GandalfDG

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting analysis, it does make you wonder why the support was shaped that way at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

really feels like BGW is coasting on the "most beautiful park" tagline meanwhile they didn't theme or landscape Pantheon like, at all...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really love hypercoasters from Intamin and B&M, and B&M inverts. Sustained floater is definitely my favorite type of ride force

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Finally getting on Pantheon was what I was most looking forward to this season. I think it's a better ride than Velocicoaster disregarding theming. Unfortunately the operations were pretty bad when I was there, either slow two-train ops, or agonizing one-train ops

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It depends on the ride. On something smooth and comfortable like a B&M hyper I can definitely relax. For example, Candymonium at Hersheypark is a great ride to practically ragdoll on. Also, putting hands up is a good start even if you're tensed up. When you realize on some level that holding on isn't doing anything but letting you tense your muscles unnecessarily you'll start to feel more freedom on rides. Also, as you become more familiar with ride forces, you can better predict how upcoming elements will feel and you can brace for them in a more relaxed way, rather than trying to stay totally rigid in your seat

Not a coaster, but on an S&S screamin' swing I notice that I tense up totally involuntarily. Something to do with the amount of airtime and the feeling of the restraint. It really depends on the ride.

 

So far this summer I've gone to Kings Dominion, Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Hersheypark and Disney World, which has brought my count up to 85. New ones for this season were:

  • i305
  • Twisted Timbers
  • Reptilian (formerly avalanche)
  • Grizzly
  • Anaconda
  • Pantheon
  • DarKoaster
  • Wildcat's Revenge
  • Tron Lightcycle Run
  • Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind
  • Space Mountain (Alpha track)

For immersive rides, while I really loved Cosmic Rewind and Tron (though it was just OK during the day, the night ride makes it 10x better) neither beat out Hagrid's for me.

For conventional coasters, I was glad that i305 lived up to the hype, the camelbacks on Twisted Timbers were nuts, and Wildcat's revenge was completely awesome in every row I tried.

Pantheon was an excellent ride, but pretty shaky operations really made the experience unpleasant. With two trains it was constantly stacking or loading full trains from quick queue, and most of the time it was running a single train.

DarKoaster was mid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I played assassin's Creed 2 and Dishonored, which have been in my backlog for ages. The Steam deck has really rekindled my love of PC gaming

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just finished Dishonored and now I'm on to Dishonored 2

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Katamari is just such a gem of a game. Totally novel concept, amazing presentation, lots of replayability. Really hard to follow up on that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I just played through Dishonored, which worked great! Also Assassin's Creed 2 was a fun one to finally finish from the backlog. It was the first game I completed on the steam deck and enjoyed messing around with configuring the controls to take advantage of the touchpads (used the left one to select from the weapon wheel)

 

We love our rabbits, Chester (brown) is very laid back, and Phoebe (REW) is more feisty. She likes to pretend that she's tough by grunting at everything and everyone, but she melts for pets

 

This video was a total rollercoaster ride. I started watching expecting the usual youtube cringe commentary, but wound up with a pretty compelling story of a guy who just really enjoys making art, and his family who supports him

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where is Phantom Hourglass? I loved that game!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I've started contributing to logseq, and I hope to start making contributions to castopod

Both are projects that I'm actively using, and I want to help them improve!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure KDE neon is only meant for testing KDE applications and so isn't guaranteed to be stable with anything but those packages. Other distros should be maintained with more general-purpose use in mind

 

I spun up an instance on my personal server to host a podcast that my wife and her friend started, and it's been working great! Has a few rough edges, but it does everything one needs to inexpensively get a podcast out onto the internet without relying on a non-free hosting platform. Feel free to check out my wife's podcast at https://podcast.tworooms.online as an example.

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