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Arts & Entertainment » Game Recommendations » 4/16/2024 5:08 pm

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To be honest, if they didn't make a new engine for Starfield, I'd be surprised if they did for TES6.  Starfield was a clean slate, and needed all-new assets, designs, lore, and functionality, so it would have been the natural place for a new engine.

Arts & Entertainment » Game Recommendations » 4/15/2024 7:02 pm

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Just in time for the (excellent) show.
I'd say finish Fallout 3, New Vegas, and 4 before watching the show, but I also wouldn't suggest waiting 15 years.  Maybe something in the middle.
 

Arts & Entertainment » Game Recommendations » 4/13/2024 11:31 am

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glatt wrote:

I'm enjoying the NYT Connections game.

Today's had a fun misdirect.
 

Creative Expression » Puzzles » 4/01/2024 10:32 am

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Today's squardle was a doozy.

I won Daily Squardle #788 with 2 guesses to spare!
Word found after 8 guesses:
🟩🟨🟩🟩🟥
🟥🔳🟨🔳🟥
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟥🔳🟥🔳🟩
🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩
https://fubargames.se/squardle/
 

Health » The Covid » 3/29/2024 12:35 pm

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Neither.  She was making fun of people trying to get antivax anecdotes.

Creative Expression » Puzzles » 3/27/2024 9:16 am

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Wordle 1,012 6/6

⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Lawn mower?
 

Arts & Entertainment » Game Recommendations » 3/24/2024 12:27 pm

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Very cool.  Fun to play flOw again.

Arts & Entertainment » Game Recommendations » 3/19/2024 10:25 pm

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I have not played Dave the Diver, but I can recommend Subnautica for undersea adventure.
Dave the Diver looks interesting, and it seems to have just won a Steam award.

If you like "Connections", I can recommend the BBC game show "Only Connect"; Connections is pretty much exactly one of the rounds from that show.  It's available on YouTube.

Connections
Puzzle #282
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟪🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Arts & Entertainment » Game Recommendations » 3/18/2024 3:42 pm

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Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley

Only took me ~6 hours as a completionist. Costs $20.  So not the best in terms of $/hr.
Extremely charming point&click adventure game.  Lots of nostalgia for me, as I really liked the Moomin books as a kid.  YMMV, but I think it's probably charming enough even if you aren't familiar with them.

Balatro

Probably can sustain many many hours of play.  Costs $15.  Excellent $/hr.
Weird poker-based deck building solitaire game.  You try to score the best hands you can, but as you play you change both the cards in your deck, and the rules of the game.  You can add various effects to various cards, add jokers that have a wide variety of effects, add and remove cards to your deck, and gain various other effects.  As you play, you unlock more cards, effects, jokers, and decks.  A full game takes maybe 30-45 minutes, but you can play any number of hands, and save for later, if you just have a few minutes.
 

Philosophy » Attention » 2/26/2024 3:59 pm

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good coloring on the energy one

Arts & Entertainment » Paint Colors in the Parking Lot. » 2/07/2024 9:26 pm

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DC Police cars are all white.I think NYC ones are as well.  LA still has the black & whites, I believe.  The latter two account for a lot of cop cars in media, and the former is my personal experience.  So I still see a lot of white on the cop cars.

Arts & Entertainment » Paint Colors in the Parking Lot. » 2/07/2024 12:14 am

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Police cars are often white, and if not they still usually have large white panels.
 

Politics » Nikki Haley » 2/04/2024 10:43 am

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That's the best hope without regard for the US election.

Technology & The Internet » Keen Links One Might Want To Share » 1/29/2024 4:08 pm

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You can manually select by date (or some other galleries) here.

Arts & Entertainment » Paint Colors in the Parking Lot. » 1/27/2024 1:16 pm

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I really wanted a non-gray car one time I was shopping, and they just didn't have them.  I don't care enough about color to change what type of car I wanted, so I got a gray one, though at least it was gray with a hint of blue.

Technology & The Internet » Tesla Car » 1/07/2024 4:39 am

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I think Elon's going for the same use case as the Hummer - big truck people can see you own.

Technology & The Internet » Tesla Car » 1/05/2024 5:57 pm

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Saw my first in-person Cybertruck while wandering a mall waiting for car maintenance.



In person, it doesn't look quite as odd as it does in media, possibly since it's big enough to not really perceive the whole profile.  Oddly, the weirdest thing to me was the hubcaps, which really make it seem Lego-like.
 

Home Base » Why is it cheating? » 1/02/2024 12:51 pm

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monster wrote:

It's the same principle as teaching class at the pace of the slowest student so no-one gets left behind.

Blackjack is a bit of a unique position; through historical accident it has ended up as the only casino game where the player can have a legitimate advantage over the house.  If there weren't enough "slow students", they literally couldn't afford to offer it, even if they weren't motivated solely by greed.

So their only options are to kick out counters or change the rules of the game, and they apparently don;t think they can get away with the latter.
 

Nothingland » Happy Festivus » 12/26/2023 11:03 pm

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Interior lights are my favorite, though it was my nephew who did it this time.

I'm generally stationary when using those glasses, but they only do that for light sources, so most views aren't quite so dazzling.
 

Creative Expression » Tapecraft » 12/26/2023 11:00 pm

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Open dodecahedron - two faces are open, and the remaining ten are "3M ESR (Enhanced Specular Reflector) Film", a film design for extremely efficient reflection.





Rotation view with and without lighting:








And a twisty ornament to take advantage of that reflectivity:



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