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BlackAura

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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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  • Rogue had you start from scratch with a new character in a random map every time.

    Rogue-like games initially meant you start from scratch in a new random world, but you incrementally improve your experience by small buffs you can buy, or changing your starting equipment / skills (sometimes by changing out which character you start as).

    Rogue-like has slowly changed to mean "start over regularly but slowly unlock new items/buffs/equipment/characters/etc to help you further explore a world which may or may not be random"

    So it applies to games like Risk of Rain (and 2), Balatro, Dead Cells, and Rogue Legacy, just to name a few examples (though 3 of those are 2d platformers with randomly generated worlds if I remember right...).

    But yeah it seems to have morphed into a broadly used term for games where you get better over time through purchasing permanent buffs and whatnot (as well as natural skill), but are forced to restart any time you die.

    Vampire Survivors and other similar style games have you constantly restarting when you die so I think the term fits as a partial descriptor.

    Maybe we could adopt the idle/clicker game term Prestige, but that's more of a voluntary restart when you hit a wall and can't progress, so I don't think it quite works.

  • $5 a dozen: major egg companies may be using avian flu to hike US prices, new report finds

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  • Kirkland Costco, admittedly 2-3 weeks ago. Something like $9.59 for two dozen.

    Something between $9 and $10 on the price tag is what I remember.

    No idea what it is now.

  • Apple turns off iCloud encryption feature in UK following reported government legal order.

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  • All UK machines, phones, and servers should just remove all root certificates. Can't trust encryption right?

    X509Brexit.

    Then they wouldn't have to interact with any part of the encrypted internet.

  • Hope you weren’t planning to play PhysX games on Nvidia’s new 50-series GPUs

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  • My understanding is 32-bit PhysX games are broken.

    64-bit compiled games are fine.

  • If German was English

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  • Childless but many of my friends have kids and seeing that top panel... Just... lol.

    "this is a tool, not a toy"

    How many times have I heard that said, or even said it myself, to children.

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  • It's not that seamless depending on the content you usually consume.

    I feel like I keep seeing the same single livestream trying to sell me a phone charger, and then roughly the same 5 or 6 videos trying to sell me a specific product over and over again.

    As long as I don't report or say "I keep seeing this ad" it will show me the same ones so they are easy to skip.

    Usually it's something I started watching until I realized it was an ad, but because I started watching it one time it thinks I'm interested so it will continually show it to me.

    Once you spot them they are easy to skip. (at least, until they get better at masking then and then it will get harder).

  • Bambu Lab Firmware Update Forces Cloud Dependency & User Lock-In - AVOID THEIR 3D PRINTERS!

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  • That's a separate issue from requiring internet access / cloud / their servers to be online to print.

  • Recommendations for some easy to read 'feel good' fiction books?

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  • If you're open to sci-fi:

    Nathan Lowell - Smuggler Series (3 books, starting with milk run) or Trader Series (first 6 books, starting with quarter share)

    Smuggler has more.... Intrigue and whatnot. Trader is pretty straightforward and "feel good", iirc.

    I would say read both series to those points before going further with the Seeker Series and later books. I forget where in the series but at some point the characters cross paths so having read both series before then helps it all fit together.

  • Oh how things have changed

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  • Pretty sure that's the internet archive which takes snapshots of websites.

    You're looking at the website x.com waaaay back in 1997, where they said they aren't nearly the worst website on the internet. As opposed to now, where it is a cesspool of toxicity.

  • After a long lull, Covid-19 levels are surging in the US

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  • Sore arm and bit of a fever overnight. Very mild but felt like it was radiating from my arm.

    Got flu and covid are the same time in the same arm.

  • Thailand Bans Advertising for Toddler Milk

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  • No no they're just milking them...

    Oh yeah okay. Fuck Nestlé.

  • Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers

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  • YouTube TV Raises Price 14%, to $83 per Month, Citing ‘Rising Cost of Content’

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  • YTV is the Youth Television channel in Canada. Might need to go with YTTV for YouTube Television.

  • Looks like Valve is preparing to release SteamOS to the public (or at least to third-party hardware manufacturers)

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  • This is possibly regarding the updated OS that's on SteamDeck, which is not built on the same distro of Linux as the older SteamOS from back in the day.

  • Borderlands 3 and The Elder Scrolls Online director says AAA game studios are playing it safe since "you have people who get nervous because big money is involved"

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  • If the studio is already rather large and retains a number of employees then you're either asking for them to divide into small teams and produce a bunch of projects in parallel (none of which will potentially sell well or be able to maintain the momentum the studio has with previous AAA title releases), or you're essentially asking them to downsize into a smaller studio, laying off 80-90% of their workforce, to produce non-AAA titles again.

    Those smaller projects now have smaller marketing budgets (1/10th each). Smaller marketing budget generally means less sales, unless something goes viral (0.1% of the time or less, so really you need 1000 projects not just 10). Not to mention price point is going to be at $20 or maybe $30.

    Internally on each game you'll need people to take up the roles of like art director, or whoever decides the look and feel of the art for the game. With AAA titles you used to have one of those (I assume), but now one person has to look after 10 projects, or other people have to step up (one for each project) to do that job. Should they get paid more? Now your smaller projects are costing more money.

    It's sort of like saying 9 women can make a baby in 1 month. We know that's impossible. AAA studios are not structured around creating 10 smaller projects.

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    Mass arrests at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade as anti-Israel protesters block path

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  • People keep correcting to anti-genocide but isn't the word protest enough?

    Protest: "the act of objecting or gesture of disapproval."

    If I protest genocide, I'm against genocide.

    If I protest anti-genocide, I'm... Pro-genocide?

    The original headline has so much doublespeak and mangled English to try to not say Palestine or Genocide.

  • Phoronix: Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted

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  • This might not be super useful if you don't write code but I always found the contest submissions fun to read and try to figure out for the https://www.underhanded-c.org/ contest.

    They break down and explain the runner up and finalist for each year and how the attack works. It's usually something very subtle that most people wouldn't catch.

  • xcoffee

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  • Iirc that rule was followed here.... The cam was to let you know when the fresh pot was ready?

  • YSK that Amazon has different prices for different people

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  • That explains why I see coupons more and more. Ty.