It’s funny how Dutch doesn’t shy away from loaning French words, despite the difference. Examples are chauffeur, etalage, cadeau, auto and medaille.

I don’t agree that aardappel is hard to pronounce in general if you’re an English speaker though. Check it out: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/aardappel

You got a top of the line machine coming out and it still uses dynamic resolution for a 2021 game? How much of a scam is this device, lol.

I ain’t shitting on PSSR though, I think that’s neat.

Yup, pommes de terre. In Dutch is “aardappel”, which is more literally earthapple. But I will add, the apple part isn’t referring to the fruit, but means more like “a spherical object”.

Also the French used aardappel to create the word pomme de terre for it in 1716, as they couldn’t pronounce the Dutch word.

You shouldn’t have to work for a roof over your head and mental health support.

I’m not disagreeing with you

I’m nowhere near ready to even think about multiplayer, but kudos for the server, hope it gets some activity!

And that’s how they get clicks. And now you’re talking about it. And me. So it’s working

I’d say this is mostly due to budget constraints. Voice acting, music scores, high fidelity art, models, animations etc cost a ton of money. Making random generated boards / levels / dungeons with simple art and scalable gameplay is simply just more feasible.

Another aspect is the popularity of the game. We’ve seen a lot of saturation in genres over the years. A the peak of PUBG and Fortnite popularity, there were so many battle royale games coming out. Then we got extraction shooters, and so on.

Personally, I love roguelikes and how we got to the point of mixing it with other genres (Balatro, Dungeon Clawler), but I can see your point. I feel the same about 2D (pixel art) platformers: I feel like I’ve seen it all already and nothing can excite me anymore.

Really cool read, thanks for sharing.

Jesus christ the patience on you! May fortune favor your endeavours.

I kinda hate how curves aren’t a thing officially and I hope they add it to a potential future update. I love the game but I hate spending hours just trying to fix my geometry to get it to look nice. I rather build another factory instead.

Wiki says

The roofing structure was designed to be visually attractive, and incorporates translucent polycarbonate to allow sunlight to illuminate the walkways

The source leads to a book that I don’t have, though. Would love to see more angles

Is it? Or is one person claiming that?

No, a museum is part of culture and arts. They aren’t there to make bank.

It’s not a business, it’s a museum

This is refreshing to read. I wish the rest of the US thought the same

Because what the fuck, innocent people will die? People that didn’t vote for whoever this dumb sack of shit is?

Who needs to give their browser access to their camera?

Lmao and I said “that guy”. I blame the low quality picture! XD

That guy looks his parents were Tom Scott and Shayne Topp

Back then, Halo felt like running 26.219 miles