I love the fact that classical and other instrumental music is still part of popular culture, and thriving, in no small part through the games we play every day. Thanks for posting this.

I wasn’t even aware that it was an MMO.

The entire galaxy is shared by everyone playing the game, in real time. You can encounter each other, fight, team up, or avoid each other, and your actions influence the state of the shared simulation. Definitely an MMO.

What am I missing?

The most recent thing you probably missed was the thargoid war, culminating in a battle with the titan that parked itself over Earth and took over the Sol system. You might compare it to a fantasy MMO raid, but at a much larger scale.

Colonisation is coming soon.

Is this what I think it is?

click, control-f, entanglement

Yep. The core discovery is not exactly news if you’ve been following this stuff, but still very cool.

Elite Dangerous, because it can be as intense or chill as I want, it’s a remarkably good space sim, and I can easily opt out of PvP while still affecting the state of the galaxy.

Yeah, they stopped updating the legacy PC client, too. I suspect it’s in the same game world as your console, still alive and playable, but with no new content.

The new client is free, but also more resource-hungry; I guess they didn’t have the budget to get it working on consoles.

I’m a little disappointed not to see Elite Dangerous nominated for Labor of Love. The game is ten years old, and the developers have recently been bringing in new features like it was still new.

https://xcancel.com/rcbregman/status/1868015427332255863

No, it doesn’t have to work that way, as we can see by the existence of messaging platforms with end-to-end encryption.

I suspect the person to whom I replied understands this, but their comment could have been misinterpreted as implying that Discord messages are private, so I wanted to clarify.

If you’re looking for something inexpensive and aren’t picky about the size of the analog stick dead zones, the Logitech F310 might be a good fit. Its D-pad works well in my experience.

Just in case anyone reading this gets the impression that direct messages sent on Discord are private from Discord itself, they aren’t. If you were to send your face to a mod, or send anything to anyone there, then Discord would have it, too.

This is not about technology. It’s about a corporation buying political favour.

!politics@lemmy.world

This article is not about technology. Next time, please go here:

!business@lemmy.world

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It is true. I said can retain data indefinitely, not will retain data forever.

(And in any case, being pedantic here misses the point.)

Perhaps because they still work?

And, unlike flash storage, magnetic media can retain data indefinitely when stored without power.

If we’re talking about mods, Zora Fair-Child (Interesting NPCs / 3dnpc) was fun, too.

Yeah, they did. I wasn’t a fan of every part of Cyberpunk 2077, but I have to hand it to them: the gameplay was pretty solid compared to the mess I read about at launch. They even made the player controls responsive and reasonably nice to use. That alone was a huge improvement over The Witcher 3.

(Geralt, I’ll never forgive you for all the times you stepped forward into danger when I pressed back to avoid it, or decided to fiddle about with a candle when there was something more important for your hands to do, or moved like a lumbering sloth instead of… well… a witcher.)

I’m optimistic about this one.

Will Astro’s Playroom or Astro Bot run on an emulator yet?

I would consider buying one or both of them if ported to PC, but somehow I suspect that’s unlikely to happen.

In this case, replace /watch?v= with /embed/, but I don’t know if it works in every situation.

I didn’t realise there were so many.