This is the British meaning of surgeon, so just general doctor vs. doctor who cuts people up.
A police surgeon is a doctor trained in forensics. They assess injuries after an assault, whether a prisoner needs medical attention, etc. They are often a normal operating doctor who does police work when needed.
Nah. They are detecting the collision in order to push the player, so the engine is doing the work already. They could easily add an on_collision_player event in the NPC controller that fires at that point to handle NPC reaction.
The age of the engine impacts things like loading screens, poor use of modern hardware, etc. The 2004-era NPC handling is simply a reluctance to do any more than the bare minimum.
It sounds like a link can be a file path and clicking the link just opens the file. If that’s the case, this is effectively the same risk as filesystem shortcuts.
Yep. Lovely reading font.
I love Linux Biolinum for reading. It’s a ‘humanist sans-sarif,’ which means it designs letters like a serif font but with less little bits stuck on.
XDC Vs. Arm Ant! Only one will surviiiiiive!
The problem with translating classical RPG combat into an FPS is that the game already has physical missing based on player skill. The dice roll stacks on top of that. Add in the total lack of communication on whether a miss was you or the dice, and it makes the player think that the hitboxes just suck.
Later games that do something similar tend to move it to the enemy, giving them a chance to parry for reduced damage. It’s mechanically very similar, but it feels way better for the player since they can see the hit still connect.
How do you block firearm parts at the printer level without analyzing and judging the files a user provides?
Even if this was possible (it’s not), most printers don’t have the kind of processing power needed to reverse slicing back into the solid object so that it can be compared with banned parts. They’d either have to put in much larger computers and spike the cost per unit or do it server-side and be always-online.
“Forever. be forever” Trump said about the deal. “That’s better than the Obama deal with the famous Iran nuclear deal, with a nine-year deal. No, this is forever. This is long-term.”
What an asshole. Blows up a significant measure in limiting the spread of nukes, then acts like it fell apart on its own.
As far as I can tell, the frog incident was not real-world. It was a police department vetting a system by doing fake test stops. They did one with Princess And The Frog playing in the back seat and the transcription system interleaved the traffic stop and film dialogue, then took that at face value for the summary.
System still sucks, but at least they were testing before blindly relying on it.
These are all public companies. Roblox is RBLX on the NYSE. It hit an all-time high of $141/share in September, and this infographic was probably produced then.
It’s now back down to $80/share, which is $56.8 billion in market cap.
Combined Arms just got a big update!
If you want something that isn’t trying to be mid-90s and you like rogue-lites, Rogue Command is really good.
CD Projekt has shareholders. Shareholders expect revenue growth with less to no expense growth.
GOG wants to grow expenses (developing patches for niche games) with little potential for revenue. Shareholders don’t tend to like doing things for goodness sake, while private owners can do whatever they like.
This makes a port possible. You need to replace the graphics and system API calls to make a port to another platform and you need to pull in the assets.
It bothers me. There are too many things that are either not standards-complient or support different parts of the USB feature set that compatibility is a wildcard.
I carry a large backup battery when I travel for work. It can keep my laptop going under load all day, allowing me to not care at all about proximity to outlets when working. It also allows me to painlessly recharge phones by just handing it to someone.
Last week, I was running something from someone else’s laptop (enterprise HP, like mine, but different model). It got low, so I pulled out my battery. Plug it in… No power. I could see the voltage fluctuations of it negotiating, but nothing after that.
It was actually the system Cloudflare uses to catch and block bots that went haywire.
They had a fake database you could query that would pull content from a bunch of different shard databases. They updated the config so that systems querying it could see the shards in addition to the main dummy DB. The tool that pulled data out of it assumed that it could only see the dummy, however, so it just asked for everything when it pulled a report to pass to the filtering system.
The filtering system assumed the report it received would be properly formed and crashed if it got one that was malformed.
IIRC, the Steam releases of those are already using Scumm.
Being released at the same time as the significantly more modern (and unpopular) Unity didn’t do Rogue any favors.
No, Rockstar outsourced a ‘remaster’ of the early 3D games that was poorly handled.
The article references a clip from that channel that was uploaded in 2019 and taken down via a DMCA claim in 2022.