Coincidentally Ive gotten back in to Star Craft 2. Still a banger of a game! I hope that the franchise survives.

Holy shit what a bunch of blistering thunder cunts. I hope Microsoft guts them.

Over what prices exactly?

Games are expensive in general, especially AAA new titles. But to say they are stealing from customers seems a bit disengenuous. Game prices have barely changed in 20 years, if anything they’ve gotten cheaper. PS games are often less than Nintendo, and if you aren’t fussed with waiting they tend to drop in price dramatically after a year.

Most polished titles can take many years and huge teams to make and provide 20+ hours of entertainment. Which is a lot more bang than a 2 hour film.

The only problem I have is with digital titles charging the same as a physical title. Theoretically the cut in brick and mortar, printing and 3rd party mark ups should be shared with the customer who no longer has a physical copy to hold or resell and needs and account and internet to enjoy.

Seconded.

I was getting a bit annoyed at Firefox and after recently formatting my PC, I decided to freshen things up. So after the mandatory new PC Edge Google, I must say I’m really enjoying the new UI of Opera.

Now I use Opera as my main driver, Firefox for the things that Opera struggles with, and Edge is there too.

Try this:

So everything in space, every object had to get to where it is via time. It travelled there. Everything can’t be anywhere without time as without time it wouldn’t have been able to move there. Time is a constant graph, and as it moves forward, things move around and as such, space is able to exist. This is why we consider space and time to be linked.

Now consider this: if one was to plot a graph of space and time on an x y axis to track an object, there is a point on the graph where time has to be zero, and as such space has to be zero.

This is the big bang.

It is the beginning of the graph. When time was zero, and as such so was space.

Space did not burst out from a single point that we could find out there in space, as there was no point. everything was still everywhere much like it is now, except everywhere just so happened to be so close to one another to be at the same point on the graph. When time began, it just about instantly expanded out, everywhere in every direction. There is no ‘center’ to this expansion, just like if you blow up a balloon there is no center on the surface of the balloon, it just expands everywhere, and more importantly with time we are able to quantify this.

I wonder how many of these games will just disappear come January

I assume it’s the ‘swiss style’ raw rolled oats not toasted.

I have it with plain yoghurt and a bit of jam. Milk is nice too. I like the texture and it’s fantastic for your gut.

Having said that you obviously hate that, so try this:

1. Mix equal parts honey, brown sugar and coconut oil (or olive oil you could even add a dollop of butter) and heat in a saucepan until the sugar is melted. (About a 1/3 cup of each should be enough for about 3-4 cups of muesli mixture.) While you wait, put your oven on a medium to low heat like 150C.

2. Separate out the fruit bits and set aside. Combine the rest of the ingredients with the melted honey oil mix, and spread out thin on a baking tray (you may want to do batches, keep it spread thin here!

3. Bake on low for about 20-30min, stirring every 5-10min. (Don’t let it burn)

4. Once cool, break it up and add your fruit back, Voila! You have crunchy home made granola cereal! Feel free to add anything else, pecan nuts / almonds / coconut flakes - either raw or toast it with the granola at the beginning. I like banana chips. Chocolate chips are nice too. You can’t really go wrong and it’s easy as.

Note:: The only thing you want to avoid is burning it while you toast it, the burn flavour will take over the whole mix! So keep an eye on it and keep it moving.

Note:: melted sugar is like lava. Melt it on the saucepan slowly and don’t let it smoke. Keep the heat low. Don’t stir in to the muesli with your hands. Use a wooden spoon. That shit will burn.

If you’re crafty, I feel like this is something you could make out of a wooden 2x2 or a dowel stick, a jigsaw and a drill with the right bits.

Plot twist: The money to spawn comes from other people randomly. Eventually people start reporting vanishing money at the same time that people hear news of a man randomly raining money wherever he goes. This immediately sparks controversy and religion, as the country begins to destabilize and the economy grinds to a halt.

The government gets together and decides that changing the currency to a new note, so as to avoid it being conjured away and raining somewhere east of Massachusetts, is the only solution forward.

This has an unexpected blowback, as the superpower is to spawn money, not useless green paper. The rain immediately changes to the new currency.

Discovering this loophole, the government changes the currency to bowling balls in the hope to have the problem solve itself.

You now randomly hail bowling balls around you and the local bowlingalley owner is a tycoon. You killed ten pin bowling. I hope you’re happy you bastard.

Ok but what about the uncomfortable keyboard? WHAT DO WE DO???

I too have been sent here. It’s at the top of hot right now.

Seems to be a Lemmy zombie post glitch that needs to be addressed.

Morley’s for the banger hot wings.

I’ve got a pair of nice old Japanese wooden bookshelfs hooked up to a NAD amp that plays both my records and my TV/PS. That does the heavy lifting, for my office I have some good but generic over ears that get the job done. And then I have a pair of planar earbuds ‘LetShoer S12’:which are awesome bit I don’t use often because they’re quite sharp for long sessions but sound fantastic.

Sheesh it seems to have been taken over by furries.

The ‘Web App’ is basically a friendly way of saying the browser instance is not only mobile friendly but can be saved as such. If you have chrome or Firefox on your phone:

1. go to your Lemmy home page,
2. hit the dots to the side of the search bar to open the menu and look for and option that says something along the lines of “save as app”
3. your browser will create a ‘shortcut’ on your home screen with a Lemmy icon that is essentially a web app tab of Lemmy.

This is what I use. I also have Jerboa but it’s broken right now as I’m on an older version of Lemmy that’s incompatible. I also have Connect but it’s still in very early stages, and while it looks nice it’s borderline unusable at the moment.

When a server A federates with server B, it allows itself to scrape information off it and synchronise with it so that its users may comment, receive updates etc. Because these are individually run, and decentralised, each server will need to comply with its own local laws.

If server B decides to host a community with kiddie porn, Server A now will synchronise and share that information with its users, storing elements of the information on it’s own servers. This would put the owner of Server A at massive risk and would be a responsibility of the admin to keep themself protected and in line with the Law. Since you can’t control anything that happens on Server B.

If server B gets taken over by Russian spam bots, and they are able to comment wherever they wish, you wouldn’t have any control at moderating those accounts as they are not on your server. It’s easier to just block that server entirely.

Defederating but allowing commenting means that you aren’t actually disconnecting, and keeping a tunnel open and swapping data and updating fresh comments.

It’s a gray area as the line can become blurred with things like The Donald, which might be largely unpopular and racist but it doesn’t break any laws. so deferedating willy nilly can easily become a tightrope walk between protecting users from bad actors and quelling free speech. That’s why we can block those communities ourselves.

True that it’s not the perfect system and as servers connect and disconnect from one another, communities may fracture and users may need to create new accounts or have multiple which can be inconvenient, but it’s the most logical system for now.

There may come a time where a middle step is needed, once instances become so large that defederating can be a massive issue, it may be nice for an instance to block off communities from other instances while not actually fully defederating.

Mulholland Drive

A strange masterpiece and artwork. Been thinking about it for a few days now.

I’d by gold. Or a bunch of second hand Land Rovers on Gumtree.

Before we picked up my collie, we ran through a list of names we loved, (black and white collie with freckles on his white stripe on his face, and brown sandy legs) and had a hot list of selects from ‘Patches O Hoolahan’ ‘Stomp’ ‘Gary’ ‘Dusty’ and a bunch of others.

As I picked the little guy up, I said “Hey buddy!”. His names Buddy.

My brother’s Cats name is Uni (Japanese for sea urchin) because shes pointy on the outside and soft in the middle. His other cat is ‘Maki’ because it’s a black Siamese cross with with a white face.