Worth playing once if you’ve never done it, sure.

It adds a few neat gameplay things, but fumbles elsewhere, especially the writing. One step forwards, two steps back IMO.

I have! It definitely goes off the rails a bit in the second half, but I still found it a lot of fun.

Elite Force 2, on the other hand, does not hold up well in my opinion.

wow, what an original and well-conceived take

I don’t know if I’d call it the best Trek game I’ve ever played, myself. That probably goes to Elite Force or one of the earlier adventure games (25th Anniversary or TNG: A Final Unity).

But fully agree this was at least one of the better Trek games and deserved better. Folks should grab it while they can, if they missed out until now.

Yeah, in my house growing up we had Win 3.11, then 95, then Me.

Windows Me was so bad my dad ragequit and switched the family PC to SuSE Linux and never looked back. And, to be clear, Linux back in the early 00s was often not a pleasant experience, but it was better than Me.

I eventually built my own gaming PC and ran Windows on that, but even then it was a pirated copy of 2000. I only ever encountered XP at school.

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Thank Goodness You’re Here is quite possibly the funniest game I’ve ever played - good suggestion.

Kind of both?

I hold the shower head in my hand almost the entire time, but when I need both hands (e.g. shampooing) I put it back in the holder and face away from it.

I can’t stand having the water running directly on my head or face - those waterfall shower heads are my nightmare scenario.

“In Silicon Valley, wearing a full business suit marked you as unsophisticated and not ‘with it’ in terms of tech and innovation. This caused the dress code requiring a suit to be inverted and it eventually reached the point where you can’t wear a suit and be taken seriously in Silicon Valley.”

https://www.raconteur.net/talent-culture/when-wore-it-best

Well yeah - game development, a creative endeavour, benefits from continuity within the team working on it. Once you lose a certain percentage of that team, or even just a handful of key figures, the original vision and the lessons learned during its realisation are lost forever.

You’d think this was obvious, but apparently not to the c-suites, who see everyone as replaceable cogs.

Have you looked into gardening? Healthy, rewarding, easy to get started, room to grow (if you’ll pardon the pun)…

To add another: ‘pants’ means trousers in the US, but in the UK it means underpants. Can lead to some funny misinterpretations.

Hey now, don’t rope the rest of us in with the USA’s bizarro puritanical approach to TV censorship. You can blaspheme to your heart’s content on TV in the UK.

Avoid taking your phones in the bathroom, as it can expose you to radiation and increase your chances of haemorrhoids.

Emphasis mine, but seeing this made me immediately discount this site as a reputable source.

After lengthy discussions with our publisher Game Source Entertainment, we have decided that the projected number of units we could sell for legacy hardware would not justify the licensing fees necessary to complete those SKUs.

My friend used to bring Game Gear instruction manuals in to school. We’d sit and read them in the playground.

I never owned a Game Gear but somehow have nostalgia for those games - the instructions created these perfect versions in my imagination that never got shattered by having to actually play them.

I can see that argument, sure. The fact that they asked people not to use it suggests it is having some effect on their brand.

I didn’t say I approve of the current tactics, I’m just pointing out that circumstances can be more complex than simply saying ‘let the parents sort it out’ and leaving it at that.

The issue with this argument is that many kids don’t have good parents, and some don’t have any parents at all.

Are those kids just supposed to be left to the mercy of bad actors because of their circumstances?

I’ll probably attract downvotes for this, but I find ‘Microslop’ as cringeworthy as old staples like Micro$haft or Crapple.

Like, yeah, they’re shitty companies. But calling them childish names just comes across as petty and insecure, kind of like when Trump gives someone a dumb nickname.