If we’re talking about mods, Zora Fair-Child (Interesting NPCs / 3dnpc) was fun, too.

Yeah, they did. I wasn’t a fan of every part of Cyberpunk 2077, but I have to hand it to them: the gameplay was pretty solid compared to the mess I read about at launch. They even made the player controls responsive and reasonably nice to use. That alone was a huge improvement over The Witcher 3.

(Geralt, I’ll never forgive you for all the times you stepped forward into danger when I pressed back to avoid it, or decided to fiddle about with a candle when there was something more important for your hands to do, or moved like a lumbering sloth instead of… well… a witcher.)

I’m optimistic about this one.

Will Astro’s Playroom or Astro Bot run on an emulator yet?

I would consider buying one or both of them if ported to PC, but somehow I suspect that’s unlikely to happen.

In this case, replace /watch?v= with /embed/, but I don’t know if it works in every situation.

I didn’t realise there were so many.

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Oh, piss off, Google.

https://www.ign.com/videos/the-witcher-4-official-cinematic-reveal-trailer-the-game-awards-2024

https://www.youtube.com/embed/54dabgZJ5YA

In what sense?

Recent presentation by the developer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV0JzI8IcCY

Tutorial by someone else:

https://steveklabnik.github.io/jujutsu-tutorial/

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Interesting. The graphics remind me of Tropico 2: Pirate Cove.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/tropico_reloaded

https://store.steampowered.com/app/33520/Tropico_Reloaded/

You might find Edward Bernays and his impact on advertising interesting.

One of the numerous problems for America’s magnates was the consumption of the average citizen. Many only purchased what they really needed, a behaviour which moguls wanted to change. The Wall Street banker Paul Mazur summarised this in a particularly straightforward manner: ‘We must shift America from a needs to a desires culture’, he wrote in 1927 in the Harvard Business Review. ‘People must be trained to desire, to want new things even before the old have been entirely consumed.’

https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/original-influencer

https://www.npr.org/2005/04/22/4612464/freuds-nephew-and-the-origins-of-public-relations

https://theconversation.com/the-manipulation-of-the-american-mind-edward-bernays-and-the-birth-of-public-relations-44393

This is unsurprising, but nevertheless interesting, because it seems to disprove a naïve assumption that I’ve seen repeated over the years: that Tencent doesn’t influence the game companies it invests in.

Seems like a pretty big project to hook all of the different parts together.

Not what I would call huge, but big enough to be a real time investment, and nobody wants to spend that much of their life reverse engineering and building such a thing only to have it broken whenever Valve changes something.

That, I believe, is why we have no open source Steam clients.

That project does its job by running steamcmd, which is an official Valve client, not by calling public APIs.

That could be a viable way to implement parts of a Steam client, but since it depends on a proprietary tool, it wouldn’t be all open-source.

Edit: I wonder if Valve would be receptive to publishing the SteamCMD source code. They already have a github presence.

OP is comparing to tools that download and install games, but the Steam emulators you’re thinking of don’t do that; they only emulate a minimal set of runtime services that Steam games expect to be present in order to run.

They don’t implement Steam’s online features, like registering achievements and making cloud backups of save data, and don’t have the extra features like input device remapping or video streaming. They are great for running games without network access, or for continuing to play games if Steam ever shuts down, but they’re not really replacements for the Steam client.

I don’t know whether Valve has opened the APIs for downloading games, registering achievements, etc. If they haven’t, then a full replacement for Steam might still be technically possible, but it would require some reverse engineering and be vulnerable to breakage whenever Valve changes something on their end.

Valve offers an optional DRM system that has “steam” in its name, and Steam imposes some (easily circumvented) inconveniences that are also imposed by DRM, but no, Steam itself is not a form of DRM.

Mostly useless trailer, but after finding articles about the game, it looks like it could be fun.

https://www.pcgamesn.com/spacecraft/revealed

https://www.gematsu.com/2024/12/online-space-exploration-and-building-game-spacecraft-announced-for-pc

Does he think books should be shorter because the years of authors’ lives spent composing them are also not sustainable?

I wonder if he’s aware that development budgets can be allocated in different ways, like paying good writers to make substantial (and long) stories, or refining the user interface and game mechanics so that they’re fun to play for a long time, rather than pushing every new hardware generation to its technical limits.

I would try the -to option with a negative duration. (I’m assuming negative duration counts from the end of the file instead of the beginning.)

If this turns out to be a solid performer, the price could make it the best midrange value since AMD’s Polaris (RX 480). Let’s hope Intel’s build quality has improved since the A770.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N371iMe_nfA