Most of them are cheap though. Like Spotify at ~$10 is nothing, you can barely get a beer for that in the city these days. That’s far cheaper than you used to pay for CDs!

Netflix really took the piss though - with the charging for no ads, HD and multiple screens. Then it gets to like $30 a month which just isn’t worth it with the diminishing library, so I cancelled that and use Amazon Prime Video for now as it’s still cheap in my country (and has no ads for now).

Then your bigger problem is using Windows…

Sweden has devalued the currency massively (over 20% since 2020) - so it makes for cheap foreign investment.

But the lump of labour fallacy is wrong - in the end automation makes us all wealthier as goods become cheaper, and people can do more productive work (and be better educated for it too).

But how would they know? It’s like Blade Runner.

This is the new luddite movement.

It really is. Degrowth is destitution and death - just look at Germany.

We need to decouple electricity production from environmental damage - build renewable power and nuclear power station en masse and invest heavily in nuclear fusion.

This is incredible, it feels like parts of the USA are so advanced.

Here in Sweden we’re going backwards, they even took out self-scanning at a lot of supermarkets due to theft.

The issue is the physics. 60Hz doesn’t give you much time to do everything that needs to be calculated in the interval. All the objects can interact with one another so it’s not easily independent and parallelisable.

There’s still optimisations that can be made - disable physics and have only certain actions enable them for nearby objects, smaller physics range, fewer physics-enabled objects, etc. - but those all have drawbacks for the gameplay and realism too.

I prefer BG3, as DOS2 has the awkward separate armour systems - so you’re forced to either target physical or magical armour specifically.

Also BG3 has Baldur’s Gate which is awesome with all the city quests, etc. - lot of quests you can do entirely with stealth.

D:OS2 didn’t have the branching questlines though - BG3 added a lot too, but I agree the main base of the game was there.

But yeah they’re the only developer I will preorder from.

I never switched. Just doesn’t seem worth the hassle.

Loads of broken features and extra work shoved onto the individual compositor / WM developers. I don’t care about security on my own computer, I just want screen sharing and clipboards to work reliably.

That said, I use just one (ultrawide) monitor, so even the benefits aren’t really there at all.

The Witcher 3 (mainly the DLCs), the story was so good, like it’s the only game I can remember where I was waiting to play it every weekend just for the story.

Ocarina of Time - the music is so amazing, I can still remember all of it.

Runescape Classic (like 2002) for making me impervious to scams - you get scammed by some players once and that sticks with you.

Terraria - I just don’t understand what you’re meant to do or why it’s interesting.

I actually really like TOTK though, it’s a big improvement over BOTW with a slightly more alive world and the vehicle creation stuff is fun.

Ocarina Of Time - nothing else comes close really.

I also liked The Witcher 3.

Baba Is You, Into The Breach, Ultima VII (with Exult)

Seems weird to push it more, even with all the issues BG3 has had supporting both models.

That said, with the high inflation and crazy hardware prices (especially here in Europe) it’s nice to see some gaming hardware available on a reasonable budget.

I wish they’d make it more open though like the Steam Deck is. It feels so stupid having like $350+ of good hardware and then not being able to use it to easily do whatever you want.

Yeah, Yuzu works best and it’s one of the best games ever made, I recommend it.

I just really hope it has good non-combat areas and quests. That was what made Oblivion my favourite game - some of the quests were very open-ended like the Thieves’ Guild ones.