Oddbin

Oddbin, 2 days ago

Isn’t that the guy who kicked off when he was killed PVPing even though that’s what he’s known for? I’m sure there was stuff in Reddit about it before I left.

Oddbin, 5 days ago

Glorious!

Oddbin, 5 days ago

What’s the name of that star base with all the goofy shit on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?

Oddbin, 9 days ago

It was a fantastic hour and a bit of actually being able to see it with the naked eye and I managed to get some cracking pictures. This is supposed to go on for the rest of the weekend too as there was a large solar flare the other day. Tomorrow so far is forecast to be even more intense.

Great resource for checking on the state of the aurora is:

aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk

Oddbin, 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

Apple popularised two things that bug the shit out of me in addition to everything you said. “on iPhone” “on iPad” just sounds utterly wrong. It needs to be “on the iPhone” “on the iPad”. Now everyone is doing it.

The other is " breathlessly we’re excited to announce/we’re excited to share with you/we’re excited!!!big fucking cheesy grin". The whole point of having that whole “excited” or whichever adjective you want at that point of the sentence is to prep you and let you know what you’re supposed to feel. If it’s that good surely you shouldn’t have to tell me what I need to feel.

Oddbin, 9 days ago

Connect. I came from Sync for Reddit and Connect has that nice clean layout that others lack as well as nice, simple swipey gestures.

I’ve tried pretty much all of the others ones (at least those that existed up to 3-4 months ago) and I keep coming back to Connect.

Oddbin, 9 days ago

Reddit and Lemmy have a few different nuances that Sync doesn’t properly address. A good example is blocking communities or individuals right from the post menu. Syncs development has been sporadic or at least was when I paid attention. In addition Connect has a few additional features like “hide all above” which is a nice feature to have once you get used to it.

Oddbin, 12 days ago

Let the flamethrower orgy commence!!

Oddbin, 20 days ago

The introduction to the character is just brilliant. That very first scene sets the entire tone.

Oddbin, 21 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

AT Mines. I’ve used the air burst rocket. It’s a tking machine for sure.

Oddbin, 22 days ago

Yeah, having tried them they are very, very much a cluster munition. Also it seems so far everyone has learned the range of said cluster munitions in pretty much the same way. Weird it think AT Landmines would have a lower Teamkill potential and I say this as someone who today, told my new playing friend to watch out for the bot mines and promptly stepped on one.

Oddbin, 23 days ago

One day it will be Black and White. One day.

Oddbin, 24 days ago

Oh balls.

Oddbin, 27 days ago

The only thing I can’t fault it for was how good the scene with destiny falling towards the Sun out of power was. That whole sequence is ace.

Oddbin, 1 month ago

I never changed my pads in 65k miles so that’s not true sorry.

They are on average slightly heavier but we’re talking 100-200kg. That’s nothing, 10-15%, definitely not “substantially”. Less if you add fuel to the ICE.

There’s not any extra pollution. There’s an investment cost and then tyre wear. Which you get from an ICE. Along with, you know, all the pollution from the combustion engine. Which is at most 24% efficient (more likely middle teens) and only continues to pollute rather than electric vehicles which don’t.

Electric cars may not be the ultimate solution but they’re a damn sight better than the status quo so let’s stop this kind on hysterical posting eh?

Oddbin, 1 month ago

Yeah, but we’re shit at doing that so how about we do the “easy” part of getting less CO2 and local pollution by shifting everything Electric right now and push for better overall. This is a case for doing something in the right direction, not waiting for the perfect solution.

Unless you have a time machine and we go back to the 80s and start the conversion then like we should have.

Oddbin, 1 month ago

3,2,1 ACTIVATE!

Oddbin, 1 month ago

Why is it either/or? That feels like a purposeful false equivalence.

Oddbin, 1 month ago

Smaller batteries for load shaving. Smaller batteries for home and businesses to self store. Hydro. Gravity. Thermal.

And that’s just looking at the most basic swap out. The whole point of the energy transition is to also make everything better. Continent wide energy grids need to happen ie. Wind in Norway, solar in Morocco and a grid between etc. local generation by solar or wind also has a huge part to play. Geothermal is getting much better with lower temperature or harder to reach heat sources too, see Eden Project in Cornwall.

I don’t want to come too aggressively at you here but I see this kind of “attitude” a lot in these conversations and it’s always struck me as very insincere.

If you haven’t already have a watch of the Everything Electric videos on YouTube for good views on how wide this whole thing is going to have to be.

Oddbin, 1 month ago

They supply energy as they claim. Oil, diesel and petrol to name a few. They all have uses outside of moving cars, not sure if you know that.

If we’re sticking to what OP said then You’re still wrong about huge batteries as they only need to be sized for the role of the vehicle and very very very few need to do 300 miles in one go but I won’t bother continuing because I don’t think you’re open to discuss but more of a bad faith actor.

Oddbin, 1 month ago

Firstly, that website is cancer and should be avoided.

Secondly this clearly what we’ve been waiting on. Not a brand new bit of work but another origin story that will be shoehorned into the existing cannon.

Oddbin, 1 month ago

That’s all I had at the time as that’s all that was posted by Arrowhead. I have since purloined images from Reddit though.

Oddbin, 1 month ago

It’s been a better experience so far. Also, quite liking the new mission type they added.