Quetzalcutlass

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[–] Quetzalcutlass 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Hear, hear! You can burn out at anything, even your most beloved hobbies.

I was a video game modder for most of my life, but burnt out on the hobby completely after several years of maintaining a dozen or so mods for an early access game.

Making new features was great, and hunting down reported bugs in my own code was enjoyable. Constantly fixing compatibility issues due to updates (and having to rewrite perfectly valid code due to shifting or deprecated APIs) wasn't.

I love modding, but even things you enjoy get old after a while, and the feeling of obligation to continue (even if only not to disappoint your fans) wears at you.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The first recommended video when I searched for them was this one. Very cool, and confirmed for me that even though I don't have claustrophobia, cave diving is definitely not for me.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

By that logic most of Star Trek isn't canon. Lemmy would be in shambles!

[–] Quetzalcutlass 2 points 5 months ago

Would Enimal be a Water/Earth type, or Water/Poison?

[–] Quetzalcutlass 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

~700 Miles (British)

[–] Quetzalcutlass 18 points 5 months ago

Ponder Stibbons inserts another punch card into Hex. Ants flow through tubes and gears begin turning.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 21 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Megumin's other problem is she only specced into things that would improve her explosion's damage output, neglecting basic mage things like mana capacity and efficiency. So she can only cast one (stupidly overpowered) explosion spell before all but passing out from using more mana than she actually has. It's why no other party would take her, because even in situations where the spell would be useful she becomes a massive liability after casting it.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Interesting (and terrifying) that microplastics could get past the blood-brain barrier. I'm wondering if it's because newly developed tissue incorporates contaminants and so the plastic was there since the brain developed, rather than it infiltrating the brain over time. Then we could at least say that the contamination won't get worse once you're an adult. But the tissue samples being 1/200th plastic - which is insane - doesn't inspire much hope.

Has there been a single place where microplastic contamination hasn't been found yet? I'm hoping the best possible timeline occurs and all these studies end up retracted due to the plastic contamination happening during the sample preparation/testing process or something, rather than us actually being that screwed.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is that why the feet are cropped out too?

[–] Quetzalcutlass 13 points 5 months ago

"Exploration is one of the central pillars of our gameplay. That's why we're offering this handy little DLC to instantly fill out your map!"

I've seen that kind of DLC a few times for open world games and it's always jarring.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I've been to Subway twice in the last twenty years. Both times the shop was understaffed and it took more than half an hour to get our meals, and they weren't even good compared to other sub chains that cost less, let alone the local non-franchise sub shops.

The last attempt was a few years before COVID. I can't imagine how bad it is now.

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