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by aasasd 4y ago
> It's not the polish that was bad. Indeed, it would be weird if CDPR had trouble with Polish.
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by aasasd 4y ago
It seems that the patents aren't the only obstacle to ubiquitous Lightning: > Yes, it's hard to make floating paddle and sheet metal spring indents more robust than a solid metal puck, but it also comes with extra baggage that
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by aasasd 4y ago
Yes—the developer can simply move into a different line of business, that doesn't require having a mobile app.
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by aasasd 4y ago
> "JC Denton" is said to be a codename, and the player can create JC's true name and pick from a variety of preset appearances. Hmmm, I don't remember that either—and JC is also sort of a meme with his default appea
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by aasasd 4y ago
People are perpetually wondering why Goog keeps doing this, and the answer is because they can. > I really really need to make Google happy.
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by aasasd 4y ago
Fun fact: afaik many games, starting with Duke Nukem 3D, implement mirrors by just having the entire room built out behind the glass, with duplicates of the objects moving on that side. In DN, with some noclip trickery or something, one can
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by aasasd 4y ago
I wish someone calculated with some certainty how much the lifestyles in different countries would have to change if the world just had to drop production that emits excess gases. I bet that would show that there's no way people modify
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by aasasd 4y ago
There were official GTA 1-2 for Gameboy Color, so I'm not sure there was even much need for that effort. (There was also ‘Driver’ for GBC.)
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by aasasd 4y ago
No, but I'm planning to replay DE one of these days, and even if I use a mod for graphic enhancements, I'm gonna disable any and all gameplay modifications. IIRC Revision allows that. Perhaps changing the gameplay is more interest
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by aasasd 4y ago
The cutscene experience was funny if one happened to have both legs shot—so JC crawls around for hours, then stands up during a cutscene, and afterwards plops down again and proceeds to crawl to completion of the level.
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by aasasd 4y ago
I think the article means using Bash for scripting, while the reader could use anything they want interactively. That's what I do—I use zsh, but I don't script in zsh.
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by aasasd 4y ago
“It alters almost every aspect of Deus Ex, from the AI to the RPG systems.” Yeah, you know, sounds alright if you actually want to play a different game than Deus Ex.
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by aasasd 4y ago
I don't really understand how one has the nerve to ‘fix’ levels in a classic game. But at least, I vaguely remember reading that it might be possible to disable gameplay changes in ‘Revision’—haven't tried it myself yet, but I&#
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by aasasd 4y ago
The parent commenter means to say that for most of the game in Deus Ex, the player doesn't see the protagonist. (Can't remember if the cutscenes shown him from a third-person view.)
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by aasasd 4y ago
Sounds similar to the story of how Transport Tycoon and Rollercoaster Tycoon received patches, particularly thanks to them being made in Assembler from the start and thus easy-ish to modify. Though plenty of old favorite games in fact get f
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by aasasd 4y ago
Personally I'm longing for a slight variation on the default page, where I could freely arrange the shortcuts how I see fit—instead of having them in a 6×2 table (or 8×2, can't remember at the phone). It's like Windows vs Mac
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by aasasd 4y ago
I like me some widgets, but pretty much the only time I see the bare desktop is when the machine restarts. So instead I put some in the menu bar (Mac's ‘tray’), in the dock and in the bottom corners around the dock. I'm using open
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by aasasd 4y ago
I didn't even think about this at first, but—perhaps the parents' occupation is there because of the caste system? I heard that it's still around not just in India, but also in diasporas like the Silicon Valley.
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by aasasd 4y ago
> How does an attorney know whether you are incapacitated? You realize that the system to deal with this already exists? It's called the legal system, and it hooks into various specialized professions, including medical ones. As i
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by aasasd 4y ago
Eh, I was pumping out PHP+MySQL and a bit of Python until the early 2010s, when a) I went to work on a larger site where disparate specialized tech was used to optimize every part of it, and b) hipster explosion of devops happened.
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by aasasd 4y ago
My bet is on India or thereabouts.
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by aasasd 4y ago
Perhaps Blokada doesn't properly run the background service, with a persistent notification. The notification is necessary since around Android 9 or so—and while NetGuard's ‘vpn’ is indicated in the status bar, it also still has a
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by aasasd 4y ago
> I want to copy an image from a webpage into an email... And then the paste fails because the email client tries to download the image. Personally I haven't had this problem: just like the article says, the browser ‘copies’ image
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by aasasd 4y ago
I was lowkey thinking about approaches to a similar arrangement, and my conclusion is that the key to this is a lawyer/attorney, unless you want to make the trusted person a part of a convoluted cryptography scheme. Give the person an
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by aasasd 4y ago
I think in fact that the sequence can be changing, based on some secret and e.g. current time. Haven't had a chance to implement anything like that, though, and not sure if there's software that supports such an arrangement. It&#x
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by aasasd 4y ago
A kind of a tipping point for me was when one commenter called port-knocking ‘security through obscurity’. Sure, let's see attackers pick one of 65535^x combinations of ports, and meanwhile let's hear this smartass wax about how t
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by aasasd 4y ago
Meanwhile FF allows one to just disable those requests altogether for all sites until further notice.
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by aasasd 4y ago
> I suggest that you regularly open the NetGuard app and have it in the background so just incase Android OS puts it to sleep. Shouldn't happen since NetGuard works as a ‘vpn client’ to pass connections through the app—so afaik re
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by aasasd 4y ago
That's the not-young one. This year's Mick Schumacher is Michael's son. In fact, he's thirty years younger.
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by aasasd 4y ago
Eh, five drivers retired from that race, including both Ferraris—so Tsunoda was in fact third last, ahead only of young Schumacher and Latifi. I mean, it was an okay try, but regrettably it went nowhere.

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