wiki/Rebecca_Heineman

A real gut punch earlier today when she messaged me: ‘We have gone on so many adventures together! But, into the great unknown! I go first!!!’"

Rip.

Her spouse wiki/Jennell_Jaquays passed away last year, she also contributed to some major games I enjoyed very much.

Ty <3

Yeah, I want such giants (that are basically core infrastructure of a sector) to be regulated.
Just whip up a law saying their margins can’t be over 5% of a game’s sale price (the reason is to boost smal devs & market competition). Worst case 10 ppl don’t get richer.
(It’s a bit like capping the price of a medicine, but for cultural reasons instead of healthcare reasons.)

What, are they gonna quit the business bcs making only 100 million a year in net profit just isn’t worth it & would rather go do manual labour in the mines instead?

(Same logic as with taxes - if there was a 90% tax over 10 million ppl would still do the same things they do anyway, we were just taught to believe that someone earning 1bn per year would say ‘no, it’s not worth it for those 100m after taxes, I quit and now you can’t buy my good overpriced phones anymore so you lose’. It would never happen. The only difference would be in their wealth concentration, ie in their power over government/lobbies/public media.)

Financial (the capital’s) success isn’t the same as company success or even some sort of measure how much a company continues to society in more intrinsic terms.

We have one success metric & we can’t be surprised it’s winning.

It’s the new fancy castles.
The most you can get detached from the pleb.

If you wanted a huge luxury castle you needed the resources of maybe hundreds of villages and a staff of hundreds just for regular upkeep (you had to make all the products needed locally, from cleaning supplies to masonry, etc).

But today building a home for 1bn (that’s basically a limit of sorts, -ish) that can run on a staff of 10 ppl is hitting the limit of usability.

With mega/superyachts (ie luxury ships) it’s a more exclusive game, this dude didn’t just spend half a billon on a “smaller” object (that took 2000 people 4 years to build), it will also cost him 50~100 million in yearly upkeep (+maybe that sum every like 3~10 years for refurnishing, bcs why not, it’s the standard).

And this isn’t counting the usual support megayacht that will probably accompany the superyacht at all times (for extra staff, equipment, quests, maybe area accessibility in some cases).

That’s more common in new high-end luxury yachts, it’s a benefit to the guests as well (prob the main motivation?).

Peace Through Strength

So this one isn’t a double entendre? Just plain ol’ PTS(D?)?

You’ll survive in the wastelands for a long time on those + you’ll be able to bean post on lemmy (to invite raiders to get ammo drops).

Thx for the info!
So Anakin lived with his mother, who wasn’t a slave, and neither was Owen - but Anakin was?

And yes, I just assumed the planet was always under Hutts, but the lore def got expanded, which is always nice.

Iirc any 3D card capable of running Q2 (ie you weren’t rendering it on your CPU) would display the transparent water (unlike Quake 1), so something like Riva 128 or Voodoo 1 at the time Quake 2 launched.

Later cards (Voodoo 2 and onwards) gave you the advantage of a significantly higher frame rate and resolution.

Yeah!
(You mean software vs openGL api rendering?)

Biggest difference was in Glide games, like Unreal.

Also SLI unlocked 1024×768 (instead of just 800×600) bcs each card rendered half of the screen.

Nooo, my SLI Voodoos (2×12MB)!!

He was a slave (or just sold his kid/nephew into slavery?) way before Palpation rose to power, and wasn’t even in the same republic/empire.

Steamy Chocolate Bar.

It only lacks a modem & dual antennas tho.

It’s a few gens back top of the line snapping turtle (Snapdragon), 16 giggies of ram & some disk space, a battery, two LCDs, a bunch of cameras, an sd card slot, speakers, huge battery, and it runs Linux (SteamOS of unknown openness).

Maybe it could “receive phone calls” (eww) if you would plug in a usb (or pcie) modem.

Well, it would need to be open with open sauce drivers to run whatever OS you choose.

It would also have to be of higher spec.

Basically just take that Frame, cut the battery in half, change the cameras to 1" (wide & telephoto), swap the LCDs with one big ol’ OLED, and cram it in a nice alloy body. And RGB lighting everywhere (kidding).

Maybe even make the hardware open so the folk can mod on various things like a qwery keebler.

It’s in my brainhole!!!

It makes for a cleaner connection with hypha when I dial up to the mycelium network.

The only possible explanation is that they didn’t use enough AI.

Sir, that is specially cultivated blue rot from the vafflium blumidi bacteria stains, it gives the brain special properties that only the most noble of us internet scholars & memes connoisseurs can fully appreciate.

Jup, this is where my brainhole went first too - what joke to post, like: a terminal gooner that overdosed on r/clopclop granted a swift death

Idk, it would still feel comforting.
I don’t just get to blink out (which is already a plus), but I get to go with a horsey too? Nice.