Not everyone wants to play a game that relies on responding to cues.

Overuse of one mechanic can make it unappealing.

I feel the same about games that rely on reactions during cutscenes or climbing. On the one hand having to be on edge all the time is annoying, but on the other, the absence of interaction can hamper suspense.

For example, I’ve been playing Horizon Forbidden West lately - There’s a lot of climbing, and the devs love to throw a mid-climb “post you’re hanging on starts to fall” gag, but with no reaction mechanic, it’s pretty much always harmless and kinda feels “why bother”

Was also curious, so I did some searching. Review bombed feels like a deliberate word choice to shift the blame but this article sums things up:

https://www.sportskeeda.com/mmo/why-no-rest-wicked-getting-slammed-negative-reviews-biggest-ever-update

TL;DR, souls-like game already walking a fine line balancing difficulty & fun released a major overhaul that significantly altered the balance, allegedly making late game easier at the cost of early game getting harder. Players did not like the changes and expressed that in reviews. Dev has issued updates but it takes a lot to earn back those review points.

For what it’s worth, from what I can tell from the outside looking in, it looks like the fixes have been well received.

The VPN speeds will be throttled pretty substantially, and low ram will result in some instability seeding, but it should run. Good thing about torrents is they’re built for unreliable.

I’ve run a torrent box like described on pretty much every pi generation, and the pi4 was the first one where VPN speed was no longer the bottleneck.

That 9070xt looking more and more tempting

Call me if it’s on sale for $10 without rootkit or secondary launcher. Until then, I snooze.

Yes, it absolutely can, it’s super easy! Just swap your Minecraft .jar with Paper and it’ll do the rest. It’s a tiny bit harder to go back, but only marginally.

Out of the box, aside from huge performance benefits, Paper is virtually indistinguishable from vanilla, but it also opens the door to a whole world of easy-to-use server-side plugins.

Edit: (you should still make a backup before swapping, just in case)

CPU intensive servers like Minecraft are where you start to run into problems with older hardware. If it’s just you on there, a 10 year old CPU is fine, but if you’ve got a few friends, the server may start to struggle to keep up.

Not sure how recently you ran this, or what all your were running, but in the past couple of years Paper has hit some pretty major milestones in unlocking threaded processing. Barring some sort of spammy 0-tick redstone nonsense or over the top plugins, I’d wager a Raspberry Pi 4 could handle up to about 5 or 6 friends without seeing any TPS dips. Its really remarkable how far they’ve pushed performance recently.

Could I get a larg HDD and ad it in an enclosure to the Mini PC to handle the media volume?

Like an external USB drive? Absolutely.

Turn off the lights when 2 people in bed. Turn the lights on really low when only 1 person gets up. Track time you went to bed / time in bed as a low-budget sleep tracker not tied to a big data broker, like a smart watch would be…

How else am I gonna find out they dropped a minor update to WoW and added more loot boxes for your loot boxes in Overwatch (which I assume they will just start calling 3, despite any major change to engine or gameplay)

I assume that’s why there’s a 95% rejection rate, they’re just fumbling to find any mechanics that haven’t already been used in other games.

I know it’s not a direct answer to your question, but I just wanted to draw attention to the IKEA Starkvind air purifier, fully compatible with ZigBee, totally offline

Some days I don’t wet the bed, how will it recognize my presence without a steady stream of moisture?

Wait, you just sold me on Hitman though, where should I start? Is “World of Assassins Part 1” truly a combination of HM1-3? Looks like its only $9 on steam rn

Waiting for the reviews to come in on this system’s N64 performance

Don’t forget the rise of the 60+ GB “Day 0 Patch”. You buy any physical game and you have to download the whole thing anyways when you get home.

Did they check between the couch cushions? That’s usually where I find the remote when I lose it.

Ehh, I think it’ll be a looong time before machine learning can make meaningful character interactions.

It may be able to make maps faster, slightly better versions of something like No Man’s Sky or Minecraft (both already sporting functionally “infinite” procedural generation), or fill a city like Cyberpunk 2077’s with slightly less mindless wandering NPCs, but I don’t think it’ll help make story-based RPGs bigger in a useful way

The NPCs that stand out in an RPG do so because they typically have a well-crafted, and finite, story arch which is incredibly difficult to do with machine learning and trying to make things more procedurally generated.

They’re going to holistically synergize the market capitalization to optimize a paradigm shift for shareholders.

They expect it to bomb and they’re going to flood it with microtransactions and vague “AI-enhanced fetch quests” or some bullshit.

They’re not trying to make a better user experience, squash bugs, or polish the story, they’re “extracting value” - I’d stay far away from this one folks.

Yeah, the billion dollar game developer doesn’t have the resources to test preview editions of the only PC OS their game is designed for. They’re just a small startup of ~20k employees. How are they supposed to allocated anyone to patching a game from their most popular franchise?

You’re right, it’s the consumers fault for being biased.