i like that kind of thing in theory but when “even weirder” equates to “there are guys to shoot everywhere” i lose interest. alan wake had the same issue. it worked in max payne because the story is already batshit insane.

for me i was done with it almost as soon as it started. for a game called pacific drive you do basically no driving. i had hoped for some sort of supernatural stormchasing sim, but the tiny maps and frequent obstacles mean you really only have any use for the car when leaving or entering. otherwise it’s just in the way.

also, i got so fed up with the damage system that i disabled it, but that also disables quirks, which just seems like the game punishing you for not playing the correct way by removing unrelated gameplay elements.

i’d disagree on the first one, that’s just par for the course here. and 90k is senior staff engineer territory here. that puts you in the 99.9th percentile.

well duh. i’m in the top 5% of earners here, and i make just shy of €60k a year before taxes.

this sounds… entirely reasonable? like, had it not been in california that’s about what i expect a position with those responsibilities to pay. the median income here is just below $40k a year and for an it manager these are all completely expected skills. i don’t get it.

in the rest of the world that is basically a three-job salary.

control is such a cool ip, it’s a real shame that it’s so combat focused. i wanted more mystery, more things to solve. instead i got “look at this weird thing! now shoot some guys next to it” for 10 hours.

like, that thing with the central power generator? genuinely great environmental storytelling. but then they don’t really do anything with it. not that they have to examine every little thing in detail, but… they could have examined some things.

it’s sort of related to how i feel about pacific drive; full of neat ideas that are just used as set dressing for the main loop.

that’s divx. xvid is h263, or mpeg-4 part 2. it’s all a bit muddled but xvid was started by divx as an open platform, it’s gplv2 but it uses a bunch of patented code.

like everything in the video world, it’s needlessly convoluted and bogged down by red tape.

also charlie brown had a lot more hair

xvid

i think it was removed because the comments got way too heated. shoild prabably have been locked instead. doesn’t explain the given reason though.

i know there was that doctor on antarctica who had to remove their own appendix, but i wouldn’t be surprised if people have done all the others too.

what, in general, like taking out your appendix? or just exterior, like removing a breast to treat cancer? or just cosmetic, like fixing a broken nose? or gender-affirming, like a fat guy getting top surgery? or gender-affirming as the medically approved cure specifically for dysphoria?

where is the line that makes it disturbing?

let’s make them enjoy it less

and that’s before we get to AMP, where google will 1) outright refuse to show pages that don’t follow their guidelines, and 2) just copy the content from those pages to display themselves because the guidelines are designed to make the copying easier for them.

you know i’m fine with whatever fetishes, i just don’t want them doing that stuff when i’m around.

no, it was the base model. i think they’re limited to 180km/h.

everyone if suddenly in this scenario:

i got to witness this with two double-trailer log carriers once, they were jockeying for position at 90km/h while i was trying to get past. now this was my first time in the company tesla model 3 (this was in 2017) and i just wanted to get past so i waited for an opening and floored it. after i had cleared them i looked down at the speedometer and i was doing 170. it didn’t feel any different to doing 90. super weird experience considering i’d managed to make myself car sick a few minutes earlier when accelerating from 40 to 100 on the onramp.

1.1 and forward is night and day, yeah.