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  2. Async/await - Wikipedia

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    Instead, it will begin the download process using a non-blocking mechanism (such as a background thread), and immediately return an unresolved, unrejected Task<byte[]> to this function. With the await keyword attached to the Task , this function will immediately proceed to return a Task<int> to its caller, who may then continue on with other ...

  3. Roblox - Wikipedia

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    Roblox allows users to create and publish their own games, which can then be played by other users, by using its game engine, Roblox Studio. [15] Roblox Studio includes multiple premade game templates [ 16 ] [ 17 ] as well as the Toolbox, which allows access to user-created models, plug-ins , audio, images, meshes, video, and fonts.

  4. Fail-fast system - Wikipedia

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    In that sense, a fail-fast system will make sure that all the 10 redundant servers fail as soon as possible to make the DevOps react fast. Fail-fast components are often used in situations where failure in one component might not be visible until it leads to failure in another component as a consequence of lazy initialization. e.g.

  5. Advergame - Wikipedia

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    [10] [11] The Swedish game studio The Gang was founded to create advergames on Roblox for brands. Companies have used Roblox for new marketing methods within advergames, such as Walmart , which has sold real products through the platform, and IKEA , which has hired employees for paid work in its virtual store The Co-Worker Game .

  6. 2024 CrowdStrike-related IT outages - Wikipedia

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    On 19 July at 04:09 UTC, CrowdStrike distributed a faulty configuration update for its Falcon sensor software running on Windows PCs and servers. A modification to a configuration file which was responsible for screening named pipes, Channel File 291, caused an out-of-bounds memory read [14] in the Windows sensor client that resulted in an invalid page fault.

  7. Chris Avellone - Wikipedia

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    Chris Avellone is an American video game designer and comic book writer.He worked for Interplay and Obsidian Entertainment before becoming a freelance designer and writer. He is best known for his work on role-playing video games such as Planescape: Torment, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords and the Fallout series.

  8. Indie game - Wikipedia

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    An indie video game or indie game, short for independent video game, is a video game created by individuals or smaller development teams without the financial and technical support of a large game publisher, in contrast to most "AAA" (triple-A) games.

  9. Non-player character - Wikipedia

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    NPC behavior in computer games is usually scripted and automatic, triggered by certain actions or dialogue with the player characters. In certain multiplayer games ( Neverwinter Nights and Vampire: The Masquerade series, for example) a player that acts as the GM can "possess" both player and non-player characters, controlling their actions in ...