You’ve sold me on it! I’m gonna have to play it now

I love Quake and have for years but it’s definitely sad to see how barren the franchise has become and the ways that QuakeCon has changed from what it once was

Hoping this a fun watch though!

Believing that certain folks don’t deserve basic rights because of their identity, sexual orientation, skin color, etc. is not an opinion that’s acceptable. No one with a brain wants to hear any of that non-sense thankfully!

I’d imagine this was the plan from the get-go or at least a consideration. I don’t think they swindled anyone necessarily, they weren’t banking on sales with it being on Gamepass, so this makes perfect sense IMO.

They announced that anyone who bought the game will get in-game reimbursements and anyone on Gamepass gets the Ultimate Edition upgrade for free, so that atleast there’s that.

Good to know! Didn’t realize at first it was just their marketing term for Resizable BAR lol TIL

• For 1, all motherboards should work with both AMD and Nvidia GPU.
• For 2, you can mix and match, there are some benefits to using both an AMD CPU and GPU, namely Smart Access Memory
• For 3, AMD’s naming is confusing as hell but basically they used to have R3, R5, R9, etc for different tiers of cards, but now everything goes under the “RX” naming prefix.
• They use the X and XT suffix to differentiate the fastest versions of the same tiers of cards or revisions of cards. (Kind of like Nvidia’s TI suffix)
• The equivalent of a 4070 is a RX 6950 XT as far as I’m aware.

I think a replay of all 3 games is in the cards soon! I’m ready to be hurt again

I’m cautiously optimistic on the expansion. I enjoyed the game for what it was and I’m excited to replay it with the big free update that overhauls everything + the DLC

Buy it! It’s so fun and for 15 bucks it’s a deal

If you haven’t already, 100% look into software modding it, you’ll thank us later!

Do what you enjoy, I’m nearly 30 and I plan to game until some pries this mouse and keyboard or my controller from my cold dead hands! Have fun and don’t worry about it!

I NEED IT

I’ve been eyeballing this for a good while guess it’s time to pull the trigger now

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An older game that fits this, which I loved and that ended up not really getting anymore content sadly, was D4: Dark Dreams Dont Die. It’s worth a play though.

It’s played in episodes and only ever got one “season” of content, so there’s a prologue and two episodes to play.

Not a professional, also learning, but one of the books I’ve been reading through is Spring Start Here: Learn what you need and learn it well

I love GOG! They’re giving away a free game and a free Cyberpunk digital goods pack currently for anyone curious!

I’m extremely excited for this game. I was legitimately blown away by the deep dive today!

As far as I understand that’s correct. I’ve got a solid junior level understand of programming LOL but ActivityPub acts as an interface basically where instead of the content being walled off to Instagram specifically this new Threads app should be accessible by the outside world (Mastadon, Lemmy, whatever else) through ActivityPub. Those apps would get the content through requests to the interface. So you could theoretically migrate your content just like you can on other Fediverse apps.

I’m right there hoping with you and I think this very well could be a big turning point as they’ll be the first major player, to my knowledge, to incorporate anything Fediverse into their ecosystem.

My other big hope is that the process of signing up for sites like Lemmy, Mastadon, and other Fediverse apps is improved so that more people can navigate it easily. As you said, right now the UX is pretty bad and can be frustrating even for veteran users of the internet. My biggest frustration, like many, when signing up for Mastadon was trying to choose a server and the way the Servers page is structured made it ten times more difficult I felt like because it’s just a giant list of servers that are sorted by category.

I think with a really great UX and simplified UI for the sign-up process that would go a long way to not turning people away. I imagine a literal walk through of the whole process, step by step, with lots of hand holding and tool-tips pointing to things in case someone gets confused.

I love the aspect of it being tied to ActivityPub and I do still utilize Instagram primarily as a way to communicate with friends and family, so I’m willing to give it a try. However, I don’t think it will replace the love I have for Mastadon or be able to match the aspects of Mastadon that I really enjoy: the positive communities, personalization, no algorithm, etc.