ProdigalFrog
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- Comment on Four Thieves Vinegar Collective on CCC 1 day ago:
I think the issue is that due to capitalism, for some people, their options can be either to take the risk to create these medicines themselves, or suffer and die due to lack of access.
- Comment on Indiana Jones devs MachineGames tease another Wolfenstein game - "we have a story to tell" 3 days ago:
Their first wolfenstein was a masterpiece with a surprisingly compelling man in the high castle-esqe story, the sequel tossed all that away by embracing a really cringe story that whiplashes between deathly serious discussions that are literally interrupted by bathroom poop jokes. That could’ve even been funny, but it didn’t seem to be poking fun at itself in a self aware way, it was just poor and inconsistant writing.
The 3rd was just an objectively bad game that tossed aside all the good aspects of the first game.
I was hopeful they would turn it around with the new Indy game, but that ultimately left me with a very mediocre feeling. Story was okay, but the gameplay left a lot to be desired, with repetitive ancient ruins puzzles that felt very gamey, combined with a bunch of somewhat lame side quests and okay-ish combat, and level design that felt a bit too restrictive for the stealth to really shine.
I’m no longer hopeful that Machine Games can recapture the magic of the first wolfenstein reboot.
- Comment on What is the first electronic device kids get these days? (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Phone, Game consoles?) 6 days ago:
My first tech was a Sega Genesis and the family’s 486 DX2 computer running Windows 95.
While I had access to new genesis games by renting them, getting new games for the 486 was a rare event due to how expensive software was back then, and there were few places we would visit that sold it. That meant rotating through a lot of the same games for quite a while, which meant I would eventually get bored of them for a while until I would try them again a a month later.
The effect of that is it seemed to encourage me to find other ways away from the tech to entertain myself, like play with legos, or head outside to invent games with the neighbor’s kids.
I don’t want to assume that type of exposure to tech is ideal just because it’s what I experienced, but I wonder if an artificial software limit may be a good idea today for young kids to encourage them to find new ways to solve boredom with their imagination instead of it being done for them exclusively.
- Comment on anybody else noticing some pages hang loading for ages in Firefox mobile? 6 days ago:
Good to see I wasn’t the only one experiencing that problem.
- Comment on Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” Is Now Available for Download 6 days ago:
Yes, but a user would need to be experienced enough to know how to uninstall the previous desktop environment components they don’t want, otherwise their application menu would have both DE’s applications (2 file managers, photo viewer’s, text editors, terminals, etc), which can feel a little cluttered.
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 1 week ago:
There’s a pretty massive item market for this game to use real money for in-game items, where the seller will meet you in a match and drop the gear. So there’s a big financial incentive for people from third world countries to hack so they can quickly acquire valuable items to sell on that market.
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 1 week ago:
Ah! My bad, it’d been a while since I saw that video.
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 1 week ago:
The cheating problem is off the charts. There was a really good video of someone who investigated how bad it was, and found that about 50% of players were using wallhacks.
I played it for a couple months. The gunplay was pretty impressive, but the cheaters made it incredibly frustrating, and after seeing that video, I uninstalled and never looked back.
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- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 2 weeks ago:
There’s this handy list of online games with anti-cheat that are compatible with Linux. The majority isn’t supported, but some major titles are, surprisingly.
- Comment on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle™: The Order of Giants - Launch Trailer 3 weeks ago:
It’s mostly underwhelming, IMHO. Pick it up on sale only, if you can. And make sure you have at least 8gb of gram, or it’ll cease working after you get to Italy.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t bode well. Honestly I fear at some point in the future, if these countermeasures can’t keep up, small sites may need to close themselves off with invite-only access. Hopefully that’s quite a distant future.
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- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 3 weeks ago:
That’s actually a major plot point in Cyberpunk 2077. There’s thousands of rogue AI’s on the net that are constantly bombarding a giant firewall protecting the main net and everything connected to it from being taken over by the AI.
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- How Native Homes in New Mexico Are Tapping the Sun - An Indigenous-led nonprofit bringd solar power to Navajo Nation and the Hopi tribe, where about 15,000 households lack access to electricityarchive.is ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 0 comments
- Comment on Even households earning $150,000 a year are struggling with credit card and car payments 1 month ago:
Used Buicks from the 2000’s can be had for around 3 grand and are very reliable if they have the 3.8l engine. Insurance is often less then 400 a year.
- Comment on Even households earning $150,000 a year are struggling with credit card and car payments 1 month ago:
Are the cars used? Early 2000’s Buicks with the 3.8l engine are incredibly cheap even with low miles (a really mint one is 5k, a good daily driver can be had for 2.5 to 3.5k).
They’re extremely reliable and relatively safe cars. Not bad on gas either, and cheap to repair.
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- Comment on Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet? 1 month ago:
At least in China, the losses have been negated by recent technology that allows higher voltages than previously feasible, bringing the losses down to 2.6% per 500 miles.
I’m not against any existing nuclear power continuing to exist, it would be foolish to shut any down at this point. I’m also not entirely against new construction depending on who’s doing it and where (France seems capable of getting them online fairly quickly, while the US seems incredibly bad at keeping on time and on budget).
I just think overall, due to how solar can scale up and down, it’s overall the most promising solution, as individuals can collectively take action now, instead of waiting for a nuclear power plant to maybe get built in time to help with the climate.
- Comment on The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable 1 month ago:
If fossil fuels were taxed heavily, it would likely be enough to replace existing fossil fuel power plants with solar. Unfortunately taxing fossil fuels enough at a state level to make that viable is nigh impossible.
That leaves us with the need to combine solar with degrowth from individuals on a mass scale for it to start eating away at existing fossil fuel power.
As it is now, It’s still better than if all the new generation had been fossil fuels, but it’s very much not enough.
- Comment on Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet? 1 month ago:
But when you have a place that needs huge amounts of batteries to try and compensate for inconsistent wind/solar that’s where you should build nuclear.
With High Voltage transmission lines, it’s possible to send excess energy hundreds to thousands of miles away with relatively little loss. I believe Germany sends solar power north where it’s more cloudy, and wind power south.
China also went this route, sending solar energy across the country thanks to that infrastructure.
There’s nothing technological stopping the EU or the US from doing the same, only politics.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 month ago:
I did build the big ship, but I don’t think I used the planters effectively. I just remember needing to frequently recharge it and repair it.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 2 months ago:
I also wasn’t a fan, mainly due to how often you need to resupply to stay alive. You get a very small window of opportunity to do actual exploration before you need to go find more food and water, on top of gathering a bunch of other materials.
I liked parts of it, but ultimately just got frustrated with the tedious parts and bailed.