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See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellaview

You had cassettes? We had to manually transcribe machine code from printed listings.

Long ago, I solved all of the ways in which PHP made me sad...

...by abandoning it.

Nowadays we have better languages that can do the job at least as well.

if the FDA is dismantled to syncopats

Did you mean sycophants? Psychopaths? Something else?

Breath of the Wild: Beautiful. Mysterious. Inspired.

Tears of the Kingdom. Big. Shallow. Boring.

I found the first dozen or two hours of TotK exciting, as I encountered new mechanics and a darker side of Hyrule. But it wasn't long before the new and exciting became endless expanses of copy/paste encounters and terrain, forgettable characters, and annoying enemies. Nothing felt clever or interesting. I lost interest in exploring, and wandered away from the game.

Then I went back to the first game for another run.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitisinone

A good tool improves the way you work. A great tool improves the way you think.

Do these accept cash, or only ATM cards? (The latter would link your transaction to your bank account, of course.)

What do they give? A printout of a wallet address?

Also, units of fun earned while watching other people play.

One nice thing about an arcade is that you can see regular people (not streamers/professionals/actors) interacting with a game, and notice subtleties that aren't represented in a bullet list or trailer video.

SomaFM uses shoutcast/icecast streams, so just about any half-decent media streaming device or software can play it.

Or a projector, or a gaming console display.

What makes you think that? It's possible that they did it in-house, of course, but there's no precedent for it. No previous Civ had a linux version done in-house.

You are not alone in feeling it's overblown.

Well-done ray tracing can be beautiful, but realistically, it doesn't matter to me. I'm not Narcissus; I don't play games to stare at my reflection in a puddle. My time and attention are almost entirely devoted to things that move too fast for ray tracing to matter, or reading text, or the geometry of a scene as I plan my approach to whatever I'm about to do.

If all other things were equal, I would gladly take the extra eye candy. But to me, it's not worth paying significantly more money for real-time ray tracing hardware and higher electricity bills.

Please wake me up in ten years or so, when every GPU does it well without measurably increasing power draw.

I don't think so. There's no mention of it on their site.

Do you know who made the port?

Thanks for the perspective. :)

Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: Denuvo Anti-tamper

Requires 3rd-Party Account: 2K Account for Online Interactions

Somebody please wake me up when these atrocities are gone. (And thanks, Steam, for making them easy to discover.)

Are you including Brave New World in that comparison? I've never played Civ 5 without it.

I think the quote was, "I’m an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git."

What do you mean by "flat"? A circle is by definition two dimensional.