Crotaro @ Crotaro @beehaw.org

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I really hope people don't get over this just because Unity went "we're sorry we got called out for trying to screw you". Unfortunately, like with how little effect the Reddit blackout had, I fear most will just accept it because Unity is what they're already used to.

That's a curious project and I hope they succeed. But I have to wonder. On their "Why pay for search engines" page, they state the following:

Our proposed price is dictated by the fact that search itself has a non-zero cost. In fact, it costs us about $1 to process 80 searches (wherever in the world you search from). So a user searching 8 times a day would perform about 240 searches a month, costing us $3 in search cost. But an average Kagi user is actually searching about 30 times a day. At USD $10/month, the price does not even cover our cost for average use.

So, will they dial the price back up or do they currently just hope that most people pay for the "unlimited searches per month" plan but use it less than an average user would?

Help me out on her goal. Is she trying to make crispy chicken? What else would she use eggs on fried chicken for?

If yes, then she'd be most interested in the lecithine to make her panade (the crispy crust made from crushed bread). And I do not think (please correct me if you know better) that cum has a high lecithine content. Soooo

Same with most creationism arguments, really.

"I have no explanation for this yet, therefore magic", to loosely quote Forrest Valkai.

Very interesting! I had no idea "tenth" comes from "tithe". So was it common to tithe ten percent of your income or where's the connection?

Also, shouldn't the ur-language debate be focused on African languages, unless you don't know that humans emerged from Africa into the rest of the world?

Mhmm, I played a couple dozen hours now and I like the game a lot!

Interesting. I doubt my next statement, but I have to wonder if this is a setup that was carried over from when before gas stations were self-service (I was actually shocked how you used to not be allowed to refuel your own vehicle). Maybe something along the lines of "This setup is cheaper to run and if it's only the underpaid employees complaining about a less-than-ideal way to fill up tires, that's a cost I'm willing to eat."

Don't you fill your tires at the gas station? Here in Germany they have a stationary compressor with a hose (that doesn't sound like it's the correct word) that's about 5 m or so and the buttons to fill in or release air are at the station itself. So you connect the valve and then have to get up and walk away to push the air in.

At the risk of going off topic a bit, I am very confident that there will be a plethora of new areas with loads of content coming from modders as soon as the Creation Kit drops. With Skyrim, adding new areas was often slightly awkward because you had to make it a dungeon that would then maybe lead to a bigger, open area simply because the Skyrim "overworld" was relatively crowded already and it would easily risk breaking other mods that added stuff on the main area. But in Starfield there is so much empty space on the three dimensional galaxy map that it's virtually impossible that two distinct modders would choose the same exact spot for their custom solar system.

Well that sure is an article I never expected to read.

But I also think Jagex should have given it a more firm "No". Or at least a "Please don't". Depending on how long it takes to grind mining and what the potential reward is, I can see one or two people going for this without having their appendages removed for actual medical reasons.

My biggest thanks to your continued transparency and will to keep us informed on what's going on in the upper offices of the hive.

If Beehaw eventually moves, I'll likely follow, but I fully acknowledge how scary that "restart" could be.

Perfect. We'll name it "The Extreme Fighter Jet Experience" lol

I did just now contemplate the feasibility of wind turbine amusement park rides. Aside from fixed seating and safety belts, the only real thing stopping that from being a thing are (safety) regulations, no? The blades themselves are probably already hollow and they could be pretty good money makers, even if the power output were diminished because of the heavier weight.

I was so confused over how answering machines worked, but I don't remember the specifics anymore! I think what confused me was, how and especially where the messages would be stored. As in, can my neighbours call the number of my answering machine (if we had had one) and then listen to the messages that were left for us?

Fair point. I would agree to say there should be a healthy middle ground. I think coming across theme park-like spectacle around every corner would remove a lot of immersion and most authenticity (specifically trying not to default to "realism" because then we'd specifically want 99,999% of areas to be lifeless rock) not only from Starfield but many many games. Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Red Dead Redemption and the Metal Gear series would be incredibly different games, if it was just from one action sequence to another and then a beautiful story cutscene immediately and with only loading screens separating them from each other.

I guess I'm trying to say that immersion into and attachment to a game is increased if you give opportunity for (or sometimes force) the player to calm down. Red Dead 2, for example, does this masterfully by its generally slow and deliberate pace for most actions (cooking steak by actually making you hold the meat over fire for a couple seconds, making you walk/ride for long passages to get somewhere even during missions, etc.) and by sprinkling in quite a number of relaxing quests, like watching a movie with your girlfriend, in a game that's mainly known for shooty tooty cowboy action.

To wrap up that wall of text, I guess I'll see if the ratio of interesting tidbit for every dull landscape is too low for me in Starfield once I get my hands on it c:

Update: Game's good, if your expectation was "Space game made by Bethesda". I like it and am very happy with the amount of barren planets for every lush world. Sure, they lack the "discover flora and fauna" activities but there's still plenty fun stuff to do.

I haven't played Starfield yet. That being said, I think I will enjoy most planets being rather dull (as long as you still occasionally have reason to go there). I very much love the stance of "When everything/everyone is remarkable, nothing/noone is." One of the bigger reasons (aside the gameplay usually not being quite to my liking) why I don't play MMOs anymore is, because about every MMO culminates in 80% of the people wearing "the armor of fabled legends" and being "Slayer of Demonlord and Demigod Sckholzhlak".

I would love if not only the government but also the voting population consisted mostly (or only?) of scientifically literate and capable people. But I guess that brings the problems of "At what point does someone count as scientifically literate?" and that the issues of the "scientifically illiterate" possibly are (or seem, in their eyes) ignored/downplayed.

As some dude-o, whose name I forgot, said:"Democracy is a horrible system. But it's the best we got." (probably botched that quote, too)

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Thanks, that's pretty cool! I did fear that a lot of Bethesda's traditional environmental storytelling would be gone.

So Audacity is fine to use (again)?