The recent Twitter meltdown reminds me of the last leg of Freenode, an Open-Source IRC network. It has been subject to a hostile takeover, and the new "owner" tried to force "free speech" rules onto everyone.... (cont...) 🧵
In reality, the server was filled with bigoted nutjobs who hate everyone and want to say things without consequences. As more and more channels started to move away to a newly formed Libera Chat network, they would put their location in the channel topics. (cont...)
After noticing that everyone and their moms are trying to jump ship, the "free speech absolutist" god emperor of Freenode and his cronies started banning all the channels with Libera links in their topics. (cont...)
I hate hard games but inspired by “Let Me Solo Her”, I created a new character, named it “Let Her Solo Me” and decided to get myself killed a million times in an attempt to get to like Elden Ring and now I’m hooked. Mike’s thread helped a lot but there’s more! Let me tell you!🧵
Some rules for easy sailing: 1. Don’t worry about dying or losing runes. You’re gonna die a lot, spend runes asap, do suicide missions for items, you don’t lose them. 2. Look up everything online. You can skip anything that annoys you. Stay away from bosses.
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3. Get horse (Torrent) asap. You don’t need to fight anyone to get it. Fight EVERYONE on the horseback. 4. Mike’s guide says to do a mission to get a portal. It’s entirely optional, look up portal location. 5. Most important, choose astrologer character, use magic only.
I did a thread of Polish references in Witcher 3 some time ago. But Dying Light, despite being set in a fictional middle eastern city of Harran, has a ton of Polish references and influences. Let me go over these! 🧵
The entire safe zone building interior is based on communist living blocks from the 70s. There's at least building identical to the in-game one in pretty much every city in Poland. The elevators, railings, half-oil paint job, granite floors is exactly what you'd experience here.
In communist Poland, there was a single factory for each thing, so everything looked the same. Like these lamps. There was one factory that made them for the whole country, and buildings across whole country all had the very same model of the lamp. Same with mailboxes.
The first scene in Dying Light 2, you meet this guy who goes "Hi, I haven't seen you in two years. Also, I tracked that guy for you, you need to meet him tomorrow at dawn."
I'm on the first mission and if you go 5 meters to the side of the road in Dying Light 2, game of parkour and exploarion, it shows you this screen and kills you after 4 seconds (!) I had to die sto take this screenshot because there's not enough time to go back!
It told me to press W+Space but it didn't work and you have to press it two times really fast but not three times because that cancels the action. The story keeps making less sense.
I've read so many bad takes on the CDPR crunch situation that I really need to address them. This is a thread, and my last take today. Sorry for ranting so much, it just makes me unreasonably angry. First, context: CDPR announces mandatory crunch. 0/
BT#1: I've heard people say that in Poland you cannot work more than 150h a year overtime. the thing is, that applies only if you're an employee. In video games, you're usually a contractor. And even if you're an employee, you can still be a contractor IN THE SAME COMPANY 2/
...small shops will do it ;ole that, as the employees are not allowed to work on weekends, they will contract the same employees on a different contract effectively circumventing the laws. Labour situation is getting better in Poland, but it's really easy to workaround laws 3/
I was always curious about these and I finally grabbed one. A DOS-based Data Collector. It has a 486 CPU with 8MB RAM, runs on 3 AA batteries and has built in Ethernet port, a PCMCIA port and a laser scanner. The ABC keyboard is awful, tho (why not QWERTY!?)
Just as I suspected, scanning a barcode pipes the numbers to keyboard input! Wonder if I can consistently get data onto the thing this way!
Alright, CODE-39 And CODE-128 barcodes work with this!