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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • If Trump doesn’t fold soon, we’ll be on track for a sequel to the Great Depression.

    Even if shipments resumed, and there is no indication of such (that I know of), with the time it would take for freight to make its way to consumers, not to mention the resulting congestion, it be long enough to cause serious trouble. I’d be surprised if the drepression isn’t already there, and the symptoms are just about to manifest












  • Uh hi I guess that’s me lol

    It’s kinda a reskin and kinda not. They hacked the old engine to run into UE5, and re-did all the assets, while remaining extremely faithful to the OG gameplay.

    Having the old engine also means console commands etc work, which is nice, but also all the loading screens where they usually are, which means like 2/3 per large building. Not much of an issue considering how fast it loads on modern hardware.

    The re-balanced some elements of the game which were jarring (like enemies getting way over-levelled if you focused on your primary skills), but kept all the OG dialogue (and recordings) and weirdness of the OG game.

    They remade all the visuals, including the assets, but kept the original sounds (honestly the music did not age all that well, I wish they re-recorded it with actual instruments)

    I don’t feel ripped off at all, considering modern games now ask up to 80e for base version of games and this was 55e. Even ignoring the ripoff that is current day full AAA pricing, they did put a lot of work into this and I don’t think 55e is absurd.

    I hope that kind of remake is something they consider bringing to other games that aged poorly, although I would like them to actually tweak & fix some elements which I feel aged poorly.

    I think they were scared of pissing off purists by re-recording bad lines, OG oblivion treated VAs terribly and it is very much felt. Did you know they recorded the lines alphabetically? Lmao And also they should consider re-recording the music (the digital instruments sound way too plastic-y)