the game also includes other drugs, but it really is just a fun title imo

leave the drug version in the game files but don’t put any focus on it, modders will get to it in less than a day

compromised servers are a known threat model, and not a threat in signal’s case

https://signal.org/bigbrother/central-california-grand-jury/

there are probably also a few other, more recent examples that i just can’t find. but the theory is the same, signal only knows a phone number in association with an account creation date and the last sent message date. everything else is encrypted. the signal protocol has been formally verified to be secure: https://cryspen.com/post/pqxdh/. signal all in all is a very competent messenger, and there’s a reason it’s being used by dissidents, journalists and activists, even if most of those people do not actually have the energy or skills to verify the internals. what does easily get you in trouble (assuming what you’re doing is troubling) is if you have a leaky contact. it’s not hard to just screenshot messages and then publish them elsewhere.

signal doesn’t know which phone numbers contact which other phone numbers

you don’t need to give your signal contacts your phone number, they won’t know it if you use signal usernames

oh I genuinely have no idea actually, I don’t do calls on desktop

i use the web version and it works just as well, while also benefiting from not being a native program that can steal more data than just a tab in your browser

in this case it doesn’t use baked lighting, it still uses lumen, just a software version of it with lower settings. I’ve tried a couple UE5 games with a hardware/software lumen toggle and every time hardware lumen is significantly slower. it’s one of the curses of unreal.

this does happen in borderlands 4, but unreal is notoriously bad at tracking which shaders you’ll need in actual gameplay.

afaik linux players can still play older battlefields, like battlefield 4, which is probably superior to 2042

pretty sure AA and AAA studio execs can also organize and collectively agree on an $80 or higher price tag until it eventually sticks

your name is very relevant, I must say

there’s more to dynamic global illumination than just ray tracing

Prey 2017 can be incredible blind and Dredge might be worse if you’ve had the ending spoiled

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I don’t think it’s necessarily that something can’t be done, but each engine has its own idiosyncrasies and ways of doing things, and if you want to build something unique you’d still have to build all your own ways of doing something in another engine on top of the already existing ways of doing something. There is also a lot of flexibility in rolling your own engine, and it’s leaner too. Of course you can create an Animal Well in Unity, but out of the box it has very many systems that are unneeded, get in the way, possibly can’t be disabled and take up resources, bugs that you can’t fix and have to rely on the unity team for, etc. And if you do find bugs that you can’t work around and you use an older unity version (because migrating to newer versions could break things, and you started development 6 years ago) the bugs often won’t be fixed as your unity version isn’t supported anymore.

102GB for black ops 6, though duckduckgoing reveals to me that apparently you can just not download the story mode if you only want to play multiplayer, and that saves around 30GB.

But the joke is (and it does seem to be a joke) that AAA games only ever get bigger year over year, and with 128TB drives actually in people’s hands (not in consumer’s hands for many years but ¯_(ツ)_/¯ ) the idea is that eventually AAA studios will make use of that to increase game asset size.

I don’t think a single kidney is enough. I checked and apparently iran allows legally selling a kidney, and activists in the US want the US to provide $50k in exchange for one healthy kidney. Given the big cost associated with data center drives, and that these are on the very edge of what’s possible right now, with the best drive controller and the most flash, they might even cost more than $50k. Sadly phison doesn’t offer a retail price on their website, only a price quote when you call or email, presumably also only when negotiating shipments in the hundreds or thousands. I don’t dare to ask them myself though, i’ll leave that up to you.

It is actually enough to twitch, as the ban supposedly only lasts 14 days. In my opinion that’s just not enough though. Genocide can never under any circumstances be justified. Every human is the same. I cannot compromise on that. Influencers like him have a responsibility to society equal to their reach and “influence” (and they truly do influence some people), and any vile comment from him is going to get many more followers than a vile comment from you. Even if he believes that genocide can be justified and that a people can be concentrated and murdered for decades and that’s okay, he should never be allowed to say it and get away with that. That’s a permanent infraction.

It is detailed terrain for an entire planet, and figures are at around 10Mbps for just terrain without buildings.

Assuming you’re flying at 800kmh in something like an airbus A380, you’re flying 13.3km each minute, uncovering a large part of a new circle/sphere of terrain with a radius of 13km (half of it overlaps with old already-downloaded terrain). That’s half of 555km squared of terrain. That’s a lot of terrain. If you want that terrain to be fairly accurate, you’ll want to see at least meter accuracy near the plane (if you’re near the ground you’ll want to see one datapoint of terrain per meter or more), with lower levels of detail as you get further away. Add onto that things like the placement of trees, bushes, rocks, and all the texture data of the terrain (probably an index into existing possibly procedural textures), and you’ve got a lot of data that needs to be transferred.

10Mbps seems pretty fair for all of that.

Also terrain data is updated regularly, and you might not want to keep around old terrain in the first place. There are reasons like players only flying some routes once and never again, and if you save all of mozambique for someone who actually only flies around in the US that’s bad too.

EDIT: Buildings of course cost extra. Airports take up a bit of bandwidth each time you take off or land, as they are probably custom modeled. Cities like NY or LA though will have a ton of custom modeled buildings and textures, and those cost a lot of bandwidth.

I’m assuming “useful idiots continuing a harmful tradition”

Do you have examples of DEI’d games? Do you have sources for saying devs don’t want to do it anymore? So far I only know of guys that record videos of themselves screaming “fucking pronouns” being offended by the mere presence of pronouns, and that’s not even “DEI”. There’s also that weird steam recommendation character who criticizes every game that has a woman who isn’t meant to be a sex object, but these are all very fringe and often severely disturbed people, not at all representative of any real impactful opinions.

EDIT: Of course I don’t mean to say that these anti-woke beliefs aren’t dangerous in the right hand, or that anti-woke anti-justice warriors can’t pose a danger to anyone, but their beliefs do not need to be discussed and argued with every time, and definitely not in good faith.

being out of reach of nazis or conservative christians can increase safety and well-being