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    February 2025 General Game Discussion Thread

    @Pifanjr I would like to withdraw everything I said in my response about the .png files. For one thing, my test was flawed because I didn't even check the opacity settings. But I'm now thinking that all of us including CoPilot were wrong, but I don't know for sure, so there's no sense in...
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    Question I need more space, what could I do...?

    I really think the C: drive is a lost cause and would replace it with a larger one. I didn't even know they made SSDs that small.
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    Are There Too Many Games Available?

    Big hit games are selling more than ever. But there is a game level of hell that thousands of games exist in, and it is harder and harder to get out of that and get seen. However, it isn't nearly as bad as it could be. Those 100 hobbyist games released every day? No one sees them but me and...
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    Civilization 7 Pre-Launch Discussion

    User Reviews Dominate Professional Reviews The Civ community is huge and dedicated. No professional reviewer can hope to notice the details like these Civ fanatics. I've read a bunch of professional reviews and, to be honest, they are extremely lacking. There are bunch of user reviews that top...
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    Do you find gaming meaningful?

    People go through huge life changes over the 13 years heading to your mid-to-late twenties, and 18 and 29-year-olds are not very similar. However, I think the general sentiment of the survey is probably accurate enough to get a general idea of what is going on for people under 30, but only a...
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    Do you find gaming meaningful?

    Existential Nihilism is not the answer to the question. -10 :) The question assumes Nihilism, otherwise it would simply state the meaningfulness of gaming as a number, which I estimate to be 42.
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    Do you find gaming meaningful?

    I would probably find it more meaningful if I weren't in a gaming rut. I'm mostly doing other things lately.
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    February 2025 PCG Article Discussion

    I don't think discussing the impending 2000 percent increase in PC equipment in the US due to tariffs should be off-limits. No one even mentioned anything partisan.
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    February 2025 PCG Article Discussion

    Just a guess, but they did a bunch of video development diaries all through-out the development of the first one and had significant hype around it by the time it launched, but it still took about 6 months to hit 1 million sales. Plus, I think people liked the marketing that you weren't "the...
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    February 2025 PCG Article Discussion

    https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/steam-now-warns-you-if-that-early-access-game-youre-eyeing-up-has-been-abandoned-by-its-devs/
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    February 2025 General Game Discussion Thread

    Nope, its answer was correct. I've since verified CoPilot's answer by first creating a picture with text and saving it and then copying and pasting a picture over top of it and saving it again. I then imported it into AI and could see the text under the picture. Would be great for secret...
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    Sports general discussion thread

    Mahomes thinks he's playing soccer, flopping around in "agony" like he's going to need an on-field amputation just to survive.
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    New "YouTuber" - Hoping for guidance

    Currently, there is no legal way to get the game on PC. Places like myabandonware are considered gray sites and could be considered software piracy as I recently discovered in another thread. However, the publisher of the game, EA, allowed modders to port the multiplayer version of the game to...
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    February 2025 General Game Discussion Thread

    @Pifanjr remember (probably not), us discussing how I had painted over glasses in a picture (to remove them) and saved the file as a .png and somehow they kept showing back up whenever AI used the picture? After continually running into this, I asked CoPilot how this was happening. According to...
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    Civilization 7 Pre-Launch Discussion

    Regarding the UI, IGN states: "It’s frustratingly inadequate at providing me with the information I need to play well, or even understand what's going on sometimes." As you say, it will probably be fleshed out in expansions; however, and without having played it yet I have no idea, but Total...