I love to see it, but publishers will still consider this a win for DRM. The vast majority of sales for most games happen in the first few weeks after release, so 13 days without a crack might be considered worth the cost of Denuvo in exec’s minds. They’ll only panic if it’s available on day one, like with that hypervisor bypass that made headlines recently.
It was originally a bug, but became a feature when cases of osteoporosis among adventurers dropped by 99%.
Nonsense! Can you look at how that kid’s bouncing off the walls and honestly tell me that cocaine isn’t a healthy and energizing remedy?
(Yeah, I was trying to think of morphine but wrote cocaine because brain = dumb)
My one complaint with Aves is how mind-bogglingly terrible its library management is. It uses a blacklist approach with no whitelist (most other galleries use a whitelist with blacklists on top to narrow down where they search) so it scans your entire device by default, and unlike every other implementation I’ve ever seen, blacklisting a folder isn’t recursive.
That means if you use a different app for video and want to exclude your Movies folder in Aves, you need to manually and individually add Movies as well as every single folder inside of it, plus their subfolders etc, to the list of hidden directories. It also means if you ever add or rename a folder anywhere on your device and it contains media files, it’ll appear in Aves regardless of your previous settings.
And you can’t pick exclusions to add to this blacklist using a file browser interface. No, that would be too easy. You need to go to the Aves tab that lists every single folder with media on your entire device (displayed/sorted by folder name without their path, naturally, so two folders in the same directory might be dozens of entries apart) and manually find all the folders you want to exclude. The blacklist is also displayed in settings showing only the folder names without the path, so good luck checking if that img folder in JoiPlay is blocked when there are twenty other identical entries labeled ‘img’!
I know this sounds minor (and it is), but it’s such a headache dealing with what should be a basic feature of any gallery app. Fossify Gallery may be slower at detecting new media, but at least using it on my gaming tablet doesn’t make me homicidal.
I love TAS! I used to follow a bunch of SNES TASsers back in the day; haven’t really kept up with the more modern runs outside of the occasional GDQ event. There was a culture of “swag” that I enjoyed, where if something didn’t cost any time then the TAS was encouraged to show off with it, or chain-spam cool stunts during waiting periods.
I kinda wish they’d stop focusing so much on arbitrary code execution though. ACE setups are interesting to explain but tedious to watch, and the payoff is whatever payload the TAS authors write, not game content. It’s basically showing off a game mod, but since you’re writing assembly code in the least user-friendly manner imaginable, most (with a few rare, incredible exceptions) are simple skips to the credits so the video is just the bot running around performing random actions until the game suddenly ends.
Do you find his name… risable?
As a 19th century physician I can only agree, and suggest pairing it with a spoonful of soothing cocaine syrup for maximum efficacy.
That’ll be the tie-in interquel that’s critical to understanding the plot, but will only be available in Japan and… let’s go with Bolivia this time.
I miss when machine learning was getting big. Communities were sprouting everywhere and making so many interesting demonstrations using it, and I mean genuinely interesting, not tech bro delusions. These were AI that could actually learn and improve themselves (albeit over thousands to millions of randomized iterations; they were still dumb as rocks compared to even the simplest animals), and stuff like genetic algorithms could brute-force discoveries that humans hadn’t found even after decades of trying (for example, I believe a major hurdle in modeling protein folding was finally solved using these types of AI).
It was especially cool in the video game space. Hobbyists were doing crazy shit like getting an AI to reliably play a racing game while balancing vertically on the tip of the car the entire time, or setting up complicated mazes only for the AI to figure out how to cheat by launching onto the walls through physics engine exploits. AIs were making novel discoveries rather than just mimicking and piggybacking off of humanity like LLMs do.
You can’t spell ‘fun’ without ‘eff you’!
I’ll never hear their name without being upset that they were relegated to work in the Skylander mines for a decade instead of being allowed to make another Star Control.
The new Sergeant Johnson voice isn’t giving me a great impression. They should have hired the guy who did a spot-on Johnson voice for InfernoPlus’ Cursed Halo mod.
Edit: Though looking into it that might be problematic, having a white guy taking the role of a black man.
We already knew after Jimmy Saville (a high profile celebrity, pedophile, and sexual predator who victimized hundreds - likely thousands - over a period spanning sixty years, only getting “caught” after his death when victims could speak up without fear of reprisal) that there are a large number of people in British media and government who are not only willing to turn a blind eye, but to actively assist a predator in acquiring fresh victims and crushing any investigations into them, either to avoid scandal or because someone even higher up the chain told them to. It’s not surprising that the rot reaches all the way to the top.
Source appears to be this community for the ancient game Stunts.
Sounds cool. Could you give more details on what you’re attempting?
Putting William Barr, a Republican and someone with multiple indirect connections to Epstein*, in charge of the investigation ranks among the stupidest decisions Biden made during his presidency. He killed any chance at seeing justice done and opened the doors for a second Trump term out of his outdated belief that reaching a hand across the aisle is still effective in a post-civility politics era.
This whole clusterfuck could have been avoided if literally anything had been done to prevent it, but Biden’s desire to appear impartial had him put someone in charge who had multiple reasons to slow-walk and kill the case. A case where, again, any ethical lawyer in Barr’s position would have recused themselves given his historical connections to Epstein.
* Through the law firm he used to work for as well as his father. AFAIK there no direct link between the two, but it was still enough to make him an unacceptable choice.
Hey now, many of them read none of it and instead half-listen to sermons where a priest extrapolates a ridiculous amount from a few scant lines of text.
The released files contain the anonymous tips people sent in, including ones sent after Epstein became public knowledge. This tip was likely fake (or at least the fading embers of my faith in humanity hope it is), but we’ll never know for sure due to the DOJ’s refusal to investigate any of it.
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay was an amazing stealth game that pioneered modern lighting tech even before Doom 3. It got a remaster included with the sequel Assault On Dark Athena, but they absolutely bungled the lighting and atmosphere in the process.
Please refrain from putting the idea of a vampire in a tampon commercial into my head.
It’s the only E that’s like that, for some reason.