Very excited for this! I usually use a graphic modded DF install but I couldn’t get it to work with latest versions of DF without hunting for the right mod and I don’t frequent the community enough to know the best fit.
Having an official visual pass on the game will cement me into just using a nice clean vanilla game…

Dark Souls of Trucking, my god that had me laughing.
Both games have captivated and frustrated me to no end and definitely earned a place in my heart each in their own unique way.

Try Dwarf Fortress Masterwork. Essentially an interface that includes a collection of some of the most common mods; visual ones are particularly good and quite similar to the examples in the article.
Also adds some quality of life options if need be, and some interesting additional factions both as other civilizations…

I haven’t played in awhile but I had absolutely no idea you could build multiple miners and storage. I just never tried or expected it, so I always just built one of each on a location and just left it at that.. Huh.

Sometimes I wonder if it would be nice to move lights around. But it would have to be in a real-time engine. Not so much a useful thing with wire-frame standins and an Arnold progressive. As scenes have gotten more complex I’ve been seeing less actual geo visible in a 3D scene other than the proxy geo which tends to…

I’ve seen VR used as a means to bake in a hand-held camera feel to a shot in animation, but more as a budget “I happen to have a VR headset” approach for an indie project.
Similar motion detection for this was shown in a VFX breakdown for one of the live-action spiderman films, where they have the usual camera on…

I was playing Terra Invicta and I am realizing the amount of time I had to put into it in order to get to actually get to the space gameplay is longer than I have played some games. Took a look at the difficulty settings and they have cleverly named the “Easy” setting “Cinematic”. It really softens the blow for us…

Same!
It is also the first RPG I have ever gotten to an ending of other than Fallout 3 which was sort of a let-down/ happened too suddenly. Never kept the interest to beat Skyrim or any of the GTA games. Even Elden Ring, although that’s more of a problem with taking a break and then coming back realizing you have to…

Ugh this reminds me of the time somebody burned toast at work and our system auto-called the fire department. Despite clearly being burned toast and everyone knowing that, we had to do the full evacuation procedure of the building. 3 Trucks showed up for burned toast, guarantee there was a fine handed out, which…

Wow I didn’t know it was the wheel, it’s weird they advertise a seperate playstation package: direct drive, wheel, and ironically the worst pedals in their line. Maybe it’s changed now that GT5 is released and was just their initial opening package, and hopefully now things can be bought individually.

New wheels are…

ah darn, sorry i meant for PC. I have high doubts a console will properly talk to an arduino chip posing as a joystick with only one axis assigned.
My bad.

This was the breaking point for me just not getting a PS5 so I could enjoy Gran Turismo 5 with a wheel. My wheel is PC (possibly xbox too) only, with Fanatec having a specific model that has the PS5 security chip.
I’ve just had to accept I wont be touching GT5, won’t be able to go back to a controller after all this…

I grabbed a handbrake off Amazon. On average they are about $90, pretty good for a solid metal peripheral, and shockingly cheaper than the official thrustmaster that goes about $350.
I’m pretty sure they are repurposed aftermarket handbrake levers, with all the mechanical guts removed, and a hall-sensor + Arduino chip…

I remember when I got my Fanatec after a good amount of time with a G27 I borrowed. When it arrived I immediately started setting it up at my desk (a former dinner table), only to be thwarted by the crossbeam blocking the mounting clamp. .. A fanatec mount sized gap was then sawed off the middle of the crossbeam in…

What in the Dunning-Kruger is that Tweet..

I remember when I didn’t have a PC powerful enough to run BF1942, I’d play it at my friends place after school. This was a little before the time one of my friends got a new PC with a “uselessly over-the-top” 1gig of RAM which at the time seemed like he would never need more for the rest of his life. Oh simple times..
F…

Wow, Crimson Skies, what a nostalgia hit I just got there. Had the same feeling with the shot of the Aircraft parked in the air-ship. 

The fact the entrepreneur that came up with the Sea-Monkeys product : Harold Nathan Braunhut, a white supremacist, makes this too accurate for comfort.

I’m really happy there is a bit about the music, as I had found it quite charming but didn’t realize it was developed for the video. Very nice.

I too considered programming but at the time with poor grades and the cemented idea that “if you don’t have A’s in math you can’t be a programmer” I completely abstained. Now just through work I end up making expressions to quicken workflow or automate things even though at no point have I ever taken a class through…