Realistically early access launches are just launches. Some games get a boost and surge when they go 1.0, but the vast majority don’t. Using the ea tag may put more people off than the buggyness, and people forget about the game 3 years later when it hits 1.0. I think paradox knew about it and just decided it would reduce sales more then the bug reports would.

Don’t get me wrong I don’t think games with major bugs should be released as a 1.0 product if they are asking a high price. There are great games that started ea and became great, but it was a risk for them when they did that.

And then they just push a new commit without the files, completely unaware that git keeps all versions of the code? I feel like this repo is going to disappear.

It was a way to get people talking about the update. If you argue for your favourite, you’re talking about it. The first one was a point when I think they wanted to show that the game was getting new content.

If you don’t mind having email go through Gmail etc, then you might not want to full host, but just run a local IMAP server. There are some pop to SMTP solutions you can use to pull your emails (fetchmail.) you can then use your account as an outbound relay. Keep in mind you’ll only be able to set this up for a single account if you use something like Gmail.

If you buy a business product like workspace or m365, you should be able to setup relay/hybrid connectors for multiple accounts.

Hopefully it also means they are more likely to stay up. During one of the next feats I downloaded a few demos to try later, but as soon as the fest ended I need to purchase to play some of them. I guess as the demo was just the main game, but set as a demo.

I have to be honest, i much prefer only having to look once during the sale. Having to check every 6 hours kind required you to plan your day to check for deals.

Yea, this is not cheap companies doing cheap things. This is companies getting annoyed by stupid licencing and restrictions, getting around the problem.

HL supported software mode, it used the same render from quake for it. It was however very slow. For more modern CPUs it would be fine but for common CPUs at the time 15fps would be a good experience.

3dfx was good but the cards started to struggle with the likes of HL and UT. Both were playable, but not super smooth.

But sony are different, they won’t end up returning to steam like the others have!

Perhaps they are bolstered by that fact epic have done ok. But do they have enough free games to pull off the same plan?

It’s guaranteed that Google will create a version of chrome of the EU market as well. Yea it’s another big tech, but app devs having the same browser engine working on iOS and droid will be a boon. Since ff has the android app already, it’s also not like they will have a new greenfield development for it.

It depends where you want the complexity.

Since ssh is a layer4 tunnel if you don’t run a proxy on your home box, you’ll need a new network connection for each service, if you are fine with that, I would set it up only on the VPS. This means if the tunnel goes down, you should at least get 502 error rather than a timeout or connection refused.

Alternatively you could forward 80, 443 to a proxy service on the home server. That would require two ports for the ssh.

You can drop it to a single ssh connection by having a proxy on both and just have the VPS proxy Http and https to the same port on the home server.

I find it surprising that existed. Not an unreasonable change.

For the lazy, when a game sold “advanced access” as part of a pre-purchase; game time before release didn’t count to the 2h refund limit. So you could play eg 10h of a game, then refund it on release. This is them fixing it.

I love what the ubisoft launcher dones when it needs an update. Not telling me, but when you press play on a game it instantly closes, no warnings. Then 30s later it pops up saying it’s updating (with uac prompt.) Then launches the game.

I get it, but just change the play button to say ‘update client and play.’ Or have a banner at the top to say it needs an update.

Yea. You can go 3 weeks without trimming and it just looks kinda full. You can go one day before a clean shave looks like you don’t care about it.

Make sure the columns in your csv are named properly, my code assumes it’s named just “name”

For csv import, use import-csv and loop on the results:

Import-csv myfile.csv | foreach-object {

Templates should be easy, just copy the template to a new file with the docx extension. Use one of the columns (in this case “name” as the column header,) from the csv for the name:

    $newname = $_.name + '.docx'
    Copy-item 'template.dotx' $newname
}

I use it with WAC on my home server and it’s good enough for anything I need to do. Easy to create VMs using that UI, PS not even needed.

Last time I did this domain accounts needed to include their domain/upn to logon, so there won’t be any account confusion. However if they were accessing the nas from a domain joined machine, it would use Kerberos anyway so shouldn’t be getting prompted to logon. Obviously that is only for SMB shares, other connection types didn’t use Kerberos.

For real, at the minimum use a virtual machine.

A few years ago they added a launcher to all rockstar games. Much like the more recent 2k launcher it’s really only there to enforce you having an account and to accepting some t&c to play the game. Probably so they can force US people into arbitration, and harvest data.