Nighed
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- Comment on How do you set up wake up alarm and not miss it ? 8 months ago:
Android lets you set custom alarms. The best one I have is a recoding of me screaming into my phone to “get the fuck up”
- Comment on Yelp is making me get their app to confirm my restaurant reservation 8 months ago:
If I don’t give it any permissions, does it actually do anything though? They only run when the app is open I assume?
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3: Patch 7 Now Live! 8 months ago:
Now that’s a good set of patch notes!
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I mean, my understanding is that they fired half of their story continuity team, resulting in a published (physical) lore book that makes no sense.
So now I don’t think they are even trying
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Druids currently have 7 trees. (And a treeent form)
1 class tree, 4 spec trees and 2 hero trees. Only 3 can be used at any one time though (to be clear as you don’t currently play)
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
They can’t write good stories any more, don’t expect good main story, just good side quests.
It still feels like this expansion was too early (as usual) and many classes could have done with more time in the oven (druids and rogues)
On the talents - they realised that they can’t just keep giving us stuff, so they have switched to having some kind of ‘borrowed power’ that gets taken away after the expansion - I think the hero talents are another example of this? Some are shit though and I imagine it’s going to be balance hell (rip boomkins too lol), as they never seem to learn with this stuff.
It’s the endgame group content that actually sells wow for many people (me), so as long as that works and it’s ok balance wise (or alts can be leveled easily) then it’s probably ok for quite a few people though.
Disclaimer: have not got early access, have bought the expansion, but left it really late to decide.
- Comment on Why is goverment debt not calculated as a % of tax revenues instead of GDP? 8 months ago:
Tried to answer, but it got very convoluted, here it is anyway as I typed it out…
Because that’s a less useful metric basically, to change their budget a government can:
- increase existing taxes
- add completely new taxes
- print money (depending on the level of government)
This means that a budget can swing quite a bit in value quite quickly if needed (or if something goes wrong). This means the % could swing quite widely.
GDP on the other hand is effectively the value of the economy, so moves slower and is a better metric to compare different countries with different economies and tax systems (assuming they tell the truth about their GDP…)
Ultimately, if a government needs more money, most of the time it can get it… But whatever they do will have side effects. But those side effects depend on the size of the economy, the bigger the economy (measured by GDP) the more can be done/taken without causing a large effect.
Both of these fail to highlight countries that already have a high tax load though, so in practice a wide range of metrics will be used.
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VII - Gameplay Reveal Trailer 8 months ago:
There was something said (maybe by a youtuber?) about upgrades merging with your town centre or something on a new era (because so much is specific to a single era). Almost like playing 3 games on the same map.
It also implies that tech disparities will be reset twice a game…not sure if that is good or bad.
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VII - Gameplay Reveal Trailer 8 months ago:
Also a possibility of a humankind style neolithic era?
But yes, expecting some required DLC unfortunately.
But civ is a patient gamer staple - just wait for 8 to come out and 7’s dlcs will be cheap! 🤣
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VII - Gameplay Reveal Trailer 8 months ago:
Interested how the map expansion will work in multiplayer.
Concerned about the era resets.
I like what they appear to have taken from humankind (eras, leader swaps, outposts/yowns, map elevation?) and old world (tile improvements culture bomb)
Also concerned about how the maps seemed to just be cities, no gradual domestication of the world with farms, mines etc.
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VII - Gameplay Reveal Trailer 8 months ago:
I would bet that there will be a new space age era added on as a DLC
The ages concern me most though - what progress carries across? Are you going to be going full land grab because your infrastructure resets etc?
- Comment on Anon rides a bike 9 months ago:
I find the ones on roundabouts near me insulting, instead of being on the road and having right of way, you now have to sprint across two lanes of traffic without any right of way. - more dangerous!
Most of the rest are just wide pavements. Technically segregated, but you have to give way on every side road (when your not manoeuvrering around entire families) - technically safer, but not nice to use.
The rest are just short and spit you back out onto the road without and protection or markings.
London has some good ones though.
- Comment on Anon rides a bike 9 months ago:
Most bike lanes are worse than riding on a road unfortunately. Especially for confidant cyclists.
I equally hate those that break/bend the rules of the road, whether on bikes or in vehicles.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
On the one more lane thing, going from 1 lane each way to two is a massive improvement as it allows overtaking.
Agree otherwise.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
If they took it right through the hills and brought out out by Winterbourne Stoke then it would be much better I think?
Most of the traffic is through traffic anyway. Bringing it up by Long Barrow Roundabout (it’s in the name!) was crazy.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
I mean, it’s a bottleneck heading back towards London too, between the barrow roundabout and Stonehenge is often a mess in both directions. Mostly due to people looking at Stonehenge instead of the road.
It’s less about improving the trains and more about making them cheaper! (Not that I would complain about some new lines either!)
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
I mean it would speed things up, I think the plan involved a bypass for the village next to it too?
I didn’t agree with the location of the tunnel though, so kinda happy it got canned.
- Comment on Full Cities: Skylines 2 Economy 2.0 Patch Notes Revealed as Huge Update Goes Live 10 months ago:
Direct link to patch notes; …paradoxplaza.com/…/patch-notes-1-1-5f1.1687527/
- Comment on How did we switched from "Dinosaur are giant lizards" to "Dinosaur are giant birds" 10 months ago:
I was more thinking en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan_Traps
- Comment on How did we switched from "Dinosaur are giant lizards" to "Dinosaur are giant birds" 10 months ago:
It’s still a hell of a long time if you consider that the entirety of recorded (ish) history is only a few thousand years long.
Updated comment to remove an order of magnitude.
- Comment on How did we switched from "Dinosaur are giant lizards" to "Dinosaur are giant birds" 10 months ago:
It’s not X turning into Y when it comes to evolution. There were all kinds of different dinosaurs, that evolved I to all kinds of different niches. Most of those then went extinct due to rocks falling from the sky, or the entirety of India turning into a huge volcano etc.
So it’s not that a T-Rex turned into a chicken, it’s that T-Rexs lived alongside other dinosaurs that developed feathers and filled more niches etc. those that survived eventually became birds. (Have you ever seen an Emu up close?!? No wonder the Australians lost to them 🤣)
Disclaimer: I have no specific knowledge, remember this happened over (billions?) of years.
Other comments about just not noticing feathers are valid too.
- Comment on Spotify Premium User Slams App Over Audiobook Feature 11 months ago:
oooh, ty
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
they just send a OTP to your email with the idea that you should be keeping your email secure (and that email providers are more secure than they can be)
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
The whole site seems like a PoC - the accounts don’t even have passwords! (I could actually kinda get on board with this)
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VII - Official Teaser Trailer 11 months ago:
I just hope (foolishly) that with the current hype that it’s AI will be a focus. I hate that because it cheats things that would work on me don’t work on the AI etc.
It would be really cool if they made an API for the game so people could build their own AI
- Comment on Galacticare Has Got That Old Bullfrog Spirit 11 months ago:
It’s refering to a defunct games company: …wikipedia.org/…/List_of_Bullfrog_Productions_gam…
- Comment on Extend success of UK sugar tax to cakes, biscuits and chocolate, experts urge 11 months ago:
And taste worse…
- Comment on My RuneScape-inspired fitness RPG, WalkScape, has a new Closed Beta wave starting one June 1st! 11 months ago:
Do you have integration with and fitness apps to retrieve non phone step counts?
I have a Garmin watch that does all my health tracking etc.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Dammit, I came here to make that comment!
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking 1 year ago:
It really depends on the company. You can make fully remote work, you can make 20-40% work or you can do 80-100% work. However the company needs to be run with that in mind to ensure good communication/team building etc.
You also can’t just change the rules. If you change the split someone is going to be unhappy.
(And accept that your possible talent pool is reduced when you don’t offer remote work)