Not just a great fight, but also the boss with the best lore.

Extremely powerful giant warrior learns gravity magic so he can keep riding his best skinny horse friend. Aww.

I’d wait. I feel like consoles must be getting close to a hardware refresh now.

This is going to be an effective way to tank the Google/Yelp review score of your restaurant. And pay toilets are also stupid in Europe, I say that as a European.

It will be done wirelessly. They’re just legally required to call this a “recall” because automotive legislation was written before OTA updates were a thing.

The Talos Principle 2

It’s beautiful, and often really engaging both in gameplay and in story/setting, but I’m already feeling a bit of puzzle fatigue after ~20% through the game. I’ll see how far I’ll continue.

The EFF is working on all that. And have been for decades. They are allies.

• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/09/fight-overturn-fosta-unconstitutional-internet-censorship-law-continues
• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/congress-amended-kosa-its-still-censorship-bill
• https://www.eff.org/issues/net-neutrality
• etc etc

They’re making a stand on blocking because they have a bigger perspective on the issues. Which I thought was quite well articulated in their article.

Net neutrality has been debated for decades and, as the EFF apparently still has to remind people, the entire thing conceptually goes out the window once it becomes acceptable for ISPs to start blocking content on their own volition, even if you happen to completely agree with the block. After some time building blocklists of generally understood to be nasty sites, ISPs with large entertainment interests will block piracy sites. Internet archive? Blocked. Blog which writes something nasty about them? Block. Anarchist Fedi community? Etc. That’s what the EFF is warning about.

Yeah the cloaked enemies mission was also the highlight of chapter 1 for me. The far more interesting visual design of the area, the unique enemies and the mission design*. It was cool. But still disappointed that the ol’ invisible enemies stage was the highlight of an entire chapter :P. I expected a lot more from FromSoft.

There’s no contradiction there. You are required specifically optimize your build for the difficult boss fights -and- play with Sekiro-like skill. The game is clearly designed like this. And while I’ve never played any of the previous AC games I agree with OP that this feels Souls-like, with stamina, poise and everything.

The combat is fine perhaps. The main reason I don’t like AC6 is because there’s nothing interesting in it except the boss fights. It’s the blandest FromSoft game I’ve ever played. Elden Ring kept me enthralled for a 100 hours until I got all achievements, trying to explore everything. An afternoon of AC6 I started to wonder why I was still playing, when after each mission or boss there’s just going to be more of the same.

As a massive Dark Souls fan, AC6 is not even a very good Souls game. No deep lore and story, no beautiful scenery, no exploration at all. Even the bosses aren’t as good, because DS bosses can be tackled in various ways (melee, ranged, magic, many cheese strats) while AC6 bosses are designed to only let very specific builds succeed, which is incredibly boring. I honestly don’t understand the hype.

Huh. AI writing about AI industry news. AI-ception.

I enjoy these review threads. Very convenient to get an impression of a just-released game. Thanks for sharing.

It is my, unsubstantiated, guess that these kinds of standards are kept deliberately complicated and weak to allow the “three letter agencies” to exploit them. I would expect the government itself when needed uses the most secure or even an improved version of the spec which does not have these obvious vulnerabilities.

Yeah, exactly. Commercial social media sites pay workers in low-wage countries to moderate content. Plenty of stories out there about the toll it takes on them, but it’s easy enough for the commercial sites to just keep finding more cheap labor. Fedi is mostly volunteers so it’s quite different, and much more visible.

Settlers 2 (and the faithful remake Settlers 2: 10th Anniversary) is pretty old but is still one of my favorite economy building games

My US-made e-Bike is also “dumb”. A regular key to unlock it, a simple onboard trip computer, no apps, no bluetooth, a user replaceable battery… I can see the appeal of a “Tesla-like” e-Bike with a fancy app but reading about these companies going bankrupt makes me glad I got a simple bike.