I would think they were likely to be getting a job here and getting a visa if they weren’t running for MSP. At least you’d hope the UK/Scotland can keep PhD graduates here.
Either way by the laws in Scotland they can vote, so they should be able to run. Beyond that it’s down to the electorate and the candidate’s party (if applicable) to decide.
“not a British citizen” sounds like it includes people with indefinite leave to remain/any level of settled status. Meaning people who have lived here a long time, and were not here illegally at any point. I personally don’t care about the last point, and I think we should support refugees too, but that’s where the negative connotations will come from. But regardless: it sounds like this will include people who could be citizens (perhaps if it didn’t cost 1.7k).
So really, does this say anything?
The backlash is not (mainly) due to mechs. Even the people upset about the mechs are more upset at the fact that it represents mech customisation not coming or another category of gear being placed behind a paywall (or time wall if you really want to grind Difficulty 1). And of course the mech buffs being balanced out by other buffs (including to automaton small arms fire, despite the patch notes explicitly saying that was already in a good place).
A lot of what follows you’ve already mentioned, but I’ll write it out for those unfamiliar anyway.
I mean different people will highlight different things, but really what most people are upset about is one or more of:
I deliberately mentioned only examples from the latest major patch, but you could easily do this for any other big patch. Additionally outside of patch things:
And I’m sure I’m missing things still.
While I usually don’t even watch races anymore (F1 hasn’t been in a fun place recently imo), if I did watch I’d usually watch delayed, not live.
And just to add to the discussion: I use Lemmy and read the news as the main places I could get spoiled. I’ve not seen the race result from the latter before. So the only source of race result spoilers would be my home feed on Lemmy.
Another compromising suggestion though: what if winners were allowed in the title 24h after a race (preferably by editing)? Though I doubt that’d be a meaningful difference to either side.
Edit: having looked at the race results thread… That was all needlessly antagonistic. And I don’t think “just go on a social media and news blackout until you can watch the race” is fair. I guess the alternative is anyone who wants no spoilers can just block this community, but is that a good solution for anyone?
I think for a section of the player base, like yourself, it wouldn’t change much. But if you used medium pen (including sentries) it means a bit (MG) or a lot (sentries, maxigun). It kinda just made a couple loadout options worse (not fully unviable or anything, but worse). And like you said the main question I’ve seen people ask is: why?
And yeah, durable damage is baffling. Just the melee damage and acid being buffed would be questionable imo, but maybe it’s needed. Whatever. But why say bot and illuminate mech damage is fine and then buff it anyway? And why not even address how that might affect the FRV, the Gator, etc.? Probably because they didn’t consider them, but if they did they should say that because obviously the players will have concerns.
Also: state the damned numbers.
I have also only seen the hive guard bit. I believe this is all they’ve announced for now.
There’s a lot they could/should fix with a lot of community backlash (which is TBF about much more than just this one patch). I guess this is just the easiest thing they could change/revert.
Then again I feel like fixing the sentry and mech flamers and reverting the durable damage buffs on the bot ranged attacks should’ve also been pretty easy.
Sentries are still fragile as heck, but at least this way they do mostly only shoot things they can damage. The targets you need to keep away from them you can also at least spot in a crowd (chargers, titans) and deal with quick or accept that they’ll be a problem that gets distracted. Hiveguards are too numerous for that.
I’d honestly accept them being tankier if shot in the head and other armoured parts though, if it didn’t make sentries so wasteful. A system where lower pen still can damage through higher AVs but with even further reduced damage for example would be fine. But that’s not what we have.
Also if they did just guard nests like the name implies instead of showing up in groups in bug breaches or called by brood commanders.
There’s also a question of faction identity.
The way I see it: Bots are the precision targets. Illuminate have damage mitigating equipment and combined arms. Bugs are the hordes you mow down. Feels odd to have a heavy pen chaff unit in there.
Yeah. I’d argue nurses are often underappreciated and likely underpaid for the work they do. Often they also notice a lot of illnesses or changes in condition earlier than doctors, and that can be fairly accurate from medical experience or studying.
That said there is a reason doctor and nurse are different names and separate jobs. Maybe we should be looking more at why there is a lack of them rather than trying to find substitutes.
My problem with the weapon customisation is that it feels half-assed. It feels like it’s at the level I’d see in an Early Access game that plans to expand before full release. Problem is that this is a fully released game with a huge budget: how long are we going to have to wait for any system they release to be finished?
And to be clear I do like that they’re making big updates. So many things they do are actually nice (though not all), but it feels like they’re then forgotten about for months when they could use just a bit more work and tuning.
Eh… I used to spend a lot of time on GCJ, but it has been a long, long time. I get what you were going for, but in my view the posts there were more about LARPing Gamers. Imo this post fell in the uncanny point between that and open criticism, which is why it wasn’t received well.
Something like a “We did it Gamers! The cunny tag lives!” approach is what I would have expected I guess?
And yeah, I assumed pedos were all over this game. And I know and agree that steam could moderate the tags and could do more. Genuinely didn’t realise this was such a case though, and it seems niche to a general audience, which I think did help with the post’s reception.
So I think they’re trying to say that cunny is a lolicon term, and cute+funny can also be shortened to cunny.
Which I guess I can say is interesting and might actually be something that group of people might use as cover?
At the same time: wow this really feels like a stretch, especially somehow saying the community tags are Steam’s fault. I mean it’s gamingcirclejerk so maybe it’s meant to be sarcastic? But that’s not how it reads to me even in that context.
Since it’s ELI5 I’ll keep it very simple. It’s not like I know the exact mechanics anyway. No guarantee of pedantic correctness. I’m sure if I get anything overly wrong then someone who wouldn’t comment otherwise will correct me (please and thank you).
Let’s start from interpolation. It’s a simple maths idea: inter for between, poles for points. Let’s say you have two points. You could draw a line between them, take the middle point of that line. You’ve now introduced a new point.
This concept is used a lot in physics or maths in general. Let’s say you are writing down the speed of a car over time. You have 1 speed value per second. But you’re interested in the speed at 23.33 seconds for some reason.
Now you have a few options:
That may have been a bit of a tangent, but it does get us back to frame generation. We are interpolating where each pixel is between frames. Or perhaps even saying: okay, this visual object moved from X to Y, what happened between them?
The key part is: graphics already have this information. It would be wasteful to re-render an entire scene every frame, so you just look at what needs updating and how. But that means you know what happens one frame to the next. So now you just take that information and do some simple maths to figure out the in-between step, and show that to the user as well.
Performance-wise it’s not costly. The tough calculation is the update from frame to frame. It does take a bit of time though, introducing some tiny lag in your display.
Of course the actual frame gen algorithms can take a lot more data into account, but the simple idea is: between Point X and point Y there exists a point A which we can calculate relatively cheaply and display first.
I don’t know, I think the nuclear promise can almost safely be ignored. Largely unpopular, costs too much money and time. I wouldn’t mind seeing it happen, but it’s whatever at this point.
The other promises though? To me it sounds like a lot of big things without having the gov pay for it (in fact the government would be cutting taxes and investment). It’ll be through private investment, which could be okay, or it could be a disaster with investors wanting high returns from the homes they build, for example.
And then we come to…
Scotland’s first NHS appointments app and AI-driven diagnostics in the NHS
Now this is where I instantly draw the line. I like the app idea, that’s fine; I wish I didn’t need to call and gamble at 9am for an appointment. AI diagnostics though? What kind of AI? Because I can’t help but assume generative AI and that’s an insane concept that means I reject everything else he’s saying outright. Even outside of genAI I’m not aware of machine learning applications that would help reliably enough.
Smells a lot like “we’ll have our cake and eat it too”. I might vote for the Scottish Labour guy in my constituency since they’re much more on the left, but I’m not inspired to vote for Scottish Labour as a whole.
This is, afaik, a British vs American thing. In British English (I think, I live here and confuse this all the time due to the mixing of accents everywhere) group/collective nouns are treated as plural.
Examples: The press were on the scene. Ferrari were (in case of the F1 team) hopeful before the start of the season. The herd of bison were running.
Data is the really annoying one. “The data shows” vs “the data show” is a pain.
There’s a bit of a counterpoint to that: spaced/distributed learning contributes to long term memory encoding. Revisit something a week or two later and a year down the line you’ll remember it more than if you did it the next day.
So depends on your goals a bit. That said, if you can, don’t leave stuff last minute because stress is definitely not good for memory if nothing else.
I’m seeing this post a bit late, but I feel like I have to weigh in slightly, though it’s not my research area.
Note that my information extends more to academic studying, don’t know if it’s quite as true for learning more physical skills.
The main concept for learning is deeper learning. Which basically just means actually using your brain to think about the material. Things like connecting it to other ideas, pondering different implications, that sort of thing.
The reason flashcards work is because you think about what questions you could ask about the material. The reason you write by hand vs type is because it’s slower and you have to think about what’s more important or how you’d summarise the information.
I believe reading aloud typically works because it forces you to be slower and more deliberate, giving you time to actually process what you’re reading.
That said what you’ve written is helpful and mostly correct, I’m just not so certain about the framing. It could mislead some people into just rewriting notes while reading them out, for example, which is inefficient and not very helpful for learning.
A very easy-to-read source with practical tips:
Also as a final tip, my favourite exam prep technique: do a past paper without having looked at any notes or done any prep. Answer as much as you can just thinking about what you remember. Then go through with notes. It primes your brain for processing and storing the information.
I find it funny that we see:
Two supernaturally resilient and strong murderous humans (Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees)
Two non/metaphysical entities (Freddy Krueger and Pennywise)
… and Ghostface who is a normal human, regardless of which version.
Ah yes, the £166k out of £320m for road upgrades is the issue. Nah, fuck you. If we “have to” displace wildlife we might as well take some fucking responsibility. I can see a Reform member might not understand that concept.
And let’s not pretend they’d actually spend it on social care, education, or whatever else they want to point towards.
Not sure why this is worth entertaining with a news article.
You know, I played a lot of lance and never realised that. I guess it’s because it’s right trigger to block?
I guess canonically that probably means hunters are ambidextrous.
Yeah… Obviously not great that Polanski bungled up (no pun intended) what counts as his “main” residence for council tax purposes. But honestly, it happens. I know people to have accidentally failed to register to pay utilities, or forgot to register that they moved and this failed to vote in the election. He’s admitting it and paying. That’s more than most politicians do when accused of something.
Polanski is definitely taking a lot of flak and every mistake seems like it’ll get reported on. Can’t wait for a “tan suit” or “Dijon mustard” moment. He’s had some questionable things turn up about his past for sure though, sadly.
Either way, it shows the Greens are getting popular and I’ll take that. If it turns out Polanski is unfit to lead then hopefully someone else can take his place.