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Crunch time: Fuel price spike squeezes French baguette bakers as heating oil costs soar [text inside] in c/news@hexbear.net
[–] 12 points 1 day ago*

Obviously it's a headline grabbing non-sequiter to bring up baguettes specifically. But it's a good illustration of how, when you raise the price of basic inputs... everything gets more expensive. And no financial magic tricks will change that.

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    Meta Is Now Using Photos and Videos to Serve Ads to Your Friends Starring You in c/technology@hexbear.net
    'Strange New Worlds' Season 5 Will Be A More "Traditional" Star Trek Episode Format in c/movies@hexbear.net
    Celeste Dupuy-Spencer - The Chiefest of Ten Thousand (Sarah 2) (2018) in c/art@hexbear.net
    Is it based to vote for Trump? in c/askchapo@hexbear.net
    I finally started playing that one game! (Disco Elysium) in c/askchapo@hexbear.net
    I finally started playing that one game! (Disco Elysium) in c/askchapo@hexbear.net
    I finally started playing that one game! (Disco Elysium) in c/askchapo@hexbear.net
    [–] 13 points 3 days ago

    The first couple of in-game days can feel kind of aimless and frustrating, so stick with it. This is the first skill check you face as a player, and it mirrors the struggle that the protagonist faces: can you go through with it, when you don't know what the fuck is going on, and everyone is telling you to fuck off?

    There are lots of story beats that only happen because you're acting like a clueless fuckup, which you would actually miss if you were playing the game more "competently". Ask Kim what to do if you feel stuck, he's got your back.

    stat distributions?

    For your first play-through, I would recommend putting at least 2 into Volition, Endurance, and Perception. It plays a bit oddly otherwise.

    But otherwise, pick that stats that go along with the style you want to play. Embrace the role-playing. Punch the nazi.

    The thought cabinet is kind of important, and it's good to actually read about how it works mechanically (and thematically). Palacegalleryratio has an explanation elsewhere in the thread. Stats and dialogue trees are a well understood mechanic among RPG players, but this "though cabinet" thing is a new concept.

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    I finally started playing that one game! (Disco Elysium) in c/askchapo@hexbear.net
    Xi Jinping delivers speech at the White House [full text transcript] in c/news@hexbear.net
    Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" as workers spend 12-hour days pressing enter in c/technology@hexbear.net
    [–] 34 points 4 days ago

    The current annoying trend is the push to do engineering CAD using AI prompts. There are a lot of problems with that idea, the most major one being the apparent confusing between "3D modeling" and "Computer Aided Design". But the other issues is that it's just not very fun... I like doing that design work, and it's not actually a major bottleneck to my work throughput.

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    Cult of Anthropic Insiders Rumored to Be Worshipping Claude as a God in c/technology@hexbear.net
    [–] 60 points 4 days ago (7 children)

    Judge me all you want for joining the weird cult at work that is trying to summon a dark god - I will sleep easy knowing that I won't be tortured by it until the end of the universe.

    smuglord

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    My car got totalled (hexbear.net)
     

    My car just got totalled by a minor fender bender that apparently would cost more than the value of the car to repair. The tow truck is loading it up right now to haul it away to the junkyard (ridiculous, it's completely drivable, the lights all work and everything). Getting a cash payout, since the other driver was a dumbass who drove into me while I was stopped.

    In a bit of serenidipidous timing, I'm moving into the core urban area of a big city next week, and so... I'm going car-free. Bike bus and walk, every day. Work is a relaxing bus ride or ambitious bike ride away. Daycare is a couple blocks away, so Little Beaver can walk with us to school every day. Cool shit everywhere nearby. My friends already live in the area, cuz it's a dope place to live. Already talked to more neighbors than I did in my old neighborhood, because this is an actual community of people instead of a bunch of islands surrounded by car moats.

    Fuck that car. My life is already cooler without it.

    arm-L sicko-biker arm-R

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    Free Software Games for LAN parties? (hexbear.net)
     

    I want to host some LAN parties this winter, and am looking for some Free Software Games that would be a fun time. We already play some Counterstrike and StarCraft 2, but I want to expand into some actual Free games. Windows compatibility is a must, MacOS compatibility is desirable!

    The two on my radar are:

    • Hedgewars, which seems like a strong candidate. We played a ton of Worms 2 in the 90s
    • 0 A.D., since we're already fans of RTS games.

    But I know there must be some wacky ones out there which would be suitable for 30 minutes of pick up play.

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    Minneapolis cannot proceed with 2040 Plan, court rules (www.startribune.com)
     

    The 2040 plan is mainly an ending of single-family zoning. Anecdotally, I've seen a lot more apartments going up around the Twin Cities in the last few years. The Frey regime are neoliberal ghouls, and this is a classic YIMBY approach to tackling housing shortages. The opponents of this plan are somehow even worse, an astroturfed army of KKKarens.

    Choice quote: "Residents of color already face significant barriers to home ownership, which would have been exacerbated under the plan as a result of reduced access to and availability of single family properties," said activist Nekima Levy Armstrong, a member of the plaintiffs' legal team, in a statement calling Tuesday's ruling a "major victory."

    What are the Hexbear thoughts on this whole situation?

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