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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I have the Flydigi Vader 4 Pro with the USB dongle. And yes, it's plug and play.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Can't remember what the title is, but it was a multiplayer shooter (mayber Counter-Strike?), where at multiple points in the video he goes "Yeehaw." in the calmest voice possible while unloading his whole magazine into someone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The only time an average person will care about privacy is when it's taken away from them. Generally speaking, people just don't care so don't worry about it too much.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Previously, on Best of Netflix: price increases, flip-flopping on their account sharing stance (currently on "don't do that"), removing shows without warning, iffy show recommendations by their algorithm, inability to watch shows offline etc.

So, if you're not already pirating at this point I have to ask: what are you waiting for? Seriously, why are you giving these companies money?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

"We want more money." There, that's the article.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Which one is that? Mario Kart?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I don't think I've ever been this disinterested in a Nintendo console and I bought the WiiU. So far we have:

  • Insane price tags: 80$ to buy games digitally? And 90$ for physical? This isn't how you stop piracy, it's how you start it.
  • The tech demo costs money. Why? Sure, they explained why. Just not very well.
  • That Nintendo-Denuvo deal from 2023 is still a thing. Thankfully, no games on the Switch have implemented Denuvo. With the Switch 2 coming out, I'm not certain this will remain the case.
  • Far as I can tell, they did next to nothing to fix the joycon drift. The one big problem with the Switch 1.

Also, the launch titles are kind of sparse. Most are rehashes of existing Switch 1 games, with two or three exceptions. Not for me, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Just finished Yakuza 0 and am psyched to start Yakuza Kiwami (which is a remake of the first Yakuza game). The action is soo good. Beating the shit out of enemies is already satisfying enough, but where it gets really good is when you build up something called a Heat meter as you're fighting. Once it builds up, you get access to Heat Actions and they are nuts.

I mean just look at this madness (spoilers for move unlocks)!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

They go in a quantum state, existing and not-existing at the same time until someone perceives them, at which point they go into one of the two quantum superpositions: being or not being.

Or nothing would happen, idfk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It's short for Terms of Service.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

So many downvotes. I thought it was funny! But I suppose some people might need context:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/suspended-animation/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Congrats on graduating! And to answer your question: no, it's not too late. However, fair warning: it does seem to get harder to develop a social life the older you get. But by no means impossible.

 

Big news for VF fans. Yes, both of us.

In all seriousness, this is probably my favourite 3D fighter and I'm eager to see how it comes out!

 

It happens all the frickin' time. Someone wants to convert a PDF file to Word. Fine, we have tools for that, but depending on the quality of the PDF, the resulting text may contain some errors or just complete gibberish. But then you find out that they had the original Word file all along. I hate that so much.

And now today happens! But this time it's different. Someone wants to convert a PDF... to an Excel file. Are you fucking kidding me right now? I have an urge to run down the office with a megaphone screaming "WE DO NOT EDIT PDF FILES! WE MAKE PDFS WHEN WE'RE DONE EDITING THE DOCUMENT!".

Our department keeps refusing conversions from PDFs to other formats, because the conversion is not always accurate or reliable, so we direct our users to the tools we have available for this sort of thing, while clearly pointing out the downsides of the conversion process and explicitly stating that ensuring the accuracy of the conversion is the responsibility of said user, not our department. Because, inevitably, the software WILL make some mistakes. Os become zeroes, 5 becomes the letter S and don't even get me started on the whole capital i, lower l and number 1 situation.

And despite all of this, despite all the warnings and examples of failings in the past, nobody seems to get through their hollow skulls that they should avoid editing and converting PDFs just because of how much of a pain in the ass it is! Ugh.

 

Lately I've been thinking about Voxatron, an incomplete yet fun little top-down-ish shooter game from 2011. I love the way it looks and plays, so I've been wondering if there are any other games with the same aesthetic?

It's a bit hard to explain, but what I liked specifically about Voxatron was how the characters and the environment were animated. Everything seemed to snap to an invisible three-dimensional grid, or in other words, voxels didn't rotate. Here's an example.

What I'm not looking for is a game that is made of voxels, but is animated like polygons, if that makes sense. Like this. I'm not really sure what term to use, because searching for "voxel games" was not very fruitful for me. Search results encompassed everything from Minecraft to Severed Steel.

I imagine animating a game in such a way would be super time consuming, but I still have to ask: are there any games that fit this criteria?

 

So, really, a win for everybody.

 

For those unaware, The Triple-i Initiative is a group of indie studios whose purpose is to highlight fan-favorite games and hype up established indie classics as well as new IPs.

So, without further ado, here are the trailers. Names in bold are new releases, the rest are updates to existing games:

 

Not to say I hate the genre, I actually love me some Dusk or Turbo Overkill, but why, oh why are they called Boomer Shooters?

These games clearly took inspiration from 90s FPS games, which 👌, but they were played mostly by Gen Xers and Millenials, not Boomers. When games like Duke Nukem 3D or Quake were out, Boomers were what? 30 to 50 years old? I'm sure some of them played FPS games, but there is no way they were the majority.

Whenever I see the term Boomer Shooter, my mind goes to games like Shootout! for Magnavox Odyssey. Can't we call them something else, like Retro FPSes or something?

Anyway, rant over. Thank you for your time.

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Akira Toriyama has passed away (en.dragon-ball-official.com)
 

EDIT: We decided not to pursue further diagnosis, because we wouldn’t know what the hell we’re doing anyway, and decided to start the RMA process instead. It might not even be the reason why the PC won’t turn on, but I’m not comfortable with putting that CPU back into his PC again. Once we get a replacement, we’ll see what happens. If it’s still busted, we’ll just take it to a local shop. Thank you everyone for your for your suggestions and insight, they are very much appreciated.

My friend called me to take a look at his PC that wouldn’t turn on. Upon inspecting his CPU, I noticed a silver bump at the bottom. I’ve never seen this. Can anyone tell me what it is?

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