“It never happened but they deserved it”. It’s a classic rhetoric of people who deny or white wash genocides.

Ads are indeed getting smarter every day

I was seriously considering buying the game on release but after 8 hours of not having fun paying it I’m glad I had GamePass to try it on first.

This is not funny

You’re listing outliers that did well despite their smaller marketing budget. There are tons of great games from smaller studios that get buried because nobody knows about them.

Basic builder units. You commit genocide against an entire civilization but leave one of these fuckers alive and 20 minutes later you’re facing en entire army.

I hated this in GTA (mainly 3 and SA). You’re doing an escort mission and suddenly 6 guys start shooting at you with AKs from nowhere because you pissed them off in an unrelated quest.

I prefer a Morrowind-like approach where enemies don’t scale and you have to take care not to venture too deep into some crazy gang’s territory early on.

But it’s much much harder to make this work properly, and scaling enemies have become an expectation by players at this point.

I played Milon’s Secret Castle on the NES as a kid. The game is pretty much unplayable if you don’t have an infinite amount of time and patience, or a guide. There are hidden doors and items in unexpected places that are required to make progress, some rooms are dead ends that soft lock you, there are hidden exits that you have to find by pushing on a random pillar etc.

Once I accidentally didn’t push the cartridge in all the way and the game started out in a random room and full of glitches. This lead me down a rabbithole of searching for hidden stuff, maybe even beat the game, but most of the time it just failed to start.

Another one was San Andreas. I played it when it came out and I read online about myths like bigfoot, the meeting place of the Epsilon Program, ghosts in the desert, aliens etc. I must have spent hundreds of hours searching for these.

As far as I’ve experienced you need really good quality headphones in order to enjoy Tidal. Mine is on the high end of mid tier and I couldn’t tell the difference in quality when I asked my wife to test me. I use Youtube Music because it’s pretty much the same as Spotify plus no ads on regular Youtube.

You misspelled pacman

It seems like you were right, it was the theme that I chose that didn’t support showing the long press symbols, even though I enabled them in the settings.

Regarding the voice to text, for me it just opens Google’s voice input, it doesn’t seem like it has its own built in VTT.

I tried SwiftKey for about a week or so a month ago but I’m too used to GBoard to make the switch.

What I like about GB that SK doesn’t have or is too different:

• speech to text integrated into the keyboard. The Bing app is probably the best at this, especially for my non-native English accent, too bad SK doesn’t have its own implementation
• I can set up the keys to show their long press symbols
• the colon character is at an awkward place for my finger to reach
• GB’s swipe function can figure out much more easily what language I wanted to type in
• SK shows every possible accented version of the character that I long pressed on, and the one that I wanted was usually at an awkward place to reach. GB on the other hand sorts those of my native language right next to the original character, and only offers a few that I never use.

Chorus is an underrated game with an amazing main theme