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Latest Blog Entries
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No Shit: “Squadron 42” Is Delayed Again
Chris Roberts has announced that Squadron 42 is delayed again. He blames Rockstar, which is releasing Grand Theft Auto VI, the most anticipated game in video game history, right when he finally wanted to give his fans his long-awaited single player magnum opus. That is solid reasoning; no game would survive going head-to-head with GTA VI, its genre and platform are completely irrelevant in this calculation.
Problem is, I don't buy that Squadron 42 is actually ready. If I had a billion dollars, I’d be willing to bet that Chris would have delayed that thing no matter what. That game was planned to be released in 2015. I once wrote a rather objective little story at the end of 2016 when Roberts delayed it for the second time and got massive shit for being too negative on him — what delicious irony. Earlier that year, a Cloud Imperium Games developer had implied in a live stream that all missions in the game were actually done. Ten years later, the game still isn’t out. And this time, it’s GTA’s fault. Sure…
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Metellus Numidicus on Marriage
Metellus Numidicus, the censor, acknowledged to the Roman people in a public oration that had kind Nature allowed us to exist without the help of women, we should be delivered from a very troublesome companion; and he could recommend matrimony, only as the sacrifice of private pleasure to public duty.
— Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I, p. 167, footnote 1
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→ I Bit the Meshtastic Apple, JonathanMH.com
My mate Jonathan has been playing around with Meshtastic in Copenhagen. He even connected to a node in Sweden 36 kilometres away.
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→ Inside CIG: Siege of Orison, Star Citizen (YouTube)
This video strikes me as funny on so many levels. The simultaneous visual polish and technical / managerial incompetence on display is quite amazing. Chris Roberts and his guys actually seem to think they have invented instancing, which is a technology that has been inherent to the very concept of an MMO from the start. It has been around since at least 1996. Also funny: Being proud of your game having no load screens when you’ve basically just replaced them with the player being stuck in an elevator for the same amount of time.
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