I recently learned that Neurodiversity is an umbrella term. It‘s the concept that both Neurotypical and Neurodivergent people exist and should coexist. Meaning that no single person is actually Neurodiverse because you can‘t be both at the same time. It kind of broke my brain for a moment when I learned this so I hope this doesn‘t make anyone uncomfortable.

But to answer your question: It depends. When all my needs are met and I have a good routine I can be around people for 10 hours a day, 6 days a week easily. Sunday is usually my alone time then. Outside of my routine or when there is barely a routine, it‘s reduced to maybe 5 hours a day around people at best and I need a whole weekend for myself.

But that‘s literally what this is: A screenshot. What you are describing might be exactly how it transpired.

The old one got a little bit of stick drift after 7 years and I‘m using the new one for PC only probably. Weirdly enough it‘s not officially supported for that yet but there are already tools available to make it run so everything is good.

I just wanted to see what the new one was about since the first impressions were very good and I love the previous model. And I still have a (probably irrational but deeply rooted) dislike for 3rd party controllers. There were just too many crappy ones growing up. Maybe one day when the Switch 2 Pro gives up the ghost or I lose patience with it‘s odd feeling surface. Time will tell.

Such a shame but hardly a surprise. I love the Switch Pro controller and use it for PC games a lot. I think it’s probably my favorite one ever made even with it’s lousy sticks. It’s also easy to disassemble so you can clean it, replace the battery or simply replace the shell.

Sadly the Switch 2 pro controller isn’t only a gluey mess, it also has a much cheaper feeling to it. The surface on the plastic simply does not rest well in the hands and I bet scratches will look horrible too. It’s baffling because the old Pro controller is phenomenal in that regard. Nintendo kind of fumbled on that one in my opinion.

RFK is a dangerous lunatic. The only things he would use that data for that I can think of are inhumane „experiments“ on no scientific basis and mass sterilizations. This is bad. This is very very bad.

While the eugenics movement was especially gruesome in the Third Reich, you don‘t have to go all the way back to the 1940s. Some states in the USA practiced systematic sterilization until the 1980s.

Accurate because armchair psychology is useless.

I think most of it comes from buying already established brands and then rebranding them, but keeping their name.

More of a “doesn’t plan to do a bad thing” moment since they technically didn’t do anything.

His look has „costume designer from a Ben Affleck drama“ written all over it. It‘s definitely a very calculated move.

I believe it‘s less secure now because it‘s future became more uncertain. How can we be sure it won‘t become a glorified brick the moment servers shut down?

That‘s a terrible comparison. The incentives and stakes are on very different levels.

A tragedy of the greatest magnitude. How many of them have to be washed ashore until we do something?

Got big around 5-6 years ago…

It takes weeks until they see any of that Steam money from a game they just released in early access. Though a bank might likely give them a hefty loan now for a proper defense. But let‘s not pretend Japan copyright and trademark laws are lenient or reasonable and Nintendo is basically a national treasure. If Pocketpair was based in any other country it would be different but here we really do not know how it could go.

Reading the linked article? You are asking the impossible.

It was a lazy cash grab. They outsourced it to the same chinese company who‘ve made plenty mobile dota clones before. They dumbed down their usual game and slapped pokemon skins on it. It‘s a fairly awful game.

Then there‘s PokemonGO which had a rough start quality vise. It was also outsourced but at the very least it was successful and different, though way too simplified for my taste. Of course I‘m one of those conservative gamers who don‘t want to point their camera at virtual things outside so I‘m a little biased I guess.

We might very well see Palworld plushies sitting between Minecraft Lego sets, Fortnite lunch boxes and Pokemon Amiibos in the game merch section of online shops 3 years from now. And we‘d just shrug it off as normal because it made it‘s way into gaming culture.

I get that direct comparisons to Pokémon might seem too surface level to someone who has played both. But let’s not beat around the bush: People have been begging GameFreak for something like this for years now. And I don‘t mean the guns, but everything else, really. There‘s a reason so many Pokémon mods are made for these type of games anyway. Really, players couldn‘t have been more obvious about what they wanted all these years.

Larian has had several massively successful Kickstarter campaigns and releases in the genre, proving those concerns wrong again and again. If a developer really wanted to make a great CRPG in all those years, nothing was stopping them. Clearly they weren’t interested enough in it. Of course many of them will now jump on the huge hype train of BG3 and claim they‘ve always been oh so faithful.

That is not to say Publishers aren‘t also to blame of course. It‘s a bit tragic that BG3 was only even possible to become such an elaborate project with a huge investment from Tencent. And I can‘t speak for Larian of course but I don‘t think that was their first choice going by how secretive they‘ve been about Tencent‘s involvement.

But yeah if any dev from Bioware or Obsidian now claims they considered to make a massively huge CRPG like BG3 or anything comparable. As in actually bringing it up during a meeting with execs only to be shut down. I‘d have to call them big fat liars.