I can’t find the source any more, but apparently the text contains phrasing that is very unusual in English, but common in Russian.
So yeah, at least parts of it were probably written by the Kreml.
Edit: Found a German article, which mentions that the analysis was done by the Guardian, but falls to actually link to it.
Exactly. The price needs to be roughly on par with consoles. A bit higher due to massively the reduced cost of games on PC, maybe.
I’d reckon anything above $700€ makes this whole thing dead in the water.
I loved the grammar differences between the languages. Like where the negation glyphs go, or pluralisation. It always made me happy when I struggled with the translations, and then renumbered stuff like “Bards place the subject before the verb!”
Stuff like chat control is also pushed by companies selling the AI scanning software chat control requires.
IIRC, Thorn had an EU lobbying budget of 24M€ a couple of years back. Probably hasn’t changed since.
The Problem with that is that English lacks uniformity. There is simply no possible spelling that works for Oxford, Houston, Vancouver, Perth, Lagos and Johannesburg at the same time. Heck, it doesn’t even work between London, Manchester and Edinburgh.
So which pronunciation do you match the spelling to? What is “High English”?
Technically it does. Engines are usually less optimized for driving 30 compared to 50, which causes them to use more fuel for the same distance.
But a slightly higher fuel consumption is easily offset by reduced noise and increased safety (for everyone).
Let’s take Elden Ring as an example: how do you scale poise? Is the player harder to stagger? Are enemies easier to stagger? How about status effects? Can you trigger hemorrhage with less hits on low difficulty? Dodge frames? Parry timing?
That’s just off the top head, there’s tons more mechanics I’ve never even touched in there.
Combat systems (which is 95% of what difficulty affects) can get so much more complicated than just HP/Armor. And that makes scaling more them just percentages of damage in/damage out.
I’m not saying it can’t be done. But it’s a gross injustice to blame lazy devs for not implementating a system that probably takes weeks if not months to create and balance.
The new thread also gets closed as a duplicate of the old thread
Be aware that the game requires you to memorize the level layouts, including multiple completely blind jumps.
It’s still a great game, bit I thought it’d mention this because it may frustrate players trying it out.
It should support both. On the instance side to limit a region/country matching the instance, then client side to set your actual reachable area.
That’s why in Germany, we also use Saarland (2570km²) as a reference size, but that is a bit too much here
/s (the suggestion, we actually do use Saarland all the time)
Its called the stone age, not the log age, duh.
A great example of why football pitches are used. People cannot visualize an area of 1500 km², because nobody has ever seen such an area while being aware/told that that is the size of said area.
Most people in Europe knows roughly how large a football pitch is, and might even be able to visualize an area covered by 600 of those.
Although I guess “4km²/day” isn’t that bad to visualize either.
My headcanon says that this used to have a plastic window instead, until someone pointed out that having a plastic window in packaging of paper straws is ridiculous, so they decided to remove it. A package redesign without a window was also proposed, but was rejected for budgetary reasons.
To be fair, the AfD is probably also against new gas power plants in favour of lignite and the old gas ones (burning imported Russian gas)
One of my main gripes with TLJ is that subversion of expectation kind of stops working when you do it like 5-7 times in one movie.
The other main issue is that Cantonica should have had a 15 minute podrace scene instead of the giraffythingies.
The Dig is a must play for point and click fans. Great story and atmosphere, good puzzle design.
Alternatively, the regular Link to the past randomiser has a entrance randomiser setting that is logic safe iirc.
Or you can try any of the other settings the tool offers.
That’s an easy one: never.
It’s outdated and no longer used as a title. And mildly derogatory as a standalone word.
At least in Germany. Not sure about Austria or Switzerland, tbh, they might well be more traditional about it.