California is joining in too with AB-2047 and New York has AB-2228 requiring a criminal background check for buying a 3D printer.

This is what actually tired me more than driving when I did Uber for a while. I felt exhausted from socializing but probably more so because it was the same conversation each time “how did you start, when did you start, do you do anything besides Uber…”. Ironically my first passenger was probably the most enjoyable conversation I had while doing Uber and we drove over 70 miles to her destination talking the entire way.

Getting an Uber driver/passenger who didn’t want to talk was always the best for me. Not trying to be rude, but I enjoy driving in quiet more times than not, even when alone, I don’t always listen to music or anything on my radio. I don’t get why some people can’t seem to enjoy silence and constantly need some sort of artificial background noise.

The wear and tear on my car and the expensive trips are why I don’t drive or take Ubers anymore. I pulled up the app a few weeks ago to get a lift to somewhere 5 miles away and the trip just getting there was like $20. Paying that much in gas could get me well over 100 miles even in my area where gas is insane.

I love when I encounter a barber who picks up on this for me.

I try not to be rude and converse back if they talk, and I’ve had some legit good conversations with some barbers, but I so enjoy the quiet when getting my hair cut and enjoying it like a massage.

I don’t think I’ve seen a better looking pizza. That looks so fresh.

I seem to be this minority. Civ 4 on the Xbox 360 was my first but Civ V was the first on PC and I have wasted away many Saturdays playing.

I almost deleted it from my MacBook before forgetting that I still have a game from a few weeks ago I’m near completing. I branched off to nuke Alexander off the map because he was a dick to everyone but then everyone feared me and I felt bad and haven’t returned.

I don’t know if I’d want my name attached to this game.

It doesn’t even look good by PS1 standards…yeesh.

There’s a few games made nowadays made purposefully to look like PS1 like Easy Delivery Co but they don’t look anywhere near as bad as this.

This should have been an obvious outcome when digital games weren’t priced any less than their physical release.

It’s not about saving the environment with less plastic. It’s not about saving money for the customer. It’s not about making it more convenient for the customer or the developer.

It was always about more greed. More money in their pockets and more ways to fuck you over as a customer.

Memory leaks happen. I had one recently where the game crashed and I happened to have a system monitor open on the other screen.

My setup has 64GB of RAM. The game as it crashed was consuming 50+GB of RAM, leading me to believe it was eating up every last bit before finally biting the dust because the computer effectively cut it off from taking anymore and forced the game to close because it reached its threshold.

Granted I was using heavy cheats like god mode, infinite ammo, etc. lol

PC gaming has come a long way that most games nowadays just work, even on Linux. I’m surprised at how many games work without even forcing Proton and no bugs at all, except those that also exist for Windows. That and my controller is seamless. Even VR is working better now.

On the other side, it seems console gaming is more complex than it needed to be and we’ve seen how consoles actually hold back gaming, as a whole, like the situation with the Xbox Series S that has forced developers to either cut content or remove features to make it compatible as that is Microsoft’s requirement when developing a game to be released for their consoles. I don’t remember hearing it, but I’m sure the same is true for the PlayStation side too with the lower end model. Whereas that doesn’t happen for PC exclusive releases. If your PC won’t run it, it’s probably because it’s outdated and that’s a you problem, not something everyone else needs to suffer for because a company like Microsoft is forcing devs to make it compatible with outdated/lower end hardware.

I can’t remember trying a game on my Steam Deck and it didn’t work. Unless you mean setting up a Proton version, then I’ve had that, but the game eventually runs in 9 out of 10 cases. That is exclusive to non-Windows OSes and it could be solved by automating based on the db and make the setting easier to find and change for users, maybe even prompt the user to try another Proton version kind of like Windows’ troubleshooter when it detects a program didn’t install or run correctly. Or when devs make their games natively work with Linux/macOS like they do for Windows which is why games just work there. And if the game doesn’t run well, you just lower the settings which I’ve done for many games with no trouble. Even console games now have the same settings to lower quality to get better performance.

Because of control.

If Nintendo released on PC, you’d never buy it again. They couldn’t sell a new version on the newest Nintendo console and make you pay for it again.

If they released on PS5, it might be backwards compatible with PS6 and you wouldn’t buy it when it’s re-released again.

Also it cuts into their profits. Valve and Sony charge something like 30% which means either Nintendo takes a cut or they increase price on the customer. Neither works out in their favor. Whereas when they release on their own console, they don’t have to pay any of those fees.

On a practical level for the customer, it does make it easier to manage and ensure quality. Their developers only have to account for one system which means much less bugs and less time for patches when needed. When your team has 5 different platforms to develop for, you risk more unique bugs and versions and also slower time to release bug patches. Same also happens for releases for new content which is slower for both DLC and brand new releases. But when it’s just the one system, the releases come much faster. Also no delays because of Sony or Valve wanting to poke around before approving for their storefront. Nintendo has full control over when the game is released.

As part of our commitment to SoulCrafted content, MyMiniFactory has adopted a zero-tolerance stance on AI generated content on our platform.

Thingiverse is now a SoulCrafted platform. In practice, that means we’ll be taking steps to reduce and eventually remove AI-generated designs from the site.

That is really interesting. I wonder how they are going to find those and remove.

Even before the boom of AI, I remember seeing a lot of random crap of unusual shapes just being added together and uploaded. I wonder if they’ll remove those too.

This isn’t about reading comprehension. This is about some jackass editor making a title with too many words instead of condensing it by removing a title or a name or just including some commas to separate words from one another.

Japanese Developer, [who was] Behind Tech That Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki Called an ‘Insult to Life Itself’, to Release Cosy God Sim Game

Those comma placements would have helped a ton making better sense of what they were trying to convey. But since titles shouldn’t include commas, they should have just chose a different way to phrase this.

No you were correct. It’s a shit headline. I had to re-read it a few times and still not completely sure I understand what it’s trying to convey without reading the article, itself.

I was on 580 and had issues on CachyOS and Bazzite and Garuda Linux KDE Lite with an RTX 4080.

I really want to like Wayland since it seems to be the future, but I can’t when my computer keeps crashing from just using it.

I’m still new to learning the difference between Wayland and x11. What are some of the features people like between the two of them?

Debian is your most basic Cheerio cereal. Cereal in a bowl with milk and a spoon. Ready for you to eat.

Ubuntu came along and is all that plus berries, bananas, sugar, and many other toppings. They also give you a fork and knife if you want to eat using those as well as a napkin.

If you like bananas on your Cheerios and nothing else, I mean, sure you can go with Ubuntu and get bananas on your Cheerios with milk and a bowl and spoon, but many people prefer to just go with Debian and then add bananas on top on their own because they don’t want everything else that comes with it. They may not hate it, it’s just going to be a waste of food to get all that extra stuff and have to remove it after the fact.

For some people that only want bananas, they’ll go with Ubuntu because adding bananas on your cereal involves opening the banana and using a knife to cut the banana into slices. Ubuntu may use a machine to cut your bananas into perfect, equal slices, so some people want to go with Ubuntu for those reasons, whether it be because they’ve done the legwork or because they did it in a way that is the most clean method whereas you doing it ended up with you needing to redo the process 3 times and now you have little bits of excess bananas from your past failed attempts and not doing the best job cleaning it up.

TL;DR: Ubuntu took Debian and added a bunch of stuff on top of it for their users. Some people like Ubuntu because of that and it makes it easier because Ubuntu included everything whereas some people want the source Debian because they will add their own stuff on their own the manual way.

Immersion for me is when you cross NPCs engaged in something that has either no relation or no involuntary relation to the playable character.

I think of games like Elder Scrolls or Cyberpunk or Read Dead Redemption 1 & 2 where you can be walking somewhere and come across something in progress. Most immersive is when you can ignore the situation entirely if you choose to. Even more would be ignoring it and you never seeing it mentioned again in your playthrough. I’m not sure I can name any game that does this, in my experience. But I would love to play a game like that where I am on my way to something/somewhere and something interesting is happening and I have to make a choice to either experience this now before I never can ever again in this playthrough or keep going where I’m going. Kind of like real life and you see something crazy on the street going to work. If you don’t stop and look at that now, you will never see it again in your life unless it was recorded. You get a consequence of either missing out on work but seeing something crazy cool or the consequence of missing out on something crazy cool but making it on time for work.

I also find myself most immersed when the devs create a world that feels lived in and with things that don’t have official explanations. I think RDR1 & 2 have done this so well. I’m a player who likes to go off the beaten path and explore anything and everything. Coming across a random hatch in the middle of a grassy meadow but is never explained in game is so fascinating to me and I’ll spend many minutes trying to find any clues about what this is in the area. Very much like the real world and walking through an alley and finding a burned out car or something that just doesn’t get seen often but gets you wondering about the backstory and checking the nearby area for clues to see what may explain how this got here.

I feel like I’ll always have to make tweaks and it’ll never truly end. But I don’t say that in a bad way because I like learning and feel it’s akin to building my computer. Putting each piece together and doing the research into it helps me know better what went wrong when something breaks because I put it all together.

With the OS, because I am learning different parts of it and making all these changes, I learn so much. I have learned so much about package managers and how to use them and their flags in this in distro hopping.

But it’s no different than Windows because many of us were doing things to make the OS work for us and not against us like tweaks to use a local account or disable shit like Copilot in group policy.

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