Yeah France remains one of the most productive countries in the European Union, so they must be doing something right

Here’s an interesting report on France productivity from 2019: https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2019-11/en_1errapportcnp-10july-final.pdf

Braflix is awesome, it’s my default go-to

If you were to judge based on this list, this would be a poor year for video games

Finally! Now I can switch back to the “normal” Steam Beta build for other experimental features, Steam Family was on a separate beta build which didn’t allow me to try other things…

Zen Browser, love the split view feature, and native vertical tabs !

https://zen-browser.app/

It’s a Firefox fork btw

Underwater level : PTSD from that temple

Firefox because of the addons, also because it syncs (weirdly, but still) with Firefox on my pc

Yeah idk what else can be a testimony of a game being a “hut” ; I don’t trust metacritic scores either

Yeah I went to Wikipedia to check the numbers :

The group’s “main catalogue”—songs released between 1962 and 1970—consists of 213 songs

So that’s like 50+ songs that were “hits”, wake me up when Gearbox releases 200+ games and 50 of those are nominated for at least one awards

That was what I was trying to convey thanks for being better at words haha

I remember when gearbox released a video about working on ROR2 after they acquired the IP. The CEO or creative director or whoever was talking about understanding people’s expectations, and called them “users”. Not players, not fans, just “users”. I thought this was a good enough warning that they had no idea what they were doing.

I think it was this video but I don’t remember the timestamp : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzD3jWETeW4 the fact that this is barely a documentary on the history of the game and itself a disguised and for their upcoming (at the time) dlc was another forewarning sign…

On the other hand, since it’s Ubisoft, you’re guaranteed a 70% sale 8 months after release for each of their games. I don’t know why anyone would buy their games on release when they all get deep discounts less than a year later

Unless it’s because so many people fall for their scams that they can afford those kind of sales

This interaction reads like a tennis match

I think that was also a joke in US by Jordan Peele ?

Edit found the clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uAEWFPmAwU

The instance I’m on is definitely smaller in scale and thus calls for a different approach to social media. It definitely feels like the old school forum days where you end up recognising usenames, I wouldn’t be surprised if a year down the line we end up setting up an irl meeting between active members.

On the other hand, it’s definitely hard to break bad habits, and having been on reddit for years, I still find myself having to fight some learned behaviour (doom scrolling, opening the app when I just closed it seconds ago, wanting to post a snarky comment to someone who’s clearly wrong instead of trying to be nice and explanatory…)

I wouldn’t say that leaving centralised platforms for the fediverse is a “lesser evil”, because the fediverse is what you make of it, you still have some control if you’re techy enough. But I do think it take extra voluntary self change to have a better approach to social media, and the fediverse isn’t a solution to that in itself.

This is quite a smart solution, good job !

I admire your patience in interacting with such an obnoxious individual lol

They did a good job with their first title (as a new studio) : Weird West had a great recipe for systemic gameplay, I don’t know if it sold as much as they were hoping (and reviews were okay), but they definitely have the right people to work on a spiritual successor to Arkane’s hits

It’s an open world survival crafting tower defense rogue like survivor like early access gacha !

From the about page it looks like it’s a non profit that does not enforse or support candidates or parties, they claim to only try and work on erasing the barriers between voters and the act of voting