Did you learned this from the wheel in that Ukrainian mine article?
I'm happy that it's not youtube but also disappointed that I can use FreeTube for subscribing..
If anyone's curious, modern "virtual" pinballs, which are just a computer under a large screen inside a pinball frame, replicate this by using an accelerometer (like the one in our phones).
The pinball emulation software is fed tilt metrics, and usually that software decides when to call it fault.
And if anyone is really curious you can read in detail here: http://mjrnet.org/pinscape/BuildGuideV2/BuildGuide.php?sid=tilt
Wow, I definitely didn't expect that "Factual Reporting" would be "Mixed", however going through the list, it shows several instances where they misunderstood either a scientific paper or misrepresented some fact.
That said, I had before in some cases seen articles about AI being either false, misunderstanding the facts, or just parroting some CEO. I attributed it to AI being something relatively "new" to mainstream media, but this is pretty much eye opening.
I like their "long read" articles though, but I guess it's time to find a new main everyday paper for me...
Ants part of a super-organism often compared to a computer, so probably these people are sniffing their information packets.
Kit Fisto is always my favorite.
Sounds like a character made by George Lucas
It is worth it. I was also skeptical, though if you play it on shorter 30' sessions, feels like an opinionated documentary. There are slow parts though by the end, but I'm still glad I checked and the author is an authority in theme parks.
Ah, Russia! The free-est of countries! Free like the wind coming out of an open window.
After playing some Starfield, I wish it was less like Fallout with a dash of No Man's Sky and more like Starflight.
Starflight did three things right:
- Made space travel meaningful and dangerous: Running into baddies, dangers or simply out of fuel was always possible, but the further you went it was possible to gain better resources. Flying was also challenging (but fun) when you had to consider gravity and the fact that the ship won't break unless something stops it. So fuel conservation was juggling between all these things.
In fact, landing in a high-gravity planet was not only hard, but in some cases gave one ticket to Pancake'd town.
In Starfield, ships are only there as fast travel vehicles. In No Man's Sky, they are more meaningful, though it still feels like a magic plane in a vacuum.
- Resource gathering felt like an adventure: In most of these games resource gathering is a chore, something I need to do to build X or buy Y. Starfield had resource-rich planets that were actively dangerous, be it by creatures or by natural phenomena, the buggy would start to take damage and it was a gamble with knowing when to pack up and leave. NMS gets close but if I spent more time inventory sorting, pressing X for mining a resource and scanning for further resources, I'm not enjoying my time with it.
- Alien encounters were tense: The first time I met an alien in Starflight, it was as nerve wrecking, as I could "raise shields" and start combat, but also try figuring out if I could understand them. The crew may (or not) speak partially their language, so they may seem helpful but actually be plotting to shoot you down while your shields are down.
The crew could help these cases when simpathetic aliens were found, or the oposite when they scanned the ship and found their foes.
But most importantly, all three were part of discovering clues by conversation or exploration, and figure out the mystery before space went boom.
The problem I have with new games is the lack of urgency, I can't believe the main quest if the game invites me to play looter simulator or yet spend another hour mining iron.
