Silent Hunter 4 is a legendary submarine simulator, but attempting to play the original DVD version on Windows 11 is an exercise in futility. Defunct Ubisoft validation servers and archaic StarForce/Tages DRM will permanently block the game from launching.

The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn’t. By subtracting where it is from where it isn’t, or where it isn’t from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation.

Blue Mountain Beach is one of the 17(?) beach communities that comprise “Scenic Highway 30A” in South Walton County. I lived there from 2010–2015 and spent a lot of time on the beach with my camera. It’s named so, as it has some of the highest dunes on the entire Gulf coast, and the Blue Lupine flower is very prevalent.