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Jesus_666

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  • Anyone else does this?

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    1. Shoot three rounds from the magazine
    2. Reload out of habit
    3. Remember too late that you're playing Gaige in Borderlands 2
    4. Profit Watch 400 anarchy stacks vanish

  • Anyone else does this?

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  • Depends on the game. To name a game with a similar mechanic, Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (back when R6 was still a tactical shooter franchise with a fair amount of realism) had you cycle through your magazines.

    For example, let's say you have three magazines of ten rounds each. You fire three shots and reload. Now your magazines look as follows:

    • 10 rd. (loaded)
    • 10 rd.
    • 7 rd.

    Now you fire five shots and reload again. Now they look like this:

    • 10 rd. (loaded)
    • 7 rd.
    • 5 rd.

    That's plausible enough to count as realistic but not as punishing as throwing your mag away every time you reload. It also turns reloading into an interesting decision beyond making you unable to fire while the animation plays: If you reload frequently, you initially have a fresh magazine but you also put a half-empty mag into the queue where it might end up in your gun when you least expect it.

    Note that RVS did not allow you to pick up guns or ammo, even if they're identical to what you're fielding. If you bring 30 rounds then that's how many chances you get to shoot someone during the mission, period.

  • I've always appreciated Roddenberry's explanation for this.

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  • Given what I've heard about the TNG cast's behavior on set I'd be more surprised if he didn't at some point.

  • Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why

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  • It's possible that this isn't enabled by default in Europe. I know that Microsoft has some things disabled in Europe in order to comply with local law and moving stuff to OneDrive without asking sounds like it might conflict with the GDPR.

  • Friiiiddayyy

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  • The letters are too consistent (each "O" looks the same etc). It's a font.

  • A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections

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  • Even ignoring the police officers, aren't there clear rules for what to do when traffic lights are turned off?

    In Germany, an inactive traffic light means that traffic control reverts to any present traffic signs (stop/yield/priority road). If none are present, the default rules for entering an intersection apply (which in Germany are to yield to any traffic coming from your right).

    All of those rules already must be implemented for autonomous driving so why the hell couldn't they implement a hierarchy?

  • Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments

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  • At the time people welcomed it; Trident really was terrible. However, since then Gecko's marketshare has fallen into the single digits on account of Mozilla's terrible governance. WebKit isn't exactly a big alternative, either (and is often regarded as the new Trident in terms of web standard adherence). Opera used to have Presto but nope, that's also Chromium now.

    That means we're now stuck in a situation where an advertising company controls how the web works for 75% of all users. And they're happily abusing that power.

    I'm rooting for Servo and Ladybird as new entrants into the market but both are small projects trying to challenge a multi-billion dollar industry titan who wants the web to be as complex as possible so that only they and their token competitors can exist.

    We might actually have been better off with Microsoft trying to keep Trident relevant.

  • Free software has some glib naming conventions

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  • It's about PMMA sheeting (aka plexiglass), right?

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  • No, poppers are various alkyl nitrites. Hydrofluoric acid is a different thing altogether. It has no psychoactive properties but will give you nasty chemical burns.

  • LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash

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  • I don't know if they get a share or if they get a flat payment for every device that has crap preinstalled. Either way, not doing it would reduce profits and therefore go against the interest of the shareholders who would then have grounds to the CEO for failing to do their job.

    I'm very much unhappy with how that works but it's a consequence of how publicly traded companies work. Companies that make it their legally binding goal to maximize shareholder gains attract more investors, have more money, and are thus more effective in increasing their market share. Over time they outcompete their rivals until the market is dominated by maximally profitable companies.

    At that point, shit-free products are only available if there is a clear indication that they will generate more profit than shitty products. And the handful of major players will happily collude to make sure only shitty products enter the market, increasing profits for everyone. Welcome to cartelville, population: the three companies that make up 95% of the world market.

  • LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash

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  • It might but most devices only use HDMI. DP is pretty much only used by PCs.

    Maybe the GPMI consortium decides to make their standard open; that might help. But I don't see DP catching up to HDMI; HDMI is too entrenched.

  • LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash

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  • Would be great but the manufacturer would be at a disadvantage because that bundled bullshit effectively subsidizes the device. So you'd have to either raise prices or accept a lower profit margin.

    Due to the high barrier of entry (e.g. because of patents) it's unlikely that a privately owned company can make a big market entry, especially across countries. And a public company will be forced by the shareholders to maximize profit so either you bundle crapware or they fire you as CEO.

    Of course if you look outside the TV market such devices already exist. High-quality digital signage devices can easily be had – for about three times the price of an equivalently-sized TV.

  • Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

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  • They've been refusing open HDMI 2.1 since 2017. I don't think that being afraid of Linux becoming the dominant gaming platform plays a role here; it's more likely that they're afraid people might find new ways to get at protected content.

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  • Yeah, it's not terribly surprising that the essay was failed. That's barely high school level and even there it wouldn't be a good effort.

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  • Removed

    I was told it was included

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  • Until systemd-pussy is released, that is.

  • Electron apps

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  • Best I can do is mandatory Lumen and Nanite. You can get almost-stable 60 fps on a 5090 with DLSS Performance and 3x frame gen, which should be optimized enough for anyone.

    My game will sell for 80 bucks, 150 if you want the edition with all the preorder-exclusive content.

  • Why do modern monitor controls suck?

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  • Mind you, changing the sleep logic to "if there is no signal and the menu isn't open" shouldn't be all that difficult. Neither should be waking up when a button is pressed.

  • I'm making a FOSS all-in-one file converter app - looking for opinions!

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  • Looks simple enough. The choice of Godot for a UI library is an interesting one; how big is the program in the end?

    I would suggest being a bit more explicit about files: Which ones are in the working set; which one is currently being worked on, that sort of thing. Having a file list (even if it's hidden in a drawer or something) before starting the conversion helps the user verify that the correct files are being worked on. Seeing which file is currently being processed might be useful for troubleshooting or just to see how far along the process is.