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Ooo, I like how you use the IKEA boxes for that.

I’m partial to the succulent ones, those look so cute.

I’ve missed this thread for a few weeks already (as in, I didn’t see it). Completed Disco Elysium twice since then, amazing game! Very sad that there’s not going to be a sequel; the world is fascinating, as is the style of gameplay.

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So so so many. Right off the top of my head:

• Guild Wars Season 2, one of the later missions. It was stealth gameplay. I hate stealth. Paid someone 100g to run it for me.
• FTL’s boss.
• Warframe’s Glassmaker season fight with Nihil.
• Currently, Ace Combat 7’s Pipeline Destruction.

Have you tried installing a copy of Windows in Dosbox, then install the game from there? I remember doing something like that to play the original SimTower.

Very likely the game is 16 bit mode, which is why nothing in Windows 10’s compatibility mode is working, as it doesn’t support 16 bit programs.

How bad is the scalping? I’m in Singapore and the price premium is about 10%.

The higher price isn’t permanent.

I’ve worked in camera retail and the local shops do just that, actually, and it’s effective. The FOMO people get their stuff first at a higher price, the shop gets a boost in margins, and everyone else gets to enjoy cheaper prices three months later (and have the early adopters sit through the bugs and first-run issues).

Definitely a good RTS, feels like it peaked with the first Company of Heroes.

Hybrid MMO/ARPG?

It does technically fufill most of OP’s requirements though. xD

Yea, but the cost of having FB acquire your data doesn’t feel so… worth it? I’m not completely privacy-focused like many on the fediverse but I do view it as a trade-off, and at US$500 the trade-off no longer feels warranted.

Was thinking about the HP Reverb G2, it’s a little more expensive than the Quest 3, last I checked.

How are you up for jank solutions? How about hanging some colour combination locks on a board or something?

Realised it’s not that cheap, US$500? Feels like it’s at a price point where I could spend a couple of hundred more and not get Meta involved. Made more sense when it was US$300.

Dang, lucky you! Though also what in the world did the previous owner do to it to kill the battery so dead in just 3 years.

Holy shit, that is a great deal regardless of where in the world you are. How’d you get it so cheap?

Tough as hell, good to great keyboards, Trackpoints are the bomb if you do work in an enterprise environment (more text than graphics)

Welp, whatever goodwill and sympathy I had for Israel just went poof. Less than 24 hours too, gotta be a record for them.

It’s not that simple. Is this for simple sexual gratification? A fantasy? Short-term relationship? Long-term?

When I was 20, I had my fantasies and had several one-night stands as well with older men. That’s where the attraction ended; it was more of a fantasy/kink, but I held no romantic interest in them.

The issue mostly is with power imbalance, it’s very easy for the older person to use their experience in life to limit the agency of the younger partner, so it takes some work for an age gap relationship to be a healthy one. I’m in one myself, and I do my best to be mindful about this.

Asian cultures don’t really see it as normal too, tongues were wagging with one of our Singapore president candidates in the recent election; he was 75, she 45.

25+ years of GPUs from three different major companies, and I don’t think I’ve ever upgraded the firmware on my GPU. Support is based on the API, be it D3D or Vulkan or OpenGL. As long as there’s support your card will work.