Watched the Nezar livestream and he spent 60% of his stream spamming refresh and trying to get a server. Sounds like they had capacity planning issues. Apart from that it looks like a relatively vanilla extraction shooter.
I don’t get it but for some reason the 3d open world multiplayer shooter with vehicles and long view distances that runs the best on the steam deck (other than a very graphically simple game like battlebit) is DayZ. I obviously haven’t tried every game out there though…...
Meanwhile you have MUCH smaller devs releasing awesome games and sometimes even free updates etc. Stuff like Stardew Valley has probably hundreds of hours of gameplay (and more if you install free fanmade mods)… the original game was released by one guy.
I do a little bit of napkin math and see that I’ve got 50+ hours of gameplay from Vampire Survivors which I paid $4 on sale. 200+ hours out of Stardew Valley which I paid $15 for. 500+ hours out of Caveblazers which I paid $1 for.
I’m to the point where I’m not going to fuck with AAA until it is on sale. I don’t see the value.
Agree with this. All the pro weed and pro other drug people need to realize they are making the opposite argument to support banning smoking. All substances carry some intrinsic risk and the externalities must be managed, but its up to consenting adults to make their own choices about what they will consume.
CS 1.6 was peak gaming. There were servers with Warcraft 3 mod where you could pick your race and level up to receive additional modded abilities and items, and it would save your progress over months. Not to mention the map customizations.
Also, no paying for season passes or DLC, no paid skinpacks, no censorship or embedded ads or tracking. And custom porn sprays.
EDIT: there were definitely skins, they were just free downloads from modders. And they were client side so you could see them but other players would just have their own skin or default for the same item.
I wouldn’t say that it is inexplicable. There are many high profile (ish) Twitch and YouTube accounts that feature Day Z content.
I’d say there are also relatively few games like it where randomness and organic player interactions are a huge factor. Plus there are many play styles like the solo runs (RunningManZ type content) or heavy PVP with teams and base building (Nezar type content).
There are also a ton of mods because the game is a “mature” ecosystem, so it keeps growing in weird and unexpected ways. Kinda like CS 1.6 did back in the day.
Their UN troops apparently wear the SAAV (South African Assault Vest) style of gear, which is considered like the bargain basement of load bearing equipment. As in, airsofters get roasted for using them.
I feel like anyone who has to do anything that “deep cover” is probably doing some hyper aggressive prevention techniques as well like creating a botnet and their own “private” Tor which they recycle machines frequently, or using stolen/compromised VPS and only connecting to it via proxy chains, or something similarly complex.
The case will test how far the court’s conservative majority is willing to go in interpreting the scope of its 2022 ruling that expanded gun rights outside the home....
I disapprove of headlines that attempt to telegraph how justices will rule based on oral arguments alone. You’re gonna have to wait 6-12 months for an actual ruling and it will likely be extremely narrowly tailored to a given situation.
Zackey Rahimi, the Texas criminal defendant challenging a federal gun law before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, said this summer that he no longer wanted to own firearms and expressed remorse for his actions that got him in trouble with the law....
The basis of this appeal is the question of whether a civil protective order can be tantamount to conviction for purposes of depriving enumerated Constitutional rights.
It is rote accepted practice in many divorce filings to file a restraining order as a preemptive measure even if the person being filed against poses no credible or historical threat of violence.
I think it makes sense to make someone a prohibited person for certain violent convictions but I’m more skeptical of civil filings that are often spurious or without evidentiary basis.
An exotic wildlife preserve owner who gained notoriety on the popular Netflix series “Tiger King” plead guilty Monday to animal trafficking and money laundering, the U.S. Justice Department announced....
We should be donating and developing projects to open source hardware so there are decent alternatives to Google/Samsung/Apple. I understand the supply chain is complicated and there are many hurdles to this, but it is a known problem and many diverse interests should theoretically have their own incentives to change things.
Good on anybody who is willing to go get training.
Worth pointing out it’s gonna be harder than it needs to be to get a good trigger press and do other manual of arms tasks with those excessively long nails (fake or otherwise).
Great proof of concept. This process alone isn’t ready for widespread use yet due to the costs of the press and chemicals.
To enhance performance I would recommend experimenting with combinations of this material and the home epoxy/tarp process that some people have shown before. If some combo of those improvised materials can be squished down to about an inch thick, it starts to become practical for a modern armor plate. With refinements I bet there is a design that can reliably stop most handgun threats. Keep in mind his final proof of concept stopped 9mm out of a carbine length barrel which is a bit spicier than out of a pistol.
Another possible idea would be to coat the final plate in rhino-lining type truckbed coating, as this may prevent the spall and wood splintering from the front of the plate, and backface deformation… Both issues that threaten the armor wearer.
Anheuser-Busch Inbev said Tuesday that revenue growth in most of its global regions was offset by a drop in North American sales, in a sign of continuing fallout from a promotion with a transgender influencer that cost it sales....
InBev is anus and their generic beers are mostly horrible. People should have already been boycotting them long ago for being a soulless international conglomerate.
Chances are there is a local or regional brew that corresponds to whatever mass market swill they produce, and people should drink those small local brewery offerings instead.
Kennedy and then Reagan combined to undermine the old mental hospital system. We’d be better off to expand the “gravely disabled” definition, expand conservatorship, and involuntarily commit at a rate resembling what they used to do in the 1960s. I’d rather revert to that and force severely ill people to get help than to quibble about which rights to strip from the general populace.
Gun controllers need to realize there are 300 to 400 million semi-auto guns in the US (and that’s a conservative estimate). You could ban them tomorrow and you’d still never get rid of them, not in the next century.
Although the Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s signature student loan forgiveness program in late June, his administration has found ways to cancel more than $48 billion in debt since then....
The executive doesn’t have limitless power, regardless of what various bell-ends on Lemmy seem to believe. And if you think that it should, I’d caution you to do a brief thought experiment and imagine what things will be like when someone with whom you disagree occupies the same office.
It’s a paradigm that defeats itself. Reddit is basically reselling access to shit that users freely submit. They start removing access from users who don’t want to pay or use the official (bad experience) app, and they will necessarily have fewer submissions and less content.
If its a hassle to go there and use it, and the payment structure disincentivizes their young demographic from using it, it is no longer the “cool kid” corner of the internet, which further removes the reason why other people would want to pay for it.
Imagine I’m a hypothetical Reddit user under the new model - what would be my incentive to pay them for the privilege of posting links, quality text posts, my girlfriends tits, or anything else for that matter?
The White House kicked off a multiagency push on Friday to help finance real-estate developers convert more office buildings in big cities emptied by the pandemic into affordable housing, taking aim at the nation’s housing crisis....
Agree fully but maybe its to target some of these areas that are more commercial zoned parts of suburban areas where maybe the commercial pricing wasn’t as premium? I can think of a few areas near me where there are like a dozen commercial buildings all right next to each other vacant, and they’re right down the street from suburban single family houses, some apartments, and shopping. Several of those commercial buildings have been vacant for 3-5 years. Maybe if the owners take a bath on the property for 5 years, their return calculus changes a bit.
Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, in his first remarks after being elected Wednesday afternoon, told Members of Congress that “Scripture” and “the Bible” are clear that they have been “ordained” by God.
I mean, he has theoretical control (barely) over 1/2 of one branch of a fractious, dysfunctional and arguably corrupt federal government. Let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves, buddy.
The House GOP picked Rep. Mike Johnson as their latest speaker nominee Tuesday evening, though the Louisiana Republican so far lacks the 217 votes needed to win the gavel – the latest sign that Republicans are still no closer to electing a new speaker three weeks after Kevin McCarthy’s historic ouster....
Whoever gets it… Why would they accept the “dead man switch” provision like the one Gaetz wanted? If any one person can automagically trigger your ouster at any point, that isn’t really a recipe for success in that position.
Why the fuck would anyone sign up for the “safety driver” job?
It would be boring- you wouldn’t have much control but also couldn’t multitask or do anything else during your shift. Presumably it wouldn’t pay all that much because the entire business model of this company is to create a market efficiency on the labor side. Finally there is the outstanding question of how much liability you assume as the “safety driver”. If the self-driving features start bugging out, but you don’t stop it in time, are you on the hook for damage it causes? I would want a ton of legal liability assurances before I took that job.
I think more multiplayer games should try a DayZ type of experience with (relatively) clean screen, extreme resource scarcity, etc. Of course within a few months someone will always mod it into CS:GO plus Minecraft.
If levied, the sum would be equivalent to only 2% of the nearly $13 trillion in wealth owned by the 2,700 billionaires globally, the research group hosted at the Paris School of Economics said....
The new data — comprehensive and definitive — should put to rest the countervailing narratives over Musk’s management of the app. Under his stewardship, X’s daily user base has declined from an estimated 140 million users to 121 million, with a widening gap between people who check the app daily vs. monthly. X’s...
I am 100% off social media now. Was never a big fan of Twitter but I’m definitely not paying for it. Zuckbook has been deleted for a decade. When Reddit disabled 3rd party apps, that was the last time I used Reddit.
I miss some of the timely news on specific topics but otherwise nothing’s lost.
Famously on a US military base they were so behind on maintenance work orders that one day a crew showed up to install new exterior doors on a storage building and the next day a different crew showed up and demolished the building.
Front shell swap is supposedly a bitch because you have to do the heatgun or blowdryer thing to loosen your screen adhesive while also avoiding melting other parts of the Deck.
I’ve successfully used stuff like Google Maps and even Uber, with sandboxed Play Services.
There is some niche functionality that doesn’t work. For example I use the Sam’s Club app to scan and purchase stuff in the club and that all works fine, but when attempting to use the app to pay for gasoline at their pumps, it gives a connection error.
Installed grapheneOS on my pixel (finally) the other day. Actually was loving stock, until it got corrupted due to a bug. Had to factory reset to boot up again. Anyway, used that opportunity to install GOS....
And easily installed FOSS apps, and hardened degoogled default apps, and MAC address randomization, and PIN scrambling, automatic reboots, bruteforce mitigation, and the various other features are all a huge step up from “normie” phone features.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Tuesday defended her decision to treat gun violence as a public health epidemic, citing statistics on recent firearms seizures, reduced reports of gunfire in the Albuquerque metro area and an uptick in jail bookings, while awaiting a crucial court ruling on a signature effort to suspend...
Whichever judge ultimately throws this out, needs to make a strong example of her. The executive practice of “here’s a stupid idea I’m pretty sure is unconstitutional, but I’ll try it anyway and see if courts throw it out” needs to stop. It is not a valid governance strategy at any level.
Grandpa's legacy (startrek.website)
For real though. Tough to get through. (lemmy.world)
Apparently this reminder is needed....
The Day Before - Steam EA launch: mostly negative (22% on 444 reviews while 37K playing...) (archive.is)
Where's my cooking show already? (startrek.website)
DayZ runs extremely well on the Steam Deck for some insane reason
I don’t get it but for some reason the 3d open world multiplayer shooter with vehicles and long view distances that runs the best on the steam deck (other than a very graphically simple game like battlebit) is DayZ. I obviously haven’t tried every game out there though…...
kids would rather have subscriptions and in-game currency [children of the ages 10-17, with 59% of girls and 86% of boys plan to ask for video game gifts for the holidays (not actual videogames] (web.archive.org)
New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts (www.theguardian.com)
Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives
Do you have a favorite restaurant only available in your area?
Culver’s and Minskeys are probably my favorites...
Switch Online Is Expanding The N64 Library With Rare's Jet Force Gemini (www.nintendolife.com)
Original Half-Life free until 19th (store.steampowered.com)
Half-Life 25 Anniversary Update (www.half-life.com)
Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update - Half Life Uplink, New Multiplayer Maps, Updated Graphical Settings, SteamDeck Verified and More (www.half-life.com)
Zoomer anon has brainrot (discuss.tchncs.de)
DayZ inexplicably achieves its highest player count, over ten years after releasing (www.destructoid.com)
China to hold joint military exercises with Malaysia and four south east Asian countries (www.malaymail.com)
Refute this (sh.itjust.works)
8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests (www.macrumors.com)
Supreme Court leans toward upholding law that bars those accused of domestic violence from having firearms (www.nbcnews.com)
The case will test how far the court’s conservative majority is willing to go in interpreting the scope of its 2022 ruling that expanded gun rights outside the home....
I Know What You Download (via torrent) (iknowwhatyoudownload.com)
I guess this settles it for me. What VPN should I go for?
Texas defendant challenging federal gun law at the Supreme Court says he doesn’t want firearms anymore (www.cnn.com)
Zackey Rahimi, the Texas criminal defendant challenging a federal gun law before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, said this summer that he no longer wanted to own firearms and expressed remorse for his actions that got him in trouble with the law....
'Doc' Antle of Netflix's 'Tiger King' pleads guilty to wildlife trafficking and money laundering (apnews.com)
An exotic wildlife preserve owner who gained notoriety on the popular Netflix series “Tiger King” plead guilty Monday to animal trafficking and money laundering, the U.S. Justice Department announced....
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Nah, it's ok, she'll have the tossed salad (slrpnk.net)
Second teacher at Missouri school on leave over OnlyFans side hustle: 'It’s working out ok so far' (news.yahoo.com)
A second teacher at a high school in Missouri was put on leave after administrators discovered her OnlyFans side hustle....
What Shooting Rifles with the Girls Taught Me about True Trans Safety (www.them.us)
“Weapons can never give us total safety, because they will never give us peace.”
[Solved] Anyone know if those Samsung Miscro sd cards work well on the Steam Deck? (lemmy.world)
Also anyone can tell me the difference in performance between the white one and the blue one??
NileRed: Making bulletproof wood (based on a 2018 paper) (lbry.tv)
Bud Light brewer is still struggling to sell the beer in North America over trans promotion backlash (apnews.com)
Anheuser-Busch Inbev said Tuesday that revenue growth in most of its global regions was offset by a drop in North American sales, in a sign of continuing fallout from a promotion with a transgender influencer that cost it sales....
Heavily-armed man kills himself, rather than shoot up Colorado amusement park, authorities say (denvergazette.com)
An unofficial PC port of Nintendo 64's Perfect Dark is available for download, featuring mouselook, widescreen, FOV & 60fps support (www.dsogaming.com)
You need an original ROM file, and this here, according to the article.
How Biden is continuing to cancel student loan debt despite Supreme Court ruling (www.cnn.com)
Although the Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s signature student loan forgiveness program in late June, his administration has found ways to cancel more than $48 billion in debt since then....
if you were wondering how well reddit is doing (lemmy.ml)
How Did Anyone Beat This In The Arcade? (i.imgur.com)
Dragon’s Lair
White House opens $45 billion in federal funds to developers to convert offices to homes (www.marketwatch.com)
The White House kicked off a multiagency push on Friday to help finance real-estate developers convert more office buildings in big cities emptied by the pandemic into affordable housing, taking aim at the nation’s housing crisis....
'Scripture is very clear': New House Speaker tells Congress God has 'ordained' them (www.alternet.org)
Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, in his first remarks after being elected Wednesday afternoon, told Members of Congress that “Scripture” and “the Bible” are clear that they have been “ordained” by God.
Mike Johnson picked as new GOP speaker nominee just hours after Tom Emmer drops bid (www.cnn.com)
The House GOP picked Rep. Mike Johnson as their latest speaker nominee Tuesday evening, though the Louisiana Republican so far lacks the 217 votes needed to win the gavel – the latest sign that Republicans are still no closer to electing a new speaker three weeks after Kevin McCarthy’s historic ouster....
California Suspends Cruise Robotaxi Operations Over 'Risk to Public Safety' (www.thedrive.com)
General Motors' driverless Cruise taxis can no longer operate on California roads without a safety driver, effective immediately.
Far Cry's Multiplayer Game is an Extraction-Based Shooter (web.archive.org)
Global billionaire tax could yield $250 billion annually, study says (www.reuters.com)
If levied, the sum would be equivalent to only 2% of the nearly $13 trillion in wealth owned by the 2,700 billionaires globally, the research group hosted at the Paris School of Economics said....
Twitter's lost 13% of its daily users and its rebrand has failed (www.bigtechnology.com)
The new data — comprehensive and definitive — should put to rest the countervailing narratives over Musk’s management of the app. Under his stewardship, X’s daily user base has declined from an estimated 140 million users to 121 million, with a widening gap between people who check the app daily vs. monthly. X’s...
Woman returns from vacation to find Atlanta home demolished (apnews.com)
A homeowner is mulling the next step after a company mistakenly demolished a home she owned in southwest Atlanta.
Dutch self-image challenged as country confronts its colonial past (www.theguardian.com)
Exhibition aims to establish common ground amid fractious debate over violence in post-independence Indonesia
Finally got white shell ☺️ (beehaw.org)
I think it feels even better than original. Soft smooth finish 😌...
graphenos
Hey...
Installed GOS and am loving it
Installed grapheneOS on my pixel (finally) the other day. Actually was loving stock, until it got corrupted due to a bug. Had to factory reset to boot up again. Anyway, used that opportunity to install GOS....
‘Daredevil’ Hits Reset Button as Marvel Overhauls Its TV Business (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/8646845...
New Mexico governor defends approach to attempted gun restrictions, emergency order on gun violence (apnews.com)
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Tuesday defended her decision to treat gun violence as a public health epidemic, citing statistics on recent firearms seizures, reduced reports of gunfire in the Albuquerque metro area and an uptick in jail bookings, while awaiting a crucial court ruling on a signature effort to suspend...