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that's a shame. i'm not going to force it on you if you don't enjoy the experience, but i will say that there are no mechanical progress gates at all in Outer Wilds, no intended order to do things in, and multiple interleaving threads to pull on. if you get stuck in one place, going to another may let you learn how to proceed. if it feels like you're missing something, you probably are, and going somewhere else may help you find it.

it's been my game of the year five years running, if that means anything. the dlc only cemented that position even more.

It's the 2022 expansion for Outer Wilds, which released in 2019. Just as much a masterpiece as the first entry. if you know nothing, you owe it to yourself to play them.

i was six years old when the first halloween event happened in this country. it was imported here in the nineties by a costume shop. it's an explicitly consumerist thing here and i do not understand why anyone here cares for it.

don't use balenaetcher, it's a terrible piece of software. use unetbootin or usbimager.

does Echoes of the Eye count?

well there are seven books in the series, and i think only books two through five have been made into films? anyway, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader only the two younger children return. in The Last Battle however, the eldest son is back but the eldest daughter is not.

neil gaiman wrote a short story about why.

honestly i think it's an age range thing.

minecraft server binaries are a prime example of a "dedicated server". tf2 is another. the alternative is a "listen server", where one player acts as server. note that the term's use in gaming has very little to do with the concept of a dedicated server in general use, aka a machine dedicated to running a service. in multiplayer games a dedicated server is just the name for a binary that contains no client.

anyway, the important distinction is whether the means for the game to continue existing is in the hands of the players or the company.

the common understanding of "dedicated server" is a server binary you can download and run yourself. a "private server" is usually still hosted on the company's hardware.

dedicated servers == player-hosted servers, usually

the wing commander series was famous for inflated development costs, freelancer was repeatedly delayed and eventually released like five years after it's announcement, and since then... he's been working on star citizen