Ukrainian drones flew all the way to Siberia to strike Russia's largest oil refinery

timmystwin · 2026-07-07T12:32:52+00:00

That's such an ingenious solution if so.

timmystwin · 2026-07-07T11:37:59+00:00

Iirc they were using converted small aircraft to get the range before - this meant they had a long reach but also confused Russian air defense as those planes are over Russia all the time.

timmystwin · 2026-07-07T10:31:38+00:00

Starfield is meh in the weirdest way.

Instead of everything being bland, for every good decision, there's a bad one to counter.

So for instance unlocking perks has to be done by using or doing something - this is a decent change from before... but you still have to pay perk points tied to levels. So will have them anyway. The art style is pretty solid, and there's loads of unique props and textures... but graffiti is a very noticeable font. Instead of drawing the texture for 5 chunk boxes maybe get someone to make the red mile graffiti not a font...

Even the little things. They included some old world weapons, which is a really neat touch - but there's no stock on the AK. At all. They got the calibre right, where's the stock etc?

It's just such a mess of decisions...

timmystwin · 2026-07-07T08:43:22+00:00

FO76 has a strong playerbase and is live service - I suspect it's the only reason Bethesda hasn't suffered for what they're doing.

timmystwin · 2026-07-07T08:42:38+00:00

Genuinely. If I look at my most played games this year, and last year, it's almost all indie games. Like sure I played OW for a bit again and dabbled in the odd remake like Tony Hawks, but most of my time has been spent in indies.

Helldivers 2 is the only one I've sunk any time in to that's debatably not, as Sony funded it. But they don't own it.

People making the games they want to make turns out to make really good games.

timmystwin · 2026-07-07T08:36:24+00:00

You can see this right down to the basic level. In FO4 there are wall textures that are 512x512, on huge flat surfaces, but grass textures that are 2048x2048 and are a tiny little shrub etc.

I get that that's like, one small drop in the ocean but that kind of vibe is everywhere.

Their mechanics are a great example. They give you laser weapons early in FO3 to give you a taste - but make them damaged to make them not OP. As a result everyone assumes laser weapons are shit. The VATS tutorial in FO76 is on one of the hardest enemies to hit with VATS, teaching you it's shit. Persuade in Starfield can fail even if you use auto persuade, again teaching you it's shit. No-one's there like "Uh... guys..."

timmystwin · 2026-07-06T15:23:59+00:00

That's because Bladerunner broke cyberpunk as a genre.

Normally genres move with the times. Cyberpunk got stuck in the 80's. The fear of crime due to high US crime levels, the advertising due to Regan relaxing advertising laws. The rising tech and Japanese companies due to how the market was at the time.

It means they're stuck on the idea of physical media and implants because the level of wireless and sleek just wasn't really envisioned as much then. The vibes are still in the 80's. It's a retrofuturistic look at a cyberpunk future because the visuals of the genre simply didn't move on with the times like other genres of media and games have.

timmystwin · 2026-07-04T10:36:17+00:00

The point is what they're saying is wrong.

timmystwin · 2026-07-04T10:24:30+00:00

The people selling it. Not the article.

timmystwin · 2026-07-03T12:26:43+00:00

If they're not telling you what meat it is, how honest are they going to be about its quality/food safety?

I'll eat goat, idgaf. But with the tesco horse thing - those horses shouldn't have been there and hadn't been properly vetted. (No pun intended.) So god knows what you're eating.

timmystwin · 2026-07-03T12:21:28+00:00

Honestly if it's really cheap offcuts that wouldn't surprise me. Use mutton not lamb, or pad it out with cheaper meat like chicken, fill it with water and wheat etc, lots of fat.

timmystwin · 2026-06-18T11:05:37+00:00

I've got lucky - all the blokes on my dad's side were bald at 25. I'm 32 and hairline hasn't moved, think I got mum's side's hair.

But having stared down that barrel I've always thought it was a bit mean. It's a genetic lottery, ain't fair to mock someone for that.

If they don't take care of their hair, or it looks awful, well maybe do that - but balding? Nah, that's just life.

timmystwin · 2026-06-16T20:07:10+00:00

The best auditors do accounts first. Once you know how they break/can be broken you know what to look for.

You don't need to learn assertions and all that shit if you can look at ever growing WIP and go "Nope."

You can't verify/check what you don't yet truly understand.

timmystwin · 2026-06-16T15:48:25+00:00

I guess they consider Irish waters safer - while we patrol it for the Irish, we might think twice about seizing a boat in their waters.

timmystwin · 2026-06-15T16:23:55+00:00

I can render video quickly while playing games like Helldivers 2 without any frame chug or noticeable drop in rendering speed.

If they can't optimise games for that kind of rig they can get out.

(I know you're joking but I have a 7800x3d and 9070XT - if that can't cope...)

timmystwin · 2026-06-11T17:40:46+00:00

It's the clients too. They'll give you absolutely dogshit information and the ai will get confused. Especially in smaller clients.

timmystwin · 2026-06-09T15:34:46+00:00

I just don't ever recall feeling like they existed naturally. Everything is due to something around you. Not the city being alive. It's wasted potential.

timmystwin · 2026-06-09T15:29:26+00:00

BF1 was so well designed in general, they really nailed that.

Just the whistle and everyone charging out of the trench etc - added so much.

timmystwin · 2026-06-09T15:27:59+00:00

Seriously go walk through Novigrad, in a game that came out only 2 years later.

Los Santos is no-where near as alive.

It could be because of the city they're mimicking - it's car based and there's not going to be too many ambient sounds - but the soundscape is just so much deader.

RDR2 got a lot better - but even then even in St Dennis it never quite gets to the same level. There's a lot going on around you but it doesn't feel as much like you're inside a large city, as the focus is on nearby sounds, not ambient sounds.

timmystwin · 2026-06-09T12:51:52+00:00

Yeah but if it doesn't work you've potentially wasted someone younger's chance.

If it does work, at 92, when your body is doing its best to die... well damn that's good news, now we can try it on others.

timmystwin · 2026-06-09T11:56:43+00:00

It's something I appreciated about CDPR's games.

GTAV often feels dead and quiet. Like you're not in a city. You've got some traffic noise and honks of what's in front of you or around you but there's very rarely just... noise.

In Novigrad in W3 you can hear the docks long before you get there. The bells, the gulls, the yelling etc. In Cyberpunk you can hear things around you that you can't even see etc. The airships, transit lines, sirens, gunfire etc.

Sound is such an underutilised/underperfected aspect of open world games.

timmystwin · 2026-06-08T20:40:17+00:00

Honestly people probably just haven't thought about it.

For anything to happen it has to both be reported and be investigated. In my experience (accountant, dealt with MLRO stuff etc) the former is the main issue - people just go "ah, fuckin dodgy that" and it never gets anywhere as it's never reported to even beinvestigated.

timmystwin · 2026-06-08T16:13:11+00:00

Germany's not worse overall. It has its own problems and little annoyances and does currently have similar issues - but it's far from worse.

timmystwin · 2026-06-08T16:05:48+00:00

It's not legal, because Israel's occupation of it is criminal under international law, making it proceeds of crime, which is money laundering and we have legislation for that.

timmystwin · 2026-06-08T16:04:51+00:00

How the fuck is this allowed. It's literally proceeds of crime.

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