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Oh that makes sense. I also now just realized all the RoR2 maps are pre made, you just randomize the order you see them in, and the enemies that spawn there (within a fixed set)

Rogue had you start from scratch with a new character in a random map every time.

Rogue-like games initially meant you start from scratch in a new random world, but you incrementally improve your experience by small buffs you can buy, or changing your starting equipment / skills (sometimes by changing out which character you start as).

Rogue-like has slowly changed to mean "start over regularly but slowly unlock new items/buffs/equipment/characters/etc to help you further explore a world which may or may not be random"

So it applies to games like Risk of Rain (and 2), Balatro, Dead Cells, and Rogue Legacy, just to name a few examples (though 3 of those are 2d platformers with randomly generated worlds if I remember right...).

But yeah it seems to have morphed into a broadly used term for games where you get better over time through purchasing permanent buffs and whatnot (as well as natural skill), but are forced to restart any time you die.

Vampire Survivors and other similar style games have you constantly restarting when you die so I think the term fits as a partial descriptor.

Maybe we could adopt the idle/clicker game term Prestige, but that's more of a voluntary restart when you hit a wall and can't progress, so I don't think it quite works.

Kirkland Costco, admittedly 2-3 weeks ago. Something like $9.59 for two dozen.

Something between $9 and $10 on the price tag is what I remember.

No idea what it is now.

Penis. I can say penis. Can you say penis?

Technically Teams uses a lot of underlying Skype technology iirc.

All UK machines, phones, and servers should just remove all root certificates. Can't trust encryption right?

X509Brexit.

Then they wouldn't have to interact with any part of the encrypted internet.

Launched day one on Xbox Game pass for PC so that's where I'm playing it.

My understanding is 32-bit PhysX games are broken.

64-bit compiled games are fine.

Nice! You should read the Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks if you like Fantasy novels.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/291662-lightbringer

Childless but many of my friends have kids and seeing that top panel... Just... lol.

"this is a tool, not a toy"

How many times have I heard that said, or even said it myself, to children.

It's not that seamless depending on the content you usually consume.

I feel like I keep seeing the same single livestream trying to sell me a phone charger, and then roughly the same 5 or 6 videos trying to sell me a specific product over and over again.

As long as I don't report or say "I keep seeing this ad" it will show me the same ones so they are easy to skip.

Usually it's something I started watching until I realized it was an ad, but because I started watching it one time it thinks I'm interested so it will continually show it to me.

Once you spot them they are easy to skip. (at least, until they get better at masking then and then it will get harder).

That's a separate issue from requiring internet access / cloud / their servers to be online to print.