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[-] melonpunk@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mostly kept away from news about BG3 story because I'm playing it and don't want to be spoiled. Had no idea that there might be "backlash" against Lae'zel. Though I'm not going to read much stock in an article that's just a bunch of tweets compiled together.

Had plenty of RPG characters not to be to my taste in other games, but my complaints usually only come in if there's too many of them within a single game. I kinda want to know there's a range of characters to explore with, shows breadth. Certainly if it were a full palette of whiny brats then I'd probably bounce off the game.

My only complaint so far (and I know there's been posts in this area) is just how fucking horny people seem to be. I'm trying to buddy up with party members and they're taking it as me coming on to them. I feel like I'm walking on egg shells when picking some responses in fear it'll get me shoved into the sex pen with them. I'm also surprised at how fast relationships develop. I'm still in act one and have had 3 or 4 people in my camp express their wishes to bed me. Dudes, we've just met and yer boi has a fucked up STD like wriggler in my eye.

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As the title says, I want to use picture in picture mode but allow other windows to appear on top. I think this used to be a toggle option, but now I don't see it.

I've had a hunt in about:config, but nothing I can see will set it.

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Any idea how I might try to fix this? Tried rebooting but no joy. Only affects my main character - but shows anywhere his portrait should be seen: bottom bar, combat turns, party list (see image).

Can you add a custom image?

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[-] melonpunk@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

TLDW: They're adding a rear view camera in 2024 below the rain lights so we'll get to see some action from cars looking to overtake. It was on Stroll's car during Silverstone FP1 but wasn't broadcast. It was also on the Safety Car and used for a few seconds, though that was added to the rear wing of the Safety Car so the angle was higher.

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Last year, Digital Eclipse released Atari 50, a sprawling, interactive tour through Atari’s long history. I described it as “a cross between an interactive documentary and a virtual museum exhibition,” and it really set a new bar for retro game collections. Now, the studio is tackling another project: Karateka, the game Jordan Mechner made before the iconic Prince of Persia.

Called The Making of Karateka, the new project sounds much like Atari 50, only focused on a specific game. It includes “pixel-perfect versions” of the original Karateka releases and early prototypes you can actually play, along with a host of design documents and documentary-style video features. There’s even a brand-new remastered version of the action game. “What they’ve built around my 1984 kicking-punching debut is so much more than a game remaster, I’m still trying to wrap my mind around it,” Mechner wrote on his personal blog.

The studio also says that the game is just the first in a new collection it’s calling the “Gold Master Series.” Basically, the idea is to give a number of influential games the Atari 50 treatment.

“The Gold Master Series is something we’ve been planning for a long time here at Digital Eclipse – independently-produced projects that celebrate key designers, studios, and games that changed the world,” Digital Eclipse’s Chris Kohler wrote in a post announcing the series. “Our mission is to elevate these games, presenting them in their best possible light while putting them in their proper historical context, an approach we’ve dubbed the ‘interactive documentary.’”

Given how impactful Karateka was for action games, it’s a great place to start. The Making of Karateka doesn’t currently have a release date, but it’s slated to launch this year on Xbox, PlayStation, PC, and the Nintendo Switch.

[-] melonpunk@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago

It was a "trust me bro" claim that the media blindly ate up.

[-] melonpunk@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Albon went half a second quicker right behind him. Sure Albon was on new tyres, but Perez is in a Redbull. I don’t buy that him being out front on cold tyres being enough. He’s in a Redbull, the cost is a bit of their advantage, not a negative.

[-] melonpunk@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Why not neither of them?

[-] melonpunk@lemmy.world 87 points 1 year ago

Reddit's army of pro-spez bots likes this.

[-] melonpunk@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Wait, I can redeem cash prizes?!?

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No idea what happened to his NFT grift that banked him over $40M. But on to the next one I guess.

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[-] melonpunk@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

Reading through the article it sounds like not a great study, not asking enough questions and not tracking key information, such as cause of death.

Sounds like one of those things where people are going to headline what they want out of it and use it to champion their bias. "Being overweight doesn't kill you, yay!" Nah, it's way more complicated than that. People with cancer and other diseases often lose weight, a lot of it, and studies like this don't do a good job of tracking this info.

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I'd recommend watching the video so you can get Tim's own take on this, emotions and all.

https://youtu.be/YMY5LUNdS-8

[-] melonpunk@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Needs a shocked looking face in the corner like something explosive just went off downstairs.

[-] melonpunk@lemmy.world 100 points 1 year ago

For those wanting to know what the ink costs for comparison it's £2.04 per ml.

Next time I'm in the club and want to show how baller I am then I'm buying a round of HP light magenta.

[-] melonpunk@lemmy.world 169 points 1 year ago

I'd recommend avoiding Google for web searching. Duckduckgo has been a good alternate for me for about 5 years now. I've heard that Bing is a good alternate, even though its a Microsoft service. ChatGPT is also a good option to compliment web searches, though I'd recommend getting a second result from another service if looking up an answer to a question, but when doing general questions/suggestions it can outperform a web search in both detail and ability to refine/filter.

Google is just a ranked ad delivery service based on an abused and gamed SEO system, it's fucking awful for delivering useful links.

[-] melonpunk@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

duckduckgo.com offer that service too. Using a browser plug in it can generate @duck.com email addresses when signing up to sites and forward them to your standard email address.

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RISE OF THE ANCIENTS BK1: BRUIDD An unlikely invitation compels you to travel to the remote coastal town of Broodhaven to participate in a once-in-a-lifetime competition. There, you soon discover that nothing is as it seems. As you progress through each increasingly dangerous round of the contest, the secrets of the town and its noble families are slowly revealed. A hidden history conceals the truth of your own identity and the real reason why you were summoned here. That which sleeps awakens, and so it falls upon you to confront and overcome an ancient and unimaginable terror! Only you can unlock the past and break the dark cycle! A family legacy must be fulfilled. Destiny awaits! Can you stop the nobles of Broodhaven from unleashing a hideous chaos upon the world, or suffer a fate far worse than death?

In this interactive gamebook, you make the decisions, and you suffer the consequences.

Choose wisely or die trying!

I've played the first book a few times and really enjoyed it, though not managed to finish it yet. It's more complicated to play than a Fighting Fantasy book, with many clues and objects to track. With that, I ended up spending some time creating a spreadsheet to track my progress, then I added some code to roll dice, then I added code to handle combat tracking. It's probably riddled with bugs, but should anyone want to use it, here it is (Google Sheets).

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This is a fun way to dive into the history of the Fighting Fantasy book series.

If you're wanting a less interactive option, then there's a single linear video to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oHlNlzxahw

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Calls for talk submissions are open for two more weeks for October's event.

Recommend diving through previous year's events for some really interesting talks and presentations. https://www.roguelike.club/

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