If you haven’t tried it yet, the HL1 fan remake/remaster Half Life Black Mesa is great, one of the best games out there in my opinion.

Main takeaway is the HL2 still looks pretty good

Skaven to finally make their 40k debut

A lot of famous scientists make their breakthroughs at fairly young age, before their mind gets locked into a certain paradigm. Look up Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which forwards some interesting ideas on how science is conducted.

According to russian over at r/hardware GPUs have become cheaper in Russia since the ban as they are now being smuggled instead of imported via Europe with all extra cost that implies.

A stable 30 fps is perfectly playable for most people, yes

I wrote a slur detection script for lemmy, copilot refused to run unless I removed the “common slurs” list from the file. There are definitely keywords or context that will shut down the service. Could even be regionally dependant.

Snapchat and frequently updated Frameo picture frames seems to the go-to my cousins use to keep my grandmother updated about her great-grandchildren.

Posting public images of your children certainly got an icky feeling over here. At least after there was a push in media to make parents conscious about potential privacy infringement it may be for the child.

Explains why her face looked so different compared to Witcher 3 Ciri, I guess it’s the cost of tying voice actors to the game models.

John Linneman from digital foundry said the game reminded him of why he loves games after all the AAA slop and UE5 games they’ve been through. Up there in quality with the Mario games.

The continent hosted a war between gods that destroyed a continent, who knows how that affected the geography of the neighbouring lands.

The One Ring also didn’t have unlimited power. Gothmog, Sauron’s master, did something similar with his own spirit, except he was so powerful he used the entirety of Middle-Earth as his “ring” instead. It’s why the elves can’t stay on Middle-Earth without waning.

https://github.com/madox2/vim-ai

Looks inspired by it, but the emperor only has 1 mechanical eye lighting up.

How accurate is this map? If the Irish call football soccer, it would be most shocking thing I’ve learnt in 2024.

As I’m sure my home instance reveals, I do like the idea of focused instances. I think a general sports focused instance would be better than sport specific instances though, at least with lemmy’s current size. It’s not sustainable to pop up an instance for every sport out there, like strongman or arm wrestling.

And people would also have to be able to sign up to the instance. Which if I remember correctly you had a very different opinion on when you spoke to Snowe on [email protected] about programming.dev. Just from a technical standpoint, the federation latency and general wonkiness is real and is why my football bots are running on Lemmy.world despite programming.dev being my preferred instance. Near real-time communication is important during live games where minutes may drastically change the topic.

And while I’m sympathetic to your cause, inertia is a real thing and lemmy.world is competently run, even if I strongly disagree with their VPN restriction.

If you somehow managed to convince the other sports communities to migrate to a common instance I’d happily follow along though, but I find it very unlikely happen. [email protected] is the one primarily in charge of [email protected]

I’d be interested in hearing the thoughts of some admins - would [email protected] be interested in moving to !football@soccer.forum, given the right organization?

I’m not the main mod of [email protected] so it’s really not my decision to make, but moving the community to a domain with the word soccer in it is a tough pill to swallow. As silly as it may sound, there’s a lot of people that don’t like having football referred to as soccer.

Moving away from lemmy.world and their annoying VPN restrictions would be nice though.

I get it. My parents/hometown is a days travel away so I only visit ~two times a year. It’s hard to stay in touch with all your old friends when you rarely see them. If you’re just an hour away it’s much easier to keep touch with your old circle.

Seems reasonable if you don’t move to another city

Once operational, the energy generated is cheap and will still be in demand