Similarly, VLC names their releases after Discworld characters. It's a fun way to make major versions feel like more than just a number increment.
Similarly, VLC names their releases after Discworld characters. It's a fun way to make major versions feel like more than just a number increment.
Banks like to think that branch employees (bank tellers) are sales people. Most of them give 'goals' to each employee requiring them to open a certain number of new accounts, land a certain number of loans, etc each week/month. It isn't ethical since the only people you can really sell on those services are the ones who should least get them. Anyone who actually wants/needs the services will come to you.
Wells Fargo differed from the rest of the industry by setting completely impossible goals, not just unethical ones. This led to them developing a culture where signing people up for services they didn't agree to became commonplace.
People still sculpt. Go look up Bobby Fingers on YouTube to get an idea of what sculpting looks like.
There are a variety of clays. From what I hear, most sculptors use some form of air-dry, not firing clay like pottery would use.
Nobody ever sculpted in marble. You would sculpt in clay, make a plaster mold, fine-tune the design, then meticulously transfer it to marble.
The first game has a weird gameplay loop where you get to a city that is very similar to the previous one, have to do a some filler missions (often with no story at all) to unlock the story mission, then do the story mission and move on.
2-Syndicate are much more continuously story-driven. They all have quite a few collectables, but they aren't important to experiencing the game.
The 2 family is mostly set inside cities, while 3 and after have more world around the cities. They also lose some focus on stealth over time, though it still exists in all of them.
Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla become much more RPG-lite, combat focused, and require you to do quite a bit to keep up with enemy level scaling.
Looping back to the root of your question, the 2 family is often seen as the peak of the core series, with 4 (Black Flag) being up with it but different.
The only downside of the 2 family is that there isn't much evolution between the three games to make moving to the next game feel like a jump to a new game, but progression is lost each time. It feels like one massive game with weird break points.
The lack of pressure leads to absurd file sizes for silly things.
A few weeks ago, I needed a vector company logo, so I asked our graphics team for one. The file they sent me was 6MB. While working with it, I noticed it was actually quite clean, so I exported it as an SVG and it came out to 2KB. 1/3000th the size for the exact same graphic.
I opened their file up in a text editor and found font configs for specific printer models (in a graphic with only filled curves), conditional logic, multiple thumbnails, and other junk.
My wife and I had the same opinion. Magical to run around the castle for a few hours and do the early classes, surprisingly good combat mechanics, but then... Nothing.
It is really hurt by the inclusion of brooms. They necessitate a huge world so you can't cross it in a minute, but then it's too spread out and empty. At least in Ghost Recon my world-design-crippling flying devices have rockets and gattling guns.
They are trans.
It wasn't. 5 said the text means the opposite of what it says. Four said enforcing it is up to the federal courts, not state courts. Two wildly different opinions with the only thing in common being overturning the state ruling.
Factorio is the best manufacturing/logistics sim by a huge margin. Some of that is technical things, but the biggest contributor is game balance and the complexity curve. They spent years iterating to find a sweet spot.
They are facing a genuine supply issue. A different company made a sudden move because they wanted to maximize profits.
Tyson, one of the main chicken processors, killed their no-antibiotics program at the end of 2023. They moved from claiming meat came from chickens that had had no antibiotics used (NAE) to claiming no human-relevant antibiotics had been used (NAIHM).
The rest of the market can't meet the demand for NAE, at least not in the short term.
They come freshly certified. The operator is then responsible for regular checks at a variety of intensities as the aircraft ages.
The incident aircraft was delivered three months ago.
The regulatory agency is pretty large, but it's headed by a 5-member commission.
Flathead is a description of the head profile, like panhead. Slotted is the screwdriver type that is just a single slot.
Have you ever heard big cats? They sound like little cats but... deeper. I feel like dinosaurs would sound like birds with similar deepening, depending on the size of the dino.
There are various methods, but from a practical standpoint it is gone regardless.
Not sure about VBA, but Excel formulas are actually saved in English and translated on file load. It doesn't translate strings though, so EVALUATE only works for users with the same language as the author.
Lingo. It tickles my brain in wonderful ways. I'm currently working through the custom level Liduongo, sequel to an earlier map named Duolingo, and I continue to be surprised, delighted, and utterly perplexed.
It's a rules-based puzzler that doesn't tell you the rules buried in a confusing labyrinth. The only downside is that it requires a strong grasp of English, limiting its audience.
There are a couple of decent reasons. One is that your servers may be a network of services that can't operate independently. Another is that they may rely on things you don't have a license to distribute.
It gets thrown around a lot as a buzzword, but it really just means "intended to get post-release updates that go beyond bug fixes." Nearly every game released these days, good or not, classifies as GaaS. It's functionally meaningless.
This is what I've found too. Tutorials help to learn tools and some basic techniques, but actual learning requires doing. That's easy if you have something you want to do, but incredibly difficult if you don't.
Check out the demo if you have a chance. The game is a lot of fun and it has some pretty funny demo-exclusive writing.
Windows has OpenRA, which is a modern open-source engine that runs Dune II, C&C, and RA. It also has WIP support for TibSun and RA2, though they can't distribute the content for those as easily.
NMS and Starbound struggle from the same issues. Infinite tiered worlds end up feeling the same, but also remove all meaning from the exploration. In Minecraft or Terraria you aren't going to be flying to a totally new place in five minutes, so you want to get to know your surroundings and put down some roots.
Travel time and not having tiered world progression makes the player care about where they are at instead of seeing it as a stepping stone.
They specifically used it to make major players blatantly cheat during a tournament so that it would be taken seriously and fixed quickly.
Hamas kidnapped three people. Israel raided. Hamas shot rockets. Israel bombed.
Indiscriminate killing as usual.
Babylon Bee promptly started posting 'satire' pieces about Clinton whining about Russian interference the moment the news dropped. The right's response appears to be to connect this to the prior cases, which they already got people to believe a false narrative about.
It was the subtitles font in Avatar. It had to be read quickly on changing backgrounds.
No. She went to jail for lying to the feds.
Her financial manager was suspected of insider trading. The FBI questioned her about it and she lied to them in an attempt to protect him.
His ultranationalist coalition partners have threatened to bring down his government if he ends the war without destroying Hamas.
His government is coming down then. You can't destroy an insurgency through non-social means.
Warhammer or Gears of War?
I can only think of one TPS currently released (another on the way) in the Warhammer series. It's more known for strategy and tactics games.
10% of actual campaign donations have been passed to the PAC being used almost exclusively for legal bills. This is campaign money.
I was in a record store a few months ago, saw a copy of Switched on Bach, thought it would be interesting, and picked it up. Blew me away. Then I googled it, learned the story and how groundbreaking it was.
Now I've got a few albums of hers from that era. Great stuff.
Also, the headline is completely wrong. The source claimed that a Spirit warranty team opted to go for a physically-impossible action and Boeing didn't stop them.
Petroglyph had Grey Goo and the 8-Bit family, but those are decently old now. They've been pretty much the only game in town for quite a while, sadly.
I've been playing Gamedle recently. I tend to discover interesting games both as answers and while researching the info I have.
Why would someone feel the need to leak classified info on the Warframe forums? It's far-future scifi.
I think you are confusing it with War Thunder.
Yeah, I got most of the way through DoS2 and gave up. Every fight was a giant mess of surfaces. Reducing that makes BG3 far more enjoyable.
Friendly reminder that the investigation was into a real estate deal, not a blow job. That was a bonus when they got nothing in the real investigation.
Probably. She was not found guilty of lying about her reason for selling the stock in question, though she was found guilty of obstruction and other lies, along with conspiracy.
She was never charged with insider trading, so if she hadn't lied, she would likely have been fine.
Interestingly, they also charged her with securities fraud. They argued that, as the face of a publicly traded company, covering up a crime was market manipulation even if it had nothing to do with that company. The judge dismissed that charge.
Expanse does too, though it isn't common in that world.