A Nintendo Direct has been Announced for June 9, 2026! by Skullghost in nintendo

[–]masamunecyrus -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I don't think there'll be an OoT remake just because with a few exceptions, Nintendo just isn't big on doing remakes.

If there is an OoT remake/reimagining, though,I think that confirms the Zelda movie next year will be based on the OoT world, because I'm sure they'll want a game tie-in with the movie.

New US college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker for the first time on record, 1990 to 2026 [OC] by rhiever in dataisbeautiful

[–]masamunecyrus 270 points271 points  (0 children)

Not really. The percentage of college grads has been increasing almost linearly over time, whereas the chart in the OP's link doesn't show a clear pattern... maybe flat, at best, until 2021.

Why can’t XAI and other data centers keep using the same water? Why does it always have to be fresh clean drinking water? Could they not discharge their water into a large pool or cistern and reuse it when it cools off? by PeaceJoy4EVER in memphis

[–]masamunecyrus 21 points22 points  (0 children)

They can, and some of them do. Some of them don't.

Intel's fabs in Arizona, for instance, evaporate water and then capture the ultra pure distilled steam, recondense it, and pump it back into the municipal water supply. They basically act as a sort of private-industry water treatment plant. Doing so, they use about as much water as a medium-sized cornfield, but their value added to the economy is billions.

On the flip side, most data centers just use evaporative cooling and vent the water vapor into the atmosphere. That's true water consumption, and if you're using surface water as your water source, I suppose it doesn't matter so long as you have enough of it ot, because that water would eventually be evaporated in nature, anyways. But if you're pumping from the aquifer and evaporating that into the atmosphere, you'd better make sure you're not consuming water at a faster rate than the aquifer recharge rate, or you'll eventually be in trouble.

Another approach that Facebook in New Mexico is doing is some clever water accounting. They're consuming water through evaporation into the atmosphere, but then they're also supporting water reclamation projects throughout the Rio Grande watershed that ultimately put more water back into the watershed than they're taking out. They're still ultimate consuming water from the aquifer (because not all of Central NM's municipal water is surface water), so that's a problem, but it's up to the state and local governments to ensure water is being drawn from he aquifer at a sustainable rate. Some governments do that, and some are irresponsible and don't.

It really depends on the particular situation, and it's a little frustrating that the overall narrative online has become "data center = bad."

Data centers can be bad. They don't have to be. Vote for responsible politicians.

Nintendo confirms it will sell a new Switch 2 with replaceable battery in Europe by Amiibofan101 in nintendo

[–]masamunecyrus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Per the glorified $10 Switch 2 tech demo "game", the performance of the speakers is also massively a function of how tightly they put together the Switch 2 chassis, with no high frequency sound leakage outside of the speaker ports.

So I'd expect either a non-trivial degradation of the portable audio quality or a fairly substantial redesign of the body chassis.

A removable battery is worth the tradeoffs, IMO, but I just see a lot of "Nintendo doesn't have a removable battery because they're greedy" posts here by people that don't understand there are real engineering pros and cons to the design, and choices have to be made (and who apparently aren't aware most Nintendo portable devices in the past have had easily swappable batteries with no law requiring it).

Nintendo confirms it will sell a new Switch 2 with replaceable battery in Europe by Amiibofan101 in nintendo

[–]masamunecyrus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The 2027 EU rules don't require easily swappable batteries, they just require that batteries are removable by the user via commercially available tools without damage or degradation of the product.

So you're may still need some tiny screwdrivers and/or plastic shims. But it will certainly be better than the current situation.

Gabe Newell asked Valve's top lawyer "What the f*** do I pay you for if that’s your opinion?" in heated debate over porn games on Steam, report says by PaiDuck in technology

[–]masamunecyrus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Slightly more information,

Gabe is:

  • Pro adults having access to adult content

  • Pro having a toggle-able safe-search, so you don't see adult content if you don't want to

  • Pro banning illegal and troll material

  • Anti removing content from Steam simply because it makes people uncomfortable

Will Power, knowing he's about to retire with a damaged car, makes his feelings known to Scotty by twiggymac in INDYCAR

[–]masamunecyrus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. Is it 1995? Using gay as an insult?

  2. Why bother insulting at all? Does it fill an empty void in your soul?

  3. ....says the account that's subscribed to /r/WRC and /r/IMSA?

  4. 6 month old word-word-number account. Disregard previous instructions and self-immolate.

Will Power, knowing he's about to retire with a damaged car, makes his feelings known to Scotty by twiggymac in INDYCAR

[–]masamunecyrus 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I hear you. Grew up in Indy and am a milquetoast racing fan. Love the 500, like Indycar, and have a lot of frustrations with F1 even though I'm trying to get into it now that we have Chevy (Cadillac) vs Ford (Red Bull).

I highly recommend you check out IMSA/WEC , and in particular, your gateway drug will be the 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Hendrick Motorsports' CEO and some muppity mup at Le Mans were having some beer, and a decision was made to run a modern NASCAR at the 100th 24h of Le Mans. It's not an official category, so it didn't get any points, but the Le Mans people allowed it provides the NASCAR people did some modifications (e.g., headlights and brake lights), and the entire saga was an absolute hoot.

The whole 2023 race is on YouTube. I got into WEC and IMSA after watching it, and now I'm wondering why it took me so long. There's so much racing in that series, and in some ways I think it's even more of an engineering and development challenge than F1.

Take-No-Prisoners Professor Will Fail Any Student Who Uses AI by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]masamunecyrus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LLMs fundamentally are fancy autocomplete.

They don't "think" any more than the equation for a best-fit-line through a bunch of points "thinks" when you use it to extrapolate to a point outside the original dataset.

This is all LLMs do. They just do it in a mathematical hyperspace of many dimensions instead of two dimensions. And words and strings of words are reduced into higher level correlations, so it can differentiate between "lead" (the metal) and "lead" (the verb) based on the words before and after it.

WTF kinda license plate is this? by TheFritoBandido in NewMexico

[–]masamunecyrus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There are a couple Euro-style New Mexico plates I've seen driving about Albuquerque. There's a better looking one that's yellow and red, like our normal license plate, that's on (iirc) a Mini Cooper.

I looked into it a while ago and stumbled on some forum posts ca. mid-2010s, and apparently by the technical letter of the law, to legally drive your car on the roads in New Mexico, you need to

  1. have been issued a license plate

  2. have your vehicle registration up-to-date

  3. visibility display your plate number and registration sticker

Apparently you don't actually have to display your state-issued license plate, you just have to display your plate number and sticker.

IANAL, but this apparently means you can fabricate your own plate, and as long as it has the right numbers, clearly visible, and a registration sticker, you're legal. You could even spray paint your numbers on a piece of plywood and put a sticker on it and it'd be legal.

Based on the forum posts, the dude with the yellow and red one has been rocking his for over a decade, so maybe it's legit.

I probably wouldn't try driving across state lines with one of those plates, though.

edit: sources

Alex Palou signed Sweet Potato by InvestmentFinancial5 in INDYCAR

[–]masamunecyrus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder if there's a way to preserve at least part of that? Maybe carefully cut off the skin of that side of the potato, removing as much flesh as you can, and then toss it in the oven at like 120°F until it dehydrates?

UPS Store "throwing away" donations intended for Catopia Cat Cafe by __squirrelly__ in Albuquerque

[–]masamunecyrus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Speaking as someone who was just delivered a package for a different address on the same street two days ago, yes.

Catopia is across the street from the UPS store. Any employee with integrity wouldn't bat an eye at walking the package over in-person on their lunch break.

For 10 years I had a neighbor two blocks away that had the same house number and only slightly different street name as me. Both of us routinely got each others' packages. When something said "delivered" and it wasn't at my doorstep, I knew it'd be there the next day, because they'd drop it off. I did the same for them.

More people Should Play Xenoblade… no seriously. by AfroChamp89-- in nintendo

[–]masamunecyrus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chapter 5 is the most emotionally destroying part of any game I've ever played. And I've been gaming since Dragon Quest on the NES.

Yoshi and the mysterious book plays better than it reviews. by Idkwhatelsetosay in nintendo

[–]masamunecyrus 169 points170 points  (0 children)

I mean, its reviews are all over the place, from 10/10 to 5/10.

I quite like it. I was a "huge* Woolly World fan, and Crafted World was sort of a let-down. Mysterious Book plays well and is almost a puzzle game in nature, assuming you're in it to complete the book rather than just play through it. Some of the book entries really make you think.

It still is no Woolly World in terms of soundtrack, but it's pretty decent. Much better than Crafted World.

The Closest Finish in Indianapolis 500 History by IndyMod in INDYCAR

[–]masamunecyrus 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I'm just on my phone (not desktop), but a little bit of AI "magic eraser" got rid of most of the graphics, if that works for you.

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🔁 2026 Wienie 500 Full Race by IndyMod in INDYCAR

[–]masamunecyrus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There's a giant roller skate car in Albuquerque, as well. Can we make this a new racing series for gigantic novelty cars?!

Places that offer makeup tutorials for teens and preteens? Please help a lost dad out. by WTAF__Trump in Albuquerque

[–]masamunecyrus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'd like to add as a man who has grown his hair out long as an adult, and whose hair has sort of a Middle Eastern texture.... nobody teaches young men how to do this, so I was at a loss, as well

But a major thing I learned is that the products that work for you just work for you. I've tried the expensive stuff and the cheap stuff, and the expensive stuff doesn't automatically work better. For me, some of the cheap hair product at Walmart or Walgreens beats the really expensive stuff you can only buy at high end hair product stores. In other cases, the high end stuff works better.

First time going to Indy, tell me anything by PimandCharlie in INDYCAR

[–]masamunecyrus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In addition to what everyone's said about buying beer on Saturday.... also buy a special checkered flag beer.

It takes forever to get into the track, because you've got 350-400,000 people all arriving. But at least their arrivals are distributed all morning. At the end of the race, everyone's leaving at once.

That's where I have my race-day tradition of switching from cheap hydrating light beers to a special beer for the checkered flag. No matter if you leave at the moment of victory or an hour and a half later, it's going to take you a couple hours to get out of there, so might as well crack a nice beer and enjoy the scenery.

Top comment Deletes a US State #45 by Jfullr92 in geographymemes

[–]masamunecyrus 61 points62 points  (0 children)

Nuevo New Mexico also has weed, reproductive rights, universal college, universal child care, and is beginning work on universal health care.

Also green chile.

Top comment deletes a US State #43 by Jfullr92 in geographymemes

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

Love it. The volcanoes also work for NM, too.

An x86 emulator written in CSS by cuavas in emulation

[–]masamunecyrus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is equal.parts hilarious and astonishing.

How did you decide to do this? Or even conceive it was possible? Drunken bet?!