AGDQ does a regular Spooky Block, stringing together a bunch of horror games. That tends to use up all the big horror games, leaving SGDQ with leftovers like Phasmophobia and Silent Hill 4. Survival-horror speedruns aren’t the big tentpoles like metroidvanias or platformer speedruns, so they understandably don’t like…

That is a pretty weird interaction, I’m not sure what could be causing the addon to decide to hide the reviews. I’m guessing it’s when the review box is at a small enough width that it discards it as a useless decoration - there’s some responsive design going on, the video snaps to its native resolutions, and the…

Well, that’s definitely not supposed to happen!

Gonna take a moment to shill for myself:

The chips used in render farms, and other server-type GPUs, are the same design as the chips used in gaming cards. They might be a slightly better binning, and the cards may have a different form factor or interconnect, but the big GPU die is the same. The GA102 die gets used in the 3080s, 3090s, the A5000 and A6000…

I might buy something if they’re substantially below MSRP. Or in some cases, what the MSRP should have been - quite a few recent cards have effectively been pre-scalped.

Yes, I see that now, I guess my eyes just skipped right over it. My bad.

The important thing this article missed is that currently, such reboosts are only possible from the Russian-made Progress spacecraft. This is the first time an American craft will be able to do this, reducing Russia’s threat to take their toys and go home, leaving the international part of the ISS doomed.

Yeah, the logic of “select SpaceX as the unproven one, and Boeing as the reliable, experienced but a bit pricier vendor, so we know we have at least one good one” didn’t really pan out in practice. I bet there’s a lot of people kicking themselves for picking Boeing over Sierra Nevada - they definitely seemed like the…

These satellites were basically “well, we want to fund someone besides SpaceX, because we learned our lesson about eggs and baskets, but we don’t trust them with anything important yet”.

This is why most ride-shares are to either the same orbit as the main target (eg. MarCO with InSight, all going to Mars), or to an extremely common orbit (eg. most commercial rideshares going to SSO). That way, a delay to the primary mission either delays you to another window for the same target, or you can find…

The launch site thing was a hard blocker, in the sense that even if every other issue was resolved, it would make Russian contributions meaningless or impossible.

The main reason China declined Russian participation, is orbital mechanics.

The problem with remaking Sands of Time is that every action-adventure game since it, has copied just about everything that made it stand out at the time.

“Floppy drive emulators” for the C64 (and other early PCs) are pretty common - it acts like a floppy to the OS, but it’s just an SD card. From my vantage on the periphery of the C64 scene, it actually seems like the normal way people load software these days, more convenient and reliable, and they’re cheaper even than…

Perhaps it’s not possible to do on a PC disk drive - I certainly wouldn’t expect it to work without some hefty modification. I find it very hard to believe it’s not possible to write a Commodore 64 game to a disk from a Commodore 64, and a C64 is not exactly unobtanium these days. Even if the original game had some…

A C64, a 1541 disk drive, and a floppy emulator to get the data onto it, runs you about $200 on eBay. If you’re doing this level of counterfeiting, that’s a trivial expense.

Why wouldn’t you put the data on the disks, if you were going through that much effort at making a fake? An outright blank is an instant sign that something’s fishy - decayed disks usually give errors or bad data, not a disk full of 0s. Even if you can’t do like a perfect bit-for-bit replica, find a disk image online a…

It truly is one of the just completely iconic multiplayer maps. Facing Worlds, 2Fort, Blood Gulch, Dust2, Office, and Wake Island are just etched into my mind, to the point that I could probably recreate them from memory. I’m not even that big into multiplayer, and these are just so classic that even I ended up…

UT2004 included both “Face3", which was a larger, Egyptian-themed reimagining of the map, as well as “Face Classic”, which was a more exact replica.