No.27168
Alone with your thoughts isn't really being alone at all.
No.27223
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No.27224
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No.27303
Reverse Spin Kick:
+ Behavior buff: now functions as an overhead, like in HDR.
REASON: is the reason for all the other changes on this move.. It makes Guile a little more interesting, without making him too good. Maybe it could be argued that Guile doesn't really need it, and for the most part that's true, but the Dhalsim match-up is trash and one of the reason for that is the fact that Guile has no decent options when up close, and having an overhead fixes that problem.
+ Behavior tweak: activation range removed.
REASON: Needed for it to be used effectively as a overhead.
+ Behavior tweak: activated only ? + Rh only.
REASON: Otherwise Guile wouldn't be able to move forward with the donkey kick while keeping boom charge, since the range restriction was removed.
- Startup nerf: 7f slower.
REASON: it compensates for its overhead properties. This is 2f slower than it was in HDR.
- Recovery nerf: 3f slower.
REASON: until v0.7.1 it was +0 on hit vs crouching characters, but considering the very good range on it as well as Guile not deserving to have an overhead on most match-ups, I came to the conclusion that it deserved to be nerfed slightly. Now, Guile's overhead is -3 on hit, which makes it recover 1f slower than Fei's overhead, which used to be the one with the slowest recovery, until now. But it still is pretty decent overall.
- Priority nerf: proper hurtboxes during the startup frames, last_start/active/1s_recovery are now vulnerable to low moves, like in HDR.
REASON: it compensates for it being activated from any range. There's 2 (intentional) differences from HDR: the head hurtbox during active was adjusted by 3px so it can beat Claw's slide cleanly and the body hurtbox during active was moved 1px downwards so it can be beat by Blanka's Crouching Strong.
+ Priority buff: hitbox moved 2px downwards.
REASON: so it can be used against a crouching Blanka. At first I left it like it was on HDR on purpose because I thought this could be seen as an unnecessary buff vs Blanka, since he loses the Guile match on ST. But considering all the buffs Blanka received plus the fact that he now also got an Overhead that can be used normally on Guile then maybe it's OK for Guile to be able to have it too vs Blanka.
- Damage nerf: from 26 to 24.
REASON: this move got a lot better since it's now an overhead. This decrease in damage is just to keep it in check, now it does the same damage as Ken's and Blanka's overheads.
o Cosmetic tweak: proper shadow sprites.
REASON: the ones from ST were clearly wrong
No.27368
Electric!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CrHs_1SmHoQStudying some Ryu Denjin setups and have stumbled across alot of cool setups to help you vary your approach. Most take alot of time to be consistent.
No.27374
bear visits house
No.27383
F-16 ~ creation, engineering & maintenance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhhOin2p5Qs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw4iROXxMMw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmM5KSoW2qA The Insane Engineering of the F-117 Nighthawk
Real Engineering
https://youtu.be/1zjcnnx7igc Credits:
Producer/Writer/Narrator: Brian McManus
Head of Production: Mike Ridolfi
Editor: Dylan Hennessy
Writer/Research: Josi Gold
Animator: Eli Prenten
Animator: Stijn Orlans
Sound and Production Coordinator: Graham Haerther
Sound: Donovan Bullen
Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster
Head of Moral: Shia LeWoof
Special Thanks To Lockheed Martin for providing archival footage
Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images
Thank you to AP Archive for access to their archival footage.
No.27416
Are you culo?
No.27453
Donald Trump has said he will impose tariffs of 25 percent on all imports from Canada and Mexico, and an extra 10 percent on Chinese goods, accusing the countries of permitting illegal migration and drug trafficking.
In a post on his social media site Truth Social, Trump said he would impose the tariffs on Canada and Mexico on his first day in office “on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous open borders,” which would remain in place “until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country.”
Trump said the tariffs on China would apply to all imports and would come on top of existing levies, as he criticized Beijing for failing to follow through on promises to impose the death penalty for people dealing fentanyl, a deadly synthetic opioid.
The Canadian dollar fell 0.9 percent against the US dollar to a four-year low, while the Mexican peso shed 1.3 percent, adding to a sharp depreciation this year. China’s onshore renminbi slipped 0.1 percent to Rmb7.25.
The announcements serve as opening shots in Trump’s confrontational new trade policy, following an election in which he campaigned on broad tariffs and lambasted the US’s trading partners. Trump had previously threatened to impose a blanket tariff of more than 60 percent on all Chinese imports.
“Stiff new tariffs on imports from the US’s three largest trading partners would significantly increase costs and disrupt business across all economies involved,” said Erica York of the Tax Foundation, a Washington-based think tank. “Even the threat of tariffs can have a chilling effect.”
China hit back at Trump’s comments, which state television CCTV labeled “irresponsible.” Beijing has sought to present itself as a guardian of open trade, despite accusations of heavily subsidizing its manufacturers and maintaining tight barriers on international companies’ access to parts of its domestic market.
“Economic globalization is an irreversible historical trend,” China’s vice-president, Han Zheng, said on Tuesday at the opening of a global supply chain expo in Beijing. He added that China would “work to build an open world economic system and safeguard the stability and unimpeded functioning of the global industrial supply chain.”
Trump had in particular targeted Mexico on the campaign trail, threatening to impose “whatever tariffs are required—100 percent, 200 percent, 1,000 percent” to stop Chinese cars from crossing the southern border.
He has also warned Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, he would impose tariffs of 25 percent if she did not crack down on the “onslaught of criminals and drugs” crossing the border.
The levies could be imposed using executive powers that would override the USMCA, the free trade agreement Trump signed with Canada and Mexico during his first term as president.
“There’s a lot of integration of North American manufacturing in a lot of sectors, particularly autos, so this would be pretty disruptive for a lot of US companies and industries,” said Warren Maruyama, former general counsel at the Office of the US Trade Representative. “Tariffs are inflationary and will drive up prices,” he added.
Ricardo Monreal, leader of Mexico’s ruling party in the lower house of congress, said tariffs would “not solve the underlying issue” at the border. “Escalating trade retaliation would only hurt people’s pockets,” he wrote on X.
Diego Marroquín Bitar at the Wilson Center think tank warned that unilateral tariffs “would shatter confidence in USMCA and harm all three economies.”
No.27454
>>27453In a joint statement, Canada’s deputy prime minister, Chrystia Freeland, and public safety minister Dominic LeBlanc hailed the bilateral relationship with the US as “one of the strongest and closest… particularly when it comes to trade and border security.”
They also noted that Canada “buys more from the United States than China, Japan, France, and the UK combined,” and last year supplied “60 percent of US crude oil imports.”
“Even if this is a negotiating strategy, I don’t see what Canada has to offer that Trump is not already getting,” said Carlo Dade at the Canada West Foundation.
While Trump put tariffs at the center of his economic pitch to voters, President Joe Biden has also increased levies on Chinese imports. In May, Biden’s administration sharply increased tariffs on a range of imported clean-energy technologies, including boosting tariffs on electric vehicles from China to 100 percent.
Biden’s administration has also pushed Beijing for several years to crack down on the production of ingredients for fentanyl, which it estimated claimed the lives of almost 75,000 Americans in 2023. Beijing this year agreed to impose controls on chemicals crucial to manufacturing fentanyl following meetings with senior US officials.
Additional reporting by William Sandlund and Haohsiang Ko in Hong Kong, Christine Murray in Mexico City, Ilya Gridneff in Toronto, Joe Leahy in Beijing, and Alex Rogers in Washington.
© 2024 The Financial Times Ltd. All rights reserved.
No.27458
return low;
No.27460
Today’s young adults grew up in a time when their childhoods were documented with smartphone cameras instead of dedicated digital or film cameras. It’s not surprising that, perhaps as a reaction to the ubiquity of the phone, some young creative photographers are leaving their handsets in their pockets in favor of compact point-and-shoot digital cameras—the very type that camera manufacturers are actively discontinuing.
Much of the buzz among this creative class has centered around premium, chic models like the Fujifilm X100 and Ricoh GR, or for the self-anointed “digicam girlies” on TikTok, zoom point-and-shoots like the Canon PowerShot G7 and Sony RX100 models, which can be great for selfies.
But other shutterbugs are reaching back into the past 20 years or more to add a vintage “Y2K aesthetic” to their work. The MySpace look is strong with a lot of photographers shooting with authentic early-2000s “digicams,” aiming their cameras—flashes a-blazing—at their friends and capturing washed-out, low-resolution, grainy photos that look a whole lot like 2003.
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"It's so wild to me cause I'm an elder millennial," says Ali O'Keefe, who runs the photography channel Two Months One Camera on YouTube. "My childhood is captured on film … but for [young people], theirs were probably all captured on, like, Canon SD1000s,” she says, referencing a popular mid-aughts point-and-shoot.
It’s not just the retro sensibility they’re after, but also a bit of cool cred. Everyone from Ayo Edibiri to Kendall Jenner is helping fuel digicam fever by publicly taking snaps with a vintage pocket camera.
The rise of the vintage digicam marks at least the second major nostalgia boom in the photography space. More than 15 years ago, a film resurgence brought thousands of cameras from the 1970s and '80s out of closets and into handbags and backpacks. Companies like Impossible Project and Film Ferrania started up production of Polaroid-compatible and 35-mm film, respectively, firing up manufacturing equipment that otherwise would have been headed to the scrap heap. Traditional film companies like Kodak and Ilford have seen sales skyrocket. Unfortunately, the price of film stock also increased significantly, with film processing also getting more costly. (Getting a roll developed and digitally scanned now typically costs between $15 and $20.)
For those seeking to experiment with their photography, there's an appeal to using a cheap, old digital model they can shoot with until it stops working. The results are often imperfect, but since the camera is digital, a photographer can mess around and get instant gratification. And for everyone in the vintage digital movement, the fact that the images from these old digicams are worse than those from a smartphone is a feature, not a bug.
No.27520
7/8 pants
No.28020
New Zealand's $16B health dept managed finances with single Excel spreadsheet (theregister.com)
The Tesla EV protests are getting bigger – and rowdier (theverge.com)
No.28021
Hey guys, I'm Donald Trump. Whoo. I play President of the United States. And I'm here to tell you can, too, if you start everyday with a hearty breakfast from McDonald's. Uh, like the new Sausage Egg McGriddle Value Meal available now for a limited time for under five dollars. Remember guys, real champs eat at McDonald's. I'm lovin' it. Can I get the check?
No.28022
Photo credit: Washington, D.C. Andrew Harnik / Getty Images and Mandel Ngan / AFP - Getty Images.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday turned the South Lawn of the White House into a temporary Tesla showroom in a conspicuous favor to his adviser Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of the car company.
Tesla delivered five of its vehicles to the White House and parked them on a driveway for Trump to personally inspect, hours after he said in a post on his app Truth Social that he planned to buy a Tesla to demonstrate his support for Musk and for the slumping car company.
More here:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/trump-musk-tesla-white-house-showroom-buys-car-rcna195905 No.28055
Why would anyone eat that?
No.28057
>>28055i'm so curious as to what this was in reference to. please tell
No.28124
>>16798>ＥＡＴ ＹＯＵＲ ｏｗｎ ａｓｓ How about hers?
>>28111 No.29635
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Lhude sing cuccu
Groweþ sed
and bloweþ med
and springþ þe wde nu
Sing cuccu
Awe bleteþ after lomb
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Bulluc sterteþ
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Sing cuccu nu • Sing cuccu.
Sing cuccu • Sing cuccu nu
No.29642
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No.30172
What makes throw loops so insufferable is that the throw itself takes too long.
Fighting games at their core are real time games. The challenge is not just to make good decisions, but to make them quickly and precisely. Whenever players are given too much time to make their decision, the real time element is removed. It becomes a turn based game.
In a fully turn based game, even in relatively complex ones, playing from behind is not fun. There is no joy in a fruitless struggle. Have you ever played Monopoly? That’s the point of the game. To make you suffer. Strategy game designers are aware of this and (if they want the game to be fun) do everything they can to avoid putting players in prolonged positions of powerlessness. Once it’s clear who is going to win, the game ends.
Of course, in a turn based game, this is inevitable to some degree. Advantages must exist, and one must always wait for the opponent in a turn based game.
But in a fighting game, a genre that so clearly should be fast-paced and action packed, where the real-time element should be most emphasized, this problem should not exist. It’s not inherent to the genre. It’s a fixable problem.
Possible fixes
Once the problem is understood, the fixes are easier to see.
Only one of two things is required: either the situation after a throw must be more equalized (such that neither player is particularly on the back foot), or throws need to be a lot faster (at most 500 milliseconds).
The first fix turns throws into a tension release, giving both players time to reset for another bout. Examples include throw invincibility on wake-up or after blockstun (would function similar to proximity throws in King of Fighters and Guilty Gear), less frame advantage (or even frame disadvantage), or more spacing post-throw. The second fix maintains a high tempo, but animating a throw with only 30 frames may be unrealistic.
However, any fix must also consider balance. If a design change also makes throws weaker, it could disrupt the delicate balance between offense and defense. We don’t want to trade one problem for another. To make sure this balance is not disturbed, one could increase the damage or meter burn of throws to compensate. Such buffs would not reintroduce the current problems because the change is only to the immediate reward, having little effect on the post-throw situation.
No.30174
ow
No.30211
We’re launching @eurosky.social, a European identity that works across the entire open social web. Get access to any app built in the AT Protocol, including Bluesky, Flashes, Tangled, and many more. Hosted in Europe, governed in Europe. [Launching February 2026]
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THE PROBLEM
Today, social media is critical technology. It shapes information flows, social norms, and political discourse. Yet Europe runs on US-owned systems whose architectures remain outside European jurisdiction and democratic control.
Regulation can constrain platforms, but without alternative technology, the dependency remains. A sovereign continent cannot outsource its public communications layer.
THE OPPORTUNITY
A new generation of open social media ecosystems built on open protocols offer choice, user control over data and algorithms, and a shared foundation for developers. These open systems discourage the domination of any one company. AT Protocol is one open protocol that is showing a lot of promise.
AT Protocol enables real interoperability: users can move between services without losing their networks, and developers can build applications that work across the entire ecosystem. Bluesky, the largest app built on the protocol, already has over 40 million users, demonstrating that this technology works at scale.
For Europe, this is our chance to build competitive alternatives to Big Tech. But we need European-hosted infrastructure to make that possibility a reality.
THE SOLUTION
Eurosky builds the foundations that make it cheaper and faster for European entrepreneurs to create social applications and for users to reclaim their online experiences.
No.30214
Yea fuck the social media
No.30217
Conner O'Malley
No.30253
RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one to create a performance illusion — 1+1 'value pack' offers desperate psychological relief as the memory shortage worsens
The best RAM on the market has become extremely expensive and out of reach for most consumers since the global memory shortage began. Fortunately, V-Color has stepped in to save the day. The company has announced its 1+1 value packs, which cleverly include one real memory module alongside a matching filler module. Even if your budget only allows you to purchase a single real memory module, you can still achieve the look of a dual-module setup in your build.
Filler modules, more commonly known as dummy modules, have become a popular accessory for PC builders in recent years. Corsair pioneered the trend when it launched its Light Enhancement Kits (LEKs), giving consumers an affordable way to populate all the empty memory slots on their motherboards. These visually identical replicas of authentic memory modules enhance the overall appearance of systems, helping consumers achieve that coveted, fully equipped look. Their sole purpose is cosmetic, though. While they light up and synchronize with your existing RGB ecosystem, they don't contribute to your computer’s memory capacity or performance.
Despite the growing importance of aesthetics in PC building, few memory vendors have fully embraced the concept of dummy or filler memory modules. V-Color is the only brand that has invested significantly in the idea. The company not only offers filler modules as standalone packs but also includes them as additional accessories in some of its existing memory kits. Today's announcement marks the launch of new 1+1 DDR5 memory kits designed specifically for AMD systems.
