Day one updates and DRM checks introduce extra difficulties when trying to game offline, even if you still purchase physical media.
Would be great if Sony took this as a lesson learned to ditch DRM like this, and make the PlayStation more “offline friendly”.
Right now would be a good time to make suggestions to them.
Had to lookup the penalties since this document just pointed somewhere else:
(a) In General.–Section 206 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) is amended to read as follows:
SEC. 206. PENALTIES.
- (a) Unlawful Acts.–It shall be unlawful for a person to violate, attempt to violate, conspire to violate, or cause a violation of any license, order, regulation, or prohibition issued under this title.
- (b) Civil Penalty.–A civil penalty may be imposed on any person who commits an unlawful act described in subsection (a) in an amount not to exceed the greater of–
- (1) $250,000; or
- (2) an amount that is twice the amount of the transaction that is the basis of the violation with respect to which the penalty is imposed.
- © Criminal Penalty.–A person who willfully commits, willfully attempts to commit, or willfully conspires to commit, or aids or abets in the commission of, an unlawful act described in subsection (a) shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $1,000,000, or if a natural person, may be imprisoned for not more than 20 years, or both.‘’.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-110publ96/html/PLAW-110publ96.htm
They did it to to Helldivers 2 and now this… Have they done it to any other games after sales were made in those countries?
Looks like the client app is open source: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app
Probably summarizing Zoom/Teams meetings and picking out action items for people to follow up on.
I thought not.
It’s already available for anyone to use. https://github.com/openai/whisper
They’re using OpenAI’s Whisper model for this: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/merge_requests/5155
I was wondering if after all these years you’d like to meet
Hey, it actually stopped without plowing on very far at all. That’s better than what I expected to happen.
For the specs of what it is and what else is out there, it’s actually a really good price.
People like to compare it to the cheapest headsets out there, but it has specs that beat the highest end headsets out there and it’s cheaper than those.
When the Apple Vision pro came out, the closest device sporting similar specs would be the Varjo XR-3 which was only available to Enterprise users. It cost $7k plus a $1500 yearly subscription, plus you needed a powerful computer to run it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REo1ugX5GSI
Basically, hardware wise, it’s good, but for it’s actual uses it’s not worth the $3500.
Pretty cool use of MRIs and AI (machine learning to unroll them and read the letters).
Similar (or the same?) tech has been used to read the Dead Sea Scrolls.
From the article:
In case you’re not clued up on your 2000s internet lore, Charlie the Unicorn is a four-minute animated video featuring the titular horned horse as he ventures up Candy Mountain […]
I’m guessing the author isn’t clued up as well. It’s a small series and watching the whole thing takes about an hour.
Or just use something like Heroic Games Launcher instead:
https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher
Ah, thanks for the explanation. The clickbait thumbnails I’m used to are the ones where they show an image of something crazy that never actually occurs in the video itself.
That’s a shame, they make fun of how game companies are just enshittifying their products.
How is it a click-baity thumbnail? All of the characters in the thumbnail were in the video. I must be out of the loop on some obvious thing they are referencing with that picture.
Personally, I downvoted this because it’s a community for technology related news and I just don’t think it fits the kind of content that we should be seeing here.
Currently anyone can try it out for free for the next 3 days, so you can decide for yourself if it’s a “scam”, if you’re able to deal with the bugs, or if it even works on your hardware:
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/star-citizen/play-now
Use a referral code for some extras:
https://gorefer.me/randomizer/STAR
In terms of cost, this game gets a lot of flak for its marketing tactics. You don’t need to buy anything beyond the $40-45 starter pack. Just about everything else can be earned/rented/looted/hijacked/borrowed in-game.
Bad Pathfinding:
Dumb/Static enemy behaviour:
Yeah this is still very basic. They usually stay in the same place unless they are running away, chasing you, switching targets, or using an ability that forces them to move. It’s trivial to just hide behind a tree or a boulder and attack them until their health is low enough to catch. They won’t actively try to adjust their angle of attack to compensate for objects between you and them.
Character clipping issues:
The only player structure I still have clipping issues with is one structure meant for increasing your storage/showing off pals at your base. Even then I only saw one player get stuck in it once recently. But he was probably jumping around on top of it for that to happen. It’s rare to see issues at the level we saw at launch.
Really weird physics issues:
The one I can remember off the top of my head was where an attack could launch a character up into the stratosphere and then they would fall and instantly die when they finally hit the ground. I haven’t seen anything like that in months.
That’s just what Apple wants you to think:
https://timsh.org/tracking-myself-down-through-in-app-ads/