[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 8 hours ago

The big thing about MMOs is that they (try to) create communities, and being part of a community is a surefire way to make people stay.

Give too much freedom for a single player and the community as a whole falters. Give them enough to do without groups, but leave the "good stuff" as something exclusive to groups and don't give dungeon finders or similar auto-grouping tools. I say this as someone who spent way, way too much time playing WoW like a single-player game

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 9 hours ago

Google didn't add shorts to cater to them, they did it because they saw Tiktok's success and wanted some of that. It's the same reason Instagram effectively became a Tiktok clone

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

I wonder how they interpreted the Homelander/Stormfront romance. The red blooded 'murican was "fixing" the nazi?

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

I stopped following The Boys back at the end of S3, but I've read the comics (they kinda suck)

Tap for (comic) spoilerThe end has Butcher assassinating the rest of the team one by one. When he comes to Hughie, he goes easy because he wanted to die as well. How did the show make it happen?

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

It doesn't need to "make that money back", none of that is corpo lending expecting return of investment, just thousands of players that really shouldn't own credit cards. They have sold 1bn without even needing to deliver a "full game"

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago

Good luck plucking out the neutrons, protons and electrons off each lead atom, I've heard they don't enjoy staying still

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago

In a case where you can't pick "changing reality" as a power, "time control" is pretty much the next best thing. Pause time, rewind, fast forward

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I didn't follow it closely, but Gamer Nexus did a video to show some of many problems it had at launch, like the control panel thingy-app not even working, a clean uninstall not actually cleaning everything and it becoming literally impossible to get the driver working - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjYSeT-T5uk - most of the problems seem to be about stuff not working, rather than low FPS

When it actually worked, Intel Arc A750 and A770, which I suppose would be the equivalent of this LX G7100, were roughly between Nvidia RTX 3060 and RTX 3060 Ti in performance, with a no doubt driver related problem with Counter Strike Global Offensive - https://www.techspot.com/review/2542-intel-arc-a770-a750/

There's this report from 2024, using a Intel Arc A770 16GB. Out of 250 games tested, 218 worked flawlessly, 3 failed to even start and 2 wouldn't actually load into the game. https://www.techspot.com/review/2865-intel-arc-gpu-experience/

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 2 days ago

I mean, Google hasn't offered support with real humans for over 8 years. Facebook has been on that even longer

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

Incredibly underwhelming results, it's readily beaten by a wide margin even by Intel's GPU. For its price point, it's by far the worst contender. Let's see how much can be fixed with drivers and the company learning how to better make these kinds of chips.

*The results are from 潮玩客's Bilibili video. The first value corresponds to the average frames per second (FPS), whereas the second value represents the 1% Low FPS, a metric for measuring the slowest 1% of frames observed during the benchmark.

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Title. I'm looking for resins with the lowest Shore hardness, the lowest one I've found (that I can buy on aliexpress) is Resione F39, with Shore 60-75A. Ideally, I'd want to get something closer to Shore 30-40A.

So, failing that, anyone with a higher understanding of chemistry can explain what additives are usually added, resulting in a cured resin with greater elasticity?

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Sauce - https://retrocdn.net/images/2/2e/EGM_US_086.pdf , page 96

"[Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain] is expected to offer at least 120 hours of gameplay."

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As I prepare to give art classes to younglings (10-11yo), I usually try to teach basic shapes with direct practice via chibi characters. I also take the opportunity to explain what usually makes a character or drawing "cute".

In any case, I present you Sanrio-Man, the salary-san. He is old, disgruntled, balding, overworked, but full of hopes, dreams and kawaii energy

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Could do without it burning the planet

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By analogic age, I mean before computers became widespread.

I want to have something more visual than just the description of the processes involved, especially how a finished B&W art was made into something that could be printed several times

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It's a notoriously shitty game, but I was surprised when I saw that, despite being a side-scrolling "action" game, it uses WASD for movement on the Amiga and Apple IIgs.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/110/dark-castle/screenshots/

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Truly a miracle (programming.dev)
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Rated E for Everyone (programming.dev)
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Ah, 1980s Brazil (programming.dev)

"And you? Where's your little mark?"

Not sure if this should be tagged NSFW

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Elements of Ultima VII were inspired by game developer Origin Systems' conflicts with competitor (and later owner) Electronic Arts. Origin Systems' corporate slogan was "We Create Worlds", while the main antagonist of the story – the Guardian – is presented as a "Destroyer of Worlds". The three evil "Generators" created by the Guardian in the game take the physical shapes of the contemporary Electronic Arts logo: a cube, a sphere, and a tetrahedron. Elizabeth and Abraham, two apparently benevolent characters who later turn out to be murderers, have the initials "E" and "A".[10] Electronic Arts would acquire Origin later that same year, on September 25, 1992.

EA, destroyer of worlds since 1992

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