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About clarry
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Comment #23691217
Leave it in gear, that keeps it from rolling off if handbrake fails. Always depress the clutch when you start. Even if you're in neutral, depressing the clutch reduces the load on …
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Comment #23671450
> it's like leaving a parked car in gear What, you want my car to roll off?
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Comment #23671287
> something is screwed up, and I don't know how to fix it, and I end up having to reset and redo a bunch of code, if I didn't back it up. You need to figure out what is screwed up …
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Comment #23661206
What makes washing proper (or improper)? How frequent is too frequent?
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Comment #23626225
> How’s this possible? Software is insecure. > Anyway this can be prevented? Stop using insecure software.
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Comment #23612791
So it isn't even renamed yet. This is news about upcoming news...
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Comment #23604968
But if you can get past the consolization and peer into the story & writing.. it's nowhere near the level of Deus Ex. Most of it feels like generic scifi mumbojumbo that's there to…
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Comment #23604184
I didn't claim to be a fan. How I feel about the success potential of this niche comes merely from observing other gamers (everyone seems to know Deus Ex, Dishonored, etc. and most…
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Comment #23604031
>> Huh. Nobody praised the graphics back then. > I guess our recollections differ then. IGN: As good as the gameplay is, visuals aren't one of Deus Ex's stronger points. Since it's…
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Comment #23602680
> And that's why they won't make any more... you'd be mad to try and do another immersive sim. To be clear, I don't think they even tried, as far as DX:HR is concerned. Instead, it…
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Comment #23601859
I haven't played Dishonored or Prey but if HR is any indication, then they aren't all that great. No comparison to Deus Ex.
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Comment #23601832
> It was mostly the mechanics people seemed to talk about at the time (and the graphics too). Huh. Nobody praised the graphics back then. They were dated on the day Deus Ex came ou…
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Comment #23601017
You don't need to play the first. There are some references to it in SS2 but it's not a big deal.
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Comment #23600502
>> I don't think this can happen today and I also believe this is the reason we don't see anything close to the original Deus Ex. > The solution to that is to look outside of the t…
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Comment #23600197
In that second video, he jumps to Jock's apartment. That one took me years to discover. Same for the collapsed tunnel accessible via the HK canals.. wow, that one is so well hidden…
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Comment #23600080
> then you run through the level for the discovery rewards such as enabling the turret which shots the now non-existing enemies Whaat. I must've played DX at least a couple dozen t…
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Comment #23600046
I played HR for the first time last month and couldn't finish it, because it bored me to death and then gave me stupid boss fights. It's so dumbed down and just doesn't come close …
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Comment #23599915
> In the end, the problem is not the value of the four-year university degree. It's not worth it IMO, even if education is virtually free here on the better side of the big pond. E…
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Comment #23599605
Yep, and all the solutions they can offer is "go to a meetup with like-minded people ROFL"... I guess it is that simple for them.
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Comment #23584319
If I had my way, there'd be no scripts on the web.
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Comment #23584220
Given how IPv6 went, a decade seems optimistic.
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Comment #23574317
If you want to come across as a fadtech startup with shitly named products, then go with .io and .ly.
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Comment #23572827
On the other hand, most of that is stuff that human curation can rightfully reject as not worth linking and indexing. We don't need to index the entire web, we need to index the go…
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Comment #23562717
> how to e.g. read strings from say a CSV file and parse it into an array of arrays of strings > > Does anyone have any pointers here? (sorry) I think this kind of thing isn't disc…
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Comment #23562359
I got my gmail once suspended for 'suspicious activity' after I sent two messages to my home server to test its configuration. (Both mails bounced because the config wasn't right) …