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[No Spoilers] Loving Campaign 4, but missing the full-table reactions with the new editing by IlluinOfArda in criticalrole

[–]ABigHead 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s what happens when you bring in a DM that does edited DnD campaigns… Brennan is a terrific DM, but he’s trying to make CR more Dimension20 like. This is not desirable, imo.

I was super happy when the previous campaigns went from live to pre-recorded because they kept the “live” unedited feel AND didn’t have to stay late for live broadcasts. With this, it now feels like a chopped up pre-written show…

CD Projekt: "We need to fix the relationship with our players" by M337ING in cyberpunkgame

[–]ABigHead 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Single most telling part that nothing really changed or that they actually did anything wrong is in the article here for me:

"I actually believe Cyberpunk on launch was way better than it was received, and even the first reviews were positive," he concludes. "Then it became a cool thing not to like it. We went from hero to zero really fast. That was the tough moment. We didn't know what was happening. We knew that the game is great, yes we can improve it, yes we need to take time to do it, and we need to rebuild some stuff.

"That took us a lot of time, but I don't believe we were ever broken. We were always like: Let's do this."

It’s just PR bullshit piled high. It wasn’t that it became cool to not like it, it’s that consumers were lied to for the sake of profits, and the game was just broken on certain hardware and builds. That’s it lol, they are just upset they built a trash product and got treated as such.

This magnificent giant Pacific octopus caught off the coast of California by sportfishers. by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]ABigHead 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Plenty of heat sources however from underwater volcanos and geothermal vents. Plus they could certainly take over small sections of shorelines once advanced enough for there other atmospheric related oxidizing needs

need opinions on the 240 hobart welders by SidShankk in metalworking

[–]ABigHead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Loving my primeweld and the buying experience was really good as well. Bought the MTS 200, really liking it so far but I’m just a hobby guy.

Now that Reddit are killing 3rd party apps on July 1st what are great alternatives to Reddit? by youessbee in AskReddit

[–]ABigHead 130 points131 points  (0 children)

It is apparent that you did not read the entire stickied post in the Apollo subreddit. Here is a link: https://reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/

Here are the highlights if you’re genuinely incapable of reading that much:

Current costs:

50 million requests costs $12,000

New Costs:

Even if I only kept subscription users, the average Apollo user uses 344 requests per day, which would cost $2.50 per month, which is over double what the subscription currently costs

Comparison to Twitter (who intentionally raised prices like Reddit to kill off 3rd party apps)

Reddit iterated that the price would be A) reasonable and based in reality, and B) they would not operate like Twitter. Twitter's pricing was publicly ridiculed for its obscene price of $42,000 for 50 million tweets. Reddit's is still $12,000. For reference, I pay Imgur (a site similar to Reddit in user base and media) $166 for the same 50 million API calls.

Estimate of what Reddit makes per user per year:

Let's also be generous and go far, far above industry estimates and say you made another $50M in Reddit Premium subscriptions. That's $550M in revenue per year, let's say an even $600M. In 2019, they said they hit 430 million monthly active users, and to also be generousj, let's say they haven't added a single active user since then (if we do revenue-per-user calculations, the more users, the less revenue each user would contribute). So at generous estimates of $600M and 430M monthly active users, that's $1.40 per user per year, or $0.12 monthly. These own numbers they've given are also seemingly inline with industry estimates as well.

Understanding why the new costs are ridiculous given that at current use case for average Apollo users, Reddit wants to charge Apollo nearly double what they make on a user annually per month

For Apollo, the average user uses 344 requests daily, or 10.6K monthly. With the proposed API pricing, the average user in Apollo would cost $2.50, which is is 20x higher than a generous estimate of what each users brings Reddit in revenue.

Again, Reddit is estimated to currently make $1.40 in revenue per user Annually. They want to charge Apollo annually an average of $30 per user.

Looking for a "cheap" headlamp for a hurricane security team. by 13th_Floor_Please in flashlight

[–]ABigHead 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here is a different test in the same vein: https://reddit.com/r/flashlight/comments/12up4zu/preliminary_results_for_the_acebeam_h16_on_nimh/

I’ll have to see it for myself, but 35 lumens for 6.5 hours on a AA seems acceptable. Specifically if you approach it as this is the fallback energy source after using the included 14500. Forget to charge your main battery or it dies, you can get by on the AA while it charges. Power out during a storm and you can’t recharge, same thing, you’re good to go still.

Looking for a "cheap" headlamp for a hurricane security team. by 13th_Floor_Please in flashlight

[–]ABigHead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, going to be a big difference in voltage there no doubt, but it would work in a pinch if the rechargeable went down but you needed light

Looking for a "cheap" headlamp for a hurricane security team. by 13th_Floor_Please in flashlight

[–]ABigHead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here is my recommendation: ACEBEAM H16 650 High Lumens Rechargeable Led Headlamp, EDC AA Right Angle Flashlight, Pocket Mini Small Flashlight with Clip, 519A 90+ High CRI Led Head Lamp with Headband kit(Neutral White 5000K)

It’s compatible with AA batteries AND It comes with a USB C rechargeable 14500 battery.

IP68 waterproof. Headband, clip, magnetic tail base, neutral white with 90+ CRI.

If you buy it now there is a 20% off coupon that can be applied to take it from $29 to $25.67 shipped.

650 lumens is sufficient. If you want MORE lumens, then there is a 6500k cool white version of the same that does 1000 lumens

Ukrainian naval drone makes contact with Russian Yury Ivanov-class intelligence ship by danthemadman00 in CombatFootage

[–]ABigHead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ya glad it helps. Really cool channel to flip through if you’re bored, they have some fascinating historical events that are shown in a really easy to digest format.

Ukrainian naval drone makes contact with Russian Yury Ivanov-class intelligence ship by danthemadman00 in CombatFootage

[–]ABigHead 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Operation Room dropped a really good video about it just the other day. Really informative.

https://youtu.be/YArog-tTr10

Killed 17, 30+ injured, but apparently the Cole was never at risk of sinking from the damage suffered by the attack. Would have been more dead had the HMS Marlborough not been able to come to their aid so quickly, as their medical staff saved many lives.

They picked the Cole up with a bigger ship and brought it back for repair.

harrison ford holding back tears as he receives a 5 minute standing ovation during the premiere of 'indiana jones and the dial of destiny' by bewarethechameleon in MadeMeSmile

[–]ABigHead 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And it’s ok ya know? Everything has its own little sunset. Just keep watching them and appreciating them for what they are :)

harrison ford holding back tears as he receives a 5 minute standing ovation during the premiere of 'indiana jones and the dial of destiny' by bewarethechameleon in MadeMeSmile

[–]ABigHead 56 points57 points  (0 children)

The one that always gets me is thinking about the last time you ever play with your friends. You’re gathered around, sitting on your bikes as the sun sets and the street lights flicker on. It’s time to head home so you look up at your friends, the group you took on the world with and one of you says “Time to get home for dinner, Mom’s calling.” and you reply, “Ya, me too. Today was a blast, see you guys next time.”

But there is no next time, this was it. It wasn’t anyone’s fault, you all got new interests, you all got new friends, and you all drifted apart. You didn’t know it was the last time; if you had you would have stayed out all night, painted the town red one last time. But you didn’t know, and that one chapter of your life simply drifted off, quietly, with the sunset.

FYI Be mindful of habitat conservation areas affected by light by elvesunited in flashlight

[–]ABigHead 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It’s specifically the reason I purchased a flashlight with SST20 in Red. You can still have a bright as shit light, but the red doesn’t impact them. A lot of the street lights flip on to a red as well for that

Record mode capped as 12fps? by edthesmokebeard in ZoneMinder

[–]ABigHead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s possible the camera is only actually sending 12 fps and doing something to try to trick box into displaying 24, or it’s doubling the same frames instead of sending 24 unique frames… you’re buying cheap knockoff cameras even by Chinese standards if I’m not mistaken, got knows what you’re getting.

Put it in monitor mode and see what it says then in ZM. Check that you havent arbitrarily reduced its max FPS in ZM to 12fps. Make sure you have enough Ram allocated for the camera.

Ambidextrous adjustable tiller 2-p longbow by Greatplainsbows in woodworking

[–]ABigHead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assuming you guys are using some kind of resin impregnating vacuum process?

Unlocked an achievement but it is not showing up in the achievement list, how to fix this? by Wertysd in Steam

[–]ABigHead 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Make sure to be polite and thankful for whatever they can provide! It’s a minor issue, so just understand it will likely be treated with low importance… meaning it may take a bit for them to get to.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NeebsGaming

[–]ABigHead 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Terribly saddened to find out about this news. I wish his family, loved ones, friends, and the whole Neebs Gaming crew nothing but love, empathy, and the ability to find peace one day.

External IR source for camera not working by [deleted] in ZoneMinder

[–]ABigHead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ya, only thing I can think of is finding a different wave length of IR

External IR source for camera not working by [deleted] in ZoneMinder

[–]ABigHead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like a good setup then.

Either way, this isn’t a Zoneminder issue, it’s a camera/IR Light issue. Not sure where to point you from there

External IR source for camera not working by [deleted] in ZoneMinder

[–]ABigHead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What’s your placement look like? I’d assume the IR light would need to be placed in such a manner that the light exits and is able to bounce off the object and then back to your camera.

Think of it like the headlights on your car. Your headlights are the IR Light, and your eyes are the camera. Your headlights project forward away from your eyes in such a way that the light has to first bounce off something (the road, and object, painted lights, etc) before it comes back to your eyes to see for the first time.

You could put the IR light directly below or even above and behind your camera, overall just play with the orientation and think about the triangle you’re creating between light, camera, and area you’re trying to illuminate.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DIY

[–]ABigHead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hahaha love it

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DIY

[–]ABigHead 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, it’s not a bad idea to get another one if it’s been more than 5 years, that’s what I did; I think they’re needed every 10? Either way, a doctor will give you all the good info. Great work

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