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alternatetwo
2y ago
I feel anxiety when watching videos with the thumbnails for other videos visible below. Also, I was unable to find the description of videos for waaay too long. Absolutely horrible.
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3y ago
And the BfV was involved in funding and covering up a right extremist murder spree. Nothing to see here. And they kept shredding files pertaining to this. Nothing to see here.
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3y ago
That would be far too on the nose, so they decided to do it a few kilometres to the west.
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3y ago
Most movies and fiction TV are shot at 24fps. Reality, news etc are shot at 30fps.
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3y ago
You could embed names, function argument names and locals in an executable as well on Windows until ... probably VS2003 or so. Here's the documentation for it in VS 6.0: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-v
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3y ago
Currently playing SOMA, where this is also an issue. People that got scanned commit suicide for "continuity" reasons, you repeatedly start up a specific mind to extract information out of it - and that version is a copy ... haven&
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3y ago
I can't even put into words how ridiculous this is. Rockstar truly is a shell of its former self.
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3y ago
> Open source vulnerabilities typically stem from poorly written code that leave gaps, which attackers can use to carryout malicious activities. And closed source code never had any "gaps" whatsoever, eh.
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3y ago
Specifically, shortly after re3 was done and got public attention - i.e. compiled to exe and no longer required the original gta3.exe.
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3y ago
Back when the name OpenRW was coined, there was a much more widespread belief that RenderWare was the engine GTA3 runs on. At some point people realised that's nonsense, GTA3 doesn't have an engine (all code was written specific
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3y ago
They also made their own engine for the other games you mentioned. RW is more of a rendering layer than anything else, it has no gameplay logic, scripting, audio logic associated with it.
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3y ago
librw started long before re3.
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3y ago
Terraria has Biome Keys, and you can create auto farms to get them ... so, close enough?
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3y ago
Or just download a few modern games. No torrents here, absolutely none.
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3y ago
I'm German and I've known of it 10 years ago ... and 10 years ago it looked like a site from 20 years ago. I didn't know it still existed either.
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3y ago
Hulk from the same studio leaked too back then. Even had some PS2 sdk versions in it.
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3y ago
gfycat had/has videos, not gifs.
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3y ago
"The Long Earth" series by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter plays with this scenario, by giving humanity access to essentially limitless parallel worlds mostly untouched by humans. You can "step" into a parellel world,
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3y ago
I am just blind. They were linked in that post all along: http://aoe.heavengames.com/aoegallery/?occur=1&lang=en&cover...
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3y ago
And even more interesting, before Age of Empires was Age of Empires, but was called "Tribe", there used to be a space age version developed alongside called "Stratos". Here are some demo/concept screenshots: http:&
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3y ago
Sony as a company should not even exist anymore, after they did this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk... How this didn't warrant a corporate death sentence and major prison time for ex
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3y ago
reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue is a good place to start.
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4y ago
You're a decade too late, there was a ppc port for MacOS back then ...
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4y ago
I was confused as well, because I just had chatted with someone about whether the aoe2 monk conversion ability on certain buildings was hardcoded or not (they can't convert i.e. Town Centers, Monasteries) ... turns out it at least used
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4y ago
Alt right is a progranda term by neo nazis for neo nazis, so they don't sound like actual neo nazis. Stop using the term alt right. Alt right means neo nazi. Nothing else.
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4y ago
Then there's "MongoDB", which is also slightly offensive in German, because Mongo refers to Mongoloid, a derogatory term for people with Downs syndrome.
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4y ago
My brother actually abandoned 50€ 10+ years ago because he refused to do that verification ... I wonder if he could actually get that money back in any way still ...
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4y ago
Age of Empires 2 also does this for units in a "unit group".
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4y ago
> There's some "interesting" naming conventions, one being prefixing member variables names with "value" -- there's even a "valueValue". Very little consistency in general in this regard, a reflect
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4y ago
The randomize button was added in UserPatch, which was the de-facto version people played (on Voobly) until DE2 came around, it just took that over from there.
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