JohnEdwa

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JohnEdwa,

All the revenue that the Crown Estate generates is given directly to the UK government to use, so they get plenty of tax from it already. ~$400 million in 2022 for example.

JohnEdwa,

There isn’t one.
There probably really has never been one after the initial “three day” special military operation failed - the entire war is a massive exponential sunk-cost fallacy with the need for Russia to win simply because Putin cannot afford to give up or lose after all the losses the war has caused.

JohnEdwa,

There is a soundcard in the bluetooth headphones and wires are dirt cheap, it’s not about that. Proper lightning headphones require getting your product certified by apple ($$$) and a special apple chip added in ($$$) because iPhones refuse to connect to devices that aren’t.
But they will connect to all bluetooth devices.

JohnEdwa, (edited )

First step: just eat less beef.

Even that alone is enough to make a quite decent impact.

JohnEdwa,

Hm. I would be interested to learn why, exactly. If it has terrible methodology, why is it constantly referenced and why hasn’t a better one been done since then?
Or is there a better one that nobody just uses?
And how should the data look, because most of every other source I can find also agrees that beef is the worst (or possibly on the second spot after lamb) as it comes to CO2 per kg.

JohnEdwa,

…while flying in a helicopter introduced in 1968 and last manufactured in 1998 in a country that is sanctioned and most likely can’t reliably get spare parts for it.

JohnEdwa, (edited )

The Northern Europe.
Because Belgium and the other countries mentioned are not in Northern Europe.

At best they can be said to be in the north of continental europe, and even there you got people who would argue that term includes Scandinavia and you are back to square one.

JohnEdwa,

Xen was really rushed and shorter than originally intended in HL1 though, and part of the idea with BM was to flesh it out properly. Might have gone a bit too far, but it was also one of the few places in the project where they could truly come up with something new and unique, and not just redo what Valve had made before them.

JohnEdwa,

Hopefully they can make use or get rid of it fast, as the upkeep with these superyachts can be ridiculously expensive, and if you slack on it, you’ll quickly end up with an even bigger repair bill or just a worthless pile of scrap.

The Amadea costs the US government almost $1 million a month for example.

JohnEdwa,

NACS is just the standard CCS protocol shoved in the objectively better Tesla plug, and part of making it a standard is the requirement of opening the design for everyone to use. So while the plug is from Tesla, they actually were the ones that switched to the CCS protocol first and dropped their own proprietary system, which is how they were able to open the Supercharger network to other cars in the first place.

And that’s also why NACS is backwards compatible with all current EV chargers that already exist with a simple adapter - either by the driver, or by swapping the cable.

JohnEdwa, (edited )

The public votes for one thing, and the “professional” jury selects someone entirely different -Switzerland came fifth, but won.

JohnEdwa,

But not why our clothes are so “cheap”. If you have never checked AliBaba, you just can’t understand what kind of price points we are talking about. Printed T-shirts for $0.39. Hot pots for $3.70. USB hubs with HDMI out for $2.90. The list goes on and on.

A $10 T-shirt, 25x more than wholesale, could go up to $10.80 and you would hardly notice, but that would mean the worker could be paid three times as much for making it. Instead, the worker gets paid nothing, the manufacturer gets paid peanuts, and whoever is reselling them to us takes in 90% of the profit.

JohnEdwa,

I absolutely loved the Mako. I know I’m in the minority, but I just love how it drives. And stomping on a Colossus with the jump jets is always funny.

JohnEdwa,

As the passive aggressive outro from SuperfastMatt goes:

“It used to be that you had to impress people to get people to watch your show, now you just have to impress the algorithm. So do me a favour, hit that subscribe button, all hail the algorithm.”

JohnEdwa,

I actually didn’t encounter anyone saying Dark Souls and like games being an ARPG. Dark Souls like games are usually called Souls like.

That is because everyone uses the term “Souls-like”. But if that term isn’t used, then they are all labeled as “Action Role-Playing Games”:

A Soulslike (also spelled Souls-like) is a subgenre of action role-playing games known for high levels of difficulty and emphasis on environmental storytelling, typically in a dark fantasy setting. -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulslike

JohnEdwa,

There is also a TTRPGs for Palestine bundle here, though I have issues reaching the site currently, might be a hug of death.

JohnEdwa,

I almost agree, as there are only very few crimes, and in absolutely certain circumstances, where I think a death sentence would be appropriate. As an example, cases like Anders Breivik.

JohnEdwa,

The system in Japan is… Let’s say “interesting”. You get sentenced to death, but you might still sit in prison for years or even decades until one morning they carry it out with no warning, so you’ll live the rest of your life not knowing if each day is your last or not.

JohnEdwa,

Often it is, but the death penalty isn’t the only thing affecting it - if it did, USA would not be at such a high of a spot for intentional homicides () as most states have the death penalty as well.

For reference, Japan is at spot 196 out of 207 when you sort by victims per 100000 inhabitants.

Which also results in very few people getting the death penalty - just 3 people were executed in 2022, and none last year. US executed 18 and 24.

JohnEdwa,

The difference between Valve and almost every other company that suffers from “capitalism” is that Valve is a private company, they don’t have shareholders, investors and an outsider asshole CEO demanding enshittification in the name of exponential growth.

JohnEdwa,

This is basically how radio controlled models using FM TX/RX pairs were coordinated back in the day, there would be a board with each frequency crystal that you would use for your transmitter, and you’d plop the matching one into your model. Reason being that if someone was already flying something and you turned your radio on to the same frequency, they would immediately crash.

JohnEdwa,

Ukraine had one of the largest nuclear weapon stockpiles when the USSR broke with around 1900 warheads and 4000 tactical nuclear weapons. They de-weaponized themselves and got rid of them all.

And how’d exactly that go for them, hm?

JohnEdwa,

It is accurate. There have been four school shootings in total in the history of Finland - Raumanmeri, Jokela, Kauhajoki and now this.

JohnEdwa,

This is nothing but a modern spin on “hey internet, what’s wrong with me? WebMD: it’s cancer.”

JohnEdwa,

Neo-Nazi radical Islamists being lead by a “peculiar kind of Jew”, apparently.

JohnEdwa,

We all know how the Russians treat the areas and civilians that they capture though, so they are hoping someone else will protect them from that fate, so they don’t have to. If it ends up that there weren’t enough people to do it, they will end up hoping they’d helped defend it too, but at that point it will be too late.

JohnEdwa,

They went to gitlab, it was inevitable. And probably planned - what better advertisement for your name than a round of news and articles about the takedown. And now they are on a private git so for the next round, Nintendo has to actually sue them as well.

JohnEdwa,

It’s old by now, but Telltale’s Walking Dead. Loved those games, and loved those characters.

JohnEdwa,

And even if you delete a comment the API will still provide the message content as due to federation shenanigans it’s actually just hidden. If you need to remove something, edit and redact the message first.

JohnEdwa,

Humans had to learn that the hard way in multiple places, unfortunately.

JohnEdwa,

Major part of it is that some people differentiate hard between rogue-likes and lites, and others simply do not, and the two will never get along with each other. The thing being that if there are any type of permanent upgrade/unlock systems that makes the game easier the more you play, it is not like rogue, where instead of grinding for more max hp or dodge percentage, you “grind” knowledge and experience as a player.

Which means that there are very, very few actual roguelikes because upgrade systems are just so cool ™ and every game obviously needs one. Or three.

JohnEdwa,

You should buy “System Shock: Enhanced Edition”, as the name implies, it’s the newer better one!

Seriously, why do we keep using the same names with reboots and remasters and remakes and argh. Languages have words, use the goddamn words!

JohnEdwa,

We haven’t exactly reached this state because of some big, singular fluke nobody could have predicted, there hasn’t been some asteroid impact or super volcano eruption that suddenly messed the planet up.
Humanity as has known about the issues of pollution and climate change for over a hundred years, known how dire the situation has been for decades, and has still done mostly nothing productive to end up here.

It would have taken a few generations of people all making massive changes willingly to fix this, but almost none of us did. I think we just can’t care enough about the future when there is now and here to experience, and it’s just finally the “find out” phase after the “fuck around”.

JohnEdwa,

If you can survive 95F at 100% humidity, you can survive 160F dry heat. No biggie. Roughly around 6 hours until you are dead in both cases though.

“At wet bulb temperatures above 35°C (95F) researchers estimate that even fit people will overheat and potentially die within 6 hours. Although that temperature might seem low, it equates to almost 45°C (113F) at 50% humidity, and what it would feel like 71°C (160F) using the U.S. National Weather Service heat index.”

science.org/…/lethal-levels-heat-and-humidity-are…

JohnEdwa,

If it was that easy more governments would have political parties that were fighting for all of that in power, most of the world does have some sort of democracy where the people get to choose. But it’s extremely rare, because people don’t vote for them as all the things that need to be done right now are really annoying. Fewer cars, more smelly public transport, expensive green energy, higher taxes, no cheap flights to holidays?!
This climate change thing prolly isn’t such a bad thing, and if it is, we can do it later, and if we don’t who cares, we are gonna be dead anyway.

Here in Finland, the Greens lost 7 seats dropping to just 13 out of 200 in last years election, for example. Who won? The right-wing populists who are reducing the tax on petrol and trying to increase taxes on electric cars, for example. Yay…

JohnEdwa,

There are three known species of salt-water sea turtles that can cause this type of a death (chelonitoxism) - two of them are Vulnerable, one of them is Endangered.

JohnEdwa,

Afaik steam games are never removed from users, just delisted in the store so you can’t buy them anymore.

JohnEdwa,

On the other hand, Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 would actually classify as indie games, as they were published by their developer, not a third party.

But when everything gets one of the two labels, triple-A or Indie, they stop being meaningful quite fast.

JohnEdwa,

An indie game, short for independent video game, is a video game created by individuals or smaller development teams without the financial and technical support of a large game publisher. …The term is synonymous with that of independent music or independent film in those respective mediums. -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indie_game

And then:

Independent music (also commonly known as indie music, or simply indie) is music produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries

An independent film, independent movie, indie film, or indie movie is a feature film or short film that is produced outside the major film studio system in addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies

They are independent, because they don’t have a publishing company calling the shots. That’s literally where the term comes from.
And that is why I said people have only two labels - they use “single person or small team = indie, big team or company = triple-A”. When they should be looking at who is publishing, and therefore who is funding the project, i.e are they actually independent, or do they depend on someone else for that monetary/technical/marketing support.

JohnEdwa,

Stardew Valley was published by the developer themselves. He can do whatever he wants with the game and there is no publisher to tell him he can’t because it’s bad for business. If they want the next update to be the “Fuck Russia, fuck Israel, Taiwan is the real China!” update, they can do it. Cp2077 can do that too. Because they are independent.

D’ya think that goes for the games in question of the article published by Warner Brothers that are being pulled by them? Are they independent of the publishers, free to do what the creator wants?

That is why having just the two labels makes them rather useless. Which is the point I’m trying to make.

JohnEdwa, (edited )

Because they have. A ton - they paid Spez almost $200 million last year. But when you invest, spend, or pay out all of the money you get, on your tax sheet it says you didn’t make any profit, because you don’t have any excess money.

JohnEdwa,

Stainless steel also stains. “Stainless” does not mean “never stains,” just that it stains less than other steels.

Endless Spotless Stainless Steel is a steel that stains, has fewer spots, and ends a bit later. The logic of English is all but senseless. Which means it has everything except a bit less sense.

JohnEdwa,

At least it makes some sense, as they are mostly based on ISO 3166, as well as:

the international vehicle code for South Africa has been “ZA” since 1936. ZAR serves as the ISO 4217 currency code for the South African rand. South African aircraft registration prefixes also start with Z.

SA is the country code for Saudi Arabia.

JohnEdwa,

Especially when the chipset, Tegra X1, is going to turn 10 years old next year and has roughly the same performance as the iPhone 6. Kinda impressive longevity when you think about it.

JohnEdwa,

And a fourth and a fifth, both of which have already had some work done (fourth one apparently has 1/3rd consisting of a time skip sequence that has already been filmed). And if they do well, Cameron has said that he has plans to make two more.

He really likes Avatar.

JohnEdwa,

Old is relative though. Age doesn’t hit movies or books nearly as hard as it does to games and gameplay mechanics, and where exactly that acceptable limit happens to be differ for each individual - with no doubt a large correlation based on your age.
It’s just really hard to imagine yourself in the shoes of someone who didn’t grow up with them and doesn’t have the appreciation and nostalgia of those times. Heck, back when I was a kid with my PSX, anything on the NES felt like an ancient unplayable relic.

JohnEdwa, (edited )

For Steam, not yet. Thy might eventually go the “Open World Survival Crafting” route and combine the popular tags to one, but for now they are Bullet Hell + Action Roguelike.

JohnEdwa,

Motion control support on PC is rather rare as almost every PC game uses xinput, and therefore almost every controller will simply identify itself as an Xbox controller for the best compatibility. You basically have to check on a controller by controller basis if and how motion controls can be enabled on PC.

I do know that some of the 8bitdo controllers can be configured to show up as Switch Pro Controllers on PC with working motion controls.

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