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Final Fantasy 14 – (2013 game)

2023-01-04
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Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/

Yet another MMO, but Japanese and built on a huge franchise and the smouldering remains of an abysmal failure.

I don’t understand how this is popular. It has boring repetitive abilities, a confusing layout and a terrible map system.

  • Properly named Final Fantasy XIV
  • Technically I’m looking at Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
  • aka ファイナルファンタジーXIV: 新生エオルゼア

  • aka Fainaru Fantajī Fōtīn: Shinsei Eoruzea

    • Apparently that’s not a joke.

  • aka FF14, FFXIV


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Bloons TD 6

2022-12-29
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Entertainment > Games >
Tower Defense Games > Bloons >

(on Wikipedia)
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/bloons-td-6-bf95a0
https://ninjakiwi.com/Games/Mobile/Bloons-TD-6.html

A fair tower defence game that really does come across as a mobile game ported to desktop. I got it free from Epic, which is the only thing making me not completely trash this thing.

Fair, with flaws.

  • Supports ultrawide in so far as it paints a design outside of its normal widescreen aspect ratio.



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X-COM꞉ UFO Defense

2022-12-12
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Entertainment > Games >

(XCOM > on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/7760/XCOM_UFO_Defense/
was on microprose.com
was on mythosgames.com

Aliens drop by Earth and evil Humans shoot them down and mug them.

Nothing about the interface makes enough sense, and there are no hints as to how things work. It could have been made much better, even back in the day. I’m not going to forgive how bad it is, especially since there was zero effort by Steam to actually fix basic things like aspect ratio.

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macOS 10.15 (Catalina)

2022-11-22
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Software > Operating Systems, Operating environment > Apple, macOS >

(on Wikipedia)
was apple.com/macos/catalina

A version of the macOS operating system and environment for Apple desktop computers.

I keep a copy because it’s the last revision which officially supports my hardware.

  • Abandoned



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The Peripheral – (2022 show)

2022-11-04
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Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8291284/
https://www.primevideo.com/detail/The-Peripheral/0PE2SANXUROCEZ5W2FD7WGMM9R

A woman witnesses and participates in things she becomes a person of interest for.

Although not immediately spectacular, it gets good enough.

  • Inspired by The Peripheral – (2014 book), by William Gibson

  • Although it was picked up for another season, it was killed due to various strikes.



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