4 is also being delisted later this year due to expiring licensing deals. It’s on discount until it’s gone IIRC, but if you don’t get it soon you’ll never be able to legally.

They released an excellent announcement trailer parodying the concept of announcement trailers three years ago. I haven’t seen a single thing about it since.

Ellison.

There’s a Half-Life mod that brings it to PC, along with one that ports the Decay co-op expansion.

Immersive Sims are games that reward taking your time and meticulosity scouting and planning ahead. Multiplayer would be miserable if even one person is the type to get bored or rush ahead, or if someone picked a stealth/hacking build and another heavy combat.

How big is 10 MB anyway?

To be honest, after typing all these numbers, 10 MB doesn’t even feel that big or special. Seems like shipping 10 MB of code is normal now.

If we assume that the average code line is about 65 characters, that would mean we are shipping ~150,000 lines of code. With every website! Sometimes just to show static content!

And that code is minified already. So it’s more like 300K+ LoC just for one website.

An important takeaway, as I feel byte size can be hard for people to intuitively visualize. And for those who didn’t read the article, many of the sites tested sent significantly more than 10 megs of JS, even sites containing nothing more than simple input boxes that should be doing any processing server-side.

I want to see the difference with ad-block enabled. Analytics and tracking are certainly complex enough to account for a lot of that payload. Same with an addon like Decentraleyes to see how much is bloated frameworks that could easily be cached locally.

Go to https://lemmy.world/settings and turn off “Bot account”.

I’ve seen them included as part of the data.

"//": "Comment goes here",

Example here.

Have you heard Rozen’s Nier stuff? That remix of Bipolar Nightmare is among my favorite video game music.

It’s not a live orchestra, but I’m partial to Noble Demon’s cover of Dark World. Fair warning, it takes a bit to really get going.

I think that was just a matter of fortunate timing. The other Reddit migrations were due to toxic subs being banned, so the worst parts of Reddit migrated to whatever platforms were being discussed at the time, which happened to be mainly Voat.

The July 1st exodus was due to the Reddit API being paywalled at extortionate rates to crush third-party apps, which affected normal users - particularly long-time contributors and the tech-savvy. Lemmy discussion was picking up steam at the time, so that’s where a lot of these users went.

If the timings were reversed and Lemmy got the worst users Reddit had to offer Lemmy probably would have handled it much better than Voat did (especially since the devs would loathe the new users), but I’d imagine a split forming between instances, with right-wing instances being defederated and creating their own bubbles of toxicity.

Simple Mobile Tools (the creator of Simple Gallery, a very popular gallery app) sold out to a scummy ad company. This is a fork of the Simple Gallery app that won’t include all the telemetry and ads the new owners will inject it with.

I’m most excited about the package manager update and new, faster repository mirrors. Updates in Nobara 38 are glacial compared to other distros I’ve tried, on the order of several minutes for routine system updates, with querying the repos for package details taking over a minute and a half on its own.

Excellent news! Now to wait for PolymorphicShade’s SponsorBlock fork to follow suit.

Survival is an especially tricky genre because all of the mechanics need to work well in tandem. If any of them are badly designed or too demanding, it can wreck the enjoyment of the entire game.

Most games get around this by making the survival mechanics so easy you can basically ignore them after the first hour, leading to the bland experience you described. Very few properly integrate them into the whole gameplay loop and keep them a major factor as the game progresses.

Fortunately I’ve never launched it.

Unfortunately, I’ve never launched the game I bought the bundle for either. Like 90% of my Steam library it vanished into the Backlogs, never to be seen again.

A few years ago I bought a Humble Bundle with a bunch of visual novels because people on Reddit were raving about the game Root Double. However, the bundle also came with a few adult games. I’d like to not have friends and coworkers ask why there’s a loli catgirl game in my library.