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Which games do you use as reference for "Contemporary shooters", and did you actually play them?

A pattern I see each time there are discussions about games, is to compare games in the past, actually played, with contemporary games, as observed in reviews or youtube videos (which, additionally, biases towards AAA-games, since they have more coverage).

To answer the parent:

> Just the other day I was wondering whether these old games were just so much fun because I was much younger and it was simply something new and exciting to me, or whether there's something else to it.

This is the nostalgia lens, and there are a couple of reasons.

The first is that today the gaming landscape is considerably wider than it was, because the barrier to entry is considerably lower, but one instinctually considers just the AAA games, and additionally, the noisier ones. There has been "one" Doom and Quake for some time, and with reasons - there was one Carmack only. Today there are plenty.

Second, one forgets very easily how games could have poor mechanics. From the article:

> But not everything from the past is being included in Dusk. “I want to avoid unintuitive navigation and overly obscure puzzles,” Szymanski said. Not everything transfers so well into the present day.
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>tank on tank the way God meant it to be

Tanks are not used for that anymore, they are used as little fortresses in cities, but fighting on a open field..well you have seen what happened in the first and second iraq war.
It might help creating patches for the dirty state with something like `git diff > feature.patch` and then drop the current changes. After update, it's another `git apply feature.patch` to restore the changes.
This helps with remembering what each change means since `git stash show` is rather awful. YMMV
Good point - as an european, I see for example Turkey as much bigger threat currently compared to Russia. They are aggressive as hell, directly (Syria, Greece, semi-open support of ISIS in the region) and indirectly (ie Karabach). Putin will be gone one day, and the idea that somebody more like Erdogan would be leading Russia gives me goosebumps.

You don't have to project power to distant places only directly via supercarriers and local military bases, various subversions can get you pretty far.
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Civvie covered this one in depth, it seems to be a great game. Oh, and you can buy it at http://waste.money which is hilarious. (Edit: link seems to not lead to the steam page anymore)

https://youtu.be/KiuC1DcgIMo
iPhone only... Wow.
>>"chosen not to honour their spending and capability obligations [..]"

This is a list of military spending by country:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...

If you count only France and Germany they spend already more than Russia. The European Union together spend more money in defense that any other country in the world except the USA (and around the same that China).

So, what's the reason for demanding more spending?

Recently, there was a decision to increase spending at the European level, but the project was to spend it in local industry instead of buying the weapons to the Americans. The pentagon reacted really offended (1).

This "you should spend more in defense" is not about defense, it's about money, and where that money goes.

I think a better question that why the Europeans don't spend more in "defense", it's: why the Americans spend so much?

(1) - https://breakingdefense.com/2019/11/pentagon-nato-warn-europ...
> You know, sometimes less is more, if the game world is just about detailed enough that you can make out what things are supposed to be, you have to let the creative part of your brain do much more work to fill in the blanks, which ultimately gives the final product that your consciousness consumes a more personal note, since it's filled with your fantasy.

Scott McCloud made the same point while discussing Abstraction in comics in his book 'Understanding Comics'. The more abstract the representation of a character is, the more easily a reader can project themselves onto that character and identify with it.
Yet it's only on iPhone... Such wow
You know, it makes me wonder if Black Holes can't be thought of as just giant Fourier Transforms in Space...

You know, regular waves (and particles, as waves) go in to the black hole, Fourier-transformed waves (as Hawking Radiation, or whatever else goes out) come out of the black hole...

Now you see it... now you don't!

Hmm, not to go all crackpot or anything (but to go all crackpot! <g>), now that I think about it, it makes me wonder if disappearing sub-particles do that by Fourier-transforming themselves into smaller sub-particles(!) (as waves!), which then radiate outward in space (undetectably, because they're now multiple smaller/higher-energy particle/waves!) from the point at which they "disappeared" from!

If this crackpot theory is true (and let's not kid ourselves, it is a completely crackpot theory! <g>) then NO INFORMATION would ever be lost to the Universe, ever, basically, the Universe would just be doing a whole lot of Fourier Transforms (and Reverse Fourier Transforms!) in the background, all the time, at all particle sizes, but at different time scales relative to that particle size!

In fact, if a particle goes out of scope ("disappears") relative to a Fourier Transform, then perhaps Fourier Transforms are what also, equal-and-oppositely CREATE particles!

And all of this "creation" and "destruction" of particles -- would be at different beat FREQUENCIES relative to scale!

It also leads to a very weird question, which is:

What is the relationship of Gravity to the Fourier Transform?

And, Is Gravity itself just a Fourier Transform -- just at a specific scale?

Also, if Black Holes are Fourier Transforms -- maybe Suns and Stars are too -- just reverse or "Inverse" Fourier Transforms...

?
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You have a point, but we can't ignore they are showing good will while being sued for abusive behaviour. Sure it's a step in the right direction, but it's much alike a kid giving his snack to one of his siblings when caught racketing their lunch money.
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The only problem with that is how googles tries to have one single privacy policy for all their products and use it in their points for services which have separate policies. :/

It's messy and often misleading for an average consumer.
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Keeping you secure requires keeping the computer secure from attackers. You can't be distinguished from an attacker, from the computer's perspective. Having the computer be able to attest that it's unmodified means that it doesn't have to mistrust you so aggressively, relative to today.

Requiring a reboot to rescue mode to disable SIP is sufficient to block most social engineering attacks that would otherwise have you click through dialogs to bypass it. A dedicated attacker can still overcome this, and once they do, they can impersonate you readily.

If the computer can attest that it's unmodified, then it's possible to throw up alarms for non-expert users when their computer is in that state. I don't think most websites will bother, but those that care sure would love to be able to do so. None of this is specifically for the benefit of users who want to hack the software internals of their computers, though — but those are not the target market for security practices today in any case, since they can overcome literally any barrier prior to this that says "please secure your device before entering".

Still, from an IT standpoint, it sure would be nice to find out how many expert technical users are lying about keeping their system in secure mode when they have privileged access, because they don't think it's necessary and they don't see any harm in lying about it. I'm guessing it's something like 10-20% of all IT admins using unmanaged devices. We'll find out soon enough!
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I would probably try to read some short works on Zen Buddhism. Zen, in my experience, is all about appreciating so-called boring moments in life, like washing the dishes, weeding the garden, and so on. Better to end your life with a quiet happiness than in a YOLO, frenzied attempt to finish your bucket list.
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I think this is good. However, my impression from trying to install more complex projects is that a main issue is a cultural one: Python package developers are happy to introduce breaking changes if they think they will not break for too many of their users.

For example there are packages which transitioned to being python 3 only without changing the package name, or changing the version major number. This breaks the assumption that packages use semantic versioning, which many tools use. And that's arguably less of a problem for that shiny new startup company which will, with 95% likelihood, have gone bust five years from now, and also not for the FAANG companies, but it is a big problem in scientific institutions which do not have money or personnel to constantly rewrite their software.
Person months*, you can’t say that anymore.
If we don't frame things as countries needing to ally with the US out of fear of Russia\China, we may have to realize that countries are forced to ally with the US as the ones that don't end up overthrown or facing endless economic warfare like Venezuela/Iran.
I’m a developer, I’m a music producer, I almost exclusively use touch pads, I hate Windows, and in general I don’t want to futz around with my operating system. I want shit to just work and I don’t want my OS to constantly badger me and show me ads.

So yeah, I’ll stick with my Mac purely because it is “cool” even though it has sooo many limitations that make it unbearable to use on a daily basis
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Your comment reads like you only read the first sentence. Nothing you said disproves the facts he stated.
> Windows has caught up

When did that happen? Just opened the system preferences on my Win10 desktop, its still shitty.
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>Russia seems pretty involved in all the hotspots lately including starting a war in Ukraine

Yeah and stop d one in armenia.
As with all compositional programming, refactor your classes at the point of generation. So you most certainly do have a “large button” concept in your code, as a function/helper/method/partial/template/component.

Otherwise you’re just fighting against the framework.
None of the brushes seem to work in Firefox either.
Contrary to the way you and a lot of people have been spinning things recently, Apple has not discontinued the 16" Macbook Pro, and you can buy an Apple laptop today in all their form factors with just as much memory as you could a few weeks ago. The M1 machines are only replacing models that only went up to 16 GB already.
It's GNU/Linux, you can build apps however you want. The PureOS distro is based on Gnome so GTK is the blessed framework for app development. However, Qt works just as well, and is used a lot in KDE's Plasma Mobile. And if that doesn't suit you either, any other framework will work, with the caveat that they might not support mobile form factor natively.
If Russian Federation can be beaten by west military, then it's stupid to threat western countries in any way. They can bluff West for a few years, but then what?
> The "--force" / legacy option can't tell a difference between "broken solution that will work for you" and "broken solution which won't".

But probably it doesn't have to. "--force" implies that the user wants to go on and manage the consequences of what happens. Typing it requires actively adding that flag, which is a conscious decision on the part of the user. If the user wants to check by themselves if it works or not, that could be their prerogative.
> All the things you mentioned are already fixed and most have had reasonable workarounds for a while. [...] Some are still working their way through the distros [...]

Can you back this up ?

Because I can back this up that this is not the case.

* Neither Chromium nor Firefox properly support wayland yet and have a lot of bugs. Fedora ships a patched version of Firefox to workaround some of these issues, so does arch, but none of this is properly fixed. Chromium-dev + patches does not handle multiple displays with different resolution (text is in the wrong position, toolboxes are wrong), it is not able to share a full screen (shows up as black), etc.

* Emacs does not support Wayland yet. Some users have some patches no enable GTK3 wayland support, but these work badly with Wayland/Sway, not properly recognizing input devices (e.g. Delete key recognized as Backspace is the classic bug for this). Users using these have to remap their keyboards every time they start emacs.

* Point us to one Electron app with Wayland support please. Just one. Go ahead. I'll go sit down, and wait, in case you need to wait for any to be released, maybe next year, or the year after that. Whatever the "Year of Wayland" in the Linux desktop will be.

* Can you share a screen shot of the Zoom or Webex videoconferencing software (the native packages) on Sway sharing monitors ? If not, don't worry. Can you share a screen shot of using their crappy web versions through any official browser release (unpatched) sharing full monitors through screen sharing?
The facts remain:

- Ukraine was an independent country that got invaded by a neighbouring country's military

- Georgia was an independent country that got invaded by a neighbouring country's military

Russia also regularly crosses neighbouring countries' (Sweden, Finland, Alaska, etc.) borders with fighter planes, boats and submarines.
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> doing it once a century would pretty much guarantee that only the most obsessively robust systems would take it into consideration when being built.

tzdata updates happen all the time (in a relative sense). So code would need to handle those, and I don't see why potential leap hours couldn't be handled like that. Just means that Europe/London eventually will be +01:00 (or is it -01:00, anyways) instead of +00:00 its now.
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I guess you are not from a military family. It is pretty well known in military intelligence circles that China wishes to annex the eastern Indian states. They already consider several areas of the Indian eastern states within their national borders - see the official national maps of the PLA.

PLA has official strategy - part of their SOP inculcated into their officer corps - to regularly push incursions into Indian territory and check the response of the Indian central government. We have already lost 1000 square km over the last couple of years. 38,000 square km over the last decade if you consider our formally acknowledged boundaries.

So, yes, unless you wish to lose the Indian eastern states, access to natural resources and secede control over the vast majority of the Indian water supply, one will need to remain vigilant and ready. That includes heavy military readiness.

The other option is to kneel to China and become a vassal state. No double the condition of roads would improve ? All you have to do is love the CCP.
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At the time I have to say I thought it was a pretty sweet deal. I made this app in my bedroom and put it in the AppStore and a few months later it was top of the charts in Australia, then the USA. Places I’d never have been able to sell to myself. It makes sense to change it now they’re in such a strong position but at the time I thought I was completely reasonable.
I love biology yet I could not have described more opposite interests. I have zero interests in producing gmo in my kitchen, but I am definitely hooked on plants interaction and selection in open fields.

Biology is pretty broad a field. Science of the living.
No please, i don't want a big German directed army again.

But something like NATO but just for Europa..that would be a good idea.
The NYT do not lie? Do you remember the Jussie Smollet case or the MAGA hat teenager case? What about the misinformation campaign re: The Iraqi weapons of mass-destruction? That's just out of the top of my head.

They do lie a lot. And nowadays they mostly lie by omission. It's just a different kind of lying than Breitbart's.

Why we are still hang-up to the time were NYT actually had journalistic integrity which is over 20 years ago?
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I'm sure it sucked to be the guy whose land was taken. And I'm unsurprised that it wasn't done with maximum tact and local sensitivity.

But our civilisation does require large-scale infrastructure. Dams, railways, airports, highways. I doubt any of these have ever been built without compulsory purchase of land.

In fact, I think the legislation needed to do this was first designed for building canals. And it was controversial because it obviously clashed with property rights, which in the 18th C were pretty absolute. But if each guy who owns 5 acres right at a critical spot can hold the whole 100-mile project hostage, then it can never be built.

Growing food just doesn't have the same demand. It is completely routine to farm two patches of land separated by someone else's house, no big deal.
It’s the same thing with NATO. If Russia invades Baltic’s tomorrow, you think USA will send boots on the ground and all European NATO members will sit still?
But I could do those things and had a free environment. And non-Apple users can do these things too.

On the contrary, I think younger people seem to get worse with tech, which should not happen but can easily be explained by manufacturers locking down environments.

Maybe they just aren't that interested, true, but I don't think Apple is revolutionary on any one feature to be honest.
Since your comment became a list of AI links, here is one from me. I'm not an expert in this area, but it looked like a very interesting project in the space of artificial worlds creation: https://www.prometheanai.com/
I'm actually pretty disappointed with the Danish politicians answers as to why we're not at 2%. They try to put "cyber defense" in as a military expect, even if the job description suggests that it's actually just police work and therefor should count in the 2%. We also frequently claim that foreign aid should be counted as part of our NATO contribution, because it prevents war. While that may be true, Danish politicians should and do know that the 2% for defense was never meant as anything but pure military expenses. Claiming that we don't need to spend as much as 2% of GDP isn't the point, we promised our NATO partners that we would. If 2% is to much, then work to change the NATO rules, don't just ignore them.

The US is absolutely right to be upset that it's NATO partners isn't fulfilling their part of the deal and instead rely on US tax payers for their defense.
> I mean, once upon a time I believed some variation of what breck is claiming. I don't believe it any longer; I currently tend to believe that at least some copyright law is probably better for society than no copyright law.

I've gone back and forth on this as well, though my opinion has never been as extreme and uncompromising as breck's. I believe copyright law has gotten entirely out of hand, but agree with you that we probably should have some kind of copyright law.

> But they seem to be espousing it consistently.

Which is the problem, I think. It just comes off as naive and foolish, and shows a lack of critical thinking or practical understanding of how the world works and why it works the way it does.

Regarding sympathy: Disney uses copyright to fuel its greed. Foster uses it to make a decent living doing what he loves and believes will delight others. Having no sympathy for Foster in this situation is heartless and cold; I have zero respect for anyone who would take that position. Perhaps the other commenter is going overboard on hyperbole to suggest that breck has no sympathy for "anybody", but a lack of sympathy for Foster in particular says some strongly negative things about breck's character. And there comes that critical thinking again: it is perfectly reasonable -- and desirable, in a healthy society -- to be sympathetic toward Foster while still uncompromisingly believing that IP law is unethical.
You act as if there is a singular truth that can be divined from any set of circumstances. You and I can review the same set of events and even if we agree on the facts come to different conclusions. Does that mean you did something wrong just because I disagree with you?
France has 222 active Leclercs, with 260 more in storage. Around 400 AMX variants too. Russia has around 300 known T90s, which are the real threat that matches a Leclerc. The rest are T80s, T72s and older, which, while absolutely dwarfing the french numbers, forgets about a tiny thing: they are absolutely _awful_ tanks compared to modern stuff. A Leclerc will happily shrug off T72s.

Additionally, Rafales are more than a strong contender to Russia's Su35. A dozen Reapers too, for good measure.

France isn't the world's fifth military power and one of the biggest seller of weapons for no reason.