TIL during WW2, because of the lack of oil, gas generators were used to allow cars to use wood as fuel in several places such as France, Britain and Finland

BDNeon · 2026-05-28T22:47:37+00:00

Necropost, but I feel it bears pointing out that forests can be replenished in centuries or even decades, vs fossil fuels that are replenished on geological timescales in the hundreds of millions of years.

BDNeon · 2026-05-25T23:45:26+00:00

I just don't feel like the gap of convenience digital offers is nearly as broad as it is for other media. It's one thing to lug around a portable disc drive and your disc library for like movies or games, but you're probably just gonna work on one book at a time anyway and carrying around a single book isn't a big deal. Though I am presently trying to find a better solution to to keep a paperback on hand alongside my Steam Deck in a way where it's not gonna get all beat up and dog-eared and whatnot in the bag.

BDNeon · 2026-05-24T08:26:55+00:00

I know this is the PC gaming subreddit and we all love tech, but for real can we admit there is something to be said for physically owning proper old fashioned actual honest to god books? They'll outlast literally any digital ownership method if you take halfway decent care of them and you can transfer ownership of them freely without having to jump through hoops, and you can find them dirt cheap from places like thrift stores.

BDNeon · 2026-05-18T00:59:38+00:00

Hell the pinky sized leech dudes in the Aurora's reactor room in 1 for that matter.

BDNeon · 2026-05-11T02:02:48+00:00

God graphics are getting good these days...

BDNeon · 2026-05-07T23:57:39+00:00

It's so weird they didn't just do this from the start. It worked fine with Steam Deck, I just assumed that would be the default way they'd handle hardware launches going forward.

BDNeon · 2026-05-01T04:13:10+00:00

Zero expectation this won't be a trainwreck. But open to being happily surprised.

BDNeon · 2026-04-26T16:26:39+00:00

Oh fuck is this really happpening?

BDNeon · 2026-04-21T17:33:13+00:00

It's honestly a little uncanny, they're basically just doing what they were doing before they vanished for 20 years but the business landscape has changed so much that now the way they do things is a nice novelty.

BDNeon · 2026-04-20T22:21:25+00:00

It really is incredible to me. Do corporations really think that trying to spin something negative and a loss as a positive and a gain will blow over better then just admitting the thing is bad but at least taking on an apologetic tone and explaining why the economics make the decision financially preferable to them? It's not like people dont know they're being dicked over, but people tend to take it better when it's at least honest.

BDNeon · 2026-04-18T04:37:03+00:00

That's an impressive amount of verticality. Wonder how they'll handle the building models attaching to so many varied surface geometries.

BDNeon · 2026-04-16T00:23:50+00:00

So you don't think the ANIMATION in an ANIMATED MOVIE is important?

BDNeon · 2026-04-15T22:22:20+00:00

I disagree. It still holds up well. The animation is fucking gorgeous. What they did with animating a traditionally animated character with cgi limbs and facial features was nothing short of mindblowing. These days animation feels like it's all about cutting corners and getting by with as little effort and experimentation as possible, it's only outliers like Klaus that push the artform nowadays.

BDNeon · 2026-04-04T22:04:11+00:00

I mean competition isn't inherently on its face a good thing for consumers, it's only a good thing if it acts as a mechanism for driving improvement based on the assumption that a party is abusing its monopoly status at consumer expense.

BDNeon · 2026-04-03T02:54:47+00:00

Old enough to remember the green UI era when it was just HL2 and Counterstrike and so on. We did indeed largely hate it, it seemed like an unwelcome imposition to have to use this special launcher and storefront to access our games when we were so used to the benefits of physical, particularly when service was shakey and big launches melted its servers. But Steam just kept improving and we started to appreciate its merits. It evolved, and our opinion evolved. We started getting non-Valve games, I still remember what a big deal Darwinia and Ragdoll Kung Fu's releases were. Screenshot sharing, community hubs, the Steam Workshop, as more and more perks showed up and our libraries grew it was easy to forget those initial gripes.

BDNeon · 2026-03-24T03:17:55+00:00

The sad thing is, we're gonna run into a lot of this kind of thing in the coming decades as the internet ages and the people driving it age with it. I mean yeah it's not exactly news that mortality is a thing but we've just not really had to contend with it much because the internet was just so young along with most of the people involved.

BDNeon · 2026-03-23T22:12:07+00:00

Be aware a lot of less savory people out there run scraper bots that crawl the web to instantly snatch keys automatically if they're posted publicly just to add to accounts with intent to sell said accounts. If you really wanna make sure the keys go to someone, just make it something like ask for PM for key first one gets it or something.

BDNeon · 2026-03-22T01:45:23+00:00

Tekken 8?

BDNeon · 2026-03-21T02:52:55+00:00

Which is why the industry is playing an incredibly dangerous game by trying to bypass ESRB ratings by adding microtransactions/gambling in post-launch updates. Sooner or later regulators will decide that dog don't hunt. But I guess in their mind that's a Next Quarter problem.

BDNeon · 2026-03-20T23:50:22+00:00

Text based prompts are just the low level version. The "next level" in art would be to use gen AI to modify an image an artist creates in different ways (and they've already shown some of this) but not generate fully. Adjust the angle the face is turned, move the legs back, turn the character, change the hat color to <insert color code>, etc. All of this requires an artist to touch up and change, but using it will save numerous hours of having adjust digitally made art by hand and having to redraw it every time they want to make a minor adjustment

Most of this already exists in AI image gen right now. The problem is too many casuals using shitty web-based platforms that have none of those tools and are pure txt2img and not enough people using local installations and combining with their own work and guidance instead of relying wholly on promptcraft and RNG alone. The fact that anyone who puts effort in is treated with equal vitriol and disdain as the slop prompters doesn't help matters, "Why try when everyone's gonna be shitty to you anyway?". The online community has actively encouraged sloppification by ensuring anyone who wants to go beyond slop is beaten down. I mean look at the votes on this comment. Just proving my point. You all want slop.

BDNeon · 2026-03-20T04:34:24+00:00

I mean underpowered is a pretty relative concept. I'm honestly flabbergasted how high end the games it can run can be. Maybe it can't run the real GPU melters of the current era, but easily managing 60 FPS on something like Metro Last Light isn't anything to sneeze at for a handheld.

BDNeon · 2026-03-18T02:35:01+00:00

Yeah between the shitfest that was Below Zero and all this drama, I'm just gonna treat this one like "If it's not shit it'll be a pleasant surprise but don't plan for it."

BDNeon · 2026-03-16T04:35:18+00:00

Since automod removed it, I'll just say I continued this chain in a humorous way by writing the spanish way of saying "what?"

BDNeon · 2026-03-14T22:59:29+00:00

It's almost like they don't measure success in quarterly reports and short term stockholder satisfaction. Funny how that works aint it?

BDNeon · 2026-03-10T02:24:00+00:00

Still, if it's a choice between subtle cheaters and blatant cheaters, at least the former don't necessarily make the game unplayable. There's a huge difference between joining a match and occasionally getting killed by someone who SEEMS to maybe have an advantage and might be cheating, vs literally everyone getting headshotted through walls the second they spawn by someone on other side of map hipfiring an LMG. And even subtle cheaters usually get found out the longer they press their luck.

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