Rakonat

@Rakonat@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  First game was just Diablo 2 but FPS with guns. But I can totally respect anyone that didn’t jive with that. The humor was very hit and miss and definitely made but a group of people who insisted they were hilarious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Couldn’t have been less interested. Borderlands hasn’t been remotely interesting since 2 and everything since then has been a soulless cash grab.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bullet engravings as per WSJ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Given that both individuals that tried to enact their plots against POTUS were registered republicans, I wouldn’t be surprised if some MAGA idiot did shoot Charlie over some falling out. Though my money is definitely on Mossad given recent events.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bullet engravings as per WSJ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Was going to say, weren’t they claiming the round was from a 30.06? It should be necked and considerably longer.

  This is turning into a worse frame up job than Luigi. Does the DoJ just tell local authorities to find a scapegoat if the shooter can’t be found in 12-24 hours?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Inb4 Doom can now run on birds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japanese Power Plant Turns Saltwater Into Electricity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This plant is part of a bigger chain. So while yes, on its own it seems waste of effort, as part of the entire chain it’s a reasonable step to be more environmentally friendly and recover some energy in the process.

  A local plant desalinates water, resulting in fresh water and a brine solution that has much higher concentration of salt in it than regular sea water.

  Dumping the brine solution on its own would kill most plant and animal life around the dump site due to large saltwater concentration, so an alternative method must be found to dispose of the brine.

  Waste water from other processes can be mixed with the brine to bring it more in line with seawater salinity, making it safe to reintroduce to the ocean without severe ecological impact. This waste water is deemed to difficult or intensive to purify and treat to bring it back up clean water standards, and I’m assuming tested or filtered so as not to introduce hazardous chemicals that could damage the reverse osmosis membranes as well as sea life.

  Because there is way to mix the waste water and brine through membranes that can be used to generate electricity, this process is utilized to recover some of the energy expended in purifing the original batch of seawater resulting in the brine.

  It’s not a perfect process but it is a means of getting some use out a waste product, similar to burning garbage or rotting food rather than just dumping it into a pit and letting it rot and release methane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate Atheists!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The world’s largest unisex public urinal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Balls Clapped⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that his story or is there actually witnesses to his claim that aren’t teenage prostitutes that beat the shit out of him?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Power Word: OBEY⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s start with ONE THING

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, UN report shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Worth noting lot of industry experts in renewables and outside of it criticize LCOE for not properly taking inflation and total life cycle costs into account. It’s still a useful number but never let it be more than a single data point in determining which form of energy is cost effective balanced against environmental impact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even got their own island⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He calculated the odds, but boy he was bad at math.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even got their own island⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some girl when I was in middle school, 14ish, used to get picked up by some tatted up 20 something, pretty sure he was at least 25 but no idea. We thought he was like an uncle or something. Nope, turns out he was her boyfriend. Pretty sure that guy went to prison for meth related activities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was strange on steam that it was so hard to get across when I was sure when I played it on Xbox that I basically did it first try no sweat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Find a person who makes it worth getting out of bed every morning and they feel the same about you. Everything else is crap.

  If you still want advice from a stranger on the Internet about dating advice, in your situation I’d probably be looking for people closer to my age than not. But if some 20-22 year old says and does everything that puts a smile on your face, then go for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s always been criticism but until now it’s been low level insiders and nobodies like pirate software. And the reasons the publishers and big names that would be affected did SKGs didn’t say or do anything until now because they didn’t want to give it any oxygen. They were smart enough to ignore it because they knew if they said anything it’d rile up a shift storm. Which is exactly what Pirate Software did so he’s probably got a lot of people on both sides pissed at him for being too narcissistic to shut up and let the movement die.

  Now that it has enough signatures to be taken seriously you’re going to see the fire hoses open up and a lot of misinformation spread about how the movement would make the gaming industry unviable for the current model. Now is the point where if you are an EU citizen that you write and call your representatives who would consider this issue and help write the law if it did pass on how important it would be to you personally to not allow game companies to revoke your ability to utilize a game you paid for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  None of these a reasons the store, which posts it’s own prices and barcodes, can’t just include the total on the tag, or better yet set the price to the nearest whole number (or division of .10/.25) and take the tax out of that full amount. I know because I live in the midwest, I worked in retail/grocery store and our store piloted a test program of doing exactly that. Customers were incredibly happy and our overall sales actual went up because people who didn’t normally shop with us started to because it was easier to budget.

  We got shut down by corporate beancounters who were freaking out because we were supposedly making less money. Except our sales and profits were up for the 8 weeks we demo’d the program and 4 weeks after we were forced to stop sales dropped below our year-on-year average. Literally forced to stop a program that benefited the customer and retailer because corporate greed couldn’t tolerate the customer not being screwed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam controller was ahead of its time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On the steamdeck maybe, on the steam controller they are only r1/l1 buttons, I tried many times to change them and the software can’t different them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam controller was ahead of its time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the idea was mature enough. Yes it did try to innovate and do new things but it also was trying very hard to be familiar to an audience that was never going to embrace change while not changing enough for a new audience to develop around it. I would compare it to the Dvorak keyboard, a device that offered only marginal improved efficiency and use while requiring the user to completely relearn from the ground up and have to fight muscle memory for those who used the popular medium it meant to replace. And in the end, most people said it wasn’t worth it.

  I was initially intrigued by having buttons on the bottom of the controller, where your fingers naturally would be thus freeing your thumbs to stay on the pad/sticks. And imagine my frustration to realize those rear buttons are just extensions of triggers already on top. Huge missed opportunity imo that a redesign could have given dedicated buttons on the back of the controller to each finger and expand the possibilities for input combos a player can perform.

  TL;DR I think the controller was a valiant effort to innovate but didn’t go far enough or do anything sell enough to stick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To tack onto that: www.google.com/search?udm=2&q=land+use+per+meter+…

  When you account for land use in the entire life cycle from mining resources to disposal at end of life cycle, nuclear uses a quarter of the land of rooftop cadmium panels and a tenth of silicon panels.

  Offshore wind is the only thing that gets close and even that has ecological and commercial concerns.

  If you’re pro-stable and sustainable ecological systems, nuclear based power grid is a no brainer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I require nothing more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Had to take my coffee table out of my living area to get enough room in my apt. Only other option would have been moving my pc to bedroom and tossing out my bedframe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo faces legal action over ability to brick Switch 2s whenever they want⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Without online functionality, the system might as well be bricked. I’m not 100% so someone can fact check but I’m reasonably certain it will refuse to let you play any software you’ve downloaded and only allow you use physical carts without the option to update them. When 90% of a console is built around online activity, being able to remotely disable that makes the console useless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android 16 is here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would you like to kill Son Goku?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bugs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to do your part, Civilian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨well...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The genie did understand, this giant cock was his best friend and prized possession, he’s entrusted it to you now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a mysteria⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m the caveman who thought this was craft beer or something. Y’all drinking coffee cold? Scared caveman noises.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asmongold's Underwear⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone told me they only exist to make music for commercials and trailers and honestly that makes a lot of sense where they have some intense moments but the rest of the song is mediocre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam controller flash backs Pass

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mom never supported any kind of sexual education and definitely refuses any kind of healthy and mature conversation with the poor kid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to believe this is satire but fuck I will not be fact checking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The comment you replying to was trying to not so subtly point out this is a business plot and little else. Nobody is going to pay a subscription fee to have a tree in front of their business, but they might cough up money for a third party to maintain a tank of algae out front if it was sold right