Kind of ironic: I noticed your comment saying you prefer Bellular because YongYea is too rambly, right after I commented Bellular started rambling too much :-D

Different tastes I suppose.

Bellular news. It used to be focused on giving gaming news. Now they use gaming news as an introduction for long ramblings, and added click bait titles.

I often use emoticons, and dislike when the software automatically replaces them (although I’ve learned to accept that as a fact of life now). But I will never use an emoticon without nose. :-)

You breathe through an octopus? Don’t they need that oxygen themselves?

Does it have VGA?

I just finished Syberia 1 and its remake in parallel. Still a great game.

I’m now moving on to Syberia 2, while also trying to find the time to continue Baldur’s Gate 2 and Icewind Dale.

Depends on local laws.

It should be noted that the legality depends on local laws. There are definitely countries where this is illegal.

That sounds awful. You get someone who doesn’t really know the company or product, they take a bunch of decisions that fundamentally affect how you work, and then they’re gone.

… actually, that sounds exactly like any other company.

There’s always a flying nun.

No, because there’s no war. It’s simple murder.

This is the plan all along. It’s not about porn, it’s not even about control. It’s about teaching Americans a second language. You know who’s behind this? Duolingo and Big Language.

It’s still there, but turning it off still won’t let you associate txt files with the old notepad.

Simply uninstalling the app works fine though, then it defaults to the old one.

“I want to start with a blank slate”

There’s a setting for that.

“I don’t want tabs”

This one’s trickier: there’s only a setting to open existing files in a new window; you’ll still have tabs.

If your skull size increases but what’s inside doesn’t, that sounds potentially very bad.

Plot twist: you are the dinner.

Or when those genius scientists say something that shows they don’t even have a high schooler’s grasp of maths.

Magical accident: the teacher had flipped themselves through the fourth dimension the night before.

While we’re griping, and speaking of Console-Itis, does every PC game now need to have an unskippable message telling me that this game has auto save and urging me **not to turn off my PC** when the icon is being displayed? Really? Nobody’s going to do that. Tell me your game is a shitty console port without telling me your game is a shitty console port.

This one, along with “press any button to start”, annoy me so much. There is absolutely no reason to have to press a button before even entering the main menu. If you need it to determine the type of input device, that can be the first press on the menu.

Treat PC games as PC games, even if you make them cross platform.

Syberia 1 and its remake, in parallel. It’s a good story with interesting characters.

The remake is a mixed bag. Overall I do think it’s good. The graphics are beautiful and some quality of life is nice. It also changed some of the puzzles, usually (though not always) for the better. It’s mostly a faithful remake though.

There are two big flaws: the cutscenes were not remastered, and the game became easier.

Cutscenes are only upscaled as far as I can tell, and this is quite jarring compared to the beautiful new graphics. Worse is the difficulty. Syberia was never a hard game, but now it is just too easy. Hotspots are highlighted when your mouse gets near, as are required dialog options. I find this impedes the feeling of discovery.

But despite that, it’s still a pretty good remake.