moody
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- Comment on the public demands ANSWERS 2 days ago:
Are you reading the same thing I’m reading? Literally every search result describes shark skin as dermal denticles, or sharp tooth-like scales aligned from front to back, “relatively smooth” in one direction, and sandpaper-like in the other.
Apparently other animals regularly injured brushing up against them.
- Comment on the public demands ANSWERS 2 days ago:
In general, the crowns of dermal denticles have cusps pointing tailward, which is why a shark feels relatively smooth if stroked from head-to-tail but sandpapery coarse if stroked the other way.
- Comment on Why doesn't my phone put all of my apps to "sleep" by default? 3 days ago:
It’s 5G either way
- Comment on Arc Raider's Headwinds update asks whether extra XP is enough to go solo in a group lobby 4 days ago:
Does anyone really care that much about XP? It already doesn’t take that long to hit the level cap. It might be a thing immediately after the expedition, but I don’t see it being a very popular option.
- Comment on LE TITS NOW 1 week ago:
It’s not that cold, just a little nipply.
- Comment on An ARC Raiders auction house would be "risky", but Embark are looking at a playable Speranza hub and an actual trading animation 1 week ago:
I feel like what the game really needs is an economy. Not necessarily like a player economy, but more in terms of what to do with your money.
Right now, you can buy tools and weapons, but you can also craft them, so why spend the money when you can spend materials and free up stash space instead?
I have a full stash and millions of coins that I never spend because I have no incentive to. I’m just accumulating money that I have no use for.
- Comment on Most mouse pointers designs assume right-handed users 2 weeks ago:
Keep wigling the mouse and eventually there’s nowhere the pointer can possibly hide from you.
- Comment on YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card. 2 weeks ago:
Most Americans don’t own a passport in the first place.
- Comment on Steam Machine verification will have "fewer constraints" than Steam Deck - but text sizing worries me 2 weeks ago:
The text scaling has to be implemented in-game though, or the game has to have appropriately-sized text.
Some games have options to change the text size, which is great. Others have small text regardless of screen size.
- Comment on Steam Machine verification will have "fewer constraints" than Steam Deck - but text sizing worries me 2 weeks ago:
The issue is that the Steam Machine has good odds of being plugged into a TV 10 feet away rather than a monitor 2 feet away.
Small text on a 4k TV could be very hard to read.
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 2 weeks ago:
The lights go out, and I can’t be saved
Tides that I tried to swim against - Comment on The singular they is actually such a natural part of the English language, the people complaining about it almost certainly use it without noticing 2 weeks ago:
Why is they so uppity?
- Comment on Let's end Anti-Circumvention. We should own the things we buy! 2 weeks ago:
The issue is not whether people are willing to do it, but whether they should be allowed to.
I can’t think of any situation where disallowing people from repairing their own property makes any sense. The only ones it makes sense to are the ones who profit from it.
- Comment on Researchers turn spoiled milk into 3D printing materials — extracted proteins from dairy waste combined with polymers to create plastic alternative 3 weeks ago:
No, you misunderstood. Milk combined with plastic makes an alternative to plastic. Easy mistake to make.
- Comment on Christmas Animals 1 month ago:
Santa lives at North Pole, Canada. Poatal code H0H 0H0. You can write him a letter and he will reply.
- Comment on What are some lower size games that work well on linux handhelds? 1 month ago:
DS feels slow and a bit clunky compared to Elden Ring, but it plays in the same way, except it’s more linear, and it’s not open world.
The weapon upgrade system is more tedious, as there are several types of upgrade materials and branching upgrade paths.
But overall, it’s still a solid game almost 15 years later.
- Comment on What are some lower size games that work well on linux handhelds? 1 month ago:
Dark Souls 8gb Raft 10gb Blasphemous 1 & 2 4gb each TMNT Splintered Fate 5gb it’s a weaker Hades, but still pretty fun. Megabonk 500mb
- Comment on PS5 is outselling Switch 2 1 month ago:
Didn’t the PS5 also have a price increase at some point this year though?
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 1 month ago:
4 tbsp of butter and 2 cups of broth for an entire 100+ lbs roast? I think it’s gonna be dry and taste like crap.
- Comment on When work has you travelling but there's ARC to be raided... 1 month ago:
The Steam Deck performs on par with a PS4. It can run lots of recent AAA games if you turn the graphics down.
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 1 month ago:
Yes, they’ve been buying up smaller studios for decades and shutting them down.
There’s an entire wikipedia page about it.
- Comment on The Saudi Arabia fund behind the wildly leveraged EA buyout is dealing with "financial distress", claims report 2 months ago:
A leveraged buyout and a hostile takeover are two completely different things.
A hostile takeover is when the buyers appeal to the shareholders over the wishes of the board. It’s when the company doesn’t want to merge, but gets bought out anyway.
The term leveraged buyout only indicates that the money is mostly borrowed.
The case could be that a hostile takeover is also a leveraged buyout, but the EA buyout is not hostile.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 2 months ago:
Honestly, the most complicated part is getting the install media ready to go.
Once the installer starts, you’re just answering prompts like the local username and password you want, language and keyboard layout, and time zone, and it does the rest on its own.
Then the computer reboots, and you end up on the desktop of a fully usable computer. Most distros will have a one-time popup welcoming you and maybe leading you to some Flatpak “store” where you can search for free apps to install.
- Comment on The rich are ‘renting’ out their idle gold bars for income as prices remain at historic highs 2 months ago:
Basically the borrowers are using gold-to-gold loans instead of cash loans to buy gold to avoid problems like price fluctuations.
They’re using the gold for jewelty making or industrial processes, and then returning different gold with interest paid back in gold.
So the lenders are lending out gold, and getting back more gold as interest with no money changing hands.
- Comment on ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026 2 months ago:
This time? Union busting.
- Comment on Sorry our servers fell over, say Arc Raiders devs, here's some free virtual cash and a rucksack 2 months ago:
I’m not sure 500 tokens buys anything in-game.
- Comment on Stay Golden 2 months ago:
We’re gonna be, gonna be golden
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 2 months ago:
It grew because it was the only platform that did it.
If you want views, you have to go where the viewers are. Current alternatives are sorely lacking.
If you want the smaller platforms to grow, you do need to post there, but ignoring the existing giant won’t get you seen unfortunately. At the very least, you should do both.
- Comment on ARC Raiders | Launch Trailer 2 months ago:
I never played Tarkov, but it always seemed a little too heavy for me. And the cheating issues everyone seems to be complaining about, and the issues people have been having with the devs, it all put me off from playing it.
The reviews I’ve seen for ARC Raiders said that the game was doing a lot of things right, but everything could be a little better. One of them called it something like “pleasantly mediocre” which isn’t awful, but also doesm’t sound like a resounding endorsement.
If I find some people to play with, I may pick it up. It’s not the kind of game I want to grind solo or play with randos, but it looks like a hood time.
- Comment on ARC Raiders | Launch Trailer 2 months ago:
Has anyone played this yet? I watched a stream of it, and it looked decent, but reviews have described it as quite mediocre.