Nord Stream II is gone, rest of the pipelines are still in place. Europe still imports some oil from Russia, just not as much as it used to.
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Nord Stream II is gone, rest of the pipelines are still in place. Europe still imports some oil from Russia, just not as much as it used to.
Europe most likely will need to increase imports from Russia to cope with energy crisis.
Also consumer adoption would be counted in low millions at best instead of hundreds of millions if people had to actually do some work to get them running instead of typing a website in the browser.
Sure, and banning certain usages for work is one of the more straightforward things to execute given that we are (or at the very least) should be auditing companies consistently.
Not saying it is desirable or even correct thing to do per se, but "this tech is widely available and you're just few hours of internet browsing away from utilizing it" was not much of an obstacle for heavily limiting amateur bombmaking or naive drug production operations
Unexisting is not feasible obviously, but adding friction to the process pretty much has historically great track record of significantly reducing usage and narrowing down possible sources. Also state is pretty much one phone call to ISP/VPN provider away from getting your internet usage receipts.
I am not so sure about that tbh. We get companies experimenting with focused lower scale games that are more reasonable budget wise and gamers are not rewarding these attempts at all, usually citing reasons that have all to do with "we can't make that kind of game with that kind of budget".
For what it's worth to complement your point WEF thinks that software development jobs will be third highest growing ones by 2030: www.weforum.org/stories/2025...
and skillset that computer touchers tend to have will be even more in-demand
Really unfortunate as I liked Avowed. Was refreshing to play a gamey RPG that doesn't take quarter of the year to beat and is focused on just what it wants to do.
I think the more likely explanation is "don't pile on people/don't bring their attention to yourself". This is happening plenty of times on this website and (usually) does not have negative implication.
SS1 >= Mooncrash > SS2 >= Prey, imho
May I interest you in this: rosodudemods.wordpress.com/2020/12/14/i...
From the canonical ones it gotta be Thief 1 or Thief 2. Ultima Underworlds are too much of a proof of concept (Arx Fatalis less but still kinda in this territory), System Shock 2 and Deus Ex are broken and imbalanced.
Arkane's games are polished but far less interesting (outside of Mooncrash)
Original System Shock is so good mainly because of its controls, imo. No other game makes you feel like a cyborg the way it does.
Thief for stealth games (although wouldn't be my choice)
NES Tetris (probably as close to perfect as video game can get)
Quake for FPS
Mario 64 for 3D platformers
Brood War for RTS (though not my preferred)
Resident Evil 1 for survival horrors
With the added context that they were the ones that propped up said fascism with Treaty of Rapallo and supplies of materiel to Germany (which stopped only after they were invaded).
In many countries it is not the boomers or pensioners who vote for far right en-masse but young people and mid-career professionals.
Not really, political climate on both liberal and right wing side in Poland is against any intervention and sabre rattling.
But they're still making games tho? Artifact bombed but Deadlock is coming along nicely. We had Alyx before that as well.
There's a good paper in that vein as well: web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/DM...
In Poland this holiday is a happy celebration. There is simply no recognition of "this was insane calamity that we shall remember to not let it happen again". There's just "all our oppressors got fucked and we're independent again, fuck yeah!"
Colony Ship, Underrail, Dungeon Rats, Age of Decadence
Most of the money made from sales goes for labor compensation, that's true for virtually 90% of businesses and gaming is no exception. Video game developers are famously undercompensated despite that and even if Activision spent everything left after operations on labour it would still be true, lol.
I think in actual abstractions, conventions necessitated by gameplay and similar games are actually more like theatre than the cinema tbh. But it is hardly ever acknowledged and we rarely have theatre afficionados working here.
The core of video game is game part of it - the gameplay experience.
Which is why I think games like Pathologic 2 have a much better case for that rather than visual novels or walking sims.
The GEP gun is the most silent way to eliminate Manderley
I guess the transition to F2P changed the situation quite a bit
Oh I am not disbelieving you and I believe we talked on Stormgate's discord. I'm just surprised by this because it runs counter to numbers provided by Blizzard themselves nearly a decade ago or what other RTS games report.
Iirc Frost Giant people (who oversaw transition of SC2 into F2P live service game) confirmed this as well but can't find the Discord post anymore :x