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    9 hours ago

    You can buy artificial diamonds for fairly cheap. Like, we’re talking so cheap that they’re put onto angle grinder discs.

    It’s just propaganda/stupidity that folks continue to pay insane prices for mined diamonds. Well, in part it is the point, to spend a lot of money. If we didn’t treat diamonds as expensive, we’d find something else to waste money on. It’s not like diamonds were so beautiful or useful, that they were worth the price to begin with.




  • Yeah, then you should get a mod for that. I can absolutely understand your qualm. Morrowind came out in an era when RPGs were still computerized DnD, and that’s a design decision which aged particularly poorly.

    Admittedly, it was also perhaps just a bad design decision in general. In DnD, you don’t either roll a dice for each sword hit. Nor are you able to miss an enemy from just not being near enough. At the very least, they could’ve played a different sound, if your sword connects, but does no damage.


  • Yeah, it is the green bar. And yes, it drops from attacking.

    As has already been said, stamina potions are often quite worth it. But it also helps, if you switch to walking for approaching an enemy, for example (instead of running). If you’re sprinting across the landscape and get ambushed unexpectedly, then yeah, the game punishes you for being exhausted.

    In general, Morrowind is much more roleplay than the later parts. You can optimize the fun out, by waiting around until your stamina recovers, every so often. But the game gives you enough opportunities to become filthy rich and overpowered, so that you shouldn’t need it.





  • Speaking of the combat, I can’t say i’m a fan. Maybe there’s something i’m missing but it’s definitely a lacking point of it. I just find myself jabbing at the enemies until either one of us drop dead.

    One thing that’s perhaps not obvious from today’s viewpoint, is that stamina affects your hit chance quite a bit.

    It is also a good idea to be rather skilled in your weapon of choice.

    And of course, the real pro tip is to install a mod which changes the hit feedback. 😅





  • What I always find frustrating about that, is that even a colleague with much more Bash experience than me, will ask me what those options are, if I slap a set -euo pipefail or similar into there.

    I guess, I could prepare a snippet like in the article with proper comments instead:

    set -e # exit on error
    set -u # exit on unset variable
    set -o pipefail # exit on errors in pipes
    

    Maybe with the whole trapping thing, too.

    But yeah, will have to remember to use that. Most Bash scripts start out as just quickly trying something out, so it’s easy to forget setting the proper options…


  • I don’t have the Bash experience to argue against that, but from a general programming experience, I want things to crash as loudly as possible when anything unexpected happens. Otherwise, you might never spot it failing.

    Well, and nevermind that it could genuinely break things, if an intermediate step fails, but it continues running.


  • The problem is that all of this happened outside the law. Calling it a “DMCA takedown” is misleading, because it’s not making use of the DMCA’s mechanisms. There actually are hefty penalties for false DMCA claims, but only if you file them with a court.

    I assume, Valve may be liable as well, for distributing copyrighted material (especially after they’ve been notified of it). At the very least, YouTube also has a system like that, where they allow claimants to bully creators with no repercussions.
    Basically, Valve, YouTube et al need their own copyright takedown system to be preferrable for companies, so that those use it instead of filing an official DMCA claim.

    Of course, the root cause of the problem is still the DMCA.




  • Huh, so if you don’t opt for these more specific number types, then your program will explode sooner or later, depending on the architecture it’s being run on…?

    I guess, times were different back when C got created, with register size still much more in flux. But yeah, from today’s perspective, that seems terrifying. 😅