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To those of you who drink tea: What brand of tea do you drink?
  • And their bedtime brew (with vanilla and nutmeg) is the best decaf I have found too!

  • [Discussion] Double discussion this month, what games did you buy for your Deck during the Steam Sale, and what are you playing on Deck right now? - July 2024
  • I bought Reus 2 (A puzzle god game) at launch last month - game changer!

    Finally a game that I enjoy playing on the deck and actually want to play after work on my commute etc. highly recommend it.

  • Anthony Davison's analysis of Verstappen/Norris fights - moving under braking + crash
  • Norris was shedding even more though!

    They could have both made it back safely if they went slower, but good luck getting them to do that after that fight.

  • [Rhythm of War] The Boot, the Rat, and the Spren by Pam Hage

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    Relevent book quote (lifted from deviantart):

    “I don’t think he ever gets excited. Not even when I tell him I have a fun surprise for him.”

    “Your surprises,” Kaladin said, “are never fun.”

    “I put a rat in his boot,” Syl whispered. “It took me forever. I can’t lift something so heavy, so I had to lead it with food.”

    “Why in the Stormfather’s name,” Lirin said, “would you put a rat in his boot?”

    “Because it fit so well!” Syl said. “How can you not see how great the idea was?”

    • Rhythm of War, chapter 18
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    Just finished the SA books and ... the magic system ?
  • I do recommend the stormlight short stories, they are both quite good.

    What info are you specifically looking for?

    Mistborn and Stormlight all

    There are shards that represent certain concepts, ruin, preservation, honour, cultivation etc. people hold these shards, but are, influenced by it's intent the longer they hold it.

    Generally, each shard has picked a planet/solar system to settle and create/enhance their population.

    Each systems magic tends to end up mirroring in some way the intent of the shard that created it. Honours require oaths, Ruin's requires stealing power off others etc.

    Some magic systems work for their users off planet (you have seen this!), others are more difficult.

  • 2024 Austrian Grand Prix - [SPRINT] discussion thread 🏎️
  • The F1 icon keeps appearing and disappearing too, there is someone desperately turning things off and back on again! 🤣

    Edit: they fixed it!

  • 2024 Austrian Grand Prix - [SPRINT] discussion thread 🏎️
  • Is their lap number graphic broken? Not sure I have seen it the entire race?

  • France in 1477
  • That is an awful colour scheme, shouldn't the royal domains be a recognisable colour?

  • [Mistborn: The Final Empire] Vin by Maria Arteta

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    Sorry, have been away for a bit, back now and testing out how hotlinking to Cara works.

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    Shipley Conservative Sir Philip Davies 'bet £8,000 he would lose his seat'
  • If you were single and earning an MPs salary it could be a bit of a no brainer - could you get a other equally or better paying job within a few months? Considering you have been a politician for the last 5 years not an SME in whatever field?

    If you had a family on that salary, unsure. If you agreed it with your other half as a planned move, maybe?

  • Shipley Conservative Sir Philip Davies 'bet £8,000 he would lose his seat'
  • Think of it as a safety net, if you lose the election you lose your job.... But the winnings of that bet would then help you out.

    If you win, you keep your reasonable lucrative job, no problem.

  • You can try Vertical Tabs in Firefox now
  • If you have lots of tabs up top you can't see the names, vertical tabs lets you see more/all of the tab titles.

    I have been using the tree style tabs add-on for years, it's amazing for a tab hoarder.

  • A web app to easily transfer your user data from one Lemmy instance to another
  • Isn't this functionality already built into the default web UI?

  • Former Total War dev accuses Creative Assembly of "mismanagement" and says strategy series AI is "limited by design"
  • There should be options for hard difficulty that are due to the AI being better, not just getting massive buffs.

    Some of the examples given were about the AI not even knowing about certain game mechanics!

  • How did we switched from "Dinosaur are giant lizards" to "Dinosaur are giant birds"
  • I was more thinking https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan_Traps

    More than 1 million cubic kilometres of lava. Enough gasses to cause a mass extinction event.

  • How did we switched from "Dinosaur are giant lizards" to "Dinosaur are giant birds"
  • Ugh, life took ages to get started. Lazy bacteria!

    It's still a hell of a long time if you consider that the entirety of recorded (ish) history is only a few thousand years long.

    Updated comment to remove an order of magnitude.

  • How did we switched from "Dinosaur are giant lizards" to "Dinosaur are giant birds"
  • It's not X turning into Y when it comes to evolution. There were all kinds of different dinosaurs, that evolved I to all kinds of different niches. Most of those then went extinct due to rocks falling from the sky, or the entirety of India turning into a huge volcano etc.

    So it's not that a T-Rex turned into a chicken, it's that T-Rexs lived alongside other dinosaurs that developed feathers and filled more niches etc. those that survived eventually became birds. (Have you ever seen an Emu up close?!? No wonder the Australians lost to them 🤣)

    Disclaimer: I have no specific knowledge. Also, remember this happened over (billions? hundreds of millions) of years.

    Other comments about just not noticing feathers are valid too.

  • Total War: ROME II and Creative Assembly — My Statement Ten Years On
  • Wow, this is a long read. Well worth it for anyone who got caught in Rome TW2's hype and subsequent disappointment.

    Would be good to see what other games he later worked on. Will try to remember to look him up on linkedin when I have time

  • Reuters denies reporting that Israel will attack Lebanon
  • That's the routers business model though

  • How people manage to play and chat online with random people?
  • A) discord

    B) make friends with one person that does this or plays with other groups, then join them when they are playing with others

  • Time Team's 30th anniversary dig - an Iron Age -> Roman industrial village in Dorset

    Still not as good as the original series when they had TV funding, but a pretty good dig with 5 trenches.

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