I was pleasantly taken by surprise when I got around to playing Angels With Scaly Wings. The title and the trailer had given me a very incorrect idea of what the game was going to be like. Once past the somewhat contrived set up, it ended up being a very well paced sci fi story that keeps throwing curve balls at you loop after loop.
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The DLC has a couple of game design choices that I've felt detracted from the experience, and put it a notch below the main game. I'm still glad I played it, because the core Outer Wilds vibe is still there, and finishing the main game again after wrapping up the DLC had a worthwhile emotional payoff.
Inconveniencing oneself for the benefit of other people is COMMUNISM. /s
I mean, red turnip may be rotten, but you wouldn't want blue turnip to get in.
Maybe read the fucking room, Mal.
It will, however, be far better than not doing anything.
Big missing piece there: cloud.
In the first half of the 2010s, there was a study from Gartner or another such company, that forecast that the cloud service market would amount to 1 trillion USD/year by 2030 or so, and since then the big players have been racing to try and carve as much as possible of the future juicy pie from Amazon's hands.
Google completely missed the boat at first then pivoted hard. MS leveraged its deep enterprise presence as hard as it could to get existing customers into its cloud offering; that's why your MS consumer products (Office, OneDrive, etc) are tied at the hip with cloud these days. Not for consumers, for the business market.
It's business to business, however, so the generak public doesn't hear about it a lot. It's also largely non-sexy, and therefore not headline-worthy, with a few exceptions. The whole AI thing, for instance. But even there, consumers are not the target market. Cloud customers are.
In that sense Google, MS and Amazon absolutely already are the new IBM and Oracle.
Meanwhile, as far as I can tell, Meta is still trying to execute on its mission to connect people while still headed by people who have no idea how people connect. Apple is Apple, keeps just making oodles of money off the kind of people who buy Apple products.
I had the same problem on my first try! I'd been trying to do everything and talk to everyone about everything and just drowned in words.
On my second try, though, I took a different approach: what if I am this guy, just want to get the job done, and only do stuff for the purpose of trying to progress the case? That worked great for me, and the game is structured so this still takes you through much of its contents -- only, now, there is a purpose to it.
So, thanks, friend! I am indeed now enjoying this game, and I hope you are enjoying whatever you are playing also.
Finally getting into Disco Elysium after a false start last year. Great game, spectacular writing, though it does require a little bit of investment.
Thank you. Excellent observation It is, in fact, the very fact that makes the comment you are responding to funny.
It's journalist for, someone blabbed but doesn't want to be named. Don't sweat it.
One might surmise that the people doing the electing and the people doing the protesting are not in fact the same people.