psycotica0

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[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Can someone who knows things decode what 73% playable, with 98% in-game means? Does in-game just mean it starts, but playable means it has to actually with well? Or is it a different metric entirely?

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago

Yup. Tried it: nope. Played Control, loved it. Maybe I gave Alan Wake a bad shake? Tried it again, nope again. It just doesn't do it for me. But I'm glad it does for others!

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 6 points 12 hours ago

Well yeah, anyone can bend a person's leg the right way, or have their foot attached to their ankle instead of their knee, with no training at all! You have to go to school to learn the advanced techniques!

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

I'd like to argue with you about that, but alas...

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

If you self host it, yes. But Snikket the company will host the server for you for a fee if you'd prefer to just sign up online and download an app from an app store.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I have a strange love in my heart for IPFS. I can't justify it, but it's there. Beautiful atoms... such promise...

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cities tend to be more democratic than their surrounding area, but also tend to be more densely populated. So you can have a situation like this with hours long lines in busy areas, which heavily disrupt people's ability to have their vote registered.

So! The answer to that problem is mail-in voting! Vote in advance, with no lines, on your schedule! But the problem with city voting isn't always an accident, and so mail-in voting has obviously got to go too.

But anyway, I think that's your answer. It swings Democrat because other things have already happened to make voting in Democrat areas worse in other ways, and this seemed like a good alternative.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 54 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What's frustrating is that these are the costs of corruption. This, or that time they sabotaged the postal system in order to try and stifle mail-in voting. Taking a system that's working, and making it not work any longer, doesn't make things better for anyone. It's just overhead! It's paying to knock down a functioning building, leaving nothing in its place, and then paying every month to maintain a fence around the rubble.

No one benefits from this, except some people that shouldn't be in power get to stay in power, so they can keep doing stuff like this to stay in power, and no other person sees any growth, improvement, or value. That would cut into margins.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

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Hmmmmmm. It didn't, and when I last looked, and even in hearing people talking during this kerfuffle, it didn't sound like it supported this, but perhaps it does. Which would be nice!

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 40 points 4 days ago (10 children)

Searching for a single Discord alternative may be asking the wrong question however. Discord itself is an extensive bundle of functions smashed together: real-time chat, persistent forums and documentation, voice chats, events and even games.

I think this is the important part that's missing from a lot of these discussions, including from users themselves looking for a new place to go. Some people use discord as an IRC chatroom replacement. Some use it was a small group text, essentially, between friends or co-workers. Some people use it as a Patreon perk to get access to a community around an artist and interact with that artist and their other fans.

And I'm in some "servers" of all of those. So anywhere that's using it as IRC can be replaced with XMPP or Matrix no problem. Or IRC, but with gifs. Cool. But my other group that hangs out in there async every day and the occasionally jumps onto an ad-hoc voice chat when people are available to game, or sometimes shares my screen so someone else can watch what I'm doing? None of those things do that. But mumble kinda does, but not in a persistent or integrated way. Mumble is a great way to talk, but an awful place to hang out. Jitsi does screen share, but is not casual and also isn't a good hangout.

And we could limp by with an XMPP room for chat and then a link to a Jitsi or Mumble or something when it's time to do something. But there's something tight about having the "just call" button right there, tied to the chat you're already in, and in being able to see "huh Alice and Bob are playing GAME right now. I should pop in!"

But if you've never been in a discord server like that, you make a recommendation of IRC or something, and a gaming friend group user checks it out and is like "this is even close to doing any of the things I need it to..."

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm not saying I disagree... but I would be curious how this chart compared with a chart of "number of cyclists" or "distance covered by cyclists" over the same period....

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)
 

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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