There is no reason why you could not do used digital games with a centralized license database. Hell, any game that restricts keys to a single machine, and gives licenses a way to add/remove keys up to some limit, does everything technically required to make used digital games work. At a fraction of the cost of doing…

I think this article misses one of the biggest challenges for such a system:

Skeletal animation data is actually substantially smaller than video recordings. It does not generally take many bytes to store keyframes and maybe some terp curve settings. Video, on the other hand, is generally the biggest user of storage - this feature probably isn’t too bad, since it’s not full-screen, probably…

My thought was to just use the existing character model. If it’s detailed enough for modern game cinematics, it should be detailed enough to sign accurately. I figure that makes it instantly clear who’s speaking, and better conveys their character.

Huh.

SpaceX’s complaint was not about Boeing launching too many satellites.

If you’re taking a poll, I for one absolutely would read a series on upgrading the Changli. Start with beefing up the build quality a bit, swap in a bigger motor, maybe do something about the brakes. Maybe it wouldn’t be very Changli anymore, but it would probably be a better vehicle, and the journey would probably be…

Specifically, it is a Woolly Rhinoceros, commonly depicted in Paleolithic cave art, and believed to have gone extinct along with other megafauna, towards the end of the last ice age.

I don’t know if I’d let that driver continue to be a friend.

I don’t know if it actually affects its ranking, but...

I believe they will be using the venerable crawler-transporters, as they did for Saturn and Shuttle. That always makes for some cool footage.

Yeah, this sounds like the kind of thing that slips through when you’re testing against a server in your own office, or even testing against a server located in a datacenter in the same city. Under those sort of conditions, it would add probably only a few frames of extra loading time - and if it’s done in parallel…

The real question is: will this outfit also include a music track, the way a few others have? Because all I want is an Isabelle vs. Doom Slayer match, on Smashville, while BFG Division plays.

The pollution of a Space Shuttle launch was the equivalent of millions of annual car emissions and there’s no way his Dr. Evil dick rocket vanity project can improve on those numbers in any way appreciable enough to offer any benefit.

I mean, I’d recommend basically the entire blog. The stuff of “how plausible were the battles in The Lord of the Rings?”, contrasting book and film, were very interesting. His tirade about the “Fremen Mirage” made me finally read Dune. I think the only thing that I haven’t been fascinated by were the “why we should…

I would highly recommend this scholarly blog by Dr. Devereaux, analyzing Victoria II’s treatment of various historical issues, including slavery (there are preceding posts going more in-depth into some bigger design elements, but the slavery blurb is in the linked one). I don’t even play Paradox games, but I found…

From what I know of mRNA vaccines, this does not seem viable. (I am far from an expert and will defer to any professionals in the audience, but I know enough to think that something’s not right here.)

Was the lighting in Quake so incredibly realistic that no one has been able to top it in over a quarter-century? Probably not. What’s more likely is that the code was used as a shortcut by one of Half-Life’s developers, given the original Quake source code was released under the GPLv2, and has since evolved into a fun…

There are, in fact, international agreements to control use of orbit and prevent space junk. While international bodies collate and publish data, responsibility for proper use is placed on the government of the launching nation - in this case the United States, which put the FCC in charge of it, as satellites would…

In Blue’s defense... when they started, they couldn’t copy SpaceX’s roadmap, because SpaceX wouldn’t exist for another two years.