frank

@frank@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I really enjoy that kinda mid game, where a slightly longer drought or bad water would really mess you up, but it kinda falters shortly after that and becomes solved.

  I want them to do what Factorio did and make the end game stuff (rockets) feed you into what becomes the early-mid game. Like make water the whole map" or have “insanely deep water” or some resources that are hard to make the requirement to do the NEXT thing, which should be so big the whole map you were worried about becomes a little trivial

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve played a fair bit of timberborn, and it’s a great city builder! I get obsessed for the first dozen or so hours of a settlement but it’s always fallen a little flat in the more later-game parts.

  I’m hopeful that their continually adding content keeps it fresh deeper into the game. The mechanics and aesthetics are great

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs - Steam News⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool that they’ll release specs and CAD for the faceplate so people can make their own

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fox news guarding the one house

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley Turns 10: The Big ConcernedApe Interview - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Krobus and dwarf please

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3202: Groundhog Day Meaning⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He died so we dye

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y'all got one, right?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But then how do you drain it after? Maybe the plastic liner can be lifted out and dumped?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, it still kinda feeds the AI narrative if he recodes the AI part.

  “See? He used AI to make it faster and get some money then he went back and touched it up, really helpful tool”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[meme] choochoo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk what the other dude is talking about. It definitely exists some places.

  Source: live in Copenhagen, don’t own a car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Off the Rails⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A super fun counter argument I heard once is that if it’s intelligent design, surely it’s not for humans. The universe is BIG with lots of empty space, lots of massive elements to it. Surely it was designed for something much bigger than humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It can, but both my Fairphone and old pixel could have a physical sim and an eSIM. I daily drive both with my old US number and my current EU number. Can’t have two active eSIM cards at once though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ancient wolves could only have reached this island by boat⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With lettuce but not with a sheep

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A swing and a miss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Miss normer can i

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The term snake oil is actually especially fitting for this, due to its origins.

  In Britain in the 1700s there was a somewhat common recommendation for using rattlesnake oil from the fat of the snake for skin diseases/rheumatism. The efficacy is debated but it’s got some amount of potential for change (if not help).

  This turned into people in the US selling mineral oil as “snake oil” as a total panacea. So a product that actually could do stuff being used as the poster child for a completely useless product that can solve every issue ever, buy as much as you can today.

  Snake oil indeed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Marketing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If your username were a Scrabble word with no bonuses, what would it score?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who started this shitposting?!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well Jimmy Carter won’t be exactly aligned with me on a Foreign affairs issue so I think we might as well just support Putin

  ^Average pre US election .ml poster

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Change my Mind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not. I mean, Trump is just the marketing of a president. All sizzle, no steak. He has appeared in debates but it’s a huge stretch to say he’s shown up well in them.

  In fact, a lot of politics are purely a popularity contest these days, aren’t they?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This song, it's infectious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or kpop? Maybe against demon hunting?

  Sounds a little demon-esque to be anti demon hunting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are all mosaics: vast genetic diversity found between cells in a single person⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, I’m super far from a biological/genealogical scientist. What’s promising about that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best vertical games on Android?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The original Shapez is vertical. I don’t love how it plays on mobile in terms of controls but it works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exit tax is only if you give up your US citizenship, which you definitely can’t do if you don’t have another citizenship and even then it’s very often not required

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite Metroidvania?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tunic is so damn good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me when Valve releases a phone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope for Steamie Boi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bank Workers, Rejoice!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So that’s a great picture I think for the difference between the loan durations.

  I of course think the real problem is that average people might need a 50 year loan to barely pay for a house these days. But it isn’t “nothing” between the terms, it does help in the super short term

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bank Workers, Rejoice!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair, but it also shouldn’t affect the relative prices from 30 and 50 year

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bank Workers, Rejoice!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The calc I used for that number put $3k property tax annually amortized, good call

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bank Workers, Rejoice!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What?

  Some random numbers that are of course VERY variable, but I just ran the calcs with 400k, 5% down, 6% APR for 30 and 50 years

  $2648 for 30 years $2369 for 50

  Now that is of course not a great deal, presumably you’d also get a little better rate for the longer loan (more points) but it’s not a dollar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning to drive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, exactly this.

  Coached race cars (and bikes) at tracks for years, and amateur raced for more than a decade.

  Try just pushing (not pulling). You have a LOT more range and more comfortable control from 9/3 than 10/2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3164: Metric Tip⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you look up cooking or baking recipes and get American ones you’ll see oz a lot, I have found