remon @ remon @ani.social

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You'd be surpised by how many people don't follow international news.

What if you could do thoughts and prayers ... but it costs electricity!

It already is (depending on the country).

Yep. It's not like unverified drives won't work, they'll just show an orange warning symbol and disable some minor features.

Yup, been using that from the start, since none of the 20TB drives were "verified" when I bought them.

It's a bit annoying that you have to do that, but ultimately a non-issue.

No need to wait till next time, you can delete this and post there.

Rule 6 of this community specifically bans US politics, so a mod should delete this soon anyway.

Americans

Use !AskUSA@discuss.online then.

Reads like AI slop.

That's unpopular? Where?

No it's not. Plenty of countries that never had any colonies are doing the exact same thing in their languages.

Learning phonetics markup might be even more annoying than learning extra letters. I always hated those in school.

English does use Türkiye now

That's news to me. But this is also not an American/English thing. In German Turkey is called "Türkei", which is also proncounced differently.

Why can’t they just allow kids in schools to learn the true names of things no matter how hard they may be to pronounce?

The problem is reading, as some langauges have different letters. For example English doesn't have a "ü", so using "Türkiye" in English makes no sense. It it just get's worse with langauges like Chinese or Japanese, which have completely different writing systems.

Walking is nicer.

I need to to tell the kids to get off it!

You're probably right, I wouldn't know. I play very few games and even fewer recent ones. Last one I picked up is Age of Empires IV, but as a classic RTS sequel it doesn't suffer from any of the things you mentioned.

Damn, you're playing the wrong multiplayer games.

I don't think I'm doing either. Just pointing out that the value you get form a pure single player game is very much limited compared to multiplayer.

As an anecdotal example from myself, let's look at Zelda: Ocarina of Time, which I consider to be one of the greatest single player games ever made.

When I first got the game, I played through it in a little under 2 weeks. I was limited to 2h playtime per day (but I sometimes cheated a bit), so I'd say it was around 30h of playtime for the inital run.

Then I did a 2nd playthrough, deathless. Even with having to be more careful, the 2nd run will always be considerable faster, just because you know where everything is and how to solve the puzzles. Took me another week, let's say 15 hours.

A while later, I did the 100% run. But that one was even faster, even if you factor in a couple of hours of routing to prepare. But let's say another 12h.

After that I probably did another playthrough, mixing up clearing order, trying to get my favourite items sooner, etc ... let's say you add another 2 12h runs to be generous. But at that point you kind of have to be deliberately slow to take that long.

But that would give you 81h, at my allowed pace at the time that would take around 2.5 months. Maybe 3-4 if you play less. But after that, the game is finished. It goes on the shelf. Yes, you can get a few more hours out of it every other year, or play self-impossed challanges, pick up speedrunning, etc. But for most people the game will be done.

On the other hand, a game like Smash Brothers or Mario Cart provided me with multiple hundreds of hours of playtime and has potential for even more.

Do you play 24h a day?

No ... but you only add up the hours you actually play. What matters are the hours you are playing the game, not how much you spread them out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_-1l_SlA7c