Stovetop
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- Comment on Startup Claims Its Fusion Reactor Concept Can Turn Cheap Mercury Into Gold 19 hours ago:
I think gold could become a less coveted substance just in terms of value as a status symbol, but it could still benefit from being mass produced just due to its material properties. It’s a good conductor, doesn’t tarnish, is very malleable, etc.
- Comment on Startup Claims Its Fusion Reactor Concept Can Turn Cheap Mercury Into Gold 1 day ago:
Currently many orders of magnitude more expensive than just buying an equivalent amount of gold, but makes me wonder what the future might be capable of with those proofs of concept.
Science circling back around to alchemy is an interesting thought.
- Comment on The european mind can't comprehend this 1 day ago:
Honestly better stats for the US than I thought they’d be. Surprised that my state’s obesity rates are better than any number of European countries despite the situation here still not seeming great.
Wondering if that is an endorsement of things my state is doing right or an indictment of the countries in Europe that are somehow worse.
- Comment on Idibiks Oiho 4 days ago:
Sorry, not looking to be accusatory, that’s on me for my own lack of additional context.
Most of these buildings are abandoned due to white flight. The resources needed to support and maintain urban communities are disproportionately allocated to white, suburban growth, and the shells left behind were intentionally kept out of the hands of minority communities and left to rot.
In my area, a lot of old mill towns have had their mills be repurposed as community centers, offices, business hubs, etc. after the mills were left abandoned for a number of years. The latest project near me is a beautiful looking conversion for subsidized housing for 60+ year old residents.
- Comment on Idibiks Oiho 4 days ago:
Sure, if you think it’s better to strip old buildings of value to make wealthy brick buyers happy instead of repurposing those old buildings for the public good of underserved communities.
- Comment on Idibiks Oiho 4 days ago:
Related note: a lot of salvaged brick is stolen. Old rust belt cities like Detroit, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, etc. have so many abandoned brick buildings. People set fire to the building to collapse the wooden supports, and when the mortar holding the bricks together is heated by the fire, the pressure of the hose from responding firefighters helps flake it off and clean the brick. Then people show up a few days later, grab all of the undamaged bricks from the rubble, and sell it to unscrupulous distributors who flip it for a premium on new developments looking for that expensive aged brick look.
- Comment on YSK Billionaire Rupert Murdoch owns Sky News, The New York Post, The Sun, The Times,Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. He is the most powerful businessman in the West 4 days ago:
I’ll put him as a close enemy #2 after Trump, if only because I believe Murdoch is closer to death and his heirs are trapped in a succession crisis that may compromise his conservative media empire when he’s gone.
- Comment on PS5 update introduces Power Saver option with a trade-off | Polygon 5 days ago:
And yet still no Discord streaming support…
- Comment on UK announces £30 million funding package and tax breaks as it aims to be the 'best place in the world to make games' 5 days ago:
£30m is basically pocket change to Amazon and Microsoft, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they drain the fund anyways before closing the studios the funds were intended for.
- Comment on Has the live-service dream crashed back down to earth? | Opinion 1 week ago:
Honestly, I’m not even a fan of this take. This essentially boils down to “I don’t care if a company has shitty business practices as long as only people dumber than me fall for them.”
- Comment on Day 367 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
One more year! One more year!
- Comment on If you've given up on Civilization 7, Civ 6 is free with all DLC expansions for a limited time on Epic Games Store 1 week ago:
Had no idea. I’ve been using the PS5 version, though.
- Comment on If you've given up on Civilization 7, Civ 6 is free with all DLC expansions for a limited time on Epic Games Store 1 week ago:
Every Civ game has a less than complete start until everything is rounded out by expansions. People were saying the same about Civ 6 at first, and Civ 5.
It’s fine to say that Civ 7 isn’t there yet, because it’s honestly not, but I think it’s a bit early to “give up” on it given the usual track record of the series.
- Comment on Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign 1 week ago:
Users could choose their own color scheme, default was a light blue.
- Comment on Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign 1 week ago:
Which red, blue, yellow, and green icon on a white background are you looking for?
- Comment on Day 365 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing (One Year Anniversary!) 1 week ago:
Congrats on 1 year!
As someone who never has much time to play games these days, honestly just seeing your posts has helped keep the passion alive. I love seeing all of these games I enjoy still being appreciated today. Thank you!
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 1 week ago:
In the US at least, they actually do, in many cases. If you are in a drought region, your water utilities can be shut off if you’re wasting it all on watering a lawn or filling a swimming pool, for example. ISPs cut people off all the time for torrenting, sometimes even if it’s not pirated content (though it was ruled not long ago that ISPs aren’t utilities anyways).
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 1 week ago:
They’re saying that is the reverse argument, not the state of things today. As in, the only solution would be to force payment processors to do business with anyone and everyone.
- Comment on What is the fastest way to get banned from a platform or community? 1 week ago:
Plan backfired, you are now a content moderator for Truth Social.
- Comment on fafo 1 week ago:
Die?
- Comment on LIMBO and INSIDE are being delisted from GOG on July 17th 2 weeks ago:
Inside was better than Limbo for me, if that helps. Limbo was cool, but Inside had crazy atmospheric storytelling.
- Comment on Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it. 2 weeks ago:
Depends on how far a species advances, I’d guess. It wouldn’t surprise me if advancements set us (and other potential life out there) on a trajectory where it’s possible to just get most nutrition needed via passive intravenous implants, maybe only with a requirement to drink water to maintain fluid balance. Or we just get to the full cyberpunk cyborg option and all you need is an occasional battery recharge or something.
With the resources available today, mankind has the ability to solve world hunger, but that still keeps the dependency we have on various global supply lines for food. Few nations are truly agriculturally independent. Lenin once said that society is no more than three missed meals away from chaos, and I believe the only permanent solution to that issue would be if a society no longer needs to eat.
- Comment on YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process 2 weeks ago:
I’m reminded of stories I’ve heard of graduate students hiding a note and some cash in the pages of their theses that they submit to the university, just to see if anyone bothers reading it and takes the cash. They return years later to find it still there.
With open source, the code is all there ready for review by anyone, as long as you have the technical knowhow and patience to review the code you use. But like reading the terms and conditions for everything we use, how many people actually take the time to go through all that code?
- Comment on Day 358 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Night and day difference between game Bill and show Bill, too. Both characters are interesting explorations of attachment vs isolation in their own ways.
- Comment on IGN interview w/ DK Bananza devs 2 weeks ago:
Oh, banana!
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 3 weeks ago:
Agreed, I think it also hurts the games trying to even have a singular “villain” in the first place. Halo 1-3 had villainous figures, but I don’t think anyone was under the belief that just killing the 3 Prophets would solve the problem of the Covenant, or that killing the Gravemind would mean that the Flood would never be a problem again.
Halo relies on having compelling factions with clear purpose and ideology to act as antagonists in a general sense. The Prometheans in 4 weren’t bad, but outside of the Didact, they had no real purpose or personality. They were just an obstacle. I was really looking forward to the premise of 5 with the concept of going rogue and tackling the underlying themes of fascism at the heart of the UNMC, but then it just rapidly pivoted to some other garbage with Cortana and the Guardians which led to nothing in the end anyways. And so I didn’t even bother to play Infinite.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 3 weeks ago:
Do you mean 343/Halo Studios or is 545 some sort of reference I’m missing?
- Comment on Day 353 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
You can!
Worth noting for anyone looking to play both N64 games is that OoT Gerudo stay stunned indefinitely (until the area is reloaded) but the Pirates in Majora’s Mask who are borrowed from the Gerudo guards only stay stunned for a short time before getting back up.
This incentizes use of the Stone Mask, which can be obtained from the invisible guard by giving him a red potion. If playing the N64 version, he is located outside of Ikana Graveyard, which is a place that you can get to at that point in the game but many might not have bothered exploring yet. In the 3DS version, they moved him directly into Pirates Fortress so he’s harder to miss, but it does require just a little bit of stealth to get to where he is first.
- Comment on Microsoft layoffs are reportedly underway, with ZeniMax and King employees losing their jobs 3 weeks ago:
I just think it stopped being a good deal the moment they implemented their first price increase. That signalled that they’re willing to do what every other subscription service does and raise prices as arbitrarily high as people are willing to pay, with the enticement being that you can’t unsub or you’re left with no games.
If you have copious time for gaming and are always on the hunt for sometbing new, is it still a better deal than buying every game at release? Sure, at least for now. But the patient gaming strat at least gives me a backlog of affordable titles too long to finish them all, and I can also return to it at any time without worrying about titles eventually disappearing from a subscription catalog.
- Comment on Microsoft layoffs are reportedly underway, with ZeniMax and King employees losing their jobs 3 weeks ago:
I’m honestly surprised anyone still has it.
