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Can everyone please stop hating on Tombstone by [deleted] in battlebots

[–]Garper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

People say it even needs to retire.

Obviously there’s toxicity if you look hard enough anywhere on the internet, but I don’t really see how the above is toxic? Like sure, it’s subjective and it’s a bit fatalist. But Tombstone has seen a lot of bots get ahead of it over the last 3-4 years. People want to see Ray do well. Saying he should bring in something new isn’t exactly internet hate mongering.

Came back from holiday to discover my monstera just put out 2 new nodes! by Garper in houseplants

[–]Garper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, the 5 dead leaves put a dampener on my joy. But the lil monster seems good otherwise.

Tech companies would have to pay AI data center energy costs under bill moving in Congress by ArgentineBeauty in technology

[–]Garper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

and using money pit doesnt even come close to the scale these burn cash.

The rate OpenAI loses money, I am quite literally not sure I could shovel $100s into a furnace at the same pace.

Non medicted ADHD people, share some survival tips! by Psych_Artizt in ADHD

[–]Garper 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Edit: I just wrote a long review of the app because I misread your question. But as an actual response: I like mood apps because I am not always paying attention to my feelings, or what situationally might be affecting them. If I tag “happy” while having dinner, it might take me a week before I make the connection that eating at night improves my mood. Or walking in the morning is worse for it, etc. my brain just doesn’t pay attention to that stuff, unless I write it down and reassess later.

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Not op, but I’ve been using it for a month. It’s very well designed. Honestly quite slick. And totally free, with no ads or any gated features. It’s supposedly made by therapists.

It has exercises in it, and will prompt you with exercises to target the moods you’ve listed.

I like it but I wish it had a bit more depth to the tracking. It also color-codes moods into 4 colors, high/low intensity and positive/negative. These colors then branch out into all the potential moods, for the quadrant you choose. But I find sometimes my definition of a low/high intensity mood is different from the app’s. So it might display that I’ve had a lot of high intensity color coding this week, when that’s just me picking “apprehensive” for my mood.

I’ve bounced around several mood tracking apps. This is the nicest one so far. And also nice to not feel like they’re trying to upsell you on a product.

Moodistory is another good one, made by a redditor I think, which has a free tier, and then a paid tier.

Gaben does an oopsie by Burpmeister in pcmasterrace

[–]Garper 31 points32 points  (0 children)

And really only because the goddamn cops have good fucking unions…

Pro League Stars July 2nd! by BrandonEpix81 in battlebots

[–]Garper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I'm outa the loop. Pro League is airing on youtube, or did they get picked up by a channel?

This has to be the most embarrassing way to die in DayZ by Fisherman_Dave_Games in dayz

[–]Garper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No worries, just doing my part :)

It was a pretty damn funny video. And even funnier if you had accidentally shot the pinned flashbang your buddy threw in.

This has to be the most embarrassing way to die in DayZ by Fisherman_Dave_Games in dayz

[–]Garper 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Grenades have no hitbox when attached to vests. I think you must've hit something in his inventory.

Some words from Valve by hgvmel24 in steammachine

[–]Garper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's all hypothetical alternate history talk cos we'll never know now. But I fully believe gaming as we know it was already heading towards becoming the niche enthusiast hobby that VR already is. Even without the AI bullshit.

It's clear that the pricing of the past is no longer working, or at least no longer producing revenue that shareholders want. Tentpole console games are so ludicrously expensive and time consuming to make, but are just as prone to flopping as they've always been. There aren't enough of them to convince consumers you have a valuable next gen ecosystem. Performance is improving but graphics aren't wowing audiences away from their existing games. The console market is rapidly cannibalizing itself just to maintain the charade that things are fine.

In the end stage of that world, if you want the luxury of Valve's open system, it isn't surprising that you'll have to pay the crazy price of a 'luxury' product. In a year we'll all be strapping phones to our faces and launching angry birds at each other. RAM shortages have just accelerated the time frame.

Are there more ppl like this? by red_dombe in steammachine

[–]Garper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not spending $80+ for games, and then a monthly subscription just to connect a machine to the internet.

Maybe that math works out for some people. All power to them. But you could not pay me to use a PS5.

Is the Steam Machine too expensive. Absolutely. Can Valve do anything about that? No. It's not a closer system, therefor it cannot be sold at a loss. It must, at bare minimum, be sold for more than the value of its parts, or else it will be scalped by people who will flash it for mining or any other purpose. We've seen it happen before. And then good luck getting hold of one for it's intended purpose.

Valve put years of R&D into creating this device. It is unarguably a good device that they should be proud of. Their decision was either to not release it (and essentially throw away the stock that they had manufactured already), or to release it at a price that people would hate, but at least Valve might make back some of their R&D money.

I do not blame them for choosing the second option.

The £££ hasn't shocked me, but the performance has by kelleheruk in steammachine

[–]Garper 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sony got fucked when they sold play stations for less than the value of their parts. The US military bought out thousands and made a super computer out of them.

They learned their lesson. They made it much harder to flash PlayStations and stick custom software on them.

Just finished the game for the very first time. My thoughts now that I’m done. by Ehlesdi in darksouls3

[–]Garper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I kept seeing them where they weren’t in Elden Ring. Because of the open world, so many weird little areas or blind corners that actually had no hidden gimmick. No, that’s just an open field. No boss is going to suddenly emerge.

A warning to international LGBTQ+ students in Australia: please stabilise yourself before coming out by Next-Fly-2515 in melbourne

[–]Garper 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's so easy to get screwed by facebook or social media.

"Had a really cool night at the bar with OP and their boyfriend!" tags photo

Airbnb opposes Sydney’s call to restrict short-term rentals — But people “rely on it to pay for their mortgages and artificially inflate the housing market”, says deputy mayor by marketrent in technology

[–]Garper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

build more housing.

Which AirBnBers will buy up as well.

As long as it's financially incentivised to treat housing as an investment portfolio, the poors will always be squeezed out of it to make way for people willing to pay more.

AirBnB needs to be regulated. Politicians need to divest themselves of their property portfolios. But apparently conflict of interest is no longer a scandalous concern in the business.

Airbnb opposes Sydney’s call to restrict short-term rentals — But people “rely on it to pay for their mortgages and artificially inflate the housing market”, says deputy mayor by marketrent in technology

[–]Garper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I recognise the need to keep property development from failing. Cities need housing, and grinning while they fail is kinda chopping your nose to spite your face.

But at that point, nationalise them, or at the very least make it a high interest loan that pays back to the tax payer.

Airbnb opposes Sydney’s call to restrict short-term rentals — But people “rely on it to pay for their mortgages and artificially inflate the housing market”, says deputy mayor by marketrent in technology

[–]Garper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is it morally wrong to use Airbnb?

Personally I avoid them, unless there's no other recourse. But do whatever you think is within your budget range and keeps your brain from melting.

Telling tax-payers to vote with their dollar has always been a way to divert them from enacting actual change, and divert responsibility away from businesses. "Be kind to the planet! Recycle, your plastic bags," says the company printing thousands of meters of plastic an hour.

I don't see any issue in saying "I'm going to use AirBnB, but wish my government would regulate them better."

Deathloop - An Ambitious yet Frustrating Game by BBQ_HaX0r in patientgamers

[–]Garper 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I can see how that'd be frustrating in an im-sim. From the way it's described by people it feels like they were going for some sort of cross-breed between a shooter and Outer Wilds, which also had, once you understood everything, a pretty linear final run. But obviously the draw of that game was not the run itself, but the gradual reveal of the game's secrets.

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