I picked up Elden Ring over a year ago and had started it. It was really difficult going around the world and I felt like I wasn’t enjoying it as much as I could because of its difficulty. This was my first experience with a “Souls” game.

I played a bit of Demon’s Souls over the holidays last year on ps3 because I had it on ps+ and was curious. I liked it and it helped me force myself to keep at it with some enemies, as it’s more linear.

That gave me the push to try Elden Ring once more and it then “clicked” and I just kept at it and now I’m having way more fun. I’m going back everywhere because I know I skipped difficult bosses or parts of the game.

I found out that I had skipped over a whole area and went to an even more difficult one, so I was getting a harder game than I should have. Upon going to the now easier map section (and with an upgraded character), I breezed through a huge section.

If you haven’t heard of it, I recommend 😅

Search “what is my ip” on your web search engine to see without and with a VPN connection, to see if you’re really going through the VPN tunnel. Seems like you aren’t.

Apple highlighted three new features coming to CarPlay:

Voice Control: This feature will allow users to navigate CarPlay and control apps with just their voice. Color Filters: This feature will make the CarPlay interface visually easier to use for individuals with color blindness. Sound Recognition: This feature will enable drivers or passengers who are deaf or hard of hearing to receive notifications on CarPlay for driving-related sounds, such as car horns and sirens.

Fire up a wireshark / tcpdump of a transfer and look to see if the TCP window size is limiting the transfer by the laptop. It might not be able to receive as much data.

Look to another service to test the speed. Your test seems web based, have you tried iperf3? You can also play with options in iperf3 (sending udp, tcp, different payload sizes, etc.)

Video games, because it’s easier to do it legally. If it was as easy for other media, I would do it that way.

That would be because the pattern on the first password are correctly spelled words and the way passwords are cracked offline (when there’s a leak of data being sold somewhere) is that they use dictionary attacks.

This means that a big file containing all known words, and can also include known used passwords from past leaks, is used to try a lot of combinations. A combination of good words that appear 1:1 in these word lists will score way lower in terms of difficulty for a computer to crack. A simple script can add spaces and periods (like your example) between words and they WOULD get your password. By adding only one random character that doesn’t fit a pattern (just like your second ‘t’), you basically force the cracker to try all possible combinations of all characters for the length of your password, which is WAY more difficult.

TLDR: There are more combinations of aaaaaaa, aaaaaab, aaaaaac then there are of matching words together for the same length of password (one.one, one.two, one.three)

I don’t understand how people can go to music shows without ear plugs. I don’t even attend metal music, which seem to crank it up to the point of losing sound quality, just for the sake of “bad assery” I guess.

I feel bad for kids being brought to concerts without them, too.

Let’s ban one app instead of making laws that govern personal data for everyone.

The quality of life that came with a regular schedule (having all weekends off!) and the higher salary is immeasurable. I am not stressed about money anymore and I have time to do activities with friends and family.

Hugs and cuddles for me.

I’m not sure I get it. I mean maybe it’s how we define the word silence?

I don’t think it’s possible to be in complete silence (as a human), because we have a moving body following us around. I’ve been in a soundproofed booth and you can hear your blood pumping in your ear canals. Any small movement or humming or whirring or gurgling becomes amplified by the absence around, but between these things there is nothing to hear.

If silence is defined as the absence of movement on the frequencies detected by our ears, then I don’t see how we would be supposed to “hear” nothing. Our brain can filter that absence (actually, it filters every second of every day in our lives), and it can substitute things too - so at a minimim we have unreliable machinery.

It’s an interesting concept, but one I have a hard time grasping how people could be in the perceptual view.

Seems like the community with the best chance of a digital protest is winning. Those posts seem to drown out any good content and rendering the sub useless for new content.

That’s a great idea. Outlook would be great with an option like this. At my job, we were looking recently for a way to announce to all if we’re on site or at home.

I’m with you. I don’t really care which one takes over, but this would be more important to decide than the usb-c decision in the EU. There are huge ramifications on the infrastructure that most if not all countries will start installing everywhere pretty soon.

Doesn’t look to new to me. Seems like it’s just an arranged group travel marketed to solo travellers.

There was definitely lacking in the story department in totk. In botw at least you got to find the villages, get to understand the different cultures etc. In totk being the same, that discovery factor was gone and the story elements were severely lacking. The missions are also very basic and somehow don’t have the satisfaction of completing them.

Hookshot, a good boomerang and more light puzzles!

What I would absolutely love and they could leverage would be to mix both their new open-world and visual style with going back with the sea and island (and more cartoonish) elements of Wind Waker. I adored that game, where each island had its own flair, this could be expanded upon so much with the new engine.

I like the more metroivania style too of finding an element in a dungeon of island and then having it unlock more possibilities later elsewhere. I feel like giving all the powers and tools at the beginning of the newer games has put a damper on this side of the usual formula.

Great essay of a great game.

Theoretically, which location would that be?