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- Comment on Valheim: Deep North 1.0 1 day ago:
This game is disappointing to be honest. I played it years ago, did about 40 hours without mods and then another 40 with mods. It had so much potential but was lacking some major QoL and basic stuff. I did gave it a good chance and with a ton of mods it was kinda fun, but it felt like I needed to work at it to make it fun.
Years later and basic stuff isn’t fixed. The development has been slow for years and nothing got fixed people complained about. I heard that development was completely stopped and the game abandoned, so I was surprised to see it released as 1.0. But from the looks of it, it’s just a 1.0 badge slapped on and not actually a fully cooked end result.
People still have a lot of fun with it, but playing this without mods is pretty oof.
- Comment on Avast! 2 days ago:
And the name of the ship was the Billy o’ Tea
- Comment on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting 5 days ago:
It is very revealing how the people rebelling against Flock isn’t seen as the people opposing mass surveillance and data being made available to all the cops without cause, due process, oversight, restrictions or consequences for abuse, but instead as the people being against Flock specifically and the same system with a different label would be peachy.
Either they are monumentally stupid or more likely they are corrupt as hell and/or evil.
- Comment on Posted by a school district's official Facebook page in response to a shooting 5 days ago:
I see you baby, shakin that ass!
- Comment on Posted by a school district's official Facebook page in response to a shooting 6 days ago:
That’s less disturbing than the otter who appears to be holding a cut off arm to comfort the bulldog. Perhaps he’s offering it as a snack?
- Comment on Person most likely to be able to survive the Apocalypse 6 days ago:
Survivorman is Les Shroud and he is the real deal. He was a survival expert long before he started to make TV. His whole deal is he just gets dumped somewhere, along with a shitload of camera gear. Then he has to walk out, often walking parts twice to go pick up his cameras.
It’s more about nature with Les and not so much about the surviving part. He does explain a lot about what to do and what not to do, but being in nature and being a part of nature is a large aspect of his show. It isn’t sensationalized, the dangers are never overstated. And he usually has a satphone on him and an agreed time and location for extraction. But he is actually out there for a week all on his own and not like most shows where the crew just drives to a location to shoot a scene and then go back to the hotel later.
- Comment on Photo of Road Runner Snagged by Coyote Shows That Cartoons Were a Lie 6 days ago:
Meep meep
- Comment on Life is hard 1 week ago:
This isn’t just an American car thing, non American brands do this as well. That’s because it’s a good idea. The heater core has way more capacity than the AC, so the air coming out of the vent will still be warm. But running the AC is still a good thing, because it gets the moisture out of the air.
Without running the AC the humidity in the car shoots up and takes a while to clear, with the AC on the humidity stays controlled. This helps clear the windscreen sooner and helps with comfort in the car. It also prevents mold, which if you live in a cold but humid place, can be very annoying. It is very normal where I live to have the AC on in fall and winter, because otherwise the humidity inside the car is very uncomfortable and can easily cause mold all over the interior.
- Comment on just sayin 1 week ago:
Trogdor!
- Comment on Knock knock 2 weeks ago:
It’s a two man job
- Comment on Knock knock 2 weeks ago:
Luke can use his massive dong to knock on the door (image is a side view)
- Comment on Is this true? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah agreed. Even if it wasn’t anything useful, it would be interesting and something to inspire future builds.
Agreed on BotW, although I didn’t like it to start with. It being open world felt actually like a step down, as I liked the exploration in the earlier games where you’d be locked out somewhere and had to find an item to get further. It made me wonder what there was to find and I was excited whenever I got the item so I could go find out. With the world in BotW just being open and mostly empty on top of that, it just felt boring. And I didn’t like the shrines, I felt they were too easy, too short and too gimmicky. The only fun I had with them was trying to do thing in an unintended way.
- Comment on What my crap sees as I check out my handiwork 2 weeks ago:
It’s actually a good idea to regularly check on your poop. The consistency, color and smell can be good indicators for your health. If there’s any problems, you can catch it early and it only takes a few seconds to check.
- Comment on Is this true? 2 weeks ago:
I think Elden Ring is excellent for being open world. People often criticize the open world aspect because the crafting system is kinda dumb, the caves are samey and don’t offer much in terms of benefits or exciting stuff. It’s also hard to find quests and easy to miss them (on top of the bullshit story telling of Souls). And experienced people often just basically do a boss rush where they run from boss to boss. But I actually think it’s excellent and brilliant game design.
I absolutely loved the feeling of having an entire world to explore. The world did actually feel alive for me, with people and stuff everywhere. Different biomes and decent enemy variety (even though there are plenty of repeats). Looking for quests, exploring caves and doing it all felt like fun. Even though I didn’t engage with the crafting much (I did do a bow and consumables challenge run once, but I stuck to just a few kinds of pots and arrows throughout). I felt for me personally it added to the experience.
But in terms of game design it’s a huge step forward. With the older games if you got hard stuck on a boss, that was it. You could go grind the previous level if you were really desperate, but that was about it. Especially for new people, this often meant they didn’t finish the game. A lot of them didn’t even make it past the tutorial boss. With a community telling them to Git Gud, people would assume the games weren’t for them and quit. Which is a shame, because the games are good and worth playing imho. With the open world aspect, there’s no rush to beat a boss. You can go explore, level up, find better weapons and better armor. And with the way the world is laid out, you can go pretty far without ever beating a single boss. Then come back later and beat the boss, maybe a bit over leveled, but that’s fine. If you want the challenge, it’s there, but if you are just a casual gamer looking for a fun time, it’s there as well.
It’s not all upsides tho, as people can also easily get lost and feel like they don’t know where to go. Or miss entire areas because they were following the main quest. So not all rainbow and sunshine, but overall a positive aspect.
The open world also makes for an excellent randomizer, I’ve been absolutely addicted to Elden Ring Rando. So much fun!
- Comment on Some heroes 2 weeks ago:
No? Why would I be a bot?
75W is a lot of heat to be pumping out all the time. In a closed room that can heat it up a lot. Especially in modern German homes with their excellent isolation and triple glazing.
And larger fans can easily go up around 100W or more. Sure it isn’t a lot compared to a 3000W space heater. But it isn’t exactly nothing either. And given it would be running for a long time, that energy adds up.
- Comment on Some heroes 2 weeks ago:
Running an air conditioner when nobody is in the room? Sounds like a true American tradition
- Comment on Some heroes 2 weeks ago:
YSK: Running your fan when you are not in the room actually warms the room. Fans don’t actually cool anything, instead they help the human body more efficiently cool itself. It also helps churn the air in the room, which might make it feel fresher depending on the situation. But it only works directly on humans, because we use evaporation to lose heat. Fans however do use a lot of power and most of that power gets turned into heat, warming the room. So when there’s nobody in the room, turn off the fan.
This obviously doesn’t apply to fans that draw or push air somewhere else. A fan in a window, with another window open opposite can be useful without anybody around. Pro tip: If you want to cool the room you’re going to be (the bedroom for example) using outside air, don’t put the fan in the window in that room. It’s much more effective to put a fan in another room blowing outside and having the window in the room you want to cool the only other open window. It draws in cool air much faster, cooling down the room. Also don’t put the fan directly in the window, fans create a column of air that gets wider with distance. If you put the fan in the window, the column doing the work is about as large as the fan, which is presumably smaller than the window. By putting the fan a bit away from the window, the column can push on the whole area of the window, improving airflow. The optimal location is usually around 1m away. depending on the fan and window.
- Comment on WHY ARE YOU REDEEMING IT!? 2 weeks ago:
DO NOT REDEEM!
- Comment on Following accusations, James Pond Legacy devs say no generative AI was used in creating artwork 3 weeks ago:
As well as the weird dark blob where a detail is added in the “final” result. Why would the blob be there? Unless they started with the “final” result and painted it over to get to the “previous” step.
That and the mangled udders clearly scream AI to me. The original clearly has 4 rockets intended to look like udders. But because of the perspective two of them seem to overlap. So the AI just combined them into one, with a sort of double output? This makes no sense, that’s not how rockets work and that’s not how udders look. It is exactly how AI works tho.
- Comment on I'm convinced I just crossed over. Someone with a English degree please help me. 3 weeks ago:
You can’t just say perchance!
- Comment on Shhhhhhh Don't Tell Mum, You're Fine 3 weeks ago:
Nah my brother (7 years old) just walked downstairs and said: “Yeah, I guess we need to go to the ER”. He had a tiny cut on his head, but it was a gusher, so the side of his face had blood running down. My sister (13) pointed at my brother, screamed about the blood and passed out. Leaving my mum to take care of my sister and my dad to take my brother to the hospital.
The funny thing was, my brother didn’t even feel he got the cut. It wasn’t till we noticed the blood we needed to stop our antics and get it sorted out. Once at the hospital they cleaned it up and saw it was tiny. They used special glue to patch it up and it didn’t even leave a scar. My sister was so upset, she came out worse than my brother. We still make fun of her about that moment.
- Comment on Hello Children 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Crashly! 3 weeks ago:
Leon!
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 3 weeks ago:
Oh no! Imagine having to do extremely simple maths… It’s calculus, hardly maths at all.
The whole point is the “realistic serving size” is a myth. It’s like buying a bag of 30 sweets and having the serving size be 3 sweets. You know I’m going to eat the whole fucking bag in 1 go, so I would like to know the actual nutrition facts.
And like I said, usually both are on the packaging, but the 100 grams one is required by law.
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 3 weeks ago:
In civilized countries the nutrition facts need to be stated in both serving size and 100 grams. This makes it easier to compare products with different serving sizes and also prevents bullshit like this.
- Comment on onions 4 weeks ago:
Yeah it sucks. I can’t eat cooked onions as well as raw or powdered. I do a little bit better with green and red onion in small amounts. But it’s a risky proposition, so I rather avoid the completely.
- Comment on onions 4 weeks ago:
Just regular super markets, perhaps I’ve just gotten better at finding the onion free stuff. I’ve also figured out for some items it says onion powder as an ingredient, but I have zero reaction. It might be just a tiny amount perhaps, not enough to cause a reaction. Or somewhere along the way the recipe changed and a onion substitute is used without them updating the ingredients list. I have also found out the hard way not everything is like that tho and have gotten reactions from stuff with onion powder in them, even in small amounts.
I still remember finding out I was allergic. Apparently my mom knew since I was very small and just made sure I never ate onions. She however never actually told me, or maybe she did and I forgot because I was a kid, who knows. Until I was a teenager and ate dinner regularly at my girlfriend’s place. Not before long we ate a delicious rabbit stew, which also contained a lot of onion. I proceeded to be sick for weeks after. My mom laughed at me saying I was allergic to onions and I was dumb for eating something like that. I said she never told me I was allergic, but she was sure she had. I was so sick, I learnt my lesson and have avoided onion ever since.
- Comment on onions 4 weeks ago:
Fuck you asshole, I love onions, but I’m allergic. After a major incident I have learnt to avoid them completely. Luckily this seems like a common enough thing that onion free versions of stuff are usually available.
- Comment on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life' 4 weeks ago:
Why? He’s been pushing AI like crazy and I don’t think anyone has seen an ROI on that?
- Comment on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life' 4 weeks ago:
Nah that’s not how that works. He might have obtained it legally and accidentally. But he made the decision to then distribute it. He can most definitely get sued for that. If you want to distribute basically anything, you need the right permissions / license for that.
