[MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences!
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    saucyloggins
    1y ago 83%

    You could also drive an old hooptie with 300,000 miles on it and it might work for a period of time but don't bitch at your mechanic when the engine finally gives out.

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  • [MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences!
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    saucyloggins
    1y ago 97%

    You're throwing back "It just works." at them because you failed to maintain a Windows VM that you haven't updated in FIVE YEARS? Not to mention that you really expect game dev studios test and support running a game in virtual box??

    If you want to do something tech savvy, that's on you to do the tech part.

    This has to be one of the most wild "gamer" complaints I've ever seen.

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  • MIT Economist Daron Acemoğlu Takes on Big Tech: "Our Future Will Be Very Dystopian"
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    saucyloggins
    1y ago 97%

    Trump is almost 1:1 a character straight from Transmetropolitan.

    Then you have people like Elon that are straight from any cyberpunk media corporate heads.

    The parallels between the themes of a cyberpunk dystopia and the present are drawing pretty close.

    We just don’t get any of the cool shit like cybernetic implants.

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  • Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic)
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    saucyloggins
    1y ago 100%

    That’s what makes this even more of an issue. The game isn’t procedural. They used procedural tooling but everything is set in stone now. They could’ve gone through and cleaned up and tweaked everything so it didn’t feel bland. Doesn’t sound like they did.

    I knew the writing/rpg aspect was going to be shallow like all of Bethesda games but, they always had fun exploration so this is unfortunate to me. It sounds like they reuse assets a lot, even in the main quest line. Like same buildings with the same enemy placement just on a different planet.

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  • The best thing about being a Bard is that Performance is a free action
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    saucyloggins
    1y ago 100%

    Lol I do the same. Went from “what is this? It doesn’t do anything why is this here?” to doing doing it every turn because I’m a god damn bard.

    My favorite is that if you get hit the song gets interrupted for the rest of the turn. Like it was actually doing anything to begin with. I guess it makes me want to get some serious revenge.

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  • [Discussion] Devs and Devops: if you have running containers in production, how are you upgrading those containers?
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    saucyloggins
    1y ago 100%

    We do migrations for schema on app startup (built into the app).

    Any general data changes are done outside the pipeline as a pre or post deployment step.

    Migrations on startup aren’t perfect, you have to be careful that it doesn’t take too long on startup.

    Honestly the pros outweighs the cons. You can fire up a new site/db without much effort which is something we do often.

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  • No one will notice…
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    saucyloggins
    1y ago 91%

    The grass is the obvious issue but what is up what that fence? Why even have one at that point? What are they keeping out? Foliage?

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  • The Weekly Discussion Topic - Roguelikes - 28-07-2023
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    saucyloggins
    1y ago 100%

    Do yourself a favor and pick up Dead Cells. It’s absolutely amazing.

    They’ve added so much content to it over the years but the runs are still like 30-45 minutes. The randomized items and gear are masterfully done. It’s like mini-diablo gear builds in 30 minutes, but better than recent Diablos. You get item synergies going etc.

    The platforming/combat is snappy and satisfying.

    It also understands what makes roguelike games fun that a lot of roguelite games miss. Each run feels different and new so it’s always exciting to start a new run.

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  • Could we have had Beast Wars in the 60s?
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    saucyloggins
    1y ago 97%

    That’s because the government has had tech way beyond even what we have today. They just peace-meal it out to us bro. They’ve been coordinating mass propaganda against us 1984 style since like. Before 1984.

    Also. The government is so incompetent they can’t provide health care better than private insurance companies. Obviously.

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  • on the fence about 1st playthrough
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    saucyloggins
    1y ago 100%

    I don’t think the recommendation is about knowing the rules.

    I think it’s recommended that Dark Urge is only played after your first play through because something with the character is going to drastically change the story and your decisions. Just judging from the name alone it sounds like you’re going to have to fight against the character to make decisions in the game that aren’t evil or what not.

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  • who sets these prices?
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    saucyloggins
    1y ago 100%

    Maybe not a touchpad, but I DEFINITELY remember adaptive triggers while playing Super Mario Bros on NES. It made the jumps extra fun. Also the gyro controls on the card game were really neat.

    I wish they’d finally add other cool features to controllers since than rather than just the trackpad.

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  • Diablo 4 Update Shakes Up World Tiers, Buffs Silent Chests
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    saucyloggins
    1y ago 100%

    That’s why seasons are good though. I enjoy leveling up new characters. I don’t have much interest grinding for hours and hours and hours to level 100.

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  • Unilever will let Russia employees be conscripted
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    saucyloggins
    1y ago 90%

    But you don’t understand! It’s not straightforward!

    They totally care about the employees there. It’s definitely not about the profit they made that had them paying 33m in taxes to Russia last year.

    I’m sure they offered to relocate the employees and not you know, just leave them working in the country to get conscripted.

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  • Is firefox with ublock or brave better in terms of resource consumption?
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    saucyloggins
    1y ago 100%

    The default homepage on Edge alone is enough to make me never use Edge willingly.

    I don’t know what that Bing/MSN abomination is but it’s reprehensible. It’s the most clickbait tabloid garbage I’ve ever seen. The fact that a company that makes hand over fist on enterprise is willing to sully their new browser with that fucking page makes me lose so much faith in humanity.

    I know it’s an easily changed setting but there’s millions and millions of people that won’t change it at home or at work being exposed to that garbage.

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  • Lemmy.world update: Downtime today / Cloudflare
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    saucyloggins
    1y ago 100%

    Lol. Just for shits and giggles I want to entertain this for a second.

    You’d probably want to pay hackers in a country that isn’t friendly with the US to do this. Russia, North Korea, China, Iran.

    Three of those countries are heavily sanctioned right now. I wouldn’t want sketchy money flowing to Russia at the moment even if it didn’t technically fall under sanctions since money flow is being scrutinized. Same with NK and Iran.

    So that would leave China. I think you could get away with it there pretty easily.

    And lo and behold….

    https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/28/cloudflare-partners-with-jd-to-expand-its-network-in-china/amp/

    :tinfoilhat:

    With that said though. Getting that info leaked out would be extremely damaging and totally not worth the risk.

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  • I can’t believe how fully featured this app is already. It works great and I’ve had no major issues so far. I had posted a comment earlier on the desktop but it may have gotten lost. The UI could use a bit of cosmetic tweaks. Nothing major. Just make contrast between elements a bit more subtle in light mode. Things like that. I have gotten some exceptionally large images on posts. But this is miles above anything I’ve used yet. I adore it. Kudos.

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