Wildmimic

@Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s “The average American reads at an 8th grade level” mean in practice? A worryingly concise explanation.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This demonstrates the issues the US has pretty well. Stuff like MAGA can only work on a large scale when people react only emotionally, not intellectually to information they are exposed to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You both were faster than me!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bye Bye Existence⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  you are right of course, my hollywood damaged brain made the shortcut from explosion to combustion so naturally that i didn’t even realize i added an step lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bye Bye Existence⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It wouldn’t explode, you need an oxidizer for that. But yeah, we would all dissolve into a pile of goo, since the lipid bilayer of the cells would lose their hydrophile component, probably leading to something similar to soapification, and even if that doesn’t kill us, our DNA would degrade in an instant, since oxygen is the binding element between the phosphor atoms which hold the nucleotides together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ain't no way⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, that cat has a long half life

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Shady Acquisition of EA Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This one was an informative and fun watch lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only bat-shaped gummies, i’m afraid.

  Krapfen are the traditional snack in the time called “Fasching”, which starts on 11.11. on 11:11am, and lasts until “Faschingsdienstag"/Shrove Tuesday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In Austria this is a “Krapfen” and they taste great!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Omnomnom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  an asterisk in regular expressions indicates an arbitrary amount of characters, so its probably avocados

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have my favourite bands and classics local (about 18k files), but regulary stream to get to know new bands to listen to. Combining the two makes my library grow (͡⎚◡͡⎚)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Idiot Sandwich

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to Strike Out on your Own⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That does not sound any different than the corporate grind mate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That guy everyone is looking for.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think i saw fat JD Vance down there too!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Containment System for SCP-4508

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbreeze says sorry, reverses price increase on Payday 2 DLC bundle: 'We definitely didn't handle this right'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, i agree on that; when i heard that i thought about jumping in for a month and playing it again; it actually is pretty fun, but it’s simply too expensive to buy in. I would be happy if other games with lots of DLC or expensive DLC considered something similar; Paradox games are the first thing that come to mind, but there’s other stuff like Rimworld where you can drop 100 Bucks on expansions that i simply do not have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hades II v1.0 Is Now Available!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve pulled an allnighter with this game after letting it sit in my library since it was in early access, it’s fucking awesome! i’ve stopped an hour ago because i realized that i started to slow down and make more mistakes; gonna take a nap and then it’s on again lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad we’re both having a good time with that game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Deadlink is a great roguelike arena shooter, give it a whirl!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, there are meta upgrades; the gear is a parallel system to those upgrades.

  And yes, things are more straightforward; you always get a few unlocks that you are close to shown at the start of a run.

  I have Soulstone Survivors here, but didn’t have time to try it out yet, so i can’t say anything to compare the two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Progression is slower than other survivor games, but they have increased the pace and added a mechanic with gear drops, which smooths out the curve. All in all it’s one of the top survivor games i’ve played. I would place Vampire Survivors (because of the huge amount of content) and Halls of Torment (because i absolutely love the style) above it, but for me DRG:S is a solid 3rd place (and i’ve played quite a lot of bullet heavens)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cronos: The new Dawn, it has a great Dead Space feeling. I’m not far yet, but i like what i’ve seen so far.

  and Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor has hit 1.0, so if i’m looking for something to play without having to think that’s my goto this week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  alternatively use mullvad leta which simply does not display the horrendous google AI summaries. :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are lucky and get your hands on a AM5 platform i agree, that would be even cheaper. keeping your eyes open on secondary markets can pay off for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really depends on the cost and availability of the GPU. I tried to look up the costs for the US, but those price spikes (some cards that go here in europe for 200€ run for 2300$ there, wtf?) make it hard - therefore it's really a case of "what is available and in the performance/buck range i'd like".

  That said, you CAN get away with an about 1/3 Passmark score slower card for entry, which should open the field even on the US market.

  Further probable cost reductions are the NVME drive - you can halve the space, but with game installations for AAA games cracking the 100GB mark, i wouldn't recommend it unless you have a lightning fast internet connection and dont have an issue with swapping the installed games in and out.

  You can further reduce costs at the PSU by reducing efficiency (i went for 80 plus GOLD standard, which gives you around 88% efficiency according it's certificate), but what you save there at buying you pay with your energy bill.

  Last thing you can do is reduce RAM to 16GB - for normal operation it's still enough, but we're very close to the point where 32GB become mandatory for good performance and it would be the first thing to upgrade - at least it would be easy and not very expensive to do so.

  Taking all that together you can surely drop the costs here in the EU by around 100-150€ without losing upgrade potential, at the cost of dropping detail levels in AAA games to medium and probably some swapping issues with very RAM-dependent games (i'm looking at you, modded minecraft ⎝❮Ỡ益Ỡ❯⎠ ).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If your tight on money, building a system will always come out on top in the long term, specifically in terms of upgrade paths to keep up with the times. In that mini pc you won't have any upgrade option except maybe swapping the SSD, and not even this is guaranteed - could be soldered on too. So the only thing you can do is replace the whole thing again, having the full cost again.

  Get yourself a mainboard, a nice Ryzen CPU, an dedicated GPU, 32 Gigs of RAM and an NVME drive, a Case and PSU your done.

  I've done the works for you and slapped together an entry level gaming pc with lots of upgradeability:

  https://geizhals.at/wishlists/4654924

  This system is expandable in every way:
  - The Cpu is on an current AM5 socket and you can upgrade whenever it starts to be the bottleneck
  - You can simply double the ram when you decide to, but 32 GB is fine for now
  - The PSU is decently sized and should support pretty much every sensible upgrade, just have an eye on it if upgrading the GPU
  - The Mainboard has a lot of M.2 slots available to add more fast disk space and you can add sata disks in addition
  - The Case has cable management, place for 2 hdds for tons of storage if needed and good connectivity (usb3, usb-c, audio, sdcard)
  - The GPU is fast enough for current titles in 1080p, and older titles should run on 1440p too.

  Disclaimer: i don't know where you are so i took that graphics card because it's a good price here and has nice performance without burning a hole in your purse, ymmv depending on where you live. You can definitely take a tad slower card and be fine - look up the card on https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/ and look for a card in that range that is priced good at your location, but dont go below 8 gb vram or you wont be happy.

  And the next time you think your pc is too slow identify the slowest part and replace it (and sell off the old part), meaning that every few years you invest a little bit instead of a completely new mini-pc. same with broken parts - simply replace the part instead of the whole pc. it's better regarding e-trash too.

  Regarding the Steam Deck: it's a nice device and i love mine to death, but for a main gaming rig it's neither powerful enough nor upgradeable enough - you would be back at playing about the same stuff performancewise you do now.

  The steam deck can only play pretty recent titles because it only runs on 1280*720, and uses upscaling, which doesn't matter on the small screen, but it matters a lot on a larger display - i haven't tried using my steam deck to play cyberpunk hooked up to the TV, and i won't try it, because it's clearly too underpowered for that and would simply suck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oxygen replenished via endocardial tubes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  B and C are an upside down dick and balls you mean