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Are you looking for something to play with your Dad or something for your Dad to play with other people?

Terraria is great if you want to play with your Dad. The basic controls are simple and you can help with the complex parts of the game.

3D games tend to be difficult for old non-gamers to learn. They have a lot of trouble moving the camera and moving themselves at the same time. This includes first-person 3D games like minecraft. If you watch old people play they wind up staring at the floor or sky a lot. 2D games are usually easier to start with.

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The same things happens. However, it does work sometimes but I can’t isolate the circumstances under which it works. When I first got your message it worked but then it didn’t when I retried it later.

I have my firefox set to clear just about everything when I exit it. This includes history and cookies and stuff. I wonder if that could be related.

EDIT: Middle-click to open works fine roughly 1/5 to 1/10 of the time. Tested this by middle-clicking the bell a bunch.

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It probably doesn’t. Russia and Australia are very high on this chart because they have a lot of oil and gas and mining. The pollution from those is assigned to the producers (Russia, Australia) instead of the consumers.

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I can, here’s what errors I’m seeing. I’m using Firefox on Win7. I can give more details if needed.

TypeError: AE.Instance.user is undefined

TypeError: this.subscription is undefined

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That’s obviously what somebody on the Virus team would say. What did the other team say we should do?

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There was a better version of this meme where the US is both in front of and behind Nazi Germany.

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Cost should be about 15 bucks for all parts, and maybe take a DIY person half an hour.

If you’re not a DIY person, make sure you have somewhere else to shit for a while. You may need to make a day of it.

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It’s important to have both applied science and fundamental research. Fundamental research is how we find new unexpected breakthroughs that don’t derive from simple iterative improvements of existing processes. NASA and space exploration in general is essentially engineering-heavy fundamental research.

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That’s some great graphic design, simple but evocative.

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It’s not feasible in games like Cyberpunk. Stealth has to be balanced with guns-blazing gameplay. If you make stealth significantly worse then almost everybody will just start shooting instead. There will be a small group of people who’ll do stealth basically regardless of how good it is, but you can’t game design around a small minority of gamers. The best you can usually do for this type of game is add basic option stealth gameplay that smoothly transitions to FPS, i.e. you can snap a few necks to start out with and then start shooting when the alarm gets raised.

Stealth gameplay is especially hard to design because it requires a lot of effort in level design. You can’t just design the stealth gameplay-loop once and call it a day, you have to integrate stealthy gameplay in every area you add. This is why you can’t add good stealth to every game, it’s too labor-intensive to add if only a few people will benefit from it.

This is why just about all the games with good stealth are dedicated stealth games. You design each area with stealth in mind since that’s how all the gamers will be playing and you make your combat options shitty so you’re forced to play in stealth mode the whole time.

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