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Pixels customizable smart dice seem like an interesting way to spice up your tabletops
10 Mar 2021 at 7:31 pm UTC
10 Mar 2021 at 7:31 pm UTC
Quoting: helloCLDWhile these look super cool, I'd be extremely concerned with the weight. I imagine it takes some pretty clever engineering to fit the LEDs, battery and comm circuits inside the die AND make sure they roll just as randomly as your typical die does.Hmmm, yeah, you might need to add little bits of metal counterweights in there. But they look cool enough that I'm not sure how much I care if they, you know, work. These are shiny dice as jewelry, basically.
Kick down doors and send reptile people flying in Anger Foot
10 Mar 2021 at 7:16 pm UTC
10 Mar 2021 at 7:16 pm UTC
Kickin' it old school.
Pixels customizable smart dice seem like an interesting way to spice up your tabletops
10 Mar 2021 at 5:10 pm UTC Likes: 1
10 Mar 2021 at 5:10 pm UTC Likes: 1
Ooo, Shinyyy!!!
Valve gives up on Artifact setting it free with Artifact Classic and Artifact Foundry
7 Mar 2021 at 12:06 am UTC
7 Mar 2021 at 12:06 am UTC
Quoting: MalArtifact story is the most obvious and immediate proof that in gaming there are no untouchable Gods when it comes to publishers.Generally agreed. But I don't think it's paying for the game that bothered people so much as the pay-to-win model imported from physical card games.
Valve is a beacon of light for gamers with Steam. But when it pushes to far and go anti-consumer they are as vulnerable to gamers backlash as anyone else. We've seen this many times and also with other companies (CD - project). These facts dismantle the rethoric other openly anti consumer companies argue to attack us when we strongly oppose their misdeeds, that in some way gamers are Valve groupies always ready to defend them against anyone and anything and at the same time attacking their competitors with no logic or reasonable argument.
Artifact in specific has been a well deserved failure. But it has been a publishing failure rather than a development one. The game was actually good, it was the monetization model chosen that killed it. Maybe making it F2P might allow it to live a 2nd, or better, an actual life.
Valve gives up on Artifact setting it free with Artifact Classic and Artifact Foundry
6 Mar 2021 at 8:11 am UTC Likes: 2
6 Mar 2021 at 8:11 am UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: TheSHEEEPNo, silly! Portal 3!Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoHAHAHA!Artifact 3.0?
C'mon lazy fatman! The only Valve game We want has a number 3 on it...
Valve gives up on Artifact setting it free with Artifact Classic and Artifact Foundry
5 Mar 2021 at 6:01 pm UTC Likes: 1
5 Mar 2021 at 6:01 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: gustavoyaraujoIf it was free to play from start, maybe the result would be different.Yeah . . . maybe it would have been a massive success and yet lost them money.
plus-x is a simple tool to help developers on Windows set Linux permissions for games
5 Mar 2021 at 5:50 pm UTC
But it seems like that's not what the original commenter was talking about.
5 Mar 2021 at 5:50 pm UTC
Quoting: GuestPresumably it would also allow you to set them on other files the user doesn't necessarily want to execute, but I'm sure virus writers could already do that.Quoting: 3zekielI don't get it, "anything off the internet"?Typically, a filesystem requires an executable file to be flagged as such before the operating system can run it. The most common implementation is part of what is typically referred to as "traditional Unix permissions." Unlike other modern (and many historic) operating systems, this is not supported by Windows or its default filesystemsAnd there goes many security issues with the ability to exec anything off the internet ...
For the tools itself, it's true that it's a good idea. Might help with some very easily avoidable issues.
This tool seems to allow you to set executable bits on executable files on files the user wants to execute because he wants to play.
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But it seems like that's not what the original commenter was talking about.
Direct3D 9-10-11 to Vulkan translation layer DXVK 1.8.1 is out now
1 Mar 2021 at 9:08 pm UTC Likes: 3
Side note: The problem with most conspiracy theories is not that there's a conspiracy involved.
1 Mar 2021 at 9:08 pm UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: EhvisI doubt it was done with deliberate ill intent, but that seems kind of backwards. I mean, if it works OK on AMD as long as the game doesn't know it's on AMD, but breaks if it does know, how can it have been fixing something on AMD?Quoting: BielFPs[This make me thing if developers didn't mad the game to break something on AMD hardware on purpose, in order to make Nvidia cards look better.Or they did it to fix something that broke on the amd driver. And since Linux drivers have nothing in common, it didn't need that fix.
You can always go with the conspiracy theory. But you'll almost always be wrong.
Side note: The problem with most conspiracy theories is not that there's a conspiracy involved.
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There are plenty of real conspiracies. Microsoft conspired to tweak Windows in such a way as to stop Lotus 1-2-3 from running, so they'd be able to sell Excel. ExxonMobil conspired for decades to secretly create propaganda (which they knew was false) to the effect that anthropogenic climate change was fake, because they feared that if people believed it was real and started trying to do something about it, that would kill their massive billions in profits. They were very likely correct. Little happened to them when it came out because lying propgaganda campaigns aren't actually illegal, so it was low risk. Etc etc etc; there are tons of these.
Real conspiracies are almost always about profit, and are generally done by a fairly tight-knit entity with few outsiders "in the know". So OK, this NVidia idea would be about profit (nobble the competition), but it would require getting co-operation from game developers, who fundamentally would prefer their games run well on all customers' computers. That would require bribing them . . . all in all, it seems illegal and with a high risk someone would blab, because it needs all those "outsider" game developers for it to work. On balance not a very likely conspiracy IMO; I'd want to see quite a bit of evidence before I started worrying about it.
Stupid conspiracy theories are ones where the motivation is bizarre (so . . . they're doing X Y Z because . . . they want to drink children's blood? Whatever!) or the supposed group is extensive and varied (The A are teaming up with the B and the Q even though they have no reason to trust or share spoils with each other, would normally be expected to have motivations at odds, and there's no possible way a group that big could keep a secret). Bonus stupidity points if there's no obvious organizational framework to keep the conspiring entities pointing in one direction. Extra-bonus stupidity points if the conspiracy supposedly uses some organization, but works systematically counter to the interests of the actual main funders of the organization--eg most United Nations conspiracy theories.
Real conspiracies are almost always about profit, and are generally done by a fairly tight-knit entity with few outsiders "in the know". So OK, this NVidia idea would be about profit (nobble the competition), but it would require getting co-operation from game developers, who fundamentally would prefer their games run well on all customers' computers. That would require bribing them . . . all in all, it seems illegal and with a high risk someone would blab, because it needs all those "outsider" game developers for it to work. On balance not a very likely conspiracy IMO; I'd want to see quite a bit of evidence before I started worrying about it.
Stupid conspiracy theories are ones where the motivation is bizarre (so . . . they're doing X Y Z because . . . they want to drink children's blood? Whatever!) or the supposed group is extensive and varied (The A are teaming up with the B and the Q even though they have no reason to trust or share spoils with each other, would normally be expected to have motivations at odds, and there's no possible way a group that big could keep a secret). Bonus stupidity points if there's no obvious organizational framework to keep the conspiring entities pointing in one direction. Extra-bonus stupidity points if the conspiracy supposedly uses some organization, but works systematically counter to the interests of the actual main funders of the organization--eg most United Nations conspiracy theories.
Plasma 5.21 rolls out as one of the best looking Linux desktops available
26 Feb 2021 at 5:50 pm UTC Likes: 1
26 Feb 2021 at 5:50 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: scaineSomeone further up also mentioned Krusader, too! I'm not actually a huge fan of split-pane file explorers, but I do prefer file explorers which offer the facility if required. I tend to replace Nautilus, with its fork, Nemo, for that very reason. Nautilus patched out F3, whereas Nemo keeps it available. Very handy for when you have multiple file copies to perform.Caja on Mate also has that option.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 goes out today, new Linux driver released
26 Feb 2021 at 5:32 pm UTC Likes: 1
because Covid gave them an excuse to stop the markets from tanking. So cryptocurrencies are in fact growing face value precisely because central banks are printing money and giving that money mainly to the wealthy who use their money for speculation in stocks, cryptocurrencies, real estate and whatnot.
For more than ten years now what we've been seeing is an odd sort of compartmentalized inflation. Normal stuff like food or cars don't change in price that much because real people don't have any more money, but things you invest in and things like Picassos that are a cross between investments and really high-end consumer goods do, because central banks are giving financiers tons of easy money to throw at them.
Crypto is basically a thing people can speculate in, and we are in an economic phase where speculation is the main event. It may be possible to use crypto as actual currency, but that's not currently the point--crypto is tulips [External Link]. But so are most other things right now, so there's no shame in it.
26 Feb 2021 at 5:32 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: gabberIn fact I think there's an odd relationship between the price of crypto and governments printing fiat currency. I've come to the conclusion that the current rise in eg Bitcoin prices is basically just a subset of the massive bull market in stocks, with both of them fuelled by the gargantuan bailouts various governments pushed into the financial sectorQuoting: furaxhornyxThe money spent on your GPU is paid off in Ethereum, right ? But this is "virtual value", are there any store or things you can actually buy with this ?Whether crypto is more or less real then fiat ($ etc.) is another debate. True, there is no government "backing" crypto. But there is also no government printing crypto and thus devaluing the currency.
For more than ten years now what we've been seeing is an odd sort of compartmentalized inflation. Normal stuff like food or cars don't change in price that much because real people don't have any more money, but things you invest in and things like Picassos that are a cross between investments and really high-end consumer goods do, because central banks are giving financiers tons of easy money to throw at them.
Crypto is basically a thing people can speculate in, and we are in an economic phase where speculation is the main event. It may be possible to use crypto as actual currency, but that's not currently the point--crypto is tulips [External Link]. But so are most other things right now, so there's no shame in it.
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