India changed the English name of what was then called Bombay to Mumbai in 1995, and I thought there were others (I went to look it up because I thought I remember some being changed more recently). I’m not sure how that works, I have to guess it was more a request? I can’t imagine the US, for example, asking France…

Are you British? I always see Brits get mad over people equating a subset of the UK as the whole thing, and I believe you just did that with Great Britain!

30-60 doesn’t matter as much as people argue I think. The real issue is that under 30 becomes a noticeable problem and a framerate pegged at 30 doesn’t have much room to slip. In the early 20th century I was one of those guys arguing that 60 fps on PC was unnecessary! A stance I no longer hold, I should say. That…

You believe that Valve is trying to run Nintendo out of the handheld videogame market by outspending them?

I’m pushing 40, agree with this, and also...I feel like most games today are easy! This isn’t a criticism, the idea of “Nintendo Hard” predates a lot of modern ideas about game design. Outside of intentionally hard games like Dark Souls most games seem designed from the ground up to make a game over screen pretty rare…

I'm pretty sure my early 2000s computer had an engine that needed to be started with a pull cord like a lawnmower. Had to clean the carburetor to boost fps.

I think you may be overthinking it. I also don’t really follow your train of thought. I THINK you’re saying you met quite a few Americans who would not take “fine” as a legitimate answer to how’s it going. Perhaps this is because you’re communicating via email, perhaps because you’re a fancy foreign person and they…

I think the original BG games were smart to be set in an already well-established setting. The writers clearly didn’t feel as much pressure to dump exposition and had a little more fun with it while still taking itself seriously. PoE, as I remember, was kinda up its own ass and clearly very proud of its world’s…

For me, it’s the specter of Baldur’s Gate 2 and Planescape Torment, and even Icewind Dale, that so successfully nailed so many aspects of this style of game that to this day they’re a hard act to follow. I know that’s part nostalgia but I think it’s hard to make a game LIKE those original Black Isle/Bioware games that…

I think the key thing about BotW is that if you want it’s not a hideously long game. You can follow the story quests til you’re sent to free the divine beasts, free the beasts, get enough hearts for the master sword (which you’ll have or be close just from the obvious shrines you stumble into along the way), and then…

There’s a good chance your cpu and mobo allow the software/cpu implementation of tpm, which windows recognizes as tpm. Look for “security device” options in your bios, PTT for Intel and fTPM for AMD.

My motherboard has a...forget what it’s called but it’s a software implementation of TPM. I’ve never gotten bitlocker to work without needing the password, so it might be wonky, but windows recognizes it as tpm 2.0. The name in the bios settings definitely isn’t tpm so it may not be obvious.

In recognition of your likely successful post a one-word endorsement adding no additional value but possibly attracting several likes. The generated dopamine then slightly reduces the amount of alcohol necessary to be consumed to feel self worth.

Much like the Wilhelm Scream, this showing up in another game now would certainly be treated as homage.

You can straight up install Linux via Windows Subsystem for Linux now (back when I tinkered with it it was only Ubuntu but now it looks like it offers others), giving you pretty much a full featured terminal with most of the command line utilities and other tools (and the ability to install others in your…

The nvidia Linux drivers work but are, necessarily, different from the Windows ones (and apparently a second-class citizen at nvidia compared to the windows ones).

If you’re using your computer solely for gaming and nothing else, and you don’t mind buying and installing Windows (a portion of the linux community treats Windows as essentially spyware so that's a sticking point), then sure, but if you’re using Linux in the first place you’re probably using it for something else and…

From context I’m assuming “depth.” In Rimworld you can dig into a hill but can’t go on top of it, here I assume you can do both simultaneously, for example.

If there’s space and it doesn’t hurt, I’m all for stuff like squishy hoods, but in general I think the solution to reduce pedestrian deaths is to have less pedestrians be struck by cars, not have it be safer for them to be struck by cars. Safer places to walk and cross, better public transportation so people can walk…

I used to think people took stuff too seriously. I still do, but I used to too.