Given the nature of the mod, like the fact that it provided like 4 dozen varients of every character to select from, I’m guessing it was taken from another source. That said, it was likely also tweaked to work in the Source Engine, and to be closer to vanilla Alyx. Its unlikely he would have downloaded an apparently tame model, possibly modified it, and imported it without noticing it was a model intended for porn.
Purpose: Determine if you are able to harm teammates, or they are able to harm you in Counter Strike 2.
Hypothesis: Teammates are able to harm one another, although damage is decreased relative to damage against enemies.
Materials:
Procedure Aim at teammate’s head and click mouse.
Observations Teammate is dead.
Conclusions Friendly fire is enabled in Counter Strike 2. Further testing is required to determine if damage is decreased relative to damage against enemies.
An upvote should be for quality content/discussion. This might be a well researched comment, a good joke, or just something that leads the discussion in a meaningful or interesting way. Generally, things I think should be valued or shared. There will obviously be bias, but my opinion isn’t the basis of my decision. I try to upvote good-faith or thorough arguments I disagree with.
Downvotes are for low-quality and unhelpful content that I think shouldn’t be spread. This doesn’t have to be irrelevant or against the community rules, but often is. Things I might downvote include overused reposts, unnecessarily rude or insulting comments, low quality comments (IE someone trying to argue a well cited comment with an anecdote and nothing else), or spam.
Ill double check the available documents, and edit this comment, but at least when I last checked like six months ago, they only had one example, and it was Steam warning a developer for giving away free copies (if I remember right, Steam keys) on their Discord. I never saw any other solid evidence.
EGS doesn’t sell Steam keys but games still can’t be listed for cheaper on EGS than Steam without violating Steam’s terms, for example.
But are devs allowed to sell for cheaper on Epic? I haven’t see any evidence that they aren’t. On the othet hand, I can point to multiple examples where games are cheaper, on other services like the examples I gave, which seems to disprove this.
Thats why I was asking for evidence. Because so far, there is quite a bit of evidence that devs are allowed to chose their prices on other distribution channels, and to my knowledge, no real evidence made available that it is written in contract otherwise.
Personally, the only games I’ve found that Im esspecially comfortable to “lock-in” are:
Factorio for Labour of Love, as its an absolute gem of a game that has continued to receive significant improvements even after launch and not even all bundled in to the (itself amazing) expansion. I also considered Stardew Valley or Dota, both of which are great for this, but Factorio really deserves it for Space Age and the updates that have come with it.
Balatro for Best Game on Steam Deck, for its addicting, fun gameplay, good for longer sessions or pick-up and put-down play.
Tactical Breach Wizards for Outstanding Visual Style. There are other games that might have pulled off their themes better, but the mix of military and magical is so cool and charming and unique, that its my absolute favorite right now.
And Balatro again for Sit Back and Relax, for the same reasons I gave for Steam Deck, and just how chill it can be once you’ve learned the basics.
Gorilla Tag is too old to qualify. Honestly, I have no idea what will be chosen. It feels like most new VR content now is just mods.
Has there been any evidence provided yet that they have a most favoured nation clause for anything but Steam Keys yet? Last I tried to look into it, they had evidence (or claimed there was?) of a most favoured nation clause for Steam Keys, and an individual instance of a dev being asked to not give their game away for free but nothing for non-Steam keys. I know for the longest time, the common knowledge was that Steam allowed it for anything but Steam keys (IE dwarf fortress being free off Steam or GOG offering better deals for their own games). That said, its been a little while, so I don’t remeber details of the case.
Personally, the only games I’ve found that Im esspecially comfortable to “lock-in” are:
Factorio for Labour of Love, as its an absolute gem of a game that has continued to receive significant improvements even after launch and not even all bundled in to the (itself amazing) expansion. I also considered Stardew Valley or Dota, both of which are great for this, but Factorio really deserves it for Space Age and the updates that have come with it.
Balatro for Best Game on Steam Deck, for its addicting, fun gameplay, good for longer sessions or pick-up and put-down play.
Tactical Breach Wizards for Outstanding Visual Style. There are other games that might have pulled off their themes better, but the mix of military and magical is so cool and charming and unique, that its my absolute favorite right now.
And Balatro again for Sit Back and Relax, for the same reasons I gave for Steam Deck, and just how chill it can be once you’ve learned the basics.
There has been some debate over the response to tactical Nuclear weapons - notably NATO threatened a conventional response to the use of nukes (likely meant to be read as, “We will end this war, no nukes needed.”) but it would depend massively on their usage.
They provide a bunch of other services tied in, like the reviews, Workshop, and most infamous, guides and forums. While the reviews and Workshop tend to not be too bad (although still often not great) the forums and guides tend to be completely unmoderated and as a result, devolve into spam and extremism.
As everyone has clearly stated, you need to watch out for your and your personal health and safety (mental and physical).
That said, I just want to highlight the fact that you probably shouldn’t broadcast your feelings on it too bluntly (even if you are in the right) and should consider if a more middle-ground approach would be better for you compared to making a large announcement and cutting people off. To be clear, this should be primally about you and your well-being, though.
In particular, as other have stated, if you’re cutting them off anyway, its probably worth considering just ghosting them. That way you can avoid fights and drama, as well as likely having less records of you being trans if you’re worried about that.
If you still care about your family a lot, as it sounds like you do, it may also be worth considering trying to work out a plan for low-contact rather than completely cutting them off. For example, if you communicate mostly through social media, you might disconnect or switch to alts they don’t know. If its primarily through sms but not phone, prehaps block or hide their sms messages but allow them to call you. Maybe you just need to stop visiting them or allowing visits. Your family doesn’t need to know this plan or the reason for it, and probably shouldn’t. For example, you could just brush it off as wanting to disconnect from social media/technology or being busy. If you want to go this route, figure you what works for you - don’t do it out of obligation, but because you genuinely want to keep the connection and are confident you can do so with without putting yourself in danger. Also, be willing to re-evaluate this later, if your relationship or need change.
In the same vein, you can also start looking at moving to safer regions. I understand this is a big commitment, so I don’t expect it to be a reasonable answer, esspecially in the short term, but if may be worth starting to look at whats involved. It might be complete overkill (I pray to God it is) but if you don’t have significant roots, moving further away may help distance yourself from them, while also providing more security.
Ultimately, I don’t think you’re in the wrong, if you feel the need to resort to anything more extreme for your own well-being, don’t hesitate. At the same time, it can be hard on you to lose family, reguardless of how terrible, abusive, or stupid they may be, which is why I’m bringing up some more middle-ground options. Consider your needs, and decide what the best way to achive that is - you don’t need to consider their reaction or feeling when trying to figure out how to keep yourself safe and healthy.
Exactly what everyone else said, regardless of how much troubleshooting they did. Lol
Literally just a 3.5mm headset plugged directly into the mobo. As simple as can be.
I hope I can switch some day, but I doubt a lot of my actually specialized software will work any time soon, even if the audio issues have been fixed (or my computer replaced) so I don’t expect to any time soon, unfortunately.
I think it was about a year ago. I have given up since then, but I have yet to find anyone capable of getting my audio to work properly, despite many hours of trying and help from multiple people from the Linux support subreddit. It might have been fixed since then, but I don’t have the disk space nor the time to attempt the switch again, and if I can’t even get audio to work, then I can’t use the OS.
Edit: I believe this is the mobo if you want to look into things yourself. The best I every got was audio that was delayed by about a second. https://www.asrock.com/MB/AMD/AB350M-HDV/index.asp
Specialized software like my audio drivers?
Unfortunately, Lemmy is the only one with content that appeals to me so far (at least to my knowledge, given the near-unsearchable nature of the fediverseso far). The platforms just aren’t large enough.
I think this one is already a thing as of a few months ago, but maybe its not rolled out to your instance yet.
Its just been my personal experience browsing, sorting by new. Generally, anything that could potentially be viewed as an ad (nonetheless a paywall) gets downvoted. For example, I used to see more art shared, and often users who included watermarks (even non-disruptive ones), or links to a patreon would be immediately downvoted. I’ve also seen YouTube creators criticized here for simply selling merch. Even just a couple days ago, I commented on the same trend, and another user quickly replied to tell me its a good thing nothing here can be monitized because money ruins everything. The are exceptions, esspecially with open source software, but these seem more the exception than the norm, in my experience.
I was going to respond with a gif but the fact that someone on a health/medical website had to write this is funnier than anything I could have found:
https://www.healthline.com/health/fitness/one-punch-man-workout-review