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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

Lovingly tap your tomestone in search of succor.

Ah fuck, they added doomscrolling...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 17 hours ago

It's not impossible that the mother forced him to drive without a license/permit and they got arrested for it. I once saw a bodycam video where the sovtard in the passenger seat was giving lines to say to the driver, who was clearly not on board with the rhetoric.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

There's a world of difference between "awesome for gaming" and "has great games made for it". I would not want to see a world where games are locked behind an additional layer of prohibitively expensive hardware and a Facebook account, with gameplay systems compromised to make the interactions VR-compatible.

VR should be a second-class citizen and I'm fine with that.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (5 children)

For each article claiming that VR would revolutionize gaming/work/engineering/social life, there shall be an article proving that it was a resounding failure. Perfectly balanced.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hopefully with a Mythbusters-style remote control setup in case it explodes. And the trunk filled with ANFO to make sure it does.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Funny how time works.

  • 1995 was ten years ago.
  • 1997 was three years ago.
  • Every year of the 80s was 20 years ago.
  • 2010 was 10 years ago.
  • 2016 was two years ago.
  • 2018 was two years ago.
  • 2019 was one year ago.
  • 2020 lasted for six years, but ended three months into the year.
  • 2021-2022 didn't happen.
  • 2023 ended just a few weeks ago.
  • 2024 still hasn't ended. We also invented time travel. Consequently:
  • 2025 apparently started in the 1960s, and rapidly progressing towards the 1940s.
[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (10 children)

The styrofoam wall had a pre-cut hole to weaken it, and some people are using it as a gotcha proving the video was faked. It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Pretty good, and somehow getting better with time; especially considering how much you can get out of the game for completely free.

The game's main premium currency is platinum. There's no way to get it through in-game activities. You can buy it directly, it is included in most cash-only purchases, or you can trade it freely with other players. Most of the trading is organized on the third-party market board warframe.market, and the in-game trading chat... exists, I guess.

Most of the game's items (weapons, warframes, companions, upgrades) can be farmed through regular gameplay from random drops, from specific missions or boss fights, crafted from gathered resources, or bought using in-game currencies. You can buy most of them for platinum, but don't have to. The only payment-exclusive items are cosmetics (skins, helmets, color palettes), but not all of them, and inventory slots. There are also many late-game items that are impossible to buy and have to be earned. Some items are also sold in discounted packs. As of the latest major update (released literally a few hours ago), you get an additional discount for items of a pack that you already own.

The worst limiting factor for a new player is warframe and weapon slots. Your account can only hold a limited number of certain items, and slots are almost exclusively purchased with platinum (a small number can be earned through Nightwave, a free battle pass-like system). A new account starts with 50 non-tradable platinum -- my recommendation is to buy 2 weapon slot packs (12p for two slots, 24p total) and a warframe slot (20p for one).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I've had Friday evening sessions that were ended by the morning sun. I wasn't kidding about the crack simile. Time is just a suggestion when you have an assembly line to complete.

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Decoy jeans! (files.catbox.moe)
 

Clipped from Josh Strife Hayes' "Dark Swoles" stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfwKE9XpvBs

Textless version: https://files.catbox.moe/6kd0wi.mp4

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Helldivers 2 is reported to work on Linux. IIRC the anti-cheat only requires kernel level access on Windows and runs in userspace on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

My brother in Christ, most of the video is showing a table.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (10 children)

I have the most hours in Warframe, but Factorio is on a different level. If you're anywhere on the spectrum, it is pure crack cocaine. The only reason I haven't bought the DLC is because I know it'll consume a month of my free time.

By the way, Warframe 1999's soundtrack fucking slaps.

 

This follows a pattern of delayed notifications and reports.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Philip Rebohle, DXVK's founding developer, stated in an interview that he started the project "to get one specific game to work". Later, he explained in a forum post that he was a bit of a Nier fanboy, and that it was a relatively simple game to use as a test subject for DXVK.

Rebohle was later contacted and hired by Valve. Wine already had a D3D11 compatibility layer, but it wasn't nearly as far ahead as DXVK at the time. It's fair to say that Linux gaming wouldn't exist in its current form if not for one guy's appreciation for Nier Automata. Rebohle still works at Valve, currently conributing to VKD3D-Proton.

 

re: this article.

The title is a joke. "Free, but you have to make an EGS account" is a bit too rich for me.

 

About half a year ago I bought a used UPS. It didn't have enough output to power my main PC, but it's perfect for my home server and network.

Starting on Christmas eve and continuing even today, my neighbourhood has been getting intermittent brownouts. It's only affecting one phase (house is on a three-phase 240V connection), which happens to be the one powering my network (also all of the light fixtures, stupid Soviet house), and the UPS works beautifully. I didn't lose any of my services even once. Without it, I would probably be reinstalling Proxmox and praying to the RAID gods to restore my hard drives.

"It pays for itself as soon as it is needed" is proven true once again.

 

For context: https://sh.itjust.works/post/29595487 https://lemm.ee/post/50197116

(actual life-ruining gambling is okay though, as long as you give the slot machine a thematic paint job)

 

It is the polar opposite of the hustle culture, and I despise the hustle culture. Here I can be comfortably adequate and still feel valid.

I haven't done a damn thing today at work. My inbox is empty. The helpdesk is stagnant. Nobody's come into my office with an emergency. I've been watching Star Trek TNG interrupted only by toilet and coffee breaks. I'll wait for the cleaning lady to check the trash cans (they're empty), lock up, and go pick up my dad's gift.

What a perfectly adequate day.

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Glass nuggets (files.catbox.moe)
 

Original: https://files.catbox.moe/ouf9k7.png Alt tonemapping: https://files.catbox.moe/g7mg0q.png

Made in Blender.

 
 

If it floats, buoyant.

 

This is a simple shader node group that breaks up the visual repetition of tiled textures. It uses a Voronoi texture's cell colors to apply a random translation and/or rotation to an image texture's vector input to produce an irregular pattern.

I primarily made it for landscape materials. The cells' borders are still sharp, so certain materials, like bricks, wood, or fabric, will not look good.

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