It can, but it is generally more emotionally charged than saying "lone" instead.
Back in like middle school or whatever it was around that time we had a portable drive (or was it just on a CD?) with an installed folder of UT99 we used to bring to school. During recess we'd go and copy paste it to the PCs in the computer room and play little LAN tournaments until a teacher would find us and chase us out. Instagib only or course, and I think we also played 120% speed.
Good times indeed.
The Gyoat.
Same. It depends on the game though, obviously. If I'm playing Deadlock or something similar (fast paced and competitive) I'm not going to go for graphics fidelity. But anything single player? 60 FPS is perfectly fine and ray traced lighting can make a huge visual impact. Both Alan Wake 2 and Cyberpunk looked great with RT and well worth forgoing 100+ FPS.
Is anyone surprised? I mean, its Monaco. Hate it all you want, it belongs on the calendar. And I completely agree, Monaco qualy is one of the season highlights for me, every year.
I'm hoping this patch is the perfect balance of making being grouped up midgame not horrible, while still stamping out double soaking (which I find a boring and annoying optimisation).
Also interested to see the comeback mechanics toned down a touch. The game has felt very yo-yoey to me since the last big patch. You'd often work hard for a midgame lead, misplay one fight and suddenly be behind. Didn't feel great.
Reminds me of Cassidy's foreskin musings in Preacher.
Time is a flat circle eh?
I love all the discoveries made possible by lidar, this was a very cool read and I can't wait to see what they find when they start an actual on-site dig.
Also makes sense from a performance perspective. I know he is far from single-handedly responsible but part of being in charge is that you're the one the buck stops with. For the past almost two years straight the "upgrades" the team has brought has consistently not worked - multiple times even making the car actively worse.
This will surely only end well and will lead to Alpine surging towards becoming a hugely successful and respected team.
Edit: didn't see which sub I was on lmao
Good, this is a game I will definitely want to try to make work with ray tracing, so I'll need all the tools I can get to make it work.
Still cool, and otherwise would probably have been broken. But it would have been cool to have a parry for all ability effects!
This whole sub reminds me of Bill Hicks talking about the perfect commercial.
Poor Williams. In both senses of the word, I guess.
It's the consistency more than anything. That's the mystery of the Stroll, even with race craft. Sometimes he pulls out great overtakes, sometimes he forgets he has mirrors - and indeed that there are other drivers on the track along with him.
Pinging @[email protected] - probably of interest to you?
Martin Luiga interviewed for the 41st Precinct Podcast
As an early contributor to Disco Elysium, as well as a member of Kurvitz's tabletop sessions over the years, Martin Luiga discusses Elysium, as well as touches on his relationships with Robert and Argo Tuulik and more. He also confirms he, Robert, Alex Rostov and Helen Hindpere are in fact working on something for Red Info.
Worth listen!
Another Disco Elysium spiritual successor announced: Summer Eternal
Summer Eternal is a brand new project in collective art-making, developing counter-cultural computer role-playing games with a commitment to worker co-ownership and artistic integrity.
This one has Argo Tuulik and Lenval Brown involved, which lends some serious credibility to the project in my eyes. Tuulik was one of the prominent writers of Disco Elysium, as well as one of the settings' co-creators as one of the players in Kurvitz's tabletop RPG sessions.
Average shot distance (m) across Europe's top 5 league the past 8 years
Pictured in this graph: what xG does to a motherfucker.
I thought this graph was super interesting as it is a near-perfect illustration of when data analytics and advanced statistics started to enter into football (2014-2016) and some of the effects it's had on the game.
EDIT: Forgot to paste a link to the complete article.
Help Improve Deadlock's Matchmaking
Use this thread to share matchids for games that you think the matchmaker did a bad job at. If you can explain what you felt was a problem in it that would be helpful as well. Do not post matchids for games that were within the past 24 hours from this post. Games older than that are fine and...
Post the match IDs of any games where you thought matchmaking was poor into the linked thread in order to help tune the algorithm.
DISCLAIMER: The past 24h (Oct 3-4th) have had extra poor matchmaking due to a bug, so omit any IDs from that time frame.
"Stories of Dota" YouTube channel publishes one last video before shutting down production - The Entire Story of Dota
It's very sad to see one of the most high-effort Dota content creators stop. I completely sympathise with their reasons, but I will sorely miss their videos as there were so many heroes I wish they'd gotten to do videos about.
Dota 2 - come discuss the ongoing The International tournament!
Community: [email protected]
Still have an open void in your life since the Olympics ended? Why not fill it with some esports? Valve's huge The International tournament for Dota 2 started this week, so I thought I'd make a promo post for its community here on Lemmy.
The crow that lived like no other
This appeared in my YouTube suggestions, thought I'd share it here.
Anyone else struggling to enjoy the game due to insane skill gaps and horribly lopsided matchmaking?
Out of every 10 games I play, maybe one of them is a close, even game where everyone is on roughly the same skill level - and that's probably me being generous.
Almost every game has people on either team not just losing their lane but going something like 0-17. I know it's early alpha and has had a huge influx of players recently so maybe it's to be expected to some extent, but even back in my Dota days matchmaking was never this bad. This is like, public WC3 Dota 1 lobbies level.
How are you guys finding it? Anyone break through the MMR barrier into a point where you're getting consistently good games? How long did it take, and what MMR? (you can check here
Nels Cline's '59 Jazzmaster "WATT"
Someone had to be first to break the silence so why not with this? Nothing better than a guitar with a story, and few things more beautiful than a Jazzmaster full stop. Picture taken from a story here.
Footage from "Neon Prime" - the early concept that eventually turned into Deadlock.
Stolen from a thread on the other place. I thought it was very interesting. How do you feel about cyberpunk compared to paranormal 30s New York as a theme?
Sargeant escapes the burning wreck
I was waiting for the original poster to repost it here, but if they aren't then I will since this photo definitely belongs here.
Rowland S. Howard, "Autoluminescent"
While still holding out hope of one day seeing his book (the excellently titled "etceteracide") released, a song lyric will do. RSH was great with words, and I always thought this read pretty well as a poem.
Our cartoonist on the big names headlining the top flight’s return, from Jamie Vardy to a bloke in the crowd at Ipswich
Not his best comic but there's some good stuff in there as always. The "Fatty" (sorry, body-positivity) Foulkes reference was a great deep cut.^[1]
Inside the fast-moving launch of Kamala Harris for president
> Three weeks into her presidential run was the first time the Biden campaign’s pollsters — now hers — held a deep-dive call with Kamala Harris’ inner circle to discuss what she’s been saying on the stump.
> Over the line came a lot of praise, but also some suggested tweaks. First, said veteran Democratic numbers man Geoff Garin, summarizing their analysis, stop saying, “We’re not going back.” It wasn’t focused enough on the future, he argued. Second, lay off all the “weird” talk — too negative.
Yes, stop using the two approaches that has been most effective. Absolute genius. I can't for the life of me see why the Dems have a reputation of shooting themselves in the foot.
EDIT: Thankfully Kamala trusted her instincts and has had the good sense to ignore said advice so far
The Lincoln Project responds to Trump sending a Cease & Decist letter over attack ad
A new ad running on Fox News in Mar-a-Lago from a group of anti-Trump Republicans prompted a cease-and-desist letter.The Lincoln Project said Friday it received the letter over its ad, "Failures," which attacks top Trump advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles."They got it wrong," the ad says before...
After the article was published, Rick Wilson personally responded to Donald Trump in a video.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - World & Locations
Most if not all of these clips were already in the developer deep dive, but this is a shorter more digestible video - without the distraction of voice overs.
It's so cool seeing all these familiar locations in their new visual splendour.