So I think this is a good one for the patient gamers… I actually already played this soon after it came out and still really enjoyed it, although the world felt like it didn’t have any real people in it the city is just fantastic and visually appealing. I imagine this update will transform the game entirely, I’m looking...
Sounds good. I haven't tried yet, but I will eventually. Sometimes it really does pay off to be a patient gamer... wait for the price to fall and the bugs and weirdness to get sorted out.
I just started No Man's Sky, from what I hear, it has improved a lot over the years.
The biggest problem with kbin is honestly quite simple, but I don't people is talking about is the fact that finding the magazines that I'm subscribed to is in Settings > Subscribed, on Reddit, it's literally in the top bar, I don't get why it's buried in settings. Another thing is why is my home page full of posts from...
Agreed. My bigger issue is with the logic for compiling listings. If you are subscribed to a magazine that is much more active than the others, the big magazine completely dominates and you never see anything else. That's a tricky sort of algorithm to fine-tune, but in the meantime I may have to unsubscribe from this meta mag if I ever want to see any other content on my front page.
I hope they change their minds in light of the new porting toolkit. It's also a bit weird considering how Mac-friendly Paradox published games tend to be, and that CS1 runs on Macs.
I'm similarly saddened that Hades II is currently listed as Windows-only, when Hades runs beautifully on MacOS.
And Frontpunk 2.
And Homeworld 3, though it's been a while since Mac-friendly HW2.
Reddit went through some issues for many on Monday, with the outage happening the same day as thousands of subreddits going dark to protest the site’s new API pricing terms....
I believe it. I was a backend engineer for a different large tech site. The queries and sorting for large, heavily accessed data sets can be expensive, especially with complicating factors like privacy, hierarchy, or Reddit's various hotness/best/rising/etc sorting logic involved. This stuff relies on a whole lot of different layers of caching to function.
Every time a subreddit went dark, there were a whole lot of caches being made stale, getting flushed, or being regenerated.
Funny enough, I bet the way the going-dark process progressed (a steady trickle) was much more taxing on their infrastructure than if the subreddits had coordinated a unified going-dark all at the same time, say at midnight GMT. Easier to regenerate everything all at once than it is to have to repeatedly invalidate caches again and again.
I was running to get my train. For a reason i still can't explain, in the station entrance hatch, i turned right instead of continue right and hit the glass with my face. I have now a scar near the eyebrow.
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The preview looked pretty awesome. Visually, it looks much more stunning than previous Bethesda games. The zero-G environments looked really cool. I'm glad to see them branching out into sci-fi.
With poor air quality and orange skies across the US east coast, some have speculated it could influence beliefs on climate change. Richard Fisher explores what the psychological research has to say....
Perhaps. This was one of the details I really enjoyed in the recent sci-fi/drama anthology "Extrapolations" (on AppleTV+): things are just on fire, everywhere, all the time, right from the first episode. And it just gets worse as the series progresses.
For those who don't know it, the show is a little bit Black Mirror-esque in that it's a dystopian anthology. But while black mirror uses technology's effect on people and society as its lens for driving plot and conflict, Extrapolations uses climate change.
There's a wildfire in the Adirondacks at the end of the first episode (a little prescient considering the smoke over NY recently). References to wildfires (or imagery of them) are nearly continuous; Israel, Russia, US, India, South America... everywhere. Scene after scene of smoke-choked skies.
I heard a lot of people filing this under "unrealistic" or "alarmist" when the series first debuted, especially since it was like that even in the near-future early episodes. But having lived through a lot of west coast wildfires and blood-red Blade Runner skies myself, I thought that we're already kinda there, and it's just gonna get more common. And here we are, just a few months later with hundreds of fires all over Canada. At 10.6 million acres, it's already the worst wildfire season in Canadian history, and the 4th largest wildfire outbreak of the 21st century anywhere, meanwhile it's still the beginning of the wildfire season before the west coast has even really begun.
San Junipero and some others mentioned are definitely gems. But I've gotta defend one of the episodes that the piece was picking on: "Playtest." Playtest is the horror episode where the guy demoing the VR implant ends up living a perceived nightmare fusing his life experiences with the horror video game.
That episode really stuck with me.
I always figured that technologies like VR implants, cognitive enhancement implants, consciousness upload, etc would come to exist. My general opinion about that was excited and positive. But this episode emphasizes the loss of control that comes with that. Once your cognition has been interfaced with or uploaded/simulated, you can no longer trust reality. You have no way to be able to definitively prove whether you're experiencing the real world or a simulation or modification again. Freaky stuff.
That other episode, "Hang the DJ" has some of that same existential dread in it, though it's played off more bittersweet. The characters are completely simulated and are "killed" at the end of the episode. Their entire existence was essentially for the purposes of a dating app genetic algorithm to determine matchmaking compatibility for the real people equivalents in the actual world.
Westworld S2 and beyond dabbled a lot with these topics too.
It can all really hamper your enthusiasm to participate in digital consciousness. San Junipero was a rare example of it being portrayed positively in Black Mirror. Who knows, perhaps we're already in such a simulated reality?
I just bought a pair of white Kef Q150s and am blown away by the imaging at nearfield listening. Also, with some EQ they can handle down to ~35hz so I don't feel the need for a small sub to fill in the low end (granted I won't use them for movies).
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Not new electronics, but just picked up new earpads for my Sennheiser HD650s after a decade of faithful service. Gotta love the durability and the replaceable/serviceable parts.
Totally agreed. The GM solution of using g-force is interesting. And the Ioniq solution of letter-of-the-law, showing nothing even during intense regen deceleration is clearly not safe.
While we're re-thinking brake lights, it would be nice to add some other affordances too. It would be nice to have an indicator of intensity of braking/deceleration, not just a binary feedback.
For example, why not add some strobing lights to extremely hard braking (like the sort of braking you might do if you're on the highway and there's a massive collision right in front of you). Something that unambiguously signals "extreme danger, prepare to react" to the people behind you.
Or a brake light color or shape that indicates you're at a complete stop.
Or more generally, perhaps brake light intensity should be a graduated, dimmer brake lights for gentle braking and intense ones for rapid braking.
Tech enables a lot more options and information these days, it'd be nice to explore making some improvements. EV transition is a good time considering some of our expectations are changing anyways.
Though as a newbie, I almost died within the first few minutes. It started me on some radioactive hell-world, I have no idea what I'm doing, and then it spawned some sort of radiation superstorm. It's telling me to seek shelter in a cave or structure.... there are no caves or structures! And I'm fresh out of sodium. The storm stopped with just a sliver of health left, I dunno if it was going easy on me or if I just got lucky.
Anyone else dislike the "(Feat. GuestArtist)" in track titles?
Apple Music's convention of putting guest artists/vocalists in the track titles drives me a little bit crazy....
Looks like some subreddits are extending the blackout
Cyberpunk’s expansion totally overhauls the original game (www.videogameschronicle.com)
So I think this is a good one for the patient gamers… I actually already played this soon after it came out and still really enjoyed it, although the world felt like it didn’t have any real people in it the city is just fantastic and visually appealing. I imagine this update will transform the game entirely, I’m looking...
I didn't really get Starfield until Bethesda revealed we could just go around stealing giant space sandwiches (www.pcgamer.com)
Forget charting a thousand alien worlds; I just wanna be a snack pirate.
My biggest problem with kbin
The biggest problem with kbin is honestly quite simple, but I don't people is talking about is the fact that finding the magazines that I'm subscribed to is in Settings > Subscribed, on Reddit, it's literally in the top bar, I don't get why it's buried in settings. Another thing is why is my home page full of posts from...
Here are the official PC system requirements for Cities: Skylines 2 (www.dsogaming.com)
Paradox Interactive has shared the official PC system requirements for its upcoming city builder, Cities: Skylines 2.
What's new in Swift 5.9? What are some of the changes that interest you most? (www.hackingwithswift.com)
A few of the 5.9 changes as summarized on the Hacking With Swift blog....
Reddit blaming website crashing on subreddits going private (www.theverge.com)
Reddit went through some issues for many on Monday, with the outage happening the same day as thousands of subreddits going dark to protest the site’s new API pricing terms....
What's the dumbest way you hurt yourself ?
I was running to get my train. For a reason i still can't explain, in the station entrance hatch, i turned right instead of continue right and hit the glass with my face. I have now a scar near the eyebrow.
Will Canada wildfires change how people think about climate change?
With poor air quality and orange skies across the US east coast, some have speculated it could influence beliefs on climate change. Richard Fisher explores what the psychological research has to say....
Black Mirror’s Bittersweet Endings Are More Powerful Than Its Cruel Twists
The emotional complexity of San Junipero, Be Right Back and more outstrips the shock value of Black Mirror's bleakest twist endings....
Electric cars prove we need to rethink brake lights - Technology Connections (www.youtube.com)