First game was just Diablo 2 but FPS with guns. But I can totally respect anyone that didn’t jive with that. The humor was very hit and miss and definitely made but a group of people who insisted they were hilarious.

Couldn’t have been less interested. Borderlands hasn’t been remotely interesting since 2 and everything since then has been a soulless cash grab.

But what if she can’t pay? /s

Inb4 Doom can now run on birds.

This plant is part of a bigger chain. So while yes, on its own it seems waste of effort, as part of the entire chain it’s a reasonable step to be more environmentally friendly and recover some energy in the process.

A local plant desalinates water, resulting in fresh water and a brine solution that has much higher concentration of salt in it than regular sea water.

Dumping the brine solution on its own would kill most plant and animal life around the dump site due to large saltwater concentration, so an alternative method must be found to dispose of the brine.

Waste water from other processes can be mixed with the brine to bring it more in line with seawater salinity, making it safe to reintroduce to the ocean without severe ecological impact. This waste water is deemed to difficult or intensive to purify and treat to bring it back up clean water standards, and I’m assuming tested or filtered so as not to introduce hazardous chemicals that could damage the reverse osmosis membranes as well as sea life.

Because there is way to mix the waste water and brine through membranes that can be used to generate electricity, this process is utilized to recover some of the energy expended in purifing the original batch of seawater resulting in the brine.

It’s not a perfect process but it is a means of getting some use out a waste product, similar to burning garbage or rotting food rather than just dumping it into a pit and letting it rot and release methane.

So is nuclear waste yet plenty of people here seem to act like that’s not relevant despite more nuclear waste being reprocessed than decommissioned wind turbines.

If you’re worried about nuclear waste affecting your life in any negative fashion, don’t go outside and breathe the air or stand anywhere close to a radio transmitter.

But when 8 years of wind turbine blades pile up its not a problem?

An Australian man eating spider wrote this post.

You don’t get to be that level of rich by caring about to the people unfortunately.

Counterpoint, wouldn’t it be better to have 3 weeks for Christmas, 2 weeks for spring break/easter, 2 weeks in the summer and then an extra week or two break in the fall? Depending how you organize it kids could have up to 2 weeks off after every quarter/major exams.

Or, going the other direction, you could condense it down to every other or even every Friday off, meaning 3 days weekends and 4 day work weeks for youth.

I get the sentiment, that having 2 months or more off as a kid was great and I certainly enjoyed it at the time, but looking back it was such a bad system and I certainly would have adapted better to school if I had more breaks from it throughout the year rather than one long absence in the summer. It’s not that summer vacation needs go away entirely, it just needs to be revamped to a more manageable break and that excess time off spread out throughout the year, particularly around times where students experience the most stress so they can decompress.

Summer vacations as they exist in the US are counter productive, pointless and a hold over from pre-industrial schooling when rich families would pull their kids out of school during the hot summers to go somewhere cooler leaving the school with less funding and without their stat pupils so the trend rapidly developed of just going to extended recess till the weather cooled and rich kids returned.

The argument that it was for farmers is patently false. Farmers plant in the spring and harvest in the fall, both times schools are in session. And livestock farmers have year round commitments so the idea of pulling students only for the summer is equally silly. It all comes down to rich kids.

A sensible school calendar would be year round, with those 6-8 weeks of summer break broken up and spliced elsewhere into the calendar, reducing the amount of material students would forget, basically the entire first quarter coming back for most schools is just going over everything learned the previous spring to catch up. It’s not one for one but by the time kids get through 8th grade almost 2 years of their schooling has been spent relearning something they already learned.

We could do so much better for kids if we abandoned the ridiculous calender most schools use and alter the actual hours kids are in school to better reflect on what they learned and absorb it rather than just memorizing enough for the next test and moving on.

I thought it was strange on steam that it was so hard to get across when I was sure when I played it on Xbox that I basically did it first try no sweat.

There’s always been criticism but until now it’s been low level insiders and nobodies like pirate software. And the reasons the publishers and big names that would be affected did SKGs didn’t say or do anything until now because they didn’t want to give it any oxygen. They were smart enough to ignore it because they knew if they said anything it’d rile up a shift storm. Which is exactly what Pirate Software did so he’s probably got a lot of people on both sides pissed at him for being too narcissistic to shut up and let the movement die.

Now that it has enough signatures to be taken seriously you’re going to see the fire hoses open up and a lot of misinformation spread about how the movement would make the gaming industry unviable for the current model. Now is the point where if you are an EU citizen that you write and call your representatives who would consider this issue and help write the law if it did pass on how important it would be to you personally to not allow game companies to revoke your ability to utilize a game you paid for.

Well excuuuuuuuuse me, princess!

On the steamdeck maybe, on the steam controller they are only r1/l1 buttons, I tried many times to change them and the software can’t different them

I don’t think the idea was mature enough. Yes it did try to innovate and do new things but it also was trying very hard to be familiar to an audience that was never going to embrace change while not changing enough for a new audience to develop around it. I would compare it to the Dvorak keyboard, a device that offered only marginal improved efficiency and use while requiring the user to completely relearn from the ground up and have to fight muscle memory for those who used the popular medium it meant to replace. And in the end, most people said it wasn’t worth it.

I was initially intrigued by having buttons on the bottom of the controller, where your fingers naturally would be thus freeing your thumbs to stay on the pad/sticks. And imagine my frustration to realize those rear buttons are just extensions of triggers already on top. Huge missed opportunity imo that a redesign could have given dedicated buttons on the back of the controller to each finger and expand the possibilities for input combos a player can perform.

TL;DR I think the controller was a valiant effort to innovate but didn’t go far enough or do anything sell enough to stick.

It’s semantics but the difference between expat and immigrants is an expat intends to return to their home country some day, where an immigrant does not.

To tack onto that: https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-per-energy-source

When you account for land use in the entire life cycle from mining resources to disposal at end of life cycle, nuclear uses a quarter of the land of rooftop cadmium panels and a tenth of silicon panels.

Offshore wind is the only thing that gets close and even that has ecological and commercial concerns.

If you’re pro-stable and sustainable ecological systems, nuclear based power grid is a no brainer.

Charging 70 dollars USD for barely 40 USD of content and everyone knows. The only people I know intent on buying all the latest stuff are people into steamer culture, aka trying to be a streamer or interact with them and follow their trends.