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  • Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic Portal 2 as Steam’s top-rated game

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  • I guess it's just a mindset difference. I'd say me and my friends are all pretty competitive gamers (as opposed to more creative gamers). We tend to play games mostly for the challenge. Also didn't help that we had just finished our Facorio playthrough. So in our mind we still had "the factory must grow". So our minds were like "if space -> use space".

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  • If I'd let my brain do its thing we'd be 3 levels of nesting deep on the regular.

  • Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic Portal 2 as Steam’s top-rated game

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  • While I enjoyed it, it was also very stressful. I think we just played wrong. We covered every millimeter of the plot with farms or other useful stuff and then proceeded to be busy for more than half the day with just maintenance. At some point this meant that we never got to explore and often barely had time to go to the stores or talk to the people in the village.

    Apart from overcooked it was probably the most stressful game Is ever played and it's not supposed to be like that

  • Anyone else that likes to put their phone in airplane mode to decompress/sleep?

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  • Yeah same. Only phone calls get through, the rest is silent. I don't get spam called enough to have a whitelist. If I expect important messages I might check a bit more often. But I rarely miss something important

  • Europeans, how far do you walk for groceries?

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  • 500 meters. If the store were at 3km I'd bike there, not walk. I feel like 500m is still an okay walking distance, but at some point I regularly went to a store 800m away and I already preferred to bike there. Walking 3km is definitely a bit of a time investment

  • YSK that apart from not having a car and voting, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat.

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  • I'm not vegetarian but it baffles my mind how many people are against not eating meat. Some people seem to have made eating meat their whole personality and it's insane to me. I don't always eat meat and actively try to reduce it. Personally I've only met vegetarians who encourage this, even if I'm not willing to fully commit. I'm trying to make meat more of a luxury for myself and I think it'd be nice if most people did so. Better for the climate and better for the animals.

  • movie rule

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  • Maybe that'd just make the content 1.5 times longer and 1.5 times more expensive

  • movie rule

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  • Look, I am the type who watches lectures at 1.25x or 1.5x speed or something. But movies? It'd ruin the pacing. If you can't bring up the attention to watch a movie then maybe you just shouldn't

  • Who is your favourite Anti Hero?

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  • He's absolutely a hero and without him the death star would've probably obliterated the rebellion (if it even existed without him). His methods aren't exactly "good" though from the perspective of good vs evil. As we see with Mon Mothma who is maybe a bit naïve and definitely doesn't approve of his methods. But I think a rebellion needs a Luthen. He knows he'll be hated by pretty much everyone, but in the end he managed to get so much done. He's the fall guy so the formal rebellion doesn't have to get their hands dirty.

  • Do you succumb to the urge to stop the microwave a few seconds before it actually stops ?

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  • Yeah because the thing beeps as if the house is on fire. I'd rather have it stay silent. And 1-3 seconds is not really enough to have any measurable effect.

  • What technology will disappear in the next 10 years?

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  • No surprise to me. Everything I've heard from smart TVs has made me decide that I don't want one. Expensive telemetry machines. My current TV is basically just a dumb screen and I wouldn't want it any other way.

  • What technology will disappear in the next 10 years?

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  • If it were up to me that'd be fine indeed. But they probably want to retain compatibility with existing setups and unfortunately they will also want some DRM, which Blu-ray provides. A new flash storage (or even just download/file-based) standard should totally be possible, but that'd first require some investment.

    Also, there's some joy in having the plastic spinny thing and putting it into a machine to watch the content. Not having all the content ready at your fingertips and instead putting some throught and effort into getting to the content is what makes stuff like vinyl popular again.

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  • We should absolutely avoid it. Subscription services are wreaking havoc in many other parts of the media landscape. The deal is good now because they're subsidizing the hell out of it, but just like what happened with streaming services the deal will get shittier and shittier until we're stuck with a horrible deal.

  • What technology will disappear in the next 10 years?

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  • I mean, you're still able to buy the Star Wars shows on Blu-ray, so physical disks for video content might remain just like people but vinyls as a collectors item. DVDs will be for old content only, but there are still so many that they may nevertheless become popular again.

  • What technology will disappear in the next 10 years?

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  • Because unlike with Disney+ I'd pay like one euro and I'm able to watch the content forever. But you're right, it isn't HD. Blu-ray is tho, with the same benefits

  • What technology will disappear in the next 10 years?

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  • If anything I think DVDs and Blu-rays are going to rise. All across the media landscape people seem to be getting annoyed with the "own nothing" society we're in. The thrift stores are full of thousands of DVDs for barely any cost. Last week I bought the Matrix 2 and 3 and Der Untergang in DVD for like 3 bucks. Way easier than figuring out in which streaming service to watch them and what OS and browser will let it play at HD resolution. Once "the youth" picks up on this like they did with CDs and digicams the DVD will be back.

    Recently In bought a Blu-ray of Star Wars Andor because I love the series and want to support it, but Disney+ wouldn't play beyond 480p on my setup. My trusty old PS3 plays it like a dream and the resulting image is ridiculously sharp compared to streaming.

    CDs, cassettes, and vinyl are already booming or in the rise again. And the streaming audio landscape is arguably way nicer than the streaming video lanschape. In photography there's also a wave of film and early digital camera hype.

    I hope that the next 10 years brings the resurgence of the physical medium and ownership. And if not that, the resurgence of the high seas.

  • Who is your favourite Anti Hero?

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  • After watching Andor, I guess Luthem Rael fits that title. Dude's absolutely savage. Forced to use the tools of his enemy to fight for freedom that he'll likely never experience. He sacrifices good people on order to protect the whole

  • Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?

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  • That entirely depends on the circumstances. One cannot make a blanket statement. Let's say that a horrible disease breaks out in a city and the government successfullymanages to quarantine the city before anyone gets out. The people inside suffer and most die without medical help or medicine, but the disease doesn't spread and humanity is saved.

    However there are plenty of cases where we should stand up for the rights of a few people even if it costs the majority of people. Making things accessible for people with disabilities costs money that technically could be spent elsewhere, but an empathic society should stand above this kind of thinking and make sure that society is accessible to people with disabilities.

  • What's a really popular game franchise you just can't get into?

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  • Same, didn't enjoy playing someone I didn't like in a world I wasn't interested in. Good game, not my preferred setting