Well, you take the rough with the smooth with English:

Smooth:

• verb conjugation rules are straightforward
• adjective declension is trivial - don’t do it
• easy to make most plurals, only a handful of exceptions to learn
• no grammatical gender

Rough:

• can’t have too many words that mean almost-but-not-quite the same thing
• spelling is the fever dream of a madman. In particular, eighteen or so vowel sounds represented by five letters, words transliterated from other languages that may or may not have their pronunciation changed, words that have had their pronunciation changed over the centuries but spelling hasn’t been updated. Because fuck you, that’s why.
• putting two words together to make noun phrases that don’t have the meaning of either word
• a plethora, indeed a veritable abundance, of strange grammatical forms

You mostly take the rough, to be fair.

Dang. If only they had some kind of security scanning tool that could catch that kind of thing.

It was quite prone to crashing-to-desktop and certain PC configurations had bizarre graphics issues, but I did play through it on hardcore in the week of release and had a great time with it. Just needed to quicksave a lot.

The kind of bugs that it did not have a lot of were quest bugs. Bethesda’s own games are ‘wide but shallow’, and very few quests in the world seem to interlink with each other, but despite that, they’re very easy to break accidentally, or cannot be completed due to flag issues. Oblivion managed to wrangle up a complex plot with tonnes of interrelated parts, and it mostly just worked.

What F:NV could have been if it had been made in a good engine… Most of the times where it got dinged in review scores were for bugginess and instability. Trying to build a castle upon sand; there’s only so much you can do before all the cracks appear.

If Azure had an 11% downtime, then I’d consider it a blessing. 19 hours a week when you’d be free of using the damned thing. But no, it just stays up and taunts you.

The fruit was originally called a norange, from Spanish naranja, but that sounds a bit awkward in English so the n moved over to make it an orange instead.

Alas, no.

I call mine ‘little Elvis’, because that’s what Elvis called his, and it’s always struck me as a good name for it.

The database is stored encrypted on disk, but the userspace program that authenticates to access it allows any running program to hook into it, and once the user authenticates, any ride-along program has full access forever.

Don’t even need a local priv escalation, just need to be able to run code as the user, and you can exfiltrate everything. Microslop have closed this as ‘not a bug, intended behaviour’.

Only safe solution appears to be disabling Recall entirely. Which I’ve done by installing Arch btw.

Yeah. Am using Connect on my phone, which shows “comments to the same link” all in one view. That’s not quite right; would be better if it showed all of the posts that had the same link together too, but it’s a massive improvement.

Not suggesting we should have Fark-style ‘only one post per link’, because that ended up having some, eh, niche blog takes on news articles, since you couldn’t post mainstream articles. But accumulating posts with the same link or same post together would be great.

Okay - that’ll be interesting. There’s not much “the future Addams family” in that collection; there’s quite a lot of creepy-and-kooky, a fair amount of 1940s humour that’s aged really badly (misogyny and foreigners with funny ways) and also a fair amount of stuff that I just don’t understand at all. Will be pleased to see the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ for what’s actually going on in some of them.

Bit of a prototypical Far Side in a way. Addams has a fair amount more technical skill than Larson, but can be a lot meaner in his jokes; they’re very much about an ‘everyday picture with funny caption’ or vice-versa.

Been a while since I’ve had to use that piece-of-shit in anger; but doesn’t the “save as” options give you the possibility of saving it as HTML but with all of those changes baked in? It’s easier to copy-paste HTML.

Was about to recommend the same thing; I just couldn’t get anywhere on Silksong with a normal pad, had to set it up for a fight stick to have proper control.

Only got yourself to blame for diagonals with these bad boys:

https://www.8bitdo.com/arcade-controller-transparent-purple/

Of course, 8bitdo’s stuff is awesome, but Steam controllers are awesomer.

I broke my first steam controller, and an old xbox controller, beating the final boss of Sekiro. My replacement is more-or-less a shelf ornament at the moment due to its irreplaceable nature. That old man’s got a lot to answer for.

I will also be at the front of the queue for this. Hesitation is defeat, after all.

My Ryzen 9 had a default boost limit of 90 °C, which caused a lot of stress to the rest of the cooling system in my PC but it didn’t seem to have any problem running like that for a few hours. (Fortunately you can crank it down to something a bit more sensible in the BIOS.) My laptop will spike briefly over 100 °C, but only for a second or two. I can see the ‘failure’ temperature being a bit higher, but 200 °C seems unreasonably hot.

You’ve missed out the “don’t charge devs the Unreal licensing fee for games sold through Epic Store”, which would be another 10% on top of every sale. If they had any sales, of course. But yeah, an extra ten percent of nothing remains nothing, and they all go back to Steam.

I quite liked the graphics, but yeah. Lies of P started at the same price and saw discounts more quickly, and you can currently buy it and its DLC for the same price as Khazan. That’s probably the best soulslike of recent years, rave reviews across the board, and it did sell millions for a small, unknown team. You just have to measure up to that to do the same.

Haven’t played the whole game, but did play the demo when it came out. It’s a good-looking Soulslike with tight controls and a few tweaks to the normal formula. Brutally hard, and a lot of that is because it’s very parry-heavy, with many different kinds of parry. Miss a dodge or get your timing wrong, you’ll be eating shit and restarting again. Surprisingly long demo, did enjoy it.

Do have it wishlisted, but it’s always been at quite a hefty price and haven’t dipped in, yet. Would have been a yes from me at thirty quid and I’d have considered it at forty, but it seems to sit at fifty, and there’s very few games I’d pay that amount for.

Demo came out in the same week as the AI Limit demo, which is a much more traditional Soulsy, and which I bought and had a good time with. There’s a busy market for Souls games, for sure.

It’s a creature that comes from an environment where we cannot survive, and drags us back into its realm to eat us. I was thinking more the kraken, but maybe ‘space cthulhu’-type aliens work too.

Don’t think Bigfoot is a particularly violent chap? Maybe a Wendigo might be a better match.

Not arguing that PNG is the right choice, but you want something lossless for science purposes, and this is a science image.

You can tell roughly what order the impact craters were formed by seeing what overlaps what; looks like the small impacts mostly followed the big impacts. Maybe the earth’s orbit cleared out the bigger stuff first? If you had a really good image, you might be able to work out the average impact angle, and therefore the average speed of impact, since we know the speed of the moon, and how they would intersect. Nothing’s filled with lava like it has on the near side of the moon, which makes me think these have mostly happened later in the moon’s life, when it’s cooled down a bit.

I just love space, I’ve no education in it. I bet someone with a fancy moon science degree would be able to tell you a lot more, and they’d be poring over every pixel. Don’t want any JPEGs getting in the way of that.

Standard operating practice would just be to move everyone else up a slot, and book some ‘up and coming’ band to fill the very early slot that’s left vacant. Glastonbury managed to shuffle people between days when they lost their headliners a few years ago, depends who’s free and who’s got other bookings.

Looks like they had West headlining all three days, and I can’t find anything about who else was due to play - Drake, maybe? The 2026 festival looks like a scam, how little detail there is about it.