CrabAndBroom
@CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Solar panels between railway tracks? 4 weeks ago:
To clean them, simply attach a big brush to the underside of the trains. 👍
- Comment on 2024 is about 75% done. Let's recommend the best games of 2024, but with a twist: only the ones with no paid DLC! 1 month ago:
It definitely is lol
- Comment on 2024 is about 75% done. Let's recommend the best games of 2024, but with a twist: only the ones with no paid DLC! 1 month ago:
Those are my two current ones as well lol
- Comment on 2024 is about 75% done. Let's recommend the best games of 2024, but with a twist: only the ones with no paid DLC! 1 month ago:
I dunno what to tell you, friend.
- Comment on 2024 is about 75% done. Let's recommend the best games of 2024, but with a twist: only the ones with no paid DLC! 1 month ago:
Should be fixed now!
- Comment on 2024 is about 75% done. Let's recommend the best games of 2024, but with a twist: only the ones with no paid DLC! 1 month ago:
#Balatro (Steam, iOS, Android, Switch, PS4/5, Xbox One/X/S)
A deck-builder card game where you make poker hands, but Jokers and other cards give you crazy power-ups. I probably didn’t explain that very well, but it’s absurdly addictive. It’s like the perfect Steam Deck game.
- Comment on Jet Fuel 2 months ago:
I once tried to get a conspiracy theory going that Flat Earth was a fake conspiracy started by the government to cover up the real conspiracy - that the moon is flat. That’s why we only ever see one side of it and why we were able to land on it. It didn’t take lol.
- Comment on Is Elder Scrolls 6 doomed to fail? I can't see how it will work 2 months ago:
I think they’re falling into the same trap Bioware fell into, whereby they have a couple of critically acclaimed franchises under their belt and are universally praised and all is well, but then obviously that can’t last forever so as soon as the wheels start to wobble a bit, they start over-thinking, over-developing and over-managing their games because the next one needs to be a massive hit, but then what inevitably happens is they end up sabotaging development as they keep throwing out ideas and polishing all the rough edges off. So you actually end up with something that feels under-developed and bland because it’s all designed by committees and middle-managers, and built by underpaid devs on a crunch who just want to be done with it.
Also Microsoft bought them in the meantime, which can’t be helpful.
- Comment on "It's scary"- Scientists finding mounting evidence of plastic pollution in human organs 2 months ago:
Weird idea, but is there anyone we know of from very early in the space race who died in space and is still up there in a capsule or something like that?
They might not be completely free of micro plastics but it might give us something to compare ourselves against at least (IE how much micro plastic is in someone from say 1962 compared to now).
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VII - Gameplay Reveal Trailer 2 months ago:
My first impressions:
- I like the art style, I’ll have to see about the leaders.
- Gwendolyn Christie is a really good choice for the narrator.
- I don’t like the sound of there only being three ages, but maybe there’s more to it.
- Also not sure about switching civs mid-game, but being able to do things like a French Cleopatra might be fun.
- Are they going to restrict this to avoid potentially offensive combos, especially in multiplayer? I’m thinking of things like using real-world colonizers for leaders of places they occupied (like an English ruler in charge of India and stuff like that.) At the very least it seems like they’re inviting trouble unnecessarily.
- The prices are completely bonkers, nearly $170 CAD for the Founders Edition! This is gonna be the first Civ game in a long time that I don’t pick up on launch day.
- Comment on Breakthrough barium titanate solar panels are 1000x more powerful than existing panels 3 months ago:
I think what they’re saying is that this new method is 1000x more efficient compared to previous solar panels made of ferroelectric crystals, not compared to the standard silicone ones. So it’s more like “previous alternative solar panel that sucked now might not suck” rather than “existing solar panels now make 1000x more power.”
- Comment on Restaurant in NYC offshores cashier job to Philippines so they can pay below minimum wage ($3/hr in Philippines) 4 months ago:
I remember working in a store and a guy walked through the scanner at the door and it went off, the other employee looked at me and was like “that guy stole something, hey?” And I was just like “yep” and we went back to whatever we were doing lol
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals 4 months ago:
Disco Elysium is 90% off.
$54.49$4.54 (that’s in Canadian, not sure about the US price exactly.)I honestly couldn’t even tell you what it’s about, but it’s one of my favourite games ever. You can die from reading a book that’s too sad and if you do it right, you can smell communism.
- Comment on Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media 8 months ago:
Or… hear me out… we use AI to make social media even more insufferable than it was before.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 9 months ago:
Mull is a good one for Android.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought 9 months ago:
Hmm, I have a soldering iron and a 3D printer. You might be right. Thanks for the link!
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought 9 months ago:
I had a go on a VR helmet and thought it was kind of fun, but at the moment the options seem to be an affordable one that’s infested with Facebook nonsense, or the Valve/Apple ones which are presumably less intrusive but cost a fortune. So I’m fine to just do without until someone figures out how to do it in a cheap, open-source kind of way, like the raspberry pi of VR helmets.
That might not even be possible, but in that case I’m also fine to just do without TBH.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 9 months ago:
Yeah same here. Don’t have TPM, not buying a new CPU just to enable Microsoft’s bullshit, so we are at an empasse.
