My understanding is that rightsholders didn’t take it seriously, so content was cheap to license in the early days of Netflix streaming. That’s no longer the case.

Recognition in general is the main thing it’s powerful for. Speech to text, OCR, etc.

That’s with every setting dialed to maximum. As a more subtle effect, distortion can do a lot to set off a window without using opaque colors.

It’s only useful if you are looking for the polar opposite of Win95.

I’ve done it before on something else. It does need to be bit-perfect, but ROM’s are one of the easier things to find bit-perfect matches for.

No, Lingo. Two games, both in the past few years. It’s confusing word puzzles in an equally-confusing world.

1. Mirror’s Edge
2. Lingo (2?)
3. And Yet It Moves

ME has stuck with me as my favorite game for fifteen years now. I love it visually, the soundtrack is incredible, and the gameplay is fantastic.

Lingo and its sequel are a bizzare, unmatched puzzle experience. I don’t know what else to say there.

And Yet It Moves is… something else. An indy platformer from the heyday of Indy platformers. It is an interesting example of how story can influence art style.

Valve also clarified today that it was the processors, not the card management companies, that they talked to. The processors were pointing at MasterCard’s rules, but refusing to provide Valve with someone at MasterCard to talk to.

There’s a skill tree, equipment (not clothing/weapons like most RPGs, but still equipment), and crafting. That’s enough to make it an RPG mechanically.

There’s also the perspective definition. You are embodying a person separate from yourself and you are expected to make choices as them. Textbook RPG.

Dishonored is an RPG. It also adjusts the world based on your body count, with corruption getting worse as you kill people.

If it was an electrical issue, they wouldn’t have been able to just turn them back on, which one of the pilots did.

The two switches were moved to off sequentially with the right amount of gap for a human doing it quickly. One of the pilots then questioned why they were off, and they were then both turned back on individually a short time later.

The possibility the FAA was investigating was whether the latches on the switches may not work, allowing them to be moved unintentionally. This was unlikely due to the timing, but they still had to eliminate it.

Roblox is not a game engine. It’s a child labor farm. Stay well away.

There are a lot of simple tutorials for Godot. It’s not hard to get into.

I haven’t played with 2D particles, but in 3D you can make the spawned particles not behave as if they are parented to their spawning node. It allows you to spawn them in a moving area, but not move with the area.

I can’t remember the option, but it’s in the inspector.

The downside for something like this is that the area outside of the spawner won’t have any particles, so it will look like it just started raining anywhere you go.

You could set up particle ‘tiles’ that are pre-computed and start full of rain, then just toggle them on and off depending on player position.

Now for the real question: is it actually IRC or just an in-game IRC-like interface?

The greatest hacking game of all time, Uplink, has an actual IRC client that you can buy and install on your in-game systems.

IRC pops up a lot in less obvious places too. The in-game chat in Warframe is IRC, but it handles all the server and channel connecting, locking you out of connecting to arbitrary servers.

The problems start if it can take on a lot of the junior work. If nobody can enter the industry, nobody can get the experience required to do the real engineering.

Open-source and personal work may be the only way to enter the programming field in the next decade.

The o is a head and the 7 is an arm/hand. It’s a text form of 🫡.

This attack hit airbases all over Russia. Smuggling operators into Siberia to fly the drones seems unreasonable.

People also can develop T1 well after birth. It’s often caused by a mis-targeted immune response killing insulin production, as happened with me at 27 and nearly killed me.

They didn’t. They made mothers able to use HOV lanes without a second occupant, blocking the GOP’s attempts to use HOV lanes to normalize fetal personhood.

And a 3! (Extreme Stunts)

I remember both fondly. I should spoil that memory some day…

It has very little gameplay. It’s a few mini games spread across a janky early-3D scene.

Lego Island 2 is much more game.