Quetzalcutlass
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- Comment on Google tipped off authorities to illicit images in Canadian doctor's account, search warrants say 1 day ago:
They are visible, you can test yourself. Open an encrypted zip with 7zip and it’ll show the file list even without entering a password. The “encrypt file names” checkbox doesn’t even appear when creating an archive if the zip format is selected, so I’m not sure the format even supports it.
- Comment on Google tipped off authorities to illicit images in Canadian doctor's account, search warrants say 1 day ago:
That seems less like them decrypting encrypted archives and more like the zip format not encrypting filenames so they’re easily read from the zip’s metadata.
Which is still a privacy violation, to be clear, but not nearly on the same scale as somehow obtaining and using your passwords.
- Comment on Oh god... what have I become... 4 days ago:
Court cases in a world with illusion magic must be wild.
- Comment on Oh god... what have I become... 4 days ago:
You speak the truth. I gave a Deatchclaw 6 .38 rounds and it just seemed angrier.
I guess I needed a gift of higher caliber.
- Comment on Oh god... what have I become... 4 days ago:
But it you didn’t go into that random building, you wouldn’t have found that chest with a single lockpick inside (that took three to open).
- Comment on Oh god... what have I become... 4 days ago:
The evil twin was running a complicated scheme of identity theft and character assassination. You killing them before they could destroy the good twin’s reputation makes you even more of a hero!
- Comment on Subnautica 2's early access release date was "self-servingly" leaked by Krafton, "further damaging the game", claim lawyers for reinstated Unknown Worlds CEO 4 days ago:
I’m pretty sure that’s a joke. The article is referring to the legal team as a bunch of Lionel Hutzes.
- Comment on Oh god... what have I become... 4 days ago:
Okay, Rimworlder.
- Comment on Am I too late? 5 days ago:
Stop, you’re starting to make it sound appealing.
- Comment on Ubisoft ‘ends game development’ at Tom Clancy studio, Red Storm, resulting in 105 job losses | VGC 6 days ago:
Franchise rot is real. You’d think they’d learn when their most talked about games are always the early entries in a series, after the devs have hit their stride but before execs have ruined things with dumb ideas and fad chasing.
I haven’t played an Assassins Creed since Black Flag. I remember watching a preview of (I think) Valhalla showcasing the stealth. They snuck up on a boss and “assassinated” him, which… started the normal boss battle with them missing a bit of health. What’s even the point, then?
- Comment on Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 6 days ago:
Even if implementing it turns out to be trivial, testing art assets for quality and consistency will be a nightmare. Especially if the underlying generative AI isn’t deterministic.
- Comment on What games are you picking up March 19th? 1 week ago:
I’ve stopped buying new games I’ll probably never even launch, and started splurging on DLC for the old games I actually play.
- Comment on Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times 1 week ago:
It’s in Options - Downloads - Shader Pre-Caching.
Shader Pre-Caching allows Steam to download pre-compiled GPU shaders matching your system configuration. […] If enabled, Steam will collect shaders from your system when needed.
It’ll download shaders matching your card+driver and (if you’re the first with that specific config) upload your own compiled shaders for others to use.
- Comment on Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times 1 week ago:
Enshrouded, Grounded, and Abiotic Factor have been my favorite games of the past few years, and all are even better in co-op.
- Comment on Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times 1 week ago:
The developers know it’s bad, and the game’s next mega-patch is focused on fixing all the tech debt they’ve accrued during Early Access. You can already choose to play while the shaders are still compiling, but that slows down compilation multiple-fold and you’ll be missing features such as lighting until it’s finished so it’s barely playable (especially considering how ridiculously atmospheric the game is - there’s a reason the shader load is so heavy and it’s totally worth it).
It’s also probably nowhere near as bad a wait for most players. Shaders are compiled on the CPU and which shader paths are compiled is based on what your GPU supports. I have a relatively new GPU (4060) and a fifteen year old CPU, so it’s compiling the fanciest of shaders on an ancient four-threaded relic.
The game itself runs fine - 60 FPS at 1080p on my ancient machine. It’s just getting to play that’s annoying.
- Comment on Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times 1 week ago:
- Steam already does this and it rarely helps due to how every card + driver revision requires its own unique compilation. I think Steam’s is opt-in though and I doubt Microsoft will give you a choice, so maybe they’ll have more luck due to the sheer amount of data they’ll be able to harvest. Ugh.
- I still genuinely hope it works out. I’ve been playing Enshrouded lately, which takes forty minutes to compile shaders on my machine after every driver update.
- Comment on I'm home sick today. Stomach bug. Feel like shit. Cheer me up with memes please! 1 week ago:
- Comment on Rude 1 week ago:
Hence the idiom “canary in a coal mine” for early detection of a failure. Miners used to carry a caged bird with them to detect pockets of deadly gasses. If the canary suddenly drops dead, it’s time to get the hell out.
- Comment on Metal Gear is a stupid name for an ultimate weapon 1 week ago:
What a thrill…
- Comment on They Don’t Make CGI Quite like They Used To 1 week ago:
“‘Lurch backwards when kicked’. You mean walk like the character Lurch, right?”
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
I just started my first playthrough of Horizon and a few hours in I’m finding it pretty easy on Hard. Does it get harder later, or should I just crank up the difficulty?
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Having played the series back on original hardware, I can confirm it was a nightmare. Save states make old games so much better.
- Comment on Harvest Moon: Echoes of Teradea Announced - RPGamer 1 week ago:
Obligatory “rights to the Harvest Moon name are owned by the publisher in America, who now slap it on their own farming games; the real successor to the original games is the Story of Seasons series”.
- Comment on Nuclear energy enjoyers vindicated again after the rise in oil and gas prices. 2 weeks ago:
Florida would be the first to fall.
~so~ ~yes~
- Comment on Come experience the original LucasArts vision for Star Wars Battlefront 3 in the leaked First Assault beta, finally playable on PC 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t the actual Battlefront 3 get leaked a few years ago? This seems more like a reboot before the reboot.
Still sucks that it got killed by the Disney buyout despite being complete and ready to ship. So many amazing projects have been canceled during changes in leadership, it’s infuriating.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
Someone posted a great article about that game a while back. Was that what got you to try it?
How long does it take before everything clicks and you can play smoothly instead of constantly stopping to look things up? The core concept of a realistic investment simulator looks fun, but needing to know and follow all of the real life legal requirements and regulatory minutia from decades ago sounds like a nightmare for a new player.
- Comment on [TheGamer] Pokemon Pokopia Players Playing After Work Are Being Forced To Wake Pokemon For Hard Labour 2 weeks ago:
True. Though they do have the natural ability to summon meteors and lightning strikes even without being handed a weapon.
- Comment on [TheGamer] Pokemon Pokopia Players Playing After Work Are Being Forced To Wake Pokemon For Hard Labour 2 weeks ago:
One of the signature Pals is a giant grizzly bear with a minigun. Even the common rodents are often packing submachine guns and rocket launchers. If they actually hated the work, you’d know.
- Comment on Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says English translations inevitably strip away a lot of a game's "flavor" 2 weeks ago:
(source is Awkward Zombie)
- Comment on Posting without context. Will not be taking questions. Bye. 2 weeks ago:
