rainynight65 @ rainynight65 @feddit.de

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I haven't played Starfield - Bethesda open-world games are generally not my thing. Throw procgen into the mix and I'm out.

Elex is one of the most un-fun games I've ever played. Sure, it looked nice. But that doesn't help with weak gameplay and bad writing.

Tell them they're not getting paid until they have elected a speaker. Watch how quickly they'll sort themselves out.

So you're telling me that blanketing cities in CCTV over the past decade or so has failed to stop crime? And you're telling me that you need more of it to stop crime?

That makes her the second gigantic prominent shithead in as many days expressing that they're willing to go to prison for their beliefs. And also the second whom I wouldn't believe for even a millisecond that they're telling the truth.

Conversely, people talking to each other in normal voices in a loud environment - e.g. a concert venue or club.

Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) is a prolific anti-Semite.

I've only ever known Jon Schaffer to be an arsehole.

Years ago I was freelancing for a German heavy metal fanzine. That zine was attached to a record label, and for a few years ran a festival in its own name. The one year, Iced Earth and Nevermore, who were touring together at the time, were slated to be the headliners. Iced Earth were touring the Dark Saga album, and Nevermore had just released the In Memory EP, so must have been around '96.

I remember having a pleasant conversation with then Nevermore guitarist Pat O'Brien, who was happily browsing the label's CD stand - dude was big into Death Metal. I remember Jim Sheppard accidentally burning my hand with a cigarette and apologising for it. But what most stuck with me was Schaffer sending out his tour manager to order us to remove all CDs that weren't of bands playing at the festival. Original quote from the tour manager: "Jon ist schon tierisch sauer" - Jon's really pissed off.

Through the years Schaffer revealed more and more of his personality, culminating in him joining the Capitol invasion. I can't even get myself to listen to my favourite Iced Earth album ("Something Wicked") any more.

As someone who has tried soldering with the wrong equipment (and thoroughly stuffed it up), it's both. Learning with the right equipment however is a lot easier than with the wrong stuff.

And 3D printing externally can also be a bit of a trial and error process if you're new to the whole thing.

I'm from Germany, and frankly, you're talking shit.

If it's so unclear as you make it out to be, how can you be so certain that it will be all the bad things you're harping on about in this thread?

They have effectively weaponised division.

They created division by spreading lies, uncertainty and fear. Lies were repeated over and over, and became increasingly outrageous, despite being refuted again and again.

Then they pointed at the division they created and said "this is too divisive, we shouldn't do it."

This is completely false, but unfortunately that is the type of lie that has been spread and amplified by conservatives and their media, and caused a lot of uncertainty and fear in people.

It is clear what the voice is going to be. It is clear what powers it will have. It is clear how it is going to work. Everything else is FUD.

Is that $85 for all parts?

Calculate the extra cost if someone doesn't own a 3D printer (or doesn't have access to one) or soldering gear.

Because governments and corporations all over the world are trying to hollow out privacy?

The meter did not change, science has merely defined it more precisely and reliably over time. It is a measure of length, still one 40 millionth of the circumference of the earth through the poles. Other definitions like the speed of light definition will give you the same result. These newer definitions have reduced uncertainty and added ways to reproduce its length by natural means. But it's not like the 'original' meter was shorter or longer than today's meter, at least not by any noticeable margin.

Shifting the top end of a temperature scale by over five percent of the scale is a bit more arbitrary than that.

Most games I can think of wouldn't actually be that great, because their mechanics haven't aged all that well, and they'd need to be remade rather than just remastered.

Case in point: the original Deus Ex, the Thief Games, the original Witcher. All games that were great and even groundbreaking at the time of release, but would need way more than a graphical overhaul to stand up today.

That being said, I will definitely pay for the remaster of 'The Pandora Directive', an absolute classic of the FMV adventure genre. And I'm keeping an eye on the Witcher remake.

Zero Fahrenheit is the freezing point of brine (of a certain concentration). That's water chemistry.

Originally, 90F was based on the average human body temperature, but that later changed to 96F, which just goes to show how arbitrary that scale is.

There's nothing nice or consistent about those fractions. A third of one is one of the other, but a third of that is four of the other? Imperial units don't convert in any meaningful or logical way, you have to memorise the conversions. With the metric system, it's all tens.

And the fact that there are no usable units smaller than an inch and you have to use fractions should drive any craftsperson up the wall.

Accountability is needed with or without term limits. Too many politicians are deep in the pockets of big businesses. "Professional board member" is already one of the most popular sinecures for spent politicians. Term limits aren't a silver bullet for general politician misconduct. Everything needs checks and balances, and politics has way too little of it.