Tag: encouraging
The Rally Point: Songs Of Syx works at every scale by encouraging natural growth
It’s difficult not to start out by namedropping Dwarf Fortress. Songs Of Syx will compare to probably every colony sim you’ve played, in fact, but it feels like a fundamentally different game conceptually.
The usual parts are there. Chop some trees, chip some stones, and chep some crops to get your pioneers’ basic needs met, then get to expanding. But Syx isn’t interested in testing you or manufacturing drama. It’s not about surviving, not about building a happy little colony. It’s about how growth changes not just the scale, but the nature of a settlement. Despite similarities with its influences, it defines itself with a different dynamic, a whole different ethos to its peers. And it’s one that even playing it my own awkward way hasn’t broken.
Dark and Darker is still off Steam, so its devs are encouraging players to torrent it
Following Dark and Darker’s delisting from Steam, developer Ironmace Games is now encouraging players to torrent the game.
The whole situation with Dark and Darker has been a bit of a wild one. Things started out exceptionally well with its third playtest back in February, but soon after that Ironmac Games was raided by police due to accusations of asset theft from video game publisher Nexon. In turn, Dark and Darker was pulled from Steam due to a cease and desist from Nexon. Now, in the latest development of this bumpy ride, Ironmace Games is fully encouraging its players to just torrent the game so they can keep playing it.
Ironmace Games sent a message to all users in Dark and Darker’s official Discord sharing the torrent, in quite a radical move for such a situation. “Thank you for your patience. We apologise for the radio silence,” the message reads. “Unfortunately, due to the complexities of our situation, especially across international lines, it is taking time to resolve the Steam situation. In order for us to keep our promise to our fans we’ve had to go old school this time,” going on to say that players who want to participate in the fifth alpha playtest can download the game through a torrent link the developers provided.
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty review: a streamlined Nioh with an encouraging spirit
It’s easy to label Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty as a Soulslike that’s basically Nioh and Sekiro mashed together. To some extent, that’s true. But I think Wo Long is Team Ninja having sanded off some – not all – of the edges from the overwhelmingly complex Nioh, to craft an action RPG with even crisper combat than its predecessor. And crucially, it’s more approachable as a result. Clever ranks and meters reward, whether risk-taking is your jam or you’re more of a careful type. It may still be a tricky venture filled with demonic, titanic cows that’ll want to pound your skull into the dirt, but this is Team Ninja’s most encouraging effort yet.
Great British Railway Journeys among shows flagged by counter terror scheme ‘for encouraging far-right sympathies’
SOME of the UK’s most beloved TV shows have been flagged by counter terror programme Prevent.
Hit shows like Yes Minister and The Thick Of It and even Michael Portillo’s Great British Railway Journeys were bizarrely described as “encouraging far-right sympathies”.
Great British Railway Journeys with Michael Portillo was among the materials flagged by Prevent for ‘promoting right-wing extremism’[/caption]
The list also included the works of William Shakespeare[/caption]
Meanwhile, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare were placed on a list of “key texts” for white supremacists.
A report by the programme’s Research Information and Communications Unit (RICU) said that extremists posted “reading lists” on online chat boards.
The document shared a list of these “important texts” under pictures of Nigel Farage and 1930s British Union of Fascists leader Oswald Mosley.
Works from BBC’s 1990s political thriller House of Cards to classic film The Dambusters to John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy made the rankings.
House of Cards screenwriter Andrew Davies said that he had thought the list was “a joke” and emphasised that his show was a satire of the Right.
Historian and broadcaster Andrew Roberts told the Daily Mail: “This is truly extraordinary. This is the reading list of anyone who wants a civilised, liberal, cultured education.
“It includes some of the greatest works in the Western canon and in some cases – such as Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent – powerful critiques of terrorism. Burke, Huxley, Orwell and Tolkien were all anti-totalitarian writers.”
Meanwhile, noted author and Sun columnist Douglas Murray was shocked to discover that one of his own books had been flagged.
He wrote in The Spectator: “A number of books are singled out, the possession or reading of which could point to severe wrongthink and therefore potential radicalisation… It seems that RICU is so far off-track that it believes that books identifying the problem that it was itself set up to tackle are in fact a part of the problem.”
He called the report “pathetic” and called for “sackings by the score” over its unusual findings.
The list comes after a damning review into Prevent by William Shawcross.
Mr Shawcross found that the scheme applied a “double standard” to Islamist terror threats compared to far-right issues.
His report said that Prevent had highlighted material that “fall well short of the extremism threshold altogether”.
It added that the programme had prioritised right-wing terrorism over its Islamist counterpart.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman slammed the scheme for having “defined right-wing extremism too broadly” in a way that included the “respectable Right and the centre-Right”.
A spokesperson for the Home Office said: “The Home Secretary made clear that Prevent will now ensure it focuses on the key threat of Islamist terrorism, as well as remaining vigilant on emerging threats.
“We’ve accepted all 34 recommendations [from the Shawcross report] and are committed to protecting our country from the threat posed by terrorism.”
Keychange sets out Pledge Action Plan encouraging “urgent and sustainable” change to achieve gender equality in the music industry
The Galaxy S23 series is off to an encouraging start
Omicron Boosters: More Encouraging Data Emerges Around the Same Time as a New Variant – CNET
Twitter Suspends Account Encouraging Others to Join Mastodon – CNET
Overwatch 2 changes to ranked is encouraging players to stop playing
A change to how competitive play works in Overwatch 2 has left some players planning to stop playing until the season ends.
With the release of Overwatch 2, there have obviously been a range of changes implemented in the game. Loot boxes are gone, the battle pass is in, for example. There have been changes to competitive too, but one change obviously wasn’t clear for some players. Season 2 recently kicked off, and players have found that they aren’t receiving the level of rewards they expected to in ranked, as it turns out that rewards are based on the rank a player is at the end of a season now (thanks, PCGamesN).
Previously, at the end of a season, Overwatch players would receive rewards based on the highest rank they achieved, no matter what rank they were by the end of it. As a result, some players have decided they’re just going to stop playing ranked until the season ends, as discussed on the game’s subreddit. A number of players made the point that they just worked towards a certain rank, and left it there. Others even made the point that that’s what they will do now they know that’s how it works.