Whitebrow
@Whitebrow@lemmy.world
- Comment on DST 6 hours ago:
I wish it was that simple.
Most large (and probably majority of small) cities experience this phenomena to some degree, most noticeable are ones that have aging architecture that wasn’t built to accommodate the ever growing heat.
It’s not even a question of using blackout blinds or putting UV reflective film on your windows or painting the roof white or even running the AC for as long as your wallet will allow you to.
The walls get hot. The ground gets hot. The roofs get hot. The air itself is hot. And it’s getting hotter (referring to the last decade+ as a trend)
Any reflective surface gets progressively more aggressive (glare and redirected heat) and anything that is not reflective is absorbing the heat at unprecedented levels the stronger the sun rays get, any dwellings not specifically engineered to deal with any of these heat phenomena are subjecting its dwellers to the consequences of not having any policies that would force these dwellings to be habitable in summer months.
This isn’t a problem that can be solved by simply packing my shit and moving, this is a systemic problem that we’re (more or less world wide) failing to address since the whole global warming thing is not being actioned at nearly the urgency it warrants.
With all the above said, there’s also the question of job availability and housing affordability, which is adding extra layers to this already delightful shit cake.
In short: It’s not that I don’t want to live with the penguins and caribou as my neighbours, it’s that I can’t afford to.
- Comment on DST 18 hours ago:
Man, screw DST. I just want my room to have a chance to cool down a bit from the blazing sun and incessant climbing temperatures before I go to bed.
- Comment on Nintendo Lowers Pricepoint For Digital Versions of Switch 2 Games 4 days ago:
Very few of them do, grand majority are just game key cartridges.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 5 days ago:
Same here and the battery is holding up pretty well even after all these years which is a nice surprise
- Comment on Prisoner peeing on the libs? 1 week ago:
I guess they took the L in more ways than one
- Comment on When you know you have great friends 2 weeks ago:
Dibs on plants
- Comment on Awkward interaction with my doctor 5 weeks ago:
If it can be corrected in 30 seconds or less, mention it so they can address it, if it’s something that can’t be fixed on the spot or quickly, then no.
- Comment on Tune a fish 5 weeks ago:
If I want the tuna salad, I’ll order tuna salad.
Also if I’m walking up to a sandwich shop or a restaurant that serves tuna steaks on a grill or something of the sort and say “I’ll have the tuna” the assumption is, they know I what I mean (variance for multiple dishes not included).
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 1 month ago:
Is it really that different though?
Lets say you get the 1 month pass, play any games you want and are part of that “service” for the duration, once it runs out you lose access to the games (unless you crack the downloaded files for them which would be like not returning the “rented” game I guess)
Personally just feels like the same scam cable tv was and now transforming into streaming services with ads.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 1 month ago:
Don’t microslop and friends peddle some game pass and similar subscriptions? Game rental with extra steps.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Geese are at least forthcoming with their intent to mess you up
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 1 month ago:
Unfortunately up here the Benjamins to beaver bucks conversion rate sucks. And then we have to pay 15% tax on top.
So anything that’s trying to follow that logic breaks apart real quick, even when there’s 10% off on launch, still comes out to more than the full price would be… :(
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 2 months ago:
In this economy?
- Comment on Woops 2 months ago:
You know it’s fake because there’s no way the ICE clowns would know which country to send him back to.
- Comment on A Jamaican accent just makes me smile 3 months ago:
I hate that I can hear this as I’m reading.
- Comment on Boing. 3 months ago:
Somebody make this into a free game on steam with some dumb achievements and being able to change the colour of the nub if you do it 100 times or something.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 4 months ago:
Not sure how recent we’re talking but within the last year or so my 2 biggest disappointments have been once human and nightingale. I can usually work around jank and weird creative decisions, but unfortunately neither of these two were worth any of the time I’ve spent playing em since they felt like they didn’t seem to want you to progress.
Played once human for about 3 days, nightingale for around 3 hours and then refunded.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
And tarkov isn’t even on steam… yet?
- Comment on Good Halloween Games 4 months ago:
Look Outside just had a major 2.0 patch. Solid horror game. And it’s 30% off at the moment.
- Comment on GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders 5 months ago:
- Comment on GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders 5 months ago:
Launched the other day if you want to throw a bit of money to their cause
- Comment on Steam Next Fest is back for October 2025. What good demos have you found? 5 months ago:
Releases in like 20 hours from the time of this comment!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Steam is fine, for the most part, but steam is also DRM. Personally I opt to buy games on GoG, because whatever releases there, you can download the installer and play offline, anywhere, anytime, and due to the platform requirements it strips a lot of the extra nonsense of requiring accounts and launchers and such.
The one downside is some publishers/developers don’t have the latest version on there or release on there later as definitive builds, but it’s better than having to deal with all that nonsense to begin with.
- Comment on Asus ROG Xbox Ally Gaming Handhelds Cost Up to $999.99, Preorders Open Now 5 months ago:
For M$ to subsidize some of the cost of the hardware seeing how it’s their “next leap” for the Xbox? Or something along those lines.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 6 months ago:
- Comment on Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character 6 months ago:
I’m not sure steam deck would even be considered “high cost” since you can get a refurbished unit directly from steam for about half the price of a switch 2.
And even a brand new one is still cheaper.
Plus there are parts and instructions available on how to fix and replace pieces yourself should that ever be needed, unlike some drift issues from Nintendo’s controllers where they basically tell you to spend more money or get bent.
- Comment on GOG NSFW Giveaway 7 months ago:
Cancel and try to redeem again, I sometimes end up in the dumb loop for no reason as well.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 7 months ago:
Good list.
Vampire the masquerade bloodlines also deserves a honourable mention
- Comment on Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader dev Owlcat comes out swinging in support of Stop Killing Games: 'Every player deserves lasting access to what they’ve paid for' 8 months ago:
Not sure if this applies to you, but when it just released early on, there were difficulties between versions and save games from earlier ones didn’t play nice after updates, so I struggled to get through act 2, but then I disabled the auto update and played through it pretty much flawlessly, granted I had to start a new save file.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 8 months ago:
At the workplace if anybody says “we’ve always done it this way” during a meeting where we tackle a problem, that means it’s time to change the hubris because it clearly doesn’t work for us anymore.
