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The strength of life to face oneself has been made manifest. The persona Carighan has appeared.

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IMO, the ex-DLC developers Deck Nine (who are doing this) do a far better job with LiS True Colors evoking the feelings and moods of LiS1 than the actual devs did with LiS2 or Tell Me Why.

So to me, this is maximum hype.

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This isn't Dontnod doing this, but Deck Nine (Dontnod no longer owns the rights to the LiS name). So after how well True Colors worked, no, I don't think it's that. Was my first thought too though. 😅

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Wow this looks bad.

Really, really, really bad.

I mean sure, maybe the game turns out fantastic, but after a trailer that was apparently done by the Forspoken team with some consulting by Marvel and Fortnite people, I have exactly 0 hope for this.

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And wow is it bad.

The thing can't even do basic things the Assistant did, and it replaces it if you let it. No smart control at all.

Sigh. Best look into Home Assistant, finally.

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Yeah but in this case that's where this should have started. 😅

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No. Im sorry, No. This has got to be The Onion. This is like the children's cartoon Bond Villain version of a scheme. This is beyond insane. Come on!

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What, you mean it was not, as the Internet was absolutely certain, to oust Bobby Kotick and revert OW2 to OW1? I am shocked! Shocked!

Carighan OP ,
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I mean considering the state of DbD, there can't be something getting hype and knocking it off the throne fast enough IMO.

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Bold of you to assume they're curating their training data.

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And of those 43, 42 are just multiple rats sharing a trenchcoat.

Fallout Series (Why don’t I like it?)

I think my first Bethesda game was Skyrim and I love Skyrim. I’ve played through Skyrim when it first came out I played through it again in the DLC came out. I played through it again on the switch I have since played through it again on PC. I love Skyrim. I played it so many times and I know it’s a meme to keep re-releasing...

Carighan ,
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I think my first Bethesda game was Skyrim

Side note, fuck am I old. 🥲 My first Bethesda games were Where's Waldo, Terminator and then a bit later Elder Scrolls: Arena. It was always sad to see how far the concept had actually fallen von the lofty heights of the Arena->Daggerfall jump and what it promised. Morrowind felt like a big reduction in scope but in return added a lot, so it felt okay. Then came Oblivion and that solidified the route that led to Skyrim and most post-Skyrim open world designs.

I think what you're feeling might just be... open-world realization? The fact that open games are naturally less engaging? The whole "Wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle"-thing?

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Damn I want that made now! 😮

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Weird but he is right, the visual overhaul is amazing and the game is fantastic, and one of the few scenarios where 30FPS doesn't truly make a difference - except for those timing attacks.

Personally I'd go a step further and say that during some animations, 30FPS looks... better? Paper-style is inherently low-fi, the low framerate somehow fits that visually. At least to my eye.

Carighan OP ,
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Especially because from what was said, the employees were told the sites will be bought "as is", so everyone gets to keep their jobs.

It's in situations such as these where C-suites being required to also apply to them what they apply to others would be nice:

  • CFO or CEO at IGN has to quit. Won't hurt them much, but eh.
  • CEO at Reedpop has to sell themselves (into slavery I suppose, plus it fits what they do to their workers).
Carighan OP ,
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Which sucks due to the innate near-inability of a Youtube video to carry an argument without a visual component well.

It's why podcasts can be decent for some topics, but youtube is just someone talking a podcast into the camera for 45 minutes, and all of it would be ~5 minutes reading a single paragraph at most if it were in written form but you really really realy got to chase those ad-impressions.

Non-textual forms for textual content have really been their own destructive blight on internet content. :'(

Carighan ,
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Eh, I thought it was perfect. I hate how modern Pokemon games have become quasi-MMORPGs, in staleness of core design, lack of combat depth and also their desire to have you spend every waking hour doing absolutely mindless rote activities.

This was nice. Strictly superior oldschool Pokemon clone with fantastically punny names, really cute characters and a nice runtime that's still longer than the old Pokemon games but not as bloated as modern ones.

Carighan ,
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America! Land of the free*!

*: Unless you meant freedom of religion. You better not! We'll sue/burn/shoot/jesus you if you do! Ultraconservative Christianity or death!

If you've done the Final Fantasy marathon did you include FF XI? Was it worth it?

I've been playing through all the numbered games and its been great. I could write an essay or two on any of them. In general I'm only including base games and no expansions or DLC so it wouldn't be a huge undertaking to beat 11, but I'm trying to see if it's worth it from others who have done the marathon....

Carighan ,
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No of course not. Plus XI nowadays is a bit tricky to play anyways, and with XIV, there's also no reason to for the average player.

Carighan ,
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I'll be honest compared to many of the main FF games like X, XIII or XVI, XIV's story from ARR->EW, especially once you're in the last segments of ShB and EW, easily outdoes them. It's slow as molasses since it has to fit a whole MMO with 2y release cycles into it, but it's also damn good.

Carighan ,
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TV never tells a lie, didn't you know? The whole planet was black&white before '55.

Carighan ,
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But what if it ain't a car but a Cybertruck?

Carighan ,
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Honestly if the POS that Tesla sells here counts as a truck, my bicycle does...

Carighan ,
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a layout designed to circumvent jamming typewriter

Or are you have... the stroke?!

Carighan ,
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Sure, and we've tried a lot of alternative layouts over the decades.

None of them stuck around, by and large. Some have ultra-niche followings, sure. But overall, the latin-script world has stuck to (Q|A)WERT(Y|Z). For a reason!

Carighan ,
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Why does this not work with a QWERTY layout?

Carighan ,
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a layout designed to circumvent jamming typewriter keys

BTW, the supposed origin of the QWERTY layout is uncertain, and the story about it being based around avoiding adjacent bigrams has been called into question often enough (PDF, see pg. 169ff). You can see there plenty images of typewriters that had O next to U still (I was left of U), which if you think about bigrams makes no sense as especially back then it was one of by far the most common ones.
The supposed slowdown is also false as explained in the PDF, as early typewriters were used to receive morse-code, and could type at 60-80 words per minute while the best morse senders capped at ~30, meaning that no slowdown would have been perceivable anyways.

One proposed origin could be that the early still-not-quite-there developments were based on most people using 4-8 fingers to type not all 10, and alwys the inner fingers and discarding the outer ones.

Carighan ,
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Why does it produce such extra load on a QWERTY keyboard?

Carighan ,
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What additional axis? Swiping is always done on a 2D board?

Carighan ,
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https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/15865-anime-memes

That has never once worked. Nowhere. Ever.

Carighan ,
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Link ot the actual source. No need to give someone regurgitating their content the ad impressions instead of the people doing the work.

Carighan ,
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I hate how this woman still gets attention. Sigh.

Carighan ,
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Hrm, I had similar issues on my Artillery X2 before.

Here's what I went through:

  • Replaced the nozzle
  • Replaced the thermistor
  • Replaced the heating block
  • Replaced the main PCB
  • Replaced the heatbreak

Finally, I gave up, and took out the thermistor again thinking maybe I broke it. There's a small PCB connected to it, that sits on the side of the hot end assembly. I contacted Artillery about a potentially faulty hot end PCB, they sent me a replacement. It did not help. Desperate, I also replaced the thermistor with the replacement one that was part of their repair kit. And that worked. I think the faulty PCB broke the first replacement thermistor or something...

Carighan ,
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Yeah this seems to be something people are missing. These tests sometimes prohibit all reviewing and commenting in their NDAs (including positive ones). It's a playtest, not a beta, review copy or pre-release.

Carighan ,
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I use Ubuntu because if we want any chance of proper mainstream usability of Linux, this distro is the best bet. And to help my family with it, I need it ready myself.

Carighan ,
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I love the petty envy Sony displays here. "Fuck! Microsoft is getting all the bad press attention! Quick! Do something!"

Carighan ,
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They did it a second time, so what is it now? Dependable incompetence?

Why does a state like California that has supermajorities in both houses of the legislature not have a livable wage, housing guarantees, universal healthcare, and other very progressive policies?

I keep being told it's because of the Republicans that we can't have nice things. So what gives in California? We should be overflowing with progressive policies.

Carighan ,
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Ignoring all direct political alignments, also keep in mind that such problems are never trivial.

If they were, sooner or later we would have long solved them, even with enough idiots willfully not wanting them.
But it's not easy. For example, California by and large cannot print money. And it's not like the things you mention are the only problems any modern society faces, especially on a multi-culture multi-urban multi-layer multi-level scale like the whole of California.

That is to say, if a bridge collapses, that's urgent to fix. More so, to people in the immediate area, than to work towards a living wage with a 10-15y plan on how to deeply and permanently change and transform the job market and job situation. But now some money needed for the latter went towards the former. And a host of things are "on fire" every single day. Could you still put down policy changes? Sure, but if you cannot at least start on putting them into action, there's no point. You'd just end up wording them in such a way that whoever comes after you could trivially ignore them, and you don't want that.

And then we get into issues that do not benefit from human mass survival, and in fact would often benefit from the lack of it, like climate change, ozone depletion and species extermination. Which also cost insane amounts of money to work on, and if we're being honest should take priority as they would automatically make all other considerations useless if we don't first focus everything onto such basic issues.

So in short, it's usually a combination of:

  • Lots of problems
  • All kinds of problems at the same time
  • Lots of needs-fixing-right-now problems
  • Lots of 105% prioty problems
  • Lack of resources to fix all of those above + then also add more to the pile.
Carighan ,
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Ah yeah, that's how Zimbabwe did it, too! 💡

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They hopefully dragged the CEOs of the companies that put up the pro-plastic ads through the streets before flogging them publicly?

Because if they didn't, they really should have. For bad taste. Taring&feathering could also work. Sends a clear message to not be a dick.

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I mean I bailed on gamescom even before that, given how badly the event was always organized.

Carighan ,
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It's just a rebrand, but I've used Thunderbird for so long and gotten so used to the icon aesthetics, it's awesome to see it come together finally.

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Had to think of this xkcd of course. 😅

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C-suite bonuses ain't gonna pay themselves, you know?!

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