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*Alien Resurrection. Alien Isolation is a recent title.

The two biggest complaints in the review seem pretty avoidable to me. The first is that they exploited a bug in combat and then were mad when that broke a quest.

Second is that they said that scaling was odd, with one computer (thickly entrenched 40k nerds are already mad with the use of the word computer instead of cogitator) in an area was an easy skill check to use and one in the adjacent area was difficult to use. That doesn't seem like a red flag to me, or at least, it doesn't seem like that in isolation.

So my take away is that some things will be mathematically harder than other things, and don't purposefully exploit bugs. I don't think this review has deterred me from buying.

Without spoilers, I will say it gave me two incorrect answers before I gave up. I think it's neat, but it didn't feel quite ready to me.

The Backpack Gambit paid off well!

Oh boy! The game we should have had at launch? I can't wait to get in my space ship, take off from a planet, fly to a new one, and land without being forced to fast travel.

Yeah, I was surprised to see Kongregate is still operational, much less had enough employees to announce layoffs.

Ooh I will be checking that out tonight. I could never get the whole package of "trap edge in kiosk mode for xcloud" working.

This is what my partner and I call a "state's right to what" problem. The centralized wealth says that centralizing wealth is good. Centralizing wealth is good for whom, Mr. Finance?

O fuk yah dude happy orktober! Nice build. It has a real 'ard Boyz vibe

The 3ds remake had MGS4 controls including third person shooting. I was surprised to see both crouch walking and first person "classic" aiming.

This is visually impressive but with what they're showing in gameplay, it doesn't look much like 4 or 5 like I think I expected? The aiming looks like it's the 2 and 3 style of stop, hold aim, move gun. That said, it also showed crouch walking which isn't in 3. I'm curious how similar or different it plays.

My big points to hit for a remake would be an improved camo and surgery system. The original game has you pressing start a lot. Like a lot. Having a quick menu for camo would be gigantic. Surgery right now is mostly, you're in a boss fight and got hit, now pause and see if you ran out of bandages yet.

I'm a practicing prosthetist in the US. Myoelectric hands are nothing really that new and even getting control over the hand by surgically dropping an emg directly into the muscle groups (though their diagram implies they did something different) isn't terribly groundbreaking. The FDA had that technology in animal testing right around the start of the pandemic, from what I remember talking to an engineer working on a project.

For me, the exciting part is the osseointegration through the forearm. Osseointegration has been going on since like the 90s, but for a long time it was only through the femur. The first reason is really that the West has way more lower limb than upper limb amputations which is a different story. The second reason is that the femur is a big bone with a lot of interior space for an implant to anchor.

Recently I've been seeing transtibial osseointegration surgeries being performed, which has been a pretty big deal. This is the first I've seen of it being done to a transradial.

I will definitely be reading more about this at work tomorrow.