Fin des années 90, #Bethesda est à un tournant : continuer à faire des jeux comme #Arena et #Daggerfall ou tenter une nouvelle formule ? Deux projets sont lancés, le classique #Battlespire par Julian LeFay, lead sur TES 1&2, et le jeu d'action/aventure #Redguard par un jeune Todd Howard, qui refonde en passant le lore de la série. Ce dernier convainc : LeFay quitte Bethesda tandis qu'Howard se voit confier le dev de #Morrowind, qui devra au moins autant à Redguard qu'aux premiers #ElderScrolls.
J'ai assez largement poncé #LordsOfTheRealm II à l'époque, qui mélangeait gestion, stratégie et assaut de château en temps réel, à mes yeux c'était un des meilleurs jeux du monde, mais vu comment tout le monde l'a oublié je soupçonne que c'était pas si bien que ça. Je ne sais plus pourquoi je n'ai plus ma boîte de l'époque du coup par nostalgie je me suis fait offrir celle-là récemment.
On pédale ici sur un faux plat montant, tantôt sur l’herbe, tantôt sur de la terre compactée. La pluie arrivant nous incite à ne pas y prendre de pause.
Arrivé au sommet 7 heures après avoir commencé, c’est un soulagement et c’est à peine si il me reste de l’énergie pour marcher ou parler avec toutes les personnes autour.
L’experience est très différente du col ak baital au pamir. Celui-ci donnait la sensation de vivre une aventure, seul perdu dans de grands espaces. Ici, il s’agit plutôt d’une montée brutale, non pas pour les jambes mais les poumons. Cela apprend à mieux connaître son corps et comment il réagit face à la montée en altitude.
Enfin arrivé au lac, celui-ci me déclenche une émotion par sa beauté, comme peu de paysages peuvent le procurer.
Il est bien plus joli que je le pensais, et les photos ne parviennent pas à lui rendre justice.
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Threads is the most fun, most interesting new product of the year, and no one in the E.U. can use it, or will be able to use it anytime soon, because their own elected officials passed a law that effectively bans it.
@gruber ah yes, damn those EU lawmakers for… checks notes …creating laws around privacy. How dare they 🙄 Next you'll tell us they trying to protect human rights or something, the fools!
Not thrilled with the paste print quality, very inconsistent. the top left corner was way too thick as the board flexed during printing, the middle BGA skipped some pads, and the WLCSP in the bottom right was near perfect.
These big boards bend too much in my paste fixture, I need to find a way to prevent that before I do any more boards of this scale.
Also, life hack for anyone else who has a PicoScope 6000E series oscilloscope: the logic analyzer pods are connected to the scope via a standard SFF-8087 mini-SAS cable, you can find the Molex part number right on the supplied cable. But you don't have to only use that cable!
I had some longer ones than the stock one sitting around and they work fine, at least at lower speeds (you might have trouble working to full rated bandwidth due to cable losses). But this gives me much more freedom of bench layout since I can put the pod a lot further from the scope than with the stock cable.
What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?
A recent YouGov survey asked Americans what they think they should be able to get to within a 15-minute walk of their house.
Of these choices, I can currently walk to all of them from my apartment, aside from a university (no biggie, I'm not currently studying, although there is a Tafe within walking distance), a hospital, and a sports arena.
How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?
@ajsadauskas@fuck_cars I’m in Toronto’s Danforth area, so basically everything except a professional sports arena is within 5-20 mins walk.
The framing of that poll has such a sinister American conspiracy theorist edge: “if your local government decided…” — like having these things nearby can only be forced upon you and you must fight back.
Even if we can't have a 15 minute neighborhood, we could have a bus stop at the post office (which is close enough to 15 minutes of a fast walk or a jog), that then brings you 10 minutes away (by bus) to the town which does have all of these things within 15 minutes walk.
The 15 minute neighborhood concept should be expanded to put everything within 45 minutes, by a combination of public transit and walking, for rural towns where there's not a good way to build them closer.
>>Note: I’ll have to stop early due to Dr appt but will add what I miss when I return.
As always, I can’t reply during live-thread of multiple reporters. Plz remember to preface q’s w “Not for Laffy” or something similar since I’m too distracted to answer. Others can for me. TY.
🔥New York AG #LetitiaJames: "This morning, Mr. Trump will take the stand in our trial against him, the Trump org & other defendants. Mr. Trump has repeatedly & consistently misrepresented & inflated the value of his assets. & before he takes the stand, I am certain that he will engage in name calling & taunts & race baiting & call this a witch hunt. But at the end of the day, the only thing that matters are the facts and the numbers — & numbers, my friends, don't lie."👈🏼
(Painters slowed me down. I'm catching up...patience)
Via InnerCityPress aka Press:
Habba: My client & I wish to pt out Ms Carroll can sit in front of jurors every day. But my client has to choose between attending his mother in law's funeral--
Judge Kaplan: I have ruled. Sit down
Habba: I don't like to be spoken to that why. Please refrain. I am asking for an adjournment for a funeral.
Judge Kaplan: Denied. Sit down
🔥Judge Kaplan: No, we are not going to read out loud a document not yet in evidence. We are going to take a break right here to 3:30 and you're going to refresh your memory about how you get a document in.
Habba: Do you keep the supporting emails?
Carroll: Yes. I tend to delete questions that I know I won't use. But I have an entire label for supportive messages.
Habba: Do you control your email?
Carroll: Yes.
Habba: So only you deleted them?
Carroll: Yes.
Habba: Ms. Carroll, are you aware it is illegal to delete evidence?
Carroll's lawyer: Objection
🤦🏻♀️Habba: I move for a mistrial, evidence has been deleted
👉🏼Judge Kaplan: Denied and the jury will disregard everything Ms. Habba just said
🧵THREAD starts here 1/…. As always I’ll live-thread reports from multi reporters, scrambling, so can’t reply. Plz remember to preface replies w “Not for Laffy” or similar so I don’t get distracted. TY
Via Dan Alexander:
#Ivanka#Trump just made the long walk up the stairs of the Lower Manhattan courthouse where she will face questioning this morning from the #NewYork attorney general’s office as part of her father’s 250 million fraud suit. #legal
This is a spectacular example of aggregation/curation in real time by @GottaLaff -- a collection of reports about Ivanka Trump's testimony in her criminal father's New York fraud trial.
Well if it isn't cryptocurrency spam coming from the biggest, open instance on the #Fediverse. 👀
I wonder if this is at all related to challenges with moderating an instance of checks notes 200k active accounts? Or with moderating new accounts on the only instance actively promoted in the official apps? :thinking_rotate:
Thankfully we can always defederate! What's that? It's the biggest instance so there are real concerns about a lot of people losing connections? Whodda thunk it!
The size of mastodon.social means that it is hard to moderate current accounts there.
The fact that it is promoted as the instance by the official apps, combined with the fact that in the public mind fedi is Mastodon, means it's difficult to effectively moderate new accounts.
And its size also means that bad actors are not compartmentalized into small, manageable groups on defederate-able instances.
The size of mastodon.social is breaking the moderation story of the #Fediverse.
Moderation on fedi relies on:
instance admins and moderators being able to manage bad actors on their own instance;
instance admins being able to silence or defederate from insufficiently moderated instances.
Mastodon.social's size and the speed new accounts are set up there means that 1. is very difficult. The size of m.s. and the clout of some of its users means 2. is a hard decision.
I'm not one for "New Year's resolutions", but I am one for overly ambitious projects.
For 2023, Project365 is "One New Game Per Day".
Given that I have 634 unplayed games in my Steam account and {mumble} unredeemed bundle Steam keys, there's a reason my unplayed collection is tagged "Pile of Shame".
I'll pin this to my profile, and give a brief summary here each day (or x, if I miss x days due to work or stuff).
I'll play 15-30 minutes of (at least) one new game I've never played before (or played less than 15 minutes of). I'll give every game at least 15 minutes, even if I hate every minute of it.
I'm also open to suggestions; if you reply to this thread with a game, I'll schedule it, or tell you what I thought of it.
One of the things that's come up is that I have a bunch of games that I've played once, and not touched again.
Apr 20, 2023 - Day 110 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 119
Game: Sundered Eldritch Edition
Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Jul 8, 2017
Library Date: Jan 7, 2019
Unplayed: 1564d (4y3m13d)
Playtime: 45m
Today I found myself faced with a "pure" Metroidvania. I even Googled it to make sure I understood the term.
So, some of the games I've been referring to as "platformers" may actually be better defined as Metroidvanias, and that is to say, I don't like them.
I find them frustrating, and I lack the hand-eye coordination to pull of the moves at the right time, and somehow this morning, none of that mattered.
I thought I'd knock out the game this morning in a quick 15 minute play session, and write up a review, and that would get me focused and into work time.
Some time later, I quit out to find I'd been playing for 45 minutes. Somehow, I managed to pull all the pieces together and find a rhythm, and what a marvellous rhythm it is.
It's an incredibly atmospheric game, inspired by H.P. Lovecraft. Part old-world horror, part technology, dropping through floors, and wall-jumping, killing everything in sight.
While (as usual) I was playing in "easy" mode, it wasn't easy for me, but not so challenging I wanted to punt the controller out the window.
Apr 24, 2023 - Day 114 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 127
Game: Anna's Quest
Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Jul 3, 2015
Library Date: May 14, 2019
Unplayed: 1441d (3y11m10d)
Playtime: 78m
I opened Anna's Quest to find that it was yet another point-and-click adventure. 78 minutes later I closed it, somewhat confused at how I'd lost 78 minutes on a point-and-click adventure.
You play as the titular Anna. Living deep in the forest with your grandfather, one day he becomes deeply ill, yet still expressly forbids you to enter the forest.
Upon leaving, you're kidnapped by a wicked witch, and imprisoned in a tower, and that's when things get weird.
It turns out that Anna is unaware that she's telekinetic, but the witch somehow knew, and wants her telekinetic gift.
The humour in the game is quirky, and seems almost childlike, the puzzles indicate that this is not a game targeted at kids. They are your usual "use X with Y" puzzle, but I'm not sure kids are going to think "If you cut that rubber ball in half, it will make a perfect insulator for that electric buzzing thing"
The game has my interest piqued, and I look forward to seeing exactly why and how Anna ended up with telekinesis.
i wish just once a flunky npc would, without my needing an intimidation check to appear, look at this blood and gore steeped paladin emerging from the darkness and decide not to make a pithy british insult at me