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Concord Players Are Jumping Off Cliffs In-Game as They Desperately Grind for the Platinum Trophy Before Shutdown
  • I'm surprised they thought it was going to do well. I heard absolutely nothing about the game until after it launched, which is never a good sign to me.

    If it was free, I'd definitely give it a try, but paid multiplayer shooters just aren't worth it to me anymore.

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    IRS collects milestone $1 billion in back taxes from high-wealth taxpayers
  • I can tell you, as someone who has done tax prep for friends for the last few years, that the customer service this year compared to last year was miles better. Shorter waits, less turnaround, I was actually kinda impressed.

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    Why is there not an equally opposing force to Project 2025?
  • I get why people downvoted this, but you're not entirely incorrect. The two "sides" do exist, they just both happen to be on the same side and aren't entirely opposites like "left" and "right" would imply.

    Until we see a socioeconomic party platform that wants similar reforms to what is seen in the Nordics presently when it comes to policy, there's no true "left" party in the US, IMO

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    What's was your favourite fast food product that unfortunately got retired and never came back?
  • I will forever miss the old pepper and onion mix that CFA had before the breakfast revamp.

    The chicken salad recipe was pretty basic, if I remember right though. They have it listed on their app, too, I think; The only important note is you have to use debreaded fried filets, not ones with breading on. Grilled will change the flavor a little because of the marinade.

    Link to the CFA Recipes page (may open in app)

    They've got the coleslaw in there too, but I didn't work prep when we had it and cannot vouch for the accuracy.

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    Is This Thunder?
  • I want to say that is either a Windows app or one of the preloads from the manufacturer - I recognize the icon but cannot for the life of me remember what it's called.

    Lenovo and Dell specifically, too, I don't think it's an HP program.

    Edit: duh, I didn't notice that's an HP system. That's either a shipped program or one from Windows.

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    GOG will delete cloud saves more than 200MB per game after August 31st
  • Inefficient/unoptimized would be an accurate description. I think it's important to add, for bethsoft games specifically, that the save includes all changes to objects, even if the player themselves didn't interact with them(e.g. Physics interactions, explosions moving things, npcs bumping stuff around), and also includes all NPC changes. Master files(ESMs) get loaded, then the save loads the changes it has baked in to the databases. So, when you load up a save that has traveled the world and loaded a lot of things into save memory, the engine has to sit there and reconcile all the changes with the ESMs, which can add up quick if you're playing modded.

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    GOG will delete cloud saves more than 200MB per game after August 31st
  • Save bloat is more often related to excess values not being properly discarded by the engine, if I remember right. So it's not that the objects themselves take up a lot of space, but the leftover data gets baked into the save and can end up multiplying if the same scripts/references/functions get called frequently.

    It was a lot worse with Skyrim's original engine, and got better in Fallout 4 and Skyrim SE. The worst bloat happens with heavy modlists, of course, as they're most likely to have poor data management in some mod.

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    "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know"
  • It is also wholly possible that Steam changed the availability themselves, so you can't take all the blame away from them, but like I said originally, this is Sony's fault first and foremost as the publisher would have first say on regional availability.

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    "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know"
  • There's no way Steam is 100% in charge of what regions a game is available in. The publisher absolutely has a say in where, and if it was available in all regions at the start that was on purpose.

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    Starfield's Shattered Space Expansion DLC Launches On Xbox This Fall
  • Yeah, "strong start" is dubious.

    I'm not considering the game fully released until the creation kit comes out.

    If it doesn't come till after the DLC, I'm just not buying the DLC till it comes.

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    To those with 2+ monitors on your machine: What's your use case, and how much does it actually boost your productivity?
  • Independent IT Contractor: I have a 4-wide 1080p screen setup. I keep Slack/Teams on one screen, the semicircle setup means I can only really look at 3 at the same time. I upgraded from 3 screens because I kept having to juggle windows around while troubleshooting someone's webserver.

    Also used this setup when I was really heavy into FFXIV- I like having wikis/alerts open and visible, so one screen for that, the game, discord, and then the last one was just for youtube/netflix.

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    Lords of the Fallen earns Mostly Negative Steam rating as Hexworks share tips for crash and performance bugs
  • I'm not gonna lie, I read this and thought "Didn't that game come out like...10 years ago?"

    Using the exact same name for a reboot/sequel is absolutely bonkers, especially considering the original was also just okay. I remember it being nothing to write home about, especially with DS2 coming out earlier that year.

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