AsimovIV

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I am not a game dev and do not have a stake in this personally but also dislike the 'lazy or incompetent dev' line that gets used sometimes. While ALOT of games seem to be made with really shitty code, with a game that seems as complex as Helldivers 2 adding a new feature can be a lot more complex than expected.

First there are non-technical factors: bosses that might not want to implement the feature and needs to be convinced, the devs might not know how to implement it and need to do research which takes time, artists that need to be added to the pipeline for assets, budget or other financial concerns (management might not think the feature will contribute to revenue), or even something like petty internal politics.

One the side of technical problems there is combinatorial explosion where adding ONE feature means thinking about how it interacts with all the other features. There is the problem of possible technical debt where you might inherit bad code from previous devs that you need to change before you can add anything. There is also the problem that the feature might not be technically feasible; remember that a game has only a fraction of a second to do its calculations and display them to the player while also checking for player input. This does not even begin to consider the problems caused by being a multiplayer game with possible network problems.

On the discontinued engine, the studio founder said that they were already in development of Helldivers 2 when it was discontinued according to the Wikipedia article.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Sometimes I sit down and muse about the great world we could create if everything was owned by the state, only approved speech was allowed, if only the best people were allowed to reproduce and everyone was only allowed to think approved thoughts. Like to get my Utopia I am even willing to subject an innocent child to a life of constant suffering and misery...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why did I just think of this bullshit after reading your comment?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Nana is about a typical 'head filled with romance' type of protagonist but with a more mature take. It also has amazing music too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It would be nice if they also stressed that previous workflows will remain viable.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are you sure about that? I was watching a youtube video some time ago and it said that the 7% thing is false. What sources do you have that its true? I have gotten many many propts from stangers and have NEVER gotten an allergic reaction. Edit: found the video.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Just finished Wastelander 3 and before that 2 playthroughs of Disco Elysium.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

With how much hype I saw online I thought they had improved on the systems from from DOS 1 but in a lot of ways it feels worse.

The new initiative system means it makes no sense to invest points into it since no matter how high it is, your enemies will get to go first.

In my first attempt at playing I tried to have a varied team that can do different types of damage but the new armour system made that useless. The only thing that matter is getting as much raw damage as possible. Most of the interesting effects only apply once you take down all the enemy armour. This also make most traps useless since you can walk right through without any I'll effects.

But the thing that irritated me the most was the inventory. It's slow and annoying to use and so I decided to try the official mod. After using it to sort all of my inventory into specific bags I found out that you cannot trade or craft using anything that was put into those bags. At that point I just started a new game.

Now on my new game I am getting bored with how slow the fights are. This isn't helped by the unintuitive puzzles and the weirdly toned story.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

Divinity original sin 2. It is not as good as I was expecting it to be. I keep getting bored and fustrated even if I really want to like it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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Getting Windows RT 8.1 to Download Updates from a Clean Install

Update 2 and TLDR: The solution that fixed error 8007000e on my Windows RT 8.1 Surface 1 is at the bottom of the post. Follow the instructions carefully.

Now some editorializing, feel free to skip to the instructions:

I’m always irritated when I clean-install Windows and have to figure out why Windows Update is broken this time. This is a problem for Windows 7 and Windows RT 8.1, not to mention long-forgotten Vista.

Of these, RT may be the worst. Windows RT on Surface 1 is locked down hard. It can only install some Windows Store apps, and nothing from the internet. It can’t even go onto the Microsoft Update Catalog website because of… processor incompatibility? The 32-bit ARM processor is naturally incompatible with most software you’re accustomed to using, including Chrome or Firefox (not even Edge). Microsoft also has no intention of releasing a 32-bit ARM version of Windows 10 (which a clean install often breaks locked-down OEM OSs), so support will probably run out next year.

There’s hubbub about x86 and x64 emulation for ARM-based Windows. Don’t get your hopes up, that’s all for the ARM64 Windows 10 version that isn’t public yet.

If I can fix the error, my Surface 1 tablet ought to meet my current needs as a study tablet if. Windows 8.1 turns out to be a pretty competent tablet OS, I really like the split-screen feature. I prefer Win10, though, because immersive apps irritate me. Win RT 8.1 came with Office RT 2013, and it does a lot of the regular things I need it to, but I’m disappointment that it can’t do more. With no 32-bit ARM versions of Zoom or Teams, the end-of-usability for this study tablet is within sight.

Update: A rando posted a comment on a Microsoft help forum with the direct links for the files to fix Win RT’s update problem from clean install, just a few separate standalone updates. It fixed my update problem.

It’s always randos that have the answers, never Microsft. Microsoft’s “solution” for RT’s broken Windows Update is to go onto your Windows Update app and download the latest updates. That is their unironic solution, even labeling it a “workaround”! Microsoft “helpfully” insists that these updates can only be downloaded via the Microsoft Update app.

I’ll share the update links here when I re-find them. Reddit seems to be the Google-able repository for fixit info, so think of this as an archival post. With the updates, your Windows Update should work correctly and your tablet can update, until support ends.

Update 2: Here’s the useful comment, posted by OvidioPR on 10 April 2020 and edited for Reddit:

I downloaded all of the following packages and installed them in this order, turning wifi off before each install:

  1. Download and install update KB-2919442: http://download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/update/software/crup/2014/02/windows8.1-kb2919442-arm_506ed7113697c597c2859d295d562fa4311834ec.msu

  2. Download and install update KB-2932046:http://download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/update/software/crup/2014/02/windows8.1-kb2932046-arm_fe6acf558880d127aef1a759a8c2539afc67b5fb.msu

  3. Download and install update KB-2919355: http://download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/update/software/crup/2014/02/windows8.1-kb2919355-arm_a6119d3e5ddd1a233a09dd79d91067de7b826f85.msu

Reboot when asked to do it

  1. Download and install update KB-2938439: http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/software/crup/2014/03/windows8.1-kb2938439-arm_4a536d9ddcd9993cbe4fbc309ebd50a18d65f954.msu

Reboot again

  1. Download and install update KB-2937592: http://download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/update/software/crup/2014/02/windows8.1-kb2937592-arm_860c83a0cccc0519111f57a679ae9f9d071315e5.msu

Reboot again

  1. Download and install update KB-3173424: http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/software/crup/2016/06/windows8.1-kb3173424-arm_e11b6837c0586d2b8d887f3bc33b3372fe83c8c7.msu

  2. Download and install update KB-3172614: http://download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/update/software/updt/2016/07/windows8.1-kb3172614-arm_3d918d6c809bf6f57c8fcefa5db5c739e1754426.msu

Reboot again

Turn on wifi and search for updates.

This worked perfectly for me, be very patient as some of these updates take several minutes to install.

Copied from: https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsRT/comments/p6jtyk/getting_windows_rt_81_to_download_updates_from_a/

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