Coelacanth

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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

These are good additions and all, but not sure they merit a specifically titled "Anniversary Update" patch.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Nice work! Really looking forward to seeing your reactions to Alan Wake 2 in the near future.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 1 day ago

So it does. I couldn't bother reading the logos when there was an amazing picture to look at. Good thing I'm not a police detective I suppose!

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 10 points 1 day ago

Same, fucking hell. When did this become a socially acceptable norm?

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 points 1 day ago

That was my first thought too, "man this must be colorised right? Or...?"

Stunning picture, looks like a movie poster.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The days of guaranteed chaos are over in F1, at least within these regulations. The drivers are higher quality than ever and the cars are more reliable than ever. This was what, the first safety car in 9 races or something like that? I remember a few years ago when a big deal was made of the first incident free F1 race ever (no red or yellow flags and all starting cars finishing the race) and now that is pretty much standard procedure.

I too will attempt to pretend the title race is still on, but I'm not exactly holding my breath.

 

As an early contributor to Disco Elysium, as well as a member of Kurvitz's tabletop sessions over the years, Martin Luiga discusses Elysium, as well as touches on his relationships with Robert and Argo Tuulik and more. He also confirms he, Robert, Alex Rostov and Helen Hindpere are in fact working on something for Red Info.

Worth listen!

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 8 points 1 day ago

Yes, this is exactly why it's so important to not leave things unchallenged! Human brains are so susceptible to absorbing ideas through osmosis by just reading statements while scrolling.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Still fairly early for color photography, no? Looks incredible.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I agree with that assessment, but I hope you're right. The Red Bull has looked more hooked up this weekend than it has in months (at least in Max's hands) and to me the sprint victory looked fairly comfortable and assured. Part of it will have been enjoying clean air but Lando was far from the fastest car yesterday - would have been overtaken by both Ferraris would it not have been for his excellent start I think.

To me it looks like the Red Bull upgrade package finally put them back on top (or at least even) and Max will win most of the races from here on out - he is the best driver after all so you need clearly superior machinery to have a chance against him, which it looks like is no longer the case.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 5 points 2 days ago

Not thrilled to see Max back in the effortless winning ways as I had hoped to be delusionally hanging on to the title fight the rest of the season for personal enjoyment.

That notwithstanding, what a great sprint. COTA is just a top, top track. So much thrilling wheel-to-wheel action, this was the perfect return after the long break. Hoping for an even more action packed race tomorrow with strategy coming into play too. Even with the new tarmac the track should be fairly demanding on the tires so could be some interesting strategies tomorrow (I hope).

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 3 days ago

Still miss him on the grid, one of my favourite drivers and personalities to this day. Try to watch some of his early career races if you haven't, his natural speed was something else.

Still the last Ferrari world champion, too!

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean, if I could run Civ V on my phone I'd play the shit out of that. Though that's turn based I suppose.

 

This one has Argo Tuulik and Lenval Brown involved, which lends some serious credibility to the project in my eyes. Tuulik was one of the prominent writers of Disco Elysium, as well as one of the settings' co-creators as one of the players in Kurvitz's tabletop RPG sessions.

 

Pictured in this graph: what xG does to a motherfucker.

I thought this graph was super interesting as it is a near-perfect illustration of when data analytics and advanced statistics started to enter into football (2014-2016) and some of the effects it's had on the game.

EDIT: Forgot to paste a link to the complete article.

 

Post the match IDs of any games where you thought matchmaking was poor into the linked thread in order to help tune the algorithm.

DISCLAIMER: The past 24h (Oct 3-4th) have had extra poor matchmaking due to a bug, so omit any IDs from that time frame.

 

Community: !dota2@lemmy.ml

Still have an open void in your life since the Olympics ended? Why not fill it with some esports? Valve's huge The International tournament for Dota 2 started this week, so I thought I'd make a promo post for its community here on Lemmy.

 

This appeared in my YouTube suggestions, thought I'd share it here.

 

Out of every 10 games I play, maybe one of them is a close, even game where everyone is on roughly the same skill level - and that's probably me being generous.

Almost every game has people on either team not just losing their lane but going something like 0-17. I know it's early alpha and has had a huge influx of players recently so maybe it's to be expected to some extent, but even back in my Dota days matchmaking was never this bad. This is like, public WC3 Dota 1 lobbies level.

How are you guys finding it? Anyone break through the MMR barrier into a point where you're getting consistently good games? How long did it take, and what MMR? (you can check here

 

Stolen from a thread on the other place. I thought it was very interesting. How do you feel about cyberpunk compared to paranormal 30s New York as a theme?

 

While still holding out hope of one day seeing his book (the excellently titled "etceteracide") released, a song lyric will do. RSH was great with words, and I always thought this read pretty well as a poem.

 

Not his best comic but there's some good stuff in there as always. The "Fatty" (sorry, body-positivity) Foulkes reference was a great deep cut.^[1]

 

Three weeks into her presidential run was the first time the Biden campaign’s pollsters — now hers — held a deep-dive call with Kamala Harris’ inner circle to discuss what she’s been saying on the stump.

Over the line came a lot of praise, but also some suggested tweaks. First, said veteran Democratic numbers man Geoff Garin, summarizing their analysis, stop saying, “We’re not going back.” It wasn’t focused enough on the future, he argued. Second, lay off all the “weird” talk — too negative.

Yes, stop using the two approaches that has been most effective. Absolute genius. I can't for the life of me see why the Dems have a reputation of shooting themselves in the foot.

EDIT: Thankfully Kamala trusted her instincts and has had the good sense to ignore said advice so far

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