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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
Terrible game with awful story.
What did you try to get that impression?
I don't understand the question.
Or were you just into speedrunning the main questline on a PS4? (The best parts were definitely in some of the side missions, which had some truly excellent storytelling. And the initial release ran pretty well on my PC even if I couldn't turn on all the graphical features…)
PC with graphics maxed out, finished every sidequest in the game (except two that got bugged). Haven't noticed any great story telling. Occasional good characterization or well structured dialog couldn't help when drowning in an ocean of crap.
If you finished the whole game and every side quest, it couldn't have been that bad.
Not only could, but was and still is.
I toyed with an idea of writing an article about why CP is terrible and why it means CDP will never again rise above mediocre shlock level. But I figured it would be pretty long piece, which means a lot of work and probably noone would read it anyway. So
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
Not only could, but was and still is.
So… just how many hours have you put into something you dislike so much? And why?
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
GTA remaster is a whole new level of no fucks given. There's no other event in recent gaming history that comes even close to it.
Tell me you don't play Pokemon without telling me you don't play Pokemon
cries in Brilliant Diamond / Shining Pearl
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
Not only could, but was and still is.
So… just how many hours have you put into something you dislike so much? And why?
"You don't know what you're talking about" doesn't stick, so "you liked it because you played it". Yeah, no.
I waited a long time for this game, so I wanted to see all of it. When it dawned on me that it's shit I tried to find some good parts of it. When I realized that there's almost none* I played for a kind of masochistic amusement. Last part was just to complete it and be done with it forever.
* I'm talking about characters, dialogue and story, not technical aspects. Shooting is decent for example.
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
* I'm talking about characters, dialogue and story, not technical aspects. Shooting is decent for example.
Funny. This is the exact opposite of my experience. Shooting - and combat in general - was below average at best. But I liked the characters.
When it dawned on me that it's shit I tried to find some good parts of it. When I realized that there's almost none* I played for a kind of masochistic amusement.
Masochists - destroying every logical theory in the entire field of psychology since 1883.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
GTA remaster is a whole new level of no fucks given. There's no other event in recent gaming history that comes even close to it.
Tell me you don't play Pokemon without telling me you don't play Pokemon
cries in Brilliant Diamond / Shining Pearl
Did BP/SP have any game breaking bugs? Distorted character models? Missing collisions everywhere? Broken lighting in cutscenes that makes all characters black? Was the game code a literal copy of the original with all the same bugs plus more?
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
GTA remaster is a whole new level of no fucks given. There's no other event in recent gaming history that comes even close to it.
Tell me you don't play Pokemon without telling me you don't play Pokemon
cries in Brilliant Diamond / Shining Pearl
Did BP/SP have any game breaking bugs? Distorted character models? Missing collisions everywhere? Broken lighting in cutscenes that makes all characters black? Was the game code a literal copy of the original with all the same bugs plus more?
They haven’t released yet, but they’re going to be straight cash grab ports with a couple qol features from the newer generation and the most challenging late game content cut. Same as the last generational rereleases were. Which is at least somewhat a step up from the odd generation “version 2” rerelease of Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon which was the same exact game for the full purchase price again, but just adding more legendaries from earlier games in a post-game cave.
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@izzion Is it farmed out to a third party developer called "Pallet Town Games"?
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@izzion Is it farmed out to a third party developer called "Pallet Town Games"?
The Diamond/Pearl port was farmed out to a third party that hasn't done Pokemon work before, but I don't recall the name and to look it up. But that's also been contributing to the general freakout in the "high end" communities.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
* I'm talking about characters, dialogue and story, not technical aspects. Shooting is decent for example.
Funny. This is the exact opposite of my experience. Shooting - and combat in general - was below average at best. But I liked the characters.
The only well done character is Rogue (in no small part thanks to Jane Perry), but they had to ruin her in the finale of course.
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@izzion The question is: are you getting them? I don't think I am, kinda waiting to see what develops with the competitive scene. Moving to the remakes would be cool, but I doubt it's gonna happen =(
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@HannibalRex said in In other news today...:
@izzion The question is: are you getting them? I don't think I am, kinda waiting to see what develops with the competitive scene. Moving to the remakes would be cool, but I doubt it's gonna happen =(
I'm a sucker for new paint. Pre-order is due to arrive on Friday.
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
it means CDP will never again rise above mediocre shlock level.
Consumer Data Package?
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@Tsaukpaetra well, CD-Projekt definitely thinks it’s got some consumer data packages in Cyberpunk 2077…
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra well, CD-Projekt definitely thinks it’s got some consumer data packages in Cyberpunk 2077…
I like Communal Dumpster Pyre too.
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@Tsaukpaetra that is definitely apt for this situation.
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In the news today …
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( ) Maybe the Russians have developed a force field and want to sell it for a higher price.
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Non-garage feel-good story:
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Pre-order
You have formally waived your rights to complain about game quality.
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@Bulb don't want to get too -y, but you've got to absolutely love politicians' disclaimers. (Not about Russia specifically)
In the news here, they reported some Russian spokesperson replying to the accusations with roughly "there is no evidence of Russian anti-satellite missiles". Not "we didn't do it," just "you can't prove we did it." I mean, this might be just a lost-in-translation thing, but I believe without hesitation that's the kind of extremely transparent "we don't even care" statement they'd put out.
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Metal cooling? In my commercial applications?
It might be closer than you think…
I’m inferring it’s probably a breeder too.
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@kazitor Yes, it is a “breeder”, the ARS article implies that.
There is some large-scale project/set of projects running for some time with a goal of designing a bunch of “SMR”, small modular reactors, that would make building new nuclear powerplants faster and cheaper—because wind and solar isn't going to cut it, probably ever. This Natrium design is one of them.
Here is a comprehensive, though rather long, article describing all the related developments:
Note that most of the designs are breeders, because purifying U²³⁵ is expensive, and there is not that much of it actually, and the breeders can just be seeded with it and then can convert other, much more common, isotopes to fissile material to continue operating.
Most of the designs also switch away from water to other cooling media, which allows them to operate at higher temperatures and therefore achieve higher thermodynamic efficiency.
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For the longest time, I thought that small reactors were a solved problem, seeing as we have nuclear-powered submarines and boats.
Of course, I now know that those boats weren't all that small....Would it make sense to build nuclear plants in the shape of ships? They could be produced in one location, and then sail to where the "plant" will be set up. The final land-site would have to have the form of a dry-dock, but that could be manageable, maybe. As another potential benefit, after the useful life-cycle of a reactor, decommissioning and transporting it to a dedicated tear-down site would be simpler than it is now.
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@acrow Many of the “small” reactors in this project is actually still larger than the ones on ships and submarines. E.g. Virginia class subs have 210MW reactors and this Natrium is 345MW. It's more about:
- revisiting the other designs that allow breeding more fuel and higher thermal efficiency—the ship reactors are mostly pressure water reactors—and
- making them modular and suitable for sort of serial production—the ship ones are still custom-designed for each ship class.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Would it make sense to build nuclear plants in the shape of ships? They could be produced in one location, and then sail to where the "plant" will be set up. The final land-site would have to have the form of a dry-dock, but that could be manageable, maybe. As another potential benefit, after the useful life-cycle of a reactor, decommissioning and transporting it to a dedicated tear-down site would be simpler than it is now.
All I'm hearing is Nuclear-Powered Mecha Turtle.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
making them modular and suitable for sort of serial production—the ship ones are still custom-designed for each ship class.
I was aware. But I was thinking about turning the concept around; design a ship around a larger reactor. A ship whose only purpose is to be that reactor's chassis. It's basically the only way to ship something that size in one piece from the factory to the final installation location. Otherwise you'll have to assemble on-site, with all that entails.
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@acrow There is at least one such concept, a kind of floating power plant, indeed. The others are supposed to be assembled on site, but using standardized modules with some flexibility provided by the connecting elements instead of tweaking the design at arbitrary places.
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@acrow
mother Russia got you covered!
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@Luhmann, the commie thread is
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@Luhmann Yup, that's the one I heard of as well. It's still a pressure water reactor though, while the new developments are about revisiting the other options.
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@Bulb
yeah Russia is still sticking to it's strong points of reactor design
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@Luhmann I think they are working on some new options as well. The article does mention both the Akademik Lomonosov barge and some new developments that should be light enough to move by heavy helicopter (max 20t !)
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Close one for the 2021 bingo:
Luckily nobody dropped it.
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"Beep, beep!"
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@JBert Bad news for the roadrunner, there are coyotes in Maine, too.
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Rolling in style:
It's actually an APC.
Batchelor said the insurance for the vehicle is cheaper than for his family's Honda Civic.
I guess nobody dares to come close.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Batchelor said the insurance for the vehicle is cheaper than for his family's Honda Civic.
I guess nobody dares to come close.
I imagine very few people crash tanks, but many people crash Honda Civics.
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@loopback0 also Norwich is in the county of Norfolk and people from the UK may be aware of the phrase "Normal for Norfolk"
Normal for Norfolk (or NFN) is a slang term used in some parts of England for something that is peculiar, or odd.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
I imagine very few people crash tanks
And those that do aren't going to worry about a scratch in the paint. Plus, you don't have to worry about repairing the other car!
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Today in reading the headlines and looking no further.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Today in reading the headlines and looking no further.
Too bad, I'll let you know now that she's a career criminal:
The court was told the defendant had previously been convicted in 2005 for assaulting her brother with three sticks of rhubarb during a family spat.
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@DogsB unexpectedly sexy aliens laughing gif?
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Article @DogsB posted in In other news today... said:
“The conversion from ASCII As, Ts, Gs, and Cs into a stream of bits is done in a fixed-size buffer that assumes a reasonable maximum read length,” explained co-author Karl Koscher in response to my requests for more technical information.
That makes it ripe for a basic buffer overflow attack in which programs execute arbitrary code because it falls outside expected parameters. (They cheated a little by introducing a particular vulnerability into the software themselves, but they also point out that similar ones are present elsewhere, just not as conveniently for purposes of demonstration.)
Oh. So it's really nothing about DNA, just the program that was fucktards developed.
Wanna bet it's written in C?
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@Tsaukpaetra The distinction is that DNA is not usually considered "user input" that needs a
securitytrust and validation boundary. When it totally is.
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@TwelveBaud said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra The distinction is that DNA is not usually considered "user input" that needs a
securitytrust and validation boundary. When it totally is.It doesn't matter if it's "user" or "automated" or whatever. If it's not coming from yourself (and in actuality, in many cases even if it is!) you always guard and gate until you're absolutely certain that nothing less than a cosmic event can let the information escape, erase, or otherwise unexpectedly alter the expected state of the program. And since that's incredibly unlikely...