WASHINGTON—Shedding light on the enduring appeal behind assault rifle ownership, a Pew study released Monday revealed that more Americans were buying AR-15s to defend themselves from toddlers who found their guns. “Many Americans stressed that they felt safer knowing they had an AR-15 at the ready in case their toddler...
Whittaker said Signal would not abide by the proposed law, and highlighted concerns about privacy and the need for tech leaders to take a stand against socially accepted surveillance.
Medium mode is a fun challenge at first, eventually becoming fairly chill as you advance in skill and confidence.
Hard mode is always fairly hard, especially on harder maps.
There are many resources to manage, but none that feel burdensome.
The game is extremely thematic, it feels alive with charm.
Graphics are excellent, though sometimes graphical glitches can still be encountered.
The water. It's so hard to explain to someone who hasn't encountered this system before, but water is life in this game, and it's both beautiful graphically, and extremely well simulated by physics. Learning to control the water, and see the shortest paths to end water scarcity with beaver engineering is an amazingly fun and unique aspect of the game.
Mods are well supported and the community is vibrant.
Cons:
Not a ton of content. They've been very good about adding new mechanics (badwater, extract, etc) but there's still just 2 races of beaver and a dozen or so maps.
No directed experience. In similar games I've enjoyed a campaign, challenge maps/scenarios, weekly challenges, a deeper progression system, just... Something to optionally set your goals. There's nothing of the sort in the vanilla game. It's fully open ended and there's only one unlock outside of your progress though the resource tree in a map.
All in all, I highly recommend it, especially at the modest asking price. If you love city builders, charming and beautiful art, thematic settings, dynamic challenge, and solution engineering, this is a fantastic game for you.
Other games I've enjoyed that scratch similar itches:
KSP
Cities: Skylines (but Timberborn has been far more compelling)
Factorio
Mindustry
Planet Zoo (Timberborn has less of a directed experience, but is otherwise completely superior)
Gnomoria
Banished
Tropico series (though I view this as more casual)
I love all of their albums, but there's something truly special about the musicality and emotional impact of the songs and album as a whole for The Sound of Madness
There subsequent albums are fantastic, but have more ups and downs than the consistent high bar of The Sound of Madness
Similarly, I think Disturbed Immortalized was Disturbed's peak work, with The Light and The Sound of Silence being incredible peaks of their signature style and highly musical storytelling on a fantastic album.
The past week has shown humanity at its worst: A horrific terrorist attack left at least 1,300 Israelis dead, among them peace activists and even innocent children. The fates of many more kidnapped civilians still lie in the balance. Meanwhile, statements from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggest retaliation…
Yeah cold climates are the place where heat pumps will always struggle the most. I'm also from MN and have been eyeing this as an option once my 30yo furnace finally gives in.
These modern ones work so well even in adverse conditions that they're gaining traction in MN with HVAC companies, which is very good to see.
3D prints still suffer from bad layer adhesion due to their 2.5D slicing and printing approach. I investigated if a novel slicing method that interleaves the layer could improve the strength of 3D prints.
Just an offhand idea. If you look at the print in the thumbnail, you can see that while this clever brick-interleaving has eliminated the straight lines along the xy plane, the Z axis still has straight lines. Eliminating that so you have a "brick-interleaving" in all axis seems the most optimal.
DAVENPORT, IA—Perplexed by the toddler’s affection for the nonagenarian, sources confirmed Tuesday that local 2-year-old Ava Kerper was getting awfully attached to her 90-year-old grandmother. “She knows the average life expectancy is like, 77, right?” said the sources, who scoffed while watching the child demonstrate...
A Supreme Court ruling this week will make it harder for the Navajo Nation to get water from the Colorado River. No one disputes that century-old treaties give them a right to water flowing through their reservation. The court found that the federal government isn't responsible for securing that water for the 170,000 tribal...
… but it’s my most successful attempt at latte art so far. I also know the foam could be better, but I’m really chuffed about the progress I’m making and wanted to share it!...
Fair. I always thought of Pennsyl-Tucky was more a state of mind/politics rather than an area, but I'm not a local and haven't been in the area for years so I'm inclined to believe you.
Most debt actually can't be inherited, instead debt collectors get first dibs on inheritance assets until they're made whole or the estate runs out of assets, whichever comes first.
That doesn't mean that debt collectors won't try to convince family members to pay. Just tell them where they can shove it.
Over the years of using Vim both professionally and for my own uses, I've learned to just install LunarVim and only add a handful of packages/overrides. Otherwise I just waste too much time tinkering and not doing the things I need to.
Nah. Derision, public shaming, and ostracism are fundamental to the maintenance of the social contract. How else can we moderate extremists? The denazification of Germany was effective because they didn't shy away from these methods.
Have you heard about this wild theory? Apparently George Lucas ripped a Spanish movie for the original Star Wars and later buried it, like, he bought every existing copy of the film and destroyed it. It’s all explained in this video
Quora is trash, but this thread has a breakdown of many of Lucas' "inspirations", which show he was always happy to directly copy other's art. Most of it is hilariously blatant.
France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people (gazettengr.com)
A bill that would allow police in France to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphone including GPS of their phones has been passed.
Study: More Americans Buying AR-15s To Defend Selves From Toddlers Who Found Their Guns (www.theonion.com)
WASHINGTON—Shedding light on the enduring appeal behind assault rifle ownership, a Pew study released Monday revealed that more Americans were buying AR-15s to defend themselves from toddlers who found their guns. “Many Americans stressed that they felt safer knowing they had an AR-15 at the ready in case their toddler...
The Biden administration proposes new rules to push insurers to boost mental health coverage (apnews.com)
President Joe Biden’s administration has announced new rules meant to push insurance companies to increase their coverage of mental health treatments.
White House announces $40 billion in broadband funding (www.theverge.com)
States will receive at least $100 million
The Wildly Unconstitutional New Laws Trying to Criminalize Filming Cops (slate.com)
On July 1, an Indiana law went into effect making it a crime to come within 25 feet of an on-duty police officer if ordered to stay back.
Signal president Meredith Whittaker rejects ‘mass surveillance’ U.K. law (fortune.com)
Whittaker said Signal would not abide by the proposed law, and highlighted concerns about privacy and the need for tech leaders to take a stand against socially accepted surveillance.
Thoughts on the game Timberborn (store.steampowered.com)
Has anybody given this game a try? I’ve been considering it for a while, but money is tight. Curious if it was worth it....
Macron floats social media cuts during riots (www.politico.eu)
French president’s remarks drew comparisons to authoritarian regimes — and the government is already trying to backpedal.
Piracy Is Coming Back, Baby! (www.thegamer.com)
Streaming has ruined media preservation for an entire generation, and older games aren’t faring so well either. Piracy is the only way to save them.
What lesser known free and open source software do you use daily to improve your life?
For me it is the note taking/PKMS tool SilverBullet.
Which album was a band's creative zenith/magnum opus before falling off?
Demon Days by Gorillaz...
‘The Onion’ Stands With Israel Because It Seems Like You Get In Less Trouble For That (www.theonion.com)
The past week has shown humanity at its worst: A horrific terrorist attack left at least 1,300 Israelis dead, among them peace activists and even innocent children. The fates of many more kidnapped civilians still lie in the balance. Meanwhile, statements from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggest retaliation…
These states are basically begging you to get a heat pump (arstechnica.com)
Nine states are teaming up to accelerate adoption of this climate-friendly device....
Brick-Interleaved Layers (www.youtube.com)
3D prints still suffer from bad layer adhesion due to their 2.5D slicing and printing approach. I investigated if a novel slicing method that interleaves the layer could improve the strength of 3D prints.
Naïve Toddler Getting Awfully Attached To 90-Year-Old Grandmother (www.theonion.com)
DAVENPORT, IA—Perplexed by the toddler’s affection for the nonagenarian, sources confirmed Tuesday that local 2-year-old Ava Kerper was getting awfully attached to her 90-year-old grandmother. “She knows the average life expectancy is like, 77, right?” said the sources, who scoffed while watching the child demonstrate...
Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says (arstechnica.com)
16.5% of new car sales are compact crossovers, but only 6% of those are EVs.
In Battle With Microsoft, Google Bets on Medical AI Program to Crack Healthcare Industry (web.archive.org)
The search giant is fine-tuning chatbot technology via medical licensing exams.
Supreme Court ruling complicates Navajo Nation's fight for more water (apnews.com)
A Supreme Court ruling this week will make it harder for the Navajo Nation to get water from the Colorado River. No one disputes that century-old treaties give them a right to water flowing through their reservation. The court found that the federal government isn't responsible for securing that water for the 170,000 tribal...
It’s not just boomers, young people are voting far right too (www.politico.eu)
Ahead of the European election, striking data shows where Gen Z and millennials’ allegiances lie....
I know it looks more like a butt than a heart...
… but it’s my most successful attempt at latte art so far. I also know the foam could be better, but I’m really chuffed about the progress I’m making and wanted to share it!...
America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’ (www.theguardian.com)
The highlight for me is coming up with some weird pseudoscience justification for why it’s okay to hit your kids.
You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will (www.pcgamer.com)
I just wanted the workflow, ok? (lemmy.sdf.org)
Music to my ears (infosec.pub)
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18+ George Lucas did whaaaat??? (youtu.be)
Have you heard about this wild theory? Apparently George Lucas ripped a Spanish movie for the original Star Wars and later buried it, like, he bought every existing copy of the film and destroyed it. It’s all explained in this video