Amazon drivers have to follow GPS or get their car remotely turned off?
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.

And he was forbidden from REVERSING?
I am.. beyond words.
Or maybe land of the corporations that are making Outer Worlds mess of a world look like sensible writing!

jdreyer wrote on Nov 22, 2020, 00:44:
Do any games on Steam support this? Or is this a "buy in three years from now" kind of thing?

Steam Input Api makes it transparent.. the game doesn't know what you have unless it, well, knows. It basically means you can use PS5 controller and have it act like a standard controller in games that do NOT support PS5 controllers.

jdreyer wrote on Nov 22, 2020, 01:04:

RedEye9 wrote on Nov 21, 2020, 17:34:
Good News
My friend who had Covid-19 at the end of October has been fever free for 6 days and just tested negative.
She had the full range of symptoms.
The exertion of getting tested left her tuckered out. She lives 5 blocks from the testing site at the University where she teaches. Keeping my fingers crossed that she doesn't have any of the myriad aftereffects.

To anyone who still thinks it's no worse than the flu, they need to “fact” more. https://www.yahoo.com/news/backstory-anthony-fauci-had-people-110256632.html

It's worse than that.

Jodi Doering, an emergency room nurse in South Dakota, was overwhelmed Saturday night. Her patients were dying of covid-19, yet were still in denial about the pandemic’s existence.
“Their last dying words are, ‘This can’t be happening. It’s not real,’” Doering said, adding that some patients prefer to believe that they have pneumonia or other diseases rather than covid-19, despite seeing their positive test results.

You can't vaccinate against covidiots sadly ;/

I could tell you far worse stories from a social support dude for youths from low income families who I regularly meat at my local bakery.... stuff like asocial kids coughing and spitting at anyone wearing masks to the point where the person in charge has OPENLY COMPLAINED to the city to give him some additional protection, the city REFUSED. He basically gave up even going to work after a kid showed up with a POSITIVE TEST in the family despite being in mandatory QUARANTINE and police refusing to come after he called them.

What would I do in cases like this I wonder

Sadly, you can not vaccinate against covidiots and most certainly not against just flat out idiots. And they make EVERYTHING worse in this pandemic.

When you have a corrupt postal service chief, you have a corrupt postal service staff.....

Mr. Tact wrote on Nov 20, 2020, 13:58:

Beamer wrote on Nov 20, 2020, 13:42:

RedEye9 wrote on Nov 20, 2020, 13:36:
Can anybody explain how the cliff jump was filmed?

360 degree camera

Uh, I agree it was 360 degree camera. What I don't understand is where it was...

Front left knee... and you average go-pro mount... the effect is achieved with overcapture... GoPro proprietary stuff

Did the TOS only update for US? For me it says "last updated 2019"

Primalchrome wrote on Nov 19, 2020, 16:55:
Fantasy Grounds comes with the core rules for D&D and Pathfinder. For the automation, reference, and rulesets, yes you have to buy the individual books for the advanced systems and scripting you want to include. You don't need the Bestiary or 'starter setting'. You can create creatures, adventures, maps, etc manually to your hearts content... There are plenty of free adventures and resources at your fingertips with a few searches.

These are the same costs that you would have were you to run an actual real-world tabletop setting or under any other licensed VTT.

And how does that then work? Do you need to load up the character module so that players can create pathfinder 2 characters? Do players have to connect with that software? (Meaning they have to *BUY* it?) The reviews talk about a free client but if there is one then it ain't on steam.

jdreyer wrote on Nov 19, 2020, 21:23:
No stranger to the internet am I. However, she has almost 100M subscribers, but I've never heard of her. Does she have any particular talent/skill/ability?

No.

Primalchrome wrote on Nov 18, 2020, 23:32:

Gadzooks wrote on Nov 18, 2020, 15:54:
If tools like Fantasy Grounds did this it would be much more worth the buy in cost.

FYI, I've hosted Fantasy Grounds games for years and none of my players had to buy anything. If the GM has an Ultimate license, all players can connect with the free license client. The rulesets and scripting in FG is pretty amazing once you figure out how things work....I haven't seen anything comparable.

That said, while it is one of the best products out there.....it can get expensive.

But you would have to own, say, if we wanted to do a Pathfinder 2 game...
50€ - Pathfinder 2 Core Rules (So your players can even make any classes)
42€ - Advanced Players Guide (So your players can make any ADVANCED classes)
42€ - PF2 Bestiary (so you even have any monster info)
21€ - So you have the basis of a starter setting

This does not include tiles, sprites, sounds, music not part of the starter setting.
I mean..... expensive indeed...

Fits the season and news situation .. heh

emgarf wrote on Nov 19, 2020, 05:05:
Google cripples and/or kills most of its useful apps and services, so I stopped using them for anything that's important or long-term. They want more banking info? HAHAHAHA nope.

Exactly my pov... Google wants my stuff? Well aside from email, maps, video and search, they haven't really kept anything around now have they...

Meanwhile Chrome on mobile is completely broken right now...

theglaze wrote on Nov 18, 2020, 12:15:
Not that you can actually buy one...............

Well I for one am happy to build a new rig... in 2024

Man RPG and "like D:OS2" you would think this is an easy sell to me.. well you'd be wrong. 1 click on store page, I see.. some Borderlands 3 esque nonsense world.... hard pass.

Mr. Tact wrote on Nov 16, 2020, 20:39:

eRe4s3r wrote on Nov 16, 2020, 19:49:
There is no decision yet and the way it's going there won't be until it literally is too late. The article is also flat out ignoring (like pretty much all UK media always does) that this new law they want to put into effect nullifies the "Good Friday Agreement" - and legally Northern Ireland would be part of the EU and not of the UK or at least it wouldn't be clear what exactly it's legal status even IS. It's a clusterfuck waiting for us for new year.

Thank you for the information. I guess it should be no surprise they have failed to make any critical decisions since 31 Jan 2020. Both because it is what the UK has been doing concerning Brexit for literally years and getting anything productive done in 2020 is pretty close to impossible. And yes, I am aware of the issues around the Good Friday Agreement, which is part of the reason I was surprised when you said NI wasn't part of the UK anymore. It sounds like if they have managed to make any progress in solving the difficult problem of the NI borders they have failed to notify anyone outside the process. Somehow I am not optimistic they are holding back on good news. As far as I can tell, Northern Ireland is pretty much the only place in the "West" where politics are more contentious than those in the US -- which is saying something...

In the end it's complicated EU legal stuff and I do not claim that I understand most of it. The troubles were never really fixed, only delayed. And worse, with Brexit, Northern Ireland can choose to be outside of the EU (that means military protected border right through the country think east/west germany) or inside the EU (that means EU sea-border, patrolled, with UK but soft border to Ireland) and I wonder if the UK even gives that choice to Northern Ireland, if you ask me there should be a referendum because hot damn if that isn't an important question to ask I don't know what is. This also means that the Brexit won't be a thing for Northern Ireland. It would still have to live under EU law and regulations..... heh. I wonder which mess the UK chooses.

The AMD naming scheme for CPU's and GPU's frankly sucks Why the FRACK is there an X in both, why the hell are both at 5000/6000 even though it's the same generation (And for GPUs it's not the same generation) ? Do they want to intentionally confuse people? Blkegh!

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Mr. Tact wrote on Nov 16, 2020, 18:10:

RedEye9 wrote on Nov 16, 2020, 18:00:

Mr. Tact wrote on Nov 16, 2020, 17:41:

eRe4s3r wrote on Nov 16, 2020, 15:00:
Technically Northern Ireland isn't part of the UK anymore once the Brexit finalizes.. just saying

Is that settled? I was under the impression it was one of the major "issues" to be dealt with in negotiations and everything I read about it indicated everyone was expecting it to be a very difficult problem...

What happens to Northern Ireland on 31 December, deal or no deal?

Hmm. How was it decided whether Northern Ireland would remain in the UK or the EU? Was there another vote in NI after the Brexit vote? And are they now going for independent country status or rejoining Ireland? I did some Googling and couldn't find anything concrete...

There is no decision yet and the way it's going there won't be until it literally is too late. The article is also flat out ignoring (like pretty much all UK media always does) that this new law they want to put into effect nullifies the "Good Friday Agreement" - and legally Northern Ireland would be part of the EU and not of the UK or at least it wouldn't be clear what exactly it's legal status even IS. It's a clusterfuck waiting for us for new year.

Technically Northern Ireland isn't part of the UK anymore once the Brexit finalizes.. just saying

RedEye9 wrote on Nov 15, 2020, 19:01:

Acleacius wrote on Nov 15, 2020, 13:30:
I had read this to find out wtf a porch pirate, actually was.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/porch-pirate

So using the word "Thief" is somehow not modern enough?

Also, that ain't piracy.

And technically it also is stupidity.. just today delivery left a 600€ valued package outside... my BALCONY DOOR and only reason I noticed was because Amazon sent me a pic of it, I mean that's fine, ain't a neighborhood here where that is a thing right now.. but still.. I can't wait till drones deliver my shit.

Love this

"Instead of Achievements for new games on Ubisoft Connect ... we have expanded the Challenges, which provide XP and other rewards in Ubisoft Connect. We know that this is a big change for a lot of you, and we appreciate your understanding in the matter."

yet..

The reaction to the news has almost universally been not understanding...

You don't say.