Still an understatement, it deserves it and more.
I don’t even like turned based games. I don’t like most high fantasy. But holy moly, what a ride BG3 is.
I’m just gonna be pissed of their mixed support of modding (due to wotc) kills the modding community. If Skyrim and Rimworld can have a whole universe of fan content, BG3 should too.
I still have to keep Windows around for (ironically) performance reasons.
Some sim games like Rimworld and Stellaris just have a big hit on linux for me, native or Proton. And in a sim game, that means slow turns and stutters you can’t avoid instead of slightly lesser graphics. And it’s not sublte, native stellaris is like a good 30%-40% slower with even higher spikes last time I benched them back to back.
Reddit still has niches that (unfortunately) exist nowhere else, probably won’t exist anywhere else soon due to the need for foot traffic, and are tolerable as long as old.reddit.com stays up.
And it’s the lesser evil over Discord.
Lemmy is of course 1000x better, but it doesn’t matter if your niche there is a ghost town.
It totally kills interest in the device though. Its like they think every single buyer is an impulse buyer who just looks at the demo in Best Buy without even looking it up or trying it.
It’s really sad, as it kills the end product for no good reason. Just theoretical pennies.
I mean, Windows would be fine if the OEM stripped it down instead of bloating it even more. They can totally do with with group policies.
I honestly don’t know what they were thinking here.
They just can’t help themselves, lol.
All that bloat is bad enough on a laptop, but its the absolute last thing a handheld needs, both for performance/battery and ergonomics.
I really wonder what would happen if, say, Taylor Swift or MrBeast actually ran for president.
Who could compete with that? You can say the parties would try to oust them, but look how that worked out for Trump, and he had far less name recognition back then.
Ask it questions about itself, like when its data cutoff is and what model it is.
It’d be really hilarious if it’s just chatGPT. “Local” llms are very unreliable about this, but sometimes they give you hints that they aren’t OpenAI.
Yeah. Normally I wouldn’t care, but when the colonies/galaxies get big, even a 30% TPS hit or whatever starts to feel very painful.
I would note that Rimworld and Stellaris (for me) run much slower in linux than they do on windows, and they are kind of perforamnce sensitive games.
A lot of people suck in the real world.
Agreed, this just looks like a miss.
Who knows why, but it doesn’t seem like for-profit Game of Thrones.
Paralives
That would have been a marketing nightmare lol
I hate turn based combat too, but it was super enjoyable in coop. And it’s quite good for being turn based.
It’s also real-time outside of combat, FYI.
For solo, I’d probably get the mod that automates your companions, and reduce the difficulty to your taste to compensate.