Yeah. I’m nearsighted and had to get aftermarket prescription lenses for the index in order to use it comfortably. My nearsightedness isn’t even that strong, but I can’t use it without them.

Hits

I know a few people that actually claim to like watching ads. They have made consumerism part of their identity and they are proud of it.

Player preference only factors into the development decision in so much as it affects profitability. Meaning that even if more people prefer single player, they will still make a multiplayer game if they feel they can charge more, and earn more money from it.

Hopefully never.

If they are, it unfortunately isn’t working very well

You also start at a fairly high level instead of level 1.

We’re constantly producing new people that don’t know any better

I prefer version numbers. If you want to give it a nickname too, that’s fine, but having to remember what order mythical names were released in just to track versions is super annoying.

That’s become, by far, the most obvious tell for AI generated content for me. It’s just so damn unnatural.

Ditto

Visual Studio with Monogame

When it stopped people from being able to even play a game they paid for. In case it wasn’t clear, this breaks the game completely for non-cheating Linux users.

I guess I’m going to be that guy today. Android is Linux, and it’s installed on a lot of mobile devices already.

In theory, lower tax means that you have more discrenary money available to buy things.

As a kid that grew up in the NES / SNES era and played these games on a CRT television, I think the sharp pixels look better. This is just going to be one of those subjective things.

There is a “continue reading” link buried several pages down, past a bunch of ads. Took me way to long to find it.

Looks like this:

If you care, shouldn’t you check before boiling them?

There are references, in-jokes, and shared lore, but you won’t be missing much if you jump right in.

Yeah, it makes sense from that perspective, but for someone who played the original, where it was all one game, it really kills the continuity.