Not just a great fight, but also the boss with the best lore.

Extremely powerful giant warrior learns gravity magic so he can keep riding his best skinny horse friend. Aww.

I’d wait. I feel like consoles must be getting close to a hardware refresh now.

The Talos Principle 2

It’s beautiful, and often really engaging both in gameplay and in story/setting, but I’m already feeling a bit of puzzle fatigue after ~20% through the game. I’ll see how far I’ll continue.

“Military intelligence Two words combined that can’t make sense”

Same here. Lifelong tinnitus in one ear without measurable hearing loss. Presumably due to a severe ear infection.

I’d never heard of this mission. A nuclear-powered drone flying around Titan? That’s so retro-sci-fi I can’t even

Yeah the cloaked enemies mission was also the highlight of chapter 1 for me. The far more interesting visual design of the area, the unique enemies and the mission design*. It was cool. But still disappointed that the ol’ invisible enemies stage was the highlight of an entire chapter :P. I expected a lot more from FromSoft.

I’m a bit of a finance geek. While most finance-related content on the internet is iffy, this video is great advice for most people and expertly explained 👏

There’s no contradiction there. You are required specifically optimize your build for the difficult boss fights -and- play with Sekiro-like skill. The game is clearly designed like this. And while I’ve never played any of the previous AC games I agree with OP that this feels Souls-like, with stamina, poise and everything.

The combat is fine perhaps. The main reason I don’t like AC6 is because there’s nothing interesting in it except the boss fights. It’s the blandest FromSoft game I’ve ever played. Elden Ring kept me enthralled for a 100 hours until I got all achievements, trying to explore everything. An afternoon of AC6 I started to wonder why I was still playing, when after each mission or boss there’s just going to be more of the same.

As a massive Dark Souls fan, AC6 is not even a very good Souls game. No deep lore and story, no beautiful scenery, no exploration at all. Even the bosses aren’t as good, because DS bosses can be tackled in various ways (melee, ranged, magic, many cheese strats) while AC6 bosses are designed to only let very specific builds succeed, which is incredibly boring. I honestly don’t understand the hype.

I enjoy these review threads. Very convenient to get an impression of a just-released game. Thanks for sharing.

Maybe more of a World News article than Politics?

This article is quite restrained while more mainstream media writes about a “potential fifth force of nature”. E.g. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66407099

At least it seems we may find out relatively soon which is the right answer.

Great comment. However let’s not forget the history of many exotic materials which were made practical to manufacture after their useful properties were found. Consider many types of semiconductors, blue LEDs, carbon fiber, etc. All once super expensive but now commonplace. This makes me at least somewhat optimistic that if a material is useful enough (and a superconductor would be revolutionary) fabrication will be solved. Hopefully.

Ik ben geen econoom dus neem mijn berichtjes met een grote korrel zout, maar volgens mij zijn over het algemeen eigenaren van kapitaal (in dit geval land) best geduldig met het omzetten van hun eigendom in cash. Dat het de ontwikkelaars even tegenzit zal voor de meeste landeigenaren niet een onmiddellijke impuls zijn om de prijzen te korten.

Als de ontwikkelaars hun winstmarge niet kunnen behalen, via zoiets als winst=verkoopprijs-(werk+materiaal+land+rente+enz), dan wordt er minder gebouwd. De werkelijkheid is vast wat anders maar het lijkt me vrij logisch.

Woningbouw wordt gefinancierd door schuld. Nu de rente opeens veel hoger is, is het gewoon wat minder aantrekkelijk om te blijven bouwen, zeker als “gestegen bouwkosten en trage procedures bij gemeenten” (volgens het artikel dan) meespeelt.

En waar het geld naartoe gaat is waarschijnlijk vooral de prijs van het land. Als het voor projectontwikkelaars nu niet aantrekkelijk is om te bouwen gaan ze ook dat dure land even niet kopen.

Tenminste dat is mijn “leuningstoel” economisch inzicht.

Settlers 2 (and the faithful remake Settlers 2: 10th Anniversary) is pretty old but is still one of my favorite economy building games

If done covertly without care for animal welfare it probably is, or I think it should be. Animal drug testing is already ethically dubious with oversight…

Goed artikel. Maar ik bedenk vooral dat het toch fijn dat dit (nog!) kan in landen zoals Nederland of Zweden.

Ik woon momenteel in Amerika, en hier ben je gewoon keihard dakloos als je niet behoorlijk meedoet aan de “prestatiemaatschappij”.

This one? https://beehaw.org/post/6803845

I saw it on your profile and it shows up just fine for me.