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  1. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Honestly, that new player may just have a different play style that is incompatible with yours. Which will lead to either you or both being frustrated. A final candid conversation may be necessary...

    Honestly, that new player may just have a different play style that is incompatible with yours. Which will lead to either you or both being frustrated.

    A final candid conversation may be necessary to say "hey this is how we want to play, we don't want you to spoil stuff or tell us we are doing things wrong, or anything else they've done etc. If you can't get on board with that then maybe we can do a playthrough later on with you after we've finished the game" or something to that affect.

    The fact that you have two other friends who want to play the same way you do and are on board is practically a miracle in itself. Don't sacrifice that for one selfish person who can't appreciate what YOU want to do with YOUR game. Appreciate the group you have because that's a hard and rare thing to find

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  2. Comment on 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea. in ~tech

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    Oh I thought I did read it to the end. Can't tell sometimes I guess cause the ads come in and make you think you're at the end. That's good they dropped it. I'd like to believe they wouldn't have...

    Oh I thought I did read it to the end. Can't tell sometimes I guess cause the ads come in and make you think you're at the end.

    That's good they dropped it. I'd like to believe they wouldn't have a chance in hell of winning anyway, but who knows with how things are these days

    22 votes
  3. Comment on 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea. in ~tech

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    Just went and watched the two videos, that's hilarious. Hopefully the courts will fuck that company up for being idiots and trying to sue over this

    Just went and watched the two videos, that's hilarious.

    Hopefully the courts will fuck that company up for being idiots and trying to sue over this

    12 votes
  4. Comment on Johnny Depp to star in ‘Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol’ at Paramount with Ti West directing; Andrea Riseborough also joins movie dated for November 2026 in ~movies

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    Someone hasn't been paying attention

    Someone hasn't been paying attention

    13 votes
  5. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Pretty sure the massive fish can one hit kill you if you're out in the open ocean and night and can't dodge it

    Pretty sure the massive fish can one hit kill you if you're out in the open ocean and night and can't dodge it

  6. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Reaching Room 46 for the first time is like 25% of the game. There's so much more to do

    Reaching Room 46 for the first time is like 25% of the game. There's so much more to do

    3 votes
  7. Comment on What's your video game comfort food? in ~games

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    Can you link that Jacob Geller video? Haven't seen that one but sounds interesting

    Can you link that Jacob Geller video? Haven't seen that one but sounds interesting

  8. Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk

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    Still an interesting problem to think about regardless!

    Still an interesting problem to think about regardless!

  9. Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk

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    I don't think you quite got my idea, a satellite or series or satellites made up of an array of mirrors which focus sunlight and direct it at the moons surface, creating a brighter reflection,...

    I don't think you quite got my idea, a satellite or series or satellites made up of an array of mirrors which focus sunlight and direct it at the moons surface, creating a brighter reflection, much like when someone's watch of phone makes a reflection while driving or something.

    You have a bunch of these which make up the "pixels" of the image via reflection (and then colored mirrors or filters you can mechanically swap before the light heads to the moon.

    So you're just using natural sunlight and redirecting it. The only power needed would be for positioning the satellites correctly to shine at the right spot. No lunar dust issues either.

  10. Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk

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    I don't think you would project from Earth itself. You would probably build satellites to do it, and even at that you could build a complex array of mirrors (maybe colored mirrors? Is that a...

    I don't think you would project from Earth itself.

    You would probably build satellites to do it, and even at that you could build a complex array of mirrors (maybe colored mirrors? Is that a thing)which could each act as a pixel and redirect and concentrate sunlight at the moon to achieve the effect.

    Then the only power needed would be to calculate and adjust the station according to the orbits to keep everything aligned

    2 votes
  11. Comment on ‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder in ~tech

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    It's always so weird when people talk about this trope without ever knowing who Cyrano is

    It's always so weird when people talk about this trope without ever knowing who Cyrano is

    6 votes
  12. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    You get zip lines later in Grounded, so usually people build a big tower in the middle of the map somewhere and zip lines back and forth to the major areas for fast traversal once you get into mid...

    You get zip lines later in Grounded, so usually people build a big tower in the middle of the map somewhere and zip lines back and forth to the major areas for fast traversal once you get into mid game.

    Early game it's good to have the slow traversal so you can explore, discover areas. and collect resources including killing tons of bugs for their parts which are also resources.

    Planet Crafter was amazing, I can't wait for the next DLC! Also the QoL stuff you mention comes with the drones and auto crafters. Once you have those you can automate crafting most resources. I had a pink crystal/fusion core auto crafting farm setup with auto selling rockets to farm terra tokens. Once it was setup I never had to touch it again.

    1 vote
  13. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Not sure where you saw bad reviews, everything I saw about the DLC was positive. The only potential negative was it was similar to the main game. There's a couple differences, but if you love the...

    Not sure where you saw bad reviews, everything I saw about the DLC was positive. The only potential negative was it was similar to the main game. There's a couple differences, but if you love the game, it's more of the game.

    And with the Moons update from earlier this year you can connect both planets as well as the two new moons together with rockets.

    I would definitely say the DLC is worth it if you enjoy the game. It supports the devs and it's only $8 for essentially double the content of the base game (not counting the moons as those came after)

    1 vote
  14. Comment on Avalanche Studios' UK office is set to be closed as part of a workforce restructure – will also impact their Swedish studios in Stockholm and Malmö in ~games

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    Yeah but Just Cause 5 should have been a return to form, like 3, because of the backlash to the changes in 4, plus the setup for 5 was so good at the end of 4

    Yeah but Just Cause 5 should have been a return to form, like 3, because of the backlash to the changes in 4, plus the setup for 5 was so good at the end of 4

    1 vote
  15. Comment on Avalanche Studios' UK office is set to be closed as part of a workforce restructure – will also impact their Swedish studios in Stockholm and Malmö in ~games

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    This probably means we won't be getting a Just Cause 5, goddamn these fucking corporations ruining everything.

    This probably means we won't be getting a Just Cause 5, goddamn these fucking corporations ruining everything.

    4 votes
  16. Comment on Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think. in ~games

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    First three threads I found when googling. Majority of the comments are either "I play inverted because x" or some variation of "inverted players make no sense"/"are weird"...
  17. Comment on Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think. in ~games

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    I just wish we could remove the stigma of using inverted. I don't see anyone in this thread, but in almost every thread about this I've ever seen people just rag on inverted players. Everyone I've...

    I just wish we could remove the stigma of using inverted. I don't see anyone in this thread, but in almost every thread about this I've ever seen people just rag on inverted players.

    Everyone I've ever mentioned to that I use inverted is always some level of "whyyyyy" to "you're fucking weird"

    2 votes
  18. Comment on Refusing LinkedIn's ID verification is costing me my job in ~tech

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    Unless you work for LinkedIn itself, why would any job require a LinkedIn account? That's insane. Is there no way to opt out of it? Could try speaking with HR and see if they could make an exception

    Unless you work for LinkedIn itself, why would any job require a LinkedIn account? That's insane. Is there no way to opt out of it? Could try speaking with HR and see if they could make an exception

    16 votes
  19. Comment on Disabilities: Changing bed sheets over multiple days in ~life

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    How often do people change their sheets? I always heard you do it once a month maybe, I don't see any need to do it every few days, that's wild

    How often do people change their sheets? I always heard you do it once a month maybe, I don't see any need to do it every few days, that's wild

    2 votes
  20. Comment on How many remakes have ever actually lived up to or surpassed the original? in ~movies

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    I hope I am remembering correctly, but I think the first remake of Night of the Living Dead (assuming that's the right one that I'm thinking of) was a lot better than the original. It improved...

    I hope I am remembering correctly, but I think the first remake of Night of the Living Dead (assuming that's the right one that I'm thinking of) was a lot better than the original. It improved pretty much everything that was poor with the original film. Mainly the female lead being a useless obnoxious character that does nothing vs a meaningful addition to the dynamic and the super depressing and fucked up ending into a more standard ending.

    I should probably rewatch them to see if my opinion has changed at all, but when I watched them originally (must have been 10-15 years ago now) I felt pretty strongly that this was the case.

    1 vote