World be worth getting for the multiplayer alone. That was always good fun, unless you were among the people that could not connect to anyone because you forgot to sacrifice your unborn child to the sun god of some strange networking reason.
The launch price is what killed it. In a genre dominated by AA games, games need to use AA pricetags.
Which is literally just German for Bavarian Motor Works.
Basically me every time I open a website on my work laptop, where I cannot add browser extensions because of IT policies.
I honestly cannot fathom why large companies don’t include at least simple adblockers in their browser configurations. I don’t even need to block youtube ads, the banners on stackoverflow are bass enough). Would probably save fairly significant amounts of bandwidth, too.
Cars being online has some tangible benefits in that they can transmit location data to emergency services, especially if the driver is unresponsive. Might save someone from dying in a ditch in the middle of nowhere.
Arguably, some of the data collected while driving is also very useful for maintenance and development (e.g. if a lot of vehicles start having a similar issue after X miles).
That said, this data should be limited in scope and use (e.g. must not be sold, especially not to insurance companies), as well as anonymized as much as possible. Which is currently not the case, and that definitely needs regulation.
The trick with nicknames is using them in alphabetical order.
You can prefix the coordinates with the name of the current nearest star or center of galaxy.
Universal coordinates are fairly useless anyway, given how everything moves around in space.
Hey, don’t forget the Matlab people
This page lists all links that OM is supposed to open, including GM.
A knife in close quarters is insanely dangerous. Using guns against an attacker with a knife is not really an escalation.
That said, the situation should never have escalated to the point where there is someone attacking with a knife.
German also has Trauring (and related words) going back to that root. Although it’s rather archaic and not used nearly as much as Ehe or Heirat. And then there’s Hochzeit for just the ceremony.
I never realized how many words we use for wedding…
Yes, this does nothing for game dev. But I don’t think it was supposed to.
The fact that this is a genAI Model generating a reasonable, context aware image a whopping 20 times a second is nonetheless pretty impressive.
I was just about to comment exactly this. Complete with finally changing the difficulty back to normal while fighting Moder.
We also found that Moder’s health was so high that the fight was not doable in a day, leaving us fighting packs of wolves (which could two shot us while blocking) during the night as well.
That’s pretty useful of you’re at a concert holding a beer though!
The jupyter console is just a better version of the interactive shell. Great for just trying out some lines of code.
I also use notebooks at work to try out some APIs, to skip the tedium of the initial setup or some other routines.
I played it as a kid and then some friends reintroduced me to it on uni, including time of custom maps and game modes (the rules of which had to be enforced by ourselves)
Like maps where you only had rope, but there was a crate spawn every turn.
Or where you had to rope over a spire in the center of the map before you were allowed to attack, with a 45s turn timer to make it even spicier.
At some points, we even projected the game above the blackboard while doing coursework, which was as about as productive as it sounds.
That still leaves the microphone.
The actual simple and sane solution would just be to require indicator leds hardwired to the literal power supply lines of the camera chip/microphone, so they’re physically impossible top turn off while recording.
But that would require US or EU legislation.
I want an animated show of the Stormlight Archives. Something in the style of the Netflix Castlevania series or similar. I don’t think a live action show could do it justice without an insane budget.