Wootz

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[–] Wootz 3 points 6 months ago
[–] Wootz 3 points 6 months ago

They're slowing creeping in here in Denmark.

There is one around the corner from where I live. It doesn't display anything but time and temperature (yet), but every time I walk past I secretly hope they've fired up the rave machine.

[–] Wootz 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, its probably pretty hard to stay ahead of the curve when your format is limited to "guy in kitchen / bar makes food / drink from relevant pop culture series / movie"

That said, completely agree on Babish. Dude tried to grow his channel way too aggressively and burned out I think. Went from uploading a main video every week to showing up once a month at most, with regular uploads mostly featuring other people.

[–] Wootz 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

AvE.

He used to be a bulwark against idiocy and koolaid drinkery, advocating for calmness and common sense.

...and then he called Justin Trudeau a Nazi and bought into vaccine skepticism.

[–] Wootz 7 points 6 months ago

Asking the real question.

[–] Wootz 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

One nitpick with this: This only applies to the US.

I get that a large percentage of Lemmy (and Reddit, earlier on) are from the US, but it bugs me that things like this default to being US-centric without mentioning it.

Awesome initiative, nonetheless!

[–] Wootz 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

That's brilliant.

You know how once in a blue moon you look at news story that's sounds completely crazy and go "huh"? Like when buzzfeed suddenly started using all their clickbait money to fund good, legitimate journamism?

This would be that.

[–] Wootz 33 points 6 months ago

That's the important bit that everybody is missing:

Apple has suspended work on the second-generation Vision Pro headset to singularly focus on a cheaper model

Clicking through to the paywalled article, the headlines reads as follows:

Apple Suspends Work on Next Vision Pro, Focused on Releasing Cheaper Model in Late 2025.

I am as unoptimistic on the future of VR as everybody else here, but can we please leave the nuance in? Apple are not turning the key on VR, at least not yet, they are simply doing the predicable thing that everybody said their would: Release a VR headset that isn't targeted at developers only.

[–] Wootz 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Personally I enjoyed both the storyline and characters in BG3, but I also highly recommend Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.

The gameplay is tighter, owing to a more mechanically sound system (Pathfinder 1e versus D&D 5e), but also not as "free" as BG3. It's a lot more difficult, but it scales better too.

With that out of the way, both the story and the characters are absolutely excellent. The game is an adaptation of the official Pathfinder adventure path of the same name published by Paizo. For the uninitiated, Paizo started out as the team within Wizards of the Coast that wrote and designed adventure modules. Wizards fired them, so they set up their own shop to keep writing kickass d&d campaigns.

Wrath of the Righeous is no exception. The scope is enormous, and you really get that classic journey from lowly adventurer to god-killing hero. The characters are excellent and many, both in the party and supporting cast. I loved BG3, but I must admit that I find the villains and plot more compelling in Wrath.

[–] Wootz 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Guilty as charged

[–] Wootz 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Congress is the opposite of Progress.

That's why it starts with Con.

[–] Wootz 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (8 children)

Sure, will you call the it admin where I work and tell him I'm switching?

I want to switch to Linux just as much as you, but at work I have literally zero influence over this. Private OS choice and enterprise / corporate are very different things, and businesses refusing to switch away from Windows is a very big reason why Microsoft's behaviour lately is a big deal.

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