bionicjoey

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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 21 hours ago

If you ever go to a museum and look at what artifacts they have from the dark ages, it's like 99% metal stuff. Just statistical I guess. I think even a gemstone would normally be attached to a piece of jewelry and not just loose on its own. The other big one is pottery and other earthwares, but I guess the idea of that law is to protect whatever they can.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 13 points 21 hours ago

I've done playthroughs as both. I think they both have excellent voice acting. But I think the character of Shepard as Earth's military golden boy/girl works better with the standard military jarhead looking guy. IMO he embodies the generic "John Masseffect" energy better.

It's funny because the games do let you customize the appearance, race, and hairstyle of Shephard, but to me he will always be that default settings buzzcut guy with a fivehead and big jaw.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Wood doesn't survive from the Viking age to the present

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

First it was @fookreddit69@lemm.ee, then it was @Kimdracula@lemm.ee, then it was @BlowMe@lemmy.world, and now @SORROW@lemmy.world

He's a toxic, attention seeking incel. Each of his accounts' creation lines up exactly with the previous one getting banned for too much toxic posting.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

OP's on his 4th account! This one was created less than an hour after the last one got banned.

For those curious, first it was @fookreddit69@lemm.ee, then it was @Kimdracula@lemm.ee, then it was @BlowMe@lemmy.world, and now this.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

CanadaPolitics, right? That rule never made sense to me.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

That happened to me. Bought $5 worth back in like 2010ish. Lost the keys when I upgraded to a new PC.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 days ago

It depends on the time period. Pre-Sozin, probably Fire Nation, since they hadn't slid into fascism yet and were living basically in a golden age of prosperity.

Post-Sozin until the end of the war, it depends on my ethnicity. If I'm ethnically Firish, probably the Fire Nation colony cities in the EK. They benefited economically from the FN imperialism but didn't really have to live with the police state fascism of the mainland FN. If I'm anything other than Firish, I'd want to live in Ba Sing Se or Omashu. For like 99% of the war they didn't have to deal with hardly any of the consequences of the war, other than a refugee crisis from the rest of the EK. Only during the last year of the war did they have to live in Vichy Earth Kingdom.

Postwar, any big city in either the FN or EK.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago

Quebec unions are really powerful. This would be awesome

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Seconding Beelink. I have one of their SER boxes as my solution to smart tv and it works great

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Make the games have extra content for Prime subscribers

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That was the point I think. In a game about spies, you want the pistol to feel OP so the player feels like a spy. It wouldn't feel very James Bond to mow down enemies with the LMG.

Also I still have nightmares about the boss battle with the Russian cocaine guy

 

I wasn't 100% sure this was a problem, as I had noticed a lot more people commenting what appeared to be static image responses to comments. But there's this thread: https://lemmy.world/post/16932878 which makes it easy to be sure that in fact they are definitely GIFs, and they don't play when you click on them. It just opens the first frame of the GIF like a static image.

 

I thought something was causing people to double post more recently, but after testing voting on some examples, I'm pretty sure posts are getting duplicated by the app.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by bionicjoey@lemmy.ca to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
 

The game seems to downscale and blur all textures, so the only thing that looks sharp is text and 3d models. Unfortunately some of the UI text seems to actually be a rendered texture, so the text of some UI elements can look blurry and pixelated. It also seems that the blurring is a live process, not a preprocess. This means that a lot of the UI elements are constantly flickering on top of being blurry.

Overall I love the game FWIW. I picked it up this week and love the gameplay loop. I'm just amazed it gets the green checkmark despite having such glaring UI issues with the default graphics settings (which are ostensibly tailored to the Deck)

Can anyone tell me if this can be fixed?

Edit: I had half-rate shading turned on and didn't realize it. I'm an idiot.

 

I live in Canada. My girlfriend is Chinese (also living in Canada), and while we are able to communicate via SMS, her mobile carrier isn't the best, and so there have often been issues for us with regular texting. She expressed a strong preference to use WeChat, at least as a backup option for when texting fails us. While I have some pretty significant reservations, it's not the hill I want to die on. So my question is: what can be done to use WeChat without compromising my whole phone? I'm okay with it if our conversations aren't private, but I'd like to know that I'm not giving unfettered access to all of my phone's systems and data to the CCP. What can be done to limit the reach of this ubiquitous app on my device?

 

I live in Canada. My girlfriend is Chinese (also living in Canada), and while we are able to communicate via SMS, her mobile carrier isn't the best, and so there have often been issues for us with regular texting. She expressed a strong preference to use WeChat, at least as a backup option for when texting fails us. While I have some pretty significant reservations, it's not the hill I want to die on. So my question is: what can be done to use WeChat without compromising my whole phone? I'm okay with it if our conversations aren't private, but I'd like to know that I'm not giving unfettered access to all of my phone's systems and data to the CCP. What can be done to limit the reach of this ubiquitous app on my device?

 

Hi there, I'm not a member of this community (only a very sporadic user myself) but figured it would be a good place to ask this question.

The TLDR version is: My lady friend OD'd on edibles and is still a bit sick a day and a half later, is there any good remedy to help her get back on her feet?

Longer version below:

The girl I'm seeing recently had a downright awful experience with weed. She hasn't ever used before (she tried smoking once but didn't inhale properly so no high), and I expect she probably won't try it again any time soon.

On Friday night she was hanging out with some friends and decided to try an edible since her friends were having some. Her weed literacy isn't great, and she didn't know that edibles hit different, nor that they take a while to kick in. She was also on an empty stomach since we had a dinner date in a couple hours and she often skips lunch at work, and on top of all that she's on the smaller side, so less bodyweight.

She only had a third of what her friends took, but ended up being super unwell. I'm talking throwing up multiple times, bad vibes (crying, saying she didn't want to go to sleep because she would die in her sleep), and acting irrational (kept trying to leave her friend's house because she didn't want to be late for our date).

Her friends texted me from her phone as it was happening because she was insistent on leaving and they wanted to let me know it wasn't happening. I told them about the thing with black peppercorns and apparently that (plus telling her not to worry about standing me up) helped enough that they were able to get her to fall asleep.

She ended up sleeping and being nauseous for basically the entire day yesterday and I only heard back from her this morning.

Anyway, that's all just the loredump. My actual question is, is there anything that can be done to help someone feel better when they are recovering from OD'ing on edibles? She's still not feeling 100%, probably from throwing up and panicking so much. I know for someone who is badly hungover from alcohol there are all sorts of folk remedies that at least work as a placebo if not as an actual cure. Just wondering if there's some equivalent for weed. I want to do something nice for her since I think she must feel awful about missing our date.

 

Back in my days on Reddit, my favourite feature was the ability to hide individual posts if I had downvoted them. It made it easy to hide things which I didn't want to see or felt shouldn't be seen

 

Seriously this was very surprising. I've been experimenting with GrayJay since it was announced and I largely think it's a pretty sweet app. I know there are concerns over how it isn't "true open source" but it's a hell of a lot more open than ReVanced. Plus, I like the general design and philosophy of the app.

I updated the YouTube backend recently and to my surprise and delight they had added support for SponsorBlock. However, when I went to enable it, it warned me "turning this on harms creators" and made me click a box before I could continue.

Bruh, you're literally an ad-blocking YouTube frontend. What kind of mental gymnastics does it take to be facilitating ad-blocking and then at the same time shame the end-user for using an extension which simply automates seeking ahead in videos. Are you seriously gonna tell me that even without Sponsorblock, if I skip ahead past the sponsored ad read in a video, that I'm "harming the creator"?

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