anakin78z

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yes, it's the embarrassment that's really important here. 🙄

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

New plan: become an elite athlete, take advantage of free healthcare every 4 years. It's honestly a better plan than my current one, which is to pay 16k every year for healthcare, only to be too scared of extra fees to use it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I was thinking more of an open API of how the game interacts with multiplayer services, so that in theory anyone could setup a server, or server services. In practice I completely agree with you though. Nobody wants to do the whole "Oh wait, you're on that server? I have an account with that other server" thing. Steam, or some other party, would just become the defacto place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, it would be super fun if you're into the game, as long as it doesn't become a job, which it might.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I could see this leading to standardizing and outsourcing multiplayer services, which would be interesting.

That being said, before that happens, as a developer I'd be like: here's a zip file with all of our proprietary stuff ripped out. Have fun spending the next few months getting it to work well. Congratulations, you're now supporting a game that did poorly enough for us to drop it.

But seriously, go sign it. Long term it should be a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

That's such a capitalist way of thinking. "The daycare down the street is never going to compete with ABC Baby Slaughter as long as their rates are higher!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Non EV owners can't grok how convenient home charging is, and the reality that station charging is a general rarity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I actually don't think it is a deal breaker. How many 300+mi road trips does a person take? So what if it takes longer a few days out of the year?

And you can always prioritize fast charging when shopping EVs, if that's important. We knew full well we weren't getting the fastest charging EV when we bought ours. But, like I said, it was fine on our big trip, and really we didn't stop more often than we usually do, even if our stops were a bit linger, and it didn't have a negative impact.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

EV owner in the US with home charger. It's the best. The convenience of never having to go to a gas station is huge. I was so worried about range and charging speed before I got the car, but it's all bullshit. The reality is that I wake up in the morning and I'm ready to go wherever I want to go. I take a few longer trips a year, and I'm always able to find a charging station along the way. The apps make it pretty easy to know where to go. I have a CCS plug, and we're supposed to get the Tesla adapter sometime this year. But even without it, we just took an 800 mile road trip, and there's a CCS fast charging station at least every 80 miles, so it's not like we were ever in danger of not making it. The only thing I don't like about the CCS plug is that they're so damn heavy. The Tesla ones are supposed to be nicer, so there's that to look forward to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

We feed them to our chickens 😝🐔

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yea, that sounds like it sucked. Glad it didn't happen to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Oh man, I loved my Surface Pro 3. I used it as my main device for home and work for years. Not invalidating your experience... I've used devices that others thought were great that I thought were garbage.

 
 
 
 
 

OK, I finally took the plunge on Baldur's Gate 3, and, coming from playing several hundreds of hours of Solasta recently, the first thing I noticed is the lack of a combat grid.

Going back a bit further, my son and I spent a ridiculous amount of time playing Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. We were super pumped for the sequel, but when it finally came out, it kind of fell flat for both of us. Whether or not it's down to this, I don't know, but they also removed the grid.

That game, of course, was an XCom-like. XCom used a grid, but a more recent Firaxis game, Marvel's Midnight Suns, got rid of the grid as well.

To me, all these gridless iterations of classic strategy games just aren't as engaging. I guess they're going for a more immersive rpg type of feel? But to me it seems to sacrifice the strategy aspect, and ultimately, judging based on my hours played, that always ends up being too great a sacrifice. My play time on Marvel's Midnight Suns is less than 10% of Xcom 2, and the same is true for Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope.

I'm sure BG3 is a great game, and I'm sure I'll enjoy the campaign, but so far it's not giving me the 'feels'.

Do you miss grids? Or did they only slow you down?

 

After having a fantastic squash harvest 2 years ago, last year kind of sucked, and we never figured out why. This year things started great, but then started going south, with plants yellowing and squash wilting. Well apparently there's these asshole moths who lay eggs on the stem, which then produce these little effers that bore into the stem itself and eat the plant from the inside. Cutting into the stems I was able to find and remove a bunch of them. Cutting the stems didn't feel great... I tried to cut along the grain, but had to pretty much cut a chunk out of every plant just so I could even see inside and prod enough to find the squiggly things.

Hoping the plants survive and thrive 🤞. Apparently next year I should get a syringe and inject them with something called BT. I had no idea raising squash required a medical degree 🩺

 

He gets very excited when we feed him

 

With the NWSL on break until August 18, the Challenge Cup is moving to a weekend schedule, except for its final game. Here are all the upcoming games:

Friday, 21 July

  • 07:00 PM EDT Racing Louisville FC vs Chicago Red Stars
  • 10:30 PM EDT Portland Thorns FC vs San Diego Wave FC

Saturday, 22 July

  • 07:00 PM EDT North Carolina Courage vs Washington Spirit
  • 08:00 PM EDT Kansas City Current vs Houston Dash

Sunday, 23 July

  • 07:00 PM EDT Orlando Pride vs NJ/NY Gotham FC

Friday, 28 July

  • 07:00 PM EDT Washington Spirit vs NJ/NY Gotham FC
  • 10:00 PM EDT OL Reign vs San Diego Wave FC

Saturday, 29 July

  • 07:00 PM EDT North Carolina Courage vs Orlando Pride
  • 08:00 PM EDT Chicago Red Stars vs Kansas City Current
  • 08:30 PM EDT Houston Dash vs Racing Louisville FC
  • 10:00 PM EDT Angel City FC vs Portland Thorns FC

Friday, 04 August

  • 07:00 PM EDT Orlando Pride vs Washington Spirit
  • 08:00 PM EDT Kansas City Current vs Racing Louisville FC

Saturday, 05 August

  • 07:30 PM EDT NJ/NY Gotham FC vs North Carolina Courage
  • 07:30 PM EDT San Diego Wave FC vs Angel City FC
  • 08:00 PM EDT Chicago Red Stars vs Houston Dash

Sunday, 06 August

  • 06:00 PM EDT OL Reign vs Portland Thorns FC

Wednesday, 09 August

  • 07:30 PM EDT NJ/NY Gotham FC vs Orlando Pride

I should probably see if any of these overlap with world cup games...---

 

Nissan Ariya, purchased in Iowa, US. Loving it so far. Don't have a 240V outlet in the garage though, so charging is super slow. We don't drive all that much though, so shouldn't be an issue. Also first new car in 12 years. So many new features 😵‍💫😍. Hands free driving is fun, and we love the 360 camera.

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