Pheonixdown

joined 3 years ago
[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Look up the company Peaceable Kingdom and get them started even earlier. The games are basic, but they mostly are actually games where strategy and decisions matter, it's a great on ramp experience.

[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure Ben doesn't have ownership or control over Ben and Jerry's anymore, so I wouldn't put his baggage on them.

[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Let's take windmill like in the example, it has 3 blades, each maybe at most 5 degrees wide (out of the 360 for a circle). So that covers 15 total degrees or 1/24th the wind area, so at absolute best, it's about 4% of the wind power in that area being stopped. But the blades don't actually capture 100% of the wind power, a good amount will deflect off, those blades are not 5 degrees wide, they're less and they aren't straight blades, so again they capture less. Further the blade only captures a small vertical section of its own footprint, so it captures dramatically less wind power. Lastly blades are spaced with a good amount of clearance from each other leading to even less wind power captured. In aggregate, even by entirely layman measure, these likely have an immeasurable impact on another wind farm.

I'd bet if you built a mile high, mile wide wind capture device that captured 100% of wind power going to it, and then put a 2nd one 1 mile directly behind that, you could just maybe get a few % measurable impact.

[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

Did a quick check, didn't see any news about a stroke, so we don't have to worry about that at least.

[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Wish my tap was as good as Finnish water ...

[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does Factorio count? It's a good game, you can play multiplayer, the factory can always grow (at least until your hardware, or in the extreme the software, can no longer handle it) and if you're grinding for something rather than automating it, you're doing it wrong.

[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Per my quick research, 1 Dum Dum is about 25 calories, if we assume he eats 1500 calories per day, he'd die of malnutrition before he finished eating them over 3 years.

[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

It's an evolution of their 4 for $4 deal they started about 10 years ago, pretty sure it's national. It's just not well advertised compared to the more premium stuff.

[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

With Wendy's, if you're looking for cheap, gotta skip their premium meals and go to their Meal Deals, Sandwich, nuggets, fries, drink for $5, more if you want extra meat/bacon.

[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also, that he ran for 2024, which is at least part of what allowed the current situation...

[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I had a decent time with it and probably would've played a 2nd run had the game not failed me because every faction (including the rebelling one) was too happy to pass the final law or whatever. They probably fixed that by now, but it was pretty souring.

[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What you've done looks nice overall.

Feels like your river is being pretty wasted though.

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