Yup, now the only reason for me to occasionally switch to the actual YouTube page is to give videos likes and subscribes (that actually count for the person and aren't just bookmarks for myself)
I'd love to know that, too. I understand craving the security of a monthly "paycheck", but I avoid subscriptions whenever possible because all those individual "Giving that cause/software/YouTuber 2€ per month is barely noticeable" do become noticeable at some critical mass
I love Sky and most people there genuinely are so nice. And now on Steam I can finally play it with a decent framerate (the Switch was a big step up from my phone already but that still struggled sometimes)
I have one that I like to imagine as secure as fully randomised passwords. It's four words but, because I'm a cool pwnz0r, the second and last word are written in leetspeak. The phrase is super easy for me to remember and the leetspeak portion has become muscle memory by now. But I only use it for my password manager. For everything else it depends if there's a good chance I'll need to login via my phone (no pw manager there). If yes, I use one of my couple rather-safe passwords. If no, I'll let KeePass2 go to town with a random one.
Oh and I'm subscribed to the haveibeenpwned leakletter, so i know as soon as possible when definitely to change my password.
Maybe a music instrument community? I don't know if there's already a place where we can exchange our progress in learning instruments, music writing and the likes?
Oh wow, I had no idea! That's quite interesting Thank you for the comprehensive answer and link to the blog!
Weird, I thought I only saw a single DLC thing on the store page. Must've missed it
Very much agree that I'd rather see a game's development conclude with a bang instead of just slow dev burnout.
What do you mean that MT's situation seems more complex? I haven't been following news on that front.
Oh? I specifically checked the Steam store page just to be sure. I guess I must have not scrolled far enough hah
Incredible! It's incredible how, for so many content updates, they kept the game fresh and interesting. Andy only a single paid expansion and it's even only 9€!
I wish Motion Twin all success and can't wait to see what else they come up with. If I'm not mistaken, they're currently working on a co-op top-down slasher with cute animals getting absolutely obliterated and everything is super fast, no? I believe that one is already on my wishlist!
My gf already sent me an instagram reel of just that and I wanted to just rip their new toy off their faces so bad.
it’s hard to totally land that message when the game offers no alternative.
I'm of such split opinion when it comes to this argument against the game. I've read it so many times now and I kind of agree that there should have been some nuanced choice that changes the story in such a way where Walker tries to redeem himself? If I recall correctly, the only choice that actually made a difference for the end, was what you did in the very end scene with the mirror, right? And, of course, the choice not to play the game.
Then again, would it have been better if the player had had the option for a less shitty (not necessarily good or positive) path? Sometimes in life, especially during war, the only things that happen to you are shit and even what you do might be out of your control, because you only have one option that results in staying alive or because your mind is so focused on the task at hand that you can't even consider other ways of tackling a problem. This might be a bit graphic, but I think Spec Ops puts you in the passenger seat with a maddened driver. You tell the driver your destination (finishing the game) and he just hits the pedal and, no matter how much you protest, he roadkills every person on the way there. The car doors are unlocked and he occasionally stops, giving you an opportunity to get out. When you finally arrive at your destination and complain that he killed all those people, he goes "If you had left the car, I would've stopped." I don't know, I feel like I have a point here, but I can't put it into words.
Also, there are games like Animal Crossing that aren't criticised with "Well, the message (of positivity and being rewarded for hard work and cooperation while being friendly) falls a bit flat, since the player doesn't even have alternative options, aside from not playing the game."
So, yeah, I'll leave it at that now, since I think my comment is plateauing in its insightfullness.
Better ground transportation could be a big game changer. At the moment I could either fly to London for a couple hundred quid at a convenient time of day within 4-5 hours door-to-door, or I could spend a substantially higher amount on a train ride that takes three times as long and requires me to change trains at least twice in the middle of the night.
This is such an annoyance, not just from an environmental point of view. Even here in Germany, where we really do have a pretty great train network (mind you, the network is great, not necessarily the "adhering to time schedules"-part), it's sometimes cheaper and faster to fly from city to city than to ride the literal Inter City Express trains, whose sole purpose it is to quickly connect far-away mid-to-large cities.
I see! Well, I hope your future games turn out more interesting. And if not, honestly, no harm in tinkering with a boardgame until it's fun, if the base ruleset isn't.
I never knew that having your own domain was that cheap! I'm pretty happy with Port87 at the moment, but I might use a custom domain in the future, if it's really that affordable.
Oh that's a cool and really helpful thing I didn't know about Gmail! I think I'll use the plus-trick for the few sites that won't play ball with Port87! Then, on that front, Port87 only has the advantage that people who try to mail the bare address would receive an automated response, telling them to use one of the sub-adresses (you can choose which to show in this automated reply).
I can see how most people would be turned off by having yet another website have their email address (even if it's honestly just for sending them the newsletter), but, at the risk of sounding like an advertising agent, there are solutions to that.
rambling that might sound a bit too much like advertising, feel free to skip
You can set up more or less complicated rules so that mails from imanewsletter@newsman.gg are automatically put into a folder that you created for newsletters. But that still leaves you open to them using a different address like marketing@newsman.gg to sneak past that filter. Also, if (more like "when", honestly) their database gets leaked, you're going to receive a lot of spam mails from less reputable people. Or you create different email addresses for different websites and auto-forward those mails to your main account, maybe?
Alternatively, and that's the service I've been enjoying for the past months, you can use the mail service Port87. To be frank, it's still a bit buggy at times and it doesn't seem to work for every sender (for some encoding reasons, as far as I understood, DHL delivery mails just don't get loaded properly), but the idea is that you have built-in the ability to create sub-adresses and you only give out those sub-adresses to sign up for things. So my main address might be crowbro@port87.com, but I would sign up as crowbro-newsletter@port87.com. From what they know, my "real" adress is simply crowbro-newsletter@port87.com. Even if that database gets leaked and I suddenly receive mails from "my bank" about needing to refresh my credit details, I would immediately see that it's in crowbro-newsletter@port87.com instead of crowbro-mybank@port87.com and this likely is a phishing attempt. I'm gonna end this here, because I really don't want to seem like I'm just trying to advertise the stuff I use.
On the general topic: I feel for anyone who is trying to get into journalism and stuff like voice acting right now. Any article that reads a little weird and too stiff (same with voice-over in YouTube videos), I almost immediately scoff off (is that a word?) as being AI-generated and not worth my time. I wouldn't be surprised if, doing this, I already skipped one or two pieces of media that were actually from humans but those humans were still novices in their field.
Oh Germany, how I love your rules. A protest against the AfD in Hamburg was dismissed by the police because of the announced 10,000 people between 50,000 and 100,000 actually showed up.
Leider nicht geil :c
Ooh it sounds like it has great potential, once the bugs are ironed out!
Not sure if there's a better place to ask this. From what I understand, OsmAnd~ is basically a community-run version of the otherwise subscription-based OsmAnd+
To add POIs and make other changes to Open Street Map, I need to log into an editing account of sorts. Will this be fine or could my access to the app get wrecked in some way? After all, I am not subscribed to the "official" service.
This is Jacky. He is the sacrifice I make, so that I may leave back to another tab or community.
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/9197489
> I was only looking for some validation posts because I was annoyed at a couple of the more unrealistic reactions you have going in NMS. Like being able to get salt from combining dihydrogen and oxygen (instead of receiving the obvious water, which doesn't even exist in the game as usable item/component). Then I stumbled upon this research paper, read it completely (unfortunately the discussion section is longer than it needs to be due to them repeating most of their results in it) and now (by looking it up before writing this post) learned that you can form salts with hydroxide ions. > > So while the process is much simplified and not always intuitive in the reactions in game (and the Salt icon says NaCl despite no sodium or chlorine having been used in the "refiner", just H2 and O, even though Na and Cl exist in game), that particular combination for the refiner now makes at least some sense to me. > > A couple nice highlights from the paper: > > >To the question “What did you feel about the presence of chemistry in No Man’s Sky?” in which players had 5-levels to choose, from 1- Frustrated to 5-Excited, 46% selected the level 4, 23,8% the maximum-level and the lowest two levels combined for less than 6% of the answers. > > >To the question “Did No Man’s Sky make you feel motivated to know more about scientific topics?”, 57,9% answered “Yes”. And to the question “Did No Man’s Sky help you understand some concepts about chemistry?”, 35,7% answered positively. > > >In the end, we asked “When you think about chemistry or listen to words like ‘chemistry’ or ‘chemicals’, is usually a good or a bad thought?”, and 87,3% of the respondents answered “Good”.
I was only looking for some validation posts because I was annoyed at a couple of the more unrealistic reactions you have going in NMS. Like being able to get salt from combining dihydrogen and oxygen (instead of receiving the obvious water, which doesn't even exist in the game as usable item/component). Then I stumbled upon this research paper, read it completely (unfortunately the discussion section is longer than it needs to be due to them repeating most of their results in it) and now (by looking it up before writing this post) learned that you can form salts with hydroxide ions.
So while the process is much simplified and not always intuitive in the reactions in game (and the Salt icon says NaCl despite no sodium or chlorine having been used in the "refiner", just H2 and O, even though Na and Cl exist in game), that particular combination for the refiner now makes at least some sense to me.
A couple nice highlights from the paper:
>To the question “What did you feel about the presence of chemistry in No Man’s Sky?” in which players had 5-levels to choose, from 1- Frustrated to 5-Excited, 46% selected the level 4, 23,8% the maximum-level and the lowest two levels combined for less than 6% of the answers.
>To the question “Did No Man’s Sky make you feel motivated to know more about scientific topics?”, 57,9% answered “Yes”. And to the question “Did No Man’s Sky help you understand some concepts about chemistry?”, 35,7% answered positively.
>In the end, we asked “When you think about chemistry or listen to words like ‘chemistry’ or ‘chemicals’, is usually a good or a bad thought?”, and 87,3% of the respondents answered “Good”.
Hiya, I hope I'm not completely in the wrong place (/c/Technology seems to only be dedicated to tech news but not questions). I have this powerbank with a built-in solar panel. The powerbank itself seems great so far, but it's a pretty tiny solar panel. I've read about the difficulty of just hooking up a regular powerbank to a solar panel (spikes and dips in voltage due to clouds, people, etc.).
But since this powerbank is already designed to be charged with solar energy, can I simply hook a big-ass solar panel onto it and recharge it much faster than the officially displayed "several days, depending on the weather"?
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I witnessed the almost turquoise fireball while on a walk with my dogs. Since reporting it today morning, the event report features two pretty good videos of the meteor.
I should probably go to bed at this point. I typed up a short story of my arduous attempts at defending an outpost in the STALKER modpack GAMMA and how my game crashed when I turned in the quest. Sent off that post and woe-is-me, the entire text didn't get submitted and I didn't have it saved in copy-paste. It's just so ironically fitting.
So ya, what's something you'd like to ramble a bit about?