I found a box of CD-Roms and floppy disks in my mum’s basement and damnit, I want to play them! I could use emulators, DosBox or VMs but it’s never quite the same as having the real thing, so between an eBay mobo and a box of old parts I managed to build my new gaming rig to cover 1990-2005....
That sounds like a fun project, although I’d recommend XP over Me. XP has a DOS emulator, and it’s a lot easier to configure drivers for.
My favorite games from that era are Star Wars: X-Wing and Wing Commander: Privateer. Both games stood out as exceptional back then. Warcraft was also an excellent game. Command and Conquer is worth checking out too.
Edit: I’m pretty sure I played the first two games on Windows 3.2, so I’m not sure how they’ll play on Me or XP.
That’s why I still have RAM pairs from every computer I’ve ever built in a box in the garage. I’ll probably never use them again, but I spent so much money on them, and it took so much research to get the right ones, that I can’t bring myself to throw them away.
I never did play Squadrons. I joined the Army right after the X-Wing era and had a several year gap where I didn’t touch a computer at all.
Now that I think about it, if these are straight-up DOS games then you don’t need Windows at all. You can just load MS-DOS and then run the game straight from the command line. I think you’re right that XP broke a bunch of old DOS games. It’s been so long that I completely forgot we were mad at Microsoft for the removal of DOS back then and the move to an emulator only experience.
Why do they need any of that? The transporter can rebuild a person from scratch. Why not just transport them and use their previous pattern record to remove the injury or illness?
They’ve already changed the design of these dryers so that the water from your hands is sprayed on the floor instead of collecting at the bottom of the dryer.
Apparently if the majority of your camp supplies are alcohol, the game now gives you a hangover debuff after a long rest. Thankfully it doesn’t last very long, but that’s a fun little update.
I did just use auto selection like always, and didn’t pay attention to what was chosen. I’m guessing it was mostly booze and that’s why it happened. You saw this when the game first came out? This is the first time I’ve seen it in 2.5 playthroughs.
That’s fun. Someone said this was just added back in February, so I’m guessing there’s a specific number of booze as supplies that you exceed to trigger it, while still being less than “all booze”.
I failed the strength check despite being a paladin and using inspiration. I never saw him again even after getting through nearly all of act 2. I’ve asked this before, maybe even in this community, but no one gave a concrete answer, likely because the game was still new.
He’ll also just stand around near the entrance of the grove on the left side of the road, just past the gate. I didn’t even know existed my first playthrough until I was through with the Underdark. Then I read about him online, went back, and found him there.
Walmart is not low cost. The cost of shopping at Walmart comes from cheap items that look like their branded equivalent but are specifically made for sale at Walmart’s low pricing and only last 10% as long as the real thing, stolen wages from your community’s citizens, small businesses run out of town, decreased property values, and so many other negatives. There’s a valid reason why homeowners almost always fight against Walmart opening in their neighborhood. It’s a trash store that costs a lot of the back-end. Costco on the other hand sells quality goods, treats their employees fairly, and has great warranty and return policies. Don’t shop at Walmart, it is a threat to your community.
Did they though? When wages have stagnated for decades? It’s really easy as a middle or upper class person to say “what’s a dollar here and there?”, but as a poor person it’s the difference between running out of money before payday or not. The long term cost of shopping at Walmart is greater than the short term savings, but poor people generally do not have the luxury of thinking about the long term.
Well yeah. People’s entire life savings are wrapped up in their houses. We all saw what happened in 08 when the housing market crashed. It would cause absolutely massive fallout if people’s largest asset that they’ve been investing in their entire lives lost a bunch of value. It’s unfortunate that they’re not more affordable, but devaluing them would be catastrophic.
I’m all in favor of preventing corporations and investment firms from purchasing houses, and also foe heavily taxing private home ownership after the first one. I think that would bring the demand down to reasonable levels. The houses would still appreciate due to increasing population levels through birth and immigration, but it would hopefully keep it in the affordable for average people realm. It makes sense for your largest investment in your entire life to appreciate. It absolutely doesn’t make sense when a home triples in value in 3 years. That is causing its own financial catastrophes.
Slowing their appreciation seems like a better solution for people who bought in the last few years. Having their homes lose value in a controlled manner would ruin some people. They’d not only lose money on their life savings, they’d be trapped, unable to ever move without paying even more money, or filing bankruptcy if they don’t have more money to lose.
Your question starts from a false premise though, that nobody except for the wealthiest can afford to own a house. I’m from the USA, not Canada, so I had to look up the statistics for your country. You’re definitely facing a crisis, and if nothing is done, then your statement will probably be true sooner, rather than later, but it’s not accurate today. The prices of homes up there are certainly preventative for working class families, but depending on the area there are still middle class citizens buying homes. It would be disastrous for them if their homes - which have traditionally been the one source of financial stability - suddenly plummeted in value.
I totally get your sentiment since we’re facing a similar situation down here. Something needs to be done. Ideally that something doesn’t completely screw over millions of working class citizens who have made all the right moves, have been disciplined and financially wise, and through no fault of their own find themselves on the shit end of the stick yet again.
I think blocking investors and corporations from buying houses is a good step in the right direction, and probably making them sell the houses they already own too. That alone would open up a lot of inventory and stop the massive appreciation we’ve seen over the last half decade. That of course carries its own set of challenges though. What do renters do who can’t afford to buy a house, or don’t want to buy a house, when they suddenly have no more rentals available?
Idk man. I’m glad that I’m not the one who has to sort these problems out. My only point is that I hope they consider the millions of working class citizens who already own homes as they plan their solutions.
I want to put the steak onto a hot pan to get that sear on the outside and uh lock in the flavor or something. But butter burns at high heats and oil doesn’t add flavor like butter....
I used to run a cooking blog, so I’ve watched dozens of world renown chefs prepare steak, and I’ve tested many different methods myself. The most popular and tasty method by far is to brush the steak with olive oil and sear it over high heat, finish cooking at lower heat, and then baste it with butter when it is finished. You can either baste it with butter in the pan, adding aromatics as desired, or just brush it down with butter and let it rest. There’s an internet trendy reverse sear method where you bake it at low heat first, and then finish it over high heat to obtain the sear, but the butter would still be applied after all of that, as the last step before resting.
Here’s a reverse sear recipe from America’s Test Kitchen. Their recipes are heavily tested and usually outstanding, although frequently over-complicated. If you don’t want to invest all the time into it, then you can just use their baking instructions and do your own thing for the seasoning. I haven’t heard of using an air fryer for cooking steak, so you’re on your own there. If I had to guess, I’d say it might dry it out a little, so maybe not the best approach.
My kid and I have discussed this at length. It’s true, Bones and a few others live in a universe where they’re the only soulful humanoids, surrounded by digital facsimiles. It must be depressing.
What if you wake up in hell, or on the next plane of existence, knowing that a soulless likeness of you is carrying on with your friends and family as if nothing happened, and nobody will mourn for your death?
They shred your body down to its atoms, and re-assemble it somewhere else. If we have any sort of soul, or inner ghost, it almost certainly dies when your body is shredded.
can you prove you’re the same continuous entity that was aware of the universe a moment ago?
I certainly don’t feel like the person from 20 years ago whose memories I hold. It seems like a completely different person lived those experiences. I know him, but I do not feel like him. Too much has changed about my personality, my body, and my life.
If the transporter kills you, then whatever “you” are is gone. What is replicated at the end of the transporter is just a facsimile. It acts like you, and thinks like you, but it is not you. You are dead.
The theory doesn’t work if you don’t believe that you are more than the sum of your parts. If there is no soul, then the transportation or duplication presents no issues. But if there is a soul, and it dies when your body is shredded at an atomic level, then whatever comes out the other end is not “you”. Your soul goes on to whatever the next plane of existence is. Unless somehow the soul is also able to survive the transportation event, in which case it’s fine. The issue Bones and others like him had is that they didn’t believe that the soul survived the event.
I’m currently on my 3rd playthrough, and I’m playing as a dark urge character who gives into his urges. For spoiler prevention I’ll describe what I just finished as vaguely as possible. I just completed the durge objective that gives you a powerful reward in act 2....
That definitely would have been very dark. I never encountered that scene, probably because I didn’t spend much time talking to the random tieflings.
Edit: now I remember what you’re talking about! The durge scene! Oh man, I only chose nice options for her because I was so stoked about having a bard companion in the party. I was very disappointed with the outcome.
Give Pop a try. It’s the least fussy Linux distro I’ve ever used. I’m going on year 4 with the same install, without ever breaking it once, which is a new record for me.
I get that. I’ve been using Arch on my laptop and have wanted to switch my gaming desktop over to Arch for a couple years now, but it already works well and I don’t want to go through the entire installation & set-up process again. It’s been on my rainy day list for all this time, but I always find better uses for my time. In your scenario it sounds like your current setup might not work well for you though, so perhaps just bite the bullet and go for it. If you back your home directory up somewhere then you can just copy that back over to the new home directory and that’ll at least save all your documents, pictures, and that sort of stuff.
We just got ambushed in a courtyard by about 15 enemies standing on a walkway above us, with no immediately obvious way for us to get up there. We were sitting ducks. So Shadowheart cast blade barrier across the entire walkway. In addition to doing a lot of damage every turn, it imposes difficult terrain. All of the enemies...
It has absolutely annihilated the entire groups of enemies for me. One spell won several encounters. When you’re shooting them with range, they have no choice but to try to escape, and they’ll often walk through the entire thing and kill themselves. It’s pretty crazy. I doubt it would work that well in a table top game since the DM would likely jump out of it, or figure something else out, but the game logic engine will just walk them right through it and kill them all.
Plus this isn’t even a bug. This is from not paying attention to Jaheira, and then not talking to her after you kill her best friend. Although, they could give a little more explanation for the people who weren’t paying attention to her requests.
1990 - 2005 Gaming Build
I found a box of CD-Roms and floppy disks in my mum’s basement and damnit, I want to play them! I could use emulators, DosBox or VMs but it’s never quite the same as having the real thing, so between an eBay mobo and a box of old parts I managed to build my new gaming rig to cover 1990-2005....
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I just noticed that they've added a hangover debuff to the game. LOL
Apparently if the majority of your camp supplies are alcohol, the game now gives you a hangover debuff after a long rest. Thankfully it doesn’t last very long, but that’s a fun little update.
Even Spock can't hold it in... (lemmy.world)
If you fail to pull Gale through the portal, can you recruit him later?
I failed the strength check despite being a paladin and using inspiration. I never saw him again even after getting through nearly all of act 2. I’ve asked this before, maybe even in this community, but no one gave a concrete answer, likely because the game was still new.
Loblaws boycott: Costco and Walmart are Canadians’ top low-cost grocery store alternatives (cultmtl.com)
A new study by Léger has assessed Canadians’ perceptions on the Loblaws boycott, which is currently underway over claims of greedflation.
Trudeau says housing needs to retain its value (www.theglobeandmail.com)
In case anyone still wants to somehow debate whether the Liberals will deliver affordable housing....
Pan frying a steak butter vs oil
I want to put the steak onto a hot pan to get that sear on the outside and uh lock in the flavor or something. But butter burns at high heats and oil doesn’t add flavor like butter....
CD Projekt says it wants to release major games more frequently | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Innovation makes useful things smaller - overconsumption makes them bigger and more meaningless (norden.social)
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Late Mother's Day post (sorry ma!) (lemmy.world)
Star Trek 3 Is Finding Its Way Back to Theaters (gizmodo.com)
I'm with McCoy here (lemmy.world)
Sorry about that ridiculous watermark.
The Bubble Directive (images3.memedroid.com)
I did not fully anticipate just how lonely and depressing an evil playthrough is.
I’m currently on my 3rd playthrough, and I’m playing as a dark urge character who gives into his urges. For spoiler prevention I’ll describe what I just finished as vaguely as possible. I just completed the durge objective that gives you a powerful reward in act 2....
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Blade barrier is fucking amazing!
We just got ambushed in a courtyard by about 15 enemies standing on a walkway above us, with no immediately obvious way for us to get up there. We were sitting ducks. So Shadowheart cast blade barrier across the entire walkway. In addition to doing a lot of damage every turn, it imposes difficult terrain. All of the enemies...
Jaheira just told me off and left my party at the very end of the game and idk why
Spoilers for the end of act 3 below....