For example, I 3d printed a box over my outlet to protect my cables from my bed pushing against it. In addition, my cables never fall to the floor so they’re much easier to grab.
I have a friend who was a classic Catholic libertarian in college–he held some views on trans rights, abortion, and economic justice that I find deeply disagreeable. It made conversations a little tricky because there were a whole set of topics I couldn’t bring up unless I wanted to wade into a debate immediately; sometimes I did, but often I just wanted to hang out and chill and that was hampered.
It took him exactly one year of being out of college and working a real job to realize that his economic views were fucked, and the whole rest of it unraveled from there. He’s now a staunch leftist, and it’s way, way easier to hang out with him.
That’s not, however, to say it’s not worth having friends you disagree with. We remained friends because we were able to disagree productively, and I feel I understand my own political views far better for all those long nights discussing them. Still, it was a friendship that took unusual effort to maintain.
There are a few factors that I think make this year a standout for quantity of great games released:
Tons of games that were delayed due to the pandemic released this year, giving us several years’ worth of ideas and work all at once.
The games industry saw massive layoffs this year–that’s a ton of talent cut loose that now isn’t going towards future games, and another step towards the inevitable reckoning over the abusive labor environment that games are made in. Whether that’s a collapse or labor organization and the establishment of a long-overdue union, it’s going to create a churn period that isn’t going to produce a lot of games.
The glut of great games has saturated the market, meaning that games are returning less per investment dollar. This makes investors less eager to put their money towards new games, which leads to fewer games being made.
Nuclear power isn’t renewable. Joule for joule, our reserves of nuclear fuel and petroleum are comparable. It’s a decent bandaid, but between the finite fuel supply and the nuclear waste problem it’s hardly the future and should be used as sparingly as needed to get us off of oil and onto renewables.
In a modern title designed to be played at 60+, definitely. I’ve been having a blast in dark souls 1 and GTA:SA recently, both of which are capped at 30. Older games are made to work at that FPS, and it takes remarkably little time to adjust and have it feel normal. If I tried to play armored core at 30fps, on the other hand, I think I’d rip my teeth out in frustration.
Edit: misinterpreted the comment above as “unless it’s VR (i.e., in all cases except VR), you are not having fun” rather than “unless it’s VR, in which case you are not having fun.”
In my experience refactoring lots and lots of crappy code left by devs long gone, a dev who can write useful comments is by and large a dev who can write code clean and simple enough not to need them. If the code doesn’t have informative names and clear separation of concern, chances are a comment won’t help because the dev didn’t really know what they did that worked in the first place.
Is it the right tool for every job? Probably not any more, but it’s still the right tool for many.
I have migrated to VSCode for most of my daily dev work because its language support is undeniably better (especially on a corp machine), but I always keep an emacs window open for a whole bunch of different stuff:
ephemeral todo lists
plaintext and markdown editing
quick-and-dirty Python or shell scripting
project planning and other org mode goodies
all the other weird little stuff that falls through the cracks of an editor but is super easy in emacs
I’ve been perusing their website for a little while now, and there is a rough pattern:
At least for acoustics:
The first two letters are the series. This is the most variable component, but follows some loose guidelines:
The initial letter is often indicative of what what onboard electronics that series of guitar comes with, even if the particular guitar doesn’t have them (C guitars come with Fishman CD-1, F come with Fender, P come with Fender/Fishman sonitone plus). This letter is sometimes omitted (see the simple D10 dreadnought)
The second (or first, if there is only one) letter generally indicates the body style. D is dreadnought, C is concert, B is bass (or banjo!), O is orchestra (?)
The number generally indicates quality. Bigger number more expensive within a series.
S after the number indicates a solid top (no S indicates laminate)
C after the number indicates a single cutaway body
E at the end indicates that the guitar has onboard electronics
There are a lot of good resources in this thread, but nobody has mentioned the single most important part by far:
actually practice philosophy
Study is worthless if you don’t engage in the practice of philosophy. Find people to debate with, preferably ones who have a formal grounding (and I mean a real debate, where you make reasoned arguments and investigate the truth of a matter, not the bullshit-flinging points game that gets popular online). Write arguments, revise them, give them to people to tear them apart.
Im pretty confident in driving abilities for taking the test this week with nearly two months of driving with someone else. My only real issue with taking my drivers test is that its my understanding sometimes DMVs have a secret everyone fails once policy, or some instructors do. I’m mainly wondering on average in the US low...
Passed mine first try. It helps to take it somewhere suburban-almost-rural–the roads will be way easier and the instructors are more inclined to pass people because it’s much more important for people in those places to have licenses.
my biggest issue was the bullet sponging and totally unbalanced combat, youd either be a god that couldnt die or someone who has to land 50 headshots with a sniper rifle to kill someone
Personally I found the combat as fun and balanced as can be expected in a game where power scaling is not directly tied to progress. If you just fuck around doing side quests and farming loot for 20 hours, it’s going to feel super easy, and if you try to blitz the story and run early game stuff then enemies will feel like bullet sponges. That’s just a mechanic endemic to the open world rpg genre. My first playthrough I did side missions as I stumbled across them on my way through the story, and the combat felt pretty balanced. Second time I went much more methodically and ended up cruising through story missions like nobody’s business.
The game just has two too many buttons. I played it on both, and it feels much better on controller. Holding down both triggers to unload twin Gatling guns right into the spider’s pinecone ass is just satisfying in a way that mouse and keyboard isn’t. That being said, the fact that you need six easy-access buttons and constant camera control makes it really awkward/borderline unplayable unless you have a controller with back paddles.
Pile bunker is genuinely my favorite weapon in the game. That charge shot is a pain to land but there’s nothing better than staggering a chunky enemy and just gut punching them into oblivion.
I’m curious what uses you have in mind–anything that’s an online competitive (i.e., you compete against other players–doesn’t need to be esports sweaty) game I don’t think there’s a strong case for allowing injected code, since that’s an avenue for gaining an unfair advantage and thereby worsening other players’ enjoyment, and anything offline I can’t see it being worth a company’s time and money to prosecute.
People have been cleaning their ears with cotton swabs for years. What other tools are being inadvertently used wrong?
Works on my machine (programming.dev)
What's one small thing you've done to make your life easier?
For example, I 3d printed a box over my outlet to protect my cables from my bed pushing against it. In addition, my cables never fall to the floor so they’re much easier to grab.
Maybe it's just a Lemmy phone app problem? (lemmy.world)
Do your cats like music or show any signs of enjoying background music?
2023 Is The Best Year For Games In A While (And Maybe Ever?) (kotaku.com)
From Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom to Alan Wake 2, the hits won’t stop coming
Missed Classic! Texas Rangers, Arizona Diamondbacks World Series Game 1 Draws Lowest TV Rating Ever (www.si.com)
Local ratings seemed strong but I am not really surprised that it did not do great nationally.
Can we please just have both? (startrek.website)
You have more fun with the FPS counter off (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
I am God's greatest programmer (lemmy.world)
Find yourself (lemmy.ml)
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Since I know that there are a bunch of new people here: Witch Doctor Sings a Song (youtu.be)
can someone explain the fender guitar naming convention
Fender FA-125CE II Na...
I want to learn Philosophy. How should I start ?
Lately I have found an interest in philosophy. I would love to dig deeper into it when I get the time....
How long did you have to wait before retaking your drivers test?
Im pretty confident in driving abilities for taking the test this week with nearly two months of driving with someone else. My only real issue with taking my drivers test is that its my understanding sometimes DMVs have a secret everyone fails once policy, or some instructors do. I’m mainly wondering on average in the US low...
is cyberpunk 2077 good now?
my biggest issue was the bullet sponging and totally unbalanced combat, youd either be a god that couldnt die or someone who has to land 50 headshots with a sniper rifle to kill someone
It's just a personal preference (startrek.website)
After years of 'good enough' PC ports, Armored Core 6 is the first game in FromSoftware's history truly born for mouse and keyboard (www.pcgamer.com)
Anon receives an urgent message (sh.itjust.works)
ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON - Patch Notes 1.02 (en.bandainamcoent.eu)
Judge issues legal permaban, $500K judgment against serial Destiny 2 cheater (arstechnica.com)
Only Up, one of 2023's biggest Twitch games has been removed from Steam, due to developer's stress (www.pcgamesn.com)