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They didn’t even create Killing Floor. It was a UT2k4 mod that they bought, tweaked, and started selling.

Fun fact: Flouride is naturally occuring in the ground water in some areas. It’s often far stronger than the levels we add elsewhere. Statisticians noticed that one such region had far lower tooth decay with no identifiable factors explaining it. Eventually, scientists figured out that it was the flouride in the water, so we started adding it elsewhere.

We already have the data to determine if drinking flouridated water is safe because people have been doing it far longer than we’ve been adding it.

There’s an easy short-term answer: Temp agency. It’s stressful because you don’t know if you have work until the last minute and half your coworkers will be horrible, but it’s work that requires nothing more than a pulse.

You could also see if the sports arenas are hiring. They may be mostly staffed for the season now, but they pull a lot of workers and tend to lose a good chunk each year. Best bet for stability would be kitchen, warehouse, etc since those work both between events and on event days.

They’ve purged entire teams just because they got assigned certain cases and they’ve frozen promotions and raises in some departments for people who won’t sign something saying they voted for Trump. They absolutely are gutting our government at all levels.

They appear to be talking about a currency that can be earned in game or purchased, with the in game rate coming out to 50¢/hour when played suboptimally and $2 an hour played more optimally.

Sounds like Warframe to me. Fun game. By far the most gameplay I’ve gotten out of any individual game. The monetization (as of a few years ago when I stopped playing) was very reasonable. Stuff that mattered which cost the premium currency was cheap, making it very accessible to players earning the currency in game.

He specifically got in trouble for replacing the badge with a prancing cat and the Ferrari name with Purrari:

Very tiny, high pitched squeal.

I can stick my pinky entirely inside my nose and expel air from my tear ducts, separately or simultaneously.

Which raid you running?

As one reporter put it, a four square mile area in Anchorage has the same population as an area the size of Germany. Anchorage isn’t a huge city.

Pacific Drive is set on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, US.

Liberty City is a stand-in for New York City. Not sure why it is placed in Moses Lake/Warden, WA.

Veilguard also had EA demand complete genre shifts twice in production. Immersive sim -> Live Service Co-op Action -> Singleplayer RPG. The final game was a ton of finished art and half-baked mechanics with a story tacked on at the last minute.

It’s especially important to understand that in the early days of computing you only had a single system font or a tiny font pack of less than 10. Microsoft used a tiny pack that had Arial as their sans-serif, Times New Roman as their serif, Courier New as their monospace, and two symbol fonts. Of the three real fonts, two were incredibly computery, leaving Times New Roman as the friendliest font available.

Microsoft then set out to make a family-friendly cartoon-themed OS and set the entire OS in TNR. One of their designers took issue with it and designed Comic Sans to be a viable OS font that felt friendly and suited comic art. He was a bit late in starting, so it shipped with TNR and immediately failed, but Comic Sans ended up shipping with some versions of 95, then became a default font in Internet Explorer and Win98. As a result, it was the only friendly font on the average computer for ages.

It’s a video player. You want GPU acceleration.

Back in the XP era, I set a hard drive to B and random installers would refuse to target it because they insisted it was too small. Good times.

They were really committed to adapting the overall story, which helps. Small stuff gets changed and characters are shifted around some, but basically all the events are the same. It’s an excellent adaptation.

BAR is a Total-like, so it should be up your alley.

I’ve always liked C&C better, so I’m a bigger fan of Combined Arms.

I had a whole paragraph about that distinction, but I deleted it to not confuse things further. Co-pilot can refer to the supporting pilot or the junior pilot. In this case, she appeared to be both.

The real point was that during an upset, the pilot at the controls doesn’t have time to talk to the outside world or really do anything besides try to recover.

Pilot Flying is flying the plane. Pilot Monitoring handles the radio and monitors/adjusts systems. The two pilots generally trade off who handles what each flight, but they can also swap during a flight if needed.

She was Pilot Monitoring, which is sometimes called co-pilot. Her job was to handle everything else during the emergency while the Pilot Flying tried to regain control.

It’s interesting comparing this to two games inspired by rumors about this game, Superliminal and Viewfinder.

Superliminal takes the idea of capturing an object as it appears and then moving it somewhere else, using matched perspective to manipulate scale. It’s directly similar to F-Stop, but without the awkwardness of the camera and with much more mechanical depth since puzzle depth is more than just ‘move object remotely’.

Viewfinder takes the interface, the camera snapping photos, but expands what is captured to the environment as well. It feels a lot more like this in how it plays since objects stay their normal size and you are moving them about, but capturing the environment opens more puzzle options and consequences.

Both are great puzzle games. Both have some jank that Valve probably wouldn’t find acceptable but, more importantly, both explore ideas Valve likely never would have thought of. They aren’t evolutions of what we see here; they’re evolutions of interpretations of rumors.