Frontier: Elite 2 and Frontier: First Encounters still have the best planetary scale and seamless landings of any sci-fi space ship sim with interplanetary travel. Flight of Nova does it better but that’s only one planet. Frontier has like four billion.

my take on that is that it’s bullshit. when your metaprogression is based on knowledge, it’s dependent on letting players access that knowledge to begin with. personally it took me until day 40 to roll credits because i simply was not given the rooms i needed to understand the puzzles. i showed my gallery to a friend who got there much quicker and they noted that i was still missing some of the more basic rooms.

the risk in rng-based games is always that someone gets shafted, and when the game is also story based, those people effectively get locked out of the story. the people thinking it did not deserve the reaction simply did not get the worst rolls.

that’s sorta the nature of rng, it will make the experience very different for different people.

the bonnet is the hood, though, right? the british term, using the same rule as frunk, should be “froot”.

as i said, flimsy numbers.

battlefield 6 does this, among others

lol

nostr has a pretty bad reputation due to the nature of the protocol’s inception and the people involved. any time that specific network is brought up, the discussion pivots.

this was discussed elsewhere. nostr is tightly coupled to lightning.

well in this case it was made clear they were mistaken about the whole thing and therefore the passive-aggressive tone they were using was completely unwarranted.

what interests me with gabe’s comments at the time is that he didn’t have the same complaints as the “normal users”. he didn’t comment on the UI basically at all, which makes sense because steam’s ten-foot interface released about the same time as metro. the ui was never the main problem with W8, it was the vendor lock-in that came from the microsoft store.

hell yeah

better than not reading at all, apparently

i don’t know if it still does it but it would, without fail, translate the expression “sagan om _” (the story of _) to “the lord of _”. no cookie for guessing why.

depends on the thing you’re asking about.

no, as in, the developer built nostr because he wanted a twitter-like microblogging platform he couldn’t be banned from.

really, this is skim-reading territory. you could have saved us both a lot of time by just reading the history of the thing.

it is like twitter in that it’s designed to be like twitter.

the fact that nostr is very tightly integrated with bitcoin, to the point that the lightning network extension basically is part of the standard.

false equivalency. they made a plausible claim.

your previous two replies were. and by “just asking questions” about things you obviously know more about, you’re not adding to the conversation.