The Dwarf in the Flask

Nomunculus

I believe the Nugget Bridge method doesn't have the nasty side effects Missingo has (like corrupting your Hall of Fame data).

It's real, but it's yet another gen1 memory corruption glitch that reliably overwrites the Pokémon encounter table if you do it exactly right. If you search for "Mew glitch" you'll find a bunch of videos on it. It involves some very precise steps and specific battles on that one bridge where you get a golden nugget, IIRC.

Even the "game we liked +1" stuff is pretty good these days, since there are indie studios making spiritual successors to games with niche appeal that traditional publishers wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole.

Stuff like Lunacid, Gloomwood, and the entire boomer shooter genre are basically just "what if X was made without the technology limitations of the time" and it's great.

I remember reading that the guy behind the original overarching plotline (where the Reapers' motivation for culling spacefaring civilizations was preventing early entropy of the universe due to overuse of Element Zero) left Bioware after EA bought the company, then the Mass Effect 3 script got leaked several months before release so the ending was hastily rewritten.

I've also heard that due to said leak the rewrite was done in a locked room by just two people, a writer and a producer, with no input or feedback from the rest of the writing staff. Given how abrupt and out of place the ending is (and what we have now is the expanded, retconned version - it was much worse at launch), I can easily believe that rumor.

Sheep*.

To quote Pratchett:

The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

• Small Gods

This'll be the fifth game in the main series and like the twentieth in the overall franchise, won't it? Figuring out the proper play order must be a nightmare with their naming sense.

And also makes indirect mention of Stalin's earlier purges of political rivals, so it's the exact opposite of the evidence they're claiming.

There's an animated version of this one on the linked fan-art thread:

Though if a secret has ever been uploaded to GitHub, even if you scrubbed it from history within minutes, you should assume it's compromised and generate new credentials.

Try this page?

I'm worried that companies will stop releasing demos again out of fear of AI-driven clones stealing their work and beating them to the market.

Only if they call the mod "The Barrage of Gay Tonys".

It's mostly a problem for indie games where novel gameplay is often the main selling point. Imagine if a hundred Katamari Damacy or Patapon clones came out months before the originals, and whether they'd have made the same impact when they finally released in that scenario.

Clones are already a huge problem in the independent games space (see the myriad of "dig for buried treasure in a backyard" games last year). AI gives cloners the ability to churn them out so rapidly they can steal the original's thunder entirely.

I know lemmy.zip likes to reencode files as either avif or apng, which are newer formats that some clients can't handle. Whenever I have a problem opening an image it's always that instance.

RimWorld released a beta of the upcoming 1.7 version that moves to their new Waylith engine, granting massive performance gains over the old Unity builds. I haven't done a real playthrough since before the Anomaly and Odyssey expansions released, so I'm thinking now's a good time to revisit the game. I've heard Anomaly was kind of disappointing, but here's hoping Odyssey is the less buggy vanilla version of Save Our Ships 2 I've heard it referred to as.

Though I'm not looking forward to rebuilding my mod list after all this time. Anyone have mod recommendations for someone who's been away from the scene for a few years?

"The player can look and be anywhere in the world at any time, and the traditional ways of doing optimizations on a game is knowing that the player is only in this space, and that means the rest of the world can just be forgotten."

You can tell it's been a while since he's been in the trenches, because over the last decade or two game technology has moved away from this paradigm and into heavy use of level-of-detail and asset streaming. Vision-based culling still happens, but it's done at the engine/shader level and not something level designers are forced to laboriously set up triggers for anymore.

Not that it matters anyway. I can't imagine an amount of improvements and visual upgrades that would prevent even the largest Black & White world from fitting entirely into memory at all times.

Bastion's entire soundtrack was amazing, but the end credits song (especially the live jam version they released on their channel later) has been stuck in my head ever since the game came out.

Man, I wish we lived in a world where being kind and treating everyone equally wasn't somehow political.

Sources say the inciting incident was when he referred to them as "sweater puppies" and Noem instinctively drew her gun on them.