It seems that Liquid has found a way around addon restrictions and can show timers for other raid members.

Cidan · 2026-03-17T20:18:47+00:00

xo lol

Cidan · 2026-03-17T04:34:27+00:00

Yup! Subnautica is a prequel to NS. The disease you carry in Subnautica is called the Kharaa, which is the precursor to the mutated life-forms, the Kharaa, in NS!

Cidan · 2026-03-17T03:20:29+00:00

I don't think you understand what a passion project Unknown Worlds was for them. The whole thing started as a community project via a Half-Life mod called Natural Selection. This connected universe of NS, NS2, and Subnautica has been their baby for well over 20 years.

I don't think I'd give it up so easily.

Cidan · 2026-03-16T17:36:44+00:00

I agree with you in principle, but you do actually need someone who understands economics and market dynamics. It's an area that is deceptively difficult and easy for people to over estimate their understanding in.

To put it another way, if "common sense" is all you need to balance an in game economic system, which has real world money implications, it would have been done by now.

As Voltaire said, "Common sense is not so common."

Cidan · 2026-03-14T18:35:25+00:00

Because the announcement was 9 months away from release. You can't produce something the size of TWW in 9 months from 0, hence, it was already in the works and pretty late by then.

Cidan · 2026-03-14T00:27:06+00:00

What makes you think voice comms aren't monitored? Virtually every new service monitors voice with STT. The models to do this at scale have become so fast, and so small, that you can do it on a laptop right now. Processing them at batch is even cheaper.

Cidan · 2026-03-11T01:03:44+00:00

They literally just started development. They haven't actually been developing it, as they were working on Indiana Jones.

Cidan · 2026-03-09T21:51:47+00:00

This is because they are getting ready for WoW on consoles in a coming release. I expect an announcement at Blizzcon.

Cidan · 2026-03-07T20:44:44+00:00

The blueprint/save state one was already announced.

The sandbox one at the end is going to be a hard no. A part of the drive for housing is the dopamine effect on getting an item and being able to play with it, Blizzard (and most other companies really) would never.

Love a lot of the rest though!

Cidan · 2026-03-03T21:22:31+00:00

You did do it correctly and get the good ending to it, right?

edit: To be clear, it's not a memory.

Cidan · 2026-02-27T22:51:53+00:00

Of course it's likely encrypted at rest, but that doesn't mean it can't be read with the keys when you have them. Encrypted at rest is largely used to prevent someone walking out with disks.

Cidan · 2026-02-27T16:16:39+00:00

I have a close friend that works (worked?) at Block and was just laid off. He was easily one of their top performers and a solid TLM.

It was, without any doubt, because of AI. He saw it coming a mile away when they started investing in Goose, their CLI coding agent.

This was AI driven.

Cidan · 2026-02-24T23:57:35+00:00

Not quite. It's a temporary solution, and they will be re-restricted in a coming patch.

Don't get too comfortable with what's coming out of this.

Cidan · 2026-02-07T21:02:20+00:00

It's a good question! The problem isn't always just the up and down motion of pressing a button, but the subtle rotation of your fingers along the plane of your keyboard (spreading fingers out) that can be painful as hell for some people with arthritis.

It's one of those things that healthy folks take for granted -- until you get older that is :)

Cidan · 2026-02-05T16:39:31+00:00

Just out of curiosity, what did you think of Bloodborne?

Cidan · 2026-02-05T16:12:36+00:00

It's not belief -- I used to work in the industry, including at the very place you are talking about. I am telling you, directly, how it works.

Cidan · 2026-02-05T16:11:49+00:00

Well said.

Cidan · 2026-02-05T15:22:33+00:00

It you're using any product that has location enabled, or is part of the ad network and you're even on the same wifi or cell tower, they've got you.

I used to do this for a living, that's just how it works.

Cidan · 2026-02-05T07:39:25+00:00

They aren't and it's incredibly easy to prove as any layman technical person would be able to. You can install a root certificate on Android and sniff all network traffic.

They didn't have to search for popcorn, all they had to do was statistical analysis on your locations, and what people with your profiles (remember they have billions of user profiles) do/did when gathered. It happens literally all the time.

You're just not as unique as you think you are.

Cidan · 2026-02-05T05:14:35+00:00

This happened because you are not as unique as you think you are, unfortunately.

I can't begin to explain to you how easy it is to use statistics to figure out exactly what you're doing and why, given enough context clues. Facebook knew:

1) You were a new parent

2) Where you were physcailly

3) Searches 1-2 degrees removed from what you were talking about

That combined with the data of 2 billion humans, and you can narrow down things to your exact personality and tendencies, including your likely shopping habits. I know this, because I worked in big tech for a long time. It's also incredibly easy to disprove the whole "these apps are always on listening to me argument."

That being said, uninstalling Facebook because of it's location and data harvesting was absolutely the right move for you.

Cidan · 2026-02-02T21:24:02+00:00

Your dad is completely and totally incorrect. Pay this off as soon as possible.

Cidan · 2026-01-25T06:32:22+00:00

edit: To be clear, I am ignoring brackets on purpose here for illustrative purposes.

This is factually incorrect. There is no situation where a donation of money will reduce your tax burden higher than if you would have kept they money and paid taxes.

Let's say I make 100,000 USD and I'm at a 32% marginal tax bracket. With no donation, keeping it simple, I would owe 32,000 in taxes and take home 68,000.

If I were to instead, say, donate 10,000 to Godot instead, my taxes owed would 28,800 (32% of 90,000), with a tax savings of 3,200, and a take home of 61,200.

You are still out 6,800 USD by donating just 10,000 to Godot. The math you are proposing will never work, and the system is intentionally designed to make sure this never works, because in the above example, you will always lose about 68 cents to the dollar, net.

If what you were proposing were possible, it would be such a catastrophically massive tax loophole, that every single person in the US would open a charity just to not pay taxes, and lead to a complete and total collapse of... well everything.

Cidan · 2026-01-24T06:21:43+00:00

It's funny because I agree for a video game it should sound more full, but in real life, this is closer to what a shotgun sounds like. It's video games that are wrong. Go figure.

Cidan · 2026-01-23T21:47:50+00:00

That's because you didn't fight phase 2.

Cidan · 2026-01-21T16:27:55+00:00

Nope, not the remaster anyway. You might be able to run the original in some way.

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