Yeah, I remember my parents talking about how badly they were hit in the late 00s. They were considering retirement just as the recession struck, and they lost a huge chunk of what they’d hoped to retire on.

They still haven’t retired fifteen years later despite declining health.

Only 99¢ to recollect your blood echoes remotely, or $20 to never lose them again! Pay $5.99/month to unlock an extra co-op slot!

Godot has one of the better explanations of vectors and their uses in games in their documentation, if you haven’t checked that out yet. It focuses on their practical use rather than going deep into the mathematics (though there is quite a bit of that too).

And if you don’t understand the math, the documentation also explains when and how to use specific methods, so you can still use it as a cheat sheet when working on your project even if you don’t fully understand vectors.

(And you’ll probably have an “ah-ha!” moment when working with them yourself. Like a lot of math, vectors are much easier to understand with practical, non-abstract examples.)

On Windows you can use NVCleanstall, which will notify you when there’s a driver update, download the installer for you, and even strip out Nvidia’s telemetry and bloatware from the installer before running it.

The bloatware and telemetry removal is the best part. There’s like twenty components in a default Nvidia driver installation and you only really need maybe three to run games.

Didn’t they already do this with Unity, and it was a buggy half-baked disaster?

4 is also being delisted later this year due to expiring licensing deals. It’s on discount until it’s gone IIRC, but if you don’t get it soon you’ll never be able to legally.

One-time pads require no machines and are unbreakable in theory, though in reality they’re a pain to set up and use so people reuse keys out of laziness, making it possible to analyze and decipher encrypted messages.

Security is only as good as its weakest link, and people are morons.

He’s “Sir Keir Starmer” or “Sir Keir”.

Oh, so when you say it it’s alright, but when we say it “it’s called football”. Double standards much?

They released an excellent announcement trailer parodying the concept of announcement trailers three years ago. I haven’t seen a single thing about it since.

Ellison.

It should be noted the Irish team had the best catchers in the League, while the Bulgarian team was mediocre and carried by their seeker. And even then the Bulgarians only lost by a tiny bit.

If Rowling’s goal was to show that other positions mattered, she chose a terrible way to do it. You’d have to be more than fifteen goals ahead in a game that often ends before a team scores fifteen goals, period.

Immersive Sims are games that reward taking your time and meticulosity scouting and planning ahead. Multiplayer would be miserable if even one person is the type to get bored or rush ahead, or if someone picked a stealth/hacking build and another heavy combat.

Check the Releases page.

You mean to say, you’re having trouble finding it?

The cabbage soup diet has many names, usually linking the diet to a mainstream institution, including the “Sacred Heart Diet”, “Military Cabbage Soup”, “TJ Miracle Soup Diet”, and “Russian Peasant Diet”. All of the institutions named have denied a link with the diet.

Russian peasants: "Don’t blame us for this shit!”

I’m most excited about the package manager update and new, faster repository mirrors. Updates in Nobara 38 are glacial compared to other distros I’ve tried, on the order of several minutes for routine system updates, with querying the repos for package details taking over a minute and a half on its own.

Survival is an especially tricky genre because all of the mechanics need to work well in tandem. If any of them are badly designed or too demanding, it can wreck the enjoyment of the entire game.

Most games get around this by making the survival mechanics so easy you can basically ignore them after the first hour, leading to the bland experience you described. Very few properly integrate them into the whole gameplay loop and keep them a major factor as the game progresses.

We call this tactic “Spank & Tank”.

If the user does not recognize the issue, this may lead to delivery of more insulin than intended

I love their subtle attempt at shifting blame here.

For that last one, try disabling Fast Boot in your BIOS/UEFI. That may be the culprit.