psycotica0

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[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 1 points 55 minutes ago

Right, yeah. Seems more like they're just not making the older model at all, probably haven't been for a while, and now the stock has run out.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 15 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know what this pic of Ron Perlman has to do with anything. Maybe he's one of the good ones!

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I'm not sure I understand. Like right now I believe I've heard that Germany has a 60€ pass or something. How does that prevent demand from surging? Wouldn't the people who can't afford a car be the ones they would have more trouble with the 60€? Presumably the car people could pay for fare already.

Though it is true that they aren't, and maybe the idea is that they would ride the free train, because any price is enough to keep them as "car people"?

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Right... but isn't the whole point of these passes to encourage people to use the systems?

I guess it's possible the price is chosen such that it encourages the right number of people and no more?

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Given your tone and general panic, I'm going to say don't look into Guix. It's technically interesting, but I don't think it's for you where you're at. 😛

And I mean this with love, not gatekeeping.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

For hundreds, if not thousands, of years now nerds and their like have been saying "sports is dumb and boring and stupid" and for hundreds, if not thousands, of years now something like 40% of the population has loved them vehemently.

Might be worth someone looking into why someday...

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I mostly agree, but I'll also admit something embarrassing: the first time I heard one, I didn't recognize the names of any of the groups or treaties mentioned, despite living in the area most of my adult life. So in that sense it educated me, and made it so their names are names I now recognize.

Sure, I could have looked it up, should have looked it up, but I didn't. And now I know.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

I'm curious about these, this one and the German one people talk about. Obviously the price is meant to be a good price, but at that price why not just make it free? Do so many people buy the pass that it actually makes a noticeable income? Or is it just to keep very poor people from having it?

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

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[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 124 points 5 days ago (10 children)

It's really easy! If you imagine that a black person and a white person could never be friends or spend positive time together, and then you saw a show that had them together, you might conclude the show is trying to convince you something is okay that you know is not. Propaganda.

If you imagine that a gay person is inherently wrong, and that bad things deserve to happen to them as punishment for their choices, and then you watch a show where a gay person is happy and normal and respected, you might conclude the show is trying to push an idea on you that you already know isn't right. Propaganda.

It's sad, and dangerous, but it's not complicated.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 days ago

Relevant coverage from the YouTube channel People Make Games:

First Video (one month ago)

Follow-up (two weeks ago)

 

Hey folks! Back in the PS2 days I had Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and besides the quests and stuff I also loved just driving around and going on little road trips and stealing planes.

And then in the PS3 era I had Just Cause 2, and the voice acting was terrible, and the quests were kinda dumb, but wow was it fun to just drive around and go on little road trips and steal planes. And your dumb little hookshot was nearly immersion breaking it was so unrealistic, but instead it was a ton of fun zipping through the air from 150 paces to kick a dude off his motorbike...

Anyway, I'm wondering what people's opinions are on these kinds of games these days! I know Cyberpunk has some driving, but I don't know if people enjoy cruising in it. I really liked Breath of the Wild, which is not really the same but had some screwing around times. I know there's a GTA 5 which I never played but it's probably good, I think there's a Just Cause 3 but I haven't looked into it. Some people love Red Dead 2, which I mostly bounced off of but maybe I was wrong.

Do you folks have any favourites in this "genre"? Things I should check out? Stories of worthless hijinks? Thoughts?

 

Hello! I've just started using StreetComplete, and I want to make sure I understand the answers before I go through and make a bunch of garbage data.

In this picture, is the kerb a ramp, or flush?

The sidewalk deflects downwards, but it's not a ramp ramp like the example picture.

How about this one?

The kerb itself dips, but the sidewalk on this one looks more flat and does simply run into the road. And then it has the texture, obviously. Is this one different from the last one?

Also, just to check, I marked both of these sidewalks as "concrete". That's correct, right? I wondered about "concrete plate", because they're segmented, but the picture made concrete plate look much more substantial.

My other question was based on the "lit" tag for a bus stop. This bus stop has a street light near it, but there's no light on the bus stop itself. It sounds like that means it is lit? Would a non-lit stop just be one that is fully dark at night, then, with no kind of lighting anywhere near it at all?

This one is further from the street light, but still has line of sight. Lit?

Thanks very much for any help you have!

 

Hello folks! I have these switches in my bathroom.

The rightmost is the lights, and the middle one is the bathroom fan, and I'd like to replace that middle one with something I could load tasmota on (or some other open source firmware), without replacing the other switch, the sockets, or the faceplate.

I haven't seen any smart switches that have a form factor that would fit through this faceplate, though; they seem to mostly want to be the entire electrical box.

If it weren't for the electrical plugs I could maybe replace this with some kind of 2-gang thing, which isn't really what I want but could be fine, but as it stands I'm not sure what my options here are.

I don't need the new switch to necessarily look like the old one, I just want it to fit in the same box and use the same faceplate. Do you folks have any recommendations?

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