A Wild Mimic appears!

Oh sorry, I meant hall effect (Sticks and Triggers), late night brain glitch…

The latency is definitely a lot lower than using Bluetooth (I hate Bluetooth latency with input devices) - I’d recon it’s somewhere around 40-50 ms, but that’s just an estimate based on how it feels to play Hades 2.

I bought it after reading this review (German): https://www.hardwarezoom.net/artikel/Speedlink_Rait_NX_RGB_Test_Review-58678

For the price of 35€ it even has gyro. Previously I bought Microsoft controllers, but this one is better, cheaper, looks nicer and is tough.

The shit the US has been pulling around the world starting decades before 9/11 might have been the reason someone wanted to punch back at the bully.

But I do not agree regarding Crimea.

I hate Nazis and their hate.

I don’t have an issue with Jews.

I don’t have an issue with the existence of Israel.

I DO have an issue with Zionists who take what is not theirs, who kill to further their goals, and who manipulate for furthering their Agenda.

That guy seems to share my views.

Aspiration is one of the main ways to die in a hospital, regardless of quality. After aspiration, lung inflammation often follows quickly if you are already weakened. Also, if you’re weakened, you will probably have not much strength to cough hard enough to clear your airways.

Fitgirl releases of everything rated “mostly positive” or above on Steam (Fitgirl because I don’t care about extraction time, but storage comes at a premium these days)

Regarding the Alt-text: if that is a messy room, there is a hole on my vocabulary where the word for my current surroundings should be.

I own the Speedlink Rait NX RGB, which works fine under Fedora.

TMR, Transparent RGB, 2.4GHz, dirt cheap and good build quality. Even has 2 programmable macro buttons on the back, no software needed.

I upgraded my PC just in time last year before pricing went bonkers. Stayed on my AM4 board, upgraded to 64GB DDR4, swapped my ageing 2600x to an 5950x with 32 cores, snatched a 5070 to expand my smallish VRam, upgraded storage to a total of 43TB.

I’m still in the market for 4 8-16TB HDDs, since I have a very nice NAS standing in a corner. But I will probably opt for used drives with the current prices.

Next PC upgrade is the first time in a long while I have to actually replace the whole PC, but I’ll ride out this Madness first.

It’s similar with me. I have pirated games starting with my Amiga 500 in the early 90s, and still pirate today. But I am also one of the best costumers the game industry has (except in the categories MTX and cash-grab DLC, and I am very careful with early access titles). I own around 2500 games legit (not counting Systems other than PC), and nearly all of those games started as a pirated copy. Without pirating I would never be able to decide which games are worth my money and time.

If a game isn’t well rated, I won’t pirate it, and if it can’t hold my attention, I delete it. If it’s my cup of tea, I wait until the price point is where I perceive it as fair for the offering. That can be full price on day one too if is good! BG3, Nier Automata, Witchfire, Prey 2016 and a very long list of other games all got what they asked for.

If I see that a game is flawed, but the devs are actively working on making their game as good as it deserves to be (it helps if they have a good track record), I also tend to pay close to full price. If fixes come slowly or erratically, or they abandoned a game in an unfinished state before, I only buy after it is fixed, heavily discounted, or not at all.

Sure. Because we haven’t learned a thing in the last two decades regarding enshittification, rent-seeking and anti-costumer behavior of Tech Corpos, we will all line up to combine those traits with something that sits in our brains.

Should we get to the point where severe brain injuries can be healed without any remaining neurological deficits in a few days, we can revisit this discussion. Before that, everyone lining up for that is already braindead and has no risk of losing mental capacity.

No man’s sky is an ocean wide and a puddle deep. It’s a lot better than before, but the core gameplay couldn’t impress me then, and it still can’t now.

Cyberpunk is … An experience. I played it day one, was bummed about the state of things and dropped it for years. I came back with 2.0, and it is like a different game. It’s stable, looks great, has so much atmosphere that you can nearly taste it and plays smoothly.

And if you liked modding Skyrim, this thing is a great buy. If it’s on sale, give it a try, you won’t be disappointed, I promise.

I liked it, but tbh, as long as you have to work with shutter glasses or similar stuff it will never reach wide adoption.

I never was very hyped about VR, but the Steam Deck has liberated me from my office chair, and I suspect the frame will be an extension of this freedom for me. As soon as I can pre-order one, I will. I’ve been saving my money for this thing since the first announcement.

It actually requires a pivot, because if you want to account for making a game playable at end-of-life, you normally have to plan that from the start, to make sure the game is structured in a way that allows for easy switching. If all you plan is actually to turn off the servers, well, that’s the current situation.

Making sure the game ends gracefully means either releasing dedicated server binaries, implementing P2P (or Splitscreen) multiplayer or disabling multiplayer, and repurposing/rebalancing previously online content to work in the new setting. That’s not easy to do if you never wasted a thought on those things in development, especially with a skeleton crew of developers which have been working on other stuff for years at this point.

Don’t get me wrong, I can’t wait to see this legislation come into effect, but even I have to acknowledge that a game that has been worked on for years and goes live in January 2027 is probably not designed for this.

I only remember the animated series from my childhood on Saturday mornings

I always liked Abbadon myself

Another vote for SHODAN from me! Founded my love for “Through the looking glass” and everything that followed, like my soul animal, the common Mimic lol

You are right that a big amount gets released back when a tree dies, but it also feeds microorganisms which live in the soil and which enrich the soil itself, increasing the carbon content of the soil. Also, especially in wetlands and coastal areas plant material can sink underwater and get preserved on the sea floor, leading to sequestration, and explaining the higher sequestration rate compared to terrestrial forests.

In the medieval or classical age he would have been served a poison chalice long ago

The “Death” smell is normally associated with an inefficient digestion, which causes amino acids to break down - relevant ist especially cysteine, which contains Sulfur and therefore smells intensive. Can also happen if you overload on proteins without any pancreas issues.

The “sweeter” smell can have multiple reasons, but having an disturbed gut microbiome is the most likely cause. Gut infections in general can cause both.

Some people are also very bad at digesting specific foods. I cannot eat oats, at least if I want to have social contacts the next 2 days.