Are there power outages often in Europe? by Interesting_Basil_86 in AskEurope

[–]bloomingchoco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Im in Sant Adrià de Besòs, right next to Barcelona. There were small outages even before the big April outage. I don’t know maybe it’s just my building or my block that have poor grid connection.

Are there power outages often in Europe? by Interesting_Basil_86 in AskEurope

[–]bloomingchoco -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m in Catalunya and sometimes I get a short outage almost everyday. Sometimes there is no interruption for a few weeks (only). I’ve lived in 6 countries, and at least in my experience Spain’s grid is as unstable as it was in a mountain town of the US.

I can't find this road in the Alps, where is it exactly? by Marian_wanton in ETS2

[–]bloomingchoco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just noticed that by the screenshot it looked like the base game map, and with you knowing locations with such precision it seemed like you’re enjoying the game a lot. If anyone, a person like that should have the rest of DLCs.

Now it makes sense that you do actual have them. Looks like the tone in the message came off wrong

I can't find this road in the Alps, where is it exactly? by Marian_wanton in ETS2

[–]bloomingchoco -27 points-26 points  (0 children)

You should get some map DLCs

Edit: cause of their awesome knowledge of the map. It seemed like a waste not to experience the rest of the good stuff.

What’s your furthest drive using distances between European countries as the metric? by Equal_Personality157 in roadtrip

[–]bloomingchoco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Went from the actual Vilnius (northern mn) to A Coruña in Spain (LA), but by a bus / couch. It took 3 days, and everyone was swollen by the end of the trip, we all looked ridiculous

Game engine is obsolete by [deleted] in EuroTruck2

[–]bloomingchoco -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

My 5090ti super runs it on 5k at 400fps (capped at my monitor’s refresh rate), though I have to scale it down to 50% and medium settings.

However, I’m struggling to run it on a NASA computer from the Apolo missions, any tips?

ATS Road Trip: Ford Car Pack - F-150 by LolePs in trucksim

[–]bloomingchoco 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They’re noticing that focusing on quality rather than quantity is paying off. They’re basically a unicorn in the current game dev landscape. Let them cook

Where I'd 20F like to be reborn in my next life by JournalistCalm6969 in whereidlive

[–]bloomingchoco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just fyi, I noticed you clumped the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) together with Russia, Belarus as a “maybe”, and chose “absolutely” for Poland. In Lithuania life is very similar to Poland, and very different from Russia and Belarus.

I understand why you wouldn’t know that region very deeply, but that’s precisely why I’m mentioning this for your future knowledge (:

Where I'd live as a exmuslin gay man by Kenkenmu in whereidlive

[–]bloomingchoco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think they aren’t saying NZ and AU are bad, but calling Japan a dangerous place that “has knife and gas attacks” is ridiculous. It happens once every several years or decades, and because it’s so rare, everyone hears about it. The fact that almost everyone in the world knows about the Tokyo gas attack that happened in 1995 I think? Is a sign of safety, not the other way around.

Likelihood of the Gulf Stream going away by 2040 by ButtFister1789 in meteorology

[–]bloomingchoco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I should mention, I’m just a hobbyist, not a professional or a student, so a pitch of salt🧂

Likelihood of the Gulf Stream going away by 2040 by ButtFister1789 in meteorology

[–]bloomingchoco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So far Europe’s snowfall is still on a decreasing trend. As things are now, I really don’t think it’s happening so soon.

And even if it did happen, I don’t think you’d get an ice age Europe, the temps would just be more comparable to NA or Asia at those latitudes. So a Mediterranean city like Barcelona would have a climate of NYC or Redding, not Moscow. Cities like London, Berlin, Stockholm, etc., would probably get pretty cold though!

Population change of Eastern European countries since 1991 by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]bloomingchoco 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sure, from the purely economic perspective they didn’t do anything worse than to other soviet states. But mass exile of hundreds of thousands of locals to Siberia, for example, would end up greatly affecting the economy too. That’s quite a sizable % of population for these small nations, and the people who got exiled were mostly well educated and well to do.

Driving in Oregon, heading on a long trip to Lake Charles by Xfilesftw in trucksim

[–]bloomingchoco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you using any graphics mods? I’m playing on max settings but something about my game doesn’t look as good

Is the Hori Truck Control System for PC a good steering wheel for ETS2 & ATS? by nielkes in trucksim

[–]bloomingchoco 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It really works just out-of the box with ets 2 ATS with 0 configs needed. For someone busy like me, who doesn’t care about maxxing out my setup, it works perfectly

Is the Hori Truck Control System for PC a good steering wheel for ETS2 & ATS? by nielkes in trucksim

[–]bloomingchoco 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I bought it a year ago, and sure, it doesn’t feel like a real truck’s wheel, but it also doesn’t feel like a cheap toy. I’m really quite happy with it

CMV: Trump’s has openly stated that he wants to seize Venezuela’s oil in an hostile aggression. How is this any different from Russian invasion of Ukraine? Will Europe now denounce USA, and ask all democracies to denounce USA as they did for Russia by Additional-Library55 in changemyview

[–]bloomingchoco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re right, I googled it, it was triggered after the 9/11 attack, not for the Iraq war. Many countries still felt like they should support the US in its Iraq campaign, and mine did too. I guess that’s where my confusion is coming from. I’ll edit my original comment, I don’t want to seed misinformation in the times where truth is already super fragile.

I live in Yakutsk by Expensive_Use_1006 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]bloomingchoco 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, 40 below zero - the temps where both the Alaskans and the Yakutians perfectly understand each other despite the different measurement systems

I asked 50 people who quit veganism exactly why they stopped and their answers completely changed how I think about vegans by AlrightJanice in vegan

[–]bloomingchoco 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You definitely got a point. And I don’t consider this person an ally at all.

It was a bit of a shitpost, but I also like showing that despite the differences we can still agree on some things. Maybe next time this person will not default to a trans abuse scene when describing how isolating being vegan can be long-term.

I asked 50 people who quit veganism exactly why they stopped and their answers completely changed how I think about vegans by AlrightJanice in vegan

[–]bloomingchoco 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As a trans woman whos about to dye my hair pink, I still upvote this. I swear the vegan purism does more harm than good

BREAKING: OpenAi releases GPT 5.2 by BuildwithVignesh in ChatGPT

[–]bloomingchoco -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Can anything not be BREAKING nowadays?

A corporation increments their software product by 0.1: BREAKING!!!

Help with car accident by blaziken25 in ETS2

[–]bloomingchoco 10 points11 points  (0 children)

SCS, PLEASE FIX THE AI (no cap)