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[–] addie@feddit.uk 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Nah - Doom (DOS): and Doom Eternal are on there, as are Baldur's Gates 2 and 3.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Most common example would be a bicycle, I think - your pedals tighten on "in the same direction the wheel turns" as you look at them. So your left pedal has left-hand thread, and goes on and comes off backwards.

The effect of precession also means that you can tighten the pedals on finger tight and a good long ride will make them absolutely solid - need to bounce up and down on a spanner to loosen them.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well; you could use that engine to produce something well-written, deep and interesting like New Vegas, but that still got dinged for being an absurdly bug-ridden release with serious performance issues. It was great despite the engine, not because.

There's some slightly-shonky open world engines that support some really impressive RPGs (eg. Baldur's Gate 3 on the Divinity engine - looks great but performance is arseholes) and some very impressive open-world engines that support some lightweight RPGs (eg. Horizon Forbidden West on the Decima engine - looks great and smooth as butter). And then you've got the Creation engine, which looks terrible and has terrible performance, and which runs bugs and glitches in a way that combines into (usually) very shallow RPGs.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

Annoys me that "less" is always correct, which makes "fewer" completely redundant, and yet it's a short word that could be valuable in conversation if opened up and reused for something everyday that has a long name.

"Before I leave the house, I always check that I've got my keys, phone, and fure in my pockets."

[–] addie@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago

Ironic, since 2B doesn't have ass on any platform. My anaconda don't want none of that.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 0 points 1 month ago

Android has a massive built-in library of supporting functions that abstracts away most of the differences between devices, including support libraries for older versions of Android, and Flappy Bird is almost the "hello world" of gamws writing.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Register bit twiddling." Setting all the modes that all their various cards can operate in, with the associated code for sending the bit updates over the connection bus. Tedious stuff that's very prone to copy-paste errors if written by hand.

At some point you have to take AMDs word for it that these codes = this functionality, but if the right graphics come out then it can't be so wrong.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The one with Timothy Olyphant and Olga Kurylenko in it? It was fine, had a few good action sequences in it. Managed to both not be much of an adaptation of the game, but also trying to be enough of an adaptation that it frequently makes very little sense. Probably have been better if they'd cut loose a little more, had some more fun with it. Gets a completely OK / 10 from me.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We've found it to be the "least bad option" for DnD. Have a Discord window open for everyone to video chat in, have a browser window open with Owlbear Rodeo or Foundry / Forge for your tokens and character sheets, all works smoothly enough. The text chat is sufficient for sending the DM a private message; for group chat to share art of the things you've just run into or organise the next session.

Completely agree that for anything "less transient", then the UX is beyond awful and trying to find anything historical is a massive PITA.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I'm with you there - worked for twenty years in water treatment myself. Water before it's been chlorinated / chloraminated for supply? Makes the best cups of tea and coffee ever - you need to boil it, of course. RO water? Vile.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 43 points 2 months ago (8 children)

The joke about adding well water back in again at the end is "correct". Reverse osmosis removes 100% of the solids from the water, but drinking water usually contains small quantities of solids - you can see a breakdown on the label of some bottled water. Completely pure water would leach all of the solids that have built up on the insides of water pipes over the decades, and leaches away the protective oxide layer from metal pipework, causing it to corrode surprisingly rapidly. It also tastes pretty shitty - kind of "dead". So a small amount of high-solids water is mixed back in after RO to bring the water back to normal levels.

All that other shit in the diagram? No. Purification and treatment takes place after the mixing step, it would be crazy not to.

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