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Comment on Around twenty drown in France as French seek relief from heatwave in ~enviro
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Comment on Steam Machine prices revealed, starting at US$1049.00 in ~games
redwall_hp Link ParentAnd there's also the big if of compatibility. Proton has some a long way, but every advertised PS5 game will work on your PS5 and has undergone a QA process that game studios tend to find arduous....And there's also the big if of compatibility. Proton has some a long way, but every advertised PS5 game will work on your PS5 and has undergone a QA process that game studios tend to find arduous. There's a good chance you could pick out a game advertised on Steam and find that it doesn't work on Linux or requires some manual fiddling. Some of the most played games in the world are multiplayer games that could also have incompatible anticheat and high stakes if your account is flagged.
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Comment on I almost got hit by a car in ~life
redwall_hp Link ParentI'd like to stop winning now. :)I'd like to stop winning now. :)
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Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music
redwall_hp LinkI just saw Weird Al Yankovic live. Second time for me, with the previous time being his scaled back tour without costumes (and a focus on his originals instead of parodies), first time for my...I just saw Weird Al Yankovic live. Second time for me, with the previous time being his scaled back tour without costumes (and a focus on his originals instead of parodies), first time for my fiancée. It was a lot of fun, and his newer band members were great too.
His joke for the first song was amazing...though I'm not sure I want to give it away publicly, with the size of this tour. Just in the off chance someone planning on going sees. He also did his new polka medley.
The opener, Puddles Pity Party, was also good. One of my coworkers, who I was unaware of being there, ended up being one of the audience members pulled up stage for his act. I didn't recognize him at the time (lol) but he pointed it out when I mentioned his Weird Al shirt the next day.
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Comment on I almost got hit by a car in ~life
redwall_hp (edited )Link ParentThat's tempting, especially when people hit their horn in an unprotected left turn (having no way to see if it's even safe). But there have also been a few road rage shootings in recent years... I...I stay still at green lights for several seconds
That's tempting, especially when people hit their horn in an unprotected left turn (having no way to see if it's even safe). But there have also been a few road rage shootings in recent years...
I also frequently see:
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Someone reverse because they missed a turn way too often
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Cars hung up on the center median of a divided road, with the left wheels on one side and the right wheels on another. If I had a nickel for every time, I'd have 3-4 nickels
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Temp tags months or years expired, and often no license plates at all. I see several every day. People just don't ever pay their tax or register it...which means they're probably among the 20-25% who are uninsured motorists. Where I'm from, not having plates is probably a "the car gets towed and you come down to the station" offense. Not something that's broadly ignored by the heavy police presence.
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This past week I saw a car blocking an intersection because they had driven up onto the crosswalk and crashed into the pole the button was on, so one pair of lanes was obstructed while the traffic safety team dealt with it.
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Before my commute shortened, there would probably be a road-closing accident on my route back at least two days out of five...and I saw more happen during those closures. (Once, a 50s or 60s looking car's tires were screaming while they tried to avoid hitting the cop directing traffic during the closure, hit the median, bounced over, went across the lane and crashed into the ditch.)
I know there's craziness everywhere on the road, but the Midwest seems to have a special brand of inscrutable chaos. Definitely worse than New England, where I grew up.
I think I briefly passed through Aurora on a trip, but I wouldn't have been there enough to get a good read on the driving situation.
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Comment on Don’t call it a sequel. Or a reboot. Or a remake. Why certain words trigger Hollywood. in ~movies
redwall_hp (edited )Link ParentClassics: The Wheel of Time show and its roller coaster of "maybe they're going to start adapting the book...nope" (getting my hopes up for the announcement that someone who worked on Arcane is...Classics:
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The Wheel of Time show and its roller coaster of "maybe they're going to start adapting the book...nope" (getting my hopes up for the announcement that someone who worked on Arcane is attached to a possible animated adaptation). Just write your own fantasy series if you don't want to adapt the one people are there for. It would have at least been an okay-to-mediocre streaming fantasy show if I'd never heard of Wheel of Time, rather than spending countless hours reading it.
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Amazon recently canceling the Stargate show in development, after getting fans excited, with a message about how they didn't see how it was going to appeal to mainstream audiences. Which leads to...
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Basically every "Star Trek" film or show since 2009. Can't have a utopian civilization that values science and secular humanism over petty interpersonal conflict and constant shadowy evil elements. (Strange New Worlds was decent, at least.) And now I don't want to give Paramount a cent, because they're owned by the IRL shadowy evil elements that don't value science or secular humanism.
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There are many fantasy novels I used to read that would make great movies, but they just don't get adapted. And when they do...it often doesn't go well due to the creators not taking their own work seriously and overtly making fun of it in dialogue that basically breaks the fourth wall. Or if they do, the marketers submarine it by going hard on "what is this nerd shit?" (I've long made peace with the fact that Hollywood hates fantasy, and anime is the place to find it.)
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Comment on I almost got hit by a car in ~life
redwall_hp Link ParentThat's a major goal of the Adaptive mode in Apple's AirPods: turning down harmful or obnoxious noise, but not fully eliminating it, and dynamically restoring the volume of things that could be...That's a major goal of the Adaptive mode in Apple's AirPods: turning down harmful or obnoxious noise, but not fully eliminating it, and dynamically restoring the volume of things that could be hazardous (like alarms), while still keeping them in a won't-damage-your-hearing level. Full noise cancelling mode is for suppressing office chatter or whatever, and isn't recommended for walking outside.
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Comment on I almost got hit by a car in ~life
redwall_hp Link ParentJust Midwest things: line of cars stopped in the (controlled) right turn lane, idiots drive on the shoulder to go around. Which is a hazard to pedestrians and cars in the actual lane. Every damn...Doubly insane the number that will just veer around the cars that do stop on non-traffic light crosswalks and nearly slam into you in the shoulder.
Just Midwest things: line of cars stopped in the (controlled) right turn lane, idiots drive on the shoulder to go around. Which is a hazard to pedestrians and cars in the actual lane. Every damn time.
The city has put up posts at the end of the shoulder at some intersections, but they get run over eventually.
It's crazy going and driving in Denver, where there's a lot more traffic, but being consistently less stressed.
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Comment on Epic Games announces Lore open-source version control system in ~tech
redwall_hp Link Parenti.e. this is an alternative to Perforce. It's concerned with big binary blobs, not diffing plain text.They are specifically catering Lore to games and entertainment purposes with large file sizes.
i.e. this is an alternative to Perforce. It's concerned with big binary blobs, not diffing plain text.
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Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books
redwall_hp (edited )Link ParentIsekais often prominently feature experience and levelling motifs. Some shows, like Overlord, Log Horizon, Sword Art Online, are straight up "I got trapped in an MMORPG," with all that entails....Isekais often prominently feature experience and levelling motifs. Some shows, like Overlord, Log Horizon, Sword Art Online, are straight up "I got trapped in an MMORPG," with all that entails.
Others lack that specific angle, but the world they're in still prominently displays video game inspired features. (Konosuba, for example, is often riffing on Monster Hunter or Final Fantasy, and prominently features characters risking about levelling and choosing classes and skills, but it's just a parallel world with magic.)
I'd say it's one of the defining traits of the genre, with some elements still being there even on shows that stray further from that base. Re:Zero dances on that line, though it's more the character applying his video game logic to the world.
They also tend to start out as light novels or web novels, gaining popularity before being picked up for animation.
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Comment on Steins;Gate Reboot releasing October 29, 2026 in ~games
redwall_hp LinkThe Steins;Gate visual novel is getting a new release (including on modern consoles, such as the PS5 and Switch 2) with new graphics, re-recorded audio and a new system for animations. I'm a big...The Steins;Gate visual novel is getting a new release (including on modern consoles, such as the PS5 and Switch 2) with new graphics, re-recorded audio and a new system for animations.
I'm a big fan of the anime, but still haven't played the VN, so I took this as a sign and preordered a physical copy. Sounds like it's an evolution of the Elite version, possibly with new content.
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Steins;Gate Reboot releasing October 29, 2026
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Comment on Fox is buying Roku in $22 billion deal in ~tv
redwall_hp LinkThat's just great, more consolidation of media companies into filthy conservative hands. Roku is basically a forced ad platform too, since they won't stop shoving ads onto the product you bought....That's just great, more consolidation of media companies into filthy conservative hands. Roku is basically a forced ad platform too, since they won't stop shoving ads onto the product you bought.
I won't be considering a Roku equipped TV for the next one, that's for sure.
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Comment on Brave Origin, a paid, premium version of Brave is now available in ~tech
redwall_hp Link ParentNote that Safari is also not Chromium. The Blink renderer in Chromium is descended from WebKit (Safari), but they've heavily diverged since Google forked it. They have completely different...Note that Safari is also not Chromium. The Blink renderer in Chromium is descended from WebKit (Safari), but they've heavily diverged since Google forked it. They have completely different JavaScript runtimes as well (JavaScriptCore in Safari vs Chromium's V8).
Arguably, Apple's denial of non-WebKit browsers on iOS is the only thing standing in the way of Google having an Internet Explorer level monopoly, and companies only targeting chromium for everything. If that were opened up, there would likely be a major push to normalize installing Chrome, just like the situation where Mac users tend to install Chrome immediately.
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Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books
redwall_hp (edited )LinkI haven't read much in the way of fiction in the past few years, but I just started Dungeon Crawler Carl, because it's been popular at the office lately, and am on the second book now. It's a lot...I haven't read much in the way of fiction in the past few years, but I just started Dungeon Crawler Carl, because it's been popular at the office lately, and am on the second book now.
It's a lot of fun, and a fast read. Though I do have to point out it's basically an isekai light novel from a western author. I've heard one too many comments praising its originality, like it's this visionary groundbreaking new thing, when it's basically the template of one of the most saturated anime genres in recent years. I'm a fan of several major isekai animes, so I'm not disparaging it on that level...but credit where it's due.
Princess Donut is an extremely realistic cat character.
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Comment on Casual viewing - Why Netflix looks like that ~30+ min read in ~movies
redwall_hp LinkSomething something selling Cybertrucks to SpaceX, and whatever drugs were involved in that IPO prospectus for SpaceX. Netflix did recently add another major film to the article's short list of...Such sleight of hand would be illegal in any other industry. Ford could never tell its shareholders that it sold two hundred thousand F-150 trucks over a single quarter, when in truth the company sold one hundred thousand F-150s to married couples who co-owned their vehicles.
Something something selling Cybertrucks to SpaceX, and whatever drugs were involved in that IPO prospectus for SpaceX.
Netflix did recently add another major film to the article's short list of successful titles, at least: Kpop Demon Hunters is massive. Their shows are definitely where the focus is, and I guess it makes sense: if Netflix was trying to become TV, then their films would be made-for-TV movies.
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Comment on What's a game you're dying to play that doesn't exist? in ~games
redwall_hp Link ParentWow, it's been a long time since I thought about GunZ: The Duel. Apparently it's getting a Steam release too, though getting a big enough mass of players to make it viable is another story.Wow, it's been a long time since I thought about GunZ: The Duel. Apparently it's getting a Steam release too, though getting a big enough mass of players to make it viable is another story.
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Comment on What's a game you're dying to play that doesn't exist? in ~games
redwall_hp (edited )Link ParentIt's called Final Fantasy XIV. ;) "Study WoW and do what people like about it, and do other things better," was basically the directive for it during development. And the past several years have...It's called Final Fantasy XIV. ;)
"Study WoW and do what people like about it, and do other things better," was basically the directive for it during development. And the past several years have had some very transparent borrowing in reverse by WoW.
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Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 in ~games
redwall_hp Link ParentThat one's even weirder, because it's like a reverse Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood. They're remaking early parts of the still ongoing anime in a style closer to the new seasons, probably...That one's even weirder, because it's like a reverse Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood. They're remaking early parts of the still ongoing anime in a style closer to the new seasons, probably cutting down filler, and presumably there will be an expected point where the viewer switches to the other one. (Never mind that it will take years to do the new adaptation, so watching the original is actually still faster for now.)
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Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 in ~games
redwall_hp Link ParentTo me, "remaster" refers to taking analogue tapes or films and producing a new master recording for a new (usually digital) release. It makes zero sense for software. Putting a game on a new...To me, "remaster" refers to taking analogue tapes or films and producing a new master recording for a new (usually digital) release. It makes zero sense for software.
Putting a game on a new platform, with changes to accommodate the hardware, is a port. All the games in the Direct that were just announced to be coming to Switch 2, after being previously on other platforms, aren't "remakes."
Making a new game largely following an old game is remaking a game. Just altering textures and fixing some runability issues is just patching an existing game for a new release.
e.g. the updated Bioshock games are just Bioshock with a new point release, Final Fantasy 7 Remake is a whole new game retelling the same story as its predecessor, and The Witcher 3 on the Switch is still The Witcher 3.
There's a weird sliding denial window where older people selectively don't remember how things used to be and younger people never experienced it.
Where I grew up, in the 90s the concept of a "green Christmas" seemed liked a strange novelty. We had hip deep snow (for a child, so knee deep, anyway) on the ground from mid December up through early March.
Now it snows a few inches, melts and repeats the cycle all winter. It's just dead grass and mud, and skiing places are leaning hard on artificial snow. The mountains don't have the height of ones out west, so they're more affected by the overall heat.
Younger people have never experienced a real northern winter, and a bunch of 60+ people insist nothing's changed, just that "sometimes the weather is different."