halcyoncmdr @ halcyoncmdr @lemmy.world

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They are trying to push through KOSA again? They didn't even change the name.

McDonald's is almost the cost of places like Five Guys in many areas now. They have priced themselves out of fast food into fast casual, but still providing the same product. And people are starting to notice finally.

Less than a decade ago I was able to get a McDouble, McChicken and small fries for $3+tax. Now the McChicken alone is more expensive than that, and the three together are nearly $9 here.

That's not inflation, it's not based on increases in materials cost or labor cost. It doesn't cost them 3x as much to make those items now, it's just raised prices for profit and excuses to try and justify it.

Starlink makes sense for the scenario it was designed fill the gap for. A lack of any other terrestrial options.

Legacy satellite has always been terrible, but the only option in many rural areas, and obviously the middle of nowhere. Starlink is an insanely reliable and decent deal in most of those circumstances. That's it's bread and butter.

But if you have literally any other option, it's usually not the best choice, it's not meant to be the best choice, it's intended for use where it's likely the only choice.

Every time I see shit like this I always wonder why they didn't just hire a polling company to check sentiment. There's no fucking way removing HBO from the name would have been the better choice.

I mean, fuck it, have consultant fees contingent on the results of a public polling campaign run by an organization specializing in that showing their recommendation being the better choice.

I'm so tired of seeing shit ideas that you just know a someone was paid hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars to consult on and any random person on the street can see it being a bad idea.

I use it to track my watchlist on Emby as well, never even knew there was a paid part of it. No idea what that would even cover.

No it's exactly the same, you just notice it more because of the different context of a limited fantasy realm versus open stellar exploration.

Oblivion and Skyrim also have a bunch of procedurally generated content. But it is more easily ignored, because these are dungeons and caves and not numerous planets where you are walking for upwards of 15 minutes or more across open terrain to visit the same dozen locations. And having dozens of loading screens to stitch each small segment together.

Starfield as a concept doesn't work with the engine, because the engine is incapable of adequately creating an open environment at that level. If it could, they would have given it to us instead of Skyrim in space. We got Skyrim in space because that's the limit of the engine. Bethesda's insistence of continuing to use it, and claiming that it's not an issue, despite the clear deficiencies in the released product, is a slap in the face to every player. It's the definition of "You'll take what we give you, and like it".

The graphics aren't the problem. The Creation Engine is not just graphics, it handles everything about how the game works. How the AI works and responds to events, how NPCs handle tasks even when not actively interacting with the player, etc. Graphics is only one part of a game, and that's not the source of the issues.

Oblivion Remastered still uses the Gamebryo engine from Oblivion for everything with one exception, Unreal now handles the graphics. That's why the game is nearly identical to the original in every way except graphics, it is.

My strongest memory of Medal Of Honor is the undercover missions. Flipping the ID badge out over and over again like an idiot because the animation was funny.

It's Skyrim with a coat of lead paint.

It's been clear for over a decade that the Creation Engine (let's be honest it's still Gamebryo) has run its course. It is not a viable option for a modern game anymore. It has architectural limitations that simply prevent a modern gaming experience.

There have been so many Creation Engine apologists since Oblivion trying to justify its continued existence through multiple new Fallout and Elder Scrolls games, always trying to say that it's fine. Starfield was the chance to prove that the limitations aren't actually architectural and that it could be used for a modern game. Clearly that's not the case. Taking just about any other modern open world RPG to directly compare, Starfield feels like crap in comparison. Hell, even the launch version of Cyberpunk felt better than Starfield does now.

Everything is going according to plan for Krasnov.

This was one of my favorite games at the time. So unlike most other games. It definitely doesn't hold up anywhere near modern games, but it holds a special place unlike most other games.

I assumed it was the drink.

Oh I'm sorry, did stoking the fires of misinformation and creating a constant state of fear in your base result in a dangerous environment? Who could have seen that coming?

No they'll just say what the government wants and do what they have to anyway. Hypocrisy is the way they operate already.

Trump only gives a shit about what people say publicly anyway. It's the single most important thing for him.

So you're saying they care about their recognized partnership being specifically referred to as "marriage" over everything else about the actual recognition and governmental benefits that governmental recognition gives them?

I think of marriage as a secular tradition.

I think most of us do, but enough of these fuckers don't. They think of it as a religious thing deep in their core, and they have strong opinions based around that. My point is that it doesn't really matter what it's called, and since that seems to be one of the big hangups with many of the religious fuckers, "marriage" specifically being religious, just call it something else. What something is called is not the hill to die on with stupid people, and there's enough of them that they can't be ignored, so we work with what we have. Call it something else, get that new term recognized as an equal reference to marriage for benefits, and let's finally fucking move on. Arguing with the religious about wording is a losing battle, many of them still think the Earth is like 5,000 years old and dinosaurs are fake. We're losing a battle with idiots because we're insisting on a specific terminology that they have a problem with.

Remove the state and federal incentives for marriage. The religious fucks care because they can't comprehend marriage being a non-religious thing. But because there are real world advantages for being married, it creates a religious barrier that should be against the Constitution.

Most LGBTQ folks I know and have talked to don't give a fuck what their acknowledged relationship is called as long as it's recognized by the government for the incentives. If you remove all government incentives for married couples versus individuals, then the actual issue of citizens being denied rights based on religion goes away.

Not just more efficient, vastly more efficient. Algae is 10-50 times faster at processing CO² than trees are. Some algae can be up to 400x as efficient.

It's just not as "nice" to look at, we usually associate algae with growth in unsafe bodies of water like bogs, etc. versus a nice clean pool or even a maintained pond.

Before reading: let me guess, they're going back to older building techniques, larger house spacing, etc. and not building things on top of each other.

Edit: After reading, pretty much. Wider spacing between homes, metal fences instead of wooden, even less vegetation, closing up holes. Now if only they could actually build homes to the standard. AZ contractors are absolute dog shit at building homes to the minimum code as it is, are they honestly going to do extra work reliably? Hell no. They'll just charge more for it, say it was all done, and homeowners that don't know any better will get shafted yet again.

Everyone here talking about the background being mirrored and the hat not, talking AI, subtle angle differences but ignoring lens distortion, editing, etc.

Selfies are usually mirrored unless flipped in post processing. His shirt looks to be mirrored as well, so... the simplest answer... The hat that says weird, is just embroidered backwards... Because that would be weird, a beanie with the word weird spelled backwards.

You don't need to look for a complicated answer when there's a simple one staring you in the face.