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There’s an animated version of this one on the linked fan-art thread:

Bastion’s entire soundtrack was amazing, but the end credits song (especially the live jam version they released on their channel later) has been stuck in my head ever since the game came out.

I was going to say food, but then I remembered every long-time cook can handle hot things barehanded because they’ve burned themselves so many times they’ve lost sensation in their fingertips.

“Wait, why is the last panel blank?”

A feature like this only needs to attract a tiny percentage of rich whales to be worth it.

It’s just about the easiest language to create a GUI in, too. It’s like saying “I’ll write a quick Hello World, and then we’ve got this case in the bag!”

They bought their guns from the same dealer who gave Lara Croft her handguns in the original games.

With scenes like that and the ‘two characters typing on the same keyboard to hack faster’ one, I’m 90% sure it’s just the writers having fun and seeing what they can get away with. Long-running formulaic shows must be boring as hell to write for, so I can understand the impulse.

Have you seen their RAM requirements? The AI is very fat indeed.

What Epic wants to do is make it so their game only runs if the kernel and its modules are all signed by an approved partner, hence the “working with distributions” bit. You wouldn’t be able to run any game with EAC if you customized your system setup, which includes running third-party drivers for your GPU, sound, and/or network cards, something that’s sometimes necessary on Linux due to poor manufacturer support.

Their “solution” to this is to suggest you make two boot entries - one for your actual system, and a second, locked-down one that passes attestation to play their games. That’s a huge ask for a game whose playerbase is mainly children.

It is. The Epic Games Store infamously launched without any of the features that are standard for online stores, like customer reviews or anything more than basic information about the product. They didn’t even have a shopping cart, something that was widely mocked at the time, and it was like an entire year before they got around to adding one. The only reason the store got any traction at all was because they used the billions they were making from Fortnite to bribe players with free games if they made an account and visited the store every week.

I don’t know why he’d poke fun at himself like that. The whole thing was the sort of fundamental development failure that you’d normally want everyone to forget about, but here he is giving people excuses to share stories about how incompetent his company is.

The real reason chefs use coarse kosher salt is because its sharp edges let it penetrate deep into the food using this method, like a rain of tiny shuriken.

Sounds like Ultima VIII.

Even with an immutable distro you’re able to obtain the source code and modify and recompile it to fit your needs. If EAC only accepts kernels signed by “trusted partners” that freedom goes away.

I’m not sure about that. Mandating a locked-down system with signed modules will be a tough sell for the Linux crowd depending on how strict they make it. Removing the ability to customize your kernel and restricting what drivers and services you can run goes against the entire open-source ethos.

Vibe-coding a program that manages and deletes massive amounts of files, what could possibly go wrong?

They swapped from one game you’ve probably heard of to two obscure indie games each week a while back, but yeah it’s still going on. They’re almost all forgettable outside of December, when they give out one game a day for the Advent calendar and a AAA game for Christmas.

They also have a rotation of three free developer assets every few weeks. Most of those are licensed for use in any engine, so it’s a good resource for game developers to follow even if they don’t use Unreal.

Free demo discs and downloads were everywhere in the shareware days. Maybe you played one of those?

Requiring a signed kernel+modules plus TPM and Secure Boot attestation is another problem, especially if EAC limits you to approved signing keys since self-signed keys would still allow you to modify the system how you want.

TPM alone is a non-starter. Loads of people with old PCs moved to Linux in recent years due to Windows 11 requiring a TPM 2.0 chip, and now is hardly the best time to expect people to upgrade their hardware.

That and the risk of gaming distributions including Epic’s crap by default like they do for Steam, though I doubt any distro worth its salt would do so.