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  • There are lots of reasons to have binocular frontal vision. Redundancy, differing info for optic flow, sensitivity, reducing the frontal blind spot, compensating for retinal blind spots, higher frontal resulution, seeing around things, depth perception...

    Most of there are good for predators, but predation isn't the only reason to have them.

  • Aye-Ayes and Tarsiers have very forward facing eyes, yet eat mostly gruvs in trees.

  • Just let latin die already.

  • I'm still surprised that Saskatchewan of all places is the one to keep a crown corp.

  • Randall does have a lot of geology humor specifically. I wouldn't be surprised if he knows a few geologist.

  • I can see a little grain of truth in finding depressions and soft ground as the dowser shifts their body to stand level, which may indicate geological features associated with ground water.

    Humans also have a really good sense of smell for petrichor, which might also be related to ground water, with dowsing just being useful to focus on suble things like smell.

    Anyone who thinks dowsing can detect water directly is clueless or lying though, and dowsing has absolutely been used as a grift before.

  • The low spec target seems pretty important.

  • Partial fertility and magic influence. Orcs and elves aren't interfertile. Genasi aren't half-elementals, they're humans with elemental influence. Perhaps the inherent faeness of elves prevents elf-genasi.

    Or take a lineage and do whatever.

  • Goblin sharks exist!

    /j

  • There's a project that persists non-flatpack software, though it might screw up if it changes something that Valve updates: https://github.com/Chloe-ko/SteamDeckPersistentRootFs

    A more reliable method would be installing them in distrobox. It's kinda like a VM, but it uses the same kernel so it's not much slower.

  • Server-side anti-cheat is the best solution, and doesn't require any malware on the user's machine. It's harder though, and might need beefier servers, so...

  • Steam Deck is held back by the perception of mobile gaming. Many don't know how powerful it is, so it competes with the Switch more than PS5.

  • More importantly, Mr. Forester tried to use dedicated bike paths like a freeway, trying to maintain 30mph and only dodging obstacles. Because he almost had a few collisions, and he claims he only almost had a collision once in many years of road cycling, he calls bike paths 1000 times more dangerous.

    There's quite a few other instances of lying with statistics, and using studies to disagree with those same study's conclusions thinking himself smarter, but I think the one time he tried to collect his own data was the worst.

  • When I first got into linux, I was having trouble with sound issues, and my track pad had pointer acceleration and was always the wrong speed.

    Wayland apparently had a fix for the trackpad settings not taking, so I switched to logging in with Wayland before it was the distro default, and almost all of my problems disappeared instantly. The only real issue I had then was screen sharing, which is fixed now.

    X11 has only given me problems. I'm sure it was great at one point, but it certainly did not back me up.

  • Because DnD fists do 1 + STR damage, no dice at all.

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  • Does Vibrant Visuals not use Ray Tracing, or do you mean the RTX mode specifically? If you need specifically the windows 10 version, you could try WinApps or WinBoat, but I'd be surprised if you don't take a significant performance hit. If graphics in a voxel game are what's holding you back, I guess the meme is relevant.

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  • You can play the android version in desktop mode with the Unofficial *nix Launcher.

  • A lot of people are afraid of non-standard letters.

  • Oh, this one's homogenised!

  • I don't see how adding parking spaces would do either of those.