Electric car industry wants more electric cars. Not a huge surprise. Good point though, investments have been made on the background of the EU not backing out.

Yeah, there’s an analysis by an expert on the article. Says the mention is remarkable, but to be expected. I mean, it would be a statement in itself to not mention the giant pink elephant in the room.

Paradox owns the world of darkness ip entirely right now. I wonder if this call to refocus their efforts on their core competencies will mean selling it off.

They haven’t done too well with it. They’ve released several games and I think some solo dev interactive fiction have been the only ones getting positive reviews: Earthblood, Swansong, Bloodhunt, and now Bloodlines 2 have all done pretty poorly. Even the tabletop RPG has seen better days, with 5th edition causing quite the controversy, mostly with Werewolf. Hell they closed White Wolf down for a while because the books caused controversy.

Paradox have done a terrible job with the IP.

I played pretty much the same way De_Narm did. I tried caring less, though because I had no idea what would come next, it inevitably descended into spaghetti. I am stressed out about technical debt enough at work to be playing a technical debt simulator lol.

Dedicating the space needed to expand, ensuring everything you build is scalable, inevitably requires you to know a lot about what’s coming.

Yeah, if you know what you’re doing you can avoid these issues. I did not enjoy myself in the slightest, so after some hours of giving it a chance I decided that learning how to avoid these issues was not worth the pain. I’ll just stick to work instead.

I feel vindicated. I have the exact same feeling of factorio feeling too much like work, having to refactor everything because the requirements change is one of the more frustrating parts of software engineering imo, and the game feels tailored specifically to invoke that frustration.

I imagine that part gets better after the first hundred hours where you basically know what’s coming. I don’t have the patience to learn the tech tree though, given that I don’t even enjoy the game.

Very useful on the off chance that vampires are real. Otherwise… Less so.

Nice. Hope they can keep it up, even if the new oil drilling going on makes one sceptical. Of course while there is a demand for oil there’ll be a big incentive to drill, we really need to wean ourselves off the dead dino goop soon.

I haven’t been actively job searching lately, but based on the recruiters cold contacting me about job offers I’d say no, I don’t recognize this at all.

Steam vr sucks. I got Monado working alright with a bunch of fiddling around, though I don’t use fbt so no idea how well that part works. I’m using an index btw.

Only unsolved issue I have is that I can’t get steam vr to update my base stations.

The countries in the EU simply haven’t really needed to spend a whole lot. Most of what our military did for the past 20 years was uselessly fucking around in the middle East at the behest of the USA. Having a low military budget at this time made sense.

Times have changed though. The geopolitical landscape looks different. The US itself is a possible threat, having stated invasion of Greenland was not off the table. Russia is a threat and even if they can’t convincingly beat Ukraine they can be a massive pain in the ass and an existential threat to the Baltic countries if NATO collapses.

Yeah, we have to invest more in military. I don’t think things would have been massively different through most of the 2000s and 2010s even if the EU and the US weren’t close allies. Perhaps Russia would have been bolder earlier.

Security through obscurity is generally considered terrible practice in the cybersec community. It’s much better to actually find and fix the flaws than just put your head in the sand and hope no one notices the issues.

Exploits in games and the exploits used by hackers for various other purposes are very similar in nature if less often in effect.

I bought this on a sale last month, then heard there would be a full progress reset with this update so I held off on playing. I look forward to digging my teeth in at last!

Hoping for multiplayer soon.

These seem to be the four major points:

clear and transparent pricing and pre-contractual information;
avoiding practices hiding the costs of in-game digital content and services, as well as practices forcing consumers to purchase virtual currency;
respect of consumers' right of withdrawal;
respecting consumer vulnerabilities, in particular when it comes to children;

First one actually seems pretty well covered by Warframe already. Second point can be met just by displaying the real currency price next to the plat price, calculated based on what people on average give per plat when purchasing through the Warframe website. Third point… Yeah that’s going to be a point of contention for sure. That’ll require a redesign of the plat system. Fourth point I’d also say Warframe does. Their ‘oh shit’ moment when they ended up creating a slot machine with, what was it, kubrow skins? Demonstrates them actually caring about this already. Basically they saw people interacting with a new mechanic much like one would a slot machine, and then soon after rolled it back and refunded everyone who had spent money on it.

I’m not quite following. From my recollection meta ethics deal with the origins of morality, with absolutism being that morality is as inherent to nature as, say, gravity is, and relativism that morality is a social construct we have made up.

Is it hypocrisy to acknowledge something is a social construct while also strongly believing in it?

If I grew up in the 1400s I’d probably hold beliefs more aligned with the values of the time. I prefer modern values because I grew up in modern society. I find these values superior but also acknowledge my reason for finding them superior ultimately boils down to the sheer random chance of when and where I was born.

Good. There is a lot of fear that Russia will only use a cease fire to regroup.

Talk softly and carry a big stick.

It is not just the prime minister candidate saying this. Every party leader is in agreement that the talk of annexation needs to stop.

https://naalakkersuisut.gl/Nyheder/2025/03/1403_udtalelse?sc_lang=da

If they don’t then they might lose the Brazilian market and who knows what comes after. It’s less about what Apple wants to do and more about what they might be forced to do.

Nokia is a mobile infrastructure giant. They are just mostly business to business, so like Texas Instruments they are rather easy to mistake for being small.

Live service games are not only balanced around tedium, they are designed around tedium. Without it people wouldn’t buy boosters etc.

Adapting the meta faster than people can catch up and letting people pay to keep up simply switches the game from balance by tedium to straight up pay to win. Or pay to play optionally, at least, which live service games heavily push you towards doing.

People will chase the meta regardless. Balancing a game by introducing tedium often results in people merely finding the game tedious.