My son is also named Bork.

If you’re Taylor Swift, you can post wherever you want and most Swifties will follow.

IIRC the replacement doesn’t even require any soldering or de-soldering. Just pull the connector off the motherboard and slide the new one on.

Pretty sure 99% of the problems that the NES had were due to the shitty cartridge connector. It’s a very simple part and easy to replace. You can buy off-brand replacements now and fix it yourself. It’s not that surprising that they had a ton of spare parts for that.

Totally optional features that come set up by default are not really optional unless they’re opt-in from the start. Most users are not savvy enough to figure out how to disable that kind of stuff.

Empress is the cracker.

I think most people aren’t even aware of the different forms of DRM and whether or not their games use them. For the majority of players, there’s no discernible impact to their experience so they have no reason to question any of it.

Nobody’s teaching these companies any lessons. They keep using Denuvo because it works, and the games keep selling because the number of people actually bothered by it is pretty small.

Texas judge rules on case before hearing case.

We all know where this is going.

Pilots already are forbidden from drinking before flights. I seem to recall a very strict policy about not drinking for at least 24 hours before a flight.

Tariffs are paid by the importers, normally. The final cost to the consumer is then raised by an equivalent amount to offset the tariffs and make a profit.

I’m not sure why anyone else would pay tariffs. Either way, the cost goes up and the government rakes in some money.

On desktop, you can copy/paste images into the textbox.

https://hackaday.com/2022/06/30/its-raid-with-floppy-drives/

Google Earth photos are mostly taken from low-altitude planes.

It was fun but a bit shallow. It had some fun bits and pieces of media like the fake ads, but the game was very easy and pretty short. I finished it in about 12 hours taking my time. There are a few things that I missed, but the game didn’t really inspire me to spend the time and effort to find everything or to replay it. Maybevone day when I’ve forgotten all about it.

I’d say if they expand on the concept and build a little more depth into the game, the sequel could be intetesting.

Try turning off display scaling in your desktop settings. It did a similar thing for me, where the game would display at 1440 but acted like the mouse was on a 1080 screen.

Cats are obligate carnivores. If they don’t eat meat, they will get sick and die. This doesn’t apply to dogs.

Veganism is valid, but it does conflict with some pet ownership.

The transcript is typed by a stenographer, so good luck reading it anyway.

Sounds like bullshit to me. Not that it’s impossible or anything, but it seems pretty late for this information to come out if it is true, especially after all the admissions of failings from the USSS, etc. You’d think that’s the kind of information that should have been mentioned right away. A month later, it sounds like they’re just making excuses and trying to make themselves sound good.

The Doom engine didn’t have diffusing lights, only ambient light on a per-sector basis. Ray tracing doesn’t make sense in-engine unless you change how the lighting as a whole works.

In the OG engine, you can’t have a lit floor and a dark ceiling, for example. And objects in a dark area can’t be lit up by a light source from a bright area. The transition between lighting zones are hard cutoffs, and the maps were designed with this feature in mind.

If you want to add raytracing, you probably have to change the lighting from sector-based to source-based. That will inevitably change the vibe of some parts of the game.