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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I just referred them to 5 because it was almost as good

    Why do you consider Civ 6 better than 5?

    Edit for anyone else wanting to answer: Please specify whether you're including Brave New World (or Gods and Kings) in your comparison, since those expansions significantly improved upon the original Civ 5 release.

  • Someone with undetermined/unknowable gender would use the pronouns they/them, never he/him.

    We're not discussing what someone would use for themselves. We are discussing what someone would use when writing about a hypothetical person.

    If you believe that he or him would never be used in this case, then I suggest you do some research on the history of language.

    Edit to clarify: And by history, I include recent history, meaning usage by people alive today, who learned it in school not terribly long ago.

  • Either a male person or a hypothetical person whose gender is unknowable.

  • Programming @programming.dev

    I Went To SQL Injection Court

    sockpuppet.org /blog/2025/02/09/fixing-illinois-foia/
  • News @lemmy.world

    ISPs fear wave of state laws after New York’s $15 broadband mandate

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2025/02/isps-fear-wave-of-state-laws-after-new-yorks-15-broadband-mandate/
  • Technology @beehaw.org

    Atmospheric Water Harvesting With High Voltage

    hackaday.com /2025/02/24/atmospheric-water-harvesting-with-high-voltage/
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world

    Lutris Release v0.5.19

    github.com /lutris/lutris/releases/tag/v0.5.19
  • Programming @programming.dev

    FFMPEG Assembly Language Lessons

    github.com /FFmpeg/asm-lessons/tree/main
  • News @lemmy.world

    While Democracy Burns, Democrats Prioritize… Demolishing Section 230?

    www.techdirt.com /2025/02/21/while-democracy-burns-democrats-prioritize-demolishing-section-230/
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world

    Linux 6.15 To Ensure PlayStation 5 Controllers Use The Correct Driver

    www.phoronix.com /news/Linux-6.15-Ensures-PS5-Driver
  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Building a Safer Matrix

    matrix.org /blog/2025/02/building-a-safer-matrix/
  • Programming @beehaw.org

    Codeberg is currently suffering from hate campaigns due to far-right forces

    blog.codeberg.org /we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-hatred.html
  • Programming @programming.dev

    Codeberg is currently suffering from hate campaigns due to far-right forces

    blog.codeberg.org /we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-hatred.html
  • Programming @programming.dev

    uscope: A New Debugger and Introspection Toolchain

    calabro.io /uscope
  • News @lemmy.world

    CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google

    www.pcgamer.com /gaming-industry/a-2023-study-concluded-captchas-are-a-tracking-cookie-farm-for-profit-masquerading-as-a-security-service-that-made-us-spend-819-billion-hours-clicking-on-traffic-lights-to-generate-nearly-usd1-trillion-for-google/
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world

    The Wine development release 10.1 is now available

    gitlab.winehq.org /wine/wine/-/releases/wine-10.1
  • News @lemmy.world

    DOGE Employees Ordered to Stop Using Slack While Agency Transitions to a Records System Not Subject to FOIA

    www.404media.co /doge-employees-ordered-to-stop-using-slack-while-agency-transitions-to-a-records-system-not-subject-to-foia/
  • Linux @lemmy.world

    httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program

    github.com /monasticacademy/httptap
  • Linux @lemmy.world

    Ubuntu developer discussion moving to Matrix

    lists.ubuntu.com /archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2025-January/001365.html
  • Fox News @lemmy.sdf.org

    Arctic Foxes Joyfully Playing with Balls Are Just Like a Couple of Puppies

    pethelpful.com /pet-news/arctic-foxes-joyfully-playing-with-balls-just-like-puppies
  • News @lemmy.world

    US FCC will drop Biden plan to ban bulk broadband billing for tenants

    www.reuters.com /business/media-telecom/fcc-will-drop-biden-plan-ban-bulk-broadband-billing-tenants-2025-01-27/
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world

    NTSYNC Driver Ready For Enhancing Windows Gaming With Linux 6.14

    www.phoronix.com /news/Linux-6.14-NTSYNC-Driver-Ready
  • World News @lemmy.world

    Japan says Chinese hackers targeted its government and tech companies for years

    techcrunch.com /2025/01/08/japan-says-chinese-hackers-targeted-its-government-and-tech-companies-for-years/