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Nicholas Steel
Posted on 18-12-27, 04:02 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 8)
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Posted by BearOso
I hadn't heard what was going on with Diablo 3 for at least a few years, but I was on the winehq database and stumbled into their latest patch notes:
https://us.diablo3.com/en/blog/22820656/season-16-the-season-of-grandeur-begins-118-12-18-2018

I'm seeing numbers like 60000% bonus damage for certain items. SMH. I guess they never figured out how to solve power creep. My hope for Diablo 4 to be good is gone.
Sets have been like that since the expansion released afaik. 6 pieces of a armour "set" unlocks absurdly stupidly powerful buffs to specific skills... eliminating the concept of choosing your gear from a wide variety of pieces. If you want to make good progress you have to get a 6-piece gear set and build around the absurd buffs it unlocks, killing off build diversity.

It's just... bad. It's also why the Path of Exile developers have said they'll never introduce Set Items to their game.

I still remember the time they dramatically reduced the cooldowns for Izual's ice attacks back when they didn't have Aussie servers, the cool down was reduced to something like 30ms where as Aussies were playing the game with about 270ms latency. It basically meant you'd be chain frozen with no way to react nor counter it. As soon as you got frozen you just had to wait until you died. This was before the expansion pack released.

World of Warcraft very recently got Aussie servers (yay!?), as in they went live in November 2018. I can finally do the PvE stuff with 30ms latency instead of over 200ms (if I bothered to renew my subscription)! No clue why this took so much longer than it did to get Aussie servers for Diablo III.
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Nicholas Steel
Posted on 18-12-27, 04:05 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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https://xkcd.com/927/
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Nicholas Steel
Posted on 18-12-28, 21:28 in Sales and giveaways
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Tomman, a lot of game devs tend to avoid publishing beta's and hotfix/minor updates to GOG/other sources of DRM Free copies. Majority of devs only release such things on Steam :/ it's especially bad since GOG has for a while now supported beta updates.
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Nicholas Steel
Posted on 18-12-28, 21:47 in Sales and giveaways (revision 1)
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Posted by Screwtape
Today GOG is giving away SOMA, an underwater-themed horror game. Not my cup of tea, but hey, maybe somebody here will like it.
The button to claim it, wasn't working on the games page. Worked fine on the main website www.gog.com
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Nicholas Steel
Posted on 18-12-29, 06:45 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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I just noticed something amazing about the older Youtube UI design, there's a alink to your own Channel in the side bar (ie: a sensible spot for it)! With their new UI that's hidden in the menu that appears when you click your account picture where it makes no sense.
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Nicholas Steel
Posted on 18-12-30, 10:37 in Mozilla, *sigh* (revision 1)
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Posted by wareya
Remember when software let you install themes, and new default themes would first be introduced as options, then the default, then the old theme would be removed or disabled? I do. Hello, I'm using Windows 7 with almost the same exact windows decorations as were available on Windows 98, despite the fact that the OS has gone through three UI renovations since then.

Remember when themes used to modify the UI in more ways than just colour? Firefox "themes" these days only adjust the look of things, not the functionality/placement/design of UI elements :/ you need Web Extensions to make meaningful changes to the UI and Web Extensions are a far cry from what Add-Ons were able to do.
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Nicholas Steel
Posted on 18-12-31, 02:28 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Indeed, that's Winamp 2.
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Posted on 19-01-01, 06:42 in Happy holidays!
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You uh, posted the same image many times CaptainJistuce.
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Posted on 19-01-01, 07:13 in Mozilla, *sigh* (revision 6)
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https://i.imgur.com/siA1BaK.png

This does not operate off of file extensions, making it 99% hopeless for what you're likely wanting to do and makes this UI confusing as fuck. My dad has 2 Tom Tom devices for example and was trying to transfer Favourites from one to the other which is handled by a webpage.

The button to copy the Favourites to the desktop triggers 2 simultaneous downloads, one for a *.BMP file and another for an *.ov2 file (can't right-click the button and Save As). With Firefox configured to handle all PDF stuff via Adobe Acrobat Reader... Firefox would try to open both files with Adobe Acrobat Reader(???) which would fail.

I had the genius idea to make a temporary file on the desktop, give it the ov2 file extension and associate it with say... Notepad or something to test if the behaviour changed. Firefox would continue to try opening the ov2 file with Adobe Acrobat Reader??? Why can programs now define what opens a file with a particular extension instead of Windows File Association mechanics handling it?

So I went in to the Firefox settings and set all PDF stuff to "Save File As" and voila, I could now fucking save the friggen files (which have NOTHING TO DO WITH ADOBE ACROBAT READER!) from the web browser to the desktop (and then swap the devices around and use the website to transfer them to that device)!

After all this I found out that the files were also visible in the Downloads UI in Firefox so I coulda right-clicked them there and done a Save As after the initial failed attempt to download them/the first time they opened with Adobe Acrobat Reader.

In the end, if we had used Internet Explorer from the beginning there wouldn't have been an issue, the Download button on the website would've correctly triggered a Save As prompt without us needing to mess around with browser settings.
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Posted on 19-01-02, 04:54 in Mozilla, *sigh* (revision 1)
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Posted by tomman
The last and first controversy of the year: Mozilla now tries to shove ads down your throat, they call it "an experiment HONEST!":

https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/12/31/2219257/mozilla-says-ad-on-firefoxs-new-tab-page-was-just-another-experiment

Furious nerds are threatening to switch browsers... but to what browser?!

I'm sure they mentioned a while ago they were gonna do that, with it starting out as a USA exclusive.
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Posted on 19-01-02, 15:38 in Various copyrighted stuff is finally becoming public domain (revision 4)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/02/the-drought-is-over-mass-us-copyright-expiry-brings-flood-of-works-into-public-domain

Existing USA Copyrights got extended by 20 years back in 1998, we're now starting to see stuff that was copyrighted in 1923 enter the public domain now that the 20 year increase has elapsed.
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Posted on 19-01-03, 16:01 in Happy holidays!
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Look at all them Smash Meteors surrounding Jesus!
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Posted on 19-01-03, 16:16 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Marble Marcher operates between 30 and 210FPS depending on what the camera is looking at for me, though during typical gameplay while in the middle of a level for example it varies between 35 and 60FPS. This is at 1920x1080 fullscreen with vsync off (with vsync on it's either 30 or 60FPS).
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Posted on 19-01-03, 16:34 in Various copyrighted stuff is finally becoming public domain (revision 1)
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Posted by Covarr
Truth be told, I think there's more profit to be had there than in Steamboat Willie at this point.
Unless someone has been time traveling, that's always been the case though?
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In 1998 Australia was still mostly Dial-up internet.
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Posted on 19-01-04, 08:46 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Posted by creaothceann
Can't get further than this level...

Benchmark: 23fps @ 1920x1080 in the first level at the start. That's with two GTX 970 in SLI.

I sit at a solid 45FPS in that circumstance at 1920x1080 fullscreen.
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Posted on 19-01-04, 12:59 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Yeah, physics, gameplay speed and the start Timer are all tied to FPS which is... just annoying.
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Nicholas Steel
Posted on 19-01-05, 09:09 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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I intentionally miss it and watch the Youtube vids that interest me after A/SGQD completes.
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Posted on 19-01-05, 09:49 in Various copyrighted stuff is finally becoming public domain (revision 1)
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This topic is stubbornly not getting marked as read after viewing it and scrolling to the bottom. That is, until I made this post within the topic.
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Posted on 19-01-13, 07:21 in Sales and giveaways
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XBox Game Pass is a buck $1.00 on the Microsoft Store (at least in Australia).
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