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WolfLink

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  • Hollow Knight: Silksong devs address difficulty concerns: “You have choices”

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  • At least for my playstyle, tools have become essential for boss fights, and I’ve run out and had to grind for resources for them twice. Especially when you get to the point where you are basically just doing boss fights and rarely, if ever, fighting a normal enemy.

  • Boost, repost, & share: Boycott Disney

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  • Fuck Disney in general, but what in particular happened this time?

  • You calm down

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  • The “take a minute to breathe” thing is on a timer; it doesn’t react to detected emotions.

  • Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have?

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  • All encryption can be brute forced, the point of having a large key size is to make the compute effort needed to brute force the key impractical.

    “Impractical” for an individual, even one that has several very powerful computers (by DIY standards) is a much lower bar than impractical for a government, that might use huge supercomputing clusters or hardware designed specifically for brute forcing encryption.

    Note that the recommended key size to protect from “individual” tier hackers has increased over the years as the power of the average personal computer has increased.

  • AOMedia To Release AV2 Video Codec At Year's End

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  • I can try it again, but what I did was compare h265 to SVT-AV1 in ffmpeg, using a couple different clips of different styles (including a video from my phone and some ripped blu-ray movies). I used “constant quality / variable bitrate settings, and ran each file with a variety of settings for both encoders. I judged the videos with a quality comparison tool ffmpeg has, and I also took subjective notes when I could tell the difference.

    I found AV1 did better at very low quality (when it was firmly into the region where it was visibly different, AV1 did have better quality per bitrate).

    But when trying to produce high-quality clips, AV1 was never able to produce a clip that matched the quality score of h265, even when the bitrate of the AV1 file was higher.

  • AOMedia To Release AV2 Video Codec At Year's End

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  • AV1 only has gains at very low quality settings. For high quality, h265 is much better. At least with the codecs available in ffmpeg, from my tests.

  • AOMedia To Release AV2 Video Codec At Year's End

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  • It would be nice if they could finish AV1 first…

  • Seriously what's that idea?

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  • Then they complain about the moderators, and if enough of the community agrees, things will change.

    If the moderators won’t change, the community moves.

    If they don’t agree with the community, they should find a different community.

  • Seriously what's that idea?

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  • It sounds like what you want is for moderators to ban people for you, which they will do if you report them and the moderators agree that what they are doing is unwanted in the community.

  • Cavity City

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  • If it wasn’t actual candy I could see this as a way to trick kids into brushing their teeth

  • Recommendations of really moody games for crummy days

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  • Hollow Knight (more so than Silksong tbh)

    Night in the Woods (not the same vibe as the games you mentioned but absolutely a “had a bad day” vibe)

  • Friends are a bloatware.

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  • They collect your data via WhatsApp and send you adds all over the internet

  • Do any of y'all play video games like a normal person?

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  • I don’t get like this with every game, but yeah that’s how Silksong has been for me.

  • My friend got this when she tried to view a Reddit post about a dental issue that got marked as NSFW

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  • My 25 year old SO got carded while my 19 year old brother wasn’t questioned when we were at a liquor store. I think because my brother had a big beard they assumed he must be old lol.

  • Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to research

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  • I don’t know if you could have chosen a worse example. The sexual ads in cyberpunk are part of the worldbuilding and statement about society and capitalism. They absolutely are necessary to the story.

  • Is Hollow Knight: Silksong too hard? Well, it depends on what you mean by “hard.”

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  • I’d rather they add an easy mode than globally nerf the difficulty

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • Also Silksong released at $20, which is a price point people are often waiting for older games to hit.

    Regardless of semantics, Silksong is the only game I’ve played since it released.

  • It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now

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  • You can also just buy digital downloads from sites like Bandcamp and Quobuz, and even iTunes if you click past the Apple Music streaming part.

  • 5 tomatoes

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  • their base numbering system would be different than ours, their symbols for numbers would be different, their entire understanding of math and how to calculate stuff could be wildly different

    The neat thing about math is it’s built upon universal truths that exist independently of how you describe them. 1+1=2 regardless of how you represent those numbers. Even among humans we have plenty of different ways of describing numbers.

    Also, the best thing about science is that physics works the way it does regardless of how you describe it. An atom of hydrogen will always have the same spectral peaks, regardless of what units you describe those peaks in.

    It’s these kinds of things we consider when trying to communicate with aliens. Take a look at:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message

    These messages will probably never be received, even if there is intelligent life out there. But if something intelligent does find these messages, they will probably determine they are artificial, and hopefully manage to decode some of it.