Bon c'est vrai que comme un commentaire le signale, le budget assistants parlementaires c'est pas à elle. Enfin en théorie hein, François et Pénélope ont une opinion différente sur le sujet, mais elle est pas partagée par tout le monde.

Mais 100% d'accord pour dire que même sans ça, faut quand même être bien déconnectée pour pas se rendre compte de ce que la somme des indemnités représente.

Infamously Dead or Alive did that with character hair colours. That is, not paying to unlock the option, not even paying to unlock individual colours to swap them when you want : you'd have to pay every time you wanted to change a character's hair.

Back in the 00s I strongly associated Havok with Oblivion, because... Well, it was in your face all the time, with clutter flying all over the place, physics-based traps, ragdoll bodies and skeletons exploding in a dozen pieces.

And it was very, very broken, especially in crowded spaces. Still happened in Skyrim by the way. I used to joke about how "Havok" was a perfect name for that mess... But that's probably Bethesda doing Bethesda stuff with it.

I was aware it still is in use, spotted it on many credits. The fact it's been used as a base (even with another custom physics system on top of it) in Tears of the Kingdom tells me the stuff must still be quite solid.

Oh shit. I probably would have thought that site didn't work and I would have given up immediately if I hadn't read that comment.

I think I both love and hate that.

Don't worry too much, it's not even part of his actual brain. It's a bunch of random brain cells grown from a DNA sample.

If we could make new conscious lifeforms from this, Blade Runner would be a documentary already.

Gacha and lootboxes (similar in concept) tend to be the worst of predatory microtransactions because they exploit gambling addictions.

"Classic" microtansactions, like freaking Oblivion horse armor, skins, etc, are bad, but you buy them once and you know exactly what you're getting.

With gacha and lootboxes you buy a lottery ticket hoping to get something good. They use rush-inducing casino-style tricks to get you hooked. They obfuscate your real odds and how much you're spending as much as they can.

Nintendo games do that a lot. Most Mario games (some of them in Charles Martinet's voice), StarFox, Metroid (with occasional thumbs-up/waving at player), F-Zero...

Not forgetting the most important conclusion : we know with absolute certainty that some dinosaurs taste like chicken.

I'm thinking of becoming a guy who mentions there are still some dinosaurs left all around the world when someone says they miss dinosaurs.

I am against all game design patents in general. You shouldn't be able to file a patent on game mechanics, like no movie director could have filed a patent on, say, the idea of sequence shot.

Game content (art, characters, etc) is already protected by copyright. Patents have absolutely no business in this.

Seriously?

1,739 jihadi videos, “a phenomenal quantity of scenes of decapitation, throat-slitting, shootings,”

Oh yeah, you know, being curious online.

Adult moderators for social networks/content platforms get serious trauma from less than that. The kid needs help, he's being cut from that shit and followed by educators. And no, that's not "police custody".

but the more challenging and interesting parts, architecture and the debugging remain for programmers

And is made harder for them. Because it turns out the "easy" part is not that easy to do correctly, and if not it just makes maintaining the thing miserable.

Oh, it's about that. It's just leftover from an old base 20 counting system really. Kind of like how time is still using base 60 (though it's kinda convenient for dividing), stuff like that.

Really, English is not completely safe from that. Ask yourself why eleven to nineteen instead of, you know, ten-one, ten-two...

Is that a French stereotype I am not aware of?

Because, I've got a bit of experience in teaching math, and I wish most kids in that class could speak math naturally.

Do you often formulate math problems spontaneously?

You'd be lacking shortcuts obviously, and very rarely (mostly when you ask for it) you might be prompted to input a name for something, but almost everything else has mouse controls.

Now that I think about it, there are two keys that might be a bit inconvenient not to have, spacebar for emergency pauses (there's a screen button but it's harder to hit in a bind) and shift that let you queue an order instead of replacing the current one.

My random suggestions right now for stuff I like and is played with mouse would be:

• Rimworld. Almost any top-down PC management or (not too fast paced) strategy game should work, but, I really like the crazy random shit that happens to the characters you're slowly getting to know in Rimworld.
• Almost any of the Zachtronics games, if you like to torture your brain. Open-ended sort-of-engineering puzzles.The bigs ones like Spacechem, Opus Magnum and Shenzhen IO in particular, last call BBS for a bit more variety inside one game. Not Infinifactory, since while it doesn't have any kind of fast paced action it still requires navigating in 3D so mouse only wouldn't work.

I'd heard the reason for the Xbox One was that some marketing genius noticed people were calling Xbox 360 "the 360", and thought they would call that one... well, the One.

And then everyone laughed and went ex-bone instead.

Humans are bad at probability, and that's mostly why they gamble too.

Every wheel draw is supposed to be independent (it's not totally so because computer "random" is really a pseudo-random algorithm, but close enough). So every time you draw, the odds are 1:4. Previous draws don't matter.

On an infinitely large number of draws, you'd see a 1/4 success rate. This doesn't mean you can't fail a dozen times in a row (the probability of that is (3/4)^12, about 3%... It happens).