This is the review I was looking for. Huge H1 and HoH fan but H2 was a big swing and a miss. So glad to hear HoH2 is a return to form. Thanks for sharing.

Oh that’s understandable. Most MMO games, at least in the past before the rise of F2P, had monthly subscriptions (often in addition to needing to buy the base game).

Not sure if this is a joke or not… WoW was always a subscription game-as-a-service.

Arma Reforger has amazing community servers that mean you can always find somewhere to hop in and have fun.

I regularly dock my Deck and run games at 1080p or even 2160p on my TV so there’s still a use case for Deck owners.

You’re not at all wrong and I think that’s one of the many reasons why memetics has been widely criticised. I think it had its place in the 70s while selfish replication / kin selection was being explored and popularized but I think it’s been widely discredited at this point.

I know I was arguing the definition of a term but I’m truth, I don’t personally subscribe to the overall theory (Dawkins did write the book almost half a century ago at this point!). The “meme” is a bit of pseudoscience to vaguely articulate the propagation and proliferation of ideas/culture.

You should check out The Social Conquest of Earth if you’ve not already. It doesn’t have a compelling descriptor but it does shine a light on how natural selection doesn’t take place at purely the gene level. In a sense, we shouldn’t focus on the unit of the meme but instead the mechanisms around it.

I’ve really appreciated this little debate; you’re clearly a bright person!

I still disagree. The variation with selective retention is the Twitter post being screenshotted rather than hyperlinked to i.e. the context, comments, likes, retweets, etc have been lost, the text retained, but instead mutated into pixels to be shared visually. Copied (the text), varied (into image), selected (context and source disregarded). The image has been shared across multiple different platforms, and is spreading as it is influencing cultural ideas and, potentially, behaviors. It has propagated through imitation and replication.

This is memetics at work. A screenshot of something shared to wider social circles is, much to many’s chagrin, a meme.

I understand the disconnect; the other commenter likely first encountered “memes” as entertaining images with text over them.

And since this is a picture (a reproduction) of a text post to an entirely different social media platform, this meme is reproducing. I’ve seen it posted to several different communities since this post, and no doubt users of those communities will have copied the image, sent to their friends, reposted to Facebook, blah blah.

Indeed, it is a meme.

“is a cultural item (such as an idea, behavior, or style) that spreads across the internet primarily through social media… They are highly versatile in form and purpose, serving as tools for light entertainment, self-expression, social commentary, and even political discourse…”

The medium is the only major difference. This is certainly sociopolitical commentary.

And in total accordance with the definitions of the terms “meme” and “memetics”.

Incorrect. I don’t think you’re aware that a meme is a word from theoretical science (memetics) where the meme is a unit of culture that can be transmitted from one mind to another.

An image capturing an individual’s statement is easily a meme. We’re all here talking about it and its shared perspectives and insights about the negative behavior of a large corporation.

Meme doesn’t mean “funny pictures”.

My guess it’s to test out what they’re building for TESVI by getting a smaller studio to test it out in something they’ve already got design docs and scripts for.

I’m sure Fallout London feel the same way too!

I completely agree with you! But I am worried they’ll get overshadowed by Bethesda/Microsoft’s marketing budget…

They’ve gotta push hard because the official Oblivion remake in Unreal is supposedly due out sometime in 2025.

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Google Keep. You can share a note and edit it in real time.

There’s plenty of others out there. Just mentioning the one we use. I know people who use Apple Notes for instance.

My partner and I use a shared note app and collaborate on task lists so it’s less one person having to steer the other but more working together on the plan and figuring out what needs to be done.

We then sort them by priority so that they can be chipped away at, one by one, in order.

Get some little treats, eat one each time someone get a task completed, and any daunting set of tasks turns into a fun little game that starts anything off positively (treats rule).

(Everyone is different so this might not work for you but might give you some ideas for what might work)

People like to forget Notch.

Patents published in 2022 showed Valve are definitely working on an untethered VR headset, new VR controllers, and a Steam Controller 2. Rumours are they went into mass production in Nov 2024 so we could be near an announcement in the next few months. Typical Valve style, however, is to announce it out of the blue.

But given the success of the Steam Deck, and the money they’ve funnelled into Arch Linux support for ARM processors, I’m pretty confident these aren’t just rumours.