Well, good luck with that. :-)

Whatever it was, it was temporary. Sorry to have wasted your time.

Take all those billions and go unfuck Teams. Thank you.

– millions of office workers

Yes, everything you like about the original is there. The storytelling, the philosophical undertones, the brain wracking puzzles. Except that everything is way larger, with much to explore, new gadgets to master and characters to interact. They dropped some of the stuff that annoyed me in the original, like the machine guns and mines.

The puzzle difficulty is spot on, so if you played the through the original you’ll find the first puzzles easy but then they ramp up.

I’ve finished the main story and now I’m going back to get the 100% stars, as one does. I’m sure I’ll buy the DLC for this one as well, as I did for the original. Its is that good.

Soma may be my favorite Frictional game, even though I played nearly all the Amnesia series.

I think I’ll install it again after I’m done with Talos Principle II.

Ads and idiots.

I think we have a good idiot ratio right now, let’s not increase it.

Absolutely nothing.

One more vote for Tidal. High quality and large catalog, I’ve been using it for years.

That will most likely never happen, so stop lying to yourself.

I’m finally playing The Talos Principle II. It has been in my waiting list for a long time. I’m a big fan of the original and I’m currently hooked on the sequel. It has everything I love about the first one, only in a much larger scale. The storytelling is spot on, the puzzle difficulty is tweaked to make it easy for beginners to get the hang of things but gets quite challenging later on even for hardened players. There’s lots of new artifacts and mechanics to learn and some of the old classics like the laser connectors.

If you loved Portal and Portal II, this is for you.

Bring back Geocities next.

As they say in my county: “go and die far from here, so I can’t smell you”.

On the other hand, all I have in my Epic account are the free games. I expect those cost his company money.

Even so, I feel dirty and will close my account. I can get the titles I really like in Gog or Steam.

Selling artificial intelligence to natural idiots.

I have the theory that MP3 played a part in the death of rock music and the rise of hip hop.

Guitars and cymbals sound awful when compressed to 128kbps, as it was common in the early days of Gnutella and Napster.

Music with vocals and beats sounds much better at those compression rates.

Should not have allowed them in the first place.

I tried Tidal and could not go back to Spotify.

I guess it also depends on what type of music you are listening to. Simple FM pop or hip-hop works fine compressed. Rock, classical, melodic or more complex music gets the high range completely smashed by artifacts.

True, idiocy is universal. You can see the roaches crawling out of the rocks already.

I don’t think it would be much use other than emulated computers/consoles/arcades.

I heard about Fex for x86 emulation, but never tried it myself.

Small computers are more powerful than you think, if used properly. I stick with a bunch of containers instead of VMs and it all just hums along nicely on a Raspberry Pi 5.

Pi-Hole running all the time barely registers as a workload.