The scene in question for those who don’t know it. A great piece of acting!

I could look at it all day long.

Pontius Aquila would later become one of Caesar’s assassins.

He took the republic from him alright.

True journalism is dying amid an ocean of indifference. People rarely read newspapers anymore! Everyone I know gets their daily dose of (often misunderstood/out of context/straight up false) headlines from the internet and news aggregator sites, which of course feeds into the problem - nobody buys newspapers, newspapers can’t afford the same quality standard as before, less people buy newspapers.

I wish a serious effort was done to push back against this, or at least the problem was recognized as such. Democracy can’t survive if there’s no serious journalism: it needs well-informed people to make the right choice. Without journalism, all that remains is clickbait/ragebait headlines that are prime targets for election meddling. And that’s not even accounting for AI writing slop with a “trust me bro” source attached to it.

Quite the big step for gaming rights in the EU. In the last page, the document also mentions “whales” as “vulnerable people”, adding that a game targeting them specifically may run afoul of EU legislation when precaution are not taken to protect them from their impulses.

This may have a gigantic ripple effect in the industry – or it may not, if the industry decides that targeting whales in the US and China is more profitable than bowing to the EU.

Went there, found nothing, and had a hard time coming back up.

2/10 would not recommend.

It’s disheartening looking at Wikipedia pages of random animals and seeing most of them classified as some form of “endangered”.

Expectations: “You have 30 seconds to explain why Germans still exist”

Reality: “What the fuck is pasta?”

It’s always a brighter day when I can wake up and read your gaming rants :)

The soundtrack is fine. It works very well in its context and I still hum some of its tones every now and then, but that’s mostly it imo. The end credits song is one of the best end themes I’ve ever heard in a videogame, though.

Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross and Xenogears are the holy trinity of JRPGs for me. Every fan of the genre should play them at least once in their lives.

2025 is the year of the X360. First the decomp tools, now this. Maybe we can even expect a serious attempt at emulating the system on PC? Xenia is still not good, unfortunately.

The true experience is playing Barbarian Invasion/Attila as the Western Roman Empire and win!

I’ll be honest, it doesn’t just “look like Advance Wars”. It looks like a rip-off. I love AW but I wish they went with a more original art style, like Wargroove did.

From the glimpses of the battle system, graphics and animations are truly insane. Incredible work from the devs.

About the GoG store’s second class treatment: it’s always worth it to email the publisher and ask them if they plan on updating their game on GoG!

I did exactly that a few months ago when I wanted to buy I was a teenage exocolonist - emailed Finji and let them know that their game was not up to date on the platform I wanted to buy the game on. They replied rather quickly and the game was updated a few days later. It was very nice because the game was on sale and, thanks to their quick reply, I was able to not miss the sale.

Those were much simpler times :'(

Still waiting for MS to do something right this whole generation.

Step 1: Conquer new lands.

Step 2: The soldiers demand payment.

Step 3: Conquer new lands to pay the soldiers.

I think I just discovered infinite growth!

AI techbros will have you believe that you can solve world hunger, cure cancer, and colonize Mars with a few prompts on ChatGPT.

Yet their AI is still incapable of answering two prompts consecutively without making shit up, or drawing a human without turning it into an eldritch abomination.

Game preservation could be fixed with open source emulators and fixing copyright laws so that I’m allowed to download a game nobody has profited from in two decades, but that’s not appealing to big corporations.