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Dear fedi I'm livid. An acquaintance of mine almost finished college and after doing an *unpaid* six months internship was offered a follow-up contract for less than 500€ a month. If you wonder why European young people are mad that's pretty much why.
I'll be doing anything in my power to make sure he'll never work there so if you have an opening or internship for a young person starting his career let me know.
He'll finish the equivalent of a bachelor in computer science in May next year, has done some six months of hands-on work in security and is one hell of a worker. I can personally vouch for him. He's based in Italy and can do both in-person and remote work, and might be able to relocate to the NL and possibly the UK if need be.
Boosts appreciated.
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I need a bit of motivation today so I'm starting up with a banger that makes me want to pump the volume all the way up to 11. The OP for 1989 theatrical movie "City Hunter: .357 Magnum" (シティーハンター 愛と宿命のマグナム), Weekend Soldier (週末のソルジャー) by Mika Kaneko (金子 美香).
This is the full-length track ripped from the City Hunter: A Magnum of Love's Destination - Music from the Original Motion Picture album (シティーハンター劇場版 ～愛と宿命のマグナム～ オリジナル・サウンドトラック). The album cover contains a notorious misspelling that's extremely characteristic of that period's Engrish.
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Woke up way too early this morning, but at least I woke up to good news in Brasil, Serbia and - even though marginally so - even Ukraine.
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However the game remains playable even without these, and that makes it a marvel of game design. It's pssible to finish the game with the first character alone (Zangetsu) but doing so turns the difficulty all the way to 11.
Your character has a relatively modest jump and reach, which make things quite a bit harder. You don't have other characters to use as bullet sponges so you need to pace your health more carefully. However none of the shortcuts through the levels are available and you're forced to take the longest and more dangerous route every time. On top of this I realized only at the sixth level that the power-ups scattered through the levels are also inaccessible. The result is a brutal quest through 8 levels and some really tough bosses which is as hard as the hardest arcade games of yore. All of this in a game that in casual mode remains very accessible. Truly a small marvel.
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I've been playing Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon and I've enjoyed it more than the original Ritual of the Night.
It's basically a love letter to Castlevania 3 and plays very much like it. It's got a lot of QoL improvements over its ancestor in that it offers ways to tune the difficulty all the way down, but its level design really shines if you try the highest difficulty levels.
In a regular play you get 4 different characters as you progress, with various special abilities that let you chose a path through the levels, and powerups that make your life easier. Since these abilities including flying and sliding in narrow spaces there are plenty of places where the levels are designed around them. 1/2
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TIL that to take a snapshot on Windows 11 without involving the Snipping Tool it's sufficient to press Win + Print Screen. The screenshot goes directly into Images > Screenshot folder and is saved in PNG format.
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Light Sunday reading: this is a very nice interview about the work GoG does with old games, and if you weren't around back when they were released it gives quite a bit of context about what needs to be done to make them work properly in a way that also preserves the quirks of their age
https://www.club386.com/gog-pc-game-preservation-programme-interview/