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Fun fact: Roko's basilisk is not from QC. It's a thought experiment about AI that predates the comic character by about 6 years. The character's just named after it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk

What I want Supergiant to do is.... whatever the fuck they want.

I don't see the game getting either of those things.

Duos, you can already do, you just have to take on a rando as a third. They could scale the difficulty down for 2 players, sure, but Elden Ring's mutiplayer scaling is notoriously terrible, in part because no amount of scaling can account for the lost potential for splitting aggro, in a game where splitting aggro is king.

Voice chat is something that FromSoft has INTENTIONALLY never included in any prior game, despite there being co-op in all of them. Making players coordinate with each other with very limited communication tools is one of FromSoft's signature design choices. The fast pace of this game compared to prior games makes the lack of communication tools hurt a lot more, for sure, but it's still very much playable. Anyone who dislikes this design choice is absolutely free to, but it's not gonna change.

Normally, I'd be on board with you, but it does strike me as notable that Coffee Stain has apparently ALREADY been under the umbrella of shareholders this whole time, and is still fucking THRIVING. I'll also note that Coffee Stain is based in Sweden, where all the things that make them great (I.E. the way devs are treated, which lets them thrive and make great shit) isn't about to change.

So, I think it's worth tempering the pessimism a bit, for now. We'll have to see how it plays out.

What makes you say that? Do you say "everything else" to mean all the studios that aren't splitting off along with Coffee Stain? From what's here, I don't see why Coffee Stain is in any different boat than everyone else underneath "Coffee Stain Group".

I'll take another look, but I didn't see any such setting when I was trying to diagnose. And I haven't changed any Plex settings since the last time we had an internet outage and it worked properly, just a month or two ago.

I recently discovered that Plex no longer works over local network, if you lose internet service. A) you can't login without internet access. B) even if you're already logged in, apps do not find and recognize your local server without internet access. So, yeah, Plex is already there.

Is the BlueSky OP here not a native English speaker? Cause, BOY that was tough to follow.

This isn't just a horrifically-misleading headline, it's straight-up false.

The bill originally was written to directly establish personhood of a fetus, but Democrats got an amendment in that keeps the "pregnant mothers get to use the carpool lane" part, without the language that establishes personhood for a fetus. They literally called the Republicans' bluff on "this bill is about supporting mothers", by making that specific. This caused one Republican to retract his vote, because the amendment "guts the pro-life purpose of the bill".

Por que, no los dos?

Blue Prince sure feels like it counts, our whole family is hooked, and has been playing it every day for about 2 weeks now. Even well after rolling credits.

In a similar vein, I'd have to say Hollow Knight and Outer Wilds. Together with Blue Prince, they all have a storytelling strategy of "you have to put some effort into getting the story out of it", but the effort makes every new discovery or revelation feel super rewarding.

Celeste is the one that comes to mind for a more traditional story that REALLY hit.

Persona 5 comes to mind, too. I was ENGROSSED in that story for months. Even if it went off the rails a couple times.

I'm also gonna shout-out Tales of Symphonia. That game was formative for me.

Sick. I've tried a few times in the past to find a frontend for postgres that I liked, and was never able to. Will have to give this a try.