HumbleFlamingo @ HumbleFlamingo @beehaw.org

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You can go as low as 3.5% down with an FHA loan if you have a 580 FICO.

That's still $14k though and too much for a lot of people. I do know some people who were able to buy homes with FHA loans though.

Triangle Strategy. It's basically a visual novel with 5 minutes of combat every hour or so.

DDWRT technically came first for me, and m0n0wall, but OpenSolaris is where I really started to use it.

You can also do short term investment like T-Bills or CDs too. Just make sure they're maturing regularly. For example you could split your emergency fund into 8 chunks, and buy an 8 week T-Bill every week for 8 weeks. If you ever need the money stop reinvesting them and you'll get 1/8th back per week for 8 weeks.

T-Bills are a bit over 5% now.

I'm excited for it.

Here's my goto search engine for coop games: https://www.co-optimus.com/games.php

Just heads up the 'review score' is trash. Not enough users review, so it's easy for people to review bomb because they personally have a grudge or something.

Not the one I was thinking. ::: spoiler spoiler I was talking about the boat trip in the underdark. My main character is a rogue and depending on the dialog choices the enemy seems to just goes first. The first time I got to it, my rogue and mage were both pushed overboard before I even got a tern. I got around it by having a tanky fighter activate the boat so she was the one in the conversation and resisted the shove. It's not horrible, but it felt really cheap. :::

Trying to be spoiler free

There is at least one fight where it starts after a cut scene so you do not have an opportunity to adjust position. The character who started the scene gets placed such that they are easy to push and instakill. There are multiple enemies that have the opportunity to do so. If you don't have a good initiative/athletics you're pretty boned. It feels really cheap.

If Larian sets the price at £50, they make £35 per sale. If Larian sets the price at £70, they make £49 per sale.

Larian cares, because Larian wants to make money.

It's not that simple. This article is from 2021, so the numbers may be a different now, but the point remains. Steam takes about the same cut as Sony to start, but Steam reduces the percent the more the game sales. Given the 5 million+ units sold on steam, Larian made an additional $25 million+ because of the reduced rates.

https://www.theverge.com/21445923/platform-fees-apps-games-business-marketplace-apple-google

So what?

They sold consoles at a loss to begin with, they overcharge for games to make up for it and people 'happily' paid it. Just because they cost less now, they still need to make up for the loss they accrued when they were selling at a loss. When they truly break even on the costs, why would they lower the price? If people have been paying $70 for new games, why would they drop the price when their costs go down.

Sony takes a cut of all game sales, not just first party. Larian probably got a better deal with Steam and GoG than Sony and are passing the costs onto console players.

I believe it's $70 USD on PS5 not $80, However it's $60 on Steam and GoG for PC. Keep in mind PS5's, and consoles in general are sold at a loss and make up for it from game sales.

Wait for a sale.

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Assuming there is a door between the house and the garage. There should be weather stripping under the door, there should be enough play in the rubber seal to run a flat cat6 cable under the door. Blue painters tape can help keep things in place and not be a trip hazard.

I'm not sure. I saw some one comment that they were running split screen on Windows, but I can't personally verify that. Based on what I know of software development, it's likely part of every version of it but not necessarily easily accessible. For example DoS2 has split screen coop on PC, but you wouldn't know it by looking at it. You have to plug in 2 controllers and do some extra steps but it works.

Maybe if you plug in a second controller on steam deck you can?

EDIT: missed an ly on likely

And with PC, there is only one view point at one time. You can have characters all over the map, but it only needs to render one at a time. Worst case it loads and unloads assets as you switch back and forth. With split screen console, gotta have both loaded at the same time.

The problem is the memory usage for split screen multi player. Steam Deck doesn't do split screen.

The Series S is basically an X with a weaker GPU

If it was just a GPU difference, you'd be right it should be easy to just run it less pretty. But the memory limitations are the real issue. The X has 16 GB of memory and the S has 10 GB. And worse, the memory performance is drastically different. The X has 10 GB that runs at 560 GB/s and 6 that runs at 336 GB/s, where as the S has 8 GB at 224 GB/s and 2 GB at 56GB/s. (I did not miss a zero on the last value)

Spoiler, it's a trap. Today it's trump being removed from all the ballots for legit reasons, tomorrow it's AOC being removed from ballots from half baked fever dreams. The GOP does not operate in good faith, they will abuse this as they see fit.