That’s because they retry failed connections until they can phone home again. They aren’t normally making tens of thousands of requests.

Excellent news! Now to wait for PolymorphicShade’s SponsorBlock fork to follow suit.

“Finally, the Big Bad has been slain and the adventure is over! Time to leave the party and go back to my wife and kids!”

“… Leave?”

Armored Core? That was dormant for a decade and two console generations before FromSoft brought it back.

(Still hoping for a new Kings Field.)

Thank you for doing what you do.

I’ve heard that being a content moderator is absolutely soul-crushing work. Here’s hoping the new tooling lets you automate away the worst of it.

C’est une baguette.

Ah, Pass Without Trace. A spell that ranks alongside Goodberry for outright negating entire types of challenges.

I may or may not have made my DM cry by playing a druid with those two spells in a survival campaign where the party was being hunted.

For that last one, try disabling Fast Boot in your BIOS/UEFI. That may be the culprit.

Arcanum’s main theme gets my vote.

It’s weird. It’s terrible as music - just random strings with almost no recognizable tune outside of the first few seconds - but it sets a mood better than any other. It’s distilled melancholy in music form.

!When the last guy to attack you gets smacked down by his own men and the rest just watch in silence as you leave.!<

That was my first thought, but I remember there was some rights snaggle that kept B&W from appearing on GOG. Looking it up, according to an interview the source code and IP are owned by Microsoft but EA still has the distribution rights.

There are a few games like this. Natural Selection 1 & 2, Nuclear Dawn, Angels Fall First, Allegiance, and the old old Battlefield games come to mind.

I can’t think of a game that deserves a modern VR remake more than Black and White. I wonder who owns the rights these days?

Ubuntu used to ship out free installation CDs. Since it was free, I figured why the hell not. Played around with it, loved it, but didn’t use it for much more than messing around.

A decade later those fond memories enticed me to buy a Raspberry Pi and play around with Linux again, and a few years later it became my main OS. It’s just so much fun to tinker with in a way that Windows never was, and nowadays it runs almost everything without a problem.

Most space used by games is taken up by textures and audio. Textures can be downscaled (halving texture resolution reduces the size by 75%) and audio can be resampled at a lower bitrate without the quality drop being too noticeable on tiny phone screens/speakers.

And the average damage is wrong for the peck and missing/obscured for the talons.

They also charge developers for the privilege of compiling their programs for Apple platforms* (and using one of the worst IDEs known to man).

^(*Yes, you can technically compile apps with a free account, but AFAIK they will be restricted to only run on the developer’s machines unless you shell out $99 a year.)

There are more pressing reasons to worry about Paula Poundstone.

Somebody call Solid Snake.

What the government would have that public research would not is a) better quality training data (they have direct surveillance at the telco hardware level, not just what’s publicly scrapeable) and b) less need to artificially limit the AI so end users can’t abuse it.

I’d also disagree on the leaked NSA stuff being only “good”. Russia used it after it leaked to unleash the NotPetya malware, and that was the most damaging malware of all time.