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King is one of the largest mobile game devs and is owned by Microsoft.

Big difference between ‘20% more rain over the next seven months’ and ‘rain non-stop for seven months.’

It’s an existing ARM-x86 recompiler that they integrated, so the basic concept is known to work. It likely has kinks that will need a serious fork to work out though.

This was three weeks ago and the product only had a shelf life of a few days. There is no reason for this article to exist, let alone for you to amplify it.

Not only is the shape wrong, it’s pointed the wrong way. The lit part always points at the sun. Based on the light at the horizon and the cloud lighting, the sun is straight ahead. The moon is lit as if it is way off to the left.

The term Loophole refers to them being designed exclusively for musket/rifle use, ringed with gun ports called loopholes.

This is made in Inkarnate, which can look really nice. A lot of maps have either no shading or really heavy handed shading, but OP has found a tasteful middle ground.

Isn’t 5 about them interacting with the current generation and competing with tablets and phones?

They had the full interior and most of the exterior as sets, but half the time walls and ceilings are removed to give space for the camera, lights, puppeteers, etc. It is full of CGI, but it all blends together seamlessly.

LOTR has tons of green screen and CGI. The Hobbit didn’t have the prep time that LOTR did, which meant they were figuring out what things looked like after shooting instead of before.

Basically every great effect film had tons of pre-production. You can’t figure it out in post and have it land.

Hail Mary had a ton of CGI too. You can’t tell because enough is real that the actor behaves like it is, the camera moves as if it is, and the artists know what real looks like.

A major reason the first Transformers looks and feels as good as it does, even so long after it came out, is that the director has an incredible ability to imagine where something will be after the CGI pass. He could shoot entire action scenes with the camera behaving as if it was reacting to what actors did, not an empty street.

The OP called Quake 2 a ‘Half-Life’, but Quake 2 came out before Half-Life.

All FPS fall into two categories: Quake-likes, and Quake 2-likes, or as I like to call them, 2uake-likes.

What evaluation setup lets the thing being tested see the test results and gives access to the test source code?!

Slop evaluating slop.

Rectangular area lights can create softer shadows and more realistic reflections for your scenes.

In real time rendering, the first half of this is false. The shadow casting for area lights is identical to point lights. They aren’t casting from everywhere on the surface of the area, just from the center point.

They may be handling it correctly when baking.

Old people getting called/emailed, being convinced they owe either the government or the scammer money, and then bring told to go buy thousands in gift cards.

It’s a big business. Over $200 million a year in the US.

Aquaman felt like two movies running at the same time. One was a fun action comedy, the other was a serious movie that had places to go. Each scene had plot shots and comedy shots, and they didn’t feel like they had been shot together.

My theory, based on zero research, is that half the movie was reshoots. Whether it was shot super serious and turned into a comedy later or the whole story was replaced after the fact, I don’t know. Either way, it likely bears little resemblance to what he walked on set for.

The show can see the future, which helps the early seasons a lot. Knowing what happens in the later books allows them to bring stuff forward. A great example of this is in the pilot when Avasarala is torturing a Belter and questioning him about stolen stealth tech. This is a character that doesn’t even appear in the first book and it is setting things up that don’t become important until book/season 4/5.

The authors being active writers on the show and senior producers on the later seasons also helps. They aren’t in charge, which means people with TV experience make the show work, but they keep the voice consistent. Regardless of who is credited as writer on an episode, nearly all Amos stuff in the first two seasons is written by one of the authors so that his mentality would be consistent. Throughout the whole run of the show, pretty much all the formal speeches are written by the other author.

The last thing that really helps them is the drive to be faithful to the story of the source without being slave to it. This leads to many small changes that slot actors they already have into story beats, giving the viewer more connection to what they see. Drummer, for example, is a tiny character in the books but the actress was great so they kept slotting her in instead of having a different Belter for everything. She even erased the existence of a main POV character and took on that role, outlived his role and just kept going. That then leaves his character design available, so he ends up being a major character in season 5, a completely different book.

We can thank Game of Thrones for a lot of that. One of the authors worked for GRRM for a while and was involved in his side of the early seasons of GOT. Even early on when it was well received, GRRM was getting frustrated by the changes the show was making without regard to knock-on effects. When selling the TV rights for Expanse, they fought to be in the room for both writing and production so that they could have a say when decisions were being made as opposed to just being asked for feedback after the fact.

The Editor-in-Chief of the American Diabetes Association’s flagship journal was ejected and banned from the Association’s conference for handling out copies of an article from their journal. The Association blames security demands made by the Trump administration.

in case anyone is curious, those comments are not a modern addition. They are a faithful reproduction of the original scanned copy of the code.

At no point in that email does Google say you have to add age verification. They are saying you might need to age-gate certain things if you want to comply with the law and they are rolling out a feature that allows you to age-gate things without having to do the verification yourself.