Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done'
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    It was kickstarted a decade ago with release dates which they’ve never kept thanks to a constant modification of what a release looks like - namely splitting the MMO-like Star Citizen out from the single-player blockbuster Squadron 42 - as well as scope bloat. A lot of people originally kickstarted the game (mostly for what we now call Squadron 42 + some multiplayer thing) but now a decade on, the MMO-like Star Citizen is seemingly the priority project and most of the people who are currently funding the game are primarily interested in that.

    After hundreds of millions of dollars of funding, it seems clear that Squadron 42 in particular is in development hell as it still can’t seem to make it to market. Star Citizen, while playable, teeters back and forth from basically unplayable to playable and all “progress” is subject to wipes.

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  • Former PlayStation exec says there's a "collapse of creativity" in the industry
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    Former PlayStation exec who left in 2019 before the PS5 launched.

    While the writing was on the wall that creativity was leaving the AAA space, PlayStation was still the AAA darling which didn’t really mess up.

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  • Analogue 3D: FPGA-Based N64 Available For Pre-Order On October 21
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    The real question is if you’ll be able to purchase one of the 17 they’ve produced or if you’ll have to wait for their limited edition translucent version in a year.

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  • Analogue 3D: FPGA-Based N64 Available For Pre-Order On October 21
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    Getting an N64 + a RetroTink to upscale costs the same or more than this Analogue product (depends a lot on the N64 and RetroTink you buy). This is actually a fairly good value. I’m shocked Analogue priced it where it is considering that the Pocket is FOMO-sold and pricey.

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  • Have you ever purchased the full-sized version of a free sample you received?
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    In this vein, Fastmail and Kagi Search as well.

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  • HomeAssistant on RaspberryPi doesn't boot anymore
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    Those EXT4-fs write access unavailable errors look spooky. Should probably do some standard Linux FS testing (fsck)

    I’ve not had to recover anything from a raspberry pi SD card, but in the case you start from scratch - and considering it’s upset at write access - you may be able to plug it into another machine and at least salvage bits of its configuration that way.

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  • Nintendo shuts down Switch emulator Ryujinx
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    If anyone has the git repo downloaded, they have a copy of it (from when they last pulled)

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  • Online Multiplayer For Nintendo DS Games Is Coming To Delta | Retro Dodo
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    I think Pretendo is 3DS. For DS it’d likely be Wiimmfi.

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    Aussie Government announces Loot Box and Gambling content classification changes - Vooks
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    Yeah, GameFreak figured out the casino stuff wasn’t a good idea in gen 4 (HeartGold/SoulSilver) and replaced slots with Voltorb Flip outside of Japan, and otherwise closed the game corner in subsequent titles. In Pokémon: Let’s Go (Gen7) the player receives Porygon from a random person instead of needing to grind coins in the casino. Would be interesting to see if they could/would hack in that change.

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  • Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 15th
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    Destroying filthy xenos in Space Marine II with my battle-brother in online campaign co-op.

    What a treat. Also Pokémon Platinum.

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  • Sonocotta's Espressif ESP32-Powered Esparagus Audio Streamers Can Now Listen, Too, with the Echoes - Hackster.io
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    I have yet to purchase these devices but Malyshenko seems to really care about giving modern audio output to ESP devices and seems very well documented. I’ll probably be picking one or two up in the near future.

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    Gacha games are out of control. Gambling shouldn't be so widespread
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    I mean, look how fast the ENTIRE industry shifted to battle passes (and still gacha) and away from “loot boxes” the very moment the first country said they’d consider regulation.

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    'We can't do computer graphics anymore without artificial intelligence. We compute one pixel, we infer the other 32': Jensen thinks AI is integral to next-gen graphics tech
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    We certainly can. NVIDIA’s CEO realizes that the next buzzword that sells their cards (8K, 240hz, RTX++) isn’t going to run at good framerates without it.

    That’s not to say AI doesn’t have its place in graphics, but it’s definitely a crutch for extremely high-end rendering performance (see RT) and a nice performance and quality gain for weaker (hopefully cheaper) graphics cards which support it.

    As a gamer and developer I sort of fear AI taking the charm away from rendered games as DLSS/FSR embeds itself in games. I don’t want to see a race to the bottom in terms of internal, pre-DLSS resolution.

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  • Do we have any shiny hunters here? I'd like to share what is by FAR my longest hunt!
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    CONGRATS!

    My roommate has been shiny hunting VC Crystal Celebi off and on for about 3 years. Like 4 ish months ago I made a save on my 3DS and started doing soft resets. My app isn’t letting me upload the picture as proof at this time but we recently found it on my 3DS. We were watching TV and I wondered what it sounded like so I watched a video of someone finding a celebi. About 5 minutes later I actually got it and my roommate looked over like “wait did you watch the video again?” and then realized.

    We don’t have official numbers on odds, but our estimate was that they had at least a couple thousand resets. I probably did a thousand or so on my machine. We guess we’re under odds by a good margin. Still insane to me. I sort of had to go sit down. I’d had a few 1/4096 odds in Violet while doing other hunts but never a 1/8192 in an older gen game. Might be the rarest shiny I’ll ever get.

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  • need advice with pokemon emerald, game advice and save file stuff
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    If you can somehow get the save file over to your PC, you can use PKHeX to edit your save file. (Make a backup!) Making a machoke a machamp should be as easy as selecting your machoke, right click it, View it, change the species from machoke to machamp, and then right click your machoke and set it. Then save and replace the save with the new one.

    I would keep Aron for the eventual aggron

    Now to deal with your water problems. Wingull is flying/water, lombre is grass/water, mudkip is water/ground.

    Mudkip / Swampert is a great pokemon and you should keep it. I'd replace Lombre with Breloom or Roselia, brings your grass/water to grass/fighting. Breloom's mach punch is SWEET.

    So to your flyer, the problem with Pelipper is that its Attack stat is pretty awful and ALL flying-type moves in Gen 3 are considered physical. (Water are considered special, which is Pelipper's second-best stat). So keeping Pelipper to primarily use for flying-type moves is going to be rough. Swellow is a great default, and other flyers (Altaria, Tropius) are available later but are either rough to level or not worth it.

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  • OpenStreetMap: The map that saves lives | CNBC International (5:14)
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    Thanks for the links. I've been mapping in OSM for a year ish now off and on. Nice to find it in the lemmyverse

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    Valve lifts NDA on Deadlock, streaming and talking about the game is now allowed.
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    There may be more people watching Deadlock than there are watching and playing Concord today based on available data and reasonable extrapolation. Valve continues to market in a unique way that works.

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    Aurora In Oregon

    Shot on Sony a7iii, quickly edited in Affinity Photo

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    Man Excited to Clock Out of Grueling 12-Hour Diablo IV Shift and Finally Unwind at Day Job
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    Just linking this because there's a board game?

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    https://www.square-enix-games.com/en_US/documents/update-final-fantasy-xvi

    - Adds the following items to the System tab of the Main Menu: - **Motion Blur Strength** Allows the player to adjust the strength of the motion blur effect when the character or camera is in motion. The default setting is the maximum of 5. This can be lowered to reduce the strength of the motion blur effect, or set to 0 to turn it off completely. - **Player Follow (Movement)** - **Player Follow (Attack)** Turning these settings off prevents the camera from automatically following the player while moving and attacking respectively. - Changes the maximum setting of the Camera Sensitivity (Horizontal) and Camera Sensitivity (Vertical) items from 10 to 20. - Adds three new controller layouts: types D, E, and F. - Corrects an issue that affected the stability of some menus. - Corrects some text issues. - Adds the hashtag #FF16 when sharing screenshots or video clips on Twitter or YouTube.

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    Steam Summer Sale now live
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    Technology Connections talks about a red fridge from Walmart for an hour
    https://youtu.be/8PTjPzw9VhY

    cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/796072 > In a video by @Techconnectify@mas.to, Alec goes into a deep dive into the simplicity of his particular model, its shortcomings and variety of data logging tests in an attempt to fix them. > > TL,DW: Very simple, cheap and ingenious design, with one compressor loop between the fridge and freezer in series. However, its temperature sensor is wonky and so the fridge is more affected by how long the compressor operates than the actual temperature itself. There is a signficant temperature differential between the top and bottom, fans on the exterior or interior could help but with the faulty sensor only made matters worse. With the controller replaced with a proper temp control unit the fridge functioned much better.

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