mercano
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- Comment on i guess lunar eclipse got an update too.. 2 months ago:
Does Discworld have nutters who insist the world is spherical?
- Comment on Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them? 2 months ago:
Steam does have an option to hide all of your activity in a certain game, but not to cherry pick certain achievements. I think it’s so you don’t have to broadcast your 235 hours spent 100%ing Kink Simulator to your entire friends list.
- Comment on Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them? 2 months ago:
This is exactly why games have achievements for things like making it through the tutorial, completing Act II, or beating the final boss. It lets devs know how far players get through their games before loosing interest.
- Comment on Sometimes even the captain needs a little "me" time. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Floating turbine towers above — the S1500 hovers to harvest wind at 131 feet 3 months ago:
How come the 131 foot altitude in the headline is never mentioned in the article? These turbine operates at 4,921 feet, a number that makes a lot more sense when you convert it to metric, 1.5 km. The article is littered with these odd imperial measurements that should have just been left as nice round metric numbers, or least re-rounded after conversion. 130 feet would have read better, but the original number was 40 m.
- Comment on TIL there is a Super Mario Bros for C64 3 months ago:
Yes Great Giana Sisters was heavily influenced by Super Mario Brothers, but someone has semi-recently ported SMB1 itself to the C64, using code from the original NES ROMs. Modern Vintage Gamer did a video on it yesterday, which may have inspired OP.
- Comment on Interview: ‘Star Trek Voyager: Across the Universe’ Developer On Giving Players “The Weight Of Command” 3 months ago:
I’ve seen in the trailers that the
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Scenario is in the game. I’m curious if the developers will have any way to generate statistics about which way players make that decision.
- Comment on To demonstrate that people will argue about anything, here's a picture of a ladybug. 3 months ago:
Did you just assume that bug’s gender?
- Comment on Some words of wisdom from Harry Kim on this Monday 3 months ago:
Admitting you have fire ants in your brain makes you ineligible for promotion. Yes, Starfleet needs to reform their mental health policies, but that’s how it’s written.
- Comment on Using the same abbreviation scheme as "internationalization" -> "i18n", the word "to" can be abreviated as "t0o". 3 months ago:
“To” becomes “t0o,” but “too” is “t1o.”
- Comment on Not that limit 3 months ago:
That’s a ChatGPT kind of answer. A pattern is recognized, but the meaning isn’t understood.
- Comment on Form over function 3 months ago:
You’ll need a lucite engine block to show off your shiny new pistons.
- Comment on Get that silicussy 3 months ago:
API call girl
- Comment on Kids would encourage parents to get gas here so they could see the dinosaurs 4 months ago:
The curvy Coke bottle with a screw top also dates this to the mid 90’s or later. Before then, Coke came in a straight sided plastic screw top bottle. The classic curved glass bottles had the pry-off metal bottle caps.
- Comment on genius 4 months ago:
This is called the Jesus nut. It holds the main rotor onto the helicopter. It doesn’t have any redundancy, so if it fails, you’re going to be meeting Jesus in moments.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
It’s only in the last 150 years that information could travel any faster than a currier ship or rider. Before the telegraph and the radio, information traveled at roughly the same speed as goods or soldiers.