Currently studying CS and some other stuff. Best known for previously being top 50 (OCE) in LoL, expert RoN modder, and creator of RoN:EE’s community patch (CBP).
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I guess it could be used in many different ways, but when I read it I thought of it in the context of a homebrew campaign’s lore (maybe ttrpg memes have corrupted my mind?)
Region code 0 (“Worldwide”) discs work in all regions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code
There is this
The messages, obtained by The Atlantic, were also turned over by Trump Jr.’s lawyers to congressional investigators. They are part of a long—and largely one-sided—correspondence between WikiLeaks and the president’s son that continued until at least July 2017. The messages show WikiLeaks, a radical transparency organization that the American intelligence community believes was chosen by the Russian government to disseminate the information it had hacked, actively soliciting Trump Jr.’s cooperation.
I don’t personally know much about it beyond that.
I thought Frozen Synapse’s ability to let you simulate your opponent’s moves was super cool - surprised I didn’t end up seeing it in more strategy games (obviously not so much applicable to the normal real-time stuff though!).
If you read the article, which part of the last-resort financial consequences do you deem insufficient to curb the “absorb the fines” business approach?
Supermarkets that fail to meet these requirements would open themselves to fines worth three times any benefit they derived from their misconduct.
Alternatively, the fine could be up to $10 million, or 10 per cent of the supermarket’s annual turnover if the benefit can’t be determined.
Those fines would need to be approved by a court, but consumer watchdog the ACCC could also issue up-front infringement notices worth up to $187,800 if they believe there has been a breach.
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Happy stomping!
On the modding side there are differing opinions on how much to change. I stuck with mostly the QoL and performance-improvement stuff, but there are mods to do things like add additional mission variety and improve AI. I’m hesitant to provide many recommendations for specific mods because the last time I was playing was before the most recent couple of DLCs, and I don’t know if the mods I used back then are still current / updated. An example that I think still works fine would be QOL Upgrades 2 - Thermals and Headlights - small things like headlights imo should just be in the base game but aren’t.
DLC-wise I’ve only played half of them (waiting on sales for the rest!), but for example Legend of the Kestrel Lancers gives you a self-contained storyline of maybe a dozen missions or so. The main thing about those missions for me personally is that the maps are unique (and not just rehashed procgen) and there’s supporting dialogue with some cinematics etc. So the gameplay overall is mostly pretty similar if you drill down to it, but the window dressing on top of it largely addressed the lifeless feeling of all the procgen missions (again, at least for me!).
It looks like both The Dragon’s Gambit and Rise of Rasalhague are similar in that they add a set of new once-off missions, but I’ve yet to play them personally. I guess you could try watching a bit of gameplay from a let’s play of them or something to see if it tickles your fancy. The reviews on the DLCs hovers around 70% on Steam, so it’s not as though they were universally well-liked and to be honest they might not be enough for you if you weren’t at least lukewarm on the base game already.
For most people it’s a collector’s item, so how well it works probably not so important.
Intel has denied the original claim’s accuracy, saying the reported problem is “not the root cause”:
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-denies-reports-that-it-identified-a-root-cause-for-core-i9-crashing-issues-investigation-continues (thanks @edgemaster72@lemmy.world)
??? Why the hell did my link get turned into a link back to Fedia lmao
Procrastination is a hell of a drug
I worry that if mass graves due to covid weren’t enough to jolt near-unanimous support for protective measures, little else will. Would of course love to be proven wrong :(
edit: for the sake of clarity / not accidentally misrepresenting things, graves would be dug up there (as per the article) with/without covid, but the number of bodies being buried in that manner went to ~7x the amount during non-covid according to the article.
Yeah, she seems to hang around with HolostarsEN a bunch
Still a several-month wait X_X
I thought their hand-crafted missions in some of the DLCs were much improved, and that handcrafted style (instead of their procgen missions which were very lifeless) is what they’re doing for the Clans campaign. Perhaps still a little lacking in depth, but at least had some life in it. Even still, it took years of updates, DLC, and mods (by unpaid modders!) to make MW5 “good” imo. It wouldn’t surprise me if Clans is weak out of the gate and similarly improves with time (and unpaid modding work…).
I guess it’s inevitable that there’ll be differences in preference regarding level of sim vs “arcade” style simplification for Battletech games. You’re obviously more on the sim side, and the other extreme would probably be the old Mech Assault games which barely resembled Battletech “gameplay” but still used the IP. I’m personally pretty happy in the middle ground, dipping my toes a little bit into the extremes but mostly sticking with the semi-streamlined stuff in the vein of MW4/MW5 and HBS’ Battletech game. If how I feel about the MA games is how you feel about the “modern” MW games in terms of simplification I can definitely see how that’d be disappointing though 😅
Slightly cheaper on other storefronts including Humble and Fanatical (depending on local pricing - e.g., US/USD Fanatical looks cheaper, AU/AUD, Humble is cheaper)
An invented creation used to segment regions of the Earth in homebrew RPG campaigns :P