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  • Apparently Matt Walsh and Co tried to do a documentary in which they'd start a women's basketball team full of "trans" women. Only they ran into a problem, no league would let them compete with out actually transitioning and none of the men (shockingly) were willing to start transitioning. This so fundamentally undermines the idea that anyone would transition for personal gain that they changed their minds on the topic and.... Nah of course not, instead they made a "comday" movie so they could pretend to do what they couldn't actually do so they could keep peddling their bullshit.

  • What are the best multiplayer games to try if me and my friends are looking for a similar experience to a Bungie Halo campaign marathon on Heroic+ difficulty?
  • The obvious suggestion is Destiny 2, it's a coop Bungie shooter with emphasis on movement. The expansion campaigns are fun and challanging on Legendary difficulty. Only thing it's missing is the physics sandbox.

    Epic is currently giving away the the Legacy collection for free which has three of the four current expansions. Absolutely worth grabbing and giving a go as I'd recommend to anyone starting the game to just focusing on going through the campaign as you'll probably have a good, if confusing, time. The big downside is the fact you get thrown in half way through the second game in the serise so if you want to understand the story you will need to look things up.

  • Hello Games has announced its next game, called Light No Fire
  • Procedural doesn't mean random, just generated from a set of rules. These rules can have inputs that lead to different results and you get randomness by randomising those inputs.

    What's Intresting is this this exactly how most random number generators work because computers can't be random. They take a "seed" value and will always produce the same list of "random" numbers for a given seed. This means you can randomise all kinds of numbers in your procedural generation code but always get the same output if you give the random number generator the same seed.

    So in No Man's Sky, for example, each planet basically has a set seed so the game will generate the same planet, on the fly, for everyone one who visits it in game. Which is why them tooting their own horn about having a whole galaxy to explore was a bit of red flag. All it meant was they generated a massive list of seeds which would have results limited by the tooling next to none of which they'd have been able to review etc.

    Which is a long winded way of saying they'll basically create the world using procedural tools and save the inputs used so the game can generate the same fixed map for everyone that plays with out having to store/load a world's worth of data.

  • Bitwarden begins adding passkey support to its password manager - The Verge
  • With Passkeys you are creating a encryption key pair for use for each service you want to log into as a kind of unquie virtual hardware key that gets stored in a cloud. Acess to that cloud is then contoled by an actual hardware key like the one built into your phone. That means rather than using a hardware key to unlock a vault of passwords which is what you're doing now, you're using it to unlock a vault of key pairs.

    The main advantages of this is the services you log into only hold a public key, not a password, but doesn't have to interact with your hardware key just your passkey provider. Meaning if you need to change your hardware key you only have to change it in one place instead of across everything you login to. That being one of the biggest pain points for getting people using hardware keys even now their built into a lot of platforms.

    The major issue with Passkeys so far has been that it's been pushed by 3 big single sign on providers, Apple, Google, and Microsoft. And there's been some worry about being forced to use big corpate closed source providers. But with now with Bitwarden introducing them it's a big step towards this becoming the future.

  • Do we live in a computer simulation like in The Matrix? Proposed new law of physics backs up the idea
  • The argument is just about how the known probability of existing in a simulation goes up the more intelligent life we know to have existed in a simulation. Keyword being "known" as it's the knowing, for a fact, that the odds exist that makes for an interesting thought experiment, especially when the odds of simulation are higher than not.

    The actual probability is inherently unknowable for the reasons you've pointed out.

  • Unity Apologizes For Runtime Fee Policy, Promises To Alter Plan This Week
  • Unity was sold on no revenue share, just paying for your dev seats. That they not only tried to weasle out of this by inventing an "runtime fee" but also applied it to already complete games is a fundermental break in trust. There's no ammout of walking it back that can fix that unless they're going to fire anyone who thought this was a good idea. Which of course they're not going to do meaning things like this remain in the table.

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