CarbonIceDragon

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[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 12 points 2 weeks ago

Isnt this the exact reason why there was such concern over the idea of Threads federating with the fediverse at large?

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

well no, there just arent any wind turbines as far as I remember. No solar either

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, theres geothermal

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 14 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Satisfactory is a weird game where coal and oil are renewable, but trees, as far as I'm aware, are not.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 13 points 2 weeks ago

While I do agree, I also find that even though I find VR a lot more intense and enjoyable than any flat screen game I've played, I also only rarely use mine even still. There's something about it that seems to make it a hassle to use casually somehow, between actually getting the headset straps feeling comfortable, getting the passthrough cables plugged, launching driver programs on both the pc and the headset just to get to steamvr. It's not a problem at all if I'm feeling specifically like doing VR stuff for a couple hours as it doesn't take that long, but if I'm recently home from work and want to just chill for a bit without really knowing what, even that inconvenience means that the VR stuff basically never gets used for me.

My current VR headset feels a lot more polished than my previous, older one, or previous experience with earlier devices owned by people I was visiting, and admittedly I bet it's probably a bit smoother on standalone than on pc passthrough like I go for, but I feel like to really take off, putting it on is going to need to not feel like setting up a printer whilst wearing a box on your head.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 21 points 3 weeks ago

Aslan from the Narnia series is basically a feral fan-made fursona for Jesus

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 78 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"hey Google, download Firefox for me please."

-"Im sorry Dave, I cant let you do that..."

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean I guess hypothetically, if we ever manage to contact some aliens, and manage to establish friendly communications with them, cultural information is probably the easiest thing to trade (since information can be sent at light speed with relative ease whereas any mass takes much more energy to move much slower, since there probably aren't any material resources that are particularly unique between star systems to necessitate trade, and since whoever has more advanced technology might be a bit wary with sharing that particular information lest it be used against them if relations sour in the future), so it's not completely absurd to imagine us sending something like a video game that had come to be seen as a particularly important cultural work, to aliens, if we meet some at some point.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 37 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

Is there a reason that you use some character (I'm afraid I don't know the name of it) wherever you would otherwise use "th"? I can't guess if it's some kind of technical issue with federated text, something from a different language you're incorporating, or one of those "I think we should add x symbol to the language so I'll use it to draw attention to the effort" deals, like with the people that use the combined !? symbols whenever both are relevant at once.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

To be fair, regardless of one's stance on the utility of current AI or the wisdom of developing it, it is an extremely difficult and potentially world changing technical achievement, and given there isn't a computer science prize, physics is probably the most relevant category to it

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 11 points 1 month ago

Honestly, a car collector is probably the best kind of person to have one I'd bet, given that they now exist out there. They don't seem terribly safe for pedestrians and others to have around, so it they're going to be out there in individuals hands, them being kept parked in some guys garage as some weird curiosity vehicle of the 2020s is probably better than being driven around on the daily as a pointy oversized commute vehicle

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 33 points 2 months ago (18 children)

It wasn't a genre I enjoy, so I don't really know much about it beyond the stuff about how badly it sold. I have to wonder though, just how bad does a game have to be to sell this badly? Whenever I see people complain about something in gaming, I inevitably see people talking about how people should vote with their wallets, but then whatever the thing in question is seems to be quite profitable despite the complaints and calls for people to stop buying it. What was so wrong with this one that actually caused practically nobody to buy it?

 

Specifically the type of printer that prints using spools of plastic filament, but that seems like the most common type anyway

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