Paradox owns the world of darkness ip entirely right now. I wonder if this call to refocus their efforts on their core competencies will mean selling it off.

They haven’t done too well with it. They’ve released several games and I think some solo dev interactive fiction have been the only ones getting positive reviews: Earthblood, Swansong, Bloodhunt, and now Bloodlines 2 have all done pretty poorly. Even the tabletop RPG has seen better days, with 5th edition causing quite the controversy, mostly with Werewolf. Hell they closed White Wolf down for a while because the books caused controversy.

Paradox have done a terrible job with the IP.

I played pretty much the same way De_Narm did. I tried caring less, though because I had no idea what would come next, it inevitably descended into spaghetti. I am stressed out about technical debt enough at work to be playing a technical debt simulator lol.

Dedicating the space needed to expand, ensuring everything you build is scalable, inevitably requires you to know a lot about what’s coming.

Yeah, if you know what you’re doing you can avoid these issues. I did not enjoy myself in the slightest, so after some hours of giving it a chance I decided that learning how to avoid these issues was not worth the pain. I’ll just stick to work instead.

I feel vindicated. I have the exact same feeling of factorio feeling too much like work, having to refactor everything because the requirements change is one of the more frustrating parts of software engineering imo, and the game feels tailored specifically to invoke that frustration.

I imagine that part gets better after the first hundred hours where you basically know what’s coming. I don’t have the patience to learn the tech tree though, given that I don’t even enjoy the game.

Very useful on the off chance that vampires are real. Otherwise… Less so.

Nice. Hope they can keep it up, even if the new oil drilling going on makes one sceptical. Of course while there is a demand for oil there’ll be a big incentive to drill, we really need to wean ourselves off the dead dino goop soon.

I mean, yeah. The splats are not made to be balanced between each other. The themes that each splat is about are wildly different as well.

It’s neat the mechanics allow cross play between the games though. The world would strangely feel smaller if they normalized the power scale across every game line.

Oh. Yeah most bands used by satellites are also regulated.

You can do this same attack on any antenna, noise can’t be protocolled away. Repeating both signal and noise is a downside to bent-pipe setups.

Input frequencies are regulated via band-pass filters.

Typically satellites have beams they turn on and off to service different areas, with one beam pointing towards the RAN that receives the data rather than just repeating a broadcast out to everywhere the satellite can theoretically reach. For mobile telecom backhaul via satellite it is standardized that the data should be encrypted for untrusted transport links so this seems to me like an issue of not following specs.

I feel these kinds of protection, against suicidal language etc, will just lead to even further self-censorship to avoid triggering safeguards, similar to how terms like unalive gained traction.

AI should be regulated, but forcing them to do corpospeech and be ‘safe’ even harder than they already do in order to protect vulnerable children is not the way. I don’t like that being the way any tech moves and is a part of why I’m on Lemmy in the first place.

The character.ai case the article mentioned already was the ai failing to ‘pick up on’ (yes I know that is anthropomorphizing an algorithm) a euphemism for suicide. Filters would need to be ridiculous to catch every suicidal euphemism possible and lead to a tonne of false positives.

The fools! The cowards! We should take away their metal boxes!

Twin films I think that phenomena is called.

Here’s a few movies it might be: Donnie Darko, Frequency, the final cut,

I haven’t been actively job searching lately, but based on the recruiters cold contacting me about job offers I’d say no, I don’t recognize this at all.

Honestly doesn’t seem like a terrible idea. Yeah reducing our emissions is better but frankly I do not have faith that is going to happen, certainly not to the extent that would be needed.

Of course we are playing with fire here, but if we can also ensure these plants are bad at naturally propagating then I guess we should be ok.

Steam vr sucks. I got Monado working alright with a bunch of fiddling around, though I don’t use fbt so no idea how well that part works. I’m using an index btw.

Only unsolved issue I have is that I can’t get steam vr to update my base stations.

The country that barely has an edge on Ukraine? Lol

That they failed to predict our CO2 output would jump up to 35 billion tonnes a year is probably not their fault back when the Ford model T had just entered production a couple years ago.

Straight to jail I’m afraid.

Most hotels I’ve been to have milk and oat meal too, basically what I’d get an average day. Nah I’ve been fine with hotel breakfast even travelling for work, pretty much the same shit I eat at home and then some occasional candy like food like waffles and pancakes.

Couldn’t really find any sources, but honestly it sounds reasonable enough. Engines are way more specialized for their single mechanical task than our legs are.

Of course you also move around way, way more weight most of the time. The mass/payload ratio is way worse with cars than with bikes so the comparable thermal efficiency would need to be greater to make up for that.

Beyond being a curiosity it is a moot point anyways. Humans need exercise to be healthy, and as you said, there are other environmental factors like car construction, gas refinement, etc. That I imagine mostly favour bikes too.