fprawn

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[–] fprawn@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Right? Like if someone decided to whitewash the wall this was on no one would have noticed. But now it’s a work of art recognized on the level of the Mona Lisa.

[–] fprawn@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

A nice thing about gaming today is that it's gotten so much easier to play all the great games, back then my family had a PC and an N64 and could only sample Playstation games at friend's houses.

[–] fprawn@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This works for lunch, too.

[–] fprawn@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Have you checked iFixit? they carry replacement 3DS parts and might have what you need.

[–] fprawn@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The ten commandments are future imperatives, but English doesn’t have that mood and instead archaic language is used in place of it.

They are as strong a command as can be given, but a literal translation would just be “you will not”. That lacks the weight of the original form so translators try to make it read more seriously than the language allows with “thou shalt not”.

[–] fprawn@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I can’t believe old el paso is willing to spend the money it would take to actually make a less spicy variation. This is probably just the same thing called just “mild” in other markets.

[–] fprawn@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Buy ground pork and mix up a sausage to your tastes, no equipment beyond the basics required if you’re not stuffing it into a casing or aging it and the quality will be far better than what’s available at any grocery store I’ve ever been in.

To taste test as you’re making it, take a small pinch of it and microwave for 10 seconds or so to cook it through.

[–] fprawn@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I like it, I’d hang that on my wall

[–] fprawn@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I’ve bought a lot of physical media over the last couple of years and it can be great, but there’s a lot of pitfalls

The quality of, particularly, DVDs is all over the place and the transition from NTSC to digital is handled in so many different ways that each require special handling.

PAL and European releases can be terrible in all kinds of ways including speeding up the content and optionally pitch correcting the audio.

A lot of content you’d want isn’t available or is only available at exorbitant prices.

UHD discs have tons of read errors that make ripping perfectly difficult and the quality (and this price) of the drive makes a big difference in how well you can do this.

Drives don’t last if you’re ripping lots of stuff.

Just some things off the top of my head, nowhere near a complete list.

It’s still worth it, though, and new releases are easier if that’s what you’re looking for.

[–] fprawn@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

We dressed like this in the 80s and 90s, too, and still do. Despite all the various fashion movements over time, my experience is that most people dress like this most of the time. The fashion of simple comfortable clothing changes very slowly.

[–] fprawn@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Depends on what I'm cooking, but always for chicken breasts. Roasting at a high temperature works great (it's not the only way), but can mean the overcooking time is pretty small. It's an easy way to respect the bird and get the best results possible.

Thighs on the other hand, I just go by eye, you really have to try hard to overcook those.

Might be worth noting that using a thermometer well does require some amount of skill and experience, you need to insert it into the right location for the data to be repeatable. Easier to learn than cooking by eye, though.

[–] fprawn@lemmy.world 140 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Not sure anyone will find this interesting in the slightest, but in Steam as a developer you configure your game as multiple packages they call Depots. You'd have a base package everyone gets, and then other packages which download on top of that for variations. Language is one of the possible variations, and whoever configured steam for Fallout 3 kindly separated them out, presumably because the audio files are quite large and most players will only ever hear one set of them.

Regional differences are also handled this way, often something like a blood texture will be modified for certain regions, and there may also be a Germany specific depot with Nazi symbols modified. Depending on your Steam settings, and where you are in the world, you end up downloading some combination of depots that combine to make one out of potentially dozens of variations of that game.

I don't know if the Xbox app provides the same functionality, but if so it would be a completely different implementation from Steam and the person who set it up either couldn't or couldn't be bothered.

The Steamworks documentation is public for anyone who likes that sort of thing: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/depots

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