None of the good stealth games I know actually force stealth. You just get scored based on the amount of chaos, and enemies gain varying amounts of information off your actions. It doesn’t necessarily change to a firefight just because one guy saw you.

If the shootouts are the better part of this game, not to mention the stealth takedowns looking pretty bad, it probably makes sense to shift this way.

Racism or other forms of discrimination apply to a protected class of people; any group sharing attributes beyond their control (bearing dark skin, a particular place of birth, a religion, etc)

Russians are a protected class. Vladimir Putin, the evil individual who ordered an unprovoked war on Ukraine causing thousands of innocent deaths, is not a protected class.

While I have seen racist uses of monkey imagery towards black people, never have I seen it towards Russians. In conclusion, there is strong implication that this meme targets the latter, not the former.

Yes.

Everyone loves positing moral dilemmas and then leaving them for other people to answer, with a finger poised to their lips ready to say “Interesting” and point out some weak level of hypocrisy.

I’m just gonna answer simply, and correctly: Yes. If someone is a repeated threat to the safety of others and there is any reasonable risk of the justice system failing to incarcerate them, it is better to end their life.

I wouldn’t even make that claim against one-time murderers, but some people go far over the line.

I installed Distro A, and Distro B, and you’re about to reply:

“Oh, well there’s your problem! A and B aren’t great for beginners (even though you read they were from someone else). I’d strongly recommend, C, D, E, or F.”

Whether it’s installing a new distro off new recommendations or spending time tinkering to get one of them working right, it’s still the same annoyance, and it’s unlikely to change. That said, if you have read that and will restrain from jabbing back about it or are just genuinely curious:

And yet still manages graphical corruption from sleep, and input lag in games on a tailor-built ISO!

I’m a programmer at a tech company. Last month, I tried setting up two different distros on my personal computer, in anticipation of Windows 10 EOL.

I experienced:

• Total failure of wifi drivers
• Graphical corruption returning from sleep mode
• Inability to load levels in Deck-certified games
• Critical input delays in a reflex-based online game
• Inability to install a particular Linux-native app on my particular distro; not only unavailable by main package manager, but also by its alternative container-based strategy.
• Right-click menus that hid the options I’m used to finding on Windows, with no visible way to turn them on.
• Repeated overriding of my customization of keyboard shortcuts
• Inability to assign Ctrl+Tab as a keyboard shortcut for a terminal app (Tab was unrecognized)
• UI forms altering my selection when I was attempting to scroll past them
• No discernible methods to pin frequently used folders to the sidebar of the file explorer
• No discernible way to remove/edit Application entries (leading to games that I created an entry though off Steam’s install dialog being stuck there even after the game was deleted)

So no, don’t keep telling me I’m staying on Windows out of idiocy. If someone replies to this with a doctoral on why every single issue is actually somehow my fault, it completes the trifecta.

Linux distros need to take a step back for a long, lengthy discussion on good user experience before they rush back to making memes like these.

This may have been my thought.

I was never so deeply in favor of the acquisition, but I did find the focus on exclusives hypocritical. Microsoft had already made many of their games available cross platform, while Sony had not at the time.

It’s a logical argument and it’s a correct argument. Unfortunately it’s demonstrably not an effective argument.

The logical summation I derive from this statement is: Blame the voters, as they committed a stupid and illogical act.

The only reasonable explanation for 2016 is that most people assumed Trump had no chance. There is no reasonable explanation for 2024.

Garry’s Mod. Basically a gateway drug to hobby animation, and in some ways not so far off from the modding tools used to make it.

If you’ve watched stuff like Heavy Is Dead, they’re usually made with it. Some more professional-looking stuff is instead made in “Source Filmmaker”.

I tried out Portal RTX, found the room where the light ball is casting shadows all around. It looked nice; but I also felt like I’ve seen the same effect imitated with regular rendering. Sure there might be slight differences, but I wouldn’t have spotted them.

no platform other than “we’re not trump! Elect an anti-democratic party to save democracy! Trumps the next hitler!!!

Yeah? Why do you need a platform beyond this?

It was a competent former prosecutor vs a serially lying violent felon.

Much as I trust Sony more than Meta, part of the issue is that 80% of the cool stuff from VR comes from indie teams running an ItchIO page or Patreon, not established publishers.

Supposedly, PSVR2 can work with PC now but I don’t know how refined that integration is.

I still see the PS5Pro as a bit dumb, but also not sure what Sony could easily do around this problem.

We’re at the graphical plateau where any improvements become extremely expensive, and increasingly hard to notice. Sure, we have 4K TVs and we’re not quite able to play all our games at 4K 120fps, but very few people care about that level of detail. Honestly, I don’t even know what Sony may be planning for the PS6 while still keeping it at a reasonable price.

I’ve been repeating this thought exercise because people seem to have a hard time delineating when blame goes the other way.

Bob is standing next to a bomb, and a fuse is sparking down. Jill, on the other side of a fence and reliant on Bob, lifts a huge very expensive sign for Bob to stamp out the fuse. Bob does not stamp out the fuse, bomb goes off.

Who is at fault; Bob for not stamping out the fuse, or Jill for not getting a high-amp bullhorn to inform Bob he should stamp the fuse?

Feel free to vary the analogy, but the question would extend to: When does it become Bob’s fault that he didn’t take action?

But you need coffee in order to make coffee…ahh, the ultimate quandary!!

I mean…isn’t this something Word does well?

It continuously autosaves to a temp document, so if it crashes, next startup it finds the autosave and presents it as an option to you.

Like, I’m all for criticizing Word, but pick truthful critiques. Its Find bar has a broken scroll, the OneDrive sync feature often crashes silently, and half its menus are stuck in 1999.

Oh, man. We want immediate justice so often, but I almost think the delay is the best part of that.

Still means 6 months of cyclist frustration though…

The way in which Half-Life maintained a continuous viewpoint over long stretches of gameplay and landscape was always so immersive to me. Games like God of War and Dead Space did something similar, but Valve had an additional challenge.

They almost never take player control, instead relying on mere hints of where to look; they even have the character sequences scripted for wherever the player was standing. That all usually took a lot of their effort.

I could be biased because I even enjoyed toying with their choreography tool, which let you layer simple gestures together; so without making a new animation, you could have someone both lean forward and nod right, and point their thumb right.

On enemy variety, I see the critique of games like Zelda: BOTW and even realistic games like Hitman. Something those games have in common is very well-made enemy AI that presents you many ways to defeat them.