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Zarxrax

@ Zarxrax @lemmy.world

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  • Built to last

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  • I don't know what it is, but those cleaning tablets will cause my machine to suds up so much that bubbles/water start pouring out of the exhaust and all over my floor. One of the first times it happened, all of the bubbles were screwing up a sensor and I couldn't get the machine to work for a week. I thought it was broken, and was just about to buy a new one when I got the idea to try sucking everything dry with a shop vac.

  • As Data Centers Proliferate, Illinois Communities Grapple with How to Supply the Necessary Water. "This isn’t reused wastewater. This is drinking water”

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  • How about water usage rates that penalize bulk consumers instead of giving them cheaper rates?

  • What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo?

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  • TMNT Turtles in Time on SNES. Its a fun game and kids can button mash, and turtles are still relevant today. Puzzle games like tetris can be good for using the brain. There were a ton of puzzle games in the snes era, like bust a move (puzzle bobble), yoshi's cookie, puyo puyo (kirby's avalanche), and many more.

    I would mostly avoid NES because it looks really dated, aside from a handful of the real classics like Super Mario Bros 1 & 3.

  • Power Network Tycoon (in late early access), a power distribution company management game, releases a major update focused on the late game experience.

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  • I've had my eye on this for a bit, as the concept of it catches my interest. I got a little confused when I tried the demo though, so I've held off on it. I might give it a serious try if it ever comes out of early access.

  • DYKG: Virtual Boy: NOT Nintendo's Biggest Failure

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  • It's crazy how fast this thing crashed and burned. And it's just got me thinking, it's kind of nuts how nearly EVERYTHING around this time was failing. You had Sega of America pushing the 32X, there were these new consoles like the 3DO and the Atari Jaguar, and then even the Sega Saturn couldn't catch a break in America. Nintendo's virtual boy was a flop and the N64 kept getting delayed further and further. The fact that the Sony PlayStation seemed to catch on during this time actually seems like an anomaly when you look at everything else around it.

  • What is your opinion on ray/path tracing and real time upscaling (DLSS/FSR/XeSS) in video games?

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  • I like upscaling when it's done well (some older iterations of dlss and fsr were not great compared to the current versions). If I have to lower my resolution to get a good frame rate then the image will already look blurry. Using upscaling to hit my monitors native resolution will generally look better. I could care less about raytracing because I don't have a GPU strong enough to handle it.

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  • The Internet of the 90s was such a simpler place. Better in many ways, worse in some. For instance, the Internet wasn't so commercialized back then. Instead of a bunch of services, it was a bunch of nerds sharing information and having conversations. If you liked a tv show, you would search for websites about that show. Anyone could make their own website, so you would find tons of fan sites dedicated to each thing. Search engines didn't provide you with information or answer questions, they just helped you sort through all the different websites, then you could look on those sites to find whatever information you were looking for. There was almost no video, it was all text and (small) images.

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    Browser Alternatives to Chrome

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  • I've been using Vivaldi as my primary browser for years. My favorite feature of Vivaldi is its powerful sidebar. It's a great browser, but because it's based on chrome, ublock origin will eventually stop working on it. When that time comes, I'll be switching to a Firefox based browser. I've been keeping my eye on floorp, but it's not quite where I would like it to be yet.

  • A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?

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  • Exactly this. Yoshi's Story was a follow up to Yoshi's Island, often considered one of the greatest 2d platformers of all time. I spent weeks if not months completing Yoshi's Island. Then when Yoshi's Story came out, I rented it and completed it over the weekend.

  • First/notable 3D games where you could dive below water (and walk on land)

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  • I think tomb raider let you swim underwater.

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    What is an example of the JC Penny's effect ?

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  • Is there any actual proof of that? Because I see plenty of restaurants advertise 1/3 lb burgers these days.

  • Classic Gaming: Retro Gaming Growing Up

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  • I'm a little younger, I grew up playing the NES. I had so much fun and some of my best memories are from playing those games with friends and stuff. But I find it really hard to revisit most of those games based on their own merit.

    There is definitely a thing about playing games together with another person that can be magical. And that isn't gone. You can still do that today with modern games. So in that regard, I don't think there is anything particularly special about 80s games. Heck, it wasn't until the N64 that it was common for more than 2 people to be able to play together. A bunch of guys hanging out and all playing a game together was great.

    I think losing that is just a factor of growing up. You move on from your friends, maybe you don't make any new ones, you start mainly playing against faceless strangers online... It's not a problem with the games, it's a problem with the players.

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  • Absolutely. I still don't have a pet because I don't necessarily want the responsibility, but i generally love them.

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  • Absolutely nothing about children has ever been appealing to me.

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    Why do people like Mario Kart?

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  • It's fun because you never know what will happen. It's not totally random, the more skilled players will tend to win more often than not, just not every time. Also there are other game modes than just racing. Back when me and my friends played on SNES and N64, it was almost always battle mode.

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    When and why did the US switch to these voting machines that are the subject of ongoing lawsuits and reports of unlawful "updates"?

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  • I guess it varies by jurisdiction. In my state we fill out paper ballots, then you just insert the ballot into a machine which records your votes and prints you a receipt.

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  • I could care less if it beats someone on data that already happened. Let me know how it does going forward. My guess is that it won't beat an s&p500 index fund.

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  • It would be nice to know what brands or models are most vulnerable.

  • A genie grants you a wish at random: you're guaranteed to win your next argument. Who do you argue with?

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  • I think you would have to argue with quite a few people to even get access to trump.