Great collection. The N64 Turok games are an object of fascination for me because the same team went on to make Metroid Prime 1 which is my favourite game. You can see its DNA being established with the first person platforming and exploration.
I always thought the Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook was the book of fundamentals, will probably get the bundle just for the Kubernetes stuff though. Those BSD books are pretty useful too, in that world.
I wouldn’t see why not? Ur getting 22 books at the price of what one or two of them would have cost normally. Imo it’s a bargain and as someone who’s starting to work in cloud / open source within the next few months I’m defo happy to see this deal available! Have also had really good experiences with the books published by no starch press 🙌
It will depend on the books maybe someone already has read them can chime in. But I saw a post like this for golang, and everyone in the comments were saying the books were ai generated crap.
Nah I think it was a company called “Packt” that everyone in the thread was complaining about so hopefully this one is different. But for sure would love to hear from someone who has read them.
No Starch in general is excellent quality, they’re one of my main go-tos. I own several of the books in there and they’re high quality, easily worth more than the bundle for each book.
No Starch Press does not publish AI generated crap, with very few exceptions they’ve been very high quality (the one exception I can think of is Linux Basics for Hackers, which should have just been called Linux Basics, and had a better editor because it was full of technical errors, but everything else I’ve gotten from them has been stellar quality)
I read the How Linux Works one, it seemed pretty basic, maybe a bit too basic. Plus if you don’t practice the theory in them you’ll forget whatever you read. At least I did lol. All in all, pretty meh
I tried the command line one as well, but couldn’t get through it. Let’s be honest, do you really want to read 300 pages of commands? lol
If you want to learn anything about those topic in these books, practice. You can read all you want but it’s a waste of time if you don’t use it
A thread on the site which shall not be named convinced me that a majority of the books are recently published and with above average to highly scored on reviews, so I bought it.
Why the Linux Firewalls book hails from 2007 is a strange outlier.
I would agree that the IGN bundle is stronger in terms of quality, but all the games are repeats from previous monthlies. The strength of the November Choice (and choice in general) is that they are always games that haven’t been previously bundled (IIRC).
Outside of Arkham and Shadow of War, this bundle is hot garbage lmao. 100 years of WB legends and this is what they settle on
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I should have been clearer in my initial phrasing. The value for money of the bundle is awesome - even if all you care about is arkham and mordor. If you’re a fighting game enjoyer then you’re eating well.
It’s just a bit of a shocker that this bundle is the bundle that represents “100 years of WB heroes and legends”
It’s a bit more like “which WB games have been released somewhat recently that were somewhat well recieved” (which is totally fair for a bundle of this price, its the title I take issue with)
Two Mortal Kombat games, Injustice 2, Mad Max, Mordor games...that's a lot for $10-$15. It's a great deal if you only wanted two games in the bundle. They probably ought to have put Injustice 1 in there, but what can you do?
I should have been clearer in my initial phrasing. The value for money of the bundle is good - even if all you care about is arkham and mordor.
It’s just a bit of a shocker that this bundle is the bundle that represents “100 years of WB heroes and legends”
It’s a bit more like “which WB games have been released somewhat recently that were somewhat well recieved” (which is totally fair for a bundle of this price, its the title I take issue with)
Oh, I see. WB also refuses to make games that don't have to do with their movie properties, with few exceptions. And since they've entered the gaming industry, some of their other notable games have been live services like Infinite Crisis and Gotham City Imposters that have since shut down.
I’ve played everything in the bundle outside of Gotham Knights. I get it if you don’t like fighting games, but I had fun with every one of them (besides GK, as mentioned). They are all solid games, even Mad Max.
In other words… that’s just, like, your opinion, person.
I should have been clearer in my initial phrasing. The value for money of the bundle is good - even if all you care about is arkham and mordor.
It’s just a bit of a shocker that this bundle is the bundle that represents “100 years of WB heroes and legends”
It’s a bit more like “which WB games have been released somewhat recently that were somewhat well recieved” (which is totally fair for a bundle of this price, its the title I take issue with)
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