It's an LG Dual Up (you can find the info in some earlier posts)

https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-28mq780-b-dualup-monitor

Im having trouble zooming on the image but I'm pretty sure benq has the only 3:2 desktop display on the market that isn't a graphics tablet.

You should also look at the LG Dualup if this kinda thing interests you.

https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/programming/rd280u.html

https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-28mq780-b-dualup-monitor

I think that's the limit of procedural generation. What you're asking for probably requires gen-AI or similar.

Have you played somewhat recently? They've had a few expeditions that addressed variety in planets.

They really turned it around. You should check it out.

But yeah, super crappy launch.

At least it didn't drive you to smoke crack like it did to of my friends. Though ironically he still plays to this day though a lot less than he used to.

I don't always seem to be able to stick to my values, but this time it was easy to just write them off and never look back.

I think maybe because there's just so many games being released every single day that this is a sufficiently competitive market. It's not like I'm deciding to never take the city bus again.

I'm curious who refused you the refund? I seem to recall it being refunded pretty steadily by everyone who sold it digitally. Maybe I am misremembering.

Still entirely fair to have been turned off by the experience. Plenty of developers or publishers I don't purchase from anymore due to similar shenanigans.

I think it's fair to say they started off bad, but redeemed themselves.

In contrast Star Citizen is far more ambitious but shows 0 sign of ever actually landing.

NMS is still a great fun space game to play, the lore / back story of each faction is quite bleak though and the lack of good individual characters does leave it feeling more like exploration sandbox than a really compelling world you care about.

The days are long, the decades are fast. (Something like that)

I know, right? I got the same feeling for WoW’s 20th anniversary.

The OP is also the author, and writing on 'NMS Spot .com".

This is an article for fans, with an audience of fans. Explaining the basics would be unnecessary for the vast majority of readers.

Now, maybe posting to HN requires you address your new audience as well, but I'm just pointing out the above.

>I guess I will never try it, once you hit your 40s, games lose their appeal anyway.

you say this as if it is a law of nature, but into my 60s, i still quite enjoy relaxing with a good game. no mans sky is one of them!

Consider that it has a "Very Positive" review rating in Steam now.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/275850/No_Mans_Sky/

Its last major new content was released on May 27th of this year.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/275850/view/69538767...

A video from a gaming news channel on it... No Man's Sky Treated Players Right, Now It's Unstoppable https://youtu.be/jxxRXe1hRjQ

And the steam stats for it - https://steamdb.info/app/275850/charts/#6m

As I write this, there are 10,467 people playing it now. (The stats from 2017 where in the 1000 - 2000 players playing it).

Comparing it to Factorio (which is a great game) it has 19,103 players playing it now.

As a person on the far side of my 40s, No Man's Sky occasionally gets dusted off for some play.

The real killer is the inability to commit the time needed to actually get into something. Games that I used to bang through in 2-3 days now take 2-3 months, if I finish at all. It's all just a bunch of random pockets of 1-2 hours here and there, and you can't even really get into it because as soon as you do, it's time to stop and might be days before you come back.

It's probably more personal circumstances than age, and your priorities definitely shift as you get older. I'm not in my 40s yet (mid-30s) and my decisions around games I want to play has changed.

I get to play games maybe a few hours per week (mostly in the weekend), so the idea of starting a new Assassin's Creed and spending 80 hours (many months) on a singleplayer game is pretty unappealing. (TBH, I was never super into SP games, but the appeal now dropped to 0).

At the same time, I've been having a blast with "The Finals" since launch and it's pretty much the only game I play. Easy to pick up and play 1-2 rounds :)

No Man's Sky is great, but it does feel a bit too relaxed for the kind of experience I'm typically looking for in a game these days.

What kind of games did you play before and how do you enjoy spending your time now?

Not true. I just bought No Man's Sky on a Steam sale a few months ago and have been having a blast with it - only very occasionally neglecting my adult duties because of it.

Agreed. Except for Cracktorio, I mean Factorio

If you add civilizations and intelligence to procedural generation- you get really fast into foundation prime radiant territory- where you generalize from huts to radioactive ruins or substrate (matrices) - the rise and fall of civilization from first principles. To put that into deterministic math- is fascinating - but then to add the players input and have the fate diverge..

As in deterministic circumstances + a historic noise + a formula for civilizational fungi.

The issue with procedural generation isn’t how to do it, the issue is how to keep it from being boring.