Сегодня вышла игра Gotham Knights по комиксам DC. В самой игре, судя по всему, ничего интересного нет. Как минимум, она кооперативная — для полноценного экспириенса нужно иметь друзей, которые играют в ту же игру, и проходить её с ними по сети, выделив одновременно (!) по несколько свободных часов каждому. Ещё и чтобы были доступны сетевые сервера из тех стран, где вы все живёте. Множество невыполнимых условий, особенно для русского 30+.
Но была забавная ситуация — неделю назад в Дискорде разработчики игры сказали, что она не будет поддерживать частоту больше 30 fps даже на консолях нового поколения. Из-за этого игроки начали массово отменять предзаказы, писали об этом в Твиттере, поехала цепная реакция. Как минимум несколько сотен отмен было, потом ещё и отдельный опрос на крупном форуме, который показывал, что игру не собираются покупать в том числе и те, кто до этого хотел.
Лично мне загоны про fps всегда казались странными. Я вижу отличия между 30 и 60, но не сказал бы, что эта разница имеет для меня хоть какое-нибудь заметное значение. Наверное для киберспорта важно, но для получения удовольствия от казуального мультика не критично.
Мне скорее стало интересно: вот эту сотрудницу Warner Bros. Montreal, после сообщения которой начались отмены предзаказов — её же наверняка боссы поругают за потерю некоторой доли прибыли, может даже премии лишат. Следовало ли ей так говорить? Да, она сказала правду, но, уверен, этот вопрос можно было бы как-то обойти. Думаю, игроки уже после запуска не особо обратили бы внимание на fps, и уж точно не такой процент людей стал бы закрывать игру, удалять её и возвращать деньги.
Вроде бы принцип "Нужно быть честным и говорить о своём продукте правду" — это хорошо и правильно. Тем не менее, в реальной жизни следует учитывать ещё и, например, что ваши потребители могут быть истеричками. Отсюда и появляются все эти политически-обтекаемые ответы на вопросы, в которых на самом деле нет никакой сути.
У Азимова в "Основании" описан специальный лингвоматематический набор уравнений, через которые можно пропустить любой текст так, чтобы остался только настоящий смысл этого текста без воды. И там как раз речь одного политического посла пропустили, получился на выходе пустой лист. Вот так нужно разговаривать с толпой :)
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#Ecuador. Sin intervención militar extranjera el estado se confiesa impotente ante el #narco
https://www.clarin.com/mundo/ecuador-fuego-daniel-noboa-admite-hace-falta-apoyo-militar-extranjero-enfrentar-narcos_0_8c6EU5LGos.html
#CrisisPolítica en #Ecuador y ascenso del #narco
Escena 1: estado de excepción tras fuga de narco
https://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2024/01/09/659c874ae85eceba7f8b4599.html
Escena 2: asalto del canal de TV pública
https://www.elperiodico.com/es/internacional/20240109/ecuador-hombres-fusiles-granadas-irrumpen-directo-television-96712542
«El crimen organizado apoyado por los cárteles mexicanos incendia Ecuador»
https://www.abc.es/internacional/crimen-organizado-apoyado-carteles-mexicanos-incendia-ecuador-20240109210641-nt.html
#Uruguay#CrisisPolítica y #narco
https://www.perfil.com/noticias/internacional/escandalo-pasaporte-narco-derivo-renuncia-masiva-gobierno-lacalle-pou.phtml
#GuerraEconómica, #Terrorismo y #narco, el nivel básico de la guerra imperialista
https://www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/entrevista-con-el-exnumero-dos-del-mossad-udi-levy-yo-no-quiero-matar-a-mis-enemigos-quiero-matar-nid30082023/
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Flores, the Venezuelan first lady was also captured in the pre-dawn raid on Saturday in which at least 40 people were killed, including civilians and Venezuelan and Cuban security personnel.
Her lawyer, Mark Donnelly, said she sustained “significant injuries during her abduction” and required medical examination for “severe bruising” on her ribs.
Flores, who had large Band-Aids on her temple and forehead, said, when she entered her own not guilty plea, she was “completely innocent”.
The pair were earlier brought to the court under tight security from the notorious Metropolitan detention center in Brooklyn, whose previous residents include Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, and the singer Diddy.
The jail also once held the former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted on drug smuggling charges in 2024 – only to be pardoned by Trump last month.
Maduro and Flores were transferred to a helicopter for a brief flight to Manhattan then escorted by heavily armed law-enforcement personnel into an armoured vehicle and transferred to the courthouse, where rival groups of Maduro’s supporters and opponents clashed outside.
The surreal spectacle of the 63-year-old president of a sovereign foreign nation in a US courtroom, partially shackled and wearing a blue shirt on top of a neon orange prison scrub and khaki trousers, evoked the the 1991 trial of the Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega and the 2006 public trial of Iraq’s leader Saddam Hussein.
The criminal indictment unveiled Saturday by US attorney general Pam Bondi echoed Trump’s claims that his unilateral military intervention in Venezuela was necessary to stem a flow of drugs into the US.
“Maduro and his co-conspirators have, for decades, partnered with some of the most violent and prolific drug traffickers and narco-terrorists in the world, and relied on corrupt officials throughout the region, to distribute tons of cocaine to the US,” the indictment alleges.
Strikes by the US military on alleged “narco boats” in the months before Saturday’s raid in Venezuela have resulted in at least 110 deaths, leading some legal experts to question if the attacks amounted to war crimes.
But Trump has also justified Maduro’s abduction as a way for the US to seize “stolen” oil from Venezuela, and promised that the US would “run” Venezuela for the foreseeable future while American energy companies take control of the country’s rich oil reserves.
In Venezuela, Maduro’s son Nicolás Maduro Guerra, an elected official, told the national assembly that the US had “kidnapped” his father.
Delcy Rodríguez, Maduro’s deputy who was sworn in to succeed him on Monday, appeared to drop her initially defiant response to the attack, offering to work with the US, hours after Trump threatened that she could “pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro” if she did not bend to his wishes.
Trump’s moves, meanwhile, sparked a global wave of revulsion, and fears that the bombing in Caracas – which he has threatened to repeat if Venezuela does not cooperate – could extend to action in other countries with which he is at odds, notably Colombia, Cuba and Iran.
At Monday’s emergency meeting of the UN security council, Guterres, in a statement read out by a diplomat, said he was “deeply concerned about the possible intensification of instability [in Venezuela], the potential impact on the region, and the precedent it may set for how relations between and among states are conducted”.
He added: “I remain deeply concerned that rules of international law have not been respected.”
#maduro#trump#guilty#lawer#narco#drugs
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Maduro On Trial. Trump’s Iron Grip Can Be Broken
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Maduro pleaded not guilty to drugs, weapons and narco-terrorism charges on Monday, two days after his capture by US special forces in an operation ordered by Donald Trump that sent shockwaves around the world.
The brevity and formality of the arraignment hearing in federal court in Manhattan – barely 30 minutes during which Maduro was asked to confirm his name and that he understood the four charges against him – belied the far-reaching consequences of the US action.
As Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores addressed the court in lower Manhattan, the UN security council held an emergency meeting just a few miles to the north, where a dozen countries condemned the US “crime of aggression” and secretary general António Guterres suggested the operation constituted a breach of international law.
Maduro, 63, insisted to federal judge Alvin Hellerstein that he was “still president of my country”, had been illegally “captured” at his Caracas home, and was “a prisoner of war”.
“I am innocent. I am not guilty. I am a decent man,” Maduro said in Spanish during repeated attempts to speak over the judge.
As he entered the courtroom, shackled at the ankles though not at the wrists, he looked toward the jury box. Before sitting down, Maduro told the public gallery “Happy new year!” in English.
Maduro was dressed in orange slippers, a blue shirt on top of a neon orange shirt, and beige pants. He scribbled notes on a legal pad throughout the hearing.
He faces four US federal criminal counts, including “narco-terrorism” conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy and possession of machine guns and destructive devices. Each charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
He was first indicted in 2020, along with 14 members of his inner circle, as part of a sprawling drug-trafficking case against Venezuelan officials and Colombian guerrillas.
Defence lawyer Barry Pollack made no immediate application for bail, but said he would later file a motion alluding to the “military abduction” he said his client was subjected to.
#maduro#trump#guilty#lawer#narco#drugs
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Gustavo Petro anuncia internet gratis en cárceles y asegura que el whisky mata más que la cocaína.
El presidente de Colombia, Gustavo Petro, anunció que planea instalar internet de fibra óptica gratuito en las cárceles del país y afirmó además que el whisky “mata más que la cocaína” durante sus declaraciones públicas.