I loved DA:O. It was far from perfect, but at the time it was the closest we could get to a spiritual successor to Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, and Icewind Dale - dark fantasy, tactical combat, and a decent story.

Then DA 2 came along and it felt like an entirely different series. I didn’t get it at the time because of how simplified and arcadey it looked. I picked it up on some deep sale and got bored of it pretty quickly.

DA:I seemed to be trending back in the right direction with a bit more tactical combat. I never finished it but it was decent enough on a sale. This looks like they doubled down on DA 2 here and…meh.

Doubtful I would have gotten it anyway since it’s EA but I would have loved to have been proven wrong.

Cool, thanks for that. I read John Romero’s ‘Doom Guy’ earlier this year and it was pretty good. Not perfect, but it fed my nostalgia for the olden days of Commander Keen and Doom.

I think some of the later stuff aged well if you’re into point and click adventure games and some “retro” looking graphics. But the early ones might be a little janky for anyone who didn’t live through that era.

You have to type in the actions you want to do and they looked like this:

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I was all set to correct you. Never realized the Manfred Mann version was a cover.

Doesn’t look like Brendan Fraser to me.

This article says his name is Danny Mastrogiorgio

https://www.businessinsider.com/enchanted-hidden-details-references-easter-eggs?op=1#this-scene-lasts-for-a-few-seconds-but-its-filled-with-easter-eggs-edward-watches-a-soap-opera-starring-a-character-named-angela-played-by-paige-ohara-the-voice-of-belle-34

And his IMDB page seems to confirm https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0557850/

The “small” games that inspired, if not invented it were Doom and D&D. There was a Doom map called Fortress where you’d attack each other’s base and the further you’d progress into your opponent’s base, the better weapons it’d unlock for them to use.

A few guys in Australia combined the ideas in a Quake mod called Quake Team Fortress. Then they got hired at Valve to remake it on the Half Life engine as Team Fortress Classic.

Sesquipedalian

I feel like they did add that option but it was well after I finished it with the same problem.

Snap is installed, but the default app store, Pop!_Shop, only has .deb and flatpak that I’ve seen.

https://pop-os.github.io/docs/manage-apps/using-pop-shop.html

I’ve been using Pop for a few months as my daily driver to replace Windows. It had been a few years since I’d used Linux and I wanted something stable for Nvidia drivers. I’ve had next to no issues with it.

I think the “Microsoft dilemma” is just called capitalism. If you’re not making all the money, you’re losing the game.

Michael Chabon’s “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union” sent me down a rabbit hole of reading up on all the loopholes, I forget what they’re called now, but they’re pretty fascinating.