Canadian-American software developer living in Japan since 2015. Into gardening, DIY, permaculture, etc.
What do the terms of use and privacy policies say? Who’s paying for the servers and what are they getting out of it? Also, since your data is federated, what happens when it hits a server with any different policies (or who may be in violation of the license of the software itself, but is getting no enforcement)?
If you are not paying for some service, you and your data are almost certainly the product. It was true then, it’s still true today.
Ooooh, look at “I can sleep once and only once per day and never for longer than a day” over here ;P :)
Not particularly, based on my experience. Now, if you want AS/400 people and such…
I am so happy not to have to mess with that. LOADHIGH agony.
I mean, LOAF was a thing (Linux on a Floppy) that had basic functionality even as most distros were downloaded or on CD. I can’t imagine anyone still develops it, though.
A US president in the early 1980s.
I think “rogue-lite” or something like that is a better term for what I like. I’m currently playing “Against the Storm” is one a coworker recommended recently and I’m enjoying so far. Spelunky 2 was OK. There are probably a couple other’s I’m not remembering at the moment.
They partner with an enemy of the US who now gets a presence in mainland North America at the US’s doorstep making infiltration to the US, etc. even easier.
Well, that’s something I’ll want to turn off, though all they’ll get from me is random appointment reminders and confirmation codes.
Yep. I think my age (I’m in my mid-40s) and being an adult when I played them or they came out has a lot to do with it. I think having less free time and a number of issues I deal with makes it harder to enjoy certain types of games (this is not to say young people don’t face their own stresses and issues!)
I think any game you grew up with gets a nostalgia level assigned to it and it’s easy to overlook certain flaws. For me, OoT felt like a step back, but I had been playing PC and Amiga games lot (I hated Starfox for this same reason). I’m sure I have the nostalgia glasses for some games, but I’m old enough that I think many wouldn’t even know them, hah.
FF6 is still my favorite.
Heh, exact opposite for me; I hate 3rd person games and feel frustrated most.of the time (sniper elite comes to mind)
1 + false ? (I have no idea in which order JS would evaluate things as I rarely have to touch that language much anymore)
I don’t mind that epic, etc. exist; I mind the exclusives. When Epic first launched, they didn’t have payment processors in a number of countries so there was literally no way to legally play the games for people; that’s super shitty.
die unless $keyword == “unless”;
I find google better than ddg the vast majority of the time… and google sucks
Torchlight 2 should scratch that itch. To me, Path of Exile is something the Diablo series could have been but wasn’t exactly? Though I haven’t played it in a number of years, so I may be mis-remembering exactly what it was like. I seem to think it was more like a point-and-click RPG with kinda Diablo-like combat.