I should buy some pudding...

Because that's what it is. I think some of it might have to do with the limited content of the petition itself (a pretty short description about "customers being robbed" without any broader ideas suggested by the campaign) and some with the fact they get plenty of petitions so the first reaction is to stick with what's already there. That's my guess at least.

I hope that if this petition reached 100k signatures and went to a parliamentary hearing there could be a chance for a more nuanced presentation of the topic but who knows, maybe I'm just being naive.

Hard yay. Early teething problems are quickly fixed as series found its footing, Miko('s suffering) is great and other characters have always more to them than their first appearance would suggest.

Monster designs are always on point and can be used in an extremely effective way. It's a fantastic horror comedy.

I've got some points about this one.

• they pitch a "deck that could actually play Fortnite" - game from a company who's CEO actively hates linux for whatever reason (maybe it kicked his dog, I dunno)
• they talk how games bought on stores other than Steam will be "first-class citizens" which... you can already do on Steam Deck
• they promote being free of hackers/cheaters because of immutable file system... something Steam Deck also has (though they do mention some additional digital signatures)
• they want to be not only on handhelds but everywhere (laptops, tablets, phones, TV, cars...) - pretty ambitious for a company that didn't deliver anything yet
• it'll be running on an ARM processor - we'll see how this works out (has anyone tried making a handheld like this?)
• already mentioned no desktop mode - why is this mentioned as a positive exactly?
• they want help from linux power users (feature requests, contribute code) but they don't know how open-source they want to be
• they stole Witcher 3 video from some dude on YouTube

I'd like to think these are just screw ups/growing pains but nothing I've seen so far gives me any good vibes about it. We definitely need more choice and competition - this however does not look like an honest attempt at that. Let's hope I'm wrong.

Edit: Ah, how could I forget! Kirt McMaster, CEO of Playtron and the man responsible for killing CyanogenMod. Sounds great...

According to dev comments it's still in the works, just waiting for Vulkan support (I know it was mentioned during one ISC or Friday Q&A, maybe on Spectrum as well). Depending on how fast the porting work goes we might see some movement on that be the end this or early next year (though that's just my speculation).

I'll see if I can dig up an official comment.

Edit: Here's a Spectrum post from 2022 from Silvan, the main (?) graphics guy. I'm pretty sure the video comment was newer than that but I don't have time to trudge through those right now.

He also wanted Mexico to pay for a wall, framed Putin and other dictators as geniuses and friends, and aimed to make America great again™ despite pushing it to isolationism and irrelevancy.

Let's not take a single sensible thing he said as some kind of huge win, especially when this has been the stance of US presidents before him as well. The only difference is that now war is close enough to EU that western countries started to wake up about the need to defend themselves.

For those wondering about why such basic features are mentioned here it's because work on Squadron 42 (single player part of the project) moved to the polishing stage and everything created for it is being ported back to Star Citizen (multi player part).

Is it worth an article? It is if you're interested in the game, I guess?

Is SC a perfect project? Of course not, far from it. I do find it interesting however how... angry it makes people and how much they want it to fail. Yeah, I know $1000+ packages and so forth (not needed if you just want to play the game btw).

For those interested in actually checking for themselves whether it's a scam or not, there are free flight events multiple times a year - you get to see the current state of the game with everything good and bad it entails. Surprisingly enough, they tend to bring in more players every single time.

So nothing will really change? Seriously though, I'm just glad this stuff will be properly marked so people can make an informed decision.

Is this suppose to be an article? Or is posting tweets linked on a website a new fad?

I know SC is a game many people like to dunk on (sometimes for completely right reasons) but let's not pretend like there's absolutely nothing there and CIG somehow scammed millions of players.

If anyone is actually interested in the game, I'd like to stress that you can buy the cheapest package and have access to everything using in-game money. There are also free flight events, available multiple times a year, so you can try the game out and decide for yourself if you like what's there. So far, despite horrible technical difficulties that often happen due to stress on the servers during those times the number of players keeps growing. Take that as you wish...

As for the package... Is it ridiculous? Yes, absolutely. It's 100% worth dunking on.

I wish all you guys had the same access to modding as PC crowd but I'm afraid anything like script extender would be too much of a risk for any console manufacturer. Still, they do experiment with console mods so who knows, maybe one day?

The few glimpses at technology (future bike for example) and ads gives me hope for a neat spin on the classic elements of the setting. That's all we can do for now, I guess.

Here's a list of accessibility features coming with 2.1.

Short version:

• Colorblind modes: Protanopia, Deuteranopia, Tritanopia
• Optional subtitles for: cinematics, radio, overhead
• Resizable text and overhead text
• Background opacity for cinematic subtitles
• Aim assist: 3 separate settings for melee, vehicle and ranged combat
• Snap to target
• Reduced camera motion
• Weapon sway toggle
• Controller vibration
• Center of screen dot overlay
• UI haptic feedback
• Large UI font
• Remove time limit from hacking minigame
• Large HUD elements
• Remove HUD effects (ghosting)
• Reduce HUD decorations
• Remove HUD lens distortion
• Toggle for cycling to arm cyberware when cycling through equipped weapons
• Adaptive triggers and trigger effect intensity