Google also invested $2B into Anthrophic. Seems like both Google and Amazon are providing credits for their cloud, also as a hedge against Microsoft / OpenAI becoming too big.
If I have to chose between Amazon and Microsoft I’ll chose the lesser evil. Microsoft owns the entire stack from OS to server to language to source control. Anything to weaken their hold is a win in my book.
> chose between Amazon and Microsoft... the lesser evil
A hard question. If you focusing purely on tech, probably Microsoft. But overall evil in the world? With their union busting and abuse of workers, Amazon, I'd say.
Not necessarily in Rust itself. Actually I like R as a language. I was more thinking something along the lines of Typist. A modern take of a proven concept, possibly with a Rust inspired scripting language.
And it crowded out every historical playthrough video of the original Brood War on YouTube, such that full playthroughs of the original are impossible to find.
And so, through grasping at the straws of rehashing old stuff they can't make anew, they ruin the old stuff that was good. :D
That may depend on what you're trying to do. If you are figuring out something tricky, then lots of quiet head down time is what you need. Every interruption hurts when you are concentrating.
However, a lot of the time is just figuring out how to glue together multiple systems. Being able to pull in various people to interface little bits is priceless. There is no flow here, only collaboration.
In the same way I don’t expect a biologist writing for biologists to explain “DNA” stands for “deoxyribonucleic acid”, it’s probably not necessary for a music producer writing for producers and engineers to define “DAW”.
Users here probably feel the same way about HTML, FIFO, DAG, etc
They definitely did not fix housing prices. Demand and purchasing power are lower with the higher interest rates, but supply is abysmal for the reasons you mentioned.
Are you kidding? The third title in their famous Baldur's Gate series just came out and everyone is talking about it. It's being called a triumph of PC gaming and a return to form.
Oh wait. They only made the first two. (The answer to your question is ME1)
Mass effect 2 was much more polished, even if it did lean more towards action than RPG. I personally didn't like Dragon Age inquisition, but it was widely acclaimed and was the company's most successful launch at the time.
You might also be thinking about Planescape Torment, which was developed by BlackIsle with licensed BioWare technology (the Baldur's Gate engine). As far as I'm aware, Planescape Torment is the closest BioWare has ever gotten to the creation of an excellent game.
BioWare developed the Infinity Engine, BG1 and BG2. Interplay was the publisher. Black Isle was an internal division of Interplay and box label. Black Isle developed Icewind Dale 1 & 2, and Planescape: Torment using the Infinity Engine.
No, I got the joke. I'm fully aware that Baldur's Gate 3 is not related to Bioware at all.
Also that Larian is basically eating Bioware's lunch right now because Bioware has dropped the ball on Dragon Age which would occupy a similar space to BG3
It's actually even funnier that Larian is doing it by using a franchise that Bioware built 20 years ago.
But generally I think many people who love these games are in it for the writing, the character romances, the storyline, and the exploration. In this regard, Baldur's Gate 3 has a lot of similarities with Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition, and presumably Dreadwolf whenever that comes out.
The individual details of the mechanics are less important to many.
I agree with what you're saying, but I think it's not stretching too hard to say that gameplay also matters for games. Romances, storyline, and so on are fine and dandy, but at some point you have to have some gameplay. Or not, if you want to make a visual novel. And that's fine too!
You should play Dragon Age: Origins. It's a lot tighter, way less filler. I look at these games with a million copy-paste quest markers and "points of interest" and just know there's little actual substance there.
Or you can play Baldur's Gate 3 like everyone else is now :) The DnD systems take a bit of getting used to. The game is an excellent story-telling experience, despite that ("despite" in my opinion).
I had a lot of fun with Inquisition, but the MMOish world design and the fact that so much core plot was hived off into Trespasser makes it hard to call the game truly excellent.
Provided you use mods and community patches, sure. I had to replay all of Nar Shaddaa, and kept getting the bug where it's skipping all the dialogue. (Also, I felt my ending was underwhelming.)
