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Authentication servers do not run themselves, they need babysitting and patching and upgrading because this is users’ passwords and secrets. Microsoft obviously does not want to keep managing this old login system because it’s miserable unrewarding janitorial work for a sysadmin or a developer.

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The players still have their stuff and their user ID, just under a new login process. They’ve been pestering users to make this migration for years and years.

Edit: also, this is Java edition, meaning the worlds they built are just Minecraft save files that a new user could access. The cloud-based one was Bedrock Edition, that’s the one where you’d have cloud-based worlds that you could lose if you lost your account.

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You know Postmedia doesn’t own the G&M, right?

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Our highway systems have been overwhelmed for over a decade, and they should stay overwhelmed. Stop driving. We should be building more transit instead. But transit is only viable in high density areas, and we don’t have enough of those. So let’s keep bringing in people, and fire all the folks at City Hall telling developers that those people can’t have homes.

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Be gay, do crime.

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People switching to Unreal are like the ex-Twitter users who went to Tumblr and Threads.

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But if we implement proportional representation, extremists who don’t represent the Canadian mainstream public could get in!!!11!1!1!!oneoneone

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I disagree with the “blame all the individuals”, but those O&G companies are destroying the planet because they have customers. Somebody buys the gasoline, the fertilizer that becomes cattle-feed, the airline-tickets that consume the fuel.

If demand dropped, so would their profits.

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Right. I’m not prescribing how the supply should look. Whether it’s a mass deregulation and turning the entire green belt into a trailer park and importing a crapload of mobile homes, or whether we go top-down and start building Khrushchyovkas, or we invent a complicated system of co-ops, or we nationalize every hotel in Canada, whatever strategy that we take: we need a crapload more rental housing, and at least some of it will need to specifically target the most vulnerable because it’s going to take time to properly drive down rents system-wide and there are people for whom this is an emergency.

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Queen Elizabeth was a good place to stop.

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unless there was an urgent need to get rid of it

Darn it the wrong royal went to Epstein’s Island.

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Okay I know that “I’m smarter than everybody” is popular on sites like this but you can’t be serious in thinking that the average person thinks the King of England has real practical usable political power in Canada.

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Yeah, I’m loving AC6, but the design decisions that make the game so much better on the KB+M are actually kind of baffling from a console-first company like FROM. I played the hell out of the AC1 games back in the day and while that series’ aiming controls were a joke, the fact that you cycled through your ranged weapons instead of having all 3 accessible at the same time, combined with the fact that the game used only one button for “boost” which covered both jumping and dodging, meant the weapons and boosting actions fit nicely on the 4 face-buttons. Now, AC1’s weapons were very flawed in that there was often minimal reason to cycle through them - they didn’t generally have cooldowns or meters so putting a weapon away wasn’t super useful. Best strategy was a 1-weapon mech, generally. But still, the simpler controls were a lot more pleasant on a game controller.

And author is quite right about how rotation rate has grossly changed the game’s strategy and feel. For example, if somebody got behind you in old AC, the strategy was to get to cover while you ponderously rotate, or to burn energy like a fiend boosting backwards to get them into your cone of fire.

Not that I dislike AC6 - I love the game - but I hope this renewed interest in the AC series will lead us to a simplified spin-off or copycat 3rd-party game that properly fits onto the controller.

I just think there was some good gameplay lost.

But yeah, I’m playing it on KB+mouse, and I’m a PC gamer primarily.

Pxtl,
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I mean, “Lemmy” is short for “Lemming” not “Lemon”

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soup-like homogenate

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Twitter has gotten enshittified. Reddit has gotten enshittified. Now Unity is getting enshittified.

It’s time to learn the lesson: don’t be a sharecropper on somebody else’s property.

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A reminder: rent is the purest form of supply/demand in the housing market. Nobody rents multiple units to sit on them the way people do to buy them. If prices are going up, that means vacancy is low and there just aren’t enough units to rent compared to the number of people who are looking for a unit. Landlords hiking prices are hiking prices because somebody will pay that higher price.

The solution has to involve either building a crapload more units, or having less people who need housing (as always, Malthusians are invited to go first). Anybody who is proposing other approaches to this problem is either a con-man or an idiot. You cannot redistribute your way out of a shortage.

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I wonder if this could be used to sue organizations that block housing construction?

“I want to build a 20-storey affordable housing project”

“The local councilman and neighborhood groups want it to be a 10-storey building”

“The Charter doesn’t give a shit what they want”

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I honestly try to be That Guy on this subject but I am getting tired of the swarm of downvotes from “well this is dumb we just need to do the simpler thing and abolish capitalism” contingent.

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“We” - as in the government or the taxpayer - don’t build investment or luxury homes at all. Private businesses build them. All they need is permission to build them.

And they want to build them because there’s demand for them. If you don’t let them meet that demand, it will be met in a worse way: by rich people buying the homes of poor people and converting those into luxury investment housing. You can see that everywhere - flips, teardowns, gentrification, etc. That’s what happens if you don’t let enough new luxury housing get built: you think the luxury buyers are gonna stop buying?

So to solve the housing crisis, 2 things need to happen:

  1. government needs to invest heavily in affordable housing and public construction infrastructure.
  2. government needs to get the hell out of the way of the private sector that will happily profit from stopping the bleeding.

What games had easy soft locks that prevented you from either progressing or getting a true ending?

The thought came to mind after reading a recent post about Baldurs Gate 3 here but it reminded me of the Japense only PSX game Mizzurna Falls where if you don’t perform a certain action early in the game you are prevented from getting a true ending. While this might not be a traditional soft lock because you can still progress...

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This kind of stuff was what turned me off the Armored Core “Spiritual Successor” game Daemon X Machina. So many fights involved scripted foes where it wasn’t obvious they were scripted as undefeatable until I’d burned out half my ammunition.

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Yes.

Source: pxtl.ca/category/cocktails/

(I made 100 different cocktails in a year as my COVID lockdown hobby - yay, alcohol culture!)

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I mean tongue was firmly in-cheek on that comment, I’m not seriously saying my cocktail hobby was “problem drinking”.

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Well the Curtis rifle is hardly forgotten-about, it’s just that high ROF weapons that can charge are super tedious to wield in this dual-wielding meta.

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It’s shaping up to be a two-horse race.

On the one hand you have Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie, who is running as a “Blue Grit” and campaigning on regret over the leftward shift under Wynne. Under her watch in Mississauga the city has repeatedly missed their housing targets, and the municipal government has constantly campaigned against Ford’s efforts to make them greenlight more housing as anti-democratic overreach.

On the other hand we have Federal MP Nate Erskine-Smith. Erskine-Smith is a policy-wonk type. The guy has a podcast and a substack. He’s an unrepentant YIMBY. If you follow Housing Twitter, the “upzone all the things!” types like him.

beynate.substack.com/p/build-dont-block

I mean, I have my bias… but yeah, this dichotomy is why I got a membership. The old-guard Boomer “we’ll vote for whoever if we think they can win” wing of the party is coalescing around Crombie.

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Technically he’s your MP. An unfortunate problem with him running is that he’s currently nobody’s MPP, but considering the minivan problem you could say that about almost everybody involved in the Ontario Liberals.

Starfield Is Seemingly Missing Entire Stars (the local 'sun') When Running On AMD Radeon GPUs (wccftech.com)

So a user on Reddit (ed: u/Yoraxx ) posted on the Starfield subreddit that there was a problem in Starfield when running the game on an AMD Radeon GPU. The issue is very simple, the game just won't render a star in any solar system when you are at the dayside of a moon or even any planetary object. The issue only occurs on AMD...

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Ugh. A part of me wants to give AMD a chance for my next upgrade and push back against Nvidia’s near-monopoly of GPUs but I really don’t want to deal with how everything kinda-sorta works on Radeons.

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Oh of course. I don’t actually blame AMD for those kinds of bugs. But it’s the reality as a user, at least in my experience… but it’s been like stupid long time since I’ve used a machine with an AMD card.

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And your children’s underwear.

Pxtl,
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Their view is that children are their property.

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Look, I hate the conservatives as much as the next guy but this isn’t true. They have specific policy planks about the housing shortage:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvFFGoAVeDY

(Warning, PP’s YouTube channel, I don’t know if you want that in your watch history considering how yt might use it for recommendations).

I’ve said before – most of their policy is terrifying and evil. But on the housing shortage, Poilievre’s echoing progressive YIMBYs like AOC. The party has clear and good policy ideas there and the Liberals should steal them to take this weapon away from them, the same way they steal policy ideas from the NDP.

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I really hope this is the stuff that turns the squishy middle against them. I know some trans kids and I’m scared to death of shit like this for them.

But I also know most people see trans kids as weird and scary as a concept, and are ready to go along with this fear.

Listen to the kids.

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No. Responsibility is not ownership. You have an obligation to your kids, not the other way around. If the kid doesn’t want to tell you a profound secret about who they are, then it’s time to reflect on your parenting, not to get the government to force teachers to rat them out.

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I’m a firm green infill YIMBY so I agree with you on the policy stuff there. As for PP, fortunately the greenbelt is provincial so he doesn’t have the right to do so. This is constitutional. And he’s calling out Vancouver, a place where there is no place to sprawl, so necessarily cutting out red tape and unlocking housing would mean upzoning, they’d have literally no other option to allow more housing.

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I mean he is? He specifically calls out density limits around transit hubs.

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To whoever went through and downvoted everyone: we see you.

Your kids will hate you and it will be your fault.

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Hah, I (a Sr developer at the time) once built an entire mapping layer in our ETL system to deal with the fact that our product had long and expressive names for every data point but our scientists used statistical tools that had no autocomplete and choked on variable names longer than 32 chars so they named everything in like 8 chars of disemvoweled nonsense.

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Also, can somebody explain this to sysadmins when it comes to naming computers?

I mean programmers can have some weird naming conventions, but I’ve never met an adult professional programmer who named all his variables after planets or Harry Potter characters or just called everything stuff like ADMUTIL6 or PBLAB03T1 or PBPCD1602.

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August 1990

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The people who need to learn this will never accept it because CBC.

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Grammar Nazis strike again.

Is it me or are the "trending communities" really bad on every instance?

It seems like the whole feature is running wrong and should probably be hidden until it can be reexamined. Because every Lemmy server seems to have “trending communities” that are just empty new communities or are just single-user bot feeds. And those are fine uses of lemmy! But they’re not “trending”.

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I mean who would ever suspect that the man who wrote and directed the Wing Commander movie could be incompetent?

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Hey Disney, you want to do a Big Stupid Live Action Remake movie? Stop fucking around with your beloved animated classics and do this fucking thing.

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It’s been 20 years they will obviously be changing the formula a bit.

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Iir Nintendo has always said they never brought it back because they didn’t want it to be redundant with Mario Kart. I wonder what changed?

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has it really already been 9 years i still think of smartwatches as new tech oh god i’m gonna die soon

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The idea that I, as a Big City Ontarian, in this very specific case, am somehow not a come-from-away is hilarious.

Sorry, eh?

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