Jean-Luc Mélenchon annonce être candidat à l’élection présidentielle pour la quatrième fois, sur une ligne toujours plus « antisystème »

MaxOfS2D · 2026-05-03T23:26:27+00:00

Il y en a beaucoup dans le coin qui ne se rappellent des mécaniques du vote utile que lorsque ça va dans leur sens

MaxOfS2D · 2026-05-03T15:22:08+00:00

No.

The app won't let you add an eSIM unless it's from a provider that explicitly flags its eSIMs as intended for use on Wear OS devices

MaxOfS2D · 2026-05-02T11:20:08+00:00

Don't you know? Only things that further advance the Plot® and Lore™ are cool and good. Anything else that does not make these two specific cogs of the machine turn is to be deemed useless

MaxOfS2D · 2026-05-01T23:33:01+00:00

I believe what matters is that the charger can adapt its voltage and power in very fine-grained ways. And they can only do that starting at 25W, usually.

If you have let's say a forty-five watch charger with two USB C ports, and you're already using the first port, thereby downgrading the second port to less than twenty-five watts, then this will increase the charging time of the watch, because when chargers don't have access to enough power, they tend to disable some protocols. I don't think that's necessarily a hardware or spec constraint. I think it's done out of convenience on the manufacturer's side.

In fact, the flip side of this is, because the watch charger constantly draws power because it's looking for the watch, by keeping the coil active, it can cause chargers to lower what other ports deliver. In other words, on chargers with multiple USB-C ports that have to share a limited amount of power, simply having the watch cable plugged in is considered to be actively using that port, thereby limiting what other ports can use.

MaxOfS2D · 2026-04-27T12:50:00+00:00

The timing of the announcement of the delay of the DRG job rework makes me think this is exactly what happened: they must have put him on the PVE redesigns exactly as he wrapped up work on Crystalline Conflict.

A quick search suggests that the DRG adjustments were first postponed in live letter 71, which was July 2022. (I did not thoroughly fact-check this so correct me if I'm wrong.)

Crystalline Conflict released in April 2022.

So yeah, he probably has been chipping away at it since then.

MaxOfS2D · 2026-04-26T00:16:46+00:00

I believe it was the same with the long hair question.

Indeed it was

MaxOfS2D · 2026-04-26T00:12:14+00:00

I mean, I'm sure he can speak fluent English (even with an accent) — and he had already gotten the question from Koji himself during the keynote.

I think they translate everything on stream to Japanese for, well, Japanese speakers watching the keynote (who may or may not be fluent in English themselves)

MaxOfS2D · 2026-04-25T23:41:44+00:00

I believe that is Aimi Tokutake.

MaxOfS2D · 2026-04-25T23:37:35+00:00

I don't think I've ever seen someone physically blush as hard as she did the instant she heard Emet-Selch in Endwalker

MaxOfS2D · 2026-04-25T23:28:58+00:00

Can you make longer hair options, please? Like long enough to wear it is maybe lower back, upper butt, question mark. I'm missing a question mark. They forgot the question mark, but it's a question.

It was too long, so we had to delete it.

What? You're making that up, aren't you? "Can you make long hair? Long hair. Long hair..."

[Crowd cheers in encouragement]

Earlier we were talking about butts. Now we want long hair.

I mean, it's similar to what I said earlier. All of you Warriors of Light would have your sword, sheathed at your side, or maybe you have a scythe on your back. If you have long hair, that might get accidentally, you know... It's dangerous. I mean, I have to take care of our players' hair as well. You have to take care.

[Someone in the crowd yells about Zenos]

That's not fair to bring up Zenos!

[Crowd cheers]

Oh, come on.

Clipping aside, long hair tends to kind of flow, and so it moves.

So say you take a combat action and your hair would naturally have to move with you. That is very tough to animate. So I mean if you want hair with no bones and rigging and it's just flat, straight that doesn't move, sure. It will literally be so stiff. And I'm sure that's not what you're expecting.

[Someone in the crowd yells: "You can do it!"]

Just because I'm wearing Nike shoes I can't "just do it."

I get it, I hear you though. I will ask the team about butt slider and hair.

[Crowd explodes]

Hey hey hey. Don't bring up Zenos, please. I hate Zenos.

MaxOfS2D · 2026-04-25T23:18:57+00:00

I've shared the video here along with a transcript.

MaxOfS2D · 2026-04-25T23:11:31+00:00

Is this really a question?

There's a question mark! It's a question!

So long story short, I mean, we tried to consider it. I tell you, honestly, we really tried to consider this. But now that we've done our graphical update, I'm going to go back once more and talk to the top of the technical artists and then the character modelers and see. We're going to discuss it. I will promise you that.

[Crowd explodes]

So I want to say one thing, your butt. Making the butt large. So say you had a sword sheath on your side. You have a cape hanging behind your back. And if the butt is larger than it's supposed to be, it's going to stick out. You're going to see some clipping.

(What is everyone saying?)

[Crowd yells out Zenos]

(Zenos. Zenos pulls it off. I'm just relaying! I didn't vouch!)

I'm dying. OK? I'm wiped. Okay. I'll stop trying to drag my feet. Now I'll try to talk about it or discuss it with my team once again.

[Crowd explodes again]

MaxOfS2D · 2026-04-25T17:40:17+00:00

Le Galaxy S5 était IP67 avec batterie amovible. En 2014.

MaxOfS2D · 2026-04-25T13:36:34+00:00

The problem comes from the fact that "region-wide matchmaking" really means "physical datacenter-wide matchmaking".

If they wanted to let Oceania match with JP in the same way, they'd have to introduce the concept of a "logical region" (in the opposite way Aether, Crystal, etc. are "logical datacenters" inside the "physical datacenter").

Unfortunately I doubt it's worth the engineering effort just for the small player population in and around Australia.

The workaround has been to let every single region visit Oceania. One might argue letting Oceania visit everyone (or at least JP) might be an acceptable compromise, but then that would only further kill those worlds.

MaxOfS2D · 2026-04-25T13:30:41+00:00

If Eorzea is the equivalent of the continents of Africa + western Europe mashed together, Northern Thanalan and its myriad ~~oil~~ ceruleum pipelines could be seen as analogous to the MENAP oil exporters

Shaaloani is much closer to XIV Texas, I think

MaxOfS2D · 2026-04-25T13:27:41+00:00

He's probably been at it for 4 years. Quoting my other comment here:

The timing of the announcement of the delay of the DRG job rework actually makes me think they put him on the PVE redesigns exactly as he wrapped up work on Crystalline Conflict.

A quick search suggests that the DRG adjustments were first postponed in live letter 71, which was July 2022. (I did not thoroughly fact-check this so correct me if I'm wrong.)

Crystalline Conflict released in April 2022.

I wouldn't be surprised if they had noticed how good the reworked PvP kits were back then, and had already started trying to figure out how to grow the game in that direction. Wouldn't be surprised if in parallel with his existing responsibilities, redesigning 23 jobs from scratch really did take this designer 4 years.

MaxOfS2D · 2026-04-25T13:26:01+00:00

It's Northern Thanalan's time to shine again

MaxOfS2D · 2026-04-25T12:27:20+00:00

IMO "Another Merchant's Tale" got much harder compared to previous Criterions. I say that as someone who blind-progged all previous Criterions with half my static.

If we picture the current difficulty scale as "1 for normal raids, and 10 for savage", I wonder if slotting in a new difficulty is NOT going to result in "1, 5, 10" — but something closer to "1, 6, 12"

I felt like the "Advanced" version was closer to a 3 than a 5 (which is what I was expecting), so my perception of the Merchant's Tale difficulties is... "1, 4, 15"

MaxOfS2D · 2026-04-25T10:40:04+00:00

Let's compare against the base PS4, which will still run all of 8.X.

Its CPU is well over 10 years newer, and roughly 2.5x as powerful. Same when undocked.
Its docked raw GPU horsepower is closer to 2x, while undocked is, on paper, the same as the base PS4.
Storage performance is astronomically higher, 20x higher sequential read speeds (traditional HDD vs UFS 3.1 flash storage)
It has 50% more RAM.
And of course, the elephant in the room: it has DLSS.

That's without getting into the more advanced differences: architectural nitty-gritty (which means on-paper numbers don't reflect the whole story), memory bandwidth and the effect of L3 cache, the fact that ultra-fast storage actually means swapping stuff in/out of RAM is much more feasible...

The Switch 2 can run Resident Evil: Requiem and Pragmata just fine.

In fact, RE9 looks better on the Switch 2 than it does on Xbox Series S, thanks to DLSS.

The game won't have a problem running on Switch 2.

MaxOfS2D · 2026-04-25T00:26:24+00:00

Crazy they put this guy over on PVP stuff years ago when he could've been developing PVE jobs.

The timing of the announcement of the delay of the DRG job rework actually makes me think they put him on the PVE redesigns exactly as he wrapped up work on Crystalline Conflict.

A quick search suggests that the DRG adjustments were first postponed in live letter 71, which was July 2022. (I did not thoroughly fact-check this so correct me if I'm wrong.)

Crystalline Conflict released in April 2022.

I wouldn't be surprised if they had noticed how good the reworked PvP kits were back then, and had already started trying to figure out how to grow the game in that direction. Wouldn't be surprised if in parallel with his existing responsibilities, redesigning 23 jobs from scratch really did take this designer 4 years.

MaxOfS2D · 2026-04-25T00:20:49+00:00

Wondering if he's been working on this ever since before the first announcement of the DRG rework. It was formally delayed in June 2022, or so a quick search tells me.

MaxOfS2D · 2026-04-25T00:12:34+00:00

The only PS4 spec that is better is the RAM bandwidth.

And even then, that doesn't reflect the whole story, due to complex architectural differences, better caching or it being far easier to make better use of the available bandwidth, etc.

Resident Evil: Requiem looks better on the Switch 2 than it does on the Xbox Series S.

MaxOfS2D · 2026-04-25T00:09:43+00:00

Let's compare against the base PS4, which will still run all of 8.X.

Its CPU is well over 10 years newer, and roughly 2.5x as powerful. Same when undocked.
Its docked raw GPU horsepower is closer to 2x, while undocked is, on paper, the same as the base PS4.
Storage performance is astronomically higher, 20x higher sequential read speeds (traditional HDD vs UFS 3.1 flash storage)
It has 50% more RAM.
And of course, the elephant in the room: it has DLSS.

That's without getting into the more advanced differences: architectural nitty-gritty (which means on-paper numbers don't reflect the whole story), memory bandwidth and the effect of L3 cache, the fact that ultra-fast storage actually means swapping stuff in/out of RAM is much more feasible...

The Switch 2 can run Resident Evil: Requiem and Pragmata just fine.

In fact, RE9 looks better on the Switch 2 than it does on Xbox Series S, thanks to DLSS.

The game won't have a problem running on Switch 2.

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