You never know when old games just don’t work. For example I recently tried to play deus ex mankind divided. I have new hardware but I had to play on medium settings because anything higher would start killing performance despite the game being 5 years older than my hardware.

I wouldn’t be surprised if some older games ran like shit on the 50 series cards whenever physx is concerned.

Javascript is fun. The video takes a few jabs at ruby and then gives a glimpse into the insanity that is Javascript.

How about we just speed up ourselves? Build a human sized LHC and leave it running for a few millenia.

As others have already pointed out, you can literally get the same result by using images as quotes. People could’ve been shitty even without the quotation feature because it’s not the feature on the platform that makes it shitty, it’s the people on the platform who decide to use it for a shitty purpose.

Not implementing a feature because morons may abuse it is not justification for not implementing a feature. It’s like saying we shouldn’t be able to reply to comments because someone might use that feature to directly send you hateful comments. Now, if the features primary purpose is (or primary use case ends up being) to use it negatively, then sure it shouldn’t be implemented. But I don’t see how quotation falls under this exception. In my eyes quotation is a net positive.

It doesn’t turn the platform shitty and if there are good moderators it also prevents assholes from trying to turn the platform shitty.

Tech savvy would be to start your instances. Going through the process of picking an instance and registering there is no more tech savvy than registering with facebook or any other online site. The complexity keeping people away isn’t technical, it’s domain specific. People don’t know how to choose an instance because they’re not given enough information to actually tell instances apart.

I get people not wanting to see Checo in an F1 car, but I think it’s a good move. Cadillac isn’t going to be aiming at the WCC from the get go. They want to hit the ground running and they need a decent driver with a lot of experience to steer the team before they set their sights on trophies. Ideally that driver should also know what it takes to be a top team because I doubt Cadillac is looking to be just a midfield team.

If not Checo then who? I’m sure they tried to get Bottas but he wasn’t interested. There’s also Zhou but he’s a worse option than Checo. Any other driver would most likely have to bought out and even then, how many drivers would even be interested in spending their F1 years building up a team only to get the boot once the team sets higher goals?

Checo is not a bad pick, he’ll do a few years in the Cadi and when the rookie next to him has matured they’ll replace Checo with a new rookie.

I have a more optimistic outlook. If they get spread out there’s a higher chance of them getting out of their echo chamber and becoming a normal person. And let’s be real, the worst of them will go into Lemmygrad to continue their circlejerk and thus won’t bother the wider fediverse. And the worst of them probably already have alts on other instances where they stir up shit.

If I didn’t know this was chapotraphouse I would consider it an excellent shitpost.

I understand the same way and I think there’s a lot of gray area which makes it hard to just say “the data also needs to be open source for the code to be open source”. What would that mean for postgreSQL? Does it magically turn closed source if I don’t share what’s in my db? What would it mean to every open source software that stores and uses that stored data?

I’m not saying the AI models shouldn’t be open source, I’m saying reigning in the models needs to be done very carefully because it’s very easy to overreach and open up a whole other can of worms.

Saboteur is one of those games I’m afraid to replay because I have such vivid memories of it being really fun and I don’t want to lose that.

I already somewhat ruined Morrowind with modern hardware doing distant rendering. Back in the day Morrowind had perpetual fog and you couldn’t see far, so all the places felt so far apart. It felt like a journey going from Vivec city to Ebonhart. But modern hardware has no problem with distant rendering and now I can see that I could spit from Vivec City to Ebonhart. It’s no longer a journey, it’s just an annoyance because “it’s right there”. The magic of traversal is lessened because things no longer feel like they’re far away.

And that’s what I’m afraid of, that some illusion of Saboteur gets shattered and with it the game will also feel lesser than it was.

Why even enable snaps? It’s like asking to have headaches.

I recommend waiting until they revert the restrictions on countries that can’t have PSN. That’s the indicator on how serious they actually are about making PSN optional. So far the restrictions are in place so fuck em.

Easy is relative. I’m pretty sure the easy way is if the game developer creates a separate “beta” branch. The other way is to turn off auto-update, manually download depos and extract them into the same folder essentially reinstalling the entire game with the updates you want and then putting them in the right steam folder. I personally wouldn’t call it easy. I’d say it’s tedious, prone to user error and unnecessarily time consuming.

It would be easy if Valve took their “beta” branch feature and expanded it to be an actual rollback.