d3Xt3r @ d3Xt3r @beehaw.org

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Have you checked out Transportr btw?

As I mentioned, I don't have an issue with people like the woman you mentioned, people who eat meat for survival.

My issue is specifically with people living in an urban environment, who are well-off enough to afford decent food, who claim to care about animals, yet don't see a problem with eating factory farmed meat, whilst simultaneously having a problem with people in certain countries eating dogs etc and shedding crocodile tears. That's just double standards, hipocrisy, and cognitive dissonance at its best.

Besides TotK:

Project Diablo 2 Season 7: If you've been meaning to check out the Diablo series, or you're not impressed with Diablo IV, then this is the variant of the game you have to try. Of course, Diablo 2 is a classic and PD2 is a well received mod, but Season 7 adds some much welcome graphical QoL changes - 60FPS and HD text rendering that looks pretty good even on 4K monitors. Of course, the graphics still doesn't compare to Resurrected or other modern games, but if you can look past that, you're in for a helluva ride. This is hands down, the best ARPG, IMO.

Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds: If you're a Star Wars and an Age of Empires fan, you have to check this out. On the surface, it's just a reskinned AoE 2, but calling it just that wouldn't do it justice. You can have fleets of X-Wings and Tie Fighters, little R2 units as your villagers, destroyer droids, Jedi Knights as priests, bounty hunters, and of course, stormtroopers. All your classic Star Wars character types, all the familiar SW locales like Tatooine, campaigns based on movie plots, all of it accompanied by original soundtracks by John Williams from the movie - and you've got a winner. Unfortunately, this game never received the official HD treatment like AoE did, but thankfully, the Expanding Fronts mod exists - it adds much needed QoL fixes, plus new civilisations, units, maps and music from the movies. You may want to pair it with the cnc-ddraw patch for better graphics btw. I've been playing this game almost every single day with my friends using ZeroTier and it's been sooo much fun.

0 A.D.: This is another RTS that every AoE/RTS fan should check out. It's a cross-platform open-source game that's been under development for a long time, and whilst still technically an "alpha", it's reached a state where you can genuinely enjoy campaigns and multiplayer games without any major issues. A couple of things that stand out for me is a) the music, which is really, really well done, matching the civilisation you're playing b) the details on the buildings - you can zoom in super close and appreciate all the details, in fact, it's not just the buildings but the attention to detail in general stands out in so many ways, for instance, even your farms look different with different civilisations c) the AI is really well done - even on "easy" mode it can pose a bit of a challenge and isn't a complete pushover (unlike AoE's easy AI), and you can also customize their behavior as well (per civilization) when starting your game (you can choose between defensive, aggressive, balanced etc) - which greatly adds to the replay value and d) you can have effectively unlimited population and very large battalions with lots of different formations, for some epic battles (provided your system can handle it of course). The only thing I miss are the keyboard shortcuts from AoE, but it's not a big deal since you aren't playing any ranked games or playing with randoms. Overall, the quality of this game, especially for an open-source game, is amazing, and makes it must-try for every RTS fan.

I've played for 150+ hours so far and haven't even gone to do my first "divine beast" yet (idk what they're called in TotK), I'm too busy mining in the depths for Zonaite so that I can max out my batteries, and of course, gathering materials for making OP elixirs and stuff lol.

I liked the original autotldr bot on Reddit. The one here though seems to be producing a large summary instead of just TL;DR.

Here's an example: https://lemmings.world/comment/920986

This comment takes up most of the screen space on my mobile device. I don't consider this to be a TL;DR. At this rate, I'd opt to just read the article in question instead.

The other problem is that lengthy TL;DRs like this obstruct comments, making it annoying to scroll past for those of who are on mobile devices. I could block the bot of course, but I don't want to - I do want a legit TL;DR, not a reworded article.

Here's my attempt at generating a TL;DR of the mentioned article, using ChatGPT:

Two manuscripts published on the arXiv pre-peer-review repository claim to have synthesized a room-temperature superconductor, LK-99. This superconductor is a variation of lead apatite, and allegedly operates not only at room temperature but also above water's boiling point, at regular pressures. The synthesis process is complex, yielding potential variations in the final product. Early attempts to reproduce these findings have shown mixed results, adding to the intrigue and uncertainty surrounding the material's properties. While these claims could potentially revolutionize the field, their validation would give rise to further challenges about how to transform this material into a practical, high-current-carrying form. The upcoming period is likely to see intense activity from labs worldwide in their efforts to corroborate these results, which could significantly accelerate the emergence of a scientific consensus.

IMO, this is what a TL;DR should look like - a single paragraph and under 150 words.

conversations we wouldn't risk trying to have on reddit, conversations you don't have people around willing to engage in but would work well here

Ooh, alright you asked for it. If this were Reddit I'd probably be downvoted to hell, but since the website protects me, here goes my controversial opinion:

I find people who describe themselves as "animal lovers" - you know, the kind who'd love to have all sorts of animals as pets if they really could (not just cats and dogs), the kind who love going to the zoo, the kind who'd look at pics/gifs of say cows playing on a grassy field or something and go "awwwww so cute!!!"... and yet have absolutely no problems eating these animals, completely hypocritical. I mean, lying to others is one thing, but how could you lie to yourself, for years? Do they not see the fallacy of their existence? Do they not have a conscience? Do they never stop to think that the cow they're eating could've very well been the very same cow that was in that gif, who's life was cut short just because people like them have no control over their carnal instincts?

I've known a few people like this IRL, and I don't get them. I genuinely don't understand how their mind isn't in a constant state of conflict when they're either eating an animal or aww'ing over them.

To clarify, I have no problems with people who eat meat in general, especially if it's for survival. I just don't get the people who also claim to actually like animals, claim to care about animal rights, claim to care about whether the chicken they'd eat were raised in cruelty-free free-range farms, but also don't see an issue with killing them.

I really don't get them. If it were me, my brain would self-implode. My conscience would kill me, I'd lose my appetite. Which is exactly what happened to me as a little kid, when I walked past a butcher store and saw a chicken getting killed and it suddenly struck me where meat came from and what it really was - I felt disgusted, and lost my appetite for life. I just wonder why these so called "animal lovers" have yet to go thru that phase, why they didn't feel the way I did and continue to ignore their conflicting feelings.

Just curious, do you dislike cooking? Or are you really short on time every day? Because if you don't hate cooking, and you love eating, then there's no reason not to just cook fresh and something different daily. If time is an issue, then there are plenty of quick recipes with simple ingredients that you can use to whip up a dish in no time at all - Jamie Oliver has a few books and shows on this (15 Minute Meals / 5 Ingredients – Quick & Easy Food etc), if you need some inspiration.

Once you get into the habit of cooking fresh daily, then you won't really differentiate between weekends and weekdays. Instead, you may even see weekends as a chance to cook those elaborate and fancy dishes you don't have the time for during the weekends, or experiment with a new cuisine or even a cooking technique that you haven't employed before.

Having the right gear also helps save a lot of time, such as a pressure cooker or an instant pot, an air fryer etc. Try and get your kitchen equipped with all the essentials, optimize the way you organize and access your ingredients, spices etc. Watch a few cooking shows like MasterChef to get ideas on how to streamline your kitchen and workbench, how to multi-task etc to get things done in the shortest possible time.

Same. With Sync out now, everything changes. I'm definitely more active now than I was over the last couple of weeks.