Glad to see this comment. I don’t know anything about BG3 but the biggest problem with many modern games being mulitple discs is that they are open world with lots of back tracking. If BG3 is a little more linear this seems feasible (and more likely for me to play!)

This pretty much nails it. The Pixel Remasters go a long way to refining the original games that shaped what FF is, reaching its peak with 6 (although I think for someone newer to RPGs as a whole, 4 is an even more fundamental starting point even if it doesn’t hit the heights of 6 in terms of character development and…

Yeah but modern games do not run on the disk at all.   Read speed is to low.  Every PS5 and Xbox Series X game installs the data onto the hard drive and just uses the disk as DRM

Depends on what kind of gamer Alyssa is and how they prefer to learn about a franchise or a company. I personally like to discover how a company evolves and to me, we can often see how Square Enix evolved their approach or tried new things, from one release to the next, often driven by things they saw happening around…

The first virtue of a great programmer: Laziness.

Only if you’re too cheap to use an extra 32 bits, then you can go another 500 billion years.

VI. Six. Seis. Roku.

Absolutely Final Fantasy X. Its presentation isn't so dated as to make it hard for a newcomer to enjoy, but it retains the spirit of classic final fantasy. The question really depends on the person's tolerance for/enjoyment of retro games. If they like the idea of playing a games from the snes or psx era then 6 or 7…

Im biased towards IX as it's the one I grew up on. The characters are fun and charming, the cast probably gets the most time to exist together thanks to the cutaway cutscenes, the ability system is a great blend of several previous systems, and the story generally doesn't require an abundance of expanded material to…

Seriously. If you aren’t counting time as seconds since 1/1/1970, you’re doing it wrong.

THIS!

I’ve seen a piece of code fail because it assumed the 30th for every month except february, where it would assume... the 28th.

Who the hell buys cereal on Amazon?

Yeah, this can’t even be explained by laziness. Like this problem was caused by someone doing extra work for no reason.

I’d be interested to know what languages they’re using that don’t have at least a couple of date/time libraries that handle this stuff.

FFS, there are classes and libraries to handle the Gregorian Calendar... you literally have to do nothing.

Many games will provide daily bonuses, often with increasing values the more a player logs in over the course of a calendar month, or with a day-specific bonus schedule. As such, such games will also show a calendar. And yes, these calendars are often (stupidly) hard-coded.

It’s really stupid that this is happening, time is not a new concept, it’s been around since the dawn of time.

Working “on task regularly and continuously” is not the same as doing valuable work that contributes to a company’s goals or (more importantly in my opinion) fulfills the goals and skillset of the employees themselves. I’m primarily in project based work so some days I have 10 hours of stuff to do, some days I have 2…