD card in it as well.