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[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 38 minutes ago* (last edited 37 minutes ago)

Star Trek Online is really scraping the bottom of the barrel on ship designs ~~these days~~ since seven years ago, apparently.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The Bell Riots were supposed to have happened two years ago.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Everyone who voted for that ought to be immediately jailed for contempt of court.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

A good ol' fashioned damnatio memoriae!

[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Old article + new user account = maybe bot reposting?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Fallout 76 doesn't count as a sequel to Fallout 4 in the same way that Elder Scrolls Online doesn't count as a sequel to Skyrim. MMOs just aren't the same kind of game as a single-player RPG.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

the Wasteland hadn’t changed at all despite it now being centuries since the bombs fell

That's one of the things that annoys me about Fallout: it's just so unrealistically barren. I mean, we have real-life examples in places like Hiroshima and Chernobyl, and the reality is that pretty damn quickly after the bombs, they'll be just as green again as normal. Don't get me wrong, obviously there should still be mutated creatures and ruins and stuff, but it should all be super-overgrown, too.

Not to mention, centuries is plenty of time for civilization to at least clean up a lot of the debris and such, and even make decent progress recovering. Realistically, the state of the world in Fallout is more appropriate for a setting a decade or less after the war.

As far as depictions of life after nuclear war goes, I wish we could have a game more like Alas, Babylon.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At this point, I'd need to re-play Mass Effect 1 and 2 first. And also wait for it to go on a good sale.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Ah, the World Naked Bike Ride.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, that's literally what the video we're discussing is about (starting at 8:34). You did watch it, right? 😜

[–] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (5 children)

This isn't from personal experience because its reputation is so bad I avoided it entirely, but apparently Mass Effect 3. The fan backlash was so strong they apparently had to retcon the ending, LOL!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Effect_3_ending_controversy

(You know it's bad when it's infamous enough to warrant its own Wikipedia article.)

[–] grue@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Sure, you can live in the Star Trek universe. In 2026.

Enjoy the impending Eugenics Wars and Post-Atomic Horror.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/58022486

Interesting article from 2018. But nothing has changed at all. Even the electric cars I see on the road are huge.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/50646165

A well researched and referenced video (see yt description for references and spreadsheets), from Sharath of Building Beautifully.

The cost of building transit in the Anglosphere has spiralled out of control. Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Hong Kong are all terrible at managing transit costs. Meanwhile, nations like France, Spain, South Korea and Turkey are running laps around the Anglosphere, building world-class transit at unprecedented speeds for prices up to four times cheaper. There is no reason for building transit to cost this much. Follow me as we unpack the staggering reasons that costs have spiralled out of control, and what we can do about it. Thank you to Jedwin Mok for appearing in this video! Jedwin introduced me to the transit costs crisis in mid-2025, which led me to ultimately create this video and interview him for it.

 

Youtuber "Brad is Brad" creates a custom controller for Subnautica using an exercise bike and an Arduino so that he has to pedal the bike in order to swim in the game.

 
 
 

cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/46852721

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Tuesday that his department would redirect $1.73 billion in Biden-era grants away from establishing “DEI bike lanes” to build roads and bridges instead.

So, what exactly is a “DEI bike lane?”

The Daily Wire pointed to former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s claim that a series of 2021 grants funding bike lanes would serve to “improve infrastructure, strengthen supply chains, make us safer, advance equity, and combat climate change.”

Upon hearing “equity,” President Donald Trump’s goons can’t help but get triggered into attacking any federal spending that won’t benefit them directly. In reality, those Biden-era grants directed funds to build a new transit center in North Carolina, replace bridges in New Mexico, extend streets in New Hampshire, install traffic lights and crosswalks in Missouri, and install bike lanes in Seattle, among other projects. Now the financial status of these projects is unclear.

 

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/61209

A new big-data analysis of the U.S. pinpoints how urban design aids the health of city residents—especially when cities provide walking opportunities, greenery and mixed-use streets with a blend of commercial and residential activity.


From Earth News - Earth Science News, Earth Science, Climate Change via This RSS Feed.

 

cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/10923091

From the Atlanta Community Press Collective

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