Carighan

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[–] Carighan 2 points 12 hours ago

Oh the grenade part was so silly. "Hey we are removing the stun, too much CC and let's be honest, it makes it far too easy to blow up stunned flankers".

...

"Here, as a replacement that's a homing grenade that just straight up kills the flanker, no stunning necessary."

Okay, I guess. 🤷

[–] Carighan 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That's the worst part, back when they were new, at least Sonos had a cool USP. Nowadays others do remote access and smart speakers too, and Sonos is still overpriced, still mediocre hardware, and now doesn't even have a nicely integrated all-in-one-app any more.

[–] Carighan 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, hence the 'to a degree'. Although I should have expanded upon that to include that while you should always be careful (same with pitted cherries or so), a bone that big is weird to still be in there.

[–] Carighan 4 points 13 hours ago

Same. For me the final straw was when it started desynchronising from actual progress when playing podcasts, which means every time I pause and resume I'm somewhere else I the episode.

[–] Carighan 1 points 14 hours ago

Yep, exactly that. Thanks, I was confused until I saw your comment.

[–] Carighan 8 points 14 hours ago

Did the fax go down from CrowdStrike? No. The superior communication medium!

[–] Carighan 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I've never seen those stickers, do they only get used in some countries?

[–] Carighan -5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Most people in countries where guns are regulated would not get access to a gun for hunting, mind you. Unless your job is to be a forester, which over here includes selectively shooting animations to balance populations if something goes out of balance.

"I want to get my own deer meat from the forest" is not a valid reason to get a gun. Or even a bow!

[–] Carighan 9 points 15 hours ago

Keep in mind that the person you reply to isn't wrong: Big corpos would still be lobbying, as they got the resources to hide it effectively and keep everyone trying to sue them over suspicions of lobbying stuck in litigation hell.

Anybody less affluent would however find it impossible to do any lobby work. Environmental agencies etc.

This is one of those situations where just outlawing something does the least affect the very party you would want to hit most.

[–] Carighan 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

At least here in Germany this is apparently still not true as smokers in particular add a huge cost to the healthcare system due to the long-term and repeated damage. For example, once they get parts of their feet amputated from clogged arteries, most actually continue to smoke ("Ah well now it's too late anyways"), and hence will get half a dozen such amputations over time.

[–] Carighan 18 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

This makes sense to a degree, tbh. You cannot guarantee full removal anyways, at least over here a filetted fish still says that there might be the odd leftover bone in there.

It's like, "yeah it's 99% and any reasonable person would not assume 100% anyways".

 

I mean, he's not wrong that the app wasn't ready. Which begs the question why they didn't un-roll-it-out. >.>

 

From the article:

"Play is an integral part of human evolution and learning," she says, mentioning that this is a topic she covers in her book. "Gaming, being the most refined form of play in our time, has much to offer. Instead of focusing on what gaming is not, it's more effective to showcase its true essence. The industry's effort to create a more diverse range of games, beyond merely violent and intense ones, will help showcase the broad spectrum of gaming as an expression of creativity."

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Interesting bits:

Net bookings of €290.0 million, ahead of target of around €275.0 million

As Ubisoft progresses on expanding its presence in GaaS-native experiences, a strong pipeline of content for current Live titles was also presented at Ubisoft Forward

🤮

Ubisoft shareholders approved all resolutions on the agenda of its Annual General Meeting held on July 11 by a very large majority highlighting the strong confidence of the shareholders in Ubisoft’s strategy. In particular, the shareholders voted for the renewal of Yves Guillemot’s as director.

😑

 

What's interesting to me is of course how cheaply Bioshock got made compared to today's blockbuster hits. Somewhere, we took the wrong turn in regards to modern game development, truly.

Too many managers to pay and as a result too high personel costs, I would assume. :<

 

Also free to keep on Steam here.

I have not personally played it yet, though I have seen it before. Seems above-average, if far from perfect. Anyone know more about it?

 

So yeah, EA is going full apeshit on Apex Legends monetization, doubling the number of battle passes and removing the ability to buy them ingame. Great. 😑 Good thing I left that game what feels like forever ago.

 

This really does not sound healthy. The game is released, for a certain amount of money. If people don't like what they get for their money, they simply should not buy it.

But by now gamers have been so trained to expect to endless content treadmills and all their ilk like mtx and battle passes that publishers/developers get egged on if they don't work on their game 24/7 and forever.

 

Some information about upcoming job adjustment.

In particular interesting is that they listened to the specific request of adding artificial emnity to the now-damage-less gapclosers of GNB and DRK, and that they are once again wasting the chance of giving Astro an actual mobility tool in favor of further baking Lightspeed into the 2m-burst. Sigh.

 

GOG link posted, Steam link is here. I tried a demo what feels like forever ago, neat little colony builder.

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