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This sounds seminal to a thing I also wanted to make, with support for detailed VR crafting. I really enjoy the idea of having a generalist tradeskill sim where you have to make coal mounds and smelt ore. Or do woodworking. Or process flax, or wool; modeling every actual step of the process.
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Wait. Hang on. Why the fuck do they let you adjust the oil upward at all? Who is the person thinking "What my breakfast sandwich is really missing is a pool of flavorless canola oil"?
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The site was always of dubious use, but now it's just bots auto-replying to other bots. When a human does break into the feed, they all have the words "AI" or "Agentic" in their bylines because they all want you to fund their new AI startup that solves previous-solved problems for more money.
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(2/2) This feels like a fundamental problem with any open system. On the one hand, ethical developers can use the API to make better and more useful products. On the other, it's easy to abuse and turn it into a spam cannon. Bots are hardly new, but this feels like a problem that will only get worse.
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THE SEA PEOPLE DID IT
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When I first read this I thought the "click" was Taylor making a suddenly realization about herself.
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Literally been replaying those this week.
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The more time goes on, the more you start to relate to him.
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Seconded. The tap region issue specifically makes me think it was never actually tested on a device. Someone booted up Android Studio or xCode and used the emulator for testing, saw that it technically worked, and shipped it.
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Yeah I also don't know if EA has ever sold an IP at all. They're still sitting on franchises from the 80s and 90s. Ultima being the one that most case to mind in this circumstance. Feels like their SOP is just to vault everything incase they want it 30 years later.
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(2/2) The biggest leap (IMO) was 6 to 7. So the first 6 could, mechanically, be unified around the level of U6. At that point, each entry could be mainly differentiated by plot and content, and not so much underlying mechanics. Special cases are easy enough to handle then, since there's no rework.
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(1/2) Not to keep going back to the FF Pixel Remasters, but they really benefitted from all using the same engine and UI, and being sold as packs. They rapidly built 6 remasters while only needing minor adjustments for specific mechanics. I could see the same solution working for Ultima 1 to 6.
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I am at least 80% sure _a_ Mike was involved.
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Otherwise they're exactly the same game underneath, they've just been sanded and polished to be less tedious and actually run without a emulator.
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I generally liked the way the final fantasy pixel remasters handled things. Slight style changes to scale better on modern displays, and some optional mechanical adjustmentd to reduce grinding. They're authentic without making you farm Gil or deal with endless random battles, unless you want to.
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Do you think games "lost something" as technology restrictions became increasingly less important? I am thinking specifically about all the kinds of deviously clever hacks in the 80s and early 90s, and when people were working with limited color channels or incredibly tight memory limits.
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The silver lining is that all the federated platforms are slowly getting more interest. Pixelfed was basically unheard of, but the recent anti-meta sentiment means it suddenly started charting on the Play and App store. Now if we could just get dedicated forums back instead of reddit.
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I checked after this started going around the social medias, and was pretty pleased to see that meta had only managed to connect me to a couple phone apps. Guess all my tracking blockers are effective because all they knew was that I am job hunting and I looked at eyeglasses a couple of months ago.
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I blame children. Specifically, me 25 years ago. When you're young and can only afford 2 games per year, you want as many hours as humanly possible per game. "Length" is a critical metric when you have time, but no money. Then everything flips, and you want games to value what little time you have.
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1000%. This would not be a hardware problem at this point. All the intensive ops have already taken place; the dimensional data is already computed. One more if or switch statement to select a train .obj when entities of a particular H:W:L ratio is found would be trivial computationally.
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I imagine the absolutely monstrous marketing budgets don't help either. I am convinced at this point that 80% of all marketing is a placebo effect, and that upper management is just burning huge piles of money because of groupthink that says legacy marketing models are the key to success.
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2/2. So now they're just desperate to keep _anyone_ around at all. If the normal users all refuse to stay around, then they're perfectly happy to cater to whomever will stick around, which just happens to be the far right, since they're pointed _not_ allowed on the popular sites. Yay, capitalism.
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I am fairly sure they don't actually care about the specific views. All the companies that have gone this way have only down so after they started losing an audience. Twitter bled millions of users. Facebook/Insta has been irrelevant to the youth for years. They lost all their old users... 1/2
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Indeed. I went to a uni that forced me to take management courses, and this is a common generalized org structure. You'd call this a "functional structure" academically, though software companies obviously employ it on a per-product level, instead of company-wide, if they have >1 one product.
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As someone who worked close to a decade in retail, that number is 2. And If they want to split their transactions so they can try and use more than 2, then I, speaking on behalf of all cashiers planet wide, grant you our collective blessing.
We saw nothing.
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Sure, but there's also (midwestern) Americans like myself who use their microwave one time every three months, and would much rather just have the extra counter or shelf space then a massive appliance that does a worse job then any of the purpose-built devices, like a kettle. So I'm with the euros.
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As programmers, absolute madness is our native language.
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Since everyone is recommending password managers, I'll throw in Proton Pass, which I started using since it came with my Proton Business sub.
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I guarantee this studio will be in-office only, in crunch mode from day one, be nothing but white conservative dudes who think games got "too woke", and they're going to try and shove crypto and NFTs into everything.
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IDK man, even speaking as a software engineering grad that needs work and has loans to pay, I have refused to apply to any of the openings at his companies. He is a notoriously terrible person to work for, and I would rather just keep suffering in retail than deal with his bullshit personally.
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I have so many questions about the exact series of events that led multiple people to make those lists.
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Shale was/is honestly my favorite character in the entire franchise, and absolutely the one I relate most to mood/vibe wise. I cannot imagine DA:O without her at this point.
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I read some comment recently that anyone who works in infosec wants eveything analog, and anyone that works in analog wants eveything digital, becasue they both know how terrible their own devices are. Therefor, I just go with whatever I find most convenient for me personally *shrug*
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Whole house fan. We called it an attic fan because it was in the central hallway and exhausted into the otherwise inaccessible/unused attic space. It was ridiculously effective.
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I mostly agree with this, but in the 20+ places I have lived, only one of them had an "attic fan". Plus, they only really function for houses anyway, whereas forced air cooling systems already have a big fan outside that is attached to the ductwork. I do really miss that fan, though.
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I bought a two-way window fan because of this problem. In the summer it's helpful to be able to try and force some of the hot air out of the room, and in the winter it's nice being able to suck the cold air in. It is not ideal, but it's semi-functional.
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I've rationalized the lack of carry forward, and I would suspect the team did as well, by the fact that it's set in different regions with pretty limited overlap, plus more time passing. To me, it just makes sense that Kieran is not really any of Rook's concern, so there's no need for them to know.