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by stonith 5y ago
I'm well aware of the lawsuit. It went nowhere. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/27/17509114/pubg-fortnite-la...
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by stonith 5y ago
> look at what happened to PUBG when they used Epic's engine They made a lot of money. > it only buys popular software, because it's goal is getting more people locked into it's walled garden Epic store. The rev stream
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by stonith 5y ago
This sounds like my experience as an Australian. I'm not really sure where else I'd go, though.
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by stonith 5y ago
Decided not to purchase Pfizer doses, choosing not to even meet with Pfizer, and instead relying on AZ which was then found to be higher risk. Decided not to build dedicated quarantine facilities, instead relying on hotel quarantine. There
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by stonith 5y ago
I don't see it mentioned here but the other limiting factor in Brood War is the pathfinding AI doesn't use modern techniques like flocking, so moving 100 zealots in the same direction is actually a lot of work if there are any obs
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by stonith 5y ago
I'm in the same boat. The UE dev workflow is the first issue, but there's also the surrounding ecosystem for me like the Epic launcher, Substance, Bridge, Mixer and Affinity that I don't want to have to replace and also don&#
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by stonith 5y ago
Excellent news! Now every Australian that visits youtube isn't recommended and suggested hateful rhetoric that contributes to right wing extremism.
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by stonith 5y ago
I have loose ligaments from ACL/MCL reconstructions and lasting cartilege damage along with poor flexiblity. After about 15 years of bouncing around surgeons and physios I finally got referred to a physio that knew what they were doing
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by stonith 5y ago
> Why would non techie people be building their own computers instead of buying from an OEM? Because they play games and the OEMs mostly sell overpriced crap in that market segment.
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by stonith 6y ago
> It’s basically like saying the state of New York could have been able to drive COVID down to zero while other states had it exploding. This is exactly what Western Australia did. The Australian response was not nationally coordinated a
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by stonith 6y ago
From the steam page: "Explore procedurally generated hallways, rooms and biomes!" "Gain Levels to improve your Attributes and Skills!" "Collect components and craft new items to improve your chances of survival!&quo
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by stonith 6y ago
If the team is less engaged then that will show up in all of those metrics over time, and losing a sense of community seems like it would trigger that for some team members.
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by stonith 6y ago
That doesn't meet any definition of gambling I'm aware of. It's equivalent to having a daily sale on a set of products.
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by stonith 6y ago
> Epic wants to sell digital gambling (loot) boxes to children Fortnite hasn't had loot boxes like this for about 18 months. The contents of the box are visible and change each day. https://arstechnica.com/gaming&#x2
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by stonith 6y ago
You could kind of do this using ansible-runner to dynamically generate a playbook that does what you want.
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by stonith 7y ago
>letting underbrush accumulate increases chances of severe events by 400% YoY It's interesting you use this example because this has been covered by the RFS - the period during which hazard reduction burns can be safely done to clea
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by stonith 7y ago
This is a very US-centric view. In a lot of countries the content wasn't available, or was delayed significantly making torrent the only real option for seeing a show as it comes out. When social media is covered in spoilers waiting mo
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by stonith 7y ago
It's online via mygov these days. took a couple of steps back initially since it was missing functionality but I think it's mostly there now.
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by stonith 7y ago
Australia has one on Nauru despite repeated condemnation from various international bodies.
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by stonith 7y ago
> I never found the buses to Randwick to be _that_ terrible, but I never rode them in peak hour on a daily basis. It's very difficult to get a bus towards the city in the south east if you live closer to the city than UNSW - there&
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by stonith 7y ago
> Come to think of it, Blender has a very nonintuitive UI as well. Holy moly, yikes. They've redone it in the latest version (2.8) and fixed some of the oddities. Probably the most obvious example being left click selects instead of
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by stonith 8y ago
Sorry to focus on a single point from a longer post, but... > There is nothing like Unreal Tournament or Quake anymore. Games with interesting movement mechanics. Both Paladins and Overwatch have characters with interesting movement, to
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by stonith 8y ago
> If the ALP had blocked the bill it would be political suicide for them. They opposed the bill over the weekend and then backflipped because if there's an attack over Christmas they'll look like fools. I don't think that
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by stonith 8y ago
I don't see how it's any different to the situations with NSLs in the US. There's a veil of secrecy and no real limits on the scope of request with very harsh penalties for non-compliance.
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by stonith 8y ago
Isn't this pretty much the same as the US and their National Security Letters? They can compel engineers/companies to do pretty much anything, and the veil of secrecy is the same.
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by stonith 8y ago
I'm probably in a tiny niche but I use it so that I can have optical out to my speakers and analogue out to an extension cord with a plug next to my keyboard that I plug my headphones into. This means I can swap between audio devices w
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by stonith 8y ago
I don't want to be rude but are you Australian or are you just guessing? All of the top graduates from my Software Engineering class in Aus either went to the US or did a PhD and then went to the US, and people are absolutely fleeing S
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by stonith 8y ago
I guess you could include it in 'price and equipment' but for me I simply don't have space in my apartment to do any of the interesting things with VR (eg I really enjoyed SuperHot VR), and it doesn't seem much of an imp
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by stonith 8y ago
I think part of the problem is that in the CoC context, the slighted party now looks at your username, cross references it against reddit and twitter, searches your posts for something else to take umbrage at, and makes the case that you sh
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by stonith 8y ago
> "Facing competition" as in they are now taking in only 90% of the revenue as opposed to 100%? That's just healthy 90% of what though? The big publishers are moving away from Steam presumably because the terms are crap an

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