[–] 11 points 2 days ago

Assassins Creed Valhalla did this. You're a child, some guy kills your village, you're an adult, you play for 2 hours, you kill him. All in about 5 hours, including cutscenes and dicking around. I didn't get any further.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    To add on, someone can make a new community ("subreddit") on an instance ("server") (lemmy world, db0, etc) and name it whatever they want, including the same exact name as a community on another instance. So there may be more than one c/perchance. And to make it more confusing, instance eowners choose if they want to federate (connect) nto other instances. This allows different instances to see and comment on each other's posts, but instance owners can also choose to defederate from instances they disagree with at a core level. Lemmy. World is the one most reddit expats chose in 2023. It doesn't really matter which you're on, but you may eventually want to join an community hosted on a non-federated instance. You'll either need a new account elsewhere and start over or just use a dedicated account there. There's no karma here, so not a whole lot to lose with a fresh start, aside form rebuilding your subs

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    The amount of visible cameras in my last Air BnB made me lose all expectations of privacy. I saw the blinky red lights outside. I noticed a dim red glow form the infrared light of a camera inside. Done. I'm back in hotels for many of the reasons seen in this thread. Fuck it. Same price anyway

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  • [–] 16 points 3 days ago

    You're thinking too reasonably. This isn't about guests leaving a shit show and expecting it to be cleaned for free.It's about hosts expecting you to do all the prep for the next guests. You got asked to vacuum. I got asked to start laundry you can see an excerpt here of the article where an owner had the guests do all the dishes and bring the trash to an RV park. These kinds of chores will absolutely affect you if you were to come across one of these properties. These are slumlords making a business out being hands off from their investment properties, not empty nesters sparing a room and asking you to be respectful.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Yes, that's how science starts.

    The first LED was a little glow of light from a spec of rock. They turned that into dim red and green indicator lamps a couple decades later. Decades later yet, someone figured out how to make a blue LED c. 1999 and, subsequently, how to then add a Uv-reactive yellow coating to give two opposite colors in significant luminance, creating the white LED seen absolutely everywhere now. The people who got lime green LEDs to work as power-on indicators didn't know how or when we were going to use LEDs as headlights

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    I'm not convinced they'll crash and burn. Fortnite still prints money. Limited-time skins and the continued existence of children still works. Plus, fortnite has hundreds of "games" within it at this point just from Epic, plus all kinds of user-created modes. It's pubg, it's roblox, it's Lego, it's hot wheels. Honestly more shocked that it sounds like this Disney venture is making separate titles and not just more fortnite modes.

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    It's certainly a topic of interest to me, but I'd like to avoid the "spaceship pyramid" levels of conspiracy and the meatless text-to-speech summaries that will inevitably appear in my suggested feed(s). I thought I'd find it by now, given my feed has plenty of planes. I know it's a distraction, but I may as well be entertained while I continue waiting for the yanks to release the real files we're asking for.

     

    I'm afraid AI has surpassed me, as I still can't draw hands. Seriously though, I miss doodling all through school. I don't know where that free creativity has gone, but I'm working to bring it back. Some early jobs left me in a dark rut, but I've settled into a decent job, a career even, and feel a certain mental calm and freedom trickling in.

    I was aiming for something resembling a pose often struck by St Michael in depictions of him defeating demons. I don't have a goal for the actual identity of the figure, nor what they're doing. Ultimately, I want it to be triumphing over something. The end goal is to explore ideas for a tattoo. It already worked beautifully once, where I took a crude drawing to an artist with a style I liked, then watched them bring it to life with more talent and their own flair. I picked the elements, laid the composure, and outsourced the details to an amazing artist. What better meaning to a tattoo than "I basically made this"? With any luck, lightning will strike twice... Or more.

    crude marker drawing/outline of a humanoid figure standing in a mild lunge, holding a spear
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