This kind of makes sense from a balancing perspective. Once you complete the main mission, you can't fail it anymore, even if you fail to extract. This stops the player from rushing the objective so they can clear the rest of the map stress-free. So you either risk failing the operation or have a much harder time exploring. Completing side objectives as you move along the main objectives seems like the ideal play with these mechanics, and I feel like that's the most intuitive way to play, anyways.

This analogy doesn't work for me. First of all, I'd absolutely watch coked esports. Secondly, glitched speedruns are absolutely a popular form of competitive cheating. Nobody would watch an aimbot competition because that specifically would be boring, it'd just be cameras jumping around and death screens. There's no real competition happening. Wallhacks might be fun to watch - my favorite FPS Blacklight Retribution had that as a mechanic and it was great.

At least the trolls make it obvious they're not voting sincerely. Steam awards are a popularity contest where the categories don't really matter, so I'm just glad less people will take the results seriously this time around.

As somebody that doesn't play a lot of racing games or flight sims or anything, a basic gamepad will go a long way. A lot of games that feel bad on keyboard were simply made primarily for console. Dark Souls was an infamous example of this, but this can apply to a surprising amount of things - I find it's hard to reach for numbers in MMOs, and macro keyboards/mice are too busy, but FFXIV actually handles incredibly well on a controller because it was designed with the PS4 in mind. Even with recent games, Armored Core 6, Resident Evil remakes, Elden Ring, Jedi Survivor, I'm sure these all play fine on keyboard and mouse but they're much more comfortable on a gamepad.

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It would be one thing if people were just overhyping things, but a lot of the outrage was over how much they just blatantly lied while marketing the game. They promised a lot of specific things and then released something that was aesthetically impressive but ultimately outdone in just about every other category by sometimes decades old games, and lacked all of the groundbreaking features they marketed.

Personally, even coming back to it much later and trying to enjoy it at face value with all of its updates, it still felt like a boring and shallow GTA clone with a neon glaze. That's not to mention the fact that it's still frustratingly buggy.

You can parse any plaintext with regex, but I would recommend using XPath for that use case, instead.

God I loved having a bookshelf full of game cases. A digital library just isn't the same.

YouTube recommendations are emblematic of a greater trend I've noticed in tech where instead of catering content towards us, we're starting to be catered towards the content they want to show us. Managing your own subscriptions and keeping the things you don't want out of your feed just keeps getting harder.

People did this constantly on Reddit, I don't know what you're talking about.

Did you even use Reddit? It has more political communities than you could count. Just because there's only one r/politics doesn't mean that's the only community you can choose from. Reddit has a lot of problems, but this is not one of them.

The big thing for me is that I've seen a lot of people say they've had their accounts stalked and harrassed for saying really mild things. With how many times I've read "I read your post history and..." over even the most mild disagreements, I absolutely believe this happens on a regular basis. Dropping an obviously unpopular opinion feels like an easy way to become a victim.