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AEsheron

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  • We need to decide on a genre name for Vampire Survivors-like games before a really terrible one sticks

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  • For a while people tried to differentiate roguelikes, which maintained the lack of metaprogression, with roguelites, which did have progression. But that was pretty clearly a losing battle, the two names were far too similar to stay distinct as long as one or the other took off. Some few pendants still try to maintain the distinction, but that ship sailed ages ago.

  • Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing

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  • People overestimate the fiduciary responsibility of public companies. It's true they will often pursue aggressive short term gains to attract more investment in several forms, including higher stock prices. But as long as they are arguably trying to help the company they are considered to have fulfilled their obligation. You have to be able to prove in court they are trying to harm the shareholders to run afoul of that responsibility, which is a fair hurdle. And it isn't really that difficult to avoid a forced IPO by keeping under the 500 shareholder threshold if one really wants to avoid it.

  • Are there any episode plots that bug anyone? Here's one that got me...

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  • The year of hell was originally supposed to be a 1 or 2 season on-going story that was teased earlier with Kess. The execs were allergic to such a serialized concept and such drastic impact on the characters so they were forced to cop-out with the time travel.

  • For being futuristic, some sci-fi tech is stuck in the past

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  • This was exactly the explaination from the old Exoanded Universe/Legends in Star Wars. The most sophisticated piece of any fighter was their EWAR suite. Otherwise fighters would be wiped out from well beyond visual ramge by capital ships' point defense systems, and it's why they needed to get so close so their sensors could power through the jamming to get missile locks on other fighters.

  • That explains a lot

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  • Pretty sure the whole point of this article is we have confirmed tiny black holes do rapidly evaporate. We've theoretically known that any black hole just about our sun's mass or smaller will spew more Hawking Radiation than it can consume mass and will shrink. And this process should accelerate as the mass shrinks. This seems to be the first expiremental evidence to support the well established theory.

  • Why would'nt this work?

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  • Everything bends when you move it, usually to such a small degree that you can't perceive it. It's impossible to have a truly "rigid" material that would be required for the original post because of this. The atoms in a solid object don't all move simultaneously, otherwise swinging a bat would be causing FTL propagation itself. The movement needs to propagate through the atoms, the more rigid the object the faster this happens, but it is never instantaneous. You can picture the atoms like a lattice of pool balls connected to each other with springs. The more rigid the material, the stiffer the springs, but there will always be at least a little flex, even if you need to zoom in and slow-mo to see it.

  • Transfer Patient

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  • While it is true that will always result in a winning line, it's not true that it is the only way to force a win. Half of their moves will allow you to play adjacent to you starting corner towards an open corner and still force a win, as long as their first play isn't the opposite corner or any of its 3 adjacent spaces. In fact, if they start in one of the adjacent sides or non-opposite corners, you have 3 winning moves. If they start on a side, you can take either the open, non-opposite corner, the side leading to that corner, or the middle. If they start in a non-opposite corner, you can take the first two moves above, or the opposite corner.

  • Transfer Patient

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  • That's not true, you can force a tie at worst from a middle start. The issue is, if you start middle, you can only force a win if they take a side, not a corner. If you start corner you can force a win as long as they don't take the middle.

  • Canada lawmaker suggests letting 3 US states join, get free health care

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  • Yeah, I think all of New England is down for this. Please.

  • Time travel is easy, it's just lame

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  • Even more specifically, if we are talking a temporal teleport, then this shouldn't be a surprise. Most mainstream fiction uses teleports for time travel, pop out of one time and into another without experiencing the time between. As opposed to the device Farnsworth made in The Late Philip J. Fry, where they actually just change speed through time instead of skipping through it. In the latter case, you shouldn't have to worry about this issue at all. But with a teleport, any teleportation device is simultaneously a temporal and spatial teleport, due to causality and the nature of spacetime. So any teleport would need spacetime coordinates, not just spatial or temporal coordinates.

  • ♬ Allamaraine, you'll come with me. ♬

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  • It has very begrudgingly forced me to kind of sort of enjoy it maybe just a little. But at the moment, trying to recall it is only giving me the Firefly theme, and that is nice, I'll just enjoy this for a bit.

  • YouTuber LegalEagle sues PayPal over 'sleeping leech' Honey extension | TechCrunch

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  • It wasn't as unrelated as it might appear. Firstly, they used their D+ account to make their Disney account. Secondly, the whole point of that argument was that in the Disney account EULA, the relevant one, there is an arbitration clause. They only brought up the D+ account in passing because it has the same clause, emphasizing that they had to read and agree to the clause twice, and if they didn't catch it it's not Disney's fault they lied about reading it. They basically said "look, this is an issue regarding the Disney account, and they said right here they read and understood the terms that include arbitration. And here, they read and agreed to the exact same terms a few months earlier on D+. This shouldn't be any surprise if they were truthful when they claimed to have read it."

    Disclaimer, arbitration clauses are bullshit and need to be reworked/eliminated as they are generally very anticonsumer and I don't think it's good that they have that clause. But accepting that this exists, Disney didn't really do anything particularly scummy.

  • They just don't write good fantasy like this anymore.

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  • To be a bit more precise, people did sometimes carry swords on their back, but generally not into battle. It was more comfortable for travel, but impossible to draw, so when they were expecting trouble they would move it to the hip.

  • More game devs should be like the devs of Marvel Rivals when it comes to emulation

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  • Specifically skeletons are a big deal. Lots of games edit them out, WoW had alternate models for the Undead players, who generally have exposed bone joints and other bits of bone protrusions, to cover them all in flesh. I think it is sometimes OK to use skeletons as enemies, but never for player characters, IIRC.

  • Mozilla chairman's salary vs Firefox market share (as of 2023)

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  • I mean the graph starts in 09, and Chrome launched in 08. I assume that did more to them, but both were probably notable.

  • Luigi Mangione prosecutors have a jury problem: "So much sympathy"

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  • Never mention it. They will often ask questions about how you think a juror should or can act. If you answer them in a way that shows you might know about nullification, you are out. If you then later admit you know about it, they will point to those questions and know you lied about them. Safest answer is to just never, ever use the term, ideally you should go through the motions in deliberation of putting the the rules together, like you are just realizing it's a possibility then and there.

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    He was a maia, and you cheered for his death?! You people make me sick.

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  • He was Istari, not Maia, technically. The distinction is subtle, but important. Istari were to Maiar kind of like an avatar is to a Hindu deity. They were not merely a pseudonym of a Maia with reduced power, because the method used to reduce their power was basically just blanking out large portions of their memory, to the point there were differences in demeanor and personality.

  • Bullets used to kill UnitedHealthcare CEO had words written on them, law enforcement official says

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  • Did you see what he was wearing? Was basically asking for it really.

  • Belgium found guilty of crimes against humanity in colonial Congo

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  • The litigousness of the US is greatly exaggerated. Largely by big companies, trying to close off the one resource common folk have in dealing with them if they ever screw us over. Meanwhile, large conpanies file roughly 4 times as many suits than individuals, and are reprimanded for frivolous suits far more often.