But they didn’t, and considering the contours, bevels, and additional costs that glass would bring, they almost certainly won’t.

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I think my favorite part of Cyberpunk 2077’s open world was that it was full of activity. The encounter variety might have been a little disappointing, but I was impressed with how they made the city feel dense and populated. It was much more convincing than the miniature towns full of locked doors and fake windows that are passed off as “cities” in so many other games.

Just what the world needs: More unnecessary plastic.

Maybe not directly, but in practice, it can lead to the same result. When pharmacies feel that their vaccine supply is insufficient to meet demand, they refuse to vaccinate people who are not in health authority-recommended groups. This happens more often than you might think.

It depends on what aspects of an open world are important to you.

Exploration is at the top of my list, and Skyrim is a good example of doing it well. Its world is full of unique things/places/characters to find, whether through an NPC’s directions, or a roughly sketched map picked up while adventuring, or following your curiosity toward an area that looks interesting, or chasing a fox, or simply by wandering off the beaten path.

Map markers appear after you’ve already been somewhere so you can find your way back again, but since most of them are hidden until then, they don’t spoil the experience of discovery.

And, when you find something, it’s often genuinely interesting. Not yet another copy/paste monster fight or “hold the button to follow your witcher sense to the lost thing” quest. Not just checking off a task list item (or pre-placed map marker) so you can rush to the next one. The experience itself is rewarding.

Mind, I have criticisms of Skyrim, but it did exploration and environments (including sound) very well, and I wish more open world designers would learn from it and build upon its strengths.

EDIT:

I would love to play a game that reached or exceeded Skyrim’s bar for exploration and environmental immersion, Breath of the Wild’s bar for freedom of movement and wildlife, and The Witcher 3’s bar for characters and story.

Mhm I don’t see a result when I try it on lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works either

Hm… In that case, I wonder if this is a bug in recent versions of Lemmy. I’m sure it worked when I was using other instances, but a few months have passed since then, so it’s likely that they were running earlier versions.

No, it’s still failing; you simply forgot to set the Search field to “Communities”. The results returned from your search are uses of the string “!test@sh.itjust.works” within comments and posts. Not the community itself.

This is absolutely not uplifting news, and does not belong here.

Trump encouraged and signed this bill so he can use it to silence criticism. He said so himself.

It’s also yet another example of bad legislation, in this case a censorship tool, disguised as something intended for good.

Yet before posting, I searched for words in the headline and got no results in this community. I guess Lemmy doesn’t always work right. Oh well.

IMHO, its gameplay is mediocre at best:

• Sluggish controls
• Character movement that is unrealistically limited without offering anything to make up for it
• Fiddly object interaction problems (e.g. candles often getting in the way of more important things)
• Bland combat mechanics
• “Open” world populated almost entirely with copy/paste combat encounters
• Little reward for exploration, since practically everything worth finding has a map marker
• A tiny handful of side quests re-used over and over with different mini-stories to make the quests seem distinct while the tasks to perform are mostly identical

This game’s strengths are not the gameplay, but the lore, characters, and story. (All the things that could be had from reading the books, or maybe watching the live action adaptation.)

Oh, and Gwent. Gwent is remarkably well-designed for a mini-game within another game.

What motivated you to become one?

How long have you been certified, and how many different cases have you had in that time?

What aspects of it do you enjoy?

What aspects of it are especially challenging?

This will surely be used by the Trump administration to silence criticism of their unconstitutional, illegal actions.

Looks like it’s standard TOTP. Nice.

If you upload an image, the URL field is populated with the URL of the uploaded image, so there’s not really multiple fields like it appears.

Sure enough; I just discovered this for myself when running some tests. I also noticed that Lemmy offers an Alt Text field, which it looks like the bot is already populating.

Test 1 : The URL field and the image attachment field were used; the latter overwrites whatever is placed in the former. I guess this might be modeled after Reddit.

Test 2: A direct link to the image at xkcd.com was placed in the URL field, and the source link placed at the top of the body. Result: This is similar to the bot’s current format, including the flaw that a desktop browser with strict privacy settings won’t show the comic image as part of the post when the thumbnail is clicked, because it’s an off-site image. Having the source link at the top of the body does at least make it a little more convenient to click through to xkcd.com’s single-page view.

Test 3: Only the image attachment field was used; the URL field was left blank. Result: This allows a desktop browser to show the comic image in-line when the thumbnail is clicked even with strict browser privacy settings, if the post is being viewed on the Lemmy instance where the post was made, because then it’s not an off-site image. Unfortunately, it’s still an off-site image when viewed on other Lemmy instances. The source link was again placed at the top of the body.

(Side note: I used m.xkcd.com links instead of plain xkcd.com links in these tests, just to see how the mobile site looks in different browsers. In practice, either ought to work.)

Conclusion: I don’t have one just yet. It would be nice if we could direct all Lemmy instances to make their own local copy of a post’s attached image, to avoid the off-site image problem. Unfortunately, I don’t think there is a way to do this, and I suspect it would be too burdensome for some small instances.

Having the source link at the top of the post body is helpful, at least.

I’m not sure the current comment votes are representative, due to the selection bias that forms as people engage (or don’t) with idea comments & their replies, but I acknowledge that it is possible that a proper vote would end up as you expect.

EDIT: Lemmy posts have both an URL field and an image field. What would happen if the change I suggested was made, and the image field was used for the coming image? Hm… Maybe that’s worth a test.

If directly linking to the full comic page as the main link is a no-go, how about putting the source link at very top, as the first line in the body? That would at least make it a little easier for desktop users to target the link they need for a single-screen view of the whole comic.

KDE development isn’t limited to a fixed number of developers. Lots of the things that go into it are contributed by regular users who want to see something improved.

You might be able to prevent a particular touchpad from affecting the desktop with an xinput disable command. Run xinput list to show the available device names and IDs, or man xinput for more details.

Another approach, assuming you’re using an X11 session (not Wayland), would be to disable the device in xorg.conf.

A custom udev rule could also do the trick, although it might be more complicated than an xinput command.

Have a look here:

https://rpcs3.net/quickstart#supported_devices_pcs

AMD GPUs have better all-around compatibility on Linux, but if you’re mainly gaming, Nvidia GPUs can be made to deliver good performance as well.

Better yet, run sudo dmesg --follow beforehand, and watch the output there while plugging it in.