I think an important concept to introduce is Pulse Width Modulation, or PWM for short.
Normal AC Power coming out of wall looks like a sine wave, in that it smoothly cycles between +110/240V and -110/240V.
This means that 50% of the time the voltage is positive and 50% of the time the voltage is negative.
PWM usually deals with signals which are either entirely on or off, with no transiton between them. This way, you can vary the amount of "power" delivered by varying how much of the time the signal is on and how much of the time it's off.
Dimmers usually modify the sine way in a way that tries to accomplish the same thing, by chopping up the signal to make the effective "on" time be shorter than 50%.
With non-dimmable LEDs, this messes with the AC to DC circuitry in the lamp in the way slazer2au says, because the lamp doesn't retain enough power between two on-cycles to stay on.
The verticality is absolutely the best part. My biggest gripe with Elden Rings world is that it's an "open world" game in kind of the same way Ubi games are. Traversal is largely trivial, so you stop paying attention to the map after you've reached major areas.
In my opinion, Dark Souls I is also an open world game, but instead of a 2D map all the zones are tangled up together in a confusing but interesting web.
Shadow of the Erdtree brought some of that back by having zones stacked on top of each other to a much heavier degree than the base game, while also segmenting off geographically close regions.
I wanted to be a level designer for a lot of years, so this is admittedly a bit of a soft spot for me, but I absolutely loved having the game world come at you as as a challenge, almost a character to be fought and bested, outside the legacy dungeons.
I definitely think that Harris has a better chance than Biden, but I agree. The current surge in optimistic articles about Harris feels like it's riding a wave of elation following Biden's withdrawal.
People want to be reaffirmed in their belief in Harris, these articles feed that need.
It is. I still wish it "Politics" would default to WorldPolitics" and USPolitics was it's own thing, instead of the other version where Politics and News is US stuff and the general topics need the "World" prefix.
"It seems the things I do on the job translate well to my gaming tables..."
What is this, /linkedinlunatics?
If you're trying to push free advertising on a fedi board then please, leave that at the door. I play D&D to get away from my job, not to optimize engagements and maximise profits.
There is one around the corner from where I live. It doesn't display anything but time and temperature (yet), but every time I walk past I secretly hope they've fired up the rave machine.
To be fair, its probably pretty hard to stay ahead of the curve when your format is limited to "guy in kitchen / bar makes food / drink from relevant pop culture series / movie"
That said, completely agree on Babish. Dude tried to grow his channel way too aggressively and burned out I think. Went from uploading a main video every week to showing up once a month at most, with regular uploads mostly featuring other people.
One nitpick with this: This only applies to the US.
I get that a large percentage of Lemmy (and Reddit, earlier on) are from the US, but it bugs me that things like this default to being US-centric without mentioning it.
You know how once in a blue moon you look at news story that's sounds completely crazy and go "huh"?
Like when buzzfeed suddenly started using all their clickbait money to fund good, legitimate journamism?
Ep 45 & 46: Xbox Underground
Ep 92: The Pirate Bay
Both are fantastic.