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Variations of this idea are genuienly vital health/survival info, right now, and will continue to be going forward.

Yes, one particular design may or may not be more effective than the other, but the basic concept of ‘duct tape a HEPA filter onto a box fan’ is absolutely a critical life hack to know if you live near anywhere that does or can experience signifcantly degraded air quality.

It isn’t perfect, but it immensely better than doing nothing, and most importantly, it is not horrendously cost prohibitive (at least currently, jfc).

Walking around for 30 minutes in wildfire smoke is roughly equivalent to smoking a couple of packs of cigarrettes.

You probably do not want to be inhaling that shit all day long, for many days at a time, if you live in a home/building that does not have its own air purification system.

Chances are you probably don’t.

So have these things on hand, to assemble, when a wildfire or something decides your city is especially beautiful to it.

Fires and smoke can come fast, suddenly, with relatively little warning.

Be prepared.

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Look at it this way:

That means that the cute anime cat girls you do get to see, are that more special and cute.

Oh boy i cannot wait to play remake of game i have already played

The vast majority of the ‘gaming journalism’ exist primarily as functionally but not technically subcontracted PR outlets for major gaming companies.

It ‘works’ because there are a bunch of them, and well, they couldn’t all be like that, right?

They all know they are almost entirely replaceable by AI… when was the last time you read any of these kinds of articles, and were truly impressed by the actual writing?

When was the last time any of them did anything approaching investigative journalism? Almost never, instead they just sqwuak and have opinions about when somebody else does that.

… they’re beholden to their ultimate paymasters, and their paymasters are downsizing.

Thus, they all shape up, real fast, to pushing narratives that will aggrandize them to whom they depend on.

It’s basically ‘Yellow Journalism 2.0’… everything is for sale, integrity doesn’t exist, being professionally exasperated and feigning ignorance is a reputational defense mechanism.

(Also, for the etymylogically challenged, no, ‘Yellow Journalism’ is not primarily a racist term, it derives from a time where the concepts of duplicity and cowardice were strongly associated with the color yellow

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism)

At some point, you would think that just generally, game developers would realize that working for AAA is just uh… dumb? Stupid?

Oh I mean I noticed but everyone just called me insane.

Microsoft has yet to explain how or why the lapse occurred.

Because the NSA told them to have that lapse.

Thus they literally cannot legally tell you.

… are tech writers really this naive?

How is this not obvious?

They’re backdoors. It’s a lock that’s ‘secretly’ broken, on purpose. Duh?

Which means the new paradigm will be ‘every piece of hardware is a supply chain attack.’

In all fairness to Romero, and many other heroes/legends of the ‘birth of fps’ era…

These dudes are getting old.

Getting old sucks.

Everything hurts, you’re always more tired than you used to be, you can’t pull 7 all nighters in a row anymore, it might actually kill you.

While the present circumstances are not … exactly awesome, dignified, ideal in any way…

… there would always one day need to be a changing of the guard.

All our favorite studios from the 90s/00s… they’re all mostly gone, they just have the same name sometimes, like the ship of Theseus. People leave, teams get shuffled… and the captains that are still there, are growing gray.

Don’t mourn this.

Be inspired by it.

Do what they did, but with that extra/other thing that you always thought they should have done, but never actually did.

It doesn’t have to be any graphically fancier than what they did decades ago… graphics age, gameplay is timeless.

You can do it, if you are curious, persistent… and humble.

Yes, yes you can. Initiatives are neat, that way… the sword cuts both ways.

‘Power Tripping Bastard/Bitch’

‘Fascist Personality Disorder’

‘Manipulative Egomaniacal Bully’

‘Malignant Sociopath’

Its because they basically use a fork of Godot as a mod tool / map editor suite for BF… 6?

Are we on six now?.. I literally don’t even remember.

So they’re probably just essentially paying for a bit of extra help with custom tooling.

Hopefully they’re at least paying for a bit more than the actual services they’re getting, but idfk.

I am actually amazed that they open sourced it.

ARMA, old ARMA, Op Flashpoint, is jank as a fuck as an engine, when not running on a supercomputer, but also… it does some pretty insane shit in terms of detail and scale and number of AI/NPC agents active at the same time. And we basically all have ‘supercomputers’ now, by the standards of when it originally came out.

… there could be some interesting patterns/techniques in here, maybe not to emulate or use exactly as is, but try to learn from, if one is insterested in having a game that is basically also a big simulation, in 3D space.

… Is there anything preventing ‘dark matter’ or at least a substantial portion of it… from being just largely normal matter dust or gasses spread so thin we cannot 100% detect confirm detect them?

Lelouche vi Britannia.

… no he’s not allowed to use the Geass.