I cancelled back on the first price hike they did. Just wasn't enough for the handful of times I used it per year. They had me at the point where I kinda didn't care I was paying, but the price hike gave me a wake up call. Since then they've continued to up the prices and I've continued to not give a shit. Netflix originally won me back from bothering to pirate stuff cause it was so good and easy, now the opposite is true in the streaming space.
One of them is no keyboard and mouse support on PC IIRC.
Google screwed up like a lot of companies do. YouTube was never profitable to run. They were just burning through cash to keep the lights on and become the number one video host online.
Internally there became a mandate to try and turn it into a profit making machine and the advertisers caught wind so they stepped in with their demands knowing that they were going to be the source of the profits. This is where the content restrictions started to happen as videos needed to become ad friendly.
I wish YouTube would have figured out another path to help provide the service and pay video creators. At least with Premium you don’t get ads and Sponsor Skip means you don’t see embedded VPN and game sponsors.
The Goblin trader that gets left in the Goblin camp. The way he says "Praise The Absolute" whilst brushing his finger across his nose is so well delivered. Reminds me of a character from a Monty Python sequence.
Mine took almost three weeks. Was sat in customs for days and then out for delivery for three days because my address was labelled incorrectly.
I just got a Q5 Pro myself and use the End key all the time so I reworked the keys and flashed the firmware.
[del] is now [PrnScn]
[pgup] is [del] / [insert] (Using + [fn] key)
[pgdn] is [home] / [pgup]
[home] is [end] / [pgdn]
I'll have to order new keycaps to match, but so far it's felt good to use that way and I find that the only time I mispress is when I look at the keyboard.
gynaecology: the area of medicine concerned with disorders and functions of women's reproductive organs
Is Floorp the only option for Firefox for removing horizontal tabs? I like the idea of vertical tabs, but only if I can get rid of the horizontal bar and free up that extra screen space.
Anyone got a non-paywalled archive link?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuzIMIJiCBE
I still say this.
It's already dead, please leave the corpse alone.
It is kinda sad given the legacy of the show, it almost made it to 30 and was the place of so many big industry moments (good and bad). Things have become more spread out now across GamesCom, PAXs, TGS, GDC, Develop and the many I'm forgetting.
I can get the argument that we really don't need much of an in-person event given that stuff can be streamed instantly around the world now, we don't need to rely on people setting up cameras in front of TVs to show off noisy gameplay footage, but the fact that so many others shows still exist proves that there is a want for in-person events.
E3's death kinda came about because it got chipped away from all sides. There were better places for industry deal making to be done (GDC), Big publishers peeled off to do their own thing, and the expensive mark up that hit the other companies no longer appealed as they could get what they needed from PAX and GamesCom.
Also known as toothpaste and chocolate.
5 second penalty felt light give he just took a constructor rival out of the points.
Go to the gym. Running on the treadmill listening to an audiobook is great I can just zone into the book.
I've heard of the concept in the streaming space of "number of minutes watched", like there's a different way of judging success. This has me wondering if there's a demand from up top to make these shows longer in order to increase that metric. I say this because while slow pacing can be an artistic choice and I'm perfectly fine for it for the right story. I lapped up Oppenheimer, and movies like Only God Forgives.
When it works, it works. Ahsoka felt like it was stretched way out of pace, a 25 minute show elongated into an hour. Every. sentence. was. laborious. and. plodding. when. it. didn't. have. any. reason. to. be. Not to mention the delivery of the lines felt so wooden and forced, and I think if you're going to build around a slow paced story, then you need to lean on the emotion and body language to fill it out. This had none of it.
Couldn't get through the first episode. I got 10 minutes in on my first view and then to about 35 minutes on my second before switching it off. I know nothing of Rebels or the cartoon shows, so these are new characters to me, though I know of Thrawn from the books.
I found the script/acting/pacing awful and the main reason I couldn't watch. The plot was trite and not enough to keep me wanting to watch. Another map hunt for a missing and possibly dead person? Again. Why? If the pacing/script/acting was fun then I'd be fine with just a sci-fi fantasy adventure, but the actors looked like they were working on sleeping medication, it was just painful to witness.
Felt like there were some rumblings of this being a strong tent-pole effort for Star Wars after so many misfires, but I guess unless you're super invested into the greater story then this is not the redemption it was talked up to being.
First name that came to mind when I saw the thread title. His new Weird Stuff in a Can episode was a fun journey.
Siliconera: Armored Core VI may be the best game FromSoftware has made to date
That statement carries a megaton of weapon-grade weight upon it.
The only genres I didn't see were romcom and court room drama, though maybe I just missed those with all the quick cuts.
Anyway to turn off Always on Top for picture-in-picture mode?
As the title says, I want to use picture in picture mode but allow other windows to appear on top. I think this used to be a toggle option, but now I don't see it.
I've had a hunt in about:config, but nothing I can see will set it.
[Bug] Character portrait turned to grey mist
Any idea how I might try to fix this? Tried rebooting but no joy. Only affects my main character - but shows anywhere his portrait should be seen: bottom bar, combat turns, party list (see image).
Can you add a custom image?
Launching later this year.
Last year, Digital Eclipse released Atari 50, a sprawling, interactive tour through Atari’s long history. I described it as “a cross between an interactive documentary and a virtual museum exhibition,” and it really set a new bar for retro game collections. Now, the studio is tackling another project: Karateka, the game Jordan Mechner made before the iconic Prince of Persia.
Called The Making of Karateka, the new project sounds much like Atari 50, only focused on a specific game. It includes “pixel-perfect versions” of the original Karateka releases and early prototypes you can actually play, along with a host of design documents and documentary-style video features. There’s even a brand-new remastered version of the action game. “What they’ve built around my 1984 kicking-punching debut is so much more than a game remaster, I’m still trying to wrap my mind around it,” Mechner wrote on his personal blog.
The studio also says that the game is just the first in a new collection it’s calling the “Gold Master Series.” Basically, the idea is to give a number of influential games the Atari 50 treatment.
“The Gold Master Series is something we’ve been planning for a long time here at Digital Eclipse – independently-produced projects that celebrate key designers, studios, and games that changed the world,” Digital Eclipse’s Chris Kohler wrote in a post announcing the series. “Our mission is to elevate these games, presenting them in their best possible light while putting them in their proper historical context, an approach we’ve dubbed the ‘interactive documentary.’”
Given how impactful Karateka was for action games, it’s a great place to start. The Making of Karateka doesn’t currently have a release date, but it’s slated to launch this year on Xbox, PlayStation, PC, and the Nintendo Switch.
Peter Molyneux returns promising not to hype his next game, before hyping the game | PCGamer article
"Every part of me wants to tell you about it."
No idea what happened to his NFT grift that banked him over $40M. But on to the next one I guess.
Tim Cain, former design director on Carbine's sank MMO, revealed all on his Youtube channel yesterday.
I'd recommend watching the video so you can get Tim's own take on this, emotions and all.
https://youtu.be/YMY5LUNdS-8
Rise of the Ancients by Dr. Graham A. Wilson - A Fantasy adventure game book series.
A homepage for Rise of the Ancients, a new interactive adventure gamebook series. You can find blank charts here, as well as solutions to the riddles, puzzles and codes in the book.
> RISE OF THE ANCIENTS BK1: BRUIDD > An unlikely invitation compels you to travel to the remote coastal town of Broodhaven to participate in a once-in-a-lifetime competition. There, you soon discover that nothing is as it seems. As you progress through each increasingly dangerous round of the contest, the secrets of the town and its noble families are slowly revealed. A hidden history conceals the truth of your own identity and the real reason why you were summoned here. That which sleeps awakens, and so it falls upon you to confront and overcome an ancient and unimaginable terror! Only you can unlock the past and break the dark cycle! A family legacy must be fulfilled. Destiny awaits! Can you stop the nobles of Broodhaven from unleashing a hideous chaos upon the world, or suffer a fate far worse than death?
> In this interactive gamebook, you make the decisions, and you suffer the consequences.
> Choose wisely or die trying!
I've played the first book a few times and really enjoyed it, though not managed to finish it yet. It's more complicated to play than a Fighting Fantasy book, with many clues and objects to track. With that, I ended up spending some time creating a spreadsheet to track my progress, then I added some code to roll dice, then I added code to handle combat tracking. It's probably riddled with bugs, but should anyone want to use it, here it is (Google Sheets).
Fighting Fantasy Documentary - An Interactive History of the interactive fiction books
This is a fun way to dive into the history of the Fighting Fantasy book series.
If you're wanting a less interactive option, then there's a single linear video to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oHlNlzxahw
🎉 We’re extending the call for proposals until July 15! 🎉 You’re way down in the depths of a dungeon, hacking and slashing with aplomb, only to look up and...
Calls for talk submissions are open for two more weeks for October's event.
Recommend diving through previous year's events for some really interesting talks and presentations. https://www.roguelike.club/
Niantic closing LA office and getting rid of 230 people
Another story of investing and growing too much during the covid boom, but also coming to face the harsh reality of how bloated the mobile space is.
Descent (1994) Gets a Raytracing update
Download here: https://github.com/BredaUniversityGames/DXX-Raytracer
TIL In Korea babies are classed as 1 year old at birth (they'll be changing to 0 this week to align with international standards)
South Korea adopts new law to join the international standard of age counting