First off, dont look at the outer wilds discussion on here, just play the game. Second - they didnt say how many letters we need to encode all of the observable supernova in a given year! So 100 billion galaxies, 1 per year per galaxy, we have around 1 billion to encode. Sorry two edits this moring, first one was right. due to math without coffee. 1e9/26^6 is about 3, 1e9/26^7 is less than one. So we might see 'SN2050aaaaaah'!
I bought Outer Wilds based on recommendations like yours and I found it kind of boring. The world is mostly empty and the repetitiveness wore me down. I didn't finish it.
It's a great looking game though and the first hour or two I had a blast.
Same here. I found the controls to be frustrating and the game-play loop to be kinda dull. The story on the other hand, is very good. I get that the game-play is meant to illicit certain feelings, but it just didn't do it for me. I did enjoy reading a synopsis of the story on the wiki though.
This is a common complaint, but I think the controls are actually very tight. Usually the issue is that the player is struggling with travelling in a vacuum with a ship that can quickly get up to tens of thousands of km/h and it's very difficult to judge distances in space. I realise you're unlikely to go back if you've read a story synopsis, but for anyone else I would highly suggest locking on to your target and using the two numbers (your current speed relative to the object and the distance from the object) to judge how hot you're coming in.
Question for you and commenter above, do you play games with controls similar to Outer Wilds often? Do you play many games in general? I've seen this comment a few times and I'm curious why this is such a common talking point. I thought the controls were very intuitive, so I'm curious if it's a familiarity issue or something else.
The thing about Outer Wilds for me is that it's a game about exploration, but most attempts at exploration are punished (limited time frame, sands suffocating you, "ghost matter" kills...). They stuck with a "hard scifi" control scheme where you control your character in 6dof with inertia, which makes some things unnecessarily hard and did not (IMO) add anything to the game itself. The things you interact with in the world are also annoying to use, like the machines where you need to slide a ball around by locking it with your sight... Just let me press a button already!
I think there were two separate puzzles where I had identified the correct solution, but the mechanics were so clunky that my attempt failed. Making me waste time exploring elsewhere. Had to consult a guide just to see that I had unknowingly botched the physics. Which is an awful experience for a puzzle game. Especially when the clock is working against you and some of the set pieces require very specific timing to interact with them (where doors are only open for a certain few minutes in a run).
The game is definitely a unique experience, but some of the design elements hamper the experience.
I did not play with a controller, which made Dark Bramble effectively impossible to finish because the keyboard is all-or-nothing thrust. Had to cheat to get past it. They should have said that using a controller was mandatory, not recommended.
It's not mandatory, there's 1 part in Dark Bramble where you can go a little faster if you use a very small amount of thrust. You can just use the momentum you came in on though, there's still plenty of time
This is tragic. It's one of favorite games of all time--heck, one of my favorite media experiences, period. It's worth pushing through until you get hooked.
LOL just started replaying OW for the first time in years, and my immediate reaction to seeing this headline was to go to the comments and make an OW reference
TFA lists C at number 3 per the Tiobe ranking and the linked Tiobe report has Ruby at #24. I tried to find a different list for comparison as I dont think that is true for projects at large. This project [1] for instance tracks github repositories with Ruby at #8 and C at #9 which is closer to what I expected (both in the top-fifteen, neither in the top-three). At least it confirms my bias, and maybe we learn more about who is being surveyed.
My understanding is that TIOBE is primarily based on number of search engine results. Other results like number of active (a commit within the last 6-12 months) open source repos or number of new repos in a given language are other metrics worth considering. The project you linked seems to be one like this.
A high search rate doesn't necessarily mean high rate of real world usage. Correlating across multiple metrics would be a better way to measure popularity.
Although popularity itself may still be a weak signal depending on your purposes.
Everyone in executive branch, as the saying goes, serves at the pleasure of the President of United States.
That's what constitution says.
President ordered reduction of number of government employees, as is his right and authority.
Hence NSF and other government departments are following the President orders and firing people, starting with those easiest to fire i.e. probatory workers. I'm sure that's just the beginning and they will follow with firing people for not showing up to work, having second jobs, lack of performance etc.
Congress is the other branch of government and has no power or authority here.
Contacting representatives and senators would be a waste of time.
>Congress is the other branch of government and has no power or authority here.
The judiciary is the other other branch of government and absolutely has power and authority here if laws or contractual agreements (e.g., requirements to fire for cause) are being violated.
The President isn't an absolute monarch, even within the Executive Branch.
>Contacting representatives and senators would be a waste of time.
Aside from formal legal power, Congressional Reps and Senators can apply pressure to the President to change his policies, which they will do if enough of their constituents express their anger at these actions.
Congress passes laws. Among these many laws are laws that govern the processes for hiring and firing within the executive branch and laws that govern the processes for disbursement of funds.
The unitary executive is not clearly visible in our constitution.
How could any rep either not think any of this is important or not be actively involved? This is some of the craziest shit the US government has ever seen.
Obviously Democrat politicians will make noise over this, but Trump just won an election and the Republican may believe that this is what their voters want, or at least they don't really care about it. They may be unaware of how things are actually playing out.
Watch this [0] interview with a former USAID diector. He states you dont blow up the organization and attack the non-political civil servants, you install a director that works with you on your policies. Also their IG was investigating starlink, which may be related and is certainly a conflict of interest [1].
The Starlink contract is almost certainly immaterial. It's only a temporary arrangement to support Ukraine and the contract value is under $1 million per year.
If you remember Starlink even initially provided the hardware and services to Ukraine for free.
A couple days late, but its still 2024. Here's mine, I'll go back and check in a year. I'll try and do at least 10 predictions for future laughs.
In 2025, we will:
* Extract more crude oil than in any year in history.
* Produce more steel than in any year in history.
* Not produce more cement than in any year in history.
* Install more solar capacity than in any year in history.
* See a US federal government funded by CRs (no budget will be passed).
* Experience power outages worldwide from a CME.
* See the US officially declare war on more than one country to export immigrants.
* See the AMOC measurably weaken and cause flooding on the Eastern coast of the US.
* See me sell my first game or application.
* See an end to the war in the Ukraine, with Russia gaining the Donbas region.
* Go crazy with the Steam Deck 2.
* Observe that a keyboard left unattended next to my 5 year old will result in key mashing.
* [o[p
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