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MentalEdge

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Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

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Also intermixed and partly interchangeable with play.

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It would be an age of anime content, because I’m going nowhere.

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No it wasn’t.

Go check out the first few posts on !tenforward to learn why. Essentially the startrek instance admin was power tripping, instance got abandoned by the main moderators and content contributors to get away from that.

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!dungeonmeshi has been a huge success. And the monthly active user-count suggests there’s plenty room for subscriber growth still.

Now that the season is over, I suspect the people who don’t watch shows weekly will start joining, too. And season 2 will be even more great as then the community will already be around and have a user-base.

Can’t wait.

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Dungeon Meshi, or Delicious in Dungeon, is a renowned manga series by Ryoko Kui, and my personal favourite of all time.

The first half of an anime adaptation by Studio Trigger (of Kill la Kill and Cyberpunk Edgerunners fame) just wrapped.

It’s about a party of adventurers that lose one of their members deep in a dungeon, right before using a return spell to get all but that one member back to the surface to safety.

Having lost most of their gear, provisions and all of their funds, they resort to the taboo of eating the monsters they kill as they delve back into the dungeon to retrieve the remains of their lost companion, so they might revive her.

The entire story takes place within just this one dungeon, and is a masterclass in extreme-detail world building and lore. The same goes for the characters.

The series starts off at a slow burn, masquerading as a comedy with unusually intricate worldbuilding, but slowly develops into a phenomenal fantasy story that dives deep into its characters.

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The adaptation is fantastic. It even elevates some parts beyond what is possible in manga, taking full advantage of the way animation, sound and music allow for more complex expression of a narrative.

The manga is also great, and worth experiencing. Having read it in no way ruined the anime for me.

The story is so insanely full of details that even if you don’t get into both manga and anime, whichever medium you prefer is worth watching/reading twice, just because you notice and put together new things on a second go.

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Nah I think most of us just don’t think this one makes sense.

Like I get in what way it’s supposed to be funny. It just isn’t.

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Me: is this some joke I have too many known-good btrfs snapshots to understand?

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B-tree file system, actually.

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My sister plays the game a lot.

She’s earned the white robe, and plays regularly to show other players around, and draw them hearts in the sand/snow.

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!militarymoe

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Like games as an artform?

!gameart

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Naw dude you just broke it.

They are telling you to remove the markdown links entirely, and just plain write the names of the communities, they will turn into local links on most clients.

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It’s an NFT scam, but without NFTs.

No, that doesn’t make it better, they’re just using steam marketplace items instead.

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Fomo

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“Hoo boy, a car? Those take a while to sell, but I know someone who can scrap it for parts, so I’ll do you a favour and take it off your hands… Ten bucks?”

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I think OP is looking for a desktop application, not a selfhosted cloud platform.

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No.

Paracetamol/Acetaminophen is well understood, and an effective drug when used where applicable.

You are right in that nausea and abdominal pain are common side effects for some people, and simply means you should be trying something else. I’ve personally never suffered this.

Its ability to reduce fever is unclear, and even in high doses the difference it appears to make is minor. But for pain-relief there is no doubt as to its efficacy, though its effect is inferior to most other drugs available.

However, when taken together with ibuprofen, it provides pain-relief even more powerful than either drug alone.

If your problem is with the brand Tylenol advertising it like snake oil, then you likely have a point.

It can’t relieve cold symptoms except for a stuffy nose or significantly reduce fever. It’s basically just a very weak painkiller. I only ever take it if ibuprofen isn’t doing enough.

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Lots of drugs and foodstuffs have biological effects we don’t understand.

Medicine doesn’t always work by looking at exactly how a molecule interacts with every other molecule in a living organism, but rather by simply observing the effects.

It doesn’t kill, and it works for most people. Ok, it doesn’t for you, that happens. But I can tell you for a fact it does for me.

That we don’t understand how it works doesn’t stop it from working, and that it doesn’t work for you, doesn’t mean it’s useless for everyone else.

I for one am happy I was able to buy paracetamol in addition to ibuprofen when I needed it to sleep during an extremely painful ear infection, because no over the counter drug on its own was enough.

If anything, public knowledge on what exactly it can and cannot do should be improved, as well as what side effects mean you need to look for something else.

I live in a country where there are strict laws regarding advertising of medical devices and drugs, so there’s very little “snake oil” bs around medicines here. If you let them brands try to claim every mild effect an effective ingredient might have makes their product a cure-all for a litany of symptoms.

Asking a pharmacist for a recommendation is always a good idea, that’s how I found out I could “stack” the painkilling effect of paracetamol and ibuprofen, and it worked extremely well.

Obviously, it would have been less ideal if like you I experienced side effects when taking paracetamol.

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She is not a cat-blanket. You’re a heater-human.

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Indeed. Looks like Muse Dash on steroids.

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Oh cool! It’s like four-lane Muse Dash?

I’m really keen on playing a rhythm game with this level of presentation. Hi-Fi Rush left me thirsting for more rhythm games that have more character and impeccable style.

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The title suggests that there are files for an actual expansion, half-finished and unpublished.

When really it’s just some concept art and initial design sketches.

“Unrealized plans for Cyberpunk ‘Moon’ expansion appear online” would be more accurate.

The chose title is technically accurate, but also pretty clearly chosen to make this out to be more than it is.

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Those are still what I would consider “sketches”. Just not the two-dimensional kind.

There are a couple more detailed assets, but tubes and boxes laying out locations, interiors and buildings is something you do when still exploring ideas and don’t want to lock anything down.

The written material suggests the writers got the furthest into it. But this is very much planning, not production.

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A-fucking-gain?

Did the shitstorm that happened last time teach Bethesda nothing?

What am I saying, no, of course it didn’t.

Thoughts on Space Games, Part 1: Top-5 AAA Games

Hey everyone, I’m a big player of Space Games of all forms, and this mini-genre (or ‘theme’, if you prefer) really has a TON of range and depth, and is a very fertile ground for indie and unique projects. I was recently playing a game called Avorion, after owning it for years without ever really engaging with it, and...

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There has always been ways to make stupid money in the game.

My favorite has been to cozy up to a local faction so I can get assassination assignments that pay the big bucks, and void opal mining was still super lucrative last I checked.

Bounty hunting is a bit slow, but taking on a a mercenary contract with a faction to fight for them in conflict zones pays well IIRC.

The real grind is engineering your ships and weapons, though that was also improved significantly by making it so re-rolling your mods can only make them better, never worse.

Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI (arstechnica.com)

Microsoft is pivoting its company culture to make security a top priority, President Brad Smith testified to Congress on Thursday, promising that security will be “more important even than the company’s work on artificial intelligence.”...

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Happy cake day!

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“Haha, lol, know that cool sci-fi cautionary tale? We should do that, but irl!”

  • Every tech company, for some reason.

The anti-AI sentiment in the free software communities is concerning. (lemmy.world)

Whenever AI is mentioned lots of people in the Linux space immediately react negatively. Creators like TheLinuxExperiment on YouTube always feel the need to add a disclaimer that “some people think AI is problematic” or something along those lines if an AI topic is discussed. I get that AI has many problems but at the same...

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Apple’s “private cloud” is a thing. Not all “Apple Intelligence” features are “on device”, some can and do utilize cloud-based processing power, and this will also be available to app developers.

Apparently this has additional safeguards vs “normal cloud” which is why they are branding it “private cloud”.

But it’s still “someone else’s computer” and apple is not keeping their AI implementation 100% on device.

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There’s also the fact that they can’t tell reality apart from fiction in general, because they don’t understand anything in the first place.

LLMs have no way of differentiating fantasy RPG elements from IRL things. So they can lose the plot on what is being discussed suddenly, and for seemingly no reason.

LLMs don’t just “learn” facts from their training data. They learn how to pretend to be thinking, they can mimic but not really comprehend. If there were facts in the training data, it can regurgitate them, but it doesn’t actually know which facts apply to which subjects, or when to not make some up.

Best way of playing Wipeout these days?

So…after watching latest Noclip video, I was having a bit of a Wipeout itch…I have a rather decent gaming computer, but I was wondering what would be the best way to play the wipeout series…was 2097 the best one? Is there a good way to get it running at decent resolution/effects these days?...

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  • Wipeout HD/Fury can be played using RPCS3
  • 2048 can be played using vita3k
  • Original/2097/3 can be played using any PSX emulator

There is also BallisticNG, which replicates the various flight physics of the various titles 1 to 1 (excluding Fusion), and faithfully recreates the PS1 aesthetic (right down to the polygons jiggling, if you want that). It has mods, custom tracks, crafts and campaigns. If the old graphics style does it for you, it’s basically endless wipeout content.

It’s insanely amazing on the deck. I recommend binding the back buttons to discard/use pickups, so you never have to move your thumb off throttle.

Other titles worth mentioning are both Redout games. They have an immaculate sense of speed, though have quite different gameplay systems and track design. (No weapons, strafing replaces air breaks)

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Other way around. Pure and Pulse were PSP first, then PS2 and later PS3.

The PS2 port of Pulse is graphically superior, and can be run using PCSX2. HD has the same content.

Instability might be due to shader translation, should go away as more shaders are compiled and cached.

Vita3k for 2048 runs very well (with compilation stutters only at first), and you can get the HD and Fury DLC for it to access the PS3 content (though with lesser graphics).

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I’ve the same card.

By non-free do you mean you are using amdvlk?

Don’t do that, Vulkan performance is nearly double on RADV.

If you have multiple drivers installed, (amdvlk, amdpro, vulkan-radeon) you can install amd-vulkan-prefixes to select which one a given application should use.

Then add vk_radv as a command prefix to use the open source implementation, vulkan-radeon. It’s the best performing one and as such should be your first choice even before the non-free drivers, unless it has problems with a given game.

Alternatively, simply uninstall amdvlk completely leaving vulkan-radeon as the only installed driver.

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Yes. It runs perfectly.

Back at launch it used some shader features that were not yet in the current Mesa release, so I had to run it using Mesa-git from the AUR for a while, but that’s long since become unnecessary.

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Dualbooting is the easiest, IMO.

I had a shrunk down windows partition and a tiny portion of HDD space to install the couple games that only worked on windows.

I’ve since nuked both partitions, as some of the games now do work on Linux, and the rest were no longer enough to actually make be boot into windows to play.

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I recall that at least on KDE, in the audio settings you can enable the ability to go WAY past 100% volume.

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You should be able to get most games to work with some extra tinkering.

Got Armored Core running in HDR with this.

Also, I found it was enough to run the just the game in gamescope, no need to run the entirety of steam in a gamescope window. Just set the launch options for the game you want to enable HDR on.

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Others have already commented on the accessibility stuff, and Xbox game pass.

I’ll add that if you do give it a go, I recommend heroic launcher for managing Epic and GOG games.

It is able to handle installation, as well as running stuff with the wine/proton compatibility layer, for games that need it.

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It is! Heads up on a known bug tho, which will already be fixed in the next release. GOG games can show up as “not installable” for seemingly no reason preventing them from being installed.

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A worthy sacrifice for kitty happiness

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AFAIK Misskey has more in common with Mastodon than Lemmy.

Apparently it has some nice features that Mastodon doesn’t.

I’m not really interested in the microblog format for social media so I haven’t looked into it much.

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Me, forever a release candidate male.

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I think they’re making the point that in lots of places where public transit is good, people use it just because they then don’t have to deal with traffic and driving themselves.

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At a glance, it looks like it closes steam, edits steam survey data to backdate it to a year earlier, then starts steam again.

This perhaps causes steam to update the survey data to make it report you as using Linux?

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Looks amazing.

Today was actually the first day this week that I didn’t make myself a pizza…

I’m taking a couple weeks off work, and I wanted to start off with making a pizza. The store was out of small size tomato puree packs for the sauce, so I got a big one. Spent all week making pizzas to use up all the sauce before it went bad.

Funny enough I didn’t get tired of eating pizza tho. Might make another tomorrow.

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He’s a Finnish legend.

The madman has done Finnish versions that sound even derpier.

And then there’s whatever this is.

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