It’s just stupid oversight, they switched to the Play Store API, which naturally excludes Graphene OS. But mind you this is the same managerial incompetence that brought us the lack of a Volks-Wagen (an affordable car that is) from Volkswagen, withdrawing partially from BEVs just as they get fully embraced and the sales start to accelerate, and of course who could forget the let’s be honest fully C-suite ordered Diesel exhaust cheating.

At this point, Volkswagen needs to be shut down and all middle~executive management needs to be prosecuted going back 20 or so years. They’re all criminally incompetent and ruined thousands of livelihoods with their negligence.

Honestly Rouge the Bat deserves to be there in full, not just lite.

Depending on your browser you might have a protection enabled or an addon that forbids screenshots? Might not be the website’s fault.

For a very simple element, consider that if you used to have texture resolutions of 256² = 65536 pixels, you now might easily have 4096² = ~16.7mil pixels, a 25480% increase.

So our 4k texture packs really guzzle up harddrive space. And that’s ignoring how many many many more things there are to texture in the first place, how each element has multiple textures overlaid for shading, and all the other parts also needing more space like higher-def audio.

What would federation do for a wiki, specifically? Like, every instance can have <some> pages and you can browse all of them from anywhere?

I mean that’s also woefully outdated. Just use the installers they already provide and put them on a thumbdrive, there’s a solid chance that’ll last far longer than a burnt disc would, too.

I mean in a way this is exciting, sure.

In particular if they do this in a somewhat eco-friendly fashion, that is, it’s just about the box and the manual and all that. No actual disc/thumbdrive/whatever. Granted GOG in particular would be in a position where they can do this due to their installers, but it’d still be absurd materials and logistics-wise, in particular old-style big box PC releases.

To add, I just recently finally got rid of the last of my old PC games boxes like DAoC or the ME games. I had already thrown out most older games such as Homeworld or Battle Isle years and years prior when I moved where I live right now.
Was it a kinda cool-looking collection in the living room? Yes. Did it take an absurd amount of space for no reason and it’s not like I even had a disc drive in the past 20 or so years? Yes. I nowadays have a pretty large board games collection, and that needs the space the books and video games previously took. So I donated books to hospitals and jails and so on, and games I gave away, sold or in some cases just tossed. Fond memories, but not enough to justify the amount of physical space used for a physical medium I cannot even use.

Before the Storm is also from Deck Nine not Don’t Nod, and I think you can still notice they didn’t truly know how to handle the franchise at that point. It’s a cool DLC though, really enjoyed it, I just don’t think Chloe’s “special mechanic” works well in contrast to Max’s (a problem Reunion shares but since the rewind is essentially on-rails there it’s far less a noteworthy).

About Bloom&Rage, hrm… tricky to say. I think what made it come together for me - because I agree the characters are overwritten extremely, and I gotta assume that’s intentional with the degree to which they are - is the atmosphere of the childhood sequences, in particular the inherently-creepy elements when you’re taping stuff going wonky contrasted with the extremely somber and wistful tone of the adults talking. The children being so overdone I almost see like Varric’s description of the DA2 PC at the start where you’re overly muscular or have a huge rack, because he’s embellishing. They’re remembering, but they’re only remembering some aspects and overfocusing on them.
I’m in just the right age bracket to feel with the women sitting there reminiscing about their youths though. So that worked really well for me. And I loved how I didn’t know how I looked as an adult, that was a cool payoff at the end.

Notably this is not the developer who has done Life is Strange True Colours, Double Exposure or Reunion.

This is the ones that did the amazing first one, the meh second one, and then a bunch of non-LiS games that IMO were of varying and unstable quality. Although I’ll have to make an exception for Bloom&Rage, because that one was absolutely fantastic, for all its flaws.

I really feel Don’t Nod is a studio that captured lightning in a bottle, and have since mostly failed to understand how they did, and how to replicate it. They’re still chasing it.

It was both, tbh.

It was a very rough product but the person above you is also right that it pushed the industry forward in a fair few ways.

Yeah and whos fault except yours is that, Satan Nutella? Huh? Who could have possibly changed things to have this be any different? Who is responsible for what the company as a whole does?!

I mean this one - hopefully - still wants Location, Camera, Microphone and Files, right? Otherwise it’d be pretty limited as a camera. Granted I suspect it only wants Location if I turn on EXIF location as per its description, but the other three would be the bare minimum to work I imagine.

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Just checked it out, and yeah as expected it of course needs Camera, Microphone and Files. It doesn’t seem to ask for Location even if EXIF is enabled, which maps as it seems to be unable to even record location-of-picture even if desired.

So same permissions as both my Google Cam port and the pre-installed Fairphone camera app, yeah.

WDYM?

My camera app (Fairphone) asked me for:

• Location. Makes sense, I set it to record where each picture was taken, can hardly do that if it doesn’t know the location.
• Microphone. Yeah, I wanna record sound in my videos.
• Camera. Duh.
• Files permission. I like my pictures and videos to be actually saved, so this makes sense.

What permissions in addition to these pretty obvious ones does yours want?

I wouldn’t say it’s “not up to the challenge” insomuch that like when you want to convince someone to not use Chrome, you’re running into the problem that you have to create a framework under which the amount of problem Chrome can be can actually be measured/registered.

People always assume “Yeah but the average user doesn’t care”, but never truly read that line and realize what it implies.

It’s not that my mum opens Chrome, sees that it’s 74/100 on the problematic-software-you-shouldn’t-use-scale, and then decided to use it anyways.
She opens it. That’s it. It ends there.

There is no “This is a 74/100 problem”.
There is no problematic-software-you-shouldn’t-use-scale.
There is no scale.
There isn’t even the conceptual idea for it, and hence no reason or impetus to ever internally have such a scale.

And now comes an important question: Why? Or rather, why not?

And the answer is both easier and also impossibly harder than most of us trying to convince others would want to accept: Because it doesn’t matter.
To my mum, she couldn’t give a flying fuck what others think about Chrome, she wants to open a web page. She has actual problems in her actual life, she doesn’t care a rat’s arse what the tiny computer she looks up the weather and contacts her kids on does to allow her to do that internally. She’s worried about her health, about her colon surgery healing or about her mum (my grandma is 93) having fallen down.

So… no news