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  • Here’s some quotes from this CNN article:

    The breakdown was caused by failures in the copper wiring that transmits information from Long Island to Philadelphia, a source told CNN.

    “What we use today is copper wires. We are one of the last institutions, last businesses, that actually use copper wires,” Duffy told reporters Thursday.

    “We should be using fiber, but it’s copper. We use radar from the 1970s, some of them are from the 80s… So this technology is 50 years old that our controller has used to scan the skies and keep airplanes separated from one another.”

    Some controllers still use floppy disks to upload data onto computers that date to the early 1990s, according to experts.


  • I can’t imagine using the only black man in Japan at the time would lend itself to being stealthy (any race but Asian, specifically of Japanese decent, would have stood out back then), but I also haven’t played the game so I don’t know if stealth is even a mechanic in this franchise anymore.

    So, my buddy has played through a good chunk of the game and according to him you play as 2 characters: The first is a woman of Japanese descent who you get the classic ‘stealthy’ assassins creed experience. The second is Yasuke, which he has described as playing a ‘bull in a china shop’ where it’s all about beating the shit out of enemies and causing a ruckus.

    Apparently playing as Yasuke is the most fun he has had in an assassins creed game in years.










  • HBK@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPtoGames@lemmy.worldMinecraft is losing VR support next year
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    9 months ago

    TBH it was pretty barebones, but I did enjoy seeing some of my worlds in stereoscopic 3D. It also scares me for the future of VR (minecraft is a REALLY popular game. If it is dropping VR does that mean adoption isn’t going that well?).

    Also, this is specifically regarding Bedrock minecraft. Java has never officially supported it, but there are mods that add the functionality.













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  • Mods, I appreciate this bot!

    Deciphering media bias is tough, and finding 1 site that will ‘perfectly’ identify biases is an impossible task, but at the minimum having this bot show up on posts ‘gets people thinking’ about the credibility of their news sources.

    MBFC doesn’t have to be the ultimate arbitrator either. If it is missing something about a specific article people can call it out in the comments. At the end of the day, the worst thing it does is add more data about a news source and I’m not gonna complain about that.