Somehow Windows has always been and is still crap at managing archives. Ultra-slow, has trouble opening or extracting individual files inside the archive, etc.
However, 7-zip has been doing all that perfectly forever now. Not sure why anyone would use WinRAR, paid for or not.
It's worse than tide pods somehow.
Tide pods was a challenge, a incredibly stupid and lethal one but one that was not presented as anything else than the stupidest dare ever.
This is apparently presented as a health tip (complete with the usual "detox" pseudoscience bullshit). Fuck these assholes.
Even if a game is protected against piracy on its PC version, the version released on Nintendo Switch can be emulated from day one and played on PC, therefore bypassing the strong protections offered on the PC version,”
Are there that many multi-platform games that have denuvo and a switch version too?
I'd think most games "big enough" for denuvo wouldn't have a switch port anyway.
I don't think anybody seriously used twitter as storage.
Rather the point is that, similarly to every time a blogging platform or another online service with user content shuts down, a bit of internet history disappears with it. Links are broken, traces of opinions or bits of knowledge from another time are not available anymore...
It's not the end of the world, and at that point I wouldn't really care if twitter disappeared completely overnight, but still, some stuff will be lost.
Funny that of all countries they could have used to launch that, 3 out of 4 are in the European Union.
They couldn't choose a better place if they wanted privacy protection regulations to kick in and start asking embarrassing questions to them.
Those cars cause a lot of shit apparently. Worst of all they are a liability around emergency vehicles. If this is a way of protesting that, I get it.
Oh, it's that guy. The "Semple vs Kapoor" stuff was funny.
Before I recognized who was doing "abode" I was going to say that name was just asking for trouble, but yeah, he knew what he was doing.
It is.
Sarah Z made a video where she gets into some of the darker parts of Replika's concept and evolution. It's a fairly stinky business model.
Are you sure they're not just decent dubs? Non English-speaking countries have been used to synced dubs forever.
This is why adapting (well) for dubs is way more complicated than just translating dialogues. You have to find an equivalent line that matches visible mouth movements.
It'd look better. Even with the struts out.
I suspect the guys blocking the road could have prevented it by staying there, but assumed it wasn't really their problem after all and kinda wanted to see this shit happen.
And I wouldn't blame them.
I am not sure how one gets that far into an analysis of RPGs, J or otherwise, without even once mentioning characters, stories or themes.
Those games have never really been about mechanics to me. Sure, since they're usually so long, they'd better try to keep things entertaining enough, but there's a lot more to them (good ones, anyway).
I honestly don't care much about the J, and even "RPG" seems so broad to me, because many, many games have blurred the line. Starting around end of the 90s when "RPG elements" became a thing. I don't think it matters much.
I think the worst game I've ever played regarding skill progression is Oblivion.
Honestly, that game's levelling is completely busted. Basically your class has a couple major and minor skills. You gain skill levels automatically by using them, and when you got enough levels in your class skills, you are supposed to rest and gain a character level.
Almost everything in Oblivion is levelled to match your character's level. Gaining a level only serves three purposes : gaining a very small amount of health, gaining a few points in two stats depending on which skills you've used ... And most of all spawning more, stronger enemies.
Lots of skills in Oblivion are not directly (or absolutely not at all) combat-related. Lots of default classes come with quite a few of them as major or minor skills. And those that don't come with several damage-related and several defence-related skills.
Progressing in non-combat skills, or in too many at once in a "master of none" fashion, will make your game impossible. "Playing well" requires knowing and exploiting this by blocking your level up until you've maxed the right skill. Or even having some of your favourite skills not class skills at all.
This is really not my idea of fun character progression.
That site probably : "Hey kids, did you know that steroids make you better at RingFit Adventures too?"
If you want a game that uses movie clips and proceeds to butcher the original movie plot and atmosphere, try the old Fifth Element game. It's amazing, they took bits of the movie and used them to make a weird new cut that completely changes character motivations, adds huge plot holes and mess with the order of events.
For example : the game starts as Korben (at that point just a taxi driver) saves the lab where Leeloo is being revived (also random mutants freeing themselves from capsules).
In turn, Leeloo then saves Korben that's been arrested by the police (you know that "meat popsicle" bit? They've recut it so it looks like Korben got arrested).
Leeloo then spends about half the game in her strap suit from the lab, instead of like 3 minutes. Just because they took the iconic plunge into Korben's taxi scene to use it way later, in a random subplot they added, and she needed to be dressed like that because that's how she is in the movie clip.
Which also means that in the game's plot, her falling right on Korben's taxi was somehow intended, and not how they met.
Many other examples of scenes that were reinterpreted like that to create new subplots, like that one time Zorg blows up a phone booth to kill an incompetent henchman becomes a terrorist attack on the spaceport with a dozen of exploding booths.
Yeah. I swear, Musk has a superpower that makes people dumber.
It is just glued on it. It's just on the label, not implanted inside the cheese wheel. The "you could be eating microchips!!!" part of the article is pure clickbait.
All they say is they'd be safe to eat if for some reason it ended up in the cheese. Like the rest of the label I guess.
I guess the alternative could have been " let this Munna feed on your dreams" but it might have been too creepy for most.
Persona is technically a spin-off series, the main series is Megami Tensei (often called megaten for short) and is sort of a shared universe for a lot of games.
Shin Megami Tensei, Devil Survivor, Devil Summoner, Catherine (sort of), Tokyo Mirage Session (very loosely connected) are some of them.
They're all urban fantasy, mostly set in Tokyo. Protagonists are almost always a group of Tokyo students caught in a sudden demon invasion. Demon in this context is actually any kind of supernatural beings people can believe in, including actual demons from hell, gods from all mythologies, folklore creatures, angels, urban legends, ghosts, legendary beasts and heroes, whatever.
Another main concept of that series is the Demon Summoning Program, a way for humans to contract and summon demons to their side using a computer or a handheld device of sorts. So there is generally a creature collecting element to those, like a dark and violent Pokémon that actually predates Pokémon. Rather original, lots of these games let you negotiate with enemy encounters to try to recruit them.
Count me in the people who had no idea windows had a command line package manager-style tool.
Does it look for its stuff in the windows store?
You've unlocked some deeply buried memory there.
I remember I used that not so much to "accelerate" downloads but mostly because it let me download stuff in multiple sessions, instead of trying to do it in my browser and lose everything because of a lost connection.
Hours to download a few MB, interesting times.
Not to take away from this beautiful piece of art, but it's a take on "reddit silver", an equally silly pic of a MSPaint coin that's used on reddit as a tongue-in-cheek (and free) alternative for reddit gold awards.
Beyond the simple reason "don't have money for that right now", it became especially popular since lots of people wanted to show appreciation for posts without supporting reddit's model.
I know it's not the most experimental thing they do, but I'm still grateful for the simple SNES-shaped controllers with just the added analog sticks and triggers. This form factor is still one of my favorites. Button placement is perfect, plus they're light and compact.
10 micron tolerance is rather impressive for a mashed potato sculpture.
I'm sure he did pretend it was, though.
One thing I love about Dead Cells is how every level feels different. There is always some unique gimmick or special features or a very specific level structure etc...
The DLC levels are no exception, and just for that I'd say they're worth it.
Heh, good point.
Unless you got tricked into getting the terrible switch version. Utter crap, I definitely regret backing the game. They had the gall to tell us the game would work on Wii U and Vita back then. In the end it was almost unplayable on the Switch.
I got a PC version long after that (only because it was cheap), and yeah, that one is good.
Yeah, floppy without the case was my immediate guess too. Not sure why they would have been stored this way though. It's a bit weird.
If you start eating packaging like stickers glued to the rind of cheese, I think you can legally be considered a kind of human-goat hybrid.
There was a mess around green man gaming, which is supposed to be a legit key seller and is in that list.
Around Witcher 3 release they started selling keys for it, however CDPR warned that they were not official partners and as such those keys were grey market. They told people not to buy from there.
Turns out CDPR had selected only a few stores to supplying them with keys officially (which is their right, obviously) and gmg wasn't one.
Gmg made a rather... unconvincing answer in which they said all they wanted was to provide "Gamers" with the games they wanted and were disappointed with CDPR not letting them. They said they got their keys from legit stores themselves, but it cast a serious doubt about how reliable they were.
Doing the hermit's cooking tutorial fully actually makes that Great Plateau mountain even easier, because not only you'd learn how cooking works but he'd also give you the warm doublet right away.
Most of the mountain (all? except maybe a small area around the summit) is only level 1-cold, so the doublet is enough even without cooking.
No Man's Sky's UI is almost entirely through cursors, drag and drop etc.
Even choosing between a couple dialog options used to require moving a pointer over buttons but they finally fixed that at some point. Now with a controller you can just select the answers right away.
...mullets? Do they fear cultural imperialism by time travellers from the 80s?
Skills and spells that outright don't work and unreadable maps from hell ?
Just joking, I know how impressive Daggerfall was, but wow did it feature some of the trademark Bethesda jank already.
Not really according to what I read. He had filmed quite a bit of his scenes, so they used what they had, with only a bit of editing. Mostly they rewrote parts of the script to account for missing scenes.
Most notably they made his final dialogue as a letter so that another character could read it.
Honest question, why would you want a medical LLM anyway? Other kinds of AI, sure, like diagnosis help through pattern learning on medical imaging, etc, that I can understand.
How is a language based approach that completely abstracts away actual knowledge, and just tries to sound "good enough" any kind of useful in a medical workflow?
"Please complete the next 200 captchas so we can have a reasonably accurate estimate of your success rate"
That doesn't sit right with me. It sounds to me, in that moment, like they're implying that people from other cultures could be less moral, and that we should be willing to be more free with our weapons towards such people.
This is, unfortunately, how many, many very religious people think. And it's not only insulting for everyone not following their beliefs, but also terrifying in my opinion.
People who believe their god is the only thing that makes them moral aren't really moral. Because then they never consider why it's important to, you know, not be an asshole. It's just compliance.
And the terrifying part is that since their only frame of reference regarding what "good" is would be whatever their religion dictates, it's always on the verge of breaking completely. You just need to listen to the wrong interpretation at the wrong moment in your life.
Oh yeah, acrobatics and athletics, the two skills that go up every time you jump and run. Good ways to fuck your progression both.
Also the social skills, Mercantile and Speechcraft.
There only needs to be a couple people knowing how to get a rip for it to end up everywhere.
If physical releases start disappearing everywhere, I can see piracy getting a significant boost. It will be the only way to "own" a movie and be sure you can still watch it whenever you want. Disney has been removing content from its service already, even some recent stuff.
I know Gabe Newell's old quote is being parroted a lot but it's relevant : "Piracy is not a pricing issue, it's a service issue". Steam may be a digital market, but it doesn't require a continued paid subscription to access stuff you've paid for, and it doesn't delist games whenever it feels like it.