spankmonkey
@spankmonkey@lemmy.world
- Comment on Great idea 15 hours ago:
It is a take one and leave one setup so they can’t be stolen and the same books aren’t expected to be out there for long periods of time.
Perhaps the most well-known is the extensive beach library at Albena, a restort on Bulgaria’s Black Sea. Designed by German architect Herman Kompernas, it’s built to withstand the sun, water, and wind, and equipped with a vinyl cover to protect the books in rain. It reopened this May with more than 6,000 volumes in 15 languages, all totally free to take — and visitors are encouraged to leave their own tomes for others.
- Comment on Krafton Issue Statement Regarding Subnautica 2 16 hours ago:
The publisher delaying the game would allow them to keep the $225 million.
See how this works?
- Comment on Krafton Issue Statement Regarding Subnautica 2 17 hours ago:
Early release was supposed to be in 2024. We have halfway through 2025.
Lead devs have said the game is ready for early release, so they are taking a break from a game they feel is being delayed by the publisher. The publisher is whining about expectations, not obligations or anything along those lines.
I’m with the devs on this one, project burnout is real.
- Comment on Krafton Issue Statement Regarding Subnautica 2 18 hours ago:
A publisher trashing devs of a beloved game with personal attacks certai ky was a bold move.
- Comment on Krafton Issue Statement Regarding Subnautica 2 18 hours ago:
They did not have any reason to personally attack the leads except out of spite, and odds are high that doing so will only anger the player base towards the publisher.
Trashing the devs was a terrible idea, and what they wrote was clearly petty and spiteful.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 18 hours ago:
Yes. If you don’t have adequate containment then strawberries can absolutely be a weed.
A delicious weed, but still a weed.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 18 hours ago:
If you are happy with the plants being where they are then they aren’t weeds. The main problem is companies that sell plant killing chemicals and services treat the word ‘weed’ as if it had a universal meaning.
- Comment on Krafton Issue Statement Regarding Subnautica 2 19 hours ago:
However, instead of participating in the game development, he chose to focus on a personal film project.
My assumption is that Krafton expected the leads to put in 12 hour days 7 days a week to meet ridiculous expectations and the leads took some vacation time or something along those lines. That would match up with common publisher behavior, especially the ones that trash people publicly.
- Comment on What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"? 1 day ago:
The polite ohrasing is pills of color
- Comment on Why is so hard for musicians to have a good living and be famous? 1 day ago:
If you have the right connections you don’t even have to be good looking or talented!
- Comment on poor jeremy 1 day ago:
Perfection!
- Comment on Jack Dorsey says his 'secure' new Bitchat app has not been tested for security 2 days ago:
Sadly, no.
- Comment on what 2 days ago:
If people don’t want to be ‘insulted’ by low offer then they shouldn’t present it in a format that allows for offers that are ‘too low’. It would take less time to reject the bid they allowed to happen than to write a response.
I have personally purchased at least one thing for 10% of the asking price (around $500) because I was the only one who wanted it and they wanted to get rid of it. That was what it was worth to me, I wasn’t trying to haggle or anything, just made an offhand offer when walking by.
- Comment on what 2 days ago:
Odds are just as high that the example $360 is an insultingly inflated price just like the $20 is likely to be far lower than what someone else is willing to spend on whatever is being sold.
- Comment on what 2 days ago:
I tried to edit to clarify immediately after but there might be some timer before editing.
Your guy was much of a dick about you not taking the offer as the OP seller was about getting a low budget. People who treat ‘make me an offer’ as some kind of preset range and get mad that others don’t agree make the whole offer process painful.
- Comment on Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it? 2 days ago:
Lots of books say that.
- Comment on Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it? 2 days ago:
Most people don’t immediately drown during swimming lessons, so yeah knowing the motions to make means they should be able to handle calm water as long as they don’t panic. Heck, knowing how to do the dead man’s float is enough for the vast, vast majority of people to stay bought for a long period of time.
Toss them in a heavy current and odds of survival are minimal without prior practice.
- Comment on what 2 days ago:
On the rare occasion that I make an offer for something it will be very low because that is what I’m willing to pay to deal with the whole ‘male an offer’ process. A low bid is a low bid, not an insult.
- Comment on People don't know what they are voting for 2 days ago:
- Comment on Anon does some online shopping 2 days ago:
This should be etched into gold as a perfect description of life in 2025.
- Comment on There is no greater loss than that which is inflicted in the name of war. 3 days ago:
The sandwiches were sooooo good.
The parent company screwed over the franchises by bleeding them dry.
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 3 days ago:
Nike is one of the worst offenders when it comes to unchecked capitalism.
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 3 days ago:
Yes, if they have already figured out how to handle bullies in grade school/middle school. Early grade school there was a bully who picked on me and my older brother helped out. By grade five I was the one helping other kids who were being bullied.
A lot of credit goes to youth groups like 4-H for helping to build self confidence and how to care for others. May have been lucky getting a solid local group though.
- Comment on Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties 3 days ago:
Holy shit, they didn’t try to sugarcoat it or anything. Good for the NEA!
- Comment on Hate when it happens! 3 days ago:
Regret forms stones in the kidneys
- Comment on How much spacing while stopped at a red light? 4 days ago:
That works for small cars with hoods that slope to the ground like sedans and station wagons. It is outdated and useless advice for anyone in an SUV, pickup, or the vast majority of vehicles on the road today in the US.
- Comment on Perspective 4 days ago:
Curses!
- Comment on Perspective 4 days ago:
Could be a sconce instead of a weirdly placed handle.
- Comment on Perspective 4 days ago:
Depends on whether the thing in the top right is a sconce or a railing.
I think it is the bottom of the top of the stairs because of the lighting to the bottom left of the mattress. That should be in shadow from the mattress if it was at the bottom of the stairs.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games' proposals would make online-only games "prohibitively expensive to create", argue EU lobby group 4 days ago:
“Private servers are not always a viable alternative option for players as the protections we put in place to secure players’ data, remove illegal content, and combat unsafe community content would not exist and would leave rights holders liable,”
This is obviously true since publishers of games with private servers are constantly being sued for those things. Like continuously sued all the time, never ending torrent of lawsuits!
I’m amazed that all the companies that still put out games that can be played on private servers are able to afford the legal costs!
