Not sure anyone will find this interesting in the slightest, but in Steam as a developer you configure your game as multiple packages they call Depots. You'd have a base package everyone gets, and then other packages which download on top of that for variations. Language is one of the possible variations, and whoever configured steam for Fallout 3 kindly separated them out, presumably because the audio files are quite large and most players will only ever hear one set of them.

Regional differences are also handled this way, often something like a blood texture will be modified for certain regions, and there may also be a Germany specific depot with Nazi symbols modified. Depending on your Steam settings, and where you are in the world, you end up downloading some combination of depots that combine to make one out of potentially dozens of variations of that game.

I don't know if the Xbox app provides the same functionality, but if so it would be a completely different implementation from Steam and the person who set it up either couldn't or couldn't be bothered.

The Steamworks documentation is public for anyone who likes that sort of thing: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/depots

Middle aged men today? They’re millennials and that’s called a 1000 yard stare.

You’ll understand soon.

The article keeps reiterating the viewpoint that not selling art devalues it. That's not necessarily wrong, but it's such a corporate take on the situation, and completely misses the actual issue people had with this. Corporations should not be using their ability to control our personal devices. It's a violation of trust, and that's what people were reacting to.

And further, I think it also completely ignores what is truly devaluing art: allowing executives huge cuts of the profit. They don't do sufficient work to justify the amount they take from the industry, but if they let bands have the money, they'd lose the control that lets them keep it.

Had this for dinner last night. Paired it with some tortilla chips to help round out its nutritional value. Might do it again tonight. It's called The Mediterranean Diet.

Have you checked iFixit? they carry replacement 3DS parts and might have what you need.

Pretty sure its Hot Fuzz

The form of this kind of social media has got the same set of upsides and downsides as it does on Reddit. It won’t be exactly the same because the people are different, but the problems aren’t that different and the people aren’t that different either.

As a mostly lurker I find the experience pretty similar. I scroll through and find some interesting articles, bits of news, memes. It’s a slower pace, but I think in time it'll grow faster. People migrate over occasionally, but there may be a critical mass moment when it’s big enough that lots of people start flooding over. Or it won’t and it’ll just fizzle out to nothing over time, who knows. For the moment it’s good enough for me to have replaced Reddit entirely.

As for things that are better: you get a lot more control over how you want to experience it. There’s no singular controller always dragging the experience down toward profitability. There are clients a-plenty, the api is open, you can control what parts of the network you see and which you don’t. It does take some effort, of course.

As for worse, because there’s no singular entity controlling the network, there’s going to be some very dark corners. You can block them (many will be blocked by individual server operators already), but they’re still there and they get to carry the Lemmy name and newcomers are most likely to experience it.

Just my thoughts on the subject, it’s been discussed a lot, I’m sure other people have quite different perspectives.

Uhh, the point of archeology is wearing cool outfits and escaping devious mechanical traps, obviously.

No, this is mostly a Hollywood thing to indicate that the traffic is real bad and the driver is real mad. The reality is that birds aren’t allowed to drive, and probably wouldn’t even want to.

This might solve one problem, but the real issue is that there are thousands of problems.

It’s not that notes don’t help, but they don’t solve the real problem. A shelter good for a single drop of rain isn’t useless, but that’s not the storm that troubles me.

I think he amassed a fortune legitimizing workplace abuse.

At no point did she appear in the slightest to be sad or grieving in any way. I don't understand why anyone would need further evidence.

Been following this series since the 90s, but I have a sinking suspicion that GTA 5 will be the last I want to play. I love 5, I keep replaying it, it's totally my jam. This is despite it checking off all the boxes of things I don't want games to do: requires its own launcher, requires periodic re-activation, pushes microtransactions and begs me to play an online mode that at this point I clearly am not going to.

Rockstar doesn't care about its games anymore, they exist solely as money making vehicles, I'm not expecting much from 6.

Surely here on Lemmy, this is the real dean

I've been looking to do exactly this, thank you!

We have to remember that all we know of LotR comes from the hobbit's writings. It's possible, even likely, that having been slighted by Sauron, the hobbits set about to destroy and defame him. For all we know, he may have been completely the opposite of what we think. He did, afterall, make a bunch of rings, containing his very own power, and then gave them away. Perhaps only to people who he thought wouldn't abuse it, unlike filthy lying hobbits, whose fame comes from being excellent burglars.

These malicious volunteers are helping to identify problem queries so they can be fixed. In the long term, it makes lemmy stronger.

Would be nice if they could just post an issue report, though.

We don't get to vote for a target, just a direction in which to ever so slightly turn. When far off course, every choice will continue to lead in the wrong direction, but over time those small corrections will add up. Hopefully.

We dressed like this in the 80s and 90s, too, and still do. Despite all the various fashion movements over time, my experience is that most people dress like this most of the time. The fashion of simple comfortable clothing changes very slowly.

Elin Danielson: https://www.wikiart.org/en/danielson-gambogi-elin/after-breakfast-1890