Paradoxvoid @ Paradoxvoid @aussie.zone

Canberra local, lover of all things geeky

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This is why I absolutely refuse to install Valorant (and now LoL) - I could somewhat understand if an anticheat refused to boot up the game in question if something triggered it, but it going massively outside of its scope and wantonly disabling or killing other processes is just nuts to me.

If I really hate front end, but still want a lot of the responsiveness of a SPA, I'd have to give ASP.NET Blazor a serious thought.

It's largely all back end driven, with the dynamic elements driven via webassembly that pretty much works like black magic.

Is there any reason to use the Bitwarden Firefox extension rather than the app?

No one's suggested it yet, so I'll say Fire Emblem: Three Houses - lots of gameplay hours, especially if you want to go through each of the four storylines, albeit can be a bit repetitive getting to that point.

You do you, but if you're reverting to binary to explain how simple it is to add values together, I think you've made a wrong turn somewhere.

Those are so easily commensurable! It's 1 and 59/64 obv.

I legit can't tell if this is sarcasm.

What's more interesting about the shutdown is how this might affect IoT devices that rely on 3G - e.g. Canberra's public transit system uses the Optus 3G network to enable its MyWay card system - once it goes down, what will that mean for commuters (especially given that Transport Canberra doesn't accept cash on buses since COVID).

Here's another example where trying to chase the live-service money train has just ended up with a subpar product that people abandon or avoid almost instantly.

Unfortunately I suspect the wrong lessons will be taken away from this as well - e.g. the console/PC gaming market is too fickle, etc.

Yeah I don't understand the premise of the headline either - unless it's supposed to be some slight on 'inner-city lefties', being the only ones who could possibly want an EV...

With GOG, you could theoretically download the offline installer, give that to someone else and then ask GOG support to remove BG3 from your account, and be fully abiding with the EULA conditions.

OK, this is one collab I definitely didn't see coming. What's the crossover between Porche owners and Overwatch players?

Lazy Web devs who took the 'mobile first' mantra to mean 'mobile only' 🙄

Holy shit, it's actually impressive to tank that hard - not cresting more than 1000 concurrent players in over a month, and hasn't been able to beat 5000 since November... I know people love throwing the 'dead game' meme around prematurely, but if this isn't dead yet, it's definitely got one foot in the grave.

This is seriously the biggest change to the game since 5v5 - arguably even bigger, and is practically Overwatch 3.

I haven't had a chance to play yet, but opinions on the internet seem mixed - some like it and say that the yoyo-ing of health bars is reduced, while others say it's even worse than before.

Hanzo does seem like he might be a problem since he didn't get a pre-emptive projectile size nerf like some of the other characters.

I'm going to be watching this with interest - I'm in the minority, but I really enjoyed the overwatch league, and the city-based team aspect was what got me interested in the first place.

While it's a shame to lose that aspect, I'm glad that OW as an e-sport isn't completely dead and there's going to be some place for a lot of the familiar faces from OWL.

It's notable that China was (again) conspicuously absent - looks like Blizzard are still some way off from working through their existing woes there.

Edit: I also just found out that Australia isn't included as part of the Asia-Pacific region, so Australian players will only be able to join as one of the two non-resident slots on a team. This seems absurd given the strong showings we've had at every World Cup (barring the disastrous meme team for the first year) and that we actually had a thriving Contenders scene with Maccas as an actual sponsor!

Good luck getting any reform done within America's FPTP by going 3rd-party.

Politics is a battle of inches, and you need to walk before you can run, or else 3rd-parties are doomed to irrelevance forever.

But if it gets to the point where Ubisoft goes and every studio starts making their own, I don’t think that will work if they don’t have the game catalogue to support it, that would mean Ubisoft could just start churning out horrible games to build their stupid catalogue.

I feel like we're starting to see a rerun of the streaming service wars - if this takes off across the industry I can definitely see people going back to piracy. I don't want game pass, ubisoft+, Blizzard Prime, Nintendo Online Super Premium Expansion Pass or whatever stupid names these companies come up with just to play a few games that I'm interested in, just because they're spread across different publishers.

I'm using 'didn't vote' to include submitting an empty ballot, which for the purposes of the Electoral Act, is the same thing.

It forces politics to the centre. Parties put a huge amount of effort into 'bringing out the vote', and do things to appeal to the fringe which is how you get characters like Trump finding success. When this isn't a concern, parties can focus on policies that appeal to the majority of people rather than fringe groups that they can use to guarantee voter turnout.

Yep, this is why the Senate is much more representative, and why the big parties who control the House of Representatives hate it so much.