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alphabethunter

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  • Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back

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  • Great! Now bring back phones with physical QWERTY keyboards.

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  • Because a lot of times other people will share things whenever there's enough controversy? Often things will also show up on the news? Not that uncommon for things on twitter to show up outside twitter?

  • Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year

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  • My pc auto-upgraded because I donwloaded what I thought was just a regular update. I've been using 11 for like a year already, and it's fine. Install powertoys, run christitus utility... The one thing that really bothered me for a while was not having as granular of a control of my taskbar, but that only lasted for like two weeks.

  • Boston Dynamic show off their brand new Atlas

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  • Same! I probably will be replaced just as all the other "meat sacks", but I hope to at least be given a degree of dignity upon my inevitable demise.

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  • I think of this anytime I see some alleged leftist on Twitter talking about anything as if they were paragons of ethics and morality. It might be a bit of cynicism on my part, but I can't take it seriously whenever someone can't take a hint that maybe they shouldn't be in a platform owned by a Billionaire that makes a point in basing his personality on the fact that he is an imperialist bigot. I wish Twitter had stayed banned in my country...

  • Video Provides Rare Look Inside China’s Space Station

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  • Really cool that they can plant and harvest fresh vegetables in space. I bet they joked about eating space lettuce and tomato.

  • Marathon on Steam

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  • They are in the same universe, and they are both FPS, and that seems as far as similarities go. But maybe it won't be just that, maybe they'll tie the plot of the new game to the old ones somehow, maybe the ship marathon crashed in the alien planet where the whole extraction thing happens, and maybe that's the reason? I've never played the original games, but recently watched a youtube video about them and it seems that it was really loved by bungie, and they took many of the lessons from it to make Halo. My bet is that someone at Bungie has always kept those games in a corner of their memory, thinking about how they could revive them one day. Usually, when old franchises are revived, it's because of some execs trying to make use of their popularity. But it doesn't seem to be the case here, as Marathon was quite an obscure game.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 exec praises Dragon Age: The Veilguard, calls it the "first Dragon Age game that truly knows what it wants to be"

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  • It knows it wants to be an AAA game in 2024, and we all know what that means...

  • World of Warcraft’s $90 Mount Is So Popular the In-Game Auction House Is Selling Out of WoW Tokens

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  • And paid expansions.

  • Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn

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  • There's a point made at the end of the article that most people seems to have missed entirely:

    Existing facilities that can filter carbon dioxide out of the air only have the capacity to capture 0.01 million metric tons of CO2 globally today, costing companies like Microsoft as much as $600 per ton of CO2. That’s very little capacity with a very high price tag.

    “We cannot squander carbon dioxide removal on offsetting emissions we have the ability to avoid,” study coauthor Gaurav Ganti, a research analyst at Climate Analytics, said in a press release. The priority needs to be preventing pollution now instead of cleaning it up later.

    It's obviously a matter of "why not both?", and both the article and the scientists behind the report agree on it. However, a lot of people are betting their eggs on the idea that climate reversal technology will suddenly become a lot more effective and cheaper than it is right now. And sure, that may be the case, or not. For how many years have we heard of flying cars or self-driving autonomous vehicles and predicted that they were just around the corner, at most a few years away, but nada so far? Betting on the invention of a new technology that'll make a very expensive process today way cheaper is a VERY naive and bad approach.

  • The developer of Rogue Legacy has officially released its source code 'in the pursuit of sharing knowledge'

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  • Yeah, I guess that would be the ideal. But starting with just non-commercial use is already way better than what we have today. People could use those resources to learn how to make games, and also to preserve videogames for the future.

  • Publishers are absolutely terrified "preserved video games would be used for recreational purposes," so the US copyright office has struck down a major effort for game preservation

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  • They can dick about as much as they want, piracy will make sure to preserve the things they want gone. The reason they don't want older games to be preserved is that new generations, whilst playing them, may come to realize that you don't need gacha mechanics, stupid fomo, micro transactions, 6 different currencies, 3 different shop menus, 2 battlepasses and so forth to have a good game.

  • Sand - Official Gameplay Demo

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  • I've played twelve hours of the demo, ten of those last Sunday. Had a lot of fun. Was playing the game with a friend, and we loved the pvp part. The coolest thing about the game is that you can make and design your own trampler, using buildpieces. After we made our first trampler, we went around the servers trampling on everyone. We won a fight 2v3 and another one just after that in a 2v4 situation. Our trampler was designed from the ground up to be run as a two-men team, and it worked like a charm. I was above running guns and engines, and my friend was below piloting and running repairs, in a fully enclosed box of steel.

  • Sand - Official Gameplay Demo

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  • Ladder climbing is important, but most ladders are short ones. You only need to climb the radio tower once every hour or longer. It's only when you extract.

  • Sand - Official Gameplay Demo

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  • I bought that game many years ago, played two matches, never could find a game anymore after that. Still have found memories of it though.

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    5th Circuit rules ISP should have terminated Internet users accused of piracy

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  • It's only illegal when an individual does it, when it's a giant corporation, it's called innovation. /s

  • Weekly what have you been playing discussion - week of October 14th, 2024

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  • It's Steam Next Fest rn, so I'm trying my hand at a bunch of demos. The ones that caught my attention so far were the demos for SAND and Sulfur. Sand was surprisingly fun despite the absolute god-awful performance. And Sulfur is just uniquely charming.

  • Rare boss Craig Duncan promoted to Xbox Game Studios chief

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  • It took me a second to compute that Rare boss was talking about the boss of the game studio Rare and not a rare occurring boss in a game.

  • The developer of Rogue Legacy has officially released its source code 'in the pursuit of sharing knowledge'

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  • Baller move from the devs. I wish we lived in a world where the source code of older games were all released and freely available for non-commercial uses.