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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grab your pitchforks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a huge fan of sweet and savoury in the same dish. Pineapple on pizza is great, but there are a lot of dishes from South-Asia that combine unique flavours. One of my favourites is rice with a yellow curry sauce with raisins and peach slices on the side. There can even be nuts in the rice to mix it up some.

  People need to step outside of their food comfort zone and try out different things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How should everything be routed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They are trolling, it doesn’t matter at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A table saw is for lengthwise cuts, for cutting long things like these you need a cut-off saw.

  Fun fact, you don’t really need to tap soft aluminium like this. You can just drive the bolt straight in with an impact driver. I thought it was sketch at first, having always tapped them beforehand. But my buddy said it’s a waste of time, just drive the bolts in right away. So I tried it and he was right, it works perfectly every time. They form perfect threads so you can easily remove and re-add the bolt just like when it was tapped beforehand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a miracle!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that a tail or a penis?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a miracle!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, you know, FUCKING DEAD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piegoth Ur⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Which would be the reason the hackers are celebrating

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microbes trapped in permafrost awake after thousands of years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  While this is good for some sort of movie or book plot, it isn’t realistic. Remember humans and species we evolved from were around a lot longer than 40,000 years. We’ve encountered these microbes (or their cousins) before and will be able to handle them just fine. Especially because we have an evolutionary advantage over them, they don’t know all the new tricks.

  The ones to really be scared of are the ones that have become resistant to all of the antibiotics we have thrown at them. Those super bugs can kick our asses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing that annoys me about this, is the BS Monsanto is pulling puts GMO in a bad light. Humans have been genetically manipulating crops and animals for thousands of years. But in the past it was a messy, slow and imprecise process. These days we have the tools to quickly and precisely adjust what we need to adjust. This is and has been critical for supporting the number of people alive today. Faster growing crops, with better yields, more resistance to diseases and climate change. GMO is absolutely a tool that we need and should continue to use.

  But these days so many people believe that when a crop or animal has been genetically modified, it’s somehow less healthy to eat. There has been a real wave of people who listen to social media about what is healthy and what is not. Blaming things that are perfectly fine, neutral or even good for you, on a precieved poor health. In reality we (especially in rich countries) are healthier than ever. These people look to things like ‘organic’ or weird diets such as Paleolithic (but instead of berries and nuts they eat like a cows worth of meat each day) to improve their lives. Companies that used to use chemicals created by mixing some precursors in a clean reactor, are switching over to organic sources. This might sound like a good thing, but I’ve seen them genetically modify insect that already create the chemical they need in their shells to create lots of that chemical. The insects get bred, boiled and filtered and the chemical is extracted. This leads to a less pure product, with more contaminants, a larger cost, a bigger impact on the environment and more bio-industry. And it’s often a chemical that’s very common and has been in use for over 50 years with zero impact on health.

  Well you might say, let people do their own thing, it’s a free country right? Yes, but also no. People having weird diets or listening to Facebook to put olive oil on a dry patch of skin is fine. But it’s a slippery slope. These people are losing their faith in science and truth, but instead rely on whatever people say on social media. A place where more and more scammers are active, saying whatever just to get clicks, get sponsors or actively scam people out of their money. This slope then extends into something like homeopathic medicine and nature healing. Which has convinced people in the past that needed real medicine to instead opt for the “natural” option. People have died because of this.

  In the past I was still in the camp of let the people chose, who am I to say what is the truth for other people? I don’t have all the answers, if they want to do something stupid, that’s on them. I also do stupid stuff all the time, just in other ways, should I be disallowed from living my life as I want to? But then the pandemic happened and the people listening to social media instead of science and government started to shout we shouldn’t be in lock down, we shouldn’t use masks, we shouldn’t vaccinate. So my view changed, it’s so easy for people to trust what’s being said on social media. Foreign actors abuse social media to influence the people, destabilize countries and impact elections. Scammers convince people of nonsense, just to get a few bucks. I’m not sure what the solution is, but I have started to believe we actively need a solution.

  Seeing a large company like Monsanto abuse GMO in the ways they do pisses me off. We do not need to feed the fire against using tools like this. We desperately need those tools if we want to continue to exist in the numbers we are today. They should be made an example of and their abuse should be stopped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its all bots, isn't it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t we just talk to the humans

  Be a little understanding

  Could make things better?

  Can’t we talk to the humans

  That work together now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What fungus would do this to a tree? Huge blooms. I know nothing about mushrooms.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you sure these aren’t insect nests?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong pre-patch 3 beta update brings extra controller support and dispels nagging lategame curses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard it from many people, shame it isn’t fixed yet.

  I replaced my cable and bought a 5 pack in the store, so if this one starts acting up, I can replace it right away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong pre-patch 3 beta update brings extra controller support and dispels nagging lategame curses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope they fix that bug where on Linux when the controller disconnects for whatever reason, all of the analog inputs like the triggers and sticks stop working. I connect my controller using an USB-C cable which is kinda broken, it usually works just fine, but every once in a while it disconnects before immediatly reconnecting. Usually that’s not an issue, it just hiccups a bit and then I can continue playing. Since it doesn’t happen often, I can blame my skill issues on it and I’m lazy, I hadn’t bothered to replace the cable. With this annoying bug, I had to restart the game every time it happened. After a couple of times I replaced the cable, but still would be cool if they just fixed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The problem with overeating is that it feels really good⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes there’s also a mechanism in our brains that if a food is high enough in nutrients like calories, fat, etc. we don’t feel full and just keep eating. In the past such sources were few and far between, so when one came upon them, we needed to eat as much as physically possible. The issue is, these days we have a lot of food like that. Our brains can’t handle it, so we overeat very easily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨important event⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not even true, where I live the moon was visible for half of the day and set just after sunset. So no moon tonight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video and screen sharing server suggestions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How does this work, if one person is sharing their screen, does the client get to see? Because it seems more like remote gaming kind of thing? Where the client controls the game/app running on the server?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah EU VAT opened up a whole can of issues. It’s super complicated and annoying, with all sorts of weird exceptions. The exact opposite of what VAT was supposed to be. EU countries should have just gotten their shit together instead of this patch work.

  I’ve actually seen that fraud in action. People used to ship around huge amounts of phones and CPUs, because they were high value, but took up very little room. A truck full of pallets of tray CPUs could be worth a huge amount.

  I think now most of the holes are patched. But for a while there were special rules surrounding phones and CPUs just because they were often used in the fraud scheme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The real genius behind VAT is that it isn’t just applied to transactions between business and consumer, but to all transactions. The rule is normally very simple, it’s applied to all transactions, with few exceptions. The rate can vary, but those rules are also usually very simple. The trick is: When a business has a transaction with another business, VAT is still applied, but the selling party has to levy the tax and forward it to the government and the purchasing party can ask the government to give back the tax they paid on the transaction.

  This may seem a bit convoluted, where the tax goes through the government only to end up back in the business. But this ensures the tax is applied always. Normally a profitable company would sell their products for more than the components they purchased. The difference between these two is the value added. And by getting back less from the purchases as what they have to pay for sales, the tax is only applied to the value added. And for consumers it functions as a sales tax, being applied to all transactions and no way around it.

  This system is way harder to mess with than any other form of sales tax. The rules are simple with few exceptions and thus very easy to reinforce. It’s also a more fair system, where each party in the chain pays a part instead of the consumer paying for all of it.

  In the end the consumer pays most, but as the taxes are supposed to be used to make their lives better, it seems like a fair deal? Now if you have a government that’s more about filling their own pockets than actually doing what they need to do to improve the lives of the people living there, well then you are going to have a bad day. But that doesn’t happen in civilized countries right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A broken clock is right twice a day, but a wrong clock is just wrong.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It would depend on how fast it runs. The faster it runs the more times it’s right. So if we extrapolate, once you get a clock running backwards fast enough, it will be right all of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smol⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Outer Wilds has taught me these dudes are larger than my space ship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen the same or even worse. Pallets of stuff would be received, all wrapped up tight in an ungodly amount of plastic. The pallet would be unwrapped, plastic discarded and the contents scanned to confirm the correct items and number of items were present on the pallet. After each item was scanned and it’s serial number recorded, someone would go to validate the items. When validated and found to be correct, the items were again stacked on a pallet and wrapped by another ungodly amount of plastic. The terrible thing was, as I was outside of the distribution chain, I had a view on the bigger picture. Items would often go through several of these places, each doing the exact same. The amounts of plastic each item consumed in the process was huge. But it was necessary, errors were found often, so the steps needed to be done. And the pallets could often get wet, nobody would accept soggy cardboard, so it needed to be wrapped.

  The issue is plastic is basically free and extremely good at what it does. A more permanent solution like encasing the goods in some other material, like wood or metal would be more expensive and do a worse job. It’s similar to asbestos, where the solution is so good, nothing else can compete. It took a mighty effort and strict laws to mostly abandon asbestos. I fear humanity has lost its will to live and won’t have it in us to ban single-use plastic.

  Some places did use metal trollies instead of pallets, but the pallets were never really a problem. They were almost always made from sustainable woods, be re-used often, till they just about fell apart. After which they were sent out for recycling, either back into a refurbished pallet, or a stamped recycled wood pallet or other recycled wood product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And now it's not even working properly⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have definitely seen TVs where there is a top transparant plastic layer that looks like protective film but is absolutely not supposed to come off. I’ve even seen two models of OLED TVs that are very similar, and have plastic on the metal backing. On one of them it says to absolutely not remove the plastic. On the other it says to make sure to remove it, otherwise the TV will overheat.

  Even if you know a lot about these kinds of things, don’t be proud and just read the manual / quick start guide. It will tell you what plastic needs to be removed and what needs to stay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel says Arc GPUs will live on after Nvidia deal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Intel actually bought AMD Radeon GPUs for their Hades Canyon (Kaby Lake G) platform. It was a NUC mainboard with a full Intel platform, combined with an AMD Radeon GPUs. The Intel CPU and the GPU (including HBM2 memory for the GPU) was all on one package.

  I think they did a couple of follow ups on that as well, because it worked very well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did in game cameras take so long to get good?🤔⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fixed camera was a staple in 3D horror games. I think it started with Alone in the Dark (1992)? But there might even be something earlier that started it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤡🤡🤡⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact, the Moon actually has a very low albedo, meaning it’s actually not all that reflective. The surface differs a bit, depending on the composition. But overall it’s quite close to a dark asphalt.

  Our eyes (or more our brains) are very good at high dynamic range and discerning details. That’s why a Moon rising may look huge, bright and beautiful. But when you try and take a picture, it looks terrible.

  Now this isn’t to say the moon isn’t actually bright when standing upon it. The Moon is at the same distance more or less to the Sun as the Earth and the lack of atmosphere causes the contrast to be higher. We all know standing outside on a bright day will be pretty damned bright. Even when looking at a darker surface like a road, it can be bright out. Thus we wear sunglasses, as did the astronauts, just integrated into their visors. And our eyes adjust to let in less light, as to not blind us.

  And our cameras need to be set differently, to prevent the picture from being blown out. Usually automatically, but with fancy or old cameras manually. The astronauts did the same, making it very hard to estimate how bright the surface actually is. If we were to lock our camera on Earth, taking a picture of the bright Moon in the night sky. Then go to the Moon’s surface and take another picture with the same settings, the brightness would be the same. However the picture would be a pretty terrible one.

  Humans are terrible at estimating things like brightness, because our eyes and brains adjust to the light level. This is required to make us better at seeing the world and thus surviving, but not as good at being scientific measuring devices. Thus we’ve used our tools to create actual scientific measuring devices and have mapped the albedo of the Moon. And wouldn’t you know it, it’s all perfectly consistent, who would have thought?

  This is the thing about all these Facebook conspiracies. They are often based on actual real mismatches. Things that make you go: “Hmmm that IS weird!”. But then instead of doing the research and finding out the answer (which usually takes about 5 mins of searching), they abuse the confusion to promote their bullshit theories. Sometimes it will be just straight up lies, but sometimes it’s actually an interesting thing that lies beneath.

  I’ve also noticed a lot of them can also be easily defeated when they claim stuff, that it only supports their case if it were always the case. Like for example flat earth because no plane routes that travel between certain places on the southern hemisphere. That would be a strong point for them, except 1 min of googling shows there are actually active plane routes that would be impossible on a flat earth. With live tracking available and people posting on social media getting on and off these planes. Or for example the Earth only being 6000 years old because dino bones are plastic in museums. Sure if all dino bones were plastic, that would be a strong point. But in a lot of cases there are a lot of actual bones. Augmented with plastic to show a full skeleton, where only a partial one was dug up. Which is often plainly stated next to the bones, if those idiots could read of course. Or the skull being hung at the top made from plastic, with the real actual skull in a display next to it, so people can look at it closely.

  Flat earth is so dumb, it can be disproven in a billion different ways in very little time. I’m not convinced anyone actually believes that crap. They also do basically nothing to disprove the round(ish) Earth model, they just say it’s nonsense because they say it is. And invent crazy dumb shit for their own “theories” that aren’t even internally consistent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Purpose of Difficulty | GMTK Mini⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man fuck those Ninja Gaiden birds

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Purpose of Difficulty | GMTK Mini⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t done a whole lot with the crests as I found the starter crest to be very versatile and I got used to the moveset. I have played around with the Beast crest which is really fun, allowing you to just go ham on enemies. However I found against bosses the Beast crest doesn’t work at all, as the damage taken is too large for the lifesteal to overcome. Unless you are dodging and weaving, which defeats the purpose of the Beast crest a bit.

  The patches that have been release will probably help a lot of people with the bosses as, if I understood correctly, they’ve decreased the contact damage. This will help a lot with the feeling if boss fights being unfair due to hits taken are often compounded by subsequent contact damage. On many occasions I’ve gone from 4 health, doing OK to dead in less than one sec. This can feel very unfair. Especially after going through a long and annoying run back and then 2 easy phases, just to get to the hard part and die right away.

  It feels like if one were to simply be able to practice the hard part, bosses would be defeated much faster. The runbacks (which often include shortcuts it must be said) combined with long easier phases contribute to a feeling of unfair difficulty. It also makes things take up more time than needed, leaving people to feel like the game is wasting their time. Or difficulty for the sake of being difficult. As the video stated, difficulty is a tool that most be wielded carefully.

  When doing for example a SL1 run in a Souls game, the player must play at a high level without many or even any mistakes. Boss fights will take longer and the stakes go up. The difference is, one chooses to do these challenges. Often only after already mastering a game. For many people Silksong feels like being thrown into the deep end, without being able to properly swim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Purpose of Difficulty | GMTK Mini⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You misunderstand. I was limiting what I said to act 1, just like the video did. The things you are talking about are in act 2. I’m glad to see it gets better in act 2, however I’m not as far into that yet. Most people running into these issues will quit before beating act 1 most likely, so it’s kind of a moot point.

  I simply can’t believe those damage numbers. I was talking about the nail upgrade in the town. Is there some other upgrade I’m not aware of? All the low level enemies seem to take the same number of hits. In Hollow Knight the upgrades to the nail were very noticeable. The nail upgrade in Silksong felt like it did nothing at all. Bosses might have gone from 16 hits to 12 hits per phase, which is still a whole lot of hits. Especially as windows for damage are brief and far in between and bosses have 4 phases typically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Purpose of Difficulty | GMTK Mini⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with a lot in this video, but disagree on one key point. You can go explore somewhere else and get upgrades and stuff.

  I really liked this aspect in Elden Ring, where the bosses could get pretty hard, but you could always just go explore. Explore the lands, level up, find cool weapons and upgrades to get really OP. Then return to the boss and kick their ass. Once you’ve put 500 hours into it, you do challenge runs like SL1. But if you only want to put in 100 hours, you can easily beat it, no matter your skill level. The exploration feels great, the world is interesting and there is a lot to find. As compared to the previous Souls games where the game would just put a big roadblock boss in your path and good luck getting past it. Or a game like Nioh that gives you a tutorial boss, with which one struggles a bit but then beats pretty fast, only to almost right away throw in the next boss which is so hard about 70% of people quit on him (according to stats I’ve seen).

  However, I feel like this doesn’t apply to Silksong at all. You can go explore and get a whole lot of stuff, but a lot of it seems totally useless? You can get one damage upgrade, which does fuck all (haven’t looked it up, but feels like 15% maybe?). The different crests are really cool, but won’t help you beat bosses. There is maybe 1 full mask or 2? But as everything does 2 damage, that’s only 1 extra hit. The secondary weapons are mostly useless and as the video said, you need to farm resources to be able to use them.

  I consider myself pretty good at these kinds of games. Not great, but pretty good. I’ve played the fuck out of DS1, DS3 and Elden Ring. I’ve beaten Nioh 1. I’ve done SL1 runs and all sorts of challenges in DS1, DS3 and Elden Ring, I’ve done randomisers etc. I’ve beaten Hollow Knight 3 times, the third time I did 112%.

  For Silk Song I’m about 20 hours in, I’ve beaten Act 1 and did pretty much everything I could find (not spoiling myself on anything). I’m part of the way into Act 2 and I don’t know if I want to play anymore. Every enemy is a bullet sponge, requiring a lot of hits to get out of the way. Everything does so much damage. Simply exploring and finding shit feels like a slog. I’ve had many completely unfair deaths where I got booped by an enemy only to fall into a pit of spikes and die. You go from full health to death very fast. And the bosses just keep on getting more difficult. It feels like a grind instead of fun.

  On the other hand, I love the way the game looks, I love the boss music (not as much a fan of the level music, too much atmospheric, too little actual music), I love how smooth it feels to play. And I love the world and want to explore it all. That’s where I disagree with the video, I’m not in the rage quit phase, I’m in the this isn’t fun to play phase.

  Maybe I’ll continue, I know I have the skills to beat the game. But if I’m not having fun, what’s even the point of playing anymore?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Down time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whatever you do, don’t look up Gandalf Big Naturals online, trust me.