Relatively high effort bits that are just like silly art projects are funny, but all the “did you hear about bad thing? *giggling* bad thing has happened! *breaking down chortling* bad thing is… APRIL FOOL! *bursts out laughing*” bits are just tedious.
Unless he already fled. It seems kind of weird for the feds searching his houses to lag behind his disappearance by a couple of weeks if they had already grabbed him. They tend to be shock and awe, hit everything simultaneously to stop any deadman’s switches or accomplices from cleaning things up types.
Look up how figs form.
Did Civ 7 just take all the genre innovations that Humankind came up with and then just do them worse?
It really doesn’t seem all that surprising: people form attachments like that to basically anything at the drop of a hat. It usually happens to things that move around on their own like animals or mobile robots, but it also gets done to tools and simple machines, to plants, to places, even to entirely fictional constructs that exist only within an abstract space in their head. Broadly speaking, people project spirits into things (so to speak) as something like a facet of how empathy works.
Like people become emotionally attached to robots that only move when they personally operate a control panel to move them and become distraught if those unemotive and unresponsive machines are damaged or destroyed. Now make the machine talk back in a somewhat coherent way that mimics actual interaction and life and it’s going to kick that phenomenon into overdrive. If you attach a synthetic face to it it’ll happen even harder.
Still less racist than the average altmer.
A ryzen 5 7600 and an RX 6800. I didn’t mess with the settings too much and just let it default them to medium, but I turned off motion blur, framegen, and bloom and turned up texture resolution, upscaling quality, and fur/hair quality without any issues. Except the one crash, which may have been caused by adrenalin wanting to force enable its own extra bullshit and me not thinking to check and turn that off until afterwards.
Apparently there’s already further performance patches in the main fork that have been added to the benchmark tool, but which weren’t in the open beta fork, so you could try the benchmark from the store page. There’s another open beta in a few days so you could try it then: they’ve apparently got it set to just autoaccept beta requests and it doesn’t require owning the game to try. It is apparently not going to be patched to have the performance fixes, though.
That’s Rise only. This is back to MHWorld style movement, except with the mount systems from both MHWorld and Rise merged into the seikrets, which can autopath like in World or be manually ridden like in Rise and which kind of circle around the edge of the fight to be ready to let you call them at any point.
Lmao I had the same problem, but it had been long enough since I last played MHWorld that I wasn’t sure if it had been changed up or if I just couldn’t remember how to do it right.
This is kind of misleading considering like half the maps are just “green hab blocks” lol.
There’s like two maps that go through hab treecko, and only four in chasm terminus overall. That does make it the most common area, though; the torrent also technically has four, but one of those is the special boss mission that isn’t in the normal rotation. All the other areas have three maps each now, except for the ice map and the train map which only have one each.
The carnival maps added much needed visual diversity, and I hope they can make some more levels in the future.
The carnival is some of the best visual design they’ve ever done, yeah. It’s gotten the best music, too, which is saying a lot considering how good Darktide’s soundtrack is in general.
Also wish there were more than 2(?) hive exterior levels.
There are 3, but one of them has been out of rotation for a few months because of some bug with it causing crashes. This also coincided with the studio basically shutting down for a month because everyone was on their annual holiday vacation, and I think they’ve only gotten back into the office and started working again in the past couple of weeks.
Exactly, like there’s some really cool lore from the more creative authors, Dan Abnett’s the one who sticks out the most in my mind, who actually try to do the worldbuilding to make the setting feel realistically varied and weird. It is a shame that then artists then just copy this one narrow style almost exclusively.
40K art has kind of stagnated, really. Like at it’s heart none of it’s really supposed to be literal and diegetic, and instead it’s about translating vibes and evoking a general sense of inscrutability, decadence, and archaicness. It hinges on this sort of gothic cathedral look to do that, which does convey that vibe, but it really shouldn’t only be relying on that specific aesthetic to do it, and should draw from other old architectural styles too.
For example: the spaceships are figuratively “cathedrals” but probably don’t diegetically look like medieval european cathedrals even though that’s how the art portrays them, so it would be a huge step up if they made them look like ancient temples from other cultures too and just kept it so that core design was standardized but all the aesthetic bits varied by forgeworld or sector to represent how they’re all grandiose and archaic but aren’t literally all just copying specifically 16th century French architecture.
*struggling to make a chatbot that works even a little bit, getting worried that the investors might pull the plug if it doesn’t start making them money soon* Uh… uh… uh… “oh no, I think I accidentally invented God and I am very afraid, this is very serious and dangerous for real!” phew that was close, the grift train chugs along for another day!
while in Eastern Europe, congressional sources have confirmed.
“So there I was in rural Spain
That is just about as far west as europe gets, ffs.
The CIA’s only real strength in practice was having a functionally unlimited budget to spend on engineering, bribes, and gunrunning. They could spend piles of money on fancy listening equipment or projects to physically breach and wiretap secure comm lines, they could practically just stand waving a stack of cash and promising defectors a comfy life as special good boys in the imperial core and some disaffected official from the Soviet bloc was bound to take them up on it and grift all they could off it (although this was of limited value: defectors could only leak information they already knew, which the CIA likely also already knew from shit like listening in on people talking about it, and then stopped being an asset; that’s before you get to the grifters who just kept making up bullshit and trying to get more money and attention for it, the kind of people who’d now just be given a cushy job by fascist oligarchs to do talk show rounds), and on their real specialty: just grabbing the worst person they could see at any given moment and handing him a bunch of guns and money and telling him the US has his back as long as he does reactionary terror against people the US doesn’t like.
like he actually gives a fuck about what happens in Palestine
His actions are just a continuation of existing US policy, but he probably does also actually have a vested personal interest there because his family’s involved in the real estate landgrabs that form the cynical capitalist share of the motivation for the genocide.
It’s really telling how now all these startup grifts just ask the computer to make something up instead of even putting in like the most basic effort to throw together some concept art and there has been absolutely zero change in the quality level because that bar was already so low. Like empty, poorly thought out compositions with details that don’t make sense, which hinge entirely on vibes is their whole thing, and image generators are amazing at producing exactly that sort of slop.
Startups don’t have a vision, they don’t have plans, all they have are some empty vibes because the economy runs on making rich dipshits feel the right warm fuzzies when they look at your pitch so they give you free money.
I made it through with only one scripted death that happened because I built a state newspaper office and some guy was just really angry about that, and it still did that “wAs tHiS pAtH wOrTh tHe CoSt” shit. Like everyone is happy, healthy, alive, and the only loss was one asshole who got mad about a state owned printing press for ??? reasons, this is literally the best possible situation they could possibly be in.
The point I was making is that, rather than being able to talk about the issues frankly like this, and how the patriarchal status quo we find ourselves in is the larger issue here, every single time instead the comments are full of jokes taking this to the extreme that effectively throw the baby out with the bath water.
Fair enough, though I personally think in general the community culture of casual shitposting coexisting alongside serious analysis and discourse is usually fine, even if things like this or the way some people use “volcel police” memes as a safe way to be horny on main toe the line a bit.
Like at no point am I even bringing up pedophilia
I will be fair and say that I’ve only seen that specific take once here, although some people were agreeing with it, and it’s just so wild that it sticks out in my mind whenever this topic comes up now.
Reminds me of things like the old Myst mod or rftools dimensions that just spin up silly custom little worlds within an existing world.