There’s room for accessibility options, no one is forcing you to use them. While there are tools in the souls series to solve issues, there’s no reason not to have some sort of scaling option at the least for people that want it, things like directional subtitles, colourblind mode, those are just basic. Why alienate players who would otherwise enjoy the game but may have limitations, it’s ok for games to have complex systems and themes that may not appeal to everyone, that’s totally independent of accessibility. I personally really enjoyed my playthroughs, and would love other people to be able to enjoy these games as well, and I’m pretty sure fromsoft intends for their games to be enjoyable.
Your point about rhythm games doesn’t support your point, guitar hero and rockband both had difficulty settings and later entries had nofail modes. They also had practice modes where you could slow down sections you were struggling with and work through it.
Quick edit: my only real complaint is FOV, camera is super zoomed in on some of the giant bosses, DS1 remastered supported ultrawide, would have been nice for Elden Ring to have that at leaat
The scadutree buffs are pretty big from what I can tell, I’ve got a bunch becauae I explore a lot on first runs and it seems to be at least 3-4% boost to attack and defenses, with some of the new talismans too found there’s a lot of stuff to work with.
So far, feels pretty well balanced, it has challenge but I’ve not encountered anything that made me question how I died, first few big fights were pretty well telegraphed and super enjoyable. What I really like is that you can go try something else if you hit a wall, go level up a bit, try new gear or different approaches
Oh damage sponges are the worst, probably one of my biggest complaints with Bethesda’s games difficulty sliders generally just making things a slog, survival mode in fo4 is a good example to me of a challenge that doesnt make things an absolute pain, metro 2033 had a mode like that too that totally changed how you played the game, made it challenging without making it a slog.
Really like the pathfinder games because you can swap between turn based or real-time on the fly, sometimes I want to think about my actions but other times yeah it gets repetitive
I’d love a Morrowind type journal to log some of that, totally get I can write things down outside the game, I’d just like to have that option in game especially as I can tend to jump around games and put them down for some time. They’re almost there with the player map markers and NPC markers, even just having the ability to make notes in game would be big for me.
After a major feeder water main break plunged Calgary’s water supply into a critical state, city officials are now asking Calgarians to use 25 per cent less than they did yesterday, sounding the alarm that the city is at risk of running out....
I did smart pigging and challenging pipeline stuff years ago and reliability engineering up to a few years ago, also got out of o+g for similar reasons.
Totally agree and just adding on to all that, even if it was steel, I’m super willing to bet it’d be impossible to run a normal pig through, so much infrastructure is just full of diameter changes, unbarred tees, really tight back to back bends etc, I can only imagine the challenges to pig a line like that, let alone costs involved with specialised tooling and support work, I know some people who did a short run through a downtown core on a gas main and that needed hot taps, road closures and a really special pig for what was less than a kilometre.
Supposing it could be pigged without blowing up their entire maintenance budget, I wouldn’t want to touch any of the water coming out of that line during operations, so you’d also interrupt water service for a while, having a solid reaction plan really would be one of the best solutions.
Crawler is possible, still need to get into the line though, I recall there being a few options for tethered camera crawlers meant for sewer inspection. Visual does have drawbacks, can’t really size defects, as far as I recall it’s difficult to get full coverage and cleanliness is even more important, and you’d general need the operations on that pipe to cease. Ideally you want your inspection regiment to allow you to know something’s coming and be able to plan for it, example if I start seeing vibration increasing on some bearings, I can monitor them and start planning for their replacement on a scheduled shutdown.
No inspection is actually a totally valid mitigation plan for some assets. Criticality and failure consequences play a large role in that as well as the feasibility to inspect. Electrical devices for example follow random failure patterns and historically don’t really have a timeframe between failure initiation and functional failure that’s actionable, so a mitigation strategy I’ve seen done is something like hot spares if it’s critical. On the other hand, something that is inspectable but won’t result in high consequence of failure (death and injury are the things that are usually weighted heavily) it might not be worth inspecting either, it’s all about trying to get the most out of limited maintenance budgets.
Will echo the recommendations of debian or mint. I have mint on my 13 year old rog laptop, it’s my lab computer and runs klipper for one of my printers, pretty much always up, very rarely reboots. Debian is what I run on my 4 year old zenbook s, pretty much perfect for my uses, it’s what I cart around for light/mobile work and I swear it actually has better battery life than it did running windows.
I have an nvme enclosure with a 256 gig drive in it, I think I partitioned a quarter of it for ventoy, rest is for regular storage. It’s really nice to have if I do family support, have any iso I need and any utility I might need on top of that. Is it overkill for my needs? Yeah, but it’s nice to have and I didn’t go for anything fancy, just a cheap crucial drive.
Tomb Mold does a few of the tracks on Ritual FM, I really liked that they got realworld artists to do in universe tracks. All of the stations are solid, love that they implemented radio outside of vehicles as well.
Yeah this is my understanding, which I mean fair, anything my partner and I play for coop we’re both buying anyhow, or we gift one another a copy if we like it independently.
Depends on the mod, I’d generally assume it’s an issue unless the mod author says otherwise. The more the mod touches, the higher likelihood it’ll be an issue.
That said, Fallrim tools does include resaver which I have used in the past to rescue Skyrim saves. Obviously backup before trying, worst thing it doesn’t work so there’s no issue trying
It’s amazing how much our views change with time. My dad was definitely a super early adopter of cable when it became available in our area, if I recall it was 16 Mbps which was unreal to me in 2002. I made do with 5 Mbps in uni and it was totally usable.
But now, I’ve had 1Gbps for years and wow it’s so different, changes your habits too. I don’t hoard installed games as much, I can pull them down in minutes so why keep something installed if I’m not going to use it?
Yeah but all it takes is for people to stay home on election day, look at Ontario’s “majority” government where the Tories only got 40.8% of the record low 43.5% turnout and somehow got 83 of the 124 seats. The tactics aren’t limited to getting people to vote conservative, making the left less likely to vote works just as well, if not better.
Like I get it, I prefer the NDP platform but I will always abc so long as we have to live with fptp.
Canada Post will increase the cost of individual stamps by eight cents starting on May 6, and the cost of a booklet or roll of stamps will go up by seven cents per stamp.
So, I currently have a HyperX Cloud Orbit S headset that I’ve been using for both my PC and my PS4. It’s served me pretty well for a few years, but over the past few months the band has snapped and been superglued/reglued 5-6 times. It still works fine, but I’m getting tired of repairing it over and over, and feel it’s...
The 880s are bulletproof, I daily drove mine for a decade (even back then recommendation was also audiophile headphones and a mic) before replacing the pads and modding them to have a detachable cable. I use a pair of DT1990 now with the same dekoni audio pads I used on my 880s, I keep meaning to get some other headphones for variety but I’ve honestly had no complaints with Beyerdynamic.
The last of us had people involved with creating the source material, I look at the expanse TV series as a good example solid adaptation, ty and Daniel (the book authors) were producers and writers for the show so it kept its spirit Imo. Stuff changed for tv, characters were merged etc but it worked.
What I mean by this, is instead of when you fail and are met with a game over, the game finds some way to keep it going. Instead of being forced to reset to a previous save or an autosave checkpoint, the game’s story continues in an interesting path. Are there any games like this?...
Most of the comments focus on death states, as far as I recall you can totally beat TES 3 Morrowind after an essential npc dies. The game will tell you it’s doomed and will prompt you to load a save, but you are largely able to continue, just have to live with the consequences, it might be a pain to do or rely on cheese, but apparently technically possible.
Elden Ring Publisher Addresses Difficulty Criticism of Shadow of the Erdtree, Offers Tips for DLC (gameinfinitus.com)
NDP says it's considering options about support for much-criticized Senate porn bill (www.ctvnews.ca)
Meanwhile the LPC oppose the bill while the CPC would work to amend it.
What is your BG3 unpopular opinion?
Elden Ring's developers know most players use guides, but still try to cater to those who go in blind: 'If they can't do it, then there's some room for improvement on our behalf' (www.pcgamer.com)
'We are at risk of running out': Calgarians asked to use 25% less water than yesterday (www.cbc.ca)
After a major feeder water main break plunged Calgary’s water supply into a critical state, city officials are now asking Calgarians to use 25 per cent less than they did yesterday, sounding the alarm that the city is at risk of running out....
Can anyone recommend a lightweight, stable distro for a thinkpad?
I’m looking to mainly use it for school and was wondering if there’s any recommended distros out there for thinkpads....
Every time I search for a USB key, I end up finding the ones flashed with OS ISOs! I don't have a normal key anymore lol (sh.itjust.works)
Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam (www.eurogamer.net)
Uninsured patient faces major hospital bills in Ontario after having legs amputated (toronto.citynews.ca)
Grocery giants paid for friendly Liberal, Tory policy with decades of donations (breachmedia.ca)
Game devs praise Steam as a 'democratic platform' that 'continues to be transformative' for PC gaming today (www.pcgamer.com)
Fallout 4 new-gen update release time confirmed, coming later today (www.gamingbible.com)
Capital gains tax 'last thing the Canadian economy needs,' say business groups (ca.finance.yahoo.com)
Should telecommunications be nationalized?
www.hilltimes.com/story/2024/04/17/…/418145/
No Man's Sky Orbital Update brings full ship customisation and a complete space station overhaul (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
FCC Officially Raises Minimum Broadband Metric From 25Mbps to 100Mbps (www.pcmag.com)
Two Roads to Jedi-hood. Great article about what a roleplaying game is from 2004. (media.kbin.social)
Canadians won't be fooled by Putin propaganda on Ukraine, Trudeau says (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Non-Paywall Article
Canada Post aims to raise the price of stamps in May. Here’s by how much (globalnews.ca)
Canada Post will increase the cost of individual stamps by eight cents starting on May 6, and the cost of a booklet or roll of stamps will go up by seven cents per stamp.
The Pokemon Company releases a statement regarding Palworld: Inquiries Regarding Other Companies’ Games (corporate.pokemon.co.jp)
Here’s a archive link, archive.ph/oT1L6
18+ Tomb Raider I-II-III Remastered details enhancements, new features - Gematsu (www.gematsu.com)
Classic and Modern Control Options...
What's the best headset to use for both PC and console right now?
So, I currently have a HyperX Cloud Orbit S headset that I’ve been using for both my PC and my PS4. It’s served me pretty well for a few years, but over the past few months the band has snapped and been superglued/reglued 5-6 times. It still works fine, but I’m getting tired of repairing it over and over, and feel it’s...
The Witcher author says he's never played the games that cemented his fame: "I have no time for this, and it's not entertainment for me" (www.gamesradar.com)
What are some games that "spin" failure states?
What I mean by this, is instead of when you fail and are met with a game over, the game finds some way to keep it going. Instead of being forced to reset to a previous save or an autosave checkpoint, the game’s story continues in an interesting path. Are there any games like this?...