Probably not a day-1 purchase, but I'll be watching it closely – from what I saw of what's been revealed so far I'm cautiously optimistic about this one.

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Nice to finally get closure. :smile: Incidentally, I recently got back into playing TF2 (after a five-year break) from this video [External Link] showcasing a new community-made gamemode called One Thousand Uncles where teams of up to 24 humans take on 40 Engineer bots. It's a bit like a reverse Mann vs. Machine where you're attacking rather than defending, though it's developed it's own unique meta. It's chaotic, overwhelming, and I'm having a blast.

Edit: if you try it out, for some reason the connection to the item servers nearly always breaks the first time you join one of the servers, but luckily a quick "retry" in the console fixes it. And if you're on the Montreal servers late in the day for North America, you might run into me. :smile: (Though not for the next week as I'll be visiting family.)

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Wow, I knew I'd been playing a lot of RimWorld this year (it only took me a decade from backing the original Kickstarter campaign to finally get into it), but I didn't realize it was 51% of my play time. :whistle:

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The new mysterious island is the largest and harshest in Palworld's history. The island is about six times the size of Sakurajima, which was added in the last major update!

2027 Palworld update: "Yep, another new island added! This one is larger than the surface area of Earth." :tongue:

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It's on my wishlist from hearing about it before, as the idea sounds interesting. I'll give the demo a try and we'll see how it goes.

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Quoting: EikeHere you go: AI needs a childhood. And "parents". It needs to be told, maybe over years, what it is doing right and what it is doing wrong. This is done in parts already, but only by cheap click workers. Nobody wants to pay "real" AI parents.

Now I'm just imagining an angsty teenage AI yelling petulantly "You're not my real parents!" 🤣

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Quoting: EikeNothing, ever, is cooler than black.

Personally, I think mine with the white skin I added and the black highlights from the buttons/sticks/bits-between-the-skin-showing-through is cooler than any mono-color scheme. :smile:

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Quoting: pbEach recording has its own directory with a lot of files in it, most of them .m4s.
mpv/vlc are capable of playing the first few seconds when pointed to session.mpd file (which doesn't work either in the case I described) but afaik the whole recording can only be played via Steam client (it can be exported, in whole or in part, to .mp4 from there). At least I haven't found another way to open these files. :-/

It's beyond my limited knowledge then, I'm afraid. I recorded a few seconds of video and I see the same general thing, but I don't know what scheme they're using to turn those raw files into an output video. Sorry.

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Quoting: LoudTechieI don't expect Nintendo to behave much differently if they do or don't believe in Karma.

There's a hidden assumption underpinning this discussion, which is that "everyone, including Nintendo, see what they're doing as bad". "No one at Nintendo believes in karma" is externally indistinguishable from "Everyone at Nintendo firmly believes in karma (to the point where it strongly affects all their actions) AND they see what they're doing as morally good".

Quoting: Purple Library GuyTo me religion operating as literary source material does not imply practicing or believing in the religion.

A good example is the term "mana," which comes directly from indigenous Polynesian religions where it means a person's latent personal spiritual power. There are native practitioners today who sincerely believe in it, but I rather doubt that the innumerable games with "mana potions" and such imply all their developers are followers – most of them probably don't even know where it comes from. (Much like having an "avatar" doesn't imply a belief in Hinduism.)

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Kinda reminds me of One-Finger Death Punch, in a way.

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