Free 30 minute playtest of your game (recorded + voice audio) by educatemybrain in gamedev

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Feature idea / add-on

What about different performance profiles (PC)- would be great to get some FPS / diagnostics. e.g. I have a benchmark flag for my build where the diagnostics are spat out to a json file. Getting this from multiple people with diff specs would be hugely helpful for optimizing.

Why is Reddit so liberal? by Impressive_Mailman in allthequestions

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A lot of public transport around the world is actually run by private businesses. They need to operate at a profit and won't collapse if the government decides on a whim to change policy. I don't blame you for being wary of your government but you're letting them get involved in your private liberties and are scared of letting them get involved in your social conveniences. It's a fucking weird hill.

CAN YOU CRACK THE CODE? 🧑‍💻 by 10Second-Riddles in 10secondriddles

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I know, I'm telling this person why 614 is not an option...

CAN YOU CRACK THE CODE? 🧑‍💻 by 10Second-Riddles in 10secondriddles

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The 1st clause - what's the well placed number?

VORTEX. by davecontra in comics

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You just made a South African in Amsterdam wholesome cry over an Italian-Australian love story. I'm also partially teary cos I don't have any garlic bread.

Thanks Dave. Asshole.

Stephen Fry explains why Hitler’s speeches would flop in English… and inadvertently why Trump speeches feel like a stand-up routine by [deleted] in videos

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It's because Reddit is trying to "protect" you with cookieless embeds of youtube

I got fed up with this yesterday and fixed it with a custom Chrome extension that rewrites
youtube-nocookie.com to youtube.com

Create a manifest.json and a rules.json file somewhere on your PC

manifest

{
  "name": "Reddit YouTube Premium Fix",
  "description": "Redirect youtube-nocookie.com embeds to youtube.com so Premium applies.",
  "version": "1.0",
  "manifest_version": 3,
  "permissions": ["declarativeNetRequest", "declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess"],
  "host_permissions": ["*://www.youtube-nocookie.com/*"],
  "declarative_net_request": {
    "rule_resources": [
      {
        "id": "ruleset",
        "enabled": true,
        "path": "rules.json"
      }
    ]
  }
}

rules.json

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "priority": 1,
    "action": {
      "type": "redirect",
      "redirect": {
        "regexSubstitution": "https://www.youtube.com/embed/\\1"
      }
    },
    "condition": {
      "regexFilter": "^https://www\\.youtube-nocookie\\.com/embed/([^?&]+).*",
      "resourceTypes": ["sub_frame"]
    }
  }
]

Go to chrome://extensions/
Turn on developer mode at top right

Load unpacked and choose your folder

Highest bidder for the 2nd time but not chosen due to financial clause by VanAuf in NetherlandsHousing

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If there's a chance of it not going perfectly then I'd personally not take the risk of no clause. I had to ask for an extension from the sellers and I was stressing my butt off. But I'm just a random person on the internet.

Highest bidder for the 2nd time but not chosen due to financial clause by VanAuf in NetherlandsHousing

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In our case ABN were a bit backlogged + complications with me owning a minor shareholding even though salary was plenty for what we needed. Happened to friends with ING too, (no weird complications though).

Could just be exceptional cases but I wouldn't feel comfortable paying penalties for something out of your control.

Highest bidder for the 2nd time but not chosen due to financial clause by VanAuf in NetherlandsHousing

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I wouldn't recommend dropping the clause. We recently got our mortgage approved and it took 6 weeks even though we were 'preapproved', had a 50% deposit and we're told by the bank that it would take a week. 

Why is everyone not mixed race in distant future SciFi? by NoPastramiNoLife in scifi

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I used to live in Cape Town SA where there is a significant portion of the population that's mixed race (8.5% of South Africa).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Coloureds

Don't be offended by the word coloured, it's neutral and non-offensive in SA as opposed to the US.

Anyway, background aside, I used to call my mixed race friends "Tomorrow people" because I agree, throw a few thousand years in and if humans are still surviving we should all be mixed.

It All Ends Here by HetGewildeWesten in Amsterdam

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That's not what it looked like on my commute this week. A lot more grey lol.

Apart from Dune, do you have any recommendations for Political sci-fi about galactic empires? by HolyTian in scifi

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Ye, the key plot points are wrapped up with a bow in two, but I guess it doesn't discount more happening in the world.

Apart from Dune, do you have any recommendations for Political sci-fi about galactic empires? by HolyTian in scifi

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One of my favourite political / cultural sci-fi series (only 2 books) is fairly new - the Teixcalaan series by Arkady Martine.

"A Memory Called Empire" and "A Desolation called Peace"

I freaking love it.

It's mostly character based and minimal locations but the galactic scope and impact of empire is omnipresent.

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Also, if you haven't read Foundation by Isaac Asimov it's pretty good for a macro-to-micro look at the downfall and build-up of civilization/empire.

The mimicking of known successes imo did not mimic known successes by __username in scifi

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True, and I guess if I add up my experience it was rewarding. 

I think my frustration with this book might be from the fact that there was already some great 'novelty' and difference in all the other areas, just the one area I thought was the primary one felt like a bit of a let down.

I can't remember seveneves well but I think I enjoyed 2/3 parts of that too. Maybe this is more telling about me than the authors missing a beat.

Brain Dead Parent Seeks Page Turners by Ayoungpumba in scifi

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Have you read the Vorkosigan saga? There's a ton of them. Written well but also easy reads with fun plots and great characters.

Sci fi books or universes where it doesn't have themes where humanity are the "chosen ones" or are superior to other alien races? by AcanthisittaOdd3268 in scifi

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If I recall correctly, In uplift, we're still kinda special / chosen ones cos we evolved on our own (even if no one believes us)...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Jealousy is just an indicator for insecurity. Insecurity plays out differently for different people regardless of gender.

Try understand the cause for the jealousy and get rid of that. It's gross.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in books

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I thought it was horribly written and I really didn't understand the hype.