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I'm well aware of the lawsuit. It went nowhere.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/27/17509114/pubg-fortnite-la...

> look at what happened to PUBG when they used Epic's engine

They made a lot of money.

> it only buys popular software, because it's goal is getting more people locked into it's walled garden Epic store.

The rev stream is royalties from engine use since the free tiers are locked to UE, not EGS.

This sounds like my experience as an Australian. I'm not really sure where else I'd go, though.

Decided not to purchase Pfizer doses, choosing not to even meet with Pfizer, and instead relying on AZ which was then found to be higher risk.

Decided not to build dedicated quarantine facilities, instead relying on hotel quarantine. There has been a breach on average every 44 days that the country pays the price for every time.

Pay tens of billions to companies that recorded profits via Jobkeeper because the rules were poorly written.

Ended Jobkeeper before the pandemic was actually over, so when the Delta wave hit the public wasn't in a financial position to actually lockdown, leading to significant outbreaks via industries that shouldn't have even been running (like construction).

Conflicted messaging over the safety and efficacy of vaccines leading to increased hesitancy.

The Federal Government did a terrible job that's been covered up by the states for the most part.

I don't see it mentioned here but the other limiting factor in Brood War is the pathfinding AI doesn't use modern techniques like flocking, so moving 100 zealots in the same direction is actually a lot of work if there are any obstacles along the path.

I'm in the same boat. The UE dev workflow is the first issue, but there's also the surrounding ecosystem for me like the Epic launcher, Substance, Bridge, Mixer and Affinity that I don't want to have to replace and also don't have time to fiddle with if they don't work 100%.

My experience moving away from the happy path by doing UE dev on a Mac a few years ago was so painful I have a hard time believing the linux experience is going to be a net win. Unless you're using the same tools as Epic, shit just seems to break a lot.

Excellent news! Now every Australian that visits youtube isn't recommended and suggested hateful rhetoric that contributes to right wing extremism.

I have loose ligaments from ACL/MCL reconstructions and lasting cartilege damage along with poor flexiblity. After about 15 years of bouncing around surgeons and physios I finally got referred to a physio that knew what they were doing to the point where we corrected the popping issues I had over the course of about 6 months via flexibility -> mobility -> strength work. It turned out most of my issues were from low hip flexibility putting strain on the knees.

All of this is I guess to say...it can take a really long time to find a physio who really knows their stuff. Most of the previous ones tended to just put me on generic leg strengthening routines.

> Why would non techie people be building their own computers instead of buying from an OEM?

Because they play games and the OEMs mostly sell overpriced crap in that market segment.

> It’s basically like saying the state of New York could have been able to drive COVID down to zero while other states had it exploding.

This is exactly what Western Australia did. The Australian response was not nationally coordinated and each state has been doing their own thing. They have land borders between each other and yet the Victorian outbreak didn't spread to either NSW or SA because they implemented border checks by lining the roads with police and fining people who attempted to circumvent them, while WA implemented a hard border even earlier as soon as there was a non-zero number of cases.

The Australian states are geographically larger than many European countries, so I don't think it's that it's an island. The only effect nationally was hotel quarantine for arriving flights which is possible for landlocked countries as well.

From the steam page:

"Explore procedurally generated hallways, rooms and biomes!"

"Gain Levels to improve your Attributes and Skills!"

"Collect components and craft new items to improve your chances of survival!"

which along with permadeath and makes it a good match for the action roguelike term.

If the team is less engaged then that will show up in all of those metrics over time, and losing a sense of community seems like it would trigger that for some team members.

That doesn't meet any definition of gambling I'm aware of. It's equivalent to having a daily sale on a set of products.

> Epic wants to sell digital gambling (loot) boxes to children

Fortnite hasn't had loot boxes like this for about 18 months. The contents of the box are visible and change each day.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/01/fortnite-puts-an-end-...

You could kind of do this using ansible-runner to dynamically generate a playbook that does what you want.

>letting underbrush accumulate increases chances of severe events by 400% YoY

It's interesting you use this example because this has been covered by the RFS - the period during which hazard reduction burns can be safely done to clear the underbrush is shrinking because the fire season is longer and winter is shorter. They can only do those burns when it's both safe and not raining, so a change in climate can indirectly impact the severity.

This is a very US-centric view. In a lot of countries the content wasn't available, or was delayed significantly making torrent the only real option for seeing a show as it comes out. When social media is covered in spoilers waiting more than a day or two isn't particularly appealing.

It's online via mygov these days. took a couple of steps back initially since it was missing functionality but I think it's mostly there now.

Australia has one on Nauru despite repeated condemnation from various international bodies.

> I never found the buses to Randwick to be _that_ terrible, but I never rode them in peak hour on a daily basis.

It's very difficult to get a bus towards the city in the south east if you live closer to the city than UNSW - there's no standing room so they don't even stop. Getting a bus home at night after 10pm is a similar story so I end up walking back along the route past Hyde Park since that's where it fills up.

You can also add the stadium to the infrastructure corruption stink-list.

> Come to think of it, Blender has a very nonintuitive UI as well. Holy moly, yikes.

They've redone it in the latest version (2.8) and fixed some of the oddities. Probably the most obvious example being left click selects instead of placing the 3d cursor, so it now behaves like every other program.

Sorry to focus on a single point from a longer post, but...

> There is nothing like Unreal Tournament or Quake anymore. Games with interesting movement mechanics.

Both Paladins and Overwatch have characters with interesting movement, to the point where almost every Overwatch character has a movement ability. Both are following in the footsteps of TF2 movement. In contrast, the funky movement mechanics in Quake weren't always explicitly designed and were often much more difficult to execute properly - that's fine in a symmetric game but causes balance issues in anything asymmetric.

Fortnite and CoD have both added a grappling hook, and Fortnite in particular seems to be experimenting quite a bit with movement via jump pads, planes, trolleys, bouncey-shardy-things (you can tell I don't play it...). The latest Spiderman game has seen universal praise for the swinging movement. My personal favorite game of 2018 was Wizard of Legend, which has a no-cooldown dash ability - something that would normally break balance.

Anyway, I think I'm just trying to say there's a ton of experimentation with movement mechanics in modern games.

> If the ALP had blocked the bill it would be political suicide for them.

They opposed the bill over the weekend and then backflipped because if there's an attack over Christmas they'll look like fools. I don't think that risk was worth selling out 25 million people, but maybe that's just me. They get attacked constantly in the media anyway, it's not going to make much difference.

I don't see how it's any different to the situations with NSLs in the US. There's a veil of secrecy and no real limits on the scope of request with very harsh penalties for non-compliance.

Isn't this pretty much the same as the US and their National Security Letters? They can compel engineers/companies to do pretty much anything, and the veil of secrecy is the same.

I'm probably in a tiny niche but I use it so that I can have optical out to my speakers and analogue out to an extension cord with a plug next to my keyboard that I plug my headphones into. This means I can swap between audio devices without touching cables or plugging things in to go headphones -> speakers depending on whether I want to annoy my wife with my music or not.

I don't want to be rude but are you Australian or are you just guessing? All of the top graduates from my Software Engineering class in Aus either went to the US or did a PhD and then went to the US, and people are absolutely fleeing Sydney because the cost of living is too high.

I guess you could include it in 'price and equipment' but for me I simply don't have space in my apartment to do any of the interesting things with VR (eg I really enjoyed SuperHot VR), and it doesn't seem much of an improvement if I'm just sitting in my chair with it. Floor space is extremely expensive in almost every big Western city at the moment.

I think part of the problem is that in the CoC context, the slighted party now looks at your username, cross references it against reddit and twitter, searches your posts for something else to take umbrage at, and makes the case that you should be excluded from the community. The result is a very real chilling effect on speech on all public platforms because now you're never allowed to make a comment that might be taken out of context to offend now or at any time in the future.

> "Facing competition" as in they are now taking in only 90% of the revenue as opposed to 100%? That's just healthy

90% of what though? The big publishers are moving away from Steam presumably because the terms are crap and indies now have many more options.

> Discord is irrelevant to Valve's business, that's not where the money comes from. Valve is a store front, no indie can afford to just self-publish on PC without being on Steam. Factorio and Rimworld got popular through Steam.

Discord announced a storefront last month, they're absolutely a competitor. The obvious counterpoint to indies needing to be on Steam is League of Legends, though I'll also point out that I bought Rimworld well before it was on steam. Most indie circles talk about the tradeoff today for steam being pretty bad - you give 30% for almost nothing, and still have to do a ton of marketing because market saturation means just being on steam isn't enough. If you're already doing the marketing yourself, the storefront is much less of a factor.