Then who’s the expansion, Yuri’s Revenge?

99 was great, but my personal favorite is 2004, the soundtrack is full of absolute bangers

Pornhub is the Duke Nukem 3D of video streaming sites

Mastodon is the Worms World Party of social media

This comment of mine is the Cookie Clicker of comments

You! You’re finally awake!

One example of this is repurposing old laptops into thin clients. In simple terms, a thin client is a device that runs services and software from a centralized server, allowing users to access their desktop environment from any device with an internet connection.

Since the laptop is now primarily acting as a gateway to cloud-hosted applications, it can appear that the hardware itself no longer needs to be particularly capable. (…) The physical laptop is still at the end of its refresh cycle, and its components are still ageing.

Author: Thomas Epps, IT Product Manager & Cloud Device Business Manager at LG Electronics.

This must be the kind of shit that’s pushed straight down high executives, because no one in their right mind would read a word of this shit and think “OMG HE’S SO FUKKEN RIGHT!!!”

a dedicated thin client delivers both architectural and financial advantages over a 10-year lifecycle, with lower maintenance, reduced energy use and a significantly lower total cost of ownership.

translation: your ownership cost is reduced to zero, because LG owns the glass. Win-win, mr leader!

It was the Data-Picard maneuver, they crashed their shit before the actual crash could hit them

Business as usual, no?

Yes, for it requires intense physical training for a proper casting of “Fist”

Even those only whisper in hushed cants about the before times, when every inscription was carefully annotated in scrolls that could become as long as entire towers

FREEZE!

Also from HOMM3, it’s the tower hero sprite during combat

Apprentice mages usually begin by aiming at their own feet and yelling the incantation, some immediately turn to aim at the sun “just because”

Easy, it was another, greater mage. It’s mages all the way down

I doubt it. I’ve recently checked whether the Tekken 6 recomp/port for PC was any good, but framerates are abysmal, it’s still effectively an emulated game.

The post using NES as a comparison is the main problem, in my opinion, especially given that Quake in 13k of javascript exists (only 3 levels, but still), which is a closer apples to apples comparison.

Besides, “needs to run on a multitude of browsers” is not hard unless you decide to make your javascript do absolutely everything, and even then it’s easy to keep it working on the major browsers, you just aim for the lowest common denominator (usually Safari). The browsers do the heavy lifting of running on a multitude of OSs and architectures.

Time to port Doom to that

Ha, my stack of punched cards are immune! Now I just need something to read them…

I remember when hello games nerfed the prices of active iridium all the way to the floor. Didn’t take much for people to realize the easiest/shortest path to lots of money was the gel from cactus farming^[1]. Does that still sell for 50k a piece?

The only reason to investigate derelicts is to pray you get a halfway decent upgrade for your own freighter, which almost never happens

As someone with over 400 hours, expect the whole experience to be puddle deep. Granted, I last played in 2024, so my opinion is a number of updates behind, but from what I’ve seen up until then, the core of the game didn’t change and nothing pointed to it changing.

The gist of it: every planet is procedurally generated and everything feels empty and lifeless, even when the planet has lifeforms. There are some cool looking planets, but they rarely have anything interesting on the ground. On-foot exploration is rarely rewarding in any sense. Points of Interest have some minimal distance between them and nothing besides your compass pointing towards the nearest one, with any building or settlement that has one of the 3 alien races in them being little more than a pit stop. There’s very little variation in the POIs you can come across. Hell, even a town that you get to become a “mayor” feels like a big nothingburger.

You don’t really “command” a fleet, especially because space combat is super basic and boring. At one point, you just get a big freighter for free and that’s it. You can get other ships to join your fleet, but they don’t do anything while in space proper, they just look pretty while there. You can send these extra ships on missions, then wait several hours for said missions to conclude. You’ll likely forget you even sent them, not to mention upgrading your small ship to jump from star system to star system is much, much, much easier than upgrading your freighter - you need to explore derelict freighters, essentially “space dungeons” that are very annoying and slow, to get upgrades for your freighter.

The game has a “story”, but it’s pretty bland and not worth the time. Any quests the game offers can be abandoned and picked up again at any time and, when you do, they don’t ask you to travel back, they just point to a nearby place or star. Hell, I remember there was an exploit that you could pile up several pirate bounty quests (you’re tasked with killing a pirate in space), move to a star system over 2k light years away, reset all of them - which would cause them to ask you to kill a pirate in the system you’re currently in - then fly out and kill one pirate for the prize of ALL of the quests. No idea if this has been fixed.

All in all, the game won’t crush you, but the repetition and tedium might. Frankly, I recommend you try a pirate version first. If, 8h in, you feel like going further, buy it.