Awesome, thanks! Managed to get it working, and even found a version with the Czech dub, so all is good! Thanks for reminding me the game exists :D

Minimum system requirement fow Windows PC (with Copilot+, not sure if this has the chip, but if yes it's funny) is 16gb, per their official page.

Edit: Hah, the article mentions it - it loses the Copilot+ status. Lol

But, if I'm looking at it right, ithas the + CPU. So they just don't have the ram.

Thats hillarious. Their AI bubble push has... Priced them out of selling AI.

Are you playing on Linux by chance? I did finfld a few Windows guides, which I assume would ve easier due to Windows Play whatever, but it also sounds like it would make it hell to set up on Linux.

I highly recommend Space Station 14.

It's an amazing roleplaying disaster simulator, where around 100 players are trying to keep a Space Station afloat. From doctors, through police, scientist, engineers, to cargo and barmans. Every role has a way how to blow up the station - Engineers generate energy through a contained singularity or a Tesla ball. If that escapes because you forgot to repair the cage, the station is fucked.

Scientists experiment with artifacts that give you research for doing stuff with it, and it's generate what does doing stuff with it do, i.e if you wrench it, it does something. Something can be "spawn a monkey", "print money" to "thermonuclear explosion".

And add to that tower of cards some people getting the roles of antagonists, which can be anything between "Syndycate agent that has to kill the captaion", "a blood cult needing to steahltily sacrifice people to ascend", "pantient zero that turns into a zombie", or a "syndicate deathsquad that has to fight to the station nuke and trigger selfdestruction".

It's massive fun, and I highly recommend it.

Oh, and that's basic SS14. There's also a very popular mod - Roundy Marine Crops, which si basically ~ 100vs100 Alien vs Predator, where you play every role imaginable from Marines that are deploying planetside to fight Aliens who are digging in.

If you need convincing, this is the best short story video that absolutly sold me the game. It's aboslute cinema, the way it's told. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfjz1MnlxzE

Then there's also the almost legendary video about Space Station 13 from Sseth (SS14 is basically a reimplementation/modernization of SS13 into C#) that can also give you the vibe of the game. But I'd recommend the previous video more.

Note: There's currently some drama with main maintainer, who had control of the launcher and server hub, starting to act extremely egoistically and hostile, holding the whole game and it's auth database hostage, hacking discord servers, banning random people, and in general being a dick. That is why I have linked the playss14 launcher, which is a fork from the rest of the community to sidestep the demands and general dickery the maintainer is doing. It's pretty ugly. The game is on Steam, just like it has other web pages, but that would lead you to the launcher that's currently being ransomed. You're better off just getting the alt launcher from playss14.com linked above.

Oh, that was my favorite game. If I recall correctly, it also was dubbed in my (Czech) language, which made it awesome.

I have to check if you can reasonably play it on PC.

Isn't that a fingerpriting goldmine? I haven't given it a lot of thought, but most of the mechanicms I can think of will lead to it being somewhat trackable, especially if paired with IP.

There's also a heavy push towards AI supported development, so I would expect a lot of code to get a lot worse.

There's a massive skill erosion in the industry going on currently, at least in the (AAA) company I work in. We've just switched from agile/sprints to "AI-native ", which is a SDLC model that, at least from how I looked into it, doesn't make any sense but "AI go brrrr".

It sucks.

People were dying en-masse because you had doctors not washing their hands when moving from autopsies to giving birth.

No one was aware about the germs that are causing this. It still killed people.

This is true for most of the early medicine/illneses/hygiene, this was just an example I remember. Especially in regards to germs and bacteries, the humanity wasn't even close to getting it right.

I've never looked at Esperanto. Is it at least easy to learn and use?

I have to look up it's history, like who and when thought it's a good idea, and why it didn't work out. Sounds like a fun rabbit hole.

Yeah, what I've been trying to do, on a rare ocassion where I chime in with the whole "just use Linux" (because it's usually not necessary to be 27th person with the same comment), is to at least add more relevant info, or mention misconceptions that I know were reasons why I didn't switch, or what I found cool.

I.e for me it was gaming, which for a long time used to be considered bad on Linux, especially if you had Nvidia. Which is no longer true in the sligjtest, and I was pretty surprised how smooth the transition was, so I just share a bit of my experience.

But yeah, it's a balancing act. And as always, if you can't add anything to the discussion that already wasn't said (i.e just use linux), it's better not to add anything :D

It's what convinced me to make a switch to Linux, two years ago by now.

I've seen it mentioned for years at that point. Did it feel annoying? A bit, especially when I was trying to solve something. But it was one post that pushed me over the edge. I've probably seen a lot posts/replies like that before.

I can't say why, I guess the stars aligned, but I'm glad it happened. I probably wouldn't do it, if it weren't for years of constant reminders that Linux is in fact an option.

I vaguely remember seeing a really good interactive tutorial that dealt with most of the music theory. It must've come heavilly recommended, because that's what I usually search for when learning stuff.

It was years, though, I'll see if I can find it.

But I'd go with scales or chords, depending on what you're playing.