"Today you. Tomorrow me."
Balinares
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"Read the fucking room Mal" deserves to become a thing.
I would very heartily recommend it. Go in blind.
What you'll be getting into is a horror game wrapped around a spectacular sci-fi thriller that starts with a strong idea, and then explores it to the depth of its most uncomfortable ramifications. It's the sort of game that's not very long, but absolutely sticks with you for a long time afterward.
The horror elements can be disabled if that's not your jam, and it's a testimony to the strength of the writing and atmosphere of SOMA that even so, it's still a chilling and unforgettable game.
They’ve always been boring
Strongly disagreed. Pre-Oblivion their games were great. Hoping for a return to engrossing stories taking place in a rich, expansive universe was not entirely unreasonable.
Well, dang. This is spectacular.
Well this is absolutely gorgeous. The sense of scale alone!
True. It's still a good aspiration. Maybe we can get there.
Well, damn. What sad news. :(
A CPU performs operations like "read a small bit of thing from the memory into the CPU" and "do a small bit of computation on things inside the CPU" and "put a small bit of thing from the CPU into the memory".
Doing small bits of computation on things inside the CPU is very fast but moving bits of things from or to the memory is slow in comparison. In order to not be slowed down, CPUs read the code ahead of what is currently being executed, and try to guess what is going to happen and what will need to be moved from the memory into the CPU, so they can do it ahead of time, and have the small bit of thing from the memory already available right there in the CPU when it's time to do a bit of computation on it. That way, there is no need to wait on slow memory, and the CPU runs much faster overall. That's a good thing.
In this case, a researcher found a way to make certain CPUs guess what is going to happen with the code wrong, in such a way that the small bits of things that were read from the memory ahead of time do not get properly cleaned up, and can still be found inside the CPU by another program. Those small bits of things might be your password or banking details, so that's bad.
He's an African actually, look it up.
We've got a perfectly good planet right there under our feet and we're failing rather spectacularly at keeping it functional, so as things currently stand the idea we could go to a dead planet and somehow turn it livable is, at the very best, dubious.
If you are interested in the topic, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith of SMBC fame have a book coming on this very subject: https://www.acityonmars.com/.
Stopping fascism wasn't the point. After liberating the camps, they even threw the homosexuals right back in. (Source)
They were just worried that the USSR was going to beat them to Berlin, and then keep going across the entirety of Europe. Likely a valid concern, to be fair.