I’ve spent an embarrassing amount of money on EGS… it’s embarrassing because it’s the first time I’ve spent money on a free game. All the games I own on there were free. Which is great, because a few of them I was thinking about getting on sale on steam, but they were the weekly free game on EGS.
So yeah, they got my money, but not for the games…
It’s always interesting when I load up a download, I get seeded at like 20MB/s, but then… There’s nobody to seed to. It’s weird to see a torrent that so many people are seeding, but there’s like no downloads for it nowadays. Usually once it’s no longer popular, seeders disappear, too. Even weirder: it was season 2 of a show (that aired 15 years ago), but season 1 had… One guy. Only online for about 6 hours a day in the middle of the night.
I legit looked into the cost of buying up land in a city ravaged by fire. For about 1/3 of the cost of the average home there, I would have enough plots of land (with working gas, electric, water, and sewer hookups. Only getting ones with recertified hookups doubled the cost) to strong-arm the local council with ~2 people per plot. Sure, then we’d all need homes and stuff, but we can work on that. So we get all the benefits of a recognized City and address, utilities, and work done before, but at a price that would be very affordable for my part of the country.
I’ve seen so many game jam entries where the code is like this. Delicately balanced and using so many assumptions to just get the thing out the door.
It’s funny when they decide to make a full game out of it and realize that it’s gonna take them 6 months just to undo the tech debt of the original “demo”
To be fair, I caused a massive problem when I accidentally filled the drive completely, so I’ve been a little more conservative while I shop for a larger HDD. Thinking of getting a 20TB HDD so I don’t have to have 4 different drives plugged into my computer. (I remember when my 3TB drive was considered crazy big…)
That’s what I was thinking! Mine is over half a TB at this point!
Makes me think of many Medicat tools (and others like Macrium Reflect) that boot up a tiny windows installation just to run a single piece of software.
I’m used to Linux being used for that, so it’s funny when it’s Windows.