I’m pretty sure the green dog is normal. It’s certainly as crazy as most small canines.

DM: Scribbles a note “Without the rust it seems like a serviceable crown, but not too fancy.”

Note to lost heir: “You see the crown and you think as it… looks at you. This should be your crown. You wants it. They shouldn’t keep it from you. Steals it, hides it, it came here for you”.

DM: “Probably worth some gold.”

Ouch, just when you thought it couldn’t get more anti-player it turns into trap roulette.

You’d be playing rock paper scissors constantly before touching anything.

Quite interesting how the tomb is built for very specific features in OD&D, just to screw with players in a rush.

I can think of a few barbarian characters I’ve seen at my table that would have charged every single door. They may even have learned not to after the fourth or fifth time.

As for the orange gas, in second edition that might have been peak comedy but it being yet another ‘fuck you’ for OD&D players just adds a bit more to the general player hostility. Having to force a player to edit a character sheet to a ‘less optimal’ feels quite brutal. Definitely good to see the end of that sort of “prank”.

Given how modern editions are much less crunchy and brutal, it’d be hard to recapture the sheer brutality of the tomb. You could make it harder of course, but capturing the sheer antiplayer hostility and competitive grading is a special kind of difficult.

Though, competitive tomb raiding feels better than generic PvP in any case.

Yep, was the case in all TES games before Oblivion as well, typically more strength in starting male characters but more intelligence in female characters varying depending on the character’s race. Only went away in Skyrim as they’d simplified the stats so much that starting stats were more uniform.

Possibly, Bungee is working with Sony right now. They went hard on this sort of thing, Concord and Helldivers 2 being other examples of the push, Concord famously failed, Helldivers worked. Methinks this may actually have been built from older LLM summaries of the deep lore in a few ways, there’s surface knowledge, but things that should have been obvious have been missed.

Sony fired a scattershot of games into the market into trendy genres, many will fail, but they may be expecting it.

I’ve seen a few of the famous quotes, but the Marathon itself is too spherical to be the old flying Space Spud. Bungie has often referred back to Old Marathon but this feels off. It’s like someone is doing this only reading Wikiquote and a few summaries. I did see hints of Tau Ceti’s spaceport being nuked, and the involvement of MIDA as a contractor, so there’s a few hints of the deep lore.

They’re cagey about the story as well, suggesting they don’t have a written one yet. I’ll bet they were starting towards a proper story and an author keen on the original Marathon left with the pieces sat idle in the meantime as the game grew.

It also feels incomplete, lots of pve features despite pvp extraction as the stated goal. I think this was intended to have multiple game modes, several factions trying to find something left behind, Tycho making a move on the ruins controlled by fragments of Leela. Throw in a bonus UESC force Sent by a hint from Durandal who is still off having his own brand of fun elsewhere. Perhaps Straus’s plans with the Colony long term come up.

A dream perhaps. On an Idea for a new Aleph One Scenario.

The counter is that all of a sudden instead of windows 10 it was 10 from 2020, then 10 from 2022 and so on. Instead of only being the last version it became a succession of short lived versions that people still weren’t upgrading.

It does feel like a whole bunch of analogies coming true: giving a former alcoholic a hard drink, waking a sleeping dog, tugging Superman’s cape, poking a bear, hurting John Wick’s dog…

Europe has had a nice long run of peace, maybe we shouldn’t feel too bad about them slacking a little bit on the defensive front. They needed it, and have done a lot with it.

Thanks for surfacing this one, it’s always fun to get the older perspective and realising they’re very human.

One of the requirements is full secureboot and recovery arrangements that didn’t exist when I installed back in the 8 days. Now I can reinstall over the old drive and that will do all the plumbing that enables 11. So the hardware is 11 compatible, but the existing software install isn’t.

*Edit to answer the question, no, it’s not too late. Most compatible CPUs have a lesser firmware TPM, but most mobos have a slot for a vendor specific hardware TPM. Which is what I got.

Or you add the chip and it still doesn’t want to upgrade because you don’t have secure boot enabled.

Ah, blessed be the almighty Foon. Nameless Mod was a absolute ride, I should replay it.

There are 4 or 5 different Americas, maybe more.

Didn’t know about Bottles, Cool find, may have to test it out.

Given their rivalry with Valve (I’m sure Riot see it as a rivalry at least, Valve probably don’t) I wouldn’t put it past Riot to want to avoid SteamOS and Linux by extension until significant market share is available.

To be 100% honest, probably not, and you may need to confirm with someone who knows Valorant. The big issue is anti-cheat, the detectors in use for major multiplayer games tend to lose their minds when they see Linux as they’re typically only built for Windows. Other than anti-cheat, it wouldn’t surprise me if it played better on Linux. Some of the low level magic has improved a lot in recent years, but official support is mandatory for multiplayer.