Telstarado
@Telstarado@lemmy.world
- Comment on Yucatan casquehead tree frog 2 months ago:
Fantastic pics!
- Comment on The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions 9 months ago:
Could be - tbh it’s been a minute since I looked into those. Either way, a low mileage pull is an excellent option and will last the life of the car if well maintained…
- Comment on The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions 9 months ago:
Meant to mention those and forgot! As long as it’s got some kind of decent guarantee that’s a great way to go. Should be plenty of them out there, as I’d imagine most of those vehicles end up getting totaled in accidents of varying severities rather than dying from engine problems.
- Comment on The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions 9 months ago:
As someone who is seemingly constantly working on computers and has done a ton of engine building and other deep car stuff, in addition to the garage mentioned previously, I’d recommend buying a buildable engine core for your subaru, getting that built (either do it yourself - recommended, or by a machine shop - will probably work well, but will cost a lot of $$) and having it ready to install rather than trying to pull the existing engine out and rebuilding it - especially if the current engine still runs.
Unless your plan is to make a hobby of having exploded cars in the yard, this’ll go a long way towards putting an end in sight for an engine rebuilding venture.
Also fuck all car subscriptions - that’s some gross profiteering right there…
- Comment on Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit 1 year ago:
A) I applaud you for your masterful continuation of the pelagic theme of this discussion about Elon porpoisely allowing this project to flounder into Davy Jone’s Locker.
B) TIL that am anglerfish lure is called an esca and that a sufficiently literate person can seamlessly weave such an unusual word into this net of fishy discourse… Bravo!
- Comment on No More Will to Play 1 year ago:
Sent you a dm with some info. TMI and off topic to post here, in my humble opinion. Played a bit last night and cleared an underground base/dungeon that had some interesting level design including a couple of random destructible barriers of different types that I’ve not noticed in other Beth games. I’m really enjoying this game, just not doing so by following Beth’s obvious gameplay path.
- Comment on No More Will to Play 1 year ago:
I’m already playing with around 175 mods, which has eliminated a lot of the stupider issues with the game (e.g. broke merchants that make it impossible to conveniently sell off loot, crazy high ship registration fees, those mind bogglingly awful crowd NPCs, etc. etc.).
TBH, the main quest is incredibly uninteresting to me (never completed the Skyrim main quest either, though I’ve had a blast playing a 2500+ modlist for many hours in both SE and VR) but I’ve been having a lot of fun scanning planets and taking on random quests in various locations.
I think if it weren’t for the mods that already exist I’d find Starfield to be too dull to play for more than a few hours, but with them I’m staying engaged enough to buy the moddimg community more time to work its magic. Guess it’s kinda sad that this game needs mods to pull its bacon out of the fire, but cool that the modders have already accomplished as much as they have.
- Comment on Brackets to install garage lights 1 year ago:
Looks fantastic! Thanks for sharing links to all the bits!
- Comment on Best Buy to end DVD & Blu-ray disc sales 1 year ago:
Same. I love my Plex server - I rip all of my physical media audio and video to it and can watch/listen on all of my devices. Music especially is fun on Plex, as it pulls in great bio info for most of the artists, which makes organizing my decent sized music library a fun bit of zen…
- Comment on Starfield Is Bethesda's Lowest-Rated Game On Steam 1 year ago:
Same. Just explored a planet where I found some chatter on the terminals about organisms living in a cave system and then got to explore the cave system and see them after discovering the airlock - style door in the complex that opened up to it.
Finding that the procedural generated buildings are pretty boring, but the surrounding proc-gen landscape is actually pretty cool. Lots of variation in landscapes per planet depending on latitude I land at, etc.
Put together a fairly heavily modded no man’s sky just to compare and couldn’t get into it. Seems pretty cool but just not engaging.
That being said, I’m finding Starfield to be brutally bland in some ways, but I’m still enjoying it. Running with 65-ish mods so far, so some of the stupider stuff that vanilla version does is mitigated, really ally looking forward to when the esp mods start coming out.
- Comment on Now that we've had SF for a bit, what do you think? Good, flawed, bad? 1 year ago:
Agreed. Been finding the main story, dialog, companions, etc. to be spectacularly unengaging, but have found myself to be surprisingly addicted to surveying life and resources on planets, which is typically not my kind of gameplay loop.
Just hit a planet with one predator and one prey species - the prey species were these Dimetrodon - looking lizard things the ended up one shotting me a bunch of times by breathing fire. Seeing a little bit of repetition with the animals but in general I’ve really been enjoying this aspect of the game.