Just in case BG3 didn't illustrate the downfall of Bioware vividly enough, they go ahead and do this.
Just in case BG3 didn't illustrate the downfall of Bioware vividly enough, they go ahead and do this.
Baldur's Gate 3 comes to mind. It was announced in 2002 and launched in 2023. They even had to cut all the content about black hounds.
They weren't normally on the same network, but were accidentally put on the same network during migration.
That is generally true, with exceptions like leaking someone else's private information.
But it implicates the adjacent "right to be forgotten" rather than narrowly defined "privacy". This could be a real legal issue in the EU.
For those not reading the story, which appears to be many, the company that services the implant went bankrupt. The implant was experimental. There exists no one to service it any longer. It will pose a health risk down the road without someone servicing it.
The story doesn't directly say that's why it had to be removed (and she talks about wanting to buy it). I found another source that explains that the device came with a three-year battery life.
More like Deadwolf at this point...
I mean, even the Skyrim disc for PC just ran a script to download it via Steam. This has been coming for a long time.
> > Why is the amount of DNA in plants so much lower than in animal tissue? Is this because plant cells are larger? (some plants like wheat have very large genomes, I wonder how that affects it too)
They are quoting the DNA concentration in g per kg of dry matter.
Plant cells have cell walls of cellulose, hemicellulose and pectin, which adds some dry weight that is absent in animals.
In addition, these seeds and tubers etc. we eat tend to be energy storage organs with a whole bunch of starch vs. not very much regular cell mass. It would be the same way if you ground up bone tissue and measured the DNA concentration.
Are cells lining the intestine replaced frequently? and which population of stem cells do they come from?
Yes, very frequently. There are stem cells in the crypts between villi of the duodenum, for example.
Stellaris is far from the worst offender, and yet you're still entirely right.
Given that there’s plenty of PCs out there with lower spec than the S
Not when it comes to memory. The Xbox SS only has 10GB combined system memory and VRAM. The PC version of BG3 requires 8GB system memory plus 4GB of VRAM, so the SS is a couple gigabytes short in total.
Going by the Steam hardware survey, 95% of PCs have at least 8GB of system memory, with 16GB being easily the most common amount. 80% have at least 4GB of VRAM, with 8GB being the most common amount.
They're a small company, they'll probably just go bankrupt.
Morrowind was the first of the ES series where they drastically reduced the area but invested more in the content in that area. It had a unique art style and location. It kept most of the complexity of the prior games in the series, while subsequent games heavily simplified things to cater to console gamers. There are a lot of babies that were thrown out with the bathwater after Morrowind. Of course the later games also added a lot of improvements, but I think for its time, Morrowind was a very good game. It depends on preferences, but I would consider it the best game of the ES series relative to when it was launched.
FWIW the Steam cut is lower for games that sell well. It's probably below 25% for BG3 overall.
While everyone has been talking about Baldur’s Gate 3, I decided to cave in and started a replay of Divinity: Original Sin 2. Well, yea, I got a ten years old PC and a Ps4!
I'm sure your PC could run Baldur's Gate 1 and 2... 😉
The tutorial in CK II is so bad
You can't just talk that way about Ireland.
Inherited from naval wargaming, where it came about because first rate ships of the line had better armor than second rate etc. so armor class scaled inversely. That meant THAC0 was the best way to figure out what you needed to roll to get a hit.
It's also not functionally that complicated (your THAC0 minus target AC), just weird and confusing if you try to understand why it works that way.
Bioware made BG1 and BG2 and other RPGs in a similar vein, but has more recently made games trying to appeal to the mass market and failed miserably (Mass Effect Andromeda and especially Anthem).
The BG name lay dormant for a couple decades until Larian acquired it and released the highly successful BG3. So they are beating Bioware at their own game.
It's 25km/h. There is also a 45km/h category with stricter regulation.
Windows has a simplified version of that built in.
Yeah, and they've also had more explicit efforts like America's Army. That being said, while it is propaganda, it's not quite as deceptive and pro-warcrimes as what Russia's putting out there.
It's not out on Xbox yet anyway. But it might be an idea for OP to say what platform(s) they play on.
The most hilarious example is that 80s video about snowboards... ah, here it is:
So it has three battery packs each the size of an iphone, yet the battery capacity is only twice that of an iphone? Seems pretty meh, and they lock you in with proprietary connectors.
Baldur's Gate 1 actually did have a tutorial in Candlekeep. Including temporarily giving you a full party to battle some critters in a basement.
You don’t need the biggest map ever to make a good game. You do, however, need the biggest map ever to make a good Elder Scrolls game.
No you don't. The evolution of the Elder Scrolls series proves that, as the map size has been massively reduced. The Skyrim map is extremely tiny compared to Daggerfall.
Compare the amount of protein that is in a flu shot (60 micrograms in Fluzone at most) to a typical mAb (~150 mg up to 1 g at most), you can see how much less the vaccine requires
And with mRNA you get extra amplification from each mRNA being translated multiple times. Then again an mRNA is a lot more massive than its protein product.
60 is standard, but there are a handful of companies trying to make 70 the standard.
A plain 6800 should be pretty decent for 1080p60, unless you absolutely must have ultra settings. There are guides on what graphics settings are worth the performance hit, if you follow them you can get nearly identical visuals with a nice bump in FPS.
But I agree as far as the 6750 and 6700 XT, they're already struggling a bit with Starfield, and it's not going to improve going forward.
That's a lot of shimmering. Could really use some AA, but performance is poor enough already.
I would contribute answers in the life sciences. Hope this can take off. :)
It likely is a bit overblown. Moreover, it's a very good point that it's a bad system when it only delineates what confidence there is that a compound can cause cancer, and not how strong the effect is. Lots of things are technically carcinogenic, but with the effect being so weak it's negligible. Technically we already know formaldehyde is a metabolite of aspartame, and that formaldehyde is carcinogenic, but the amounts involved mean it's going to be a very minor contributor to cancer risk.
I played around 20 hours of it at launch, and it was bad. Not just in all the hilariously broken things that were memed all over the place back then, but the fundamental concept of the game just didn't quite work.
I think all propaganda is equally bad. Putting certain ones on pedestals because “At least it isn’t XYZ” doesn’t jive with me, and it distracts from the real issue.
False equivalence and whataboutism is not helping anyone.
It's not sudden, it's been garbage for a while.
Yes, it dips slightly below 60 FPS. Of course it's up to OP if that's good enough.
Even as a consumer product it's not really possible to boil it down to objective measures. Just like clothing follows tastes and fashions that are inherently subjective, or books, movies and TV shows etc.
There's one point where you can deliberately make out with a brain-eating monster.
There's another where a strict and cruel god-like being demands you hand over something very important to them.
These situations honestly should lead to death if you push it.
I see you're getting downvoted, and I do have to agree that it's a pretty optimistic take. With traffic even a tenth what reddit gets, the costs would be significant.
Now it's true that eg. Wikipedia can handle massive server load on a donation model, but I think the utility from Wikipedia is more obvious and more amenable to attracting donations. I think it's a good idea to think about palatable monetization options early on, so we can avoid ending up in a situation where the experience has to suddenly get degraded by intrusive ads or whatever.
Plus AI companies can just scrape reddit without using the API. It's still a website after all.