Just started my first playthrough this week. The world is so huge, and if it wasn't for the main story plot, it makes you feel as if you're just one small side character in larger world of lore and perpetual time of turmoil.
rustyredox
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Did anyone else growing up have a vinyl record player as a kid? My dad brought his out of storage one year because it had a number of old Christmas albums. So over the Christmas holiday, I'd rotate through the entire collection, yet some of the records we're much shorter like singles, or much older in production precision, so they came in smaller diameters and took faster feed rates. When switching back from the smaller to the larger diameters, I did forget to turn down the rotary speed, and so we'd inevitably start listening to old Christmas carols and ballards as if they were being sung by the Chipmunks.
Huh, and here I thought "smh" was short for something like "*so much hate". That makes more sense.
Wonder what other abbreviations, on the Internet or elsewhere, go completely and blissfully misinterpreted by folks for years.
Are there hypothesis about the evolutionary pressures in the divergence of Iris colors between owl species? Does it have to do with social or mating displays, or is it more about the climate and nocturnal vs diurnal vs crepuscular hunting patterns?
But why did he give the bird of prey more than three front talons? It interferes with suspension of disbelief in this fictional horror. /s
The leather chaps on the closest rider are huge! I've never seen such a wide style like that before. Is that a real form factor?
It almost looks like it's built into that saddle stirrups rather than over the riders pant legs and waist buckle.
I think the cat is more appalled with the fact that someone would boil chicken. He's just sharing his sympathy for the poor ingredients.
You got to wonder, who were bankrolling these crazy looking ventures and why? Was it eccentric and wealthy personalities, or passionate and dogged craftsman? Maybe there was a similar aspect to pursue and develop absurd engineering spectacles for viral entertainment and publicity? Just like today with the YouTube content creator scene? E.g instead of customizing a expensive early combustion engine for a absurdly large mono wheel, we now outfit absurdly expensive Tesla vehicles with antique wagon wheels for the views:
I don't see anyone in the engineer's cab. I wonder if there jogging after that train off camera?
Are you subscribed to both comic strips and science memes as well? Great communities.
It feels like we're finally, and thankfully, coming full circle. I remember buying my first digital camera in the early 2000s, specifically chosen because it was one of the many that included USB web camera functionality. Aside from downloading the photos on its internal storage, external storage was optional, you could also use the included software to serve as a webcam source.
I can't remember if it included a microphone, I'm thinking it didn't. It also ran off on those small stubby film camera batteries, and not off USB power from the cable you connected it to, which was kind of dumb, and made it expensive to use as a webcam. The video quality must have been something around 140p, and any kind of conference call software was garbage back then as well. Yet the premise of a single device having multi-use features was such a no-brainer, given you already had have the PC USB integration to use it as a point and shoot digital camera.
Modern smart phones have such excellent cameras, it felt really odd that you had to use a lot of hacky work arounds and reencoding over network streams to emulate the same functionality that some of the first affordable digital cameras on the market had decades prior. I spend some time looking into weather a custom Linux kernel could be used with Android to emulate the standard USB profile of a UVC camera device, but it's really nice to hear that this kind of functionality is being pushed through Android mainstream development.
https://github.com/tejado/android-usb-gadget
Guess it only took a pandemic and Apple to showcase the same functionality to spur the core Android development into gear to match feature parity.
Looks like a fast way to accrue both hearing loss and brain damage by directly vibrating the users skull. Maybe even detached retinas?
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