Not actually 13, that was only allowable if the other party is 17 or under.
from the article:
Previously, Japan had one of the lowest age of consent among developed nations. However, a person who has had sex with a minor aged 13 to 15 will be punished only if the person is five or more years older than the minor.
Yes, that was my favorite strategy game of that time. I tried to recreate the experience by playing Age of Wonders, but it didn't quite feel the same.
Slitherine released a remake of it late last year. Haven't tried it myself, but the reviews seem decent.
Tyrian was great! And also Tyrian 2000 which I was able to play somewhere. Maybe Gametap or some similar service. I remember trying it out as shareware (I think) and thinking it was Epic Games' best published shooter to date. Still holds up, imo.
I loved the upgrades and the fact that you had a health bar instead of a 1 hit kill. Plus all the stuff you said.
Ultima 6. It was Baldur's Gate before Baldur's Gate, and it had very deep conversation and morality systems. Also amazing VGA graphics (for the time, 256 colors!) interesting PC Speaker AND Sound Blaster music, and an interesting open world and story that showed that preconceived notions and prejudices can be bad, and that sometimes you can solve cultural misunderstandings through communication and sharing instead of conflict.
Ultima 6 was a masterpiece and way ahead of its time. If any of the Ultima games needs a remake, it's that one, imo. I also played Goblins 2, but never got around to 1 or 3. Did enjoy it, but got stuck on some puzzles and gave up. You couldn't just go online and find a solution like you can nowadays. If I ever got back into the Goblins series, I probably would finish them using those online hints though. I've lost the patience (and more importantly, time) to do it the hard way nowadays.
Please! To stay relevant as a company, that's all they had to do. It's the definition of the "You only had one job" meme.
Insert <Is this Fallout: New Vegas?> Meme here with the one glasses cartoon guy.
You know what, I'll just make it real quick:
Me too. And Corningware, which is my family's favorite brand of dishes / bowls. The Corelle line specifically.
Ouch, harsh, but true. It's kind of insane how much is out of our control nowadays, and how companies don't seem inclined to do much of anything about it. I hear that AMD at least, is going to switch to an open source alternative to PSP in the future though.
I wonder if Mediatek is any better. They're the biggest competition that Qualcomm has right now (except for maybe Samsung's Exynos), but honestly, I wouldn't be shocked if everyone's doing this.
I tried Firefox one day when they said they had a good update, and reviewers were also agreeing that it was good. Meanwhile Chrome was doing stupid crap that I didn't like. I switched and haven't looked back since. It's actually kind of dangerous to have a browser monoculture like this. Creates one big giant attack vector and also makes it so that any big problem in Chromium might simultaneously affect almost all the browsers out there at once.
Yep, I totally agree, which is why I avoid Discord as much as possible. Forums worked because they weren't chat rooms, and making a hybrid basically brings all of the problems of a chatroom into a forum system which adds almost no benefit, but a huge amount of problems.
Not every group uses Discord exclusively, and some still have forums, thankfully. Also, there's also Reddit, which is basically the closest thing I've found to a "universal" forum protocol, although it too has its share of issues.
I'll take Reddit over Discord anytime though.
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