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  • Practical Engineering is such a good channel. I feel like Grady strikes a really good balance of high enough production value that it doesn't get in the way of paying attention, while still being extremely educational.

  • Cracked - How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind
  • The article: Rural people aren't just racist, homophobic assholes - they're struggling with apocalyptic economic destruction, constant discrimination and hatred, and have fallen through the cracks of society while society stomps on their face.

    The comments: RURAL PEOPLE ARE BAD, FUCK RURALS

    I guess you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them read the article...

    I will say, though, that as much as rural people get fucked out of their votes in most situations, they are vastly over-represented in others. For example, each vote in the electoral college for California represents 703,000 people. In Montana, on the other hand, each electoral vote represents closer to 250,000 people. There's a strong sense among city dwellers that the rural folk are dragging the entire country into hell just because they're suffering under capitalism - and they aren't wrong, in some sense. America's inconsistent, patchwork electoral system definitely contributes greatly to the urban / rural conflict.

  • Do protests actually do anything?
  • Even those can still have some benefit - it can act as a networking opportunity for people to meet each other and plan other events / get involved in other ways, it can give a morale boost to people considering giving up, etc.

  • I had to design a simple general purpose language for university, so I tried creating "ZoomerScript" with Jetbrains MPS
  • Same, it usually whacked about half the attempted majors into another major. In the first half of senior year. They kept wondering why their program wasn't growing much even though similar colleges' programs were growing like mold on a dorm shower curtain. I enjoyed the course and never used the primary skills taught in it again.

  • PDA and medication refusal
  • I live with an adult with a similar neurotype. My experience is that the advice in this thread can all help, especially regarding "Is there anything I can do to make this more comfortable for you?" and "This is important because..." stuff. But once the PDA gets really ingrained against something, there's just nothing I can do. I just have to leave her to it and hope she comes around. As an adult, she is capable of making her own decisions...but I have no idea what to do when the person involved is a kid that might not really understand long-term repercussions. I know that the times when her parents really put their foot down ended up extremely exacerbating the PDA and ultimately led to her ability to exercise her autonomy being extremely damaged. But they also weren't...uh...empathetic about it (lots of screaming and shouting), so I don't know if putting their foot down was the problem, the verbal abuse, or both.

    Sorry for the mild ramble with no real advice, just saying I commiserate. It's really fucking hard to live with an adult with that neurotype, I can't imagine trying to care for a child. I wish you luck.

  • The Year Flaco the Owl Roamed Free | He fled the Central Park Zoo and made the rest of Manhattan his new home. What has he been up to?
  • She called the police at the 24th Precinct and said she thought an owl might need help.

    “Is that that famous big owl that’s flying around?” an officer said.

    Two officers arrived a short time later and shooed the owl away by shining a flashlight in its eyes, Ms. Aaron said.

    Sounds about right...

  • store.steampowered.com Palworld - 2024/02/01 Update Patch v0.1.4.0 - Steam News

    Steam version v0.1.4.0 has been released. Patch Notes: === ▼Major Fixes ・Fixed an issue where the game would crash under certain conditions ・Fixed an issue where if another player's pal/base pal had HP 30% or less, it could be captured by using a sphere. ・Fixed an issue where enemy pals would get st...

    Palworld - 2024/02/01 Update Patch v0.1.4.0 - Steam News

    The patch says it includes pathfinding AI fixes, but at least for me, Pal pathfinding seems a bit worse. My tombats now really want to climb the mountain behind my base whereas before they weren't having any issues. How are your Pals faring?

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    With guns and animal slavery

    cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/12803046

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    store.steampowered.com Palworld - 2024/01/25 Update Patch v0.1.3.0 - Steam News

    Update has been released. Changes are as follows: === ▼Main changes ・Fixed a bug where the loading screen did not end when logging into the world ・Fixed a bug where the world date was not displayed correctly and appeared to reset. ・Corrected various incorrect text ・Countermeasures against various ch...

    Palworld - 2024/01/25 Update Patch v0.1.3.0 - Steam News
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    Palworld passes Starfield's highest player count, multiplayer connectivity fixes
    www.pcgamesn.com Palworld is so big it had to call “emergency meeting” with Epic Games

    Palworld is already so big that the servers from Epic Games can't take it, but Pocketpair is already rolling out a massive fix for it.

    Palworld is so big it had to call “emergency meeting” with Epic Games

    Highlights:

    > In the 24 hours since the early access game came out it already eclipsed Starfield’s highest concurrent Steam player count

    > “We had an emergency meeting with the Epic Games team and had them add an update to the Epic Games backend at short notice. We have confirmed that this has resolved the connectivity errors and issues when hosting co-op games on Xbox and PC.”

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    Initial Impressions (6 hours - lvl 14 / through first boss)

    Palworld is a really interesting fusion of genres - creature collecting, FPS, and base / factory building.

    The creature collecting elements are strong even this early in the game - obviously you want to collect as many unique species of pals as possible, but there is also heavy incentive to collect individuals of species you already have. Each pal has unique traits that impact its work speed, work preferences, or combat strength, so you can spend some time collecting ideal pals. You also get extra exp for your first ten captures of a species, which is extremely important for progression. Finally, Palworld pulls some inspiration from Pokemon Legends: Arceus and has what it calls "Lucky Pals" - effectively alpha pokemon. These have boosted work capacity and battle capability.

    I am not a huge fan of FPS games, so I can't speak as to how good the FPS elements are compared to other games. The combat generally feels very good - the hitboxes are on point, attacks are fast enough to be scary to dodge without feeling impossible. The first boss felt like a bit of a health sponge. I ended up dealing the majority of my damage myself rather than relying on my pals, which felt a bit sad, but I might just not be using the right pals.

    Base building is extremely fun! Picking which pals work is a complex and meaningful choice, and watching them run around and go about their day is lovely. There are some bugs in this arena, which is to be expected - sometimes pals that are collecting items will get stuck in a loop of picking the item up, dropping it, picking it up again, forever. Sometimes pals get stuck on terrain and have to be reset using the palbox. Sometimes pals ignore jobs - this seems to largely affect heating jobs and handiwork jobs.

    At this point in the game, I'm heavily dependent on my pals picking the right thing to work on, or else losing a lot of time assigning them to stations that are only active sometimes. I hope to see some refinement in these systems - a way to prioritize work would be extremely helpful. It would also be great to be able to set resource levels - something like "Keep 200 berries". Pals would work berry farms until you hit 200 berries in storage, then stop. I'm hoping for the complexity of factory building to continue to increase.

    All in all I am loving the game so far - it's a lot of fun even in its current early access state, and shows a lot of promise going into the future.

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