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No need to get yourself infected with malwarefor that good old Windows experience of ads and nag screens.
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To work around this issue, you could download Firefox first and then with Firefox, download Chrome..
Or install an addblocker on Edge before visiting the Chrome download site.
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I seriously don't understand why this would make sense. Also the occasional update screen before you can use Windows. Where you must click carefully through 5 screens trying to avoid installing Office Demo or set Edge as your standard browser and all that shi...
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@SeriousToni Regarding the screen that appears after updates, the guaranteed fix is as follows:
- Open Windows Settings -> System -> Notifications & actions
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Uncheck these items:
- Show me the Windows welcome experience after updates and occasionally when I sign in to highlight what's new and suggested
- Suggest ways I can finish setting up my device to get the most out of Windows
As for the issue kano mentioned, I have a directory on separate drive that I keep all my installers is whenever it's time to install/reinstall Windows. Saves having to hunt down the individual installers and also avoids dealing with this sort of crap. I'm sure someone will mention Linux but I've evaluated it for many years and it's still not suitable for my purposes... yet.
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Holy shit, so this is real. This is actually real. Nobody would contest the notion that all of your devices emit EM radiation, and even that the emitted EM signals are directly tied to what the device is actually doing. Any AM radio near something from a Game Boy to a desktop PC, can confirm this. But I always found the idea that someone could actually use the emissions to determine what is on the screen from a distance and/or through walls, to be unlikely at best. But too many people have demonstrated it for it to be fake or a hoax. One must also consider that, if they can observe a non-networked machine from a distance, then they could probably also manipulate it in a similar way; by using EM/radio waves. A strong enough radio will induce a current in a circuit; the old "hearing some HAM radio or extremely naughty CB operator with an amp through your stereo even when you're not listening to an audio CD/record is an example of this.
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Superbly crafted FM, probably my all-time favorite. Nailed the atmosphere perfectly and feels like it belongs in the actual game; doesn't try to transform the game into something that it was not meant to be, and is free from bugs. Just a shame that this player didn't have 3D sound enabled.
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Guess there is more gaming-fight left in these old PCIe3.0 motherboards than initially expected. In theory, as long as you have enough video memory, the impact on performance should be very minimal. But as soon as it gets exhausted though, look out, frame rates will probably tank, as it has to push and pull textures from system memory. This is (another) reason why having graphics cards with lots of memory is important. E.g. the Rx6500XT with 4GB and only 4 lanes at PCIe 3.0, is like going into a boxing match with a broken arm and a broken leg. I feel kind of stupid now for replacing a PCIe 3.0 motherboard with a PCIe 4.0 motherboard. But I wanted to make sure I can get as much life out of a 5950x system as possible. And the new platform from AMD is so attractively priced, that they have had to slash the cost less than three months after launching it. In other words, nobody wants to pay exorbitantly for motherboards during a recession!
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https://www.gamesindustry.biz/75-of-public-comments-on-microsoft-activision-were-in-favor-of-deal-says-uk-cma And 60% of them were posted by bots, another 15% probably being posted by employees. We weren't born yesterday; we know how these "public comments" systems work and how they are frequently (always?) gamed by the corporate agenda.
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Had no idea this existed, and Sega is actually cool with it. The game looks pretty well-made, and the art looks faithfully recreated. The music is similar but of much higher quality.
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One suggestion that I have is for splashes when the player jumps in water to not be rendered at fullbright, or at least toned down. In dark areas, they're rather bright!
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https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/telehealth/telehealth-startups-share-patient-data-with-big-tech-companies.html Imagine actually being surprised by this. Big tech companies' objective is to invade every square inch of peoples' privacy, and then invade it some more. lol. Everyone should be clued in by now. I'm surprised they don't know how much time I spent on the toilet this morning!
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Ran TDM on a 5950x in pure software rendered OpenGL mode. lol Shows you just how powerful modern CPUs actually are. Also, anyone on the dev team or any mappers need a Ryzen 3700x? I've got a spare; and since you gave me a free game, might as well give you some free hardware.
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MESA LLVMPipe 22.3? Remember to NOT add dxil.dll or explicit the llvmpipe path for gallium.
Otherwise it will use the D3D12 backend (so of course it runs well)
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batch file with:
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SET GALLIUM_DRIVER=llvmpipe
.\TheDarkModx64.exe
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remember to disable the AF
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Six core (no HT) i5 11600, normal detail, stencil, no soft shadows/no SSAO, no AF
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Not really an article, but... People submitting to tyrannical online services where someone else on the other side of the world can arbitrarily and randomly choose to disable your stuff after taking your money, deserve exactly what they get. I spent years warning consumers about this but no one listens; it's way more fun to point and laugh and say "I told you so" anyway. https://old.reddit.com/r/metroidvania/comments/zdhfok/it_appears_that_haak_phones_home_to_be_able_to/
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Using projected textures doesn't mean the lighting is static though. Doom3 had all sorts of moving lights with projected textures, from ceiling lights that you could knock around, to the flashlight. Also TDM's lantern uses a (very nice) projected texture onto the environment to avoid being a uniformly strong light in all directions. I think you can even project video/animations if you want to. Admittedly texture projection takes a lot more work to set up and especially to make look good, but it works regardless of which shadows implementation is in use.
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Also as someone else once said, it will frequently be quicker in terms of performance to just use texture projection to simulate shadows of complex objects like leaves/grates/etc. This is what Doom 3 did. All those sections where there was a light shining out from behind a grate, casting patterns on the walls? Yep, just a projection. Deus Ex invisible War made heavy use of this too. It's very fast and very cheap.
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Thanks for the improvement to stencil shadows; any and all improvements are always appreciated. That being said, I'm actually surprised that the team isn't preparing to kill stencil shadows entirely. I know it would render the game unplayable on old hardware, but hardware that old will struggle to play the game anyway. And with a full transition to shadow maps, more pretty graphical features can be implemented (like the volumetric shadows and hopefully eventually transparent materials casting shadows), and manpower can be focused on improving one shadowing method instead of two. Not only do I think it's a great idea to drop stencil shadows, but I also think it would be cool to have a checkbox/option in the editor to allow materials that make use of alpha textures like leaves and grass to cast accurate shadows. Making this into an option that must explicitly be switched on by a mapper would avoid screwing up existing missions that were designed without said functionality in mind, as someone else pointed out, while simultaneously opening up new options for mappers who are creating new content today. However, the biggest downside to what I am proposing is that shadow maps really tax the GPU and tank performance hard, especially if you crank the quality. It is probably the most impactful performance setting in the game.
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/major-tax-filing-websites-secretly-share-income-data-with-meta/ Anybody who has been playing the IT game for more than a few years, knows all the rules by now. 1. Big companies do not take "No" for an answer. 2. They always seem to find a way to get their hands on information that they should not have, in one way or another. 3. Enter the phony apology, and the meaningless fines that are a drop in the bucket.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADkPTbGzJBA Having total dead silence in the background while in the first-person mode (in the apartment) is a bad design decision. In reality there is always some sound around you, whether it be the hum of a fridge or the lights or noises from outside.
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Been using one of these for a wile and am very happy with it Especially so because it has a lanyard attachment point, a cover for the connector to keep stuff out of it, and also support for both protocols; Nvme and SATA. Most enclosures lack these features. Adding a screen to one of these enclosures is just something that didn't cross my mind.
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Interesting... An enclosure with a full color screen on it. I wonder how it knows how full the file system on the installed drive is? I didn't think enclosures were "smart" enough to know that; how is it supposed to know if I'm using Btrfs or Ext4? And how long before someone hacks one of these to play Doom?
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Gamestop is on borrowed time. They will be out of business in five years because of the shift to everything digital and the consumers' willingness to embrace a one on one relationship with giant content publishers like Sony and Microsoft, who are in fact the consumer's worst enemy. No used game sales means everyone pays full price, or at a minimum, whatever the industry decides they should pay, because there will be literally no way for the consumer to obtain the product from somewhere else.
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https://kotaku.com/photoshop-pantone-color-plugin-adobe-creative-cloud-1849714742 On replacing colors in existing projects with pure black; Funny, I thought there was a well-defined term when you ruin someone else's personal stuff just to sell them a solution to the problem. We used to call that "extortion".
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No worries, "claustrophobic" is the exact same terminology I was thinking of to describe the level layout in this game. Yet in spite of the game's various flaws and problems, I still can't hate it. I enjoy the story and the setting and the soundscape overall (Like Thief). If someone made an expansion pack or new mod for DX2 similar to The Nameless Mod, I would definitely give it a go, too bad that can't happen.
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low ceilings... Reminds me of what I saw one time while playing this game. The SSC and I got into a battle with the Templars in the terminal area. An SSC guard threw a grenade, and promptly blew himself up along with his friends because the AI doesn't seem to compensate for low ceilings, and so the grenade traveled two feet at most and landed right near the squad of SSC guys.
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Yeah I was watching someone else play Invisible War last night, and they brought up how all the characters they have encountered thus far in Invisible War who give the player side quests to complete, are so dark and sinister. They in fact compared it to the newer games, which they said side-quests are more about helping people and doing good. lol To be fair though, the later side-quests in Invisible war, which that player has yet to reach, aren't "evil" e.g. the one about finding out what is happening to students in the academy or cleaning the pollution. I think if the Xbox hadn't existed, DX2 and Thief 3 would have been superbly excellent games.
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Thoughts on this game? Mine are that, even though it is dumbed down and simplified in almost every possible way from the original, there's still a good game/experience to be had inside. The big plus over the original game is that IW feels more like multiple powerful organizations are manipulating you to serve their agenda, as opposed to being simply thrown in the middle of a conflict between parties A and B. This makes the world feel more alive, in spite of how small the world in IW actually is. There are some bugs (passing through the floor), but not as many as Thief 3 with it's body awareness system. Also you are pretty much free to switch sides up until the very end, as opposed to The Nameless Mod, where your actions early on dictate your allegiance for the rest of the game. Some will like this, others won't.
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The big entertainment companies don't want people obtaining the content they produce from random places on the web for free. So in order to combat that trend, they have created a world where you cannot even keep the digital content that you actually bought from them! https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1657022591 Can't argue with logic like this! 40 out of 30 customers agree, nothing makes us want to buy more, than knowing what we already bought, can and will just be arbitrarily revoked and taken away by the seller at any time for any reason.
