PennyRoyal

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What game recently hooked you on the Deck, more than on PC ? in c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago

It wasn’t a single game, it was switching so easily between something deeply engaging like Disco Elysium, and something that made me feel like it was the grown-up grandchild of a gameboy, specifically Brotato. I have so many hours in Brotato. Send help

2.8 days to disaster: Why we are running out of time in low earth orbit in c/science@lemmy.ml
[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Don’t know, but it’d be fun to try

Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? in c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
I played Mists of Noyah, and let me tell you... in c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Patient, but furious. Nice vent, I’ll avoid paying to get angry, thanks

Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? in c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

The Planet Crafter, and I have a feeling that it might be here for some time. I like it’s gentle cerebralness

Best second-hand cameras for beginner/hobby photography? in c/photography@lemmy.world
[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I think others have covered most points better than I could, but as a little added personal experience, I think that there are some fantastic and fairly cheap lenses for Fuji. The first lens I bought for my X-T5 was the 35mm f1.4, and that’s still my most used lens. It was under £400, and while it’s an older lens and has some flaws (it’s slow and noisy primarily, and the AF can be slightly unpredictable) it takes magic pictures. The f2 standard primes are supposed to be very good as well, and small and light too, so if you do go the Fuji route, you may well find that the first lenses you buy will stay with you for longer than you expect. I’ve now got the 35mm, a 16mm f1.4, and a 90mm f2, and honestly I haven’t felt any real GAS in ages unless I think too hard about wildlife. Don’t feel that you’ll have to keep upgrading stuff just because you’re not spending top dollar. Cheap older primes can take fantastic pictures.

Typical cell at the Killing Fields prison Cambodia in c/pics@lemmy.world
[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That really wasn’t a fun place to visit. Powerful, and if you’ve the head for it worthwhile, but fuck me if that wasn’t the most harrowing holiday day out I’ve ever had

An apple a day, ... Ah well, fuck it. in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

The ol’ sandpaper fleshlight

Boss Keloid - Family the smiling thrush in c/metal@lemmy.world
[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It took me a while to get my head around them, but once Chronosiam got to basically playing on repeat in my head, I was pretty hooked. Their catalogue is fairly damn weird, and all the better for it

Can you spot Orion's belt? in c/photography@lemmy.world
[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

If I had to review it, I’d say Three stars, big waist of space

Mac software suggestions in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

You star, that’s the puppy. Many thanks

Mac software suggestions in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

That’s a pretty fantastic site, with a lot of things I can use. It’s got all the Adobe things that I’m trying to avoid using, because fuck adobe even if i was pirating it, but not what I’m after. Great shout though, I’ll definitely be having another look at it

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Mac software suggestions (sh.itjust.works)
 

So, I’ve been trying to find a specific bit of Mac software for a while, and keep coming up blank (any site suggestions?). It’s a pretty common program, and I can find no end of the most recent windows versions, but if there is any for Mac they’re about 10 generations behind, and hardly seeded. I’ve trawled the megathread, to no avail. Any suggestions on where to look?

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Piece - Rambler’s Axe (now, like came out today or yesterday) (www.youtube.com)
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Site for workshop/technical manuals? (sh.itjust.works)
 

Looking for a few workshop manuals, is there anywhere that generally has a good selection?

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Recommend me a simple hub (sh.itjust.works)
 

Hey all. I’ve been looking for a small, basic USB-C hub with pass through power. Like literally just 4 USB-C ports, a short cable and a USB-C power in. No extra nonsense, just a minimal way to connect an SSD, a monitor, and power to my deck, and charge a peripheral if necessary. It seems unreasonably hard to find! Any suggestions?

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Recommend me a steam deck game (sh.itjust.works)
 

Hello peeps. Life’s thrown me some curve-balls recently, and I’d like a bit of an escape. Can anyone recommend a decent game in the vein of Skyrim, Fallout or Deus Ex/System Shock for the steam deck, that isn’t 25 or 30 quid please? Something on offer for less than a tenner would be ideal. I’m sure there are some great older RPGs out there that I’ve missed, the Deck is the first time I’ve got back into gaming for quite a few years, and while I’m sure I could quite happily just play Brotato for the next few years, I reckon there’s something a bit more immersive out there for me to find!

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Help defining the genre of photography that interests me (sh.itjust.works)
 

Hi all, I need a bit of help.

I’m looking to get further down the rabbit hole of interesting photographers, but I struggle to define what I’m after. My general misanthropy extends into photography, people are almost always the least interesting thing in the frame to me. Why would you waste film on faces, when you could be taking interesting images of some nice concrete or rusty iron?!

I love the work of Toshio Shibata, Bernd and Hilla Bescher, Bill Brandt, Danila Tkachenko, and GXAce on YouTube. The problem I have is that searching for “Urban” photographers brings up street stuff, “Architectural” ends up with folks who take pictures of whole buildings, “industrial” seems to lead to people who take photos for corporate websites, or urbexers (though some of those are verging on what I’m after). Constructed landscapes, textures, geometric shapes, and the juxtaposition of human artifice and nature, that’s my bag.

Is there a term or genre that would connect all this? Or am I just going to have to keep finding new artists one at a time?

Ta!

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