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dave881

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  • Why did in game cameras take so long to get good?🤔

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  • From my memory of the time, I think it was a few things.

    The ability to do 3d in games was new, and without a lot of experience in what made for "good gameplay" devs were trying new things and seeing what works. Similarly, if you go back even further into console and PC gaming history you can find some game that use what, looking back, would be considered terrible control layout and/or gameplay mechanics. Sometimes because the company just wanted to ship something, sometimes because best practices hadn't been established.

    The ability to do 3d was new and the free roaming camera was an easy way to show off the systems capabilities. Especially for early first party games, there was a huge effort to show off how much more advanced the new console was compared to the competition. I can remember marketing that focused on showing that you could look all around these virtual worlds (Mario 64) or how awesome the graphics processor was by highlighting the parralax effect of the background images (Castlvania 4).

    Controllers were also evolving at this time. The SNES and original PlayStation controllers just had a D-pad and like a half dozen buttons to control all your movement and actions. The addition of analog control sticks, and the N64's bizarre controller were really the first shot at having the variety and quantity of controls to make rapid changes of player perspective and actions feasible at the same time.

    Combine all of that with some publishers just putting out blatant cash grabs, and you have a whole lot of new territory to map and a target audience that doesn't really even know what it wants yet.

  • Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files?

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  • Yes and no.

    In the US the Judicial branch is responsible for the the courts and interpretation of the law / constitution, but the Executive branch is responsible for the execution / enforcement of the law. I think that in other parts of the world it is common for the AG to be part of the Judicial branch, but here they are part of the Executive branch.

    As I understand it, there are parts of these investigations/prosecutions that the AG can release under their own authority (or by direction of the President) but other parts that are under seal and require authorization from the courts.

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  • This is why you should make the label before drinking the wine

  • Is this green or blue?

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  • Why is it in popular imagining, that ghosts are {MOSTLY} depicted as miserable lonely sad folks that are stuck to the places they've died in?

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  • I believe it's tied to the ides of the restless dead.

    The spirit should move on after death, but some spirits get stuck between worlds. Often it's related to the circumstances of their death. Maybe they had unfinished business, they died a particularly grousom death, or they were denied a proper burrial.

  • Apex Legends will not support Linux and Linux-based Steam Decks anymore because of cheating

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  • Yeah. I'm not sure that this has changed much.

    I suspect that was a large part of what drove the excitement for something like Valve's Proton. It was supposed to make it easier for studios to make games available across platforms, because they would. "just work" without having to put special effort in.

    This sounds like the same sort of "We found out that the cost is not actually 0, and we want out. We can't say that though, so it's your fault"

  • Apex Legends will not support Linux and Linux-based Steam Decks anymore because of cheating

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  • They may well be lying about their reasons/justifications, I don't have any way to know one way or the other.

    This just isn't a new thing. Companies fave been blaming the high cost of supporting the relatively small number of users on an "alternative" OS for a very long time. Unfortunately, I think that as long as desktop Linux is in the single or low double digits of percentage of users, this is something we're going to keep hearing.

    A company is unlikely to do a thing if it's cheaper to not do the thing.

  • Apex Legends will not support Linux and Linux-based Steam Decks anymore because of cheating

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  • Assuming that there really is significant cheating on Linux clients, this can just be the company saying that there are not enough users to make development of more robust anti-cheat cost effective.

    This is basically the same argument that software and hardware vendors have used for decades for why they won't support Linux

  • I have ditched Windows and went with Linux: My Story with Windows, What apps should i get rid of.

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  • Not a big gamer, myself, but it seems like Valve has done a lot of work to make many (most?) Steam games run well under Linux.

    Drivers have come a long way, and a lot of things just work, but it can definitely depend on what hardware is in your system.

  • Mother charged after 6-year-old takes loaded gun to school

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  • I think they mean that she is taking the fall for the "unknown" person she "bought" the gun from.

    Implying that she was holding the weapon for someone

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    Donald Trump to be sentenced to prison in September: Fox News columnist

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  • Yes, it's 34 district crimes. That's why it's 34 charges.

    My understanding is that in white collar crimes like these, the number of charges does not bear on whether the sentence includes jail time for a defendant with no prior criminal history. Unless the dollar amount is exorbitant; but in this case I don't think anybody made any money.

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    Donald Trump to be sentenced to prison in September: Fox News columnist

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  • My understanding is that these sorts of white collar crimes don't normally result in jail time for defendants with no previous criminal record, in New York state courts.

    I get the feeling that the number of counts doesn't really matter here, because they are not really unique crimes. My understanding is that they brought 34 charges because they had 34 documents they thought they could prove in court were fraudulent, but it is materialy the same crime (deliberately mischaracterizing the nature of the payment)

  • Kamala Harris Wipes Out Trump’s Swing-State Lead in Election Dead Heat

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  • I think that "wipes out" here is referring to the lead that Trump had in the polls previously. All the states went from a clear lead for Trump over Biden, to basically even, with one exception showing a clear lead.

    I think that it suggests a competitive race, rather than one side coasting to victory. It is hard to draw concrete conclusions still, but the clear lead is definitely gone

  • Is the Sovol SV08 worth it as a Voron 2.4 alternative?

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  • What reading style do you consider more tedious to read, A) short, concise, and precise, but using non-layperson vocabulary, B) using layperson vocabulary, but it's longer, drawn out, and not precise?

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  • I think that the answer to this depends on the audience and the topic or nature of the discussion.

    I prefer precise, technical language if the audience has experience in the topic. You can save a lot of time by not explaining things that the readers should, reasonably know.

    I think simpler language is appropriate for a more general audience or higher level discussion.

    It can be challenging to find the right balance on a forum, like this, where you don't necessarily know who the audience is.

  • What is the point of dbus?

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  • Dbus attempts to provide a standardized system for inter process communication (IPC) without the complexity of managing individual connections between each and every process that needs to share certain types of data.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Bus