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OK, @ZandraJoi, @Heatman and anyone else who's interested, here is how to run games using Windows 10's Compatibility mode. This does NOT gaurentee that games will work, but it's always worth a try,

I'll make a post detailing how to run compatibility mode, but it'll have to wait until I get home in a couple of hours.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/7/2044351/-Outrage-As-Cobb-County-Georgia-Grade-Schooler-Charged-With-What-Amounts-To-Felony-Autism Summary: Autistic kid repeats lines from RDR at school, gets charged with felony. Ridiculous. I am autistic, and like that kid, I do echolalia (repeating lines from things as a stim). Not sure if the school is ignorant about echolalia, prejudiced toward autistic persons, or hates video games.

The child would be so mercilessly bullied and tortured for his autism, that I would have to wonder if he even would make it out of there alive. Those places are no joke. They're as bad as prisons that adult offenders are in, but just with a younger demographic. If he has to be incarcerated, put him in a hospital institute. A place where he would have a chance of being treated with some level of kindness. But in them you're ignored and left to your own to pass the time. The most severe thing he could possibly deserve would be maybe being grounded and having to give up RDR. At least give it up for a little while unless his parents decided to take the game away permanently. But at this point it would be a moot point to take it permanently. But all in all, he needs a talking to. Not a felony charge, and not incarceration. If his parents are having difficulty finding the right words, there are counselors that are trained in these areas.

I think it would be Notsee because every last one of them both refuse and will "notsee" the fact that Adolf lost and Biden is their President. Also they're blind idiots that will "notsee" that Adolf is constantly screwing them and ripping them off on an hourly basis.

Depends on the game. When it comes to game aesthetics, there's really two kinds of game, simulation and fantasy. A simulation is, as per the name sake, a game emulating something from real life, like Sports sims', COD WW2 games, historical settings and so on. In these types of games, you call them "good looking" when the graphics and design emulate that real world accurately. There isn't really any sense of creative style, it's all about the quality of the rendering. Some liberties may be taken for practical reasons, but overall it's all about accuracy, not style. When game dev's do this well, it's very impressive in it's own way, but it's also very limiting. There are some games in this category that do have a lot of creative style anyway. Take The Last of Us. for example. That is a simulation of our world, but in a post-apocalypse, so the creators had to create a lot of this world with it's decay, overgrowth and so on, so some of it's beauty dose come from that, but it's mostly about detail and accuracy. One of the great examples of this kind of concept of a "great looking" video game is, Gran Turismo, and that's still going to be the flavour for the latest one. Fantasy games are, of course, the complete opposite. The essence of whatever beauty they achieve stems of creative design and artistic merit. You don't necessarily have to have massive graphical fidelity to create something truly beautiful. Child of Light of one of my favrile examples of such a concept. Everything here is pure art and nothing about it is really meant to look that that real. The game looks like a watercouler in motion, the music is sublime and even the dialogue is written as poetry. One of the most beautiful games I have ever played and it wouldn't exactly push a GTX 3090 to it's limit. Remember this game was developed by Ubisoft and only came out around seven years ago, so it's not like like is a limited resource deal. There are, obviously, big budget AAA fantasy games that are blessed the same kind of graphical fidelity as games like the aforementioned Gran Turismo (Horizon Zero Dawn comes to mind, and that pretty is the best looking game I've ever played), but for those kinds of games there would be no point for them to accurately render a fantasy world that's dull and boring to look at, it's still about designing some vibrant and inviting environments to explore. Now, neither one of these approaches are wrong, it just takes applying the right approach to the right game. Having said that though, If a developer had to choose between making some look boring, but more akin to reality as apposed to implying some creative liberty to make it more aesthetically pleasing, I would say aesthetics every time. I recently picked up Mass Effect Legendary Edition and, with all due respect to the game's fans, on my god is the first game drab to look at! Almost every planet you land on looks like the same boring mixture of craggy hills, just with different weather. I know the game is well over a decade old, but I still feel it could have been better than this. I don't care that this planet is inhospitable so that's why there nothing growing, it's boring and dull, and that's the end of it.

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For those wondering, the easiest way to explain echolalia is ... do you ever walk around singing lyrics to your favorite song without really thinking about it? That, but not necessarily singing or a song. That's what the kid was doing. Just repeating lines that were stuck in his head from the game. There was no "intent" or "threat" in them. He just liked how they sounded/felt to say. This is the equivalent of charging a kid with a felony for singing a song with violent lyrics.

In my experience, F-Droid apps are also often high quality compared to (free as in beer) Play Store apps. For example, I've tried dozens of free cookbook apps from Play Store, but couldn't find one that would satisfy me. Then I tried OpenRecipes from F-Droid, and it's exactly what I needed. Same with a meditation-tracking app, I've tried quite a few from Play Store, but Meditation Assistant from F-Droid proved superior. Now, it's quite possible that commercial apps from Play Store offer better quality than free apps from F-Droid. However, what is clear is that Play Store is flooded with low quality apps, whereas F-Droid provides quality over quantity.

I wish I could say I was surprised. Anyone a little "different" is a prime target for abuse and general bigotry. I've been through it as well. I'm not autistic, but I have my issues. But charging an 11 year old child with a felony because he was reiterating something he saw in a fucking game is going so far beyond ridiculous that I can't even begin to measure it. But I do agree with the article. Felony depression. Felony OCD. Felony schizophrenia. Felony bi-polar. Felony Tourettes. Felony Down syndrome. Where does it end? For that matter, why the fuck did it even start?

The best point of buying hard copies is that we can sell it later. I have played games like God of war 1 and 2, Spider-Man, GTA IV etc. After completing the game, I sold the used copies to my friends at 50% off the real price. In our place, buying or selling such used gaming DVDs are very common.

Your right. Internet not being available and the possibility of online services for games getting shut down are very real and justifiable concerns when it comes to digital game's distribution. Sadly, the question is kind irrelevant because there has not been a major PC game or port released on physical media for well over a decade. The format is long since died off. It's one the weaknesses of PC gaming in general. I did a little research on that game you mentioned Skip-Bo Castaway Caper and as far as I can tell the game has trouble running on modern systems because of an incompatibility with 64bit operating systems and hardware. This can, at least in theory, be fixed by running the games using window's compatibility mode.

Here I am singing a commercial I heard 5 minutes ago! Yeah, these ear worms can be a nuisance but not always, especially now that commercials are playing songs from the 80s! I just wait for the next commercial to change the tune. At least it's not Barney's or Lambchop's songs 😉 Oh, no, I went there!

I get it often. Typically it's a lyric or two, and I can't for the life of me figure out what song the lyric is from. But often I'll be doing something and a song will start playing in my head and won't leave no matter what I do. There was a day a couple weeks ago that I had to watch a 5 minute YouTube video more than 20 times, because the god damn song wouldn't shut the fuck up and kept me so distracted that I never could see the god damn video.

I'd like to point out immediately that any games here will automatically be spoiled by virtue of mention, and there's one game on this list I don't recommend you look personally look at because I know you've currently got an interest in this series. The first game is Spec Ops: The Line, with its inconsistent 'no heroes' narrative. What was supposed to be an ordinary recon mission in an ordinary third person cover shooter turns out to be much more complicated when orders are ignored and communication breaks down. You're sometimes paused by the game to resolve moral dilemmas such as choosing between two criminals to execute because your soldiers' lives are on the line, or dispersing a crowd. And sometimes you're given no choice. See the infamous white phospherous mission. It's essentially misery porn, and not particularly good misery porn when compared to Heart of Darkness and The Congo Diaries and its inspirations. Another is Mass Effect 3. Between the three endings of control, destroy and assimilate, only two of these can begin to be considered good. If you control the Reapers you're just doing what Cerberus tried to achieve for the past two games, and worked against them. If you assimilate, combinging synthetics with organics for eternal utopian (more on that soon), you're doing what Saren wanted to achieve in the first game. If you destroy them, which you set out to do all along, there's still the risk that people will not have learnt about the mistakes of AI and will make Reapers 2.0. Naturally I chose what I thought was the good ending: assimilation, but Lorerunner's excellent - and not uncharacteristic - analysis tells us it's more dystopian. That yes, there's peace, but at the cost of everyone being.... well, robots. Machines. Reapers. It's presented as happy-go-lucky and I was satisfied by the ending, but I can't help but shake the feeling it was the worst choice. But then it subscribes to the term I coin, Roberts' Trident: when a video game offers a choice, the third one is always the cop-out / the easy one.

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In addition to the aformentioned Delphine and all those shapes that fell down the stairs inside a ball from Final Fantasy XIII: Roman Belic: Wanna know what I find this guy so irritating, this vid form the sadly late, kitty0706, pretty much sums it up. Lara Croft (original): I'm of the school that much prefer the new Tomb Raider games for multiple reasons. I am willing to forgive and even respect the earlier games to some degree since they were among the first of their kind, but the way they controlled frustrated me even back then. The mechanics, controls and the more visceral and mature nature of the new titles makes them superior in every way. For me though the biggest disparity is the character itself. The old Lara was arrogant, pompous, stuck up and only popularised as a fantasy for horny teenage boys. Even in the Angelina Jolie movies I couldn't stand her! The new Lara is more relatable, developed, compassionate and believable. Talion (Shadow or Mordor): Yes, I did put the game's title in bold in brackets next to the charater in question on purpose because I'm willing to bet you have no idea who this guy is, EVEN if you have actully played the fucking game! I've seen other characters described as wooden planks, but I am genuinely not playing it up here when I say this guy has so little personality I can't even find any words to describe him outside of "white guy". I'll still maintain that Snow who @Shagger described is the worst character that Troy Baker has ever voiced, but at least that frosted tipped douche offers something to talk about!