Whatever Fallout Obsidian is doing is happening now, not after the next Elder Scrolls game is done.

Might not be Fallout 5 — Obsidian’s last Fallout game was Fallout: New Vegas, which I’d consider mainline, even if it fit between Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 and didn’t get a number.

Obsidian has done a mainline Fallout before, New Vegas, so there’s precedent. And apparently Tim Cain (original Fallout, created the series) guy just showed back up in the last few months and is working at Obsidian and said that he plans to do one last game before re-retiring. And Josh Sawyer is there, and he directed New Vegas.

EDIT: And John Gonzales, the lead designer for New Vegas.

And Bethesda has said that they’re gonna be contributing.

That’s a lot of mainline Fallout head honchos in one place. First time I think that all of those have been together.

I mean, yeah, I guess it’s not impossible that they’re gonna do a spin-off, Fallout Shelter-like, but my money is that it’s gonna be mainline.

EDIT2: By “mainline”, I’m including Fallout: New Vegas, even if it didn’t have a number, fit between Fallout 3 and Fallout 4. I don’t think that many people would call that a spin-off.

Do you also need to have power for the PC from USB-C, or can you live with wall power for that?

I went looking for PSUs that used USB-C a while back, and that’s kind of limited.

If that isn’t an issue, then I think all you need to look for is USB-C DisplayPort Alt mode for video. Everything else should just work if you have a USB-C connection, assuming that you’ve got the monitor side of things handled.

EDIT: If you have to have power via that USB-C connection, this is two years old, but:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MiniPCs/comments/1f9m7lv/mini_pc_with_usbc_power_and_display/

The only ones that I know that have both power delivery and display out using the same C cable are Minisforum EM680 and EM780.

I doubt that they’re going to do a live service thing either, but at least part of the problem was, as I recall from postmortems, that they didn’t have people with experience doing network games going into it and figured that multiplayer capability would be easy to retrofit in. That generally isn’t the case — if you want to permit client-side prediction, to keep the game responsive, which you probably do, then your engine has to support rolling back all state in the event of a misprediction. Like, say my client predicts that another player character keeps walking straight, doesn’t push any keys. Given that, it calculates that the rifle grenade I just fired sails past them and hits a monster and kills it, preventing it from afflicting me with a poisoned status.

Then it gets a new update. Actually, it turns out that a while back, that player veered to the right, right into the path of that rifle grenade, and it hit him and killed him. The player is no longer alive. The monster that my rifle grenade would have hit is not actually dead, and so it survived and afflicted me with poison. All of that world state needs to be rolled back and recalculated (and this rollback done efficiently). That means that you can’t just leave any state about the world anywhere that doesn’t get rolled back.

Plus, Fallout has a scripting engine, Papyrus, and if it has any state stored, that has to be rolled back too.

That’s not so hard to do if you think about it from the get-go, and are careful about how you store state. But if you’ve been writing a purely-single-player game for decades and not thinking about any of this, it’s easy to stick state somewhere that doesn’t get rolled back. And that’s gonna manifest in all kinds of unpleasant ways during runtime, when you occasionally hit corner cases.

IIRC, they had to bring in network game people to help out.

But my guess is that that’s also something of a one-off effort to fix most of that. Like, I doubt that doing Fallout 76 2 would be as bad technically as Fallout 76.

That being said, I’m not really looking for a live service game myself, and I doubt that it’s what they’re doing. Plus, from a business standpoint, if you already have a live service game, I suspect that you’re probably better off just extending the existing game and leveraging the existing player base than starting from scratch.

That’s true, and I remember that being a problem in a number of accidents for older drivers, but it sounds like this guy was just trying to drive quickly.

https://www.teslarati.com/ntsb-findings-on-fatal-tesla-crash-tell-a-very-different-story/

The driver, 44-year-old Michael Butler…

Not elderly.

Butler told authorities he had passed out at the wheel. But security camera footage obtained by the NTSB told a different story, and showed the car accelerating through an intersection before leaving the road entirely. Police also found that Butler’s phone had Google searches including the terms “Tesla FSD not aggressive enough 2026” and “Tesla FSD too timid,” raising serious questions about how he was using the system before the crash. Butler has since been charged with manslaughter. The victim’s family has filed a lawsuit against both Butler and Tesla, alleging negligence.

AI seems mental, though, unless Python is just some glue for calling functions or libraries that are implemented in lower-level languages, which is definitely also a thing.

Most of the work is done by parallel compute hardware on most systems, not the CPU running Python.

If you want to encourage political violence, I’m not very supportive of that.

Rule #2.

Rule #3.

Rule #7.

Rule #8.

Like, he literally managed to violate half of the community rules in one post.

My Linux distro already comes with a PDF merger. Let’s get some PDF files to merge.

$ for i in $(seq 1 5); do echo $i >$i.txt; pandoc -o $i.pdf $i.txt; done

Now I’ve got five PDF files to merge.

$ pdfunite *.pdf merged.pdf

And done.

WebM works with image-rs (as long as you don’t exceed your home instance’s upload size limits).

I can’t guarantee that every client can view it properly — that’s on the client’s author — but it’ll show up in the Lemmy Web UI.

$ wget https://gnuplotting.org/figs/bessel.gif
$ ffmpeg -i bessel.gif bessel.webm

Try downloading that and then uploading it in a comment to to your own instance; it should work unless pawb.social limits the size.

True, though they did get into the NASDAQ-100 early and the Russell indices early.

the future is arriving ahead of schedule, that all those years with fantastical names like ‘2013’ are bursting from their hypothetical cages into the arena of the present, furiously bucking the grip of your expectations while you lean and slip in your saddle, one hand reaching for reins

Hypothetically, it might be possible, but there aren’t practical gains to be had from it. Easier to fabricate a new chip.

The optimal design is unlikely to be a straightforward modification of an older chip.

Even if it were, modification would add more variables, where we’re constrained by yields today.

And our processes today aren’t designed for it.

EDIT: That being said, you might be able to repurpose an older chip in a piece of electronics that uses multiple chips in a situation where you’re unable to get the older chip for some reason. I can’t think of many scenarios where that’d be economical, but hobbyists have certainly reused components from older electronic devices.

Could be that Windows is more-aggressively kicking the hardware into low-power mode or that the graphical environment is using the hardware to do more desktop rendering stuff.

If you have a known good (local) and known bad (remote), the first thing I’d probably do is run diff on the local and remote logs. Use a regex or something to strip timestamps or similar that will always differ.

If your tests take 20–30 minutes to run, I think that I’d look into having a way to run a subset of the tests, so you can just run the minimal amount to do the failing one.

If you have a lot of environment problems, I think I’d focus on getting an automated build of the environment to a standard state. If that takes too long, setting up caching or whatever of downloaded packages.

I’d just SMS them and see if they respond. I mean, you’re setting up a viewing. That shouldn’t take that many messages.

Right there with you. The world I grew up in from BBS’s to dial up internet to gaming with friends ( that took serious work to run and connect over phone lines) to innovation after innovation that was for pure excitement and exploration and solving problems and making things easier and simpler is gone.

https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/

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I personally prefer Markdown to BBCode and not having to have a ton of different different accounts, but if you want phpBB forums, they are out there. Search a Web search engine for a string that exists on the website that the forum software displays by default. “Powered by vBulletin”, “Powered by phpBB”, etc.

searches

https://www.findaforum.net/Home/TopForums/

And I still use social media the way many people originally imagined it: as a way to stay connected. My feeds have always been a mix of far-flung relatives, old friends, and high school band chums (because, let’s be honest, band buddies are the best buddies). Most days, I carve out a little time after work to catch up with the people who matter.

The last thing I’d want is for doing so to be…just more work. And yet, more than half of respondents agreed with the statement “Maintaining an online presence feels like work,” with about a third of those checking the “strongly agree” box. Only 16% disagreed, with the rest remaining neutral.

A full 60% of Gen Z respondents feel the pain of maintaining a social presence. Perhaps they have a niggling hope that they might still be discovered as an influencer?

I don’t really care about the following-people form of social media, the Twitter family. I’m more interested in the forum sort, the Reddit family. There, I don’t need to singlehandedly maintain a flow of content, because people aren’t coming to see @tal@lemmy.today, but because they’re coming to see what’s going on in some community that I only incidentally participate in.

I mean, it’s still going to have the pants beaten off it by WebM or AVIF for anything originating from a video camera.

GIF was just never intended to be a video format. I have a hard time thinking of something where it’s really competitive. Maybe if you had a recorded lossless video of a small-palette video game, like, NES era or earlier, then GIF might be a solid choice. I’d still think that APNG or MNG would probably outperform it.

GIF animations really only got a boost because there was a period of time when it was all that a decent variety of Web browsers could display.

EDIT: Also, if one is using GIF…I dunno if ffmpeg does this by default, but most video formats have I-frames and then frames that depend on those. When seeking, a player will seek to the nearest prior I-frame and then decode from there.

I don’t believe that GIF 89a has a formal concept of I-frames, because the format was never intended for real video. But it is possible to create frames in a GIF 89a animation with transparent areas that don’t differ from the prior frame, and this achieves some of the efficiency benefits that a video format would get. I know that there have been GIF 89a conpressors that will do this. The downside is that it kills seekability, since after a seek in a player that just starts drawing from the current frame, you’ll see only some of an image until the next time that a pixel in a frame is non-transparent and gets redrawn. There may not be any frames wirhout transparent areas nearby, and the player has no way to know where to look for one. But for applications where you don’t care about seekability, that may help mitigate some of GIF’s limitations for animations.

In all honesty, though, the right answer for video is almost always “use a newer format than GIF”.