Thanks for the detailed response! I’m 100% with you regarding any online/interpersonal cheating. I think I understand your sentiment too regarding solo play. I guess that with mods I sort of have the attitude that they represent an acceptable mutually beneficial customization. It’s like devs putting down an amazing baseline, which you can tailor just a little to yourself. You can do this in a way that devs could never do to precisely suit the tastes of thousands of individual olayers.

I know some games/devs encourage you to use mods. In these cases, I feel that they enhance the original intention. That said, mods can also absolutely breach the intention of a game as you described. It’s a bit situational.

So I guess I see where you’re coming from and its a totally valid take. I believe that in some cases the “original” version or vision actually endorses mods, but devs do need to be conscious that not everybody wants to engage with mods as a concept. Some assembly required can be a bug, not a feature.

I’m super interested by this. Do you have a moral opposition, just ceebs, or is the vibe just not right? One of my mates feels like games need to be “officially sanctioned” somewhat and mods ruin that.

Fun fact, if you speak Norwegian, Mr Mobilek actually confesses to everything at the start of the series.

I wanna get it on the record that even most gingers are against genocide.

Ed just sucks.

I mean, I love loving so I support you.

I just don’t want you to end up like Mrs Mobilek (they never found her battery).

Something a’int right bout that Mobilek guy.

Je ne connais pas trops Brice de Nice, mais c’est assez similaire.

C’est un personnage fictif qui est “originale” - alors pas un personnage connu. Le terme vient du monde “fan fiction”. C’était pour décrire un personnage qui était rajouté au texte original. Par exemple, j’imagine un OC pour Star Wars. C’est Robert Solo, le frère de Han. Il est vachement plus joli, plus fort, et il me ressemble.

De nos jours, ça décrit tout simplement un personnage inconnu. Pas nécessairement connecté à un texte plus celebre. Dans le contexte due poste, c’est soit entièrement imaginé, soit créé par une toute petite communauté. Peut-être en décrivant le personnage, le posteur sera trouvable.

Pardon pour mes fautes de grammaire. Je n’ai pas un spellcheck français installé, alors c’est un peu le bordel.

De l’anglais “original character”.

Its frustrating, but a quick note that this is (somewhat) like Taylor version situation. Enjoy the game!

I’m currently playing Zero Parades. It’s good. If it wasn’t for the long shadow cast by DE, it would be amazing.

There are some elements they do better than DE. However, I think that each of those improvements come from just being a more modern game that could take learnings from what worked in DE and what didn’t. The best bits are where the game breaks free to forge its own identity.

Coolest points IMO (light spoilers):

• You play as a woman, and you can really see how this changes the way the world responds to your character (compared to DE).
• There is some very sci-fi stuff in there that’s front and centre to the main plot throughout the game. Nice choice.
• Many characters don’t believe what they’re saying and this really comes through. In DE, everyone feels like they embody their beliefs. In this, nobody does, not matter how loud they are about it. This is both a good and a bad thing.

Everything about the studio aside (which is all worth considering) - it’s a good game. It is right on the edge of being a great game. It certainly isn’t as good as DE, but how could it hope to be? High B/Low A tier IMO.

Great post, great summary. Adding to this excellent list, they are a monopoly. I think any monopoly is corrosive to it’s industry, but others may consider it a +.

This is some interesting context, which I was aware of but never properly considered. I think this has given me a better appreciation of Lynch. I saw Twin Peaks well after it was made. I also saw it after having been exposed to a lot of alternative cinema. I think I missed the chance to love it, both from a era of film perspective and from a gateway into more weird stuff perspective.

I share this opinion! I really don’t like Lynch’s work. All the best to everybody who enjoys it, but it isn’t for me.

My main reason (please feel free to relentlessly mock me) is that his films feel like they are hovering in this hybrid point between being “mainstream” and art house. As a result, they just fall flat on both fronts.

I also feel that he pretends that there’s more depth behind some of his arbitrary decisions than there really are. Its fine to be instinctual in filmmaking, to do stuff that’s random, and play with ambiguity, but often it seems like he will play coy and imply a lot of thought went into incidental elements. These points are often contradicted by BTS footage.

Fellini feels Lynchlike to me, but I think Fellini’s weirdness feels so much deeper and more nuanced because he isn’t afraid to really openly discuss his thoughts and reasoning.

Still, I will admit that Lynch had great style. I’m glad he pushed many people towards stranger cinema. On that front, he’s world class.

That’s good to know! I appreciate the context.

I love that docs receipt feature and agree with you. Great call.

Forgive me being well-meaningly obnoxious, but make sure to get receipts outside of the Google ecosystem too. As a professional writer/editor myself, I’ve heard horror stories about folks losing access to an account, and therefore the receipts.

I am also skeptical of these kinds of tools.

OP’s vile views aside - this does seem interestingly politicized.

I don’t know if Notepad++ have a history of creating commemorative versions. Good on them if they do. However, if this is uncommon, it’s worth noticing. AFAIK, we aren’t at an anniversary?

Personally, I think acknowledgements of sad events are generally a good thing. Helps remember & learn from history. But they absolutely can be propagandized through strategic use.

On another note, I really like Notepad++. I swap between it and Sublime. Both great.

This is reassuring. Thank you for the clarification. I’m familiar with affiliate links, so I really should have dug deeper to check if this guy was using one. Their vetting process does seem very loose, but that’s a much more common and understandable oversight (one that I’ve seen a lot of good people/services make).

My understanding is that Vincent Lapierre was a direct partnership, but Proton have already addressed this. Hopefully, his endorsement remains a one-off abberation.

See timestamp 8:26 for Proton banner adds. I don’t speak the language so I can’t tell what’s actually being said, but it has all the aesthetic of an advertisement.

I’m very disappointed in Proton. This level of carelessness has been enough to make me permanently avoid some software/services. I feel like I’m clutching at straws to find a reason I shouldn’t stop using them. Shooting from the hip and sponsoring multiple far right folks should be disqualifying to anybody patronizing them for ethical reasons.

I’m hoping that I have not correctly understood the situation.

You’re right that we should hold companies to account and expect them to do homework. Vigilance is good. Let’s extend that vigilance to monitoring Proton too. I think they’d approve of that.

Below is some stuff I think is interesting, but that is tangential and not intended as either endorsement or condemnation of Proton. (All intended in good faith!)

Your comment prompted me to look up their finances. For anyone interested, Proton AG seems to be valued at about 300 million (https://getlatka.com/companies/protonmail). However, I didn’t realize they are majority owned by a non-profit.

Some personal reflection, I am a French citizen living outside France (dual national). I had not heard of this guy. I probably should have. This is the kind of low awareness that makes me feel guilty about voting in the FR elections.