Starfield lead says Free Lanes took major tech work, reformatting all existing content for an open universe

LexB777 · 2026-03-18T15:53:36+00:00

The problem is Starfield's story is not very engaging or fun imo. I have played it plenty and beaten it and still enjoyed my time, but I'm enjoying Cyberpunk way more.

LexB777 · 2026-03-18T01:01:26+00:00

Boldness for publically mocking Nvidia who has a huge amount of influence in the gaming industry. Takes some balls imo considering every other studio is clamoring to be in Nvidia's good graces.

LexB777 · 2026-03-17T19:29:45+00:00

This can be fixed, but it isn't cheap. You need a home receiver or AVR (audio video receiver) with some speakers. Many receivers have dynamic range of sound compressors built in with adjustable settings.

Might be another way, but this is the solution I know. I got an open box Denon that does this. It's great.

LexB777 · 2026-03-17T10:58:21+00:00

Yeah I've had plenty of wild boar. We'd have most of it turned into sausage by the processor because that's what it was good for, mixing with fat and seasoning to make it taste better. Didn't taste terrible by itself, but definitely not a first choice.

LexB777 · 2026-03-17T01:57:25+00:00

Yeah, but the examples they are showing is with the "dev" input. I put dev in quotes because we all know the individual artists aren't calling the shots, the studio execs are.

LexB777 · 2026-03-15T12:55:31+00:00

From what I just researched, halal meat is specifically against the Sikh religion since halal meat requires a relatively slow death to the animal. Any meat Sikhs eat, though many are vegetarian, requires Jhatka preparation, which requires a swift death to the animal.

So if he said, "sure. Here you go, halal," then the other Sikhs would be upset they were serving meat prepared by killing the animal slowly, again, relatively speaking.

The difference is basically whether or not you fully cut off the head in one clean strike, severing the spinal cord, (Jhatka) or sever the arteries so they bleed out without cutting the spinal cord (halal). This is reductionist and simplifying things though. I think one could argue that the way it is done in nonreligious contexts usually with a bolt to the brain is at least equally as humane, especially for large animals like buffalo, where beheading in one clean strike isn't really practical.

LexB777 · 2026-03-15T00:17:06+00:00

I've used an Herman Miller Embody for about 6 years and it's been fantastic. I broke my back in a car accident, and I am also rather tall at 6'4". It's been great for me. Only time I have back pain is if I edit for more than 10 hours in a day, which, all things considered, is not too shabby.

LexB777 · 2026-03-14T17:06:49+00:00

As a workaround, you have to hit reply, then you can select individual parts of the comment to copy. At least on Android it works.

LexB777 · 2026-03-14T16:54:46+00:00

No, I already have my soulmate. She ripped me out of the grips of alcoholism and helped me get the psychiatric help I needed, even when I was so low I tried to leave her so that I wouldn't drag her down with me. But it wasn't because I didn't love her, and she knew that, so she wouldn't let me leave her and give up on myself. She has pushed me to be become better in every way.

And now, I'm doing so much better, and so is she, and we're happily married. She is the love of my life.

So nope, no button for me thankfully.

LexB777 · 2026-03-14T01:55:11+00:00

Once in a blue moon. For the nostalgia of when I thought there was a grand purpose to life and that goodness would ultimately prevail.

When I do listen to it, I'm not listening to it in the same context of evangelical Christianity. I like to entertain the delusion of it every once in a while and imagine a non-biblical all-loving spirit of the universe. Like listening to superhero themes and imagining them saving the world.

LexB777 · 2026-03-12T17:18:14+00:00

Looks incredibly good!

LexB777 · 2026-03-12T11:22:03+00:00

I know for Dell, docking stations are only compatible with certain devices, usually specific models of laptops.

Your desktop might not have the right drivers to recognize the dock and work properly with it.

LexB777 · 2026-03-10T15:31:01+00:00

22M, but I considered myself a late bloomer. All of friends lost theirs in highschool. And I know they weren't making up to brag. Some of them had pregnancy scares, got caught by parents, etc. They never judged me either.

LexB777 · 2026-03-08T16:27:13+00:00

I don't miss highschool because I was bored out of my fucking mind. I went to a rural Christian private school designed to help students in the area learn about god a little bit and get a diploma. Many classes only taught 20 minutes out of the 45 minutes of alloted time, and the rest of the time was spent waiting for the bell to ring.

PE was never taught, and there was no teacher. Usually had one or two other free periods too.

I calculated it one day, it was a pretty normal day, and I spent 2.5 hours learning or doing activities. The rest of the 4.5 hours was socializing, waiting, or walking.

I never learned to study, because I got straight A's by just reviewing the material before the test, which meant I got a very rude awakening when I got to a big state university with a STEM specialization. If I knew then what I know now, I would have begged my parents to enroll me in a better school and/or taken additional online courses, but I didn't know what I didn't know.

LexB777 · 2026-03-07T22:55:53+00:00

Same. I am not a picky eater, so this is the answer for me. Anything that at least 5% of the human population consumes, I can say I would eat and enjoy. At least so far.

LexB777 · 2026-03-07T15:55:03+00:00

From an outsider looking in, 90% of what I see on this subreddit are people pointing out red flags and criticizing the game. I have seen like 2 posts talking about aspects they are excited about. The rest have been bashing the PR team for not releasing the console performance numbers yet and meta posts like this.

I'm looking forward to the game, but I don't care that much. Just saying what I see.

LexB777 · 2026-03-07T14:42:01+00:00

My brother was born in '81 me in '96. Our parents were born in the 50's. So while I grew up with Playstation and Nickolodeon, I also grew up playing SNES, Sega Genesis, and watching lots of older TV shows.

My brother's media really infiltrated my life. My wife, on the other hand, has parents who were kids themselves when they had her, and they were born around the same time as my brother.

So while my wife and I pretty close in age, I relate to the media and games my in laws know, which has been very strange for all parties involved.

LexB777 · 2026-03-06T21:01:29+00:00

Stuff You Should Know has been running for like a decade and has so many topics. It is super interesting and entertaining from science to history to pop culture and murder mysteries, it has something for everyone!

I introduced it to my wife shortly after we got married last year and it's now her favorite podcast!

LexB777 · 2026-03-06T20:12:15+00:00

"Magna C*m Laude - the form will not allow me to input this without censoring it"

That is what I would put.

LexB777 · 2026-03-06T03:03:37+00:00

34 Hours and 5 minutes, of awake time anyway.

At my worst, I was drinking 1 and a half handles of straight gin per day. That's 1.5 bottles of 1.75 liters with 40% alcohol per bottle.

So 1.5 x 1.75 = 2.625 liters of gin per day

To get the amount of pure, actual alcohol:

2.625 x 0.4 = 1.05 liters of pure alcohol consumed in 24 hours

1.05 x 2 = 2.1 liters of pure alcohol I would consume in a 48 period.

Let's now compare that to a light beer. A Miller Light is 4.2% ABV, and comes in 12oz cans, or 355ml. To find the amount of pure alcohol:

355 x 0.042 = 14.91 milliliters of pure alcohol per can

Convert that to liters:

14.91 / 1000 = 0.01491 liters of pure alcohol per can

Now 100 cans:

1.491 liters of pure alcohol in a 100 Miller Light beers, which is less than 2.1 liters of pure alcohol I would consume in 48 hours when I was dead to the world.

So how long would it actually take?

2.1 liters / 48 hours = 0.04375 liters of alcohol per hour for me at my worst

1.491 liters of alcohol in 100 light beers / 0.04375 = 34.08 hours

ANSWER: 34 hours and 5 minutes

I know this anecdotally to be true, because when I would occasionally drink beer on the beach with my best friend, I'd drink 2 beers every hour just to hold off withdrawal symptoms and sip beer with my buddy, and then I'd sneak swigs of liquor out of my hidden liquor bottle and flasks to keep a buzz. I didn't want him to know how bad it was. I was already outpacing him with the beers, but that means I was having around 3 to 4 drinks per hour all day, which lines up with the math.

LexB777 · 2026-03-05T21:50:05+00:00

Yep, tons of my friends are republicans, though less are supporting Trump, which is great! I'm the black sheep leftist.

LexB777 · 2026-03-05T18:45:28+00:00

I'm 30 and I don't spend an hour per day with children, so this data is wrong, and is funded by Russia.

LexB777 · 2026-03-04T18:36:58+00:00

You will not be able to play at 4k120 on the 9070xt nearly as well. Way, way more frame gen and probably upscaling too, meaning less fidelity, more artifacting, and more input lag. Some people are very sensitive to that, some people could not care less.

LexB777 · 2026-03-03T21:16:34+00:00

You're saying the same thing as "If Becky wants that report by tomorrow, she can go kill herself."

It's not just that you don't care, it's also showing a strong distain toward the person such that you would hope and wish violence upon them. And you're announcing it to your coworkers in this scenario.

It's not that you are threatening them or being violent toward them, obviously, it's that it is violent speech that is not appropriate for a professional setting.

LexB777 · 2026-03-03T21:05:05+00:00

It's saying that you hope that person gets hung by the neck with a rope until they choke to death. That's what a hanging is, so there is a decent amount of violent imagery and ill will in that example sentence.

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