bandario

bandario, 6 months ago

That’s generally how it’s used in Australia. There will be an existing suburb named ‘generic suburb’, and developers will come and build a new housing development full of cookie cutter houses on 300m2 blocks with their gutters near touching eachother and call it ‘generic suburb heights’ as an attempt to give the schmucks that buy there some sort of feeling of prestige over the older neighbourhood with larger block sizes and more human compatible dwellings.

Other guy in here nailed it with the British origins but for some reason he’s been downvoted.

bandario, 6 months ago

Rated by whom? The schmucks that drive them? Bought and paid for auto reviewers? Their opinion isn’t worth dick to me. Have you seen how poorly the panels match up on these things? They look like bad highschool metal shop projects on the outside and prototypes on the inside.

Nevermind the pure smug coming out of the exhaust on these cars.

Yeah, I’m super sure that the thousands of tonnes of raw earth that has to be processed by enormous mining equipment, and then refined through absolutely filthy chemical processes to extract the lithium, cobalt and magnesium required for just a handful of battery cells represents a net good for the planet. Just peachy.

All good though, because all of the raw materials are then only shipped to the other side of the world on ships powered by literal sludge to be manufactured into by batteries by China with zero environmental regulation and all waste products flowing straight into the ocean, before shipping the manufactured cells back across the world on more sludge powered ships.

Eventually, these lean, green, zero emission machines end up zipping around pumping out smug before it goes home to get charged by a power grid that is still 60% fossil fuel based. So, instead of the combustion of fossil fuels occurring under your bonnet, it occurs at the coal fired power plant down the road allowing you to recharge your battery with all the inefficiencies that entails and convince yourself you are somehow saving the planet.

University of Liege researcher Damien Ernst said in 2019 that the typical EV would have to travel nearly 700,000 km before it emitted less CO2 than a comparable gasoline vehicle.

After he accepted a bunch of dirty cash from the auto industry, he later revised his figures down to about 15,000km. That’s a fairly major revision and if it smells like bribery that’s because it was.

If you genuinely want to reduce carbon emissions, kill yourself. It’s the most effective way to save the planet.

bandario, 6 months ago

Also hotter than all her friends. Marriage is a mug’s game anyway.

bandario, 6 months ago

You’ve been too sober for too long and it has affected your judgement. Which one will it be, sport? Moonface, Grandma or the skeletal ghost of benedict cumbersnatch?

bandario, 6 months ago

Evidence of one beer, wasted? Whatever GladiusB.

bandario, 7 months ago

Perhaps I’m missing the point here. What’s wrong with Mario wonder?

3D Mario games have all sucked imo. It’s a game that works best in 2D.

bandario, 7 months ago

You clearly feel a lot more strongly about this than I do.

Life is too short to play bad games. Mario wonder wasn’t a bad game for me.

If your gripe is more with nintendo’s increasingly poor value proposition, predatory consumer practices and litigious bullshit then there’s more of a conversation to be had. I’d suggest your best revenge tools at this point are called Yuzu and Ryujinx.

bandario, 7 months ago

I feel your frustration. I played New Super Mario Bros. Wii (2009) on an emulator recently and then New Super Mario Bros. 2 (2012). They’ve literally been selling the same game over and over again for full price for 15 years.

I guess I just take this in another direction. I don’t yearn for some new fangled mario with better graphics, I just accept that I’m not going to pay for the same product over and over again.

bandario, 7 months ago

It’s a bummer that there’s nothing comparable as competition that actually has a playerbase.

There’s a few on the horizon but as of right now it’s a wasteland.

bandario, 7 months ago

I can ignore a lot of things if the game still feels good: microtransactions being jammed down my throat I can ignore as long as they are not pay to win. Game modes that don’t interest me, I can ignore (they even give you the option to uninstall JUST warzone if you don’t play it).

The saga of COD’s super aggressive SBMM and active manipulation of the result of 1v1 encounters over the last 12 months I cannot abide. Dropped frames in the middle of a close quarters battle whilst their algorithm decides which player should come out on top to maintain engagement? Nope! If this is the direction that play is headed they are beyond redemption.

Myself and many others are out here hungering for an arcade shooter that rewards player skill and movement mastery. It’s only a matter of time until someone gets that formula right and takes a huge chunk out of the COD franchise.

Xdefiant, The Finals, Unrecord, Marathon are all possibilities, but you can’t play any of them right now.

It’s a bloody sad year for gaming imo - I prefer to play online multiplayer but since I got bored of BF 2042 and swore off of COD altogether, I am spending my time playing some of the great single player games from the last couple of years instead.

bandario, 7 months ago

If you’re considering a side hustle, the best one is preparing yourself to apply for a job that pays a living wage.

We shouldn’t have to work in our downtime to live a good life.

bandario, 7 months ago

Not a bad idea with the kayaks. I just bought a couple of old style geoff barker kayaks/ canoes from an old bloke who does that as a hobby. The old style fibreglass kayaks really lend themselves to easy and quality repair jobs. I felt like we both got a win out of the sale.

They’re pretty fun on the water compared to my old plastic behemoths. So easy to load and unload and takes almost zero energy input to paddle. Bloody easy to tip them over though!

bandario, 7 months ago

I know enough to believe this isn’t a great idea.

Genetic variation in target populations can result in different outcomes for a variety of treatments and is worth testing specifically.

bandario, 7 months ago

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2976712/

It’s significant. Biggest effect is on efficacy of drug metabolism. There are many such studies.

One size does not fit all here owing to differences in expression of metabolising enzymes and drug transport mechanisms.

No, the Japanese are not aliens but they may require far less of a given drug than a westerner, or far more. This affects the likelihood to experience side effects for any given compound, and their severity.

It’s fairly ironic to make this change for Japan whilst elsewhere in the world with more racially mixed populations there has been a push in the opposite direction: a recognition that you cannot assume the results of a trial carried out on white male subjects will apply to those of African descent for example.

It’s not just drug treatments either. There are many aspects of medical care which have suffered from a lack of specificity and systemic bias.

bandario, 7 months ago

God damn, this comment slaps.

bandario, 7 months ago

Where’d you get it?

bandario, 7 months ago

Score.

I’m so desperate to get hold of one.

The irony is, I threw literally hundreds of them into skip bins in the late 90’s doing IT work and didn’t think anything of it.

Live and learn. The hoarders got it right.

bandario, 7 months ago

I’m not in the USA. I think after shipping was included the Unicomp came out at almost $400AUD - it’s just not feasible. Similar for ebay sales from USA.

I’ve consoled myself with an 8bitDo retro keyboard. It’s pretty slick! Obviously not buckling spring, but it is wireless and has a volume knob. It really does remind me of a vic20 keyboard in feel.

bandario, 7 months ago

I have also walked away from the franchise. I played the MW3 beta and it was an identical game to the one prior.

They didn’t fix any of the things that ruined it.

The trouble is, there’s really nothing else comparable that has a playerbase.

My friends and I tried BF2042 for a while. It’s ok but still a pretty weak BF title IMO and even when you’re winning, not all that rewarding.

There’s plenty of milsim titles with players, plenty of battle Royale titles with players, and CSGO still massive.

What is missing is arcade style shooters like COD that are not COD, or movement based shooters. Whilst there’s plenty on offer, nobody is playing them.

I know there’s some cool stuff in the pipeline. ‘The Finals’ play test was really cool but kept getting booted for “cheating”. A few others coming but right now there’s just nothing.

bandario, 7 months ago

I strongly advocate for the revival of thou! Thou shalt yield.

bandario, 7 months ago

My thoughts exactly. It just seems like SO MUCH WORK. It’s difficult enough balancing a career, children and keeping one relationship healthy.

bandario, 7 months ago

8BitDo retro keyboard. Honestly I’m blown away by the quality and feel of this thing. They did an incredible job.

bandario, 7 months ago

Language rarely changes under duress. That’s like trying to give yourself a nickname, it just doesn’t take.

bandario, 7 months ago

That is the bed they made and now the studios must lay in it.

I don’t care if they start distributing microSD cards, there MUST be a physical distribution format that is not linked to an online subscription.

bandario, 7 months ago

Pretty soon it will ONLY be the pirates that have access to a lot of this content. You should think of it is a global community service.