It wouldn’t be impossible that 12 is an improvement. 10 was an improvement on 8. I think, as always, it’ll never go back to a truely good OS, we will just get used to the crap bits.

I think windows is too entrenched in it’s own version history to make good again. You’d need to start from scratch which simply won’t happen within the windows brand.

10 was already deep into hiding settings and fragmenting the control panel.

11 is much worse.

Because touch screens are cheap and put the onus of design onto the programmers of apps.

It matters because you can get used games for sometimes a tenth of the price they charge on the digital store.

New tab tools.

You can even do a trick to make it your home tab

I plan to live forever or die trying

Maybe the machines don’t know what real horse bollocks look like. That’s why everything tastes like horse bollocks.

…wait, that’s not right

The sequel Fade to Black was too clunky to enjoy. I never played the remake but I hear the remake is getting a sequel, so I might pick it up.

My favourite was Flashback. Kind of the spiritual sequel to Another World. I had the SNES version. I think it’s my all time favourite video game.

It wasn’t the tank controls per se. It was the tile based actions. Tomb Raider was basically a 3D Prince of Persia game. If you’re running and you press the jump button, the character would jump the next time to got to the edge of the current tile. It was a very deliberate and measured way to plan your moves.

They did that with Tomb Raider, but ironically the obtuse controls were pivotal to the game design.

They aren’t testing anything. They are just enacting a stealth twilight of old Reddit like they’ve been planning ever since they thought up the new UI.

The ones that pay are the ones running the ads. If the content creators have to pay, they will be the ones doing ads. This is how AV content has worked since the dawn of broadcast radio.

I only got it by state save scumming in zsnes, and even then it was tough not to save yourself into a corner.

So, just like FFXIV?

You are conflating copyright and patents. Copyright is protection for the expression of an idea, like the art design. This is a patent issue, which is a protection of how something works.

If somehow I patent a vague mechanic like “a method of selecting weapons with the directions of an analogue stick or mouse, presented as an 8 direction on screen circle.” Then I could sue Red Dead Redemption and Batman Arkham, despite there being no copyright infringement with whatever game I made with that feature.

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times!?

It’s an arms race. But now the arms go off randomly and sometimes shoot things behind you. But corporate has spent so much money on it that we can’t turn back now

Mozilla are doing the same AI integration as all the other browsers, so lemmings have decided that Mozilla is evil now.

If you shroud the receiver you would block all but the closest bad actors