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  • Played it pirated years ago. Not really looking to play again tbh because it's so sad, but I'll buy it discounted for supporting, I back then liked the very original angle of playing with trapped victims instead of army.

  • Audio on steamdeck with HDMI connected
  • Cool, you fixed my issues!

    The audio output still doesn't default to the deck speakers, but after following your hint it is now at least easy to select it while in gaming mode.

    I installed the decky loader, and as non-steam game Audiotube. It seems to work, doesn't matter very much to me if keyboard shortcuts like next track don't function, I usually listen to full albums or dj mixes of 1 or 2 hours.

  • Oh Joe...
  • That means the powers aren't balanced enough. In USA I have the impression way too much power lies with 1 person from 1 party. In a democracy, absolute majorities should always be avoided in the most powerful places and policy should always remain the outcome (compromise) of talks between many different parties. The elections serve to point out how strongly represented every faction is, but no 1 faction should ever get near the amount of absolute control it has in the USA. Fact a 3rd party can't arise means the democracy is functionally paralysed, not functioning in democratic way.

  • Audio on steamdeck with HDMI connected

    Hi, First, is it possible to set the steamdeck to "default" to always keep picking the steamdeck speaker as default audio out also when an HDMI is connected through the USB-C? I have an old monitor (VGA to HDMI to USB-C haha) and would be easiest to still just output audio in the steamdeck speaker by default. It is easy to switch audio outputs in desktopmode, not in gaming mode unfortunately can't switch to steamdeck speaker there, doesn't work.

    Second, how do y'all combine music and games? I prefer to play games while listening to youtube full albums (freetube or similar) in background. Doesn't really seem to integrate well in gaming mode either? Tried adding Monophony and Freetube as non-steam games, but not very succesful. What's your suggestion for optimizing the setup?

    Sorry for the noob-questions. Pic unrelated, sort of.

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    Snitches get stitches

    is actually a rather nice promise to give someone in the USA: "we'll treat your wounds, you'll receive basic health care services from us"

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    They're Usually Shredded Alive Rule :(
  • Culling unhatched eggs seems less cruel to me than culling <1 day hatchlings. Cute-bias, I know.

    Seems to scale somewhat in Europe, talking many many millions of eggs per year too.

    At least trying is better than nothing.

    Not saying it's perfect, but tech is advancing thought it would be interesting to add that to this thread...

  • [Article] Build the greatest car parks ever in the Car Park Capital!
  • Terra Nil was way to straight forward for my taste, super clear path what you should do and no way to deviate. It felt like a glorified educational powerpoint. I pictured the idea more as a mixture of OTTD (for trains & trainmanagement), cities & skylines (lots of variety in what could be built and how urbanism evolves and develops when needs are met), SimCity3000 (sudden disaster mode) and this game for real implications of chosing car mobillity that are often ignored in games. And the look&feel also being like this game (which is very much resembling OTTD). Now if only I would have the progamming skills to build it 😅

  • [Article] Build the greatest car parks ever in the Car Park Capital!
  • Kudos to the developer, it does look very nice and I like the retro feel. I'ld give it a go.

    That said: I would much rather see a city development game where you start off with existing shitty cities full of car dependency and people complaining about everything (including lack of parking spots ;) but also noise and traffic congestion and loud neighbours etc), and the goal would be to try to make it into nice walkable cities while still getting everyone where they need to be (to jobs, to leisure, shops etc), making it more climate proof and creating more living space for growing population. Converting a Houston style existing city to an Amsterdam/Netherlands style city basically. That would be original... All city builders ignore parking (that's being adressed here I guess), but they all usually also ignore the fact that you start off with existing city and you can't just bulldoze entire neighbourhoods for prestigeprojects or trainlines/highways.

  • Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)
  • If you properly use firefox personalised the way you want it, it gives you shitty unusable websites in Europe too. Banking says no, newspapers being buggy to unreadable with certain script blocking or cookie refusal, disable adblock to continue windows etc, it all exists here too. I always try ff. If really needed I open the shitty site in edge and afterwards return to ff... Also public (tax payer funded!) flemish radio and tv for example is completely unusable in ff with proper settings, works "perfect" in edge or chrome. German and Dutch public TV and radio works fine in ff tho.

  • What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?
  • There's one good use case for me: produce a bigload of trialcontent in no time for load testing new stuff. "Make 2000 yada yada with column x and z ...". Keeps testing fun and varied while lots of testdata and that it's all nonsense doesn't matter.

    I've found that testing code or formulas with LLM is a 50/50 now. Very often replying "use function blabla() and such snd so" very detailed instructions while this suggested function just doesn't exist at all in certain language asked for... it's still something I'ld try if I'm very stuck tho, never know.

  • Cost by Protein Source
  • they're not dumb, they just have way more cows in their stables than the piece of land the stable is on could ever support with any crop. Am in Belgium. Pretty sure cows here eat a lot more imported crops (mostly from south america) processed to livestockfeed than they eat local grass.

  • Urban Microcars

    Society's got priorities wrong.

    • most car travels are 1 person or sometimes 2 person

    • the majority of car travels are quite short, less than 40km.

    • many car travels are just to get some groceries or drop of a little package or just say "hi" to someone, carrying nothing but themselves.

    • cars are fucking expensive, to buy and to maintain

    • accidents become way worse with heavier vehicles

    Microcar is a valid answer to all of these, while still being sheltered from weather.

    How are urban places (i'm in Belgium) with almost permanent super heavy road traffic congestion, bad climate statistics, high polution values, very limited available space left, no self-sustaining energy production and high traffic accident statistics still pooring in billions and billions in subsidies year after year into "regular" big heavy SUV-like vehicles instead of these? It's beyond my comprehension. The only real valid reason i somewhat get is the collective scare of being in a crash and not wanting to be in the smaller vehicle. We could save the climate, we choose not to.

    • MICROLINO: 17.990 €
    • OPEL ROCKS: 8.699 €
    • CITROEN AMI: 7.790 €
    • RENAULT TWIZY: 13.000 €
    • FIAT TOPOLINO: 9.890 €

    A lot of people here casually spend more on a sunday racing bike every few years for fucks sake.

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    smellulator

    What's stopping us from making smellulators, for games or movies?

    Vietnamwar videogame: smell of napalm in the morning.

    The sims: baby pooped.

    Survival game: that lump of flesh is rotting.

    Smell you later

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    patience

    I'm not young. But 25 years after the hype, I am finally getting around to playing half life (1)! Stupidly missed the free action, but paid a few eurocents for it. They're totally worth it! Awesome game, holds up very very well after two and a half decades!

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    docking station

    I just ordered a refurbished steam deck :D

    Because of all the great reviews still, long after launch and because i'm very enthousiastic about being able to use it as both a handheld console on the train and as a full blown desktop at home. I've honestly long been waiting for such devices... And wonder why android phones still don't really do that.

    Now, regarding the docking station: the official one is quite pricey.

    It does not matter at all that the charging of the dock is rated at 60W, which is more than the steam deck needs, right?

    Would this thing do the trick? I'l need to connect 1 usb dongle for mouse and keyboard in the usb 2 port, 1 hdmi to screen, 1 usb 3 to external harddisk and then the charging. SD is nice to have, don't really need it. I don't care that the deck will be laying flat on a desk instead of being able to use it standing up as a tiny second screen.

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    cycling in Italian cities

    I travelled a bit through Italy recently, by bicycle. Cycling here seems either

    • super sporty road cyclist
    • poor people on what's left of what used to be a bicycle

    Stumble upon Lodi, Lombardy: cyclists everywhere, like dutch style: adults carelessly cycling with 2 kids and lots of luggage on a single normal city bike and without helmets. What's so different about Lodi (or the region) that it's so common here, but not in other Italian small or medium cities? Any Italians with answers? Thanks

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    What's the most efficient way for peeling potatoes by hand?

    Like, I get comments from people telling me it's weird I always try to peel potatoes like I am trying to make the worlds longest 1-piece potato peel. To me it feels way for efficient and fun to continu down a potato in 1 peel, while circling around it, instead of randomly scraping a hundred different pieces of peel off and having to reintroduce the cutter knife to the potato for every piece.

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