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Comment Re:Best game (Score 1) 42

It seems mods are nowadays not only fun for the gamers, but essential to make a game work. Cities Skylines is an example, first edition is only really fun thanks to a lot of mods which not only add features but also fix or work around bugs and incompetent parts of the game which won't be addressed by the studio. Even after more than 10 years since release, I feel that game is still early access in its vanilla state. If I knew someone who could snatch a copy of the source code, I could at least see what I could fix for my own personal use.

And there are more recent games which just don't feel finished to me. Sure, a bug can still creep up in certain situations, but not like as if no one had done any decent quality control on it.
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New Large Coral Reef Discovered Off Naples Containing Rare Ancient Corals (independent.co.uk) 13

Posted by EditorDavid from the reefer-gladness dept.
Off the southwest cost of Italy, a remotely operated submarine made "a significant and rare discovery," reports the Independent — a vast white coral reef that was 80 metres tall (262 feet) and 2 metres wide (6.56 feet) "containing important species and fossil traces." Often dubbed the "rainforests of the sea", coral reefs are of immense scientific interest due to their status as some of the planet's richest marine ecosystems, harbouring millions of species. They play a crucial role in sustaining marine life but are currently under considerable threat...

hese impressive formations are composed of deep-water hard corals, commonly referred to as "white corals" because of their lack of colour, specifically identified as Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata species. The reef also contains black corals, solitary corals, sponges, and other ecologically important species, as well as fossil traces of oysters and ancient corals, the Italian Research Council said. It called them "true geological testimonies of a distant past."

Mission leader Giorgio Castellan said the finding was "exceptional for Italian seas: bioconstructions of this kind, and of such magnitude, had never been observed in the Dohrn Canyon, and are rarely seen elsewhere in our Mediterranean". The discovery will help scientists understand the ecological role of deep coral habitats and their distribution, especially in the context of conservation and restoration efforts, he added.
The undersea research was funded by the EU.

Thanks to davidone (Slashdot reader #12,252) for sharing the article.

Comment Phones are not a cause (Score 2, Insightful) 120

by JamesTRexx (#65700812) Attached to: The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society

but a symptom of lazy parenting as I see it.
It began with shoving the kids in front of the TV with weekly toy commercial series instead of interacting with them or stimulating their creativity.
Unless a kid discovers their interest in some activity they'll just seek out easy entertainment and perpetuate that often to their kids later.

Books and (Technic) Lego certainly had an influence on my development towards technology and IT.

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