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Termie gonna save the rainforest.

These comments are a real Dunning-Kruger festival.

Yeah the bleakness of From’s settings is definitely an inherent part of their worldbuilding.

Elden Ring has the deepest, most complex worldbuilding of any game ever made, and it’s not even close. For anyone interested in worldbuilding I strongly urge you to watch some Elden Ring lore videos from The Tarnished Archaeologist to learn about the techniques that the Elden Ring devs use to put incredibly deep and subtle worldbuilding into their games. It’s changed the way I think about worldbuilding in any context.

https://www.youtube.com/@tarnishedarchaeologist

As a young nerd obsessed with RPGs and William Gibson’s work I was outraged at the idea of putting fantasy into cyberpunk. But then I picked up a damaged copy of the Shadowrun rules from a bargain bin and was blown away by the worldbuilding, they really found a way to make it all fit thematically and logically and I ended up running the game for years.

I mean, you took the time to write this post. But if a 2 hour diversion is all you want from cinema then that explains why you didn’t get it.

It’s not for you, as you’ve said yourself you didn’t get what it was doing. That’s not a criticism of you, it’s just not a style that you connect with. That’s fine, but maybe try and open your mind a bit and try to understand why a lot of people think its good.

DC and Marvel own all the rights to all of their characters, it was the primary motivation behind the exodus of superstar talent from those companies to form Image comics in the early 90s, where creators owned the rights to their characters.

I don’t think Moore has any say in it.

The standard payment to an artist on Spotify is “$0.003 to $0.005 per stream”: https://simplebeen.com/artists-make-on-spotify/

That is basically nothing for any artist that isn’t in the top tier of mainstream success.

prior to Spotify coming along the industry was in decline as downloading MP3’s on torrents and file sharing programs was the norm

You’re essentially pirating music by using Spotify, you are not paying the artists that you listen to in any meaningful way.

I’m still getting a ridiculous amount of value from Spotify

If only the same could be said for the artists you’re listening to…

That seems extremely high, can you explain your listening habits? Are you listening to all of those albums start to finish? Are you selecting each of those albums or just letting the algorithm run wild?

It’ll teach them teamwork XD

I will put in a strong vote for Castle Crashers, one of the most fun, charismatic beat em ups of all time, imo. Would be perfect for kids that age.

Overcooked is one of the most popular co-op games of the last few years, simple concept but fun, frantic gameplay. It’s pretty cheap at base price but goes on sale pretty regularly too.

Would have to get it through Steam I believe.

Microsoft are charging a yearly fee to continue getting security updates for Win10 after EOL.

It’s not the same game at all. A single purpose piece of code does not have the same considerations as a large software application. It’s more like one is speed chess and the other is actual armies on a battlefield.

Clickbait title. This is in the context of competitive coding, which is a very specific and constrained programming exercise with a time limit. Which is not at all comparable to real world software development.

See if you can get your hands on a series of OVAs called Genocyber, it takes cyberpunk concepts to their extremes. Very dark and violent.

Also worth watching Wicked City if you haven’t seen it. It’s more supernatural than cyberpunk but has very CP vibes and atmosphere, it’s a classic of the era.