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  • Steam Deal: Save 80% on Kingdom Come: Deliverance on Steam

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  • I lost about 6-8 hours of gameplay because the game didn't make it apparent that you must get sword skills. Not because I couldn't beat (or run away) from a few peasants, who for some reason turn into Barristan Selmy towards the second half of the game, but because the game forces you into a boss fight that is next to impossible unless you have sword skills. I went from 40+ tries without any combat skills (with the best result having the boss down to half health) to doing it first try with sword skills. The mandatory combat is actually one my biggest criticism of KCD.

  • Steam Deal: Save 80% on Kingdom Come: Deliverance on Steam

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  • Well.... That's not entirely true.

    ___You are an illegitimate son of a nobleman who pretty much makes sure you get special treatment.

  • BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games (Demon's Souls/Shadow of the Colossus remakes)

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  • It doesn't take a whole year to pivot, unless they sit on their ass for that whole year. I'm not saying it's not possible they did that but it would be an insane level of incompetence.

  • BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games (Demon's Souls/Shadow of the Colossus remakes)

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  • That's what is puzzling me. How was it so impossible to course correct the studio when it's absolutely obvious how to put two and two together?

  • BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games (Demon's Souls/Shadow of the Colossus remakes)

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  • But that happened in 2024, Sony had the whole of 2025 to figure out what to do with the studio and it's not like they don't have highly desirable games to remake cough Bloodborne cough for a studio known for excellent remakes. I just want to know what the hell happened in 2025 for the studio to get literally no projects greenlit by Sony? Is Sony still continuing its stupid live service push or did the studio no longer want to make remakes or what the problem was? The path forward is so clear you don't even need a business degree to make the decision that could've kept this studio alive so what the hell happened?

  • ‘We’re no longer attracting top talent’: the brain drain killing American science | US news

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  • You are right, voting isn't the right word. You've let this happen by not keeping your politicians accountable. You've let corporations legally shove money into the pockets of politicians so they would work in the interest of the corporations not the people. The government could easily make that funding benefit you, they simply don't because you let them get away with it. This has been decades in the making because generations of Americans have let politics slip.

    You can call Europeans smug all you want but it's not our shit that smells. You, the Americans, have let this happen, not us.

  • Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine

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  • Even if it wasn't owned by Microslop I don't have any confidence BGS could make a good TES game. They've been sitting on their laurels for far too long.

  • BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games (Demon's Souls/Shadow of the Colossus remakes)

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  • This is such a horrific mismanagement of a studio it makes me question if the studio itself wanted to make a live service game and bit off more than they could chew. Because if this is on Sony, and it does have Sony written all over it, then they're legitimately worse than EA. It's like a low I didn't even know existed because it would be an astonishing level of incompetence.

  • Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems.

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  • You're mixing up "miracle tech that leads to nowhere" with "niche tech with little mass appeal". A rotary engine car has won Le Mans, The Mazda 787. I'm pretty sure one of the recent Mazda plug in Hybrids (I refuse to call those EV-s) has a rotary engine as a backup for the electric engine.

  • When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov

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  • It's a question of morality. Harry Harlow's experiments were also pretty influential, not just in science but in how we conduct science. The latter experiments are now widely considered unethical because they're absolutely sickening experiments bordering on torture. You can advance science but at what cost?

    In case it needs to be made apparent, even most violent criminals draw the line at hurting children which is why in most prisons pedophiles end up separated from the rest the prison population. Associating with child rapists is so amoral even violent criminals don't want that shit. So yeah, strictly scientifically speaking you can go dig some fossils in a child rapists backyard. Morally speaking, don't be surprised when the rest of the scientific community doesn't want anything to do with you because you're so amoral you don't care about associating with a known child rapist.

  • Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money...

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  • For the individual wealthy, they aren't. Some loans might get paid off by taking another loan, but the goal is to take the loan to the grave. The loan would get paid after death because then the estate can sell the stocks without paying any capital gains tax.

    Let's say you buy 1 million worth of stocks. The day before you die that stock is worth 51 million. If you cash out that stock you're paying capital gains tax on 50 million. Let's say the capital gains tax is 20% which means you'd pay 10 mil in taxes. So you get 41 million from the sale. Let's say the loan is exactly 41 million so to pay off the loan you get nothing.

    But if you die and that stock goes to the estate they haven't gained any capital from the stock so when they sell it they pay no tax on it. The estate then sells the stock tax free to pay off whatever debt there was (the estate sells only 41 million worth of stocks keeping the 10 million on stocks). That 10 million is effectively free money that goes to the inheritor.

    Basically it's all just tax evasion for the ultrawealthy. Except it's legal so technically it's not tax evasion. And realistically the numbers are even more astronomical than what I used as an example.

  • windows moment

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  • I don't really agree with it not being confusing. Offline mode should be the default behavior of Onedrive when nobody is logged in because if nobody is logged in there's probably nobody wanting to use the service. Having to log into the service to tell it "I don't want to use you" is stupid.

    If there was a news site spamming your email with clickbait articles and the only way to stop them from spamming your email is by logging into the news site to let them know you don't want their news you'd probably call that stupid. You should be able to stop their spamming without needing to log in.

    It's not confusing when you just accept that you have to log into somewhere just to turn it off.

  • Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital

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  • Oh absolutely, but I doubt anyone is paying the equivalent of a 5090 to get the performance of a 3060. Server GPU-s aren't optimized for gaming.

  • Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital

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  • Being in the self-hosted community I know people buy used enterprise servers to set up their own services, but consumers who buy enterprise servers probably make up less than 1% of all the consumers who buy hardware.

  • Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital

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  • Not really. They're not making consumer grade stuff, they're making hardware for data centers so unless you're planning on doing a DIY data center you're not buying the hardware. Hard drives are likely an exception.

    You're more likely to see cheap VPS services than cheap secondhand hardware.

  • Orbán says the EU and not Russia is Hungary’s real threat ahead of April vote

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  • There's no way to kick a member out but a member can have their voting rights taken away and have their funds frozen. Hungary already had their funds frozen (which got unfrozen in 2023 but EU might demand those assets back, I made a different comment regarding that down below) and there is an ongoing article 7 process but it hasn't reached a point where voting rights would be taken away, mostly because it's very hard to get all the other EU countries to agree on it (for the longest time Poland made sure nothing would happen to Hungary and in return Hungary made sure nothing would happen to Poland).

  • Starmer: Britain’s ‘Brexit years’ are over and we need Europe, not Donald Trump

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  • The only thing Russia did was give Britain a little nudge to get them over the finish line. The "Europe question" has been circulating in the UK politics longer than UK has been in the EU and IMO it's been circulating because of British exceptionalism.

    When the ECSC was formed UK decided to stay out because UK thought it was still a global superpower. When the ECSC became EEC Britain still decided to stay away. The UK didn't join the EEC until it became apparent that the UK was lagging behind the EEC. And then literally 2 years after joining the EEC, in 1975, Britain held effectively brexit 1.0 referendum, which obviously didn't pass. Then in 80s labour ran on a campaign to leave the EEC. Then in the 90s when the EEC became the EU Britain opted out from integrations. Since the EU became a real thing UK has been consistently one of the most eurosceptic countries in the EU.

    Even if such a report was published it wouldn't excuse the decades of anti-EU sentiment. Nor would it guarantee the UK wouldn't do it again, after all they've had 2 attempts at it

    And even if the EU was so naive to believe such a report would be enough, there's no chance the UK comes back with all its privileges. The budget rebate is clearly against the interest of the EU. The others are less egregious but they're essentially opt outs of integrating with the EU so demanding those back is IMO contradictory to wanting to rejoin the EU. They shouldn't get those back, so that leaving would become such a headache they wouldn't try a third time.

  • Orbán says the EU and not Russia is Hungary’s real threat ahead of April vote

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  • I had to check what you meant because I thought EU turned off the faucet. Well, this is where it gets interesting. Apparently the faucet was turned off as per EU laws and then in December 2023 the EU commission unfroze the funds which amounted to 10 billion euros. But then in April 2024 the EU parliament filed a suit that the commission had wrongly applied the rule of law when unfreezing the funds. A few days ago, prior to the summit, a top advisor of the EU court of Justice said that the EU commission should demand that 10 billion back.

    Would be interesting to know if Orban was making his comments before or after hearing this.

  • Games you fell out of love with.

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  • Counter-strike. I remember it being a casual experience back in the 1.6 days and even in the earlier days of CSGO, but at one point competitive play took over. Eventually to be decent you had to know lineups, executes, economy, common angles etc.

    I don't think it's a bad thing. I love watching competitive CS and think for viewers it's one of the best esports games to watch, but I can't get back into CS without having it take over my life.