David Crooks

ITEM ECONOMY 🔹Increased the number of Med Cabinets and Munitions Crates that can spawn on Perimeter 🔹Increased the amount of starting ammo in MIDA, CyberAcme, and Arachne free Sponsored Kits 🔹Reduced the frequency UESC Grenadiers drop EMP grenades COMBAT 🔹Fixed an issue where players could sometimes die instantly in confinement events 🔹Fixed an issue where the shield break screen effects could constantly play when you had a heal over time effect and a damage over time effect on you at the same time 🔹Increased the range gunfire and explosions can be heard from WEAPONS Thermal Scopes 🔹Reduced visual clarity on targets with thermal scopes 🔹Adjusted max distances for thermal highlight: 🔸Pistols: 40 meters (down from 55) 🔸Rifles/LMGs/SMGs: 60 meters (down from 65) 🔸Precision Rifles: 80 meters (down from 100) 🔸Snipers: 100 meters (down from 180) Overrun AR 🔹Increased default ammo capacity by 5

ROOK 🔹Fixed an issue where backpacks could be deleted when exfiling with Rook 🔹Fixed an issue where Rook’s position was not being displayed on the map screen. 🔹Increased CyAc reputation gain from exfilling with Rook 🔹Rook will now have the same Faction reputation bonus for exfilling that solo players receive 🔹Rook’s WSTR shotgun will now spawn as Compromised (Compromised items require use of a Matter Fixative during the run to exfil with the item) UESC 🔹Reduced health of most UESC enemies and shield hp of UESC bosses by a small amount 💡DEVELOPER NOTE: With this change we hope to alleviate some of the resource burden in both Solos and Crews when it comes to engaging UESC in combat. The goal here is to allow your bullets and meds to go further without reducing too much of the UESCs bite. We see the feedback loud and clear that players appreciate the friction that our UESC combatants provide and we have no plans to change that direction. CONTRACTS 🔹Increased default distance objective nav points appear from 10m to 20m 🔹Introducing NuCaloric Contract: Fixed an issue where enemy Crews could receive NuCal contract VO audio and subtitles from a long distance away 🔹Introducing Traxus Contract: Reduced the difficulty of the UESC Commander encounter

OUTPOST 🔹Temporarily disabled switches access route to the Broken Wing on Outpost 💡DEVELOPER NOTE: We are temporarily disabling the "Broken Wing" entrance into the Pinwheel while we make some tuning changes to it. In its current state it trivializes entrance into the Pinwheel. We are making some tweaks to maintain the spirit of the "silent" entrance while better matching the risk / reward of the Pinwheel. Runners can continue to take advantage of all other ways into the Pinwheel (including the additional silent method) in the meantime. REWARDS PASS & STORE 🔹Fixed an issue where Silk balances were not updating correctly without restarting the game 🔹Fixed an issue where bundle prices could be displayed incorrectly 🔹Fixed an issue where cosmetic items might incorrectly say "Savings" when they are full price 🔹Increased the LUX bundle from (1000 + 100) to (1000 + 120) STABILITY 🔹Fixed a rare issue that could cause dedicated server crashes 🔹Fixed several issues that could cause client crashes

GENERAL 🔹Fixed an issue where doors would lock preventing players from finishing the new player intro mission 🔹Updated the description of Perimeter (Beginner) on the Zone Select screen 🔹Fixed a bug where the Text Chat window could get stuck open 🔹Fixed a crash that sometimes occurred when attempting to use an IME Keyboard 🔹Fixed a crash that sometimes occurred when typing quickly with an IME Keyboard 💡DEVELOPER NOTE: Some issues may still remain with third-party IME software and we are continuing to investigate. Windows built-in IME may be a temporary workaround for users who are experiencing issues while we work on a permanent fix. 🔹Adjusted the location of the IME keyboard to be closer to the Text Chat window 🔹Players will no longer see an extended black screen during the map load sequence

Marathon Update 1.0.0.4 is live!

In a field as competitive as frontier AI, this feedback loop if allowed to persist could result in harm well beyond the immediate consequences of the government's actions. Training and serving frontier-level models like Claude requires extraordinary computational resources. Anthropic has already spent over $10 billion on model training and inference (serving the model to end users) and expects to spend many billions more in the coming years. Although the company has generated substantial revenue since entering the commercial market exceeding $5 billion to date—it has nonetheless had to raise more than $60 billion in outside capital to fund its operations. Anthropic has raised this capital by issuing investors equity stakes in the company.

Based on their lawsuit filed against the DoD, Anthropic appears to be admitting that reports about its revenue and costs are fake, saying its revenue to date “exceeds $5bn” and training/inference “over $10bn.” Previous reports said $4.5bn.

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Marathon is so good.

wdym? 1 btc = 1 btc

The one downside of unlocking all of the factions is knowing I can’t see any more of their intros.

A Shadow The Hedgehog promotional image with the caption 'SORRY I FORGOT ABOUT INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY. I SIMPLY DIDN'T REALISE THAT IT WASN'T ALL YEAR.'

Marathon (2026)

Also because the timing is off. This was announced over a month ago.

this is, all else being equal, easily the funniest thing the director of inside out could have said

Every lengthy write-up on "lessons learned" after someone lets an AI process delete their database or all their emails reads like this to me

New city, same curiosity. We're overjoyed to create alongside the diverse minds in Toronto with the same enthusiasm we've shown in Troy, and continue doing what we love most:

✨craft breakthrough games that feel like magic.✨

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Visibility Buffer and Deferred Rendering in DOOM: The Dark Ages YouTube video by Graphics Programming Conference

Our GPC 2025 talks are up on YT now!
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Isn’t that what therapy is for?

Free tip if you’re having trouble now:
(Mild spoiler but I guarantee you won’t regret it)

At some point before you go into the NE dungeon, get at least 25% of the green crystal bar filled up and drop them off back at the Altar of Legacy.

a tekken 3 arcade cabinet, turned off with an a4 white paper typed out note taped to the screen. the note reads: no more tekken 3 until daikatana ships the management

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Anton Chigurh with altered subtitles: If the VS you developed brought you to this... ... of what use was the VS?

Re: vertical slices in game dev: I feel like if you make a VS and you don't wind up shipping the content you made in that VS, you didn't actually make a successful VS.

Oh, this is indicative of how you want the game to look and play? Then why didn't you ship it?

Donning his new canine decoder, Professor Schwartzman becomes the first human being on Earth to hear what barking dogs are actually saying.

Donning his new canine decoder, Professor Schwartzman becomes the first human being on Earth to hear what barking dogs are actually saying.

Unity Asset Store will remove all assets from publishers based in China, Hong Kong, and Macau after March 31, 2026.

I'd really like to understand the bigger story behind this because it has broader implications for growing global divides.

Here's the list: cdn.bfldr.com/S5BC9Y64/as/...

Thanks!

(And do you have a primary source on that news? it is genuinely a bit hard to search for in English google)

By “Unity China”, do you mean Tuanjie?

Replying to @sama If the government comes back with a memo saying that, in their view, mass domestic surveillance is legal, do you do that? Do you do it until the courts bar it, or do you delay until the courts approve it? Second, would mass domestic surveillance be a lawful use right now? 7 143 ıhl 9.7K 贝 Sam Altman @sama • 6m We would not do that, because it violates the constitution. Also, I cannot overstate how much the DoW has been extremely aligned on this point. ... However, maybe this is the question you are really asking: what would we do if there were a constitutional amendment that made it legal? Maybe I would quit my job. I very deeply believe in the democratic process, and that our elected leaders have the power, and that we all have to uphold the constitution. I am terrified of a world where Al companies act like they have more power than the government.

I would also be terrified of a world where our government decided mass domestic surveillance was ok. I don't know how l'd come to work every day if that were the state of the country/Constitution. 25 178 89 ill

wint J @dril g... Hello Sam this is your lawer speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting this shit 9:28 AM • Jul 5, 2020

Sam Altman @sama• 28m I'd like to answer questions about our work with the DoW and our thinking over the past few days. Please AMA. 1.7K 1] 196 1.7K ill 216K Austen Allred @Austen •13m Were the terms that you accepted the same ones Anthropic rejected? 46 ill 4.5K •.. 企 Sam Altman @sama X.com No, we had some different ones. But our terms would now be available to them (and others) if they wanted. 7:37 PM • 2/28/26 • 3.4K Views 9 IT 1 > 22

Altman @sama• 29m X I'd like to answer questions about our work with the DoW and our thinking over the past few days. Please AMA. 1.7K 17 204 1.7K ill 225K nic @nicdunz• 24m G... Which of OpenAl's core principles was the most difficult to reconcile with the DoW's requirements during your internal debates this week? 1T1 • 31 贝 Sam Altman C @sama X.com Thinking through non-domestic surveillance. I have accepted that the US military is going to do some amount of surveillance on foreigners, and I know foreign governments try to do it to us, but I still don't like it. I think it is very important that society thinks through the consequences of this; perhaps the single principle I care most about for Al is that it is democratized, and I can see

They’re calling Sam Altman “the smartest guy with the best responses given the situation.” Everybody is going to love these answers! Absolutely nobody is going to think he’s a horrible goblin man that wants to burn $230 billion on the slop engine of choice for the Iran Conflict

Brian in a Serene in the background with the text Disappointed That's what you get for expecting things

It’s so tasteless, since this joke *should* be used only for retractable bollards

Joe Dante and Hideo Kojima are close seconds but no director was more right about the future of war than Barry Levinson with the 1992 box office flop Toys.