Geth

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[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 hours ago

Usb-c has already proven itself to be reliable, it was designed to be reversible, it is easy to insert and remove with good tactile feedback and is compact while having lots of versatility. All traits I would love to see in an universal power plug.

To me USB-A was what schuko is today. It works and is mostly fine but I'm sure we could do better if we put our minds to it. The problem with todays plugs and sockets is they all work just about, enough that no one with any authority is going to bother with the topic. Any improvement needs to be by an unrealistically huge margin to be worth the investment required.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 hours ago

Exactly. It's best technically but worst for the end user. I am an end user and I would hate to be stuck with that monster of a uniderectional plug. I don't care that it washes my dishes for me if it doesn't fit in my bag and kills me in the night when I step on it.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 11 hours ago (15 children)

We can't agree which one is best. When Tom Scott proclaimed his home plug to be the best I scoffed. I thought my own home plug is better. But in reality I think they all suck in their own way, every single one of them.

I think a new more research driven approach like the USB-C design would be better, something that protects your fingers, is easier to locate when behind furniture or in the dark, works in more than a single position, is not going to stab you if you leave it on the floor, does not get stuck in the socket, I think it might even be possible to add a fuse without making it larger than a typical phone charger, but to be honest, the smaller the better. One can only dream.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I've played with someone like this once. It is infuriating to have to halt the flow of the action just so that everyone can take their time and describe shitty little menial tasks they are doing and that should just be left to reasonable expectation so that they don't give their petty DM the oppotunity to fuck them later.

There are so many ways to create fun challenges for players, being anally adversarial with the players is not one of them. They only person deriving joy from that is the shitty sadistic DM.

Sorry for the very personal attack, but bruh.. I got triggerd just by reading your last two sentences.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Any kind of inventory management like arrows and food is way too sweaty and has never engaged a single player ever unless the whole point of the campaign is this exact mechanic. It's a waste of time and energy and I don't play with anyone that insists on doing it.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Interesting. I've noticed the hype dying down in recent years and some of my favorite vegan products disappearing off the shelves or changing recipe and then dying a slow painful death. I blamed it on people and companies treating it as just a fad, so reporting that it's still a thing people do is surprising to me.

It's true there are still more vegan products than before, but the dedicated sections in my local supermarkets are tiny.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Sugar and nutmeg in french toast???? Ewwwwwww!

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

I framed that a bit weird, what I meant is that as far as steam and the stats are concerned I disappeared off the face of the earth for the last 4 months, when in fact another old game has consumed me.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Looks like this year I played exactly 0 new games. But what steam doesn't know is that in September I started Cyberpunk on GOG and haven't dropped it since. Has to be my game of the year now.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago
[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 week ago (6 children)
[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This anti-nuclear argument is bullshit considering the context. Germany dicomissioned perfectly fine and working nuclear stations without having any better alternative essentially bringing back the worst coal mining and processing to compensate and creating a disastrous overall net loss in terms of environmental impact and energy generation efficiency. It's a moot point now since they fucked themselves years ago, it's no longer feasible to fix this and renewable sources are slowly overtaking coal.

 

Like for many other people, Valve single player experiences were one of my favorite of all time growing up. I considered both Half-Life and Portal to be masterpieces. It's true they've always been distracted with multiplayer games as well, things like Counter-Strike or Team Fortress and I did play them for sure, because I was a kid and I had all the time in the world.

These days I'm not a kid anymore and so when I game I tend to look more for memorable experiences instead of mindless grinding. Obviously I remember Valve as the experts in creating memorable experiences and I would like them to keep fully exploring those talents. They don't have that many employees, but they do have all the money in the world, no external pressure, no publisher to shit on them, it's just their developers and artists and a vision. But then they use all that and create this. An Overwatch looking moba shooter, really? I'm sure people will like and play it, but is this the results of the vision and ambition of a company like Valve?

It doesn't have to be Half-Life. I remember them saying that they dont want to do another one in the series because they are looking to innovate and make something truly original. My body is ready, give me anything. I can't imagine a moba shooter really fits with this description. I'm wondering how such a low hanging concept even becomes a real product at a company as ambitious as Valve.

I hear people are having fun with the new game and I'm happy for them. I am no longer the target audience and I wish them good luck with it. In the mean time let me hear your thoughts on it. Would you like to see another single player experience from Valve?

 

I've been using sync for a while and occasionally I go looking in the settings for the feature to hide read posts automatically, instead of having to do it manually. Other Lemmy clients have this so I was convinced sync should probably have it as well, I just can't find it. Does this exist? If not, is it something that could be added? Thanks!

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