Nice!

Nice hits!

Ukraine blows up military airfields and Russia blows up cities. It would just feel petty if people weren’t dying.

Ukraine is on a damn roll!

I was worried for a bit Wargaming had returned to Russia, which would be very confusing as they have run pro-Ukraine events. But apparently it is the domestic Russian company Lesta Games that was the target here.

Had heard some rumors these planes were armed and preparing for launches. Seeing cruise missiles loaded on pylons in this new footage confirms it. That isn’t the type of thing you just leave on aircraft indefinitely*, you load those up a bit before operations.

*Well, this is Russia, so maybe they do dumb shit.

especially if you wanted to play Halo on PC

I still giggle that after years and years of Halo 3+ being a console exclusive, and Halo 2 sucking on Windows for years*, the entire Halo collection now has a Gold rating on Linux. I have very specific memories of being annoyed for years that the most prestigious Microsoft game doesn’t work on a Microsoft gaming platform (Windows).

*God damn does Games for Windows Live suck

If you have a desktop, throw a hard drive or two in it and you have a NAS. Software (like you mentioned Plex or Jellyfin) does the rest. Even if you only have a laptop, a hard drive in a standard USB enclosure will perform this role just fine.

Works perfectly fine on my machine I bought over two decades after the game came out, looks significantly better than when the game came out too. Not sure how much more upgradability you could possibly want.

Your bank almost certainly has a way to mail checks on a schedule.

Autopay is the way.

Growing up impoverished certainly teaches one poor lessons for how to get out of poverty; however people have the ability to learn and modify their behavior. Helping one modify their behavior in positive ways must be encouraged as it is one of the ways out of the cycle.

What will you argue if I bring up the fact that they ripped off countless Pokemon?

The case case isn’t about character designs, the case is about patents Nintendo filed after PocketPair released a game with said mechanics. The idea that one should be able to patent a game mechanic someone else has already released in their games is BS. Japan’s patent system sucks and Nintendo sucks for abusing it.

Summoning creatures from an object is hardly “blatant plagiarism”. Many, many, many games have the ability to summon creatures from an object. Pokemon was certainly not the first one to do it…

We are talking about gliding on a mount…a very common game feature…

Japanese ones are particularly worse. In the US a successful defense is prior art, there is no such defense in Japan.

If you’re coding or whatever this is fine.

I want coders to learn from trusted sources too. How do you authorize a user and store the password (plain text, hash, encrypt)? Do you use MD5 or SHA-256? (Always hash passwords, don’t use MD5)

If you have to encrypt some information, do you use AES or Triple DES ? (never Triple DES)

When authorizing with OAuth, should one send the auth url, client id, client secret, scopes, and redirect url to the client machine? (yes, yes, no, yes, yes)

These are basic questions with answers that are easy to find…and many programmers get them very, very wrong. Mostly out of carelessness, often the question itself doesn’t even pop into their head.

Relavent XKCD

You gotta fight his daughter for it.

As long as they let you turn off the upscaling I won’t complain about it. Unfortunately there has been a trend as of late to force it on; the artifacting drives me nuts. It’s always harder to to see in youtube videos though, since they are compressed quite a bit compared to live play.

Biggest thing that concerns me was their focus on pushing one into multiplayer in V. I’m worried that is going to intensify since it made them so damn much money doing that last time.

Either way, game isn’t out for a year, and it isn’t out for PC for probably two years. So, just going to go back to enjoying my Breath of Fire IV playthrough I’m currently doing. :)

because fascists have no principles

Yep! Main goal for them is to acquire as much power as possible. That is the one and only thing that matters.