Zagorath

Zagorath , 6 hours ago to RPGMemes in This is how we ended up with a servant named Grayskull.

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Zagorath , 17 hours ago to RPGMemes in Earth divided

That chart says Vietnam is a mix of 220 and 127 V at 50 Hz. There might be some places that use 127 V, but it's certainly not anywhere close to an equal split. Everywhere I saw had 220 V.

Zagorath , 3 days ago to No Stupid Questions in How did we switched from "Dinosaur are giant lizards" to "Dinosaur are giant birds"

tetrapods are fish

I like this particularly because it allows you to tell people that whales are fish, which is generally going to get a much stronger response than if you said "people are fish". Because in the latter, they know you're up to something weird, but in the former they're not sure if you might just be wrong.

Zagorath , 4 days ago to No Stupid Questions in Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not

the u is still elongated

Eh? Resume is /ɹəˈʒuːm/ or /ɹəˈzjuːm/. Résumé is /ˈɹɛz.(j)ʉˌmeɪ/. That's in my accent and other accents will vary in the precise vowels used. But because the accent is on the first syllable in résumé, the vowel becomes de-emphasised and, in many accents, more centralised. And that is, as far as I'm aware, nearly universal among English speakers.

Zagorath , 5 days ago to Patient Gamers in The entire Dragon Age series is only $10 on steam until June 27th.

Can I play it in front of my kids?

It's been a while since I played, but I think the answer is mostly yes. There are sex scenes, but they're pretty well-telegraphed ahead of time and I don't think you can get into them by accident.

how long from startup to the next save point?

What's a save point, to you? The game allows saving at any point (except maybe during combat?), but this may or may not be a satisfying experience to you. For the most satisfying experience you'd probably want to consider your camp the save point, and that can go a couple of hours between occurences, depending on the quest and how good you are (/the difficulty level).

Is it a lot like Mass Effect?

A very similar narrative style with the focus on your relation to the NPCs. Gameplay is very different. Much more about tactics and less about action. Personally I found that balance really awkward and not enjoyable: I'd rather lean more into the action like a Skyrim (or, indeed, ME) style game, or do tactics properly in a turn-based manner like BG3 or Lord of the Rings: Tactics. But I stuck it out for the story & characters which were great, though I couldn't bring myself to keep going with the big DLC once I lost momentum thanks to finishing the main story, or to pick up either of the sequels.

Zagorath , 5 days ago to Patient Gamers in The entire Dragon Age series is only $10 on steam until June 27th.

Fantasy series with a very D&D-esque world and a combat system that feels a bit like an MMO or a turnbased tactics game. It's real time with optional pausing, and you operate your whole party at once, with the ability to pause to give each of them precise orders, or to pre-program them with specific responses to situation.

I think it mainly became popular on the back of its characters. The story was good but nothing special, and personally I found the combat in Origins to be absolutely terrible. But building up your party, getting to know the characters and making decisions that affect them was amazing. At least on par in this respect with the original Mass Effect trilogy.

Zagorath , 6 days ago to Programmer Humor in How big is your desk?

Actually long desks are no longer considered best practice. At my work, some devs have a lazy suzan, while others prefer a circle that they can pivot around to face the right computer.

Zagorath , 7 days ago to Patient Gamers in hooooly shit! has anyone else played journey?

Very strange. What client are you using, out of interest? If it's an app that pivoted from being an old Reddit app into a Lemmy app, it might be an issue worth pointing out to the developer.

Zagorath , 8 days ago to Showerthoughts in Dinosaurs wouldn't be that popular if they were small like dogs

Yeah I mean, I know dogs come in a wide range of sizes, but I feel like default dog is a lot bigger thanks default chicken.

Zagorath , 8 days ago to Showerthoughts in Dinosaurs wouldn't be that popular if they were small like dogs

I don’t know anyone that owns a dinosaur

I do. It's somewhat more common with people living in more rural areas than in the city, but I'd guess they're the third most popular pet after cats & dogs.

Zagorath , 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago) to Patient Gamers in hooooly shit! has anyone else played journey?

Fyi Lemmy doesn't do spoilers the way Reddit does. The syntax for spoilers is:

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visible spoiler text

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Zagorath , 10 days ago to Technology in Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws

Part of being a monopoly is being anticompetitive

No it's not. Being hit with antitrust laws requires first being a monopoly, but the monopoly state exists merely by virtue of size within the industry.

Edit: to be clear the only point I am making here is in relation to that definition you provided. Nothing more.

Zagorath , 10 days ago to Technology in Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws

Apple tried this with the EU usb c but eventually backed down

Umm, what? Apple was always going to move to USB-C. The EU regulations at most hastened that by a couple of years. Their tablets and even laptop computers were using USB-C before the EU even enacted that legislation. It was only a matter of time.

But back on the subject at hand, this is nothing like that sort of bullying. This is a company being asked to build more infrastructure at their own expense, and then use that infrastructure to place its own users at risk. They've made a simple calculation that it's better for their bottom line and their reputation to choose not to comply, and instead pull out of a few small markets.

Zagorath , 17 days ago to Bicycles in Man who survived ebike fire that killed his family fights for change to UK law

There are three reasons you probably don't need to worry about those checked devices.

First, ebikes have way larger batteries than mobile electronics. The first laptop that came up when searching for laptops with large batteries had 80 Wh. The smallest ebike battery that appears in the first article searching for "ebike battery capacity" is 400 Wh.

Second, these problems tend to occur in uncertified third-party knock-offs. Your Lenovo or HP or Apple laptop, or even your Shimano or Bosch ebike, are much, much less likely to fail than a cheap eBay or Amazon battery.

Finally, and possibly most importantly, you are at highest risk while charging, slightly less risk while in use, and lowest risk when off. A device switched off in an aeroplane cabin is about as safe as it can be.

Zagorath , 17 days ago to Bicycles in Man who survived ebike fire that killed his family fights for change to UK law

I don't know about the UK, but at least in Australia Amazon would be responsible at least for the cost of a replacement. Which is small comfort in a case where it's done significant damage and even killed people, but in cases where it was a faulty product that failed in a mostly harmless way it's pretty good.

(I don't know one way or the other whether they could be held liable for more than that.)