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  • I don't like stuff like this. Rules are rules, but to disqualify 2 of the top cars just like this after the race kinda undoes the whole story of the race. Additionally, if 2 out of 4 cars fail the test, maybe it's good to test all of them.

  • Usually I tend to want to try things myself until I get extremely frustrated. I enjoy games more when I have to figure it all out myself. But at some point, when I've achieved most of the main game and I'm on to the extra stuff, I tend to look some stuff up. Some extra content like sidequests or achievements are just silly and don't really bring me any joy to solve, so I make them a bit easier by looking up parts of it.

    I don't care how anyone else plays the games though. They should play a game however they like

  • Ah yeah true, I kinda forgot about Mindustry. There it works well indeed. Especially since it also has some interesting stuff like the Thorium reactor. Something like that would also work well in an RTS

  • Ah yeah true, I kinda forgot about Mindustry. There it works well indeed. Especially since it also has some interesting stuff like the Thorium reactor. Something like that would also work well in an RTS

  • As a European: yes please. Fck off and never come back Elon

  • I've been thinking about this combination for a while. I'm curious how well it's gonna work, since factory games are usually the type of games that require a lot of attention. I can't imagine having to rebuild all kinds of complex recipices only to be attacked again by the time you fixed it. Then again, you can also get attacked on Factorio and there it works well.

    Interesting game, sounds like something to keep an eye on

  • That may be so, but they also got deals with quite some games that were supposed to be cross-laumcher to become (timed) Epic exclusive instead. This forces you to use their garbage-teir launcher. Besides that, Epic doesn't really seem to take any action to help Linux adoption like Steam does. And as a Rocket League fan I'm also specifically pissed about how they have been running my favorite game into the ground slowly.

    Epic isn't trying to beat monopolies, it's just trying to become another one.

  • To be a portable computer. They do so much more than open social media. You can learn new information on Wikipedia, read the weather predictions, organize you calendar, edit a spreadsheet, play games, etc. All from the palm of your hand. As someone who grew up in the time before smartphones, it's truly magnificent how fast we've progressed and where we are now.

  • Cool picture, but sadly completely oversaturated

  • I really cannot function without that half hour nap. But unfortunately I can't do it at work 😞

  • This is my biggest problem with working as a programmer. I enjoy solving complex programming problems, learning about new algorithms, exploring new technologies. Instead every job seems to be "add new button with questionable requirements" or "add thing to the backend that nobody thought about for more than 3 seconds". All for questionable goals like advertisement, surveillance, big oil, fintech, or defense of course. It's kind of a bummer, but at least it pays well and it beats most other jobs.

  • I played the Foundry demo with friends. Felt a bit empty, which is to be expected for an Alpha, but it seemed quite stable and playable. It's quite promising. Already more stable than the Satisfactory dedicated server haha

  • Psyonix started off very good, but slowly got more and more shitty. The biggest turning point was the Epic games sale. After that the game only got more and more shit. In the past few years it just seemed like a big money printing machine. No soul, no new ideas, just more shit for the players to buy. As a Rocket League player with >2000 hours, I'm sad what one of my favorite games has become.

  • After staring for long enough I've decided that left is slightly more purple and right slightly more pink

  • But weight doesn't mean anything. An equal weight man and woman will still be in a totally different class. Also, it's not about what you can do now, but about your potential. Someone who is currently physically within the "male range" will have to do way less to achieve the same performance as someone within the "female range". Mixing them together would be very demotivating to anyone not in the "male range" physically since they'd have to work insanely hard to even beat the less serious men.

    Note: I'm using "male/female range" rather than man/woman because gender doesn't necessarily align with physical build.

  • Because then there wouldn't be women competing in the top leagues of many sports. Men have a huge physical advantage. On marathons, for instance, there's a >10 minute gap. And people cannot watch each of these separate leagues, they usually want to watch the best in any sports class. It also wouldn't motivate women to play amateur sports if they get completely destroyed by most men.

    The current sex-based split is imo still the fairest, though it does indeed cause some issues. The naming might not be ideal. The male class is basically the "open" class. Anyone can compete in it whenever they want. The women's class exists solely to give people who have not recently been under the influence of testosterone and other male hormones a chance to compete with other people with their body type. That's not only women, but should also allow for AFAB non-binary and trans guys as long as they haven't started T.

  • The Netherlands.

    Honestly, things could be way worse, but could also definitely be better. After many many years of rule under cabinets led by the neoliberal VVD party, earlier this year the cabinet fell. Mark Rutte, leader of the VVD and prime minister for forever, also announced that he was stepping down. Under his party, many scandals erupted and the living standards for many normal people got worse.

    And thus it is time for change, but it's not exactly certain what that change will be. The last polls I saw had the VVD (with a new candidate and seemingly a different course), PvDA/GL (combined list of labour and green party), and a new party called "New Social Contract" (NSC) going pretty even for the lead. But many other parties are also in the mix.

    Time will tell of this goes the right or the wrong way, but it's surely an exciting time for politics. Hopefully income inequality will decrease, people will be happier again, etc.

    Overall I'm slightly hopeful about the future. Despite all the problems, it's still a great country to be in, and I don't think that that'll change too much in the grand scheme.

  • This is why I use poetry for python nowadays. Pip just feels like something ancient next to Cargo, Stack, Julia, npm, etc.