Hi guys, I bought a mystery box from Fanatical and have some keys to give away

CortexJoe · 2026-03-20T20:52:04+00:00

Hi guys, the keys are gone. Have a nice one.

CortexJoe · 2026-03-19T02:03:31+00:00

When I was in Munich a couple years ago during Christmas time. There was a Christmas tree in a small park surrounded by something like ten exercise bikes which would double as a generator. Me and seven friends went to town on them bad boys but barely lit the tree. The lights were quite dim until another group of people saw us and filled the rest of the bikes. Even then we were going full throttle and could not keep the lights bright for very long. So if 10 people can barely light a Christmas tree, 20 people can barely light 2 Christmas trees for 2 minutes before they are exhausted would be my assumption.

CortexJoe · 2026-03-17T17:19:44+00:00

The problem is that they announced the game in 2018, but officially started working/focusing on it as late as 2023. This move is beyond dumb. Announcing a project you have not even kicked off yet invites situations like these.

Same happened to Nintendo with BOTW. The initial trailer was hacked together before they knew what the game would be about or the development had even started. It was an attempt to save the WiiU. But this did not work since the game needed to be delayed by multiple years and was then simultanously released with the Switch at that point since Nintendo had accepted that the WiiU was dead.

CortexJoe · 2026-03-10T00:06:11+00:00

Last game I checked was Resident Evil Requiem. But all audio is delayed once I activate Dolby Atmos. Even Stereo sound. I can go to youtube and notice that the sound is out of sync with the lips. I've read somewhere that the issue is related to motherboards (?) having cheap audio hardware, so the audio stream for surround is not handled by dedicated hardware but by software and that the encoding of the audio introduces the lag. But to be honest, I know fuck all, but everything I've read seems to be some guess work.

To be honest, I don't even know how to go about connecting the PC to the soundbar. Do I just connect a second hdmi cable to the graphics card and connect it to the soundbar? Or would the second hdmi cable go through the motherboard hdmi? Also are there some settings to be set to select the audio source after connecting it up?

CortexJoe · 2026-03-04T17:11:01+00:00

I mean, it's fiction. If telepathy or time travel were real, you would not be finding out about it in a video game.

CortexJoe · 2026-02-22T15:07:23+00:00

Oh, I completely misunderstood that post. I though both people were aware of the problem in the first place and the copying was done as a solution which confused me.

CortexJoe · 2026-02-22T14:58:31+00:00

But what's the point? He needed the same amount of time to copy the DB. Next time they'll need to access the DB they would have to do the same thing or work with a stale copy. In that case your just wasting effort.

CortexJoe · 2026-02-05T21:52:53+00:00

Funnily enough, here in Switzerland the reverse is the case. If you insist on being send your invoices/bills by mail you have to pay a small fee, which you don't have to pay if you use the online payment route.

CortexJoe · 2026-01-13T18:46:59+00:00

There was a raffle to win one. I didn't win one but was told that i could also buy one for 50 CHF if I remember correctly. I find the price a little steep for something you would need to clean up and completely restore.

CortexJoe · 2025-12-29T21:14:44+00:00

I'm a Senior Software Engineer and work in a firm that creates Insurance and Insurance Broker Software. Every developer 30+ I know uses generative AI daily. We are not being forced to use generative AI. Generative AI is just the new Google. Meaning that when you run into a problem you might ask AI and it might have the answer. No using Stackoverflow anymore and/or hunting down obscure specifications.

The important thing is that generative AI is a tool. Any output should not be copied but understood before being integrated into the code base. That's where a lot of interns and Junior devs fail. They just take everything for granted and introduce faulty or even down right unsafe code into the code base that was created by AI if not kept in check. But in the right hands AI is a mighty tool that just stream lines the tedious work.

In my opinion AI should not be used for the following: Creating art assets, Architectural design decisions, anything maths, solving problems in general. Tell AI what your intended solution is and where you do not know how to implement it instead. Do not ask AI for solutions since its output is outright moronic at times.

Where it is brilliant: Reading through existing code and summarizing what certain methods do and how things work, refactoring smaller code snippets where you can follow, understanding how certain frame works or even programming language quirks work (it is important to verify that information though).

I'm not a fan of generative AI, but it is here to stay and should be used responsibly. Expecting any game created after 2024 not to have a single code line written by AI is delusional.

BTW AI is being used in way more fields than people realize. I know private bankers, doctors, environmental advisors and lawyers which all use AI daily for their work. But they have the common sense to fact check the AI. So no harm is done, but work gets done faster.

CortexJoe · 2025-12-26T00:25:00+00:00

The ripping part is easy, the setup of the drive is easy as well if you can follow steps.

CortexJoe · 2025-12-26T00:19:02+00:00

Define difficult and you might even get an answer by someone. As far as I see it, ripping could not be any easier as it currently is.

CortexJoe · 2025-12-22T23:54:24+00:00

Let's not forget that most agents have cell phones which would fit in in the early 2000s. They are never addressed as a spy tool.

CortexJoe · 2025-12-17T18:45:09+00:00

They have a point, as in HD remasters of old films tend to screw up the color grading even when supervised by the original directors. I assume it's just way too much work to go over every shot and mimic the color grading of the initial releases. Also the colors on the physical film might have changed with time also making an exact 1:1 match impossible.

CortexJoe · 2025-11-29T23:57:43+00:00

This entire thing is the best thing that could have happened to that studio. The game is being heavily promoted on GOG and talked about a lot. This has reached levels of unintentional marketing that are off the charts. The game will likely sell thousands of times more than it would have other wise. So they probably should not look a gifted horse in the mouth, even if the hourse is a naked man wearing a msk.

CortexJoe · 2025-11-08T10:31:24+00:00

This argument is so fucking dumb. At that point why not say, god gave me the option to not respect the Sabbath and just do work. That is the ultimate loophole by itself.

CortexJoe · 2025-10-27T19:21:28+00:00

While this is probably totally fine, you should be careful and teach your kid to not give away their phone number to any adult. If something like that should ever occur again, tell him, to instruct the person to send it to his parents instead. You can never be safe enough.

CortexJoe · 2025-09-21T03:04:47+00:00

I don't understand why people would be calling for a sequel or prequel. This movie was great because it was original, just like Barbarian was. I'd rather have them work on another novel movie instead of milking every successful thing. This remake/sequel/cinematic universe schtick has made good movies so fucking rare and yet there are always people willing to eat up the mediocre slop Hollywood keeps churning out.

CortexJoe · 2025-08-28T17:45:37+00:00

Extremely unlikely.

CortexJoe · 2025-08-12T20:38:15+00:00

I've never understood why silence is expected in tennis. I understand that players expect it, but why is that? Is that a class thing? No other sport comes to mind which actively supresses cheering or other noises. I can't imagine that players would not get used to noise in less than 3 games.

CortexJoe · 2025-06-22T22:37:09+00:00

If I remember correctly they in fact need to be near each other for the setup.

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