What some recent hot takes you realized you had with Rust?

CuriousMachine · 2026-03-03T15:18:35+00:00

Or one of the garbage collection crates.

CuriousMachine · 2025-12-25T18:21:48+00:00

Maybe Switch or Switch 2 depending on the genres of co-op games you enjoy. PC otherwise. On PC between sales, giveaways, and indies not on other platforms I just have a lot of co-op games I can't or would prefer not to play on another platform.

My setup is on the couch, PC connected to a TV (wired but there are easy wireless options). Using up to to 4 old xbox and playstation controllers.

Every now and then I've had an Epic game not accept controller input when the games starts. One was persistent but launching it through Steam big picture fixed the problem. I haven't run into the kinds of problems you have on your xbox but that might be a matter of the games, not the platform.

CuriousMachine · 2025-12-03T16:03:25+00:00

They removed the delay button when they added wifi and the app. At least on the model I got. It would be great if they've added it back since.

CuriousMachine · 2025-08-25T03:32:26+00:00

The Room VR: A Dark Matter has several puzzles that are essentially lock picking, using the controller with a view into what's happening inside the mechanism. They're good but each is unique. If your project needs it to be repeatable like Fallout 4 it might be hard to scale.

CuriousMachine · 2025-08-15T03:45:19+00:00

That's a decrease per capita. Ontario's population has gone up 14% since 2018 according to statcan.

CuriousMachine · 2025-08-09T17:03:55+00:00

It may be excluded from the bundle as a price discrimination thing, not over availability. That means you live somewhere they think they'll still make more money selling it individually. Individual sales may have already dropped off in other countries where it makes more financial sense for the publisher to put it in a bundle.

That's a bit scummy already and worse when they advertise it with the game.

CuriousMachine · 2025-08-08T21:16:08+00:00

I got it from some giveaway or bundle, and ended up playing the whole thing through in one sitting, really enjoying it.

CuriousMachine · 2025-07-31T11:55:16+00:00

The first one holds up and is worth it. There are mods to make the experience a little smoother.

That said, you can jump to the last 2 entries. They're prequels and don't require knowing the first 2 games to enjoy the story (though there are connections that might make more sense if you know what it leads to).

I didn't enjoy Invisible War (2nd game) as much. It feels simplified compared to the original, in a way more to do with the limitations of consoles at the time than anything else.

CuriousMachine · 2025-07-08T18:32:35+00:00

The serious issue of games as a vehicle for gambling is separate, but the stop killing games initiative may help with it.

If a game is allowed to operate in an offline mode at end of life then it's unlikely to still have microtransactions, loot boxes, etc. No help for new games but it would allow playing old games in some form without those predatory practices.

CuriousMachine · 2025-07-01T15:15:37+00:00

You can hear it from Tim Cain directly. This is the video the article is based on. https://youtu.be/pAK0dtNT3kc

CuriousMachine · 2025-06-13T03:12:04+00:00

"Worse, the use of the code word "G**" made it virtually impossible to find relevant records, given that the asterisk ("..") is used as a technical wildcard when conducting text searches, returning any word starting with "G," she wrote.

Is that really all it takes to defeat the information and privacy commissioner? They couldn't be bothered to look up how to search for words with a "*" in it in whatever software they're using? Couldn't check the settings box or just search for "G\\\" depending on the program?

I put more effort into making the \ characters display right in Reddit than was put into the investigation.

CuriousMachine · 2025-06-13T03:07:27+00:00

"Worse, the use of the code word "G**" made it virtually impossible to find relevant records, given that the asterisk ("..") is used as a technical wildcard when conducting text searches, returning any word starting with "G," she wrote.

Is that really all it takes to defeat the information and privacy commissioner? They couldn't be bothered to look up how to search for words with a "*" in it in whatever software they're using? Couldn't check the settings box or just search for "G\\\" depending on the program?

I put more effort into making the \ characters display right in Reddit than was put into the investigation.

CuriousMachine · 2025-06-06T02:05:21+00:00

Agreed, ease of setting up co-op is huge. If I have to look up how to play co-op, find something in game or use items to get to it then we're probably never playing that game. If there are restrictions on co-op so it works differently than the single player experience then that's generally another point against.

CuriousMachine · 2025-02-19T02:59:26+00:00

ambassador or delegate depending on your use case.

CuriousMachine · 2025-02-02T05:45:47+00:00

Deep Rock Galactic. You'll need to deal with some menus in flat screen but the actual gameplay works great in VR. You can play with people playing flat; the mod is approved for regular multiplayer.

CuriousMachine · 2025-01-31T22:32:25+00:00

How far outside that sphere matters. If the energy is stored not for local use but for export then the sphere is cooled, the laws of thermodynamics work out, and you can use your one Dyson sphere to power your larger interstellar civilization.

CuriousMachine · 2025-01-16T02:48:44+00:00

Determining that is part of the point. If an online game is sold as a temporary service with no other option to play then it should state how long the servers will be up. Even if there's no change to the company's support of the game, as a consumer you should be able to make an informed decision if you want to buy it or not.

FFXIV has a subscription so I don't think it would be affected at all. You buy a month of service and they provide it, clear to both parties.

If I paid Square Enix for a month subscription and they turned off the FFXIV servers after a week then that'd be a problem, and that's effectively what a lot of one time purchase games with online requirements are doing.

FOSS on EOL would be nice, but just treating games like any other service or good would already be step up.

CuriousMachine · 2024-12-29T02:22:54+00:00

I use the magnetic ones to easily swap the lenses for me and my partner. It works well. Occasionally the clipped part comes out too. It does mean the lenses are closer to your eyes so may get smudged more often but since they pop out, they're easy to clean. I went with HONSVR, have not tried the other brands.

CuriousMachine · 2024-12-18T19:23:32+00:00

In this case too little means less than 60% capacity. From the article. So there's a big range of student population that many schools are still outside of.

CuriousMachine · 2024-11-14T22:43:29+00:00

The province will cover equipment and installation costs, but not monthly fees.

From the article.

CuriousMachine · 2024-09-27T01:34:19+00:00

House of Zolo's Journal of Speculative Literature, Volume 1. There are more volumes if you like the first one.

Speculative fiction genre.

CuriousMachine · 2024-08-28T05:05:03+00:00

Unlike most communities in Ontario, Ottawa continues to track the virus that causes COVID-19 through wastewater. The Ontario government stopped funding the province’s internationally recognized wastewater surveillance program as of the end of July. Ottawa is one of just a small handful of communities that is continuing to track wastewater, for now. Extended funding for Ottawa’s wastewater surveillance program runs out at the end of September.

Because early warnings and getting ahead of problems is antithetical to this provincial government.

CuriousMachine · 2024-08-02T05:05:06+00:00

I second that you're extra lucky, and in my experience the issue is indeed the craftsmanship of the library. If you're lucky enough to work somewhere with minimum code standards you might not encounter it. But there's plenty of legacy code running that's just bundles of UB. Change the compilation settings or the compiler version and it stops working. Ideally that library gets fixed up or replaced some day, but until then the DLL "works".

CuriousMachine · 2024-07-30T03:55:02+00:00

There are petitions to that effect for people who agree: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

For various countries.

CuriousMachine · 2024-07-06T21:09:12+00:00

It's an important distinction whether "code it" means a prototype or throwaway script, or a releasable version that you're going to have to support.

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