ShadowRam

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨life purpose⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at all that collaborative productive work culture!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an anti- sleep-paralysis device?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  CPAP

  You likely have sleep apena, and when your blood oxygen drops low you get sleep paralysis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alien (1979) predates Predator (1987)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The popularity of Predator is both the premise, and not assuming the audience are complete idiots, and providing them just enough information for the audience to figure it all out, without the movie explicitly spelling it out.

  Going into the movie, audience isn't sure if what was killing the commandos was some kind of 'monster', magical entity, etc.

  The suspense and trying to piece together "Just wtf is it that's hunting them an why" is the entire point of the movie.

  As the information slowly trickles in, we find out that it is an alien species on a safari hunt. Because why not? It makes perfect sense that we drop into a different world 'jungle' and hunt big dangerous game. Why couldn't an alien species want to do the same?

  Why wouldn't an alien species want 'sport' in that manner and only hunt the armed males.

  And the movie explained all of this, without some random character just saying all of that information out loud to explain it to the audience. We piece that together ourselves.

  This is why Predator movies as of late fall flat on their face.

  We already know what it is, and why its there. So everything after that is pointless.

  Predator 2 was 'slightly' interesting, as it filled in some gaps on the species itself.

  • is there more than 1
  • do they hunt other things?
  • what kind of other technology do they have?

  But beyond that, any Predator movie afterwards is a complete waste of time, unless it's an audience member going into something like "Prey" completely blind to what a Predator even is, and/or has never seen any previous movie.

  Once you see the first movie and know the premise (or know the premise before ever going into it), the magic of it is already gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  tired of this game crashing.

  I wait 15min for shader just to get into the menu, then continue, then wait another 5-10min for even more shaders...

  play for an hour or so, and then it just crashes out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CATL says next-gen sodium-ion battery supports 500 km range, readies for 2026 mass production⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Question is.... How much cheaper...

  LFP is almost at the price point we could all have a freezer sized battery pack in our house, drastically changing the grid, and allowing a place for all that wind/solar to store energy.

  If Sodium is a fair chunk cheaper, then it will totally be worth buying a house battery pack. Buying energy on the cheap at certain times of day, and using the battery when energy prices are high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  right?

  Randy Pitchford has been this way for years.

  I guess its news to some people Randy shooting off his mouth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shape up.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Was it Mario this time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the most useful things you've printed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I started up Reddits functional print many years ago to serve as a gallery/showcase to inspire others that 3D printing has a lot of useful uses.

  I left Reddit with the Exodus, but I believe it still exists, although it's probably bot filled garbage now.

  But it had a huge list of useful things.

  I have a similar thead here on the fediverse, but the original site (kbin.social) died out and I haven't bothered to get another going.