Berttheduck

@Berttheduck@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I seem to remember it had something to do with twink Ryden and the child solder training he got rather than the cold war of MGS3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Viking combat roguelite Bad North (2018) is truly incredible in bite-sized real-time tactics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I really enjoyed my time with it. Played it all on my phone. The touch controls work surprisingly well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess the assassin’s creed games mostly fit your criteria. The plot largely takes place in the past so has already happened and is effectively fixed. The current day plot moves at a glacial pace for most of the first 3 games but does have some development gradually to something bigger.

  Can’t really speak for the meta/ modern day plot of the later games as I stopped playing them.

  There is at least 1 metal gear game where the premise is it’s a training simulation. I don’t remember the title, I think it’s a spin off of MGS2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You could look at fire safe boxes for document storage. Those are usually pretty solid. You would want to bag up the drive inside an anti static bag and probably put a couple of those little water absorbing silicone packets in there as well. If access isn’t an issue then maybe some sealant around the seams to keep it more water tight.

  Magnetic tape would be better for long term storage as well I think. Those have longer storage stability. I don’t know how long an unplugged hard drive will reliably store information.

  Animals could dig it up but probably wouldn’t as it wouldn’t smell like food. Depth wise I’d go for at least a couple feet deep, the traditional 6 is a surprisingly deep hole and temperature gets more consistent the deeper you go (at least with readily available tools, it eventually starts to get hot again).

  Please note totally random opinion with very little experience with long term data storage. Thanks for the fun thought experiment, I hope things get better and you don’t need your backup data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Universities are a stepping stone to teach students how to be independent adults so getting them used to normal working hours gently is a good thing. Most courses aren’t a solid 9-5 so there’s plenty of opportunity for a lay in at least some days (depending on the course)

  Universities are also research institutions and that all runs on normal working hours, the lecturers are often researchers first and teaching staff second so fitting classes around the research makes sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect the main reason is the inertia of the 9-5 that most of the world revolves around. You’d struggle to recruit staff to teach, techs to maintain buildings and stock required if they had to work permanently on late shifts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Badgers: 1 Star⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t remember where I saw these but the rest of these animal reviews are also great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much of a persons body is needed to survive?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, you’d want to talk to someone like an intensive care doctor really but yeah a lot of your organs can be replaced mechanically these days at least for a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much of a persons body is needed to survive?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really depends what you mean by survive.

  You could do ECMO and dialysis and get rid of the heart, lungs and kidneys, parenteral nutrition to feed via an IV so no need for a gut.

  The patient would be bed bound and at immediate risk of dying from a complication but in theory that’s basically an empty abdominal cavity connected to a brain and a bunch of machines.

  You would need enough decent sized blood vessels left to connect it all up but otherwise not much physically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes a fart dry vs wet?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A wet fart is a slightly more polite way to say shit yourself.

  Basically if there is poo in your undies after a fart it was a wet day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just.....why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a lot better than other electric toothbrushes whilst retaining waterproofing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just.....why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, you need to send it back to them but for a few quid (or included if you have their replacement head subscription) they will change the battery for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just.....why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We have recently gotten ourselves some SURI toothbrushes and they are eco friendly, repairable, the heads are recyclable/ biodegradable. They also give a better clean than my old oral b electric. Quieter too. Highly recommend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In summary of the nature article:

  Listen and be interested in why they hold those opinions, use motivational interviewing techniques (I explain this as Inception, trying to get the patient to have the ideas) and provide solid evidence, be realistic about data and certainty, ie the MMR vaccine is safe (and doesn’t cause autism) the COVID vaccine has less data as it’s newer, but it is still safer for the vast majority of people than COVID.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t a question random people on the internet can answer easily, but I can offer you some things to think about which might help.

  I’m in a medical field in the UK and do some interviewing so I’d be asking you why you want to pick a job with long hours, bad pay (comparatively for the responsibility), poor working conditions? Medicine is not a job for people who want to breeze through or are just a little bit interested in biology and people.

  I’d recommend you get some work experience, health care assistant jobs are commonplace in the UK and a great way to see if medicine is right for you, universities here look on it very favourably as well. If you can do a 12 hour shift where you are exposed to blood, poo, urine and vomit and still want to go back for more then I’d say medicine is probably an ok field for you.

  What are your goals? Helping people is a common response in medical interviews but you can help in lots of ways, law like you’ve already been considering, engineering, accounting etc. What do you get out of medicine that you can’t get elsewhere?

  Do you want to make lots of money and have an easier life, don’t pick medicine, pick something else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DM Workshop - A community for discussing your TTRPG worlds and campaigns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes please. I love seeing how other GMs prep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah they are common beach wear but a visiting a site for looking at women wearing them is not something most people would do at work so they are probably right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Americanized names of places etc exist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a lot of this is due to colonialism. Back when the Brits were sailing around pointing cannons at people and being delightful they didn’t respect local culture and dialects enough to bother with a “tricky” word so replaced it with an easier version. Unfortunately due to that expansion and the proliferation of English as the most common trade language the English versions tend to stick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Such a great game. We really enjoyed our time with it. The boss fights were harder than I expected but quite manageable after a few attempts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love the little orb thing it’s very cute ☺️.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love that game, I’m bad at it but it’s a really chill experience. Until it all goes wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American and British English spelling and pronunciations⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in healthcare and it’s an append-i-cectomy not an appen-dectomy. It should have the i pronounced. The Americanised version is just lazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So you got to go on a short cruise where they returned you unharmed to your original destination.

  That’s definitely not human trafficking but the situation you put yourself in could have very very easily gone that way if the people on the boat wanted it to and you were lucky you came out of it unharmed and free.

  The things we do as teenagers eh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you want to learn how to work from home make sure you learn from an expert⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can buy them. Henry the hoover. Really popular UK brand usually in commercial buildings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t get stuck in the hinterlands. Leave as soon as the game lets you. I came back to DAI recently after putting it down on my initial play through because I was being completionist in the hinterlands and that area is massive and full of dull quests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That game is soo good. Scary as hell I agree. I love the motion tracker, boop… boop… Boop. Boop boop boop. Then suddenly there’s an alien tail sticking out your chest. Great at building tension. I found it easiest to just crouch walk most of the time and to keep the alien in sight and stay behind it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aside from telling your parents you probably need to change your toilet habits and diet. You should spend less than a couple of minutes on the loo to open your bowels. Lots of water and a high fiber diet will help. Most people spend way too long straining on the toilet and that’s how you get haemorrhoids. Don’t be embarrassed though it’s a really common problem your parents likely have them themselves or know people who struggle with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s definitely worth a go. I’m properly sucked back in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I asked, I’m loving the new mechanics. It’s great having mechs around the base helping with construction and cleaning. I’m about to make my first scyther cuz I desperately need another melee blocker as my poor cleaner bot keeps dying every raid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve gotten back into Rimworld, I just got the BioTech dlc and I’m really enjoying it.

  I love getting a little colony going and then almost inevitably seeing it slowly fall to pieces because of something stupid I did a few hours ago. For example not having my power production behind walls so raiders keep setting them in fire. So now my base is in the dark and everyone is injured following 2 raids in a row.