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Skua

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  • The world's busiest toilet temporarily made detective sim Shadows of Doubt a murder-free zone: 'You can't always legislate for the fact that everyone's going to need a wee at midnight'

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  • Em dashes are definitely a less reliable sign in professionally written and edited articles. That's the context where actual humans will use them most often

  • When did people living on the Apennine Peninsula figure out that they lived on a boot?

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  • I can't necessarily offer an answer here, but I can give you a bound at least. I was able to find this 1703 geography of the Kingdom of Naples that explicitly calls Italy a boot, so "some time before 1703" can be said for sure

    Forma una Penisola, à guisa di uno Stivale, fi come l'Italia tutta fù meditata da Strabone, e da altri Geografi di rigo

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    It forms a peninsula, like a boot, just as all of Italy was studied by Strabo and other renowned geographers.

    I'm fairly sure the Strabo bit means "we've known it was this shape since Strabo" rather than "Strabo said it was boot-shaped"

    To speculate a little more, I think the style of boot that Italy looks like started off as riding shoes developed in 10th century Iran (heels are good for staying in stirrups, apparently). If that is correct then it can't be earlier than the 10th century since there weren't boots that Italy looked like

  • The Outer Worlds with ray tracing can't hit 60FPS at paltry 540p resolution with an RTX 5090 and 9800X3D - ray tracing 'performance' mirrors Borderlands 4 fiasco

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  • I haven't played the Outer Worlds, but isn't a whole lot of it about making fun of companies doing this kind of stupid shit?

    Based on a quick look at some videos showing off the max settings, it doesn't even look like it's doing much with all that demand. It looks like a completely normal big budget game

  • Civilization 7 will get 'one of the most requested features' since launch: The option to play as one civ from start to finish

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  • I could potentially see something along the lines of giving each civ a "canon" path that sets its abilities and having the aesthetic stuff match your chosen civ the whole way through working. So if you pick the USA to start with then you get American visuals / music / names etc the whole way through, but you automatically get the English bonuses in the appropriate era for that

  • Civilization 7 will get 'one of the most requested features' since launch: The option to play as one civ from start to finish

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  • It's definitely not. Whatever the flaws in the end result, Firaxis do experiment substantially with their formula. Doing that is actually what caused the complaints this article is about

  • Civilization 7 will get 'one of the most requested features' since launch: The option to play as one civ from start to finish

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  • The idea is that it's split into three ages and you change your aesthetics and bonuses between each one. So you might go Romans > Spanish > Mexicans in the three eras, for example. The intention is honestly a decent one, I think: make it so that games aren't functionally over and therefore boring by the halfway point. It's usually clear who has won long before they actually do win, and the fact that basically nobody ever played the late game meant that late game civs and mechanics were a bit of a waste of time. I don't have VII though, so I can't say anything about how it feels in practice

  • Assetto Corsa Rally, coming Early Access on Steam 13 Nov, 2025

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  • AC Competizione is on UE4's graphics and in-house physics, so I imagine they're doing something similar here

  • What are you all playing lately?

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  • This exchange just popped back into my head for some reason. Your description of the approach to the flower was spot-on! Turns out it just happens to be a similar approach to Siofra. Took me a few attempts, and fire damage is a bit of a miserable situation for my dex build with a bit of int (level 150, scadutree... 9, I think? Maybe 10?), but I got there. I found that the best thing I could do was actually just to absolutely max out my own durability and accept that I was only getting one attack off per opportunity. I was having a really rough time avoiding the thorn eruption attacks, so the crimson seed talisman basically giving me two extra flasks worth of health was great. So long as I used fire damage and hit it in the "face" I didn't really need to do anything else to get plenty of damage

    I have since gone through the specimen storehouse and found my way into Rauh, which I was absolutely delighted by because it looks exactly like Shadow of the Colossus and I'd been itching to get there ever since I found that waygate that gives you a preview of it

  • ill be at your house in 10 minutes. how will you entertain me?

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  • I appreciate the recommendation! Unfortunately the keyboard I've got is very old and does not have a MIDI output. I don't mind learning the old fashioned way though! It got me through the other instruments

  • ill be at your house in 10 minutes. how will you entertain me?

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  • ill be at your house in 10 minutes. how will you entertain me?

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  • Blues and rock are my comfort zones, and I can happily get along with most genres of jazz and metal that aren't ultra-technical. I can do some passable funk

    Guitar is what I'm best at, I'm decent on bass, and I'm complete dogshit on keyboard but working to change that situation. I technically also own a little reed flute that I bought from a whittler at a winter solstice festival that I know how to play the Shrek theme and Darude's Sandstorm on

  • ill be at your house in 10 minutes. how will you entertain me?

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  • If you play guitar, bass, or piano/keyboard, we're having a jam session. Otherwise, board games! Flashpoint is a cool one, it's easy to pick up and it's cooperative

  • How it actually turns

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  • Most of the Nordic countries do not have those. Norway has a lot, Denmark has a little, the others have nothing significant

  • What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?

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  • Anecdotally I would say that London specifically, rather than the UK as a whole, has either an unusually high population of foxes or a unusually bold one. I've never seen so many out in the open as there

  • What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?

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  • Thank you for adventuring responsibly! I'm glad you had a good time here

  • What are you all playing lately?

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  • I suppose it makes sense for it to be tough considering that it's intended as an endgame expansion and it's also replicating the new character low level experience with the scadu blessing system

    I have actually found that the Land of Shadow has heaps of alternate routes to places, they're just much less obvious than before. The map is so wildly vertical and overlapping that finding a spiritspring or a tunnel or one of those cliffside staircases of protruding gravestones can take you to a whole new area

  • What are you all playing lately?

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  • I have not seen whichever part that is, no. Although it sounds like the same experience as finding Siofra for the first time, which I think was one of my favourite moments in the entire game

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  • Nothing wrong with that! I hit an absolute brick wall with Margit when I first played the base game because I hadn't played a Souls game in years. I explored around until I found the secret route to Liurnia and did most of that before I even got into Stormveil

  • What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts

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  • I think that this is more or less the approach I would take, but you shouldn't worry about the actual diameter of anything. It's not important, after all - if everything was scaled up twice as big, the answer would be the same. Just call the diameter of the cup a nice round number and then see how the hazelnuts compare to it. In this case I think there's about five hazelnut widths to the glass, so I'm gonna call the glass diameter 50, the nuts 10, and the glass height 80.

    You'll need to change your formulae, though. pi*d is the circumference of a circle, but we need the area here, so pi*r*r (and then multiply by height for volume). That gives me 157,050 whateverunits cubed for the volume of the cup. For a sphere it's (4/3)*pi*r*r*r, so 524 for the hazelnuts. Now, I know that spheres don't pack perfectly into a volume, but I don't remember the factor even for optimal packing, so I'm just gonna take a wild guess and say that 70% of the internal volume of the cup is actually occupied by hazelnuts. That gives me... 209 hazelnuts in the cup. Which seems worse than your answer on a gut level, but I can count 86 visible ones so it's maybe actually not bad

    Hah, I was way off too

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    Doing that awful cheese & onion cob properly