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Quoting: KlaasI only like the first four books. The rest is rather ridiculous since she thinks that randomly executing characters and a racist teacher employing physical torture on a child equals mature story.

Huh, I've never read the books. Recently bought the movie pack in 4k... and got about 2.5 movies into it and then paused for a while. Not that they aren't watchable (pretty sure I've seen up to 5 at one point), I just have more things to do that I'd rather spend my time on... Eventually I'll get to all of them.

I really liked the Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality [External Link] fanfic. Not sure I can enjoy vanilla HP (such as this) after reading that.

I started reading that. Ehhhhh . . . I wasn't as impressed with it as it was with itself.

To each their own :) Yes, HP can come across as a bit full of himself in that story sometimes, but that's part of the story... which is great, full of surprises without Ex Machina (as in, the reader is given enough understanding of the world to anticipate possible actions, which is generally not the case with vanilla HP). I like that some things are explained, others have clearly defined mechanisms, and the character asks himself the same questions (and more) that I do when coming across something new.

To quote the author:

This fic is widely considered to have really hit its stride starting at around Chapter 5. If you still don't like it after Chapter 10, give up.

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Quoting: BotonoskiI was very certain they weren't going to do this, so many companies just flippantly make e-waste without so much as a second thought. I am glad they are taking this step, but worried the motives behind doing such a thing are... Lackluster, likely PR motivated rather than an actual intention to reduce waste.

Probably one or a few very dedicated developers spending some of their 20% time [External Link] on this.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: KlaasI only like the first four books. The rest is rather ridiculous since she thinks that randomly executing characters and a racist teacher employing physical torture on a child equals mature story.

Huh, I've never read the books. Recently bought the movie pack in 4k... and got about 2.5 movies into it and then paused for a while. Not that they aren't watchable (pretty sure I've seen up to 5 at one point), I just have more things to do that I'd rather spend my time on... Eventually I'll get to all of them.

I really liked the Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality [External Link] fanfic. Not sure I can enjoy vanilla HP (such as this) after reading that.

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Quoting: MayeulC

Quoting: m2mg2What is this hack to get achievements working? There was a time I had it working but it broke long ago.

Quoting: MayeulCStill no splitscreen :P

More seriously, nothing changed. There's still a hack to get achievements and campaign progression without EAC, but no online play with EAC enabled.

There are a few references on https://areweanticheatyet.com/ [External Link], but it has less info than this post. Here's their latest update [External Link].

https://fearlessrevolution.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=11818 [External Link]

There is a replacement dll for eac. That also allows the game to load with EAC on, though you'll get kicked from online matches after a few seconds (I tried once, without realizing I still had it). I'd avoid online as I don't want a ban.

Does not appear to work any longer. I get a message about anti cheat hash not found when I start the game and no achievements appear to come through

You still have to start with EAC off, mind you.

I unlocked another achievement just a couple hours ago.

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Nice! I wish I had this available while in boarding school 10 years ago (10-40 MBps for 150 people). It will also make distributing content much smoother for LANs (though you could always deploy a local content server). It would be great if that could be applied to updates too.

I used to use pacredir for the same use-case with Arch/Manjaro updates.

Torrents would be very well suited to the task (peers on the same LAN would statistically request different chunks, then exchange those), though the tech can be improved upon.

By the way, they should probably distribute game files as immutable images mounted with an overlayfs, and distributed using something like casync.

In my case, I'm probably going to play around with storing game files on a local NFS server.

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500k, and that's without a native Linux version :P

/just kidding, I'm not expecting it to affect sales a lot.

In other news, they also added a classic mode.

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Quoting: TermyI'm still amazed those high price controllers still use potentiometer sticks.
After trying out the Gulikit Kingkong, hall effect sticks just are on a whole other level and there is no excuse to not use them on anything that costs more than 30 or 40 bucks. If only the Kingkongs would work better on linux :/

I think you can pretty easily replace those sticks with hall effect sensors. There are even some for the Steam Deck. I saw something about this in a "Linus Tech Tips" video ("ultimate steam deck", IIRC)

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I'm surprised, I thought rsync already used rolling hashes.

There's also casync in that space: https://github.com/systemd/casync/ [External Link] (the blog post is quite nice IIRC).

If it's similar but better than rsync, I feel like these improvements should be folded into rsync.

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Quoting: m2mg2What is this hack to get achievements working? There was a time I had it working but it broke long ago.

Quoting: MayeulCStill no splitscreen :P

More seriously, nothing changed. There's still a hack to get achievements and campaign progression without EAC, but no online play with EAC enabled.

There are a few references on https://areweanticheatyet.com/ [External Link], but it has less info than this post. Here's their latest update [External Link].

https://fearlessrevolution.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=11818 [External Link]

There is a replacement dll for eac. That also allows the game to load with EAC on, though you'll get kicked from online matches after a few seconds (I tried once, without realizing I still had it). I'd avoid online as I don't want a ban.

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Quoting: HythlodaeusHonestly can't we just have someone decompile the PC version of 2097 and make a source port out of it?

Grab Ghidra and be the change you want to see :)

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