It’s its trick mode. You can convert it without dropping your attack ‘combo’ on odd-numbered hits, so you can rush up to an enemy, quickly ‘cane hit’ twice to stun, then ‘whip hit’ until you’ve killed it with a bit of AoE coverage that stops any other enemy in front of you from sneaking in. Works great when you need to clear out a large number of mooks; the whip is a bit slow when you’re fighting single high-difficulty enemies.

In fact, might bust Bloodborne out again after I’ve finished Mina, always something more to learn about that game…

Ah, but that’s the joy of it. You don’t need a new PC for this; a very old one will still run it absolutely perfectly. And I agree with OP; great game, although I’m still only 2/3rds through it.

Enjoying it greatly so far - the difficulty level seems calibrated to ‘brutal’ but everything about it scream polish and perfection.

I find it hard to believe that some of the platforming sections are intended to be as difficult as they are. If there’s nothing to attack, you can’t heal, and you take a tonne of damage from falling off. Even with the life ring accessory, it’s still wicked in places. Not so bad once you’re able to equip a few more items and have some extra sparks, but at the beginning of the game, oof.

Some of the bosses having very random attacks is a bit unpleasant, too. If they keep busting out screen-fillers that are very hard to avoid, there’s not much you can do, especially as some of them can finish you in a couple of hits.

I’d like to think that the bag is step 1. Step 2 is to balance an old car tire on top, and set it on fire.

Hate AI ‘art’. Love me some Icon For Hire. But they mostly sing about mental illness with pop-metal hooks, and rarely anything spiritual.

Water is compressible; it has a bulk modulus of about 2.2 GPa. So at the 1086 bar at the bottom of the Mariana trench (~109 MPa), it’ll have compressed about (109 / 2200) ~= 5%. Materials with a different bulk modulus to water may start to float at sufficiently high depths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk_modulus#Selected_values

Yep, that’s ugly. I wonder if it’s because electric cars don’t need as many functional components, like eg. air intakes? Don’t need so much detail work to harmonise the stuff on the outside, therefore, it ends up looking like a child’s toy?

Proportions are still kind of graceless and unweildy, and that colour is nasty. I’d probably have gone the same yellow as the brake shoe, or just classic Ferrari red…

As an “EFL” speaker, yours is clearer, more grammatical. If I’d written this, I’d probably have changed the “opting instead” to “when they opted”, but yours uses two shorter sentences, which is better style in English.

Having seen native French speakers producing “one sentence covers an entire page” text when studying ESL, I’ve tried to keep my bad habits under control myself. Can be a bit too easy to produce a runaway sentence sometimes, when you’ve a lot of thoughts to get on the page.

Well, that’s three different genres of game.

XCOM balances strategy and turn-based tactics in a way that’s a bit unusual. Games like Civ or Crusader Kings let you do the strategy, but you’ve not much influence in battles. Something like Hard West or Invisible Inc. let you do the turn-based tactics, but are fairly light on the strategic choices.

The STALKER games are survivalist FPS; although you combine looting and shooting, they aren’t looter-shooters. As Strelok, your role-playing choices are quite limited - you can ‘get out of here, stalker’ if you wish - and you’ve no stats. I wouldn’t have described the world as particularly reactive - the ‘bad ending’ in the first one depends on what you’ve been doing.

Morrowind and the Souls games are both Western RPGs; you fight enemies with weapons and magic, it’s not obvious what’s going on, certainly at first; and the world changes as a result of your decisions. DS doesn’t generally let you know when you’re making a decision, which makes it quite tough to progress some storylines. But as to how the fighting plays out, they’re about as different as can be.

So I wouldn’t worry about it. Wish there were more XCOM-like games, tho, since I love the mix.

If you’ve 24" tyres and a first gear ratio of 3.5:1, then:

RPM x (pi x 24" circumference )x (1/63360 miles per inch) x (60 minutes per hour) x (1/3.5 ratio) = 4.5 mph

Giving the RPM at a satisfyingly round 221.6 rpm.

It’s very much a CPU-bound program requiring single-core performance; I get about 50 fps at any resolution including 4K with a Ryzen 9 5900 XT and an RX 6700 XT. Ryzens are multi-thread beasts but their single-core isn’t the best, it’s not the ideal CPU for ShadPS4. You can turn up the amount of “GPU memory” in your emulated PS4, and need about 10GB for 4K.

Of course, Bloodborne originally ran at 30 fps, so that’s more than enough frames and it looks amazing; didn’t have any problems playing it all the way through. I will obviously not be upgrading my PC any further with prices the way they are, too.

It’s extremely easy to fuck up cryptography code; you require both extraordinary mathematical insight and the programming skills to defend against every known and future side-channel attack. I would suggest instead trusting software where you can read the source yourself, and which has been openly reviewed by a selection of experts in the field.

“Also, be sure not to hallucinate and don’t make any mistakes.”

Completely perfect as it was, no? Stallone and Snipes having a great time chewing the scenery and playing off each other, Bullock perfect as the ingénue that’s down to cyber; lots of iconic ratburgers, sea shells and Taco Bell. Admittedly, the far off year of 2032 doesn’t seem that far off any more.

If we’re going to be remaking action movies from 1993, then I’m voting for Hard Target. JCVD is amazing at kicking things but terrible at anything that does not involve kicking things; don’t mind some dumb stylish action but you don’t have to be stupid.

Man alive, that’s gutting. I also haven’t bought a Bethesda game since F4. Was hoping they might have doubled-down on the improvements between F3 and F:NV, but what they came out with was no kind of RPG at all, a shocking disappointment.

Means I missed out on F76 and Starfield, which is no kind of hardship at all. And I’m whatever the opposite of “hyped” is for ES6 - looking forward more to booting up Morrowind again.

My company has just implemented a token leaderboard. I find that asking particularly insane questions burns more tokens, since it won’t have previous results to fall back on.

This. My PC needs slight voltage tweaks to be stable at full speed as well; just a +0.1V on the northbridge, and decreasing the RAM voltage from 1.33V default down to 1.2V. Been stable for years that way.

If the ram fault is persistently just at some locations, you can set a kernel parameter not to use them. That’s more for starting up to ensure your backups are up-to-date. If your ram is legitimately dying, then don’t use that pc for anything you’d care about losing.

Our forever-DM is all-in on AI generation of stuff. Which I understand; it’s a role that requires a lot of thankless prep, and he wants all of the in-game maps and character artwork to look fancy. But on the other hand, I play D+D for the human interaction of it, and actually prefer the ‘theatre of the mind’ way of playing it. Dry-wipe pens on a whiteboard, there’s your adventure map. Now get roleplaying. If I wanted to play a computer game, then I’d play a computer game.

Could do with that as an SVG; I do like my pixels to look nice when I resize an image.