Lentils make for a great meat replacement in a Shepard's Pie. You adjust seasonings a bit, but at this point I might actually prefer it to regular ol' Shepard's Pie.
Fallout 4 is, far and away, the best "game" of the modern ones. It feels much better to play in almost every way than the other ones. Especially the combat. There's some interesting stuff in it, but it's largely the mechanics that keep you coming back, not the RPG or world.
Fallout 3 has perhaps the better realized world out of them all; the way it all fits together is great and there's a lot of rewarding exploration in it.
Fallout: New Vegas is, far and away, the best Fallout game...it harkens back to the roots way more and is the best RPG -- by a long shot -- of the 3.
Obviously YMMV and others will feel differently, but that's how I've parsed out this series so far.
As a Manitoban, I think Wab will probably do a pretty good job. The NDP were likely on track for a win after 2 terms of the Progressive Conservatives, but it can't be understated how much the piss-poor handling of the pandemic and health care over the last 4 years was driving people to kick the PC's to the curb. Two generally well-liked Liberal party candidates (very small party here in Mantioba) lost their seats, very likely due to strategic voting just to ensure the PCs got out.
I look forward to the different perspective Wab will bring to the table, and when I looked through the elected MLAs of the NDP this year, I see a very diverse group of people, which will be very refreshing after looking at -- 95% of the time -- rich middle-aged white people.
“Everything my staff has put up has disappeared. Meetings, public hearings, bylaws, notices about water shut offs or road closures, anything we would post back to our main website has been removed.”...
It's amazing how Facebook managed to be the AOL that AOL never quite got too.
Governments are slow to respond, but it's hard to envision a future where they don't all migrate to running their own Fediverse servers. It's easy, especially if all you want to do is run a locked-down one and post info for dissemination, and you have total control (which gov'ts love). Easy to use, no platform lock-in, data is portable all over the place. The idea that our social infrastructure has become dependent on lunatic tech billionaires is nuts, and the sooner we can contribute to, but not depend on, those networks the better.
I was interested in buying a Steam Deck… Until I discovered all the (apparently) better alternatives. Asus Rog Ally, OneXPlayer, Aya Neo etc… I like the idea of an handheld console and obviously I would like to have a device that can run almost everything, so the Windows based handhelds seem better than the Steam Deck. Is it...
I recently picked up a Steam Deck and I can also vouch for it; the device is far more than the sum of its parts and is clearly something Valve was only able to pull off after a decade plus of various software/hardware integration experiments.
SteamOS is the star of the show, and it is both fluid and easy to use while also putting more customization and flexibility at your fingertips than any other game interface I’ve seen. The integration of custom operating system, custom game wrapper tech, and their standardized hardware has produced a device that offers the power and flexibility of PC gaming with a user experience that is getting closer and closer to the “never think about it” ease of use that consoles provide.
It’s not the most powerful; it’s really a 720/800P gaming machine, but games look great at that resolution and you can run a lot of games at comfortably playable frame rates.
I had some doubts after I bought mine when I saw the ROG Ally come out alongside hundreds of “OMG THE STEAM DECK KILLER HAS ARRIVED” videos; but it didn’t take long until I saw a lot of those same content creators return their Ally and come back to the steam deck because although the hardware is slightly more powerful, the user experience end is so much worse than it just wasn’t worth it. Not to mention some serious QC issues with it.
I’ve been a PC gamer for a long time; I think I’ve been active on Steam for 18 years now. The Steam Deck is the best PC Gaming experience I’ve ever had. The hardware is great, the controls (and mapping ability of those controls) are great, the interface is great…everything is just top notch about it. Do I wish it was more powerful? Well that’d be great, and one day it will be. But everything about the experience is so good, I don’t mind some of the drawbacks. It’s encouraged me to get into my backlog of games and genuinely enjoy exploring them again. The Steam Deck just makes it so seamless and easy to play your games.
In fact, I’m getting close to time to build a new PC, and the Steam Deck has really changed my thoughts on it. Seeing how far Proton and SteamOS have come…I just really want Valve to take another shot at the Steam Box. A lot of its shortcomings aren’t issues now, and add in some good Steam Deck integration and have it target 1440P/4K Upscaling, you could create an affordable box that taps into a successful and growing ecosystem. I’d buy one in an instant and just not bother with a new PC build in the years ahead.
That’s how much I genuinely believe that the Steam Deck/SteamOS experience is that good these days!
That's not really how the technology works. But a simple solution could be, both in kbin and lemmy, if the software could aggregate link posts that share the same canonical link URL and provide a summary for each community that's linked it. Then you'd see the link once, but could see the post from each community that's linked it rolled up underneath it.
Kind of like how some RSS readers have a feature that will detect "hot links" in your feed and surface the link with access to the feed items below it rather than having the feed items scattered about.
Just a friendly FYI that the Almanacs have essentially no skill in seasonal forecasting and rely on vagaries and generalities to try and convince readers that the wide net the cast to try and capture chance is actually skill.
Even physical sciences based forecasts can struggle to hit 50-60% skill on seasonal forecasts. Even in the highlights posted here:
Of course the Canadian Prairies and NW Ontario will be cold; they're some of the coldest places in North America in winter, often even colder than many parts of the Arctic as the northwest flow along the western flank of the Polar Vortex helps to funnel some of the coldest air on the planet in Siberia across the pole and through the Canadian Arctic southwards through the Prairies.
Newfoundland and Labrador routinely get blasts of bitterly cold Arctic air from northern Quebec and Baffin Island as passing lows lift northwards into Baffin Island and occlude into the Polar Vortex, but it's softened by the relatively warm waters of the adjacent Atlantic waters. Of course they won't be as cold as the land-locked continental regions to the west.
B.C., especially the western half of it, is among the warmest places in Canada in winter with the cold air routinely kept at bay by a relatively mild onshore flow from the Pacific. The exception is when a particularly strong Arctic outbreak develops over western Canada and a potent high develops over the Rockies which provides a strong surface outflow that drives the Arctic air over the Rockies and out through the coast.
This "forecast" literally just describes essentially every winter in Canada. The fact this pseudoscience that is demonstrably unskilled gets so much visibility each year.
This update is effectively the public version of Developer Update 4, which contains actual details about the changes: macrumors.com/…/everything-new-in-ios-17-beta-4/
Can anyone speak to whether they've fixed video podcast playback in the latest PB? With PB1 you couldn't take a video full-screen or access the subtitle controls.
I had fun playing it on PC, but the game is just that much more fun and immersive on the Deck. I’d say it’s the first game where I’ve noticed a big difference since I got my Deck last week....
June was actually a bit of a slower month of board games for me and I was pretty busy overall. Lots more short games this past month.
The Bloodborne game by CMON was new to me and I really enjoy its efficiency puzzle. I also enjoyed starting to figure out Tiny Epic Vikings which I've been enjoying primarily solo, though it did take a bit to figure out its solo mode and the general strategies as it can feel pretty unfair at times, even if it isn't. I also began to revisit some of my PnP games, starting with Voyages & Aquamarine by Button Shy Games; those are both great and my kids really enjoy playing them with me.
Looking forward to more Bloodborne this month and finishing up my AH:LCG campaign with a friend. I'd like to play my Lacerda games a bit more -- Kanban EV and Weather Machine -- as well before a few outstanding Kickstarters start showing up at my door.
So, this is coming from a reddit user. I don't really understand the microblog button and how/what kind of content it gives you and how it's organized. Can some one give a brief summation.
This is a great explanation; I've been a Mastodon user about 6 months now and was having trouble figuring it all out. One question: is there a way on /kbin to see just the users I've clicked "follow" on? Or is it all doled out into magazines based on tags or random?
I was going to bring a similar analogy; the beauty of ActivityPub and these sites are that as long as they implement the standard in a similar way, they simply become different front-ends to view the same data. There isn't a versus as much as which do you prefer? It's going to be one of the great things about the Fediverse going forwards is the ability to create multiple ways of viewing the same data; each one will attract specific users and no longer will content be walled off between them.
Ive been loving this game. Its a card game with lots of depth to the optimization and some RNG but its not overly punishing. If youre looking for a fun casual game try it out! Its less than $10 on sale right now.
Monster Train is also a really, really enjoyable deck-building rogue-like. Not sure if I like it more than StS, but it's awfully close. I ended up getting it for iPad and it's great to just pop out and play whenever.
Google said Thursday it will remove links to Canadian news on its platforms across Canada after a new law that forces digital giants to compensate media outlets for content they share or otherwise repurpose comes into force....
Oof...I spent some time looking and it really seems like there aren't any great options on Android. Going web-based might be your best bet there. Feedly is a good free option that has apps on pretty much every platform that you can at least try it out and it might work well enough for your needs.
Other popular web-based options are Inoreader & Feedbin. I used Feedbin until I moved towards local syncing and self-hosting. Both of those are paid up front though, whereas Feedly has a free tier.
In Waypoints you play as a hiker traversing a landscape of mountains, valleys, lakes and woodlands. Over four days you'll travel from waypoint to waypoint, discovering different landmarks, animals and gear that might help you in your hike.
Postmark Games has their new PnP game up on KS and it's a mere 4 pounds (roughly $5 USD). They make fantastic print and play games; both Voyages and Aquamarine -- available on their website -- are favourites in our home. Waypoints looks very neat; I particularly like how they've developed this "line crossing" system to break movement out of a standard grid and produce much more organic looking results.
I think the system looks very neat and will have some flexibility in how the different maps play. If you've played Voyages, you know they're willing to create pretty different experiences with minor tweaks to the rule set and mechanics. Looking forward to seeing this one!
It's up for crowdfunding now with the plan that the first two maps (of likely around 5 total) will be available shortly after the campaign with the rest coming later. I'm sure it'll be up on their website for sale there in not too long as well.
Also just worth mentioning that the visual design looks fantastic; just a very pleasant looking experience all around.
After a vegan blue cheese won the Good Food Award, panicked dairy cheese makers forced the foundation to disqualify it (boingboing.net)
Fallout 4 jumps to No.1 across Europe following TV show launch (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Young people paying 'astronomically living expenses': insolvency trustee (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
Useful apps to self-host
I am setting up my NAS right now, and I need some suggestions for apps that I can run on my NAS or self-host....
‘Orange Wave’ elects Canada’s first-ever First Nations provincial premier (ictnews.org)
Wab Kinew and the New Democratic Party take charge in Manitoba...
'It's frustrating': Municipal links removed from B.C. community Facebook pages (bc.ctvnews.ca)
“Everything my staff has put up has disappeared. Meetings, public hearings, bylaws, notices about water shut offs or road closures, anything we would post back to our main website has been removed.”...
Steam Deck VS rivals
I was interested in buying a Steam Deck… Until I discovered all the (apparently) better alternatives. Asus Rog Ally, OneXPlayer, Aya Neo etc… I like the idea of an handheld console and obviously I would like to have a device that can run almost everything, so the Windows based handhelds seem better than the Steam Deck. Is it...
probably my biggest gripe with Lemmy right now. Feels like I'm just stuck in a loop. (lemmy.ca)
BRRRing on the cold: Canada's winter forecast calls for frigid weather | Canada (dailyhive.com)
the Farmers’ Almanac is predicting the “return of the BRRR.”...
Apple rolling out second public beta of iOS 17, watchOS 10, and macOS 14 (9to5mac.com)
This update is effectively the public version of Developer Update 4, which contains actual details about the changes: macrumors.com/…/everything-new-in-ios-17-beta-4/
Hades on Steam Deck is a blast
I had fun playing it on PC, but the game is just that much more fun and immersive on the Deck. I’d say it’s the first game where I’ve noticed a big difference since I got my Deck last week....
OC June Board Game Summary/Megathread
Share what you played in June; what did you like? What didn't float your boat? What was new to you or did you discover an old classic? Share it here!
Can some one explain how the microblog feature works.
So, this is coming from a reddit user. I don't really understand the microblog button and how/what kind of content it gives you and how it's organized. Can some one give a brief summation.
HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray
Imma start by prefacing that I like kbin way better so far....
Recommending Slay the Spire
Ive been loving this game. Its a card game with lots of depth to the optimization and some RNG but its not overly punishing. If youre looking for a fun casual game try it out! Its less than $10 on sale right now.
'Rate limit exceeded;' Twitter down for thousands of users worldwide (www.cbsnews.com)
Thousands of Twitter users across several countries were unable to access the social media site or faced difficulty and delays Saturday.
Google set to remove news links in Canada over online news law (techxplore.com)
Google said Thursday it will remove links to Canadian news on its platforms across Canada after a new law that forces digital giants to compensate media outlets for content they share or otherwise repurpose comes into force....
Steam Deck now on sale (64GB: -10%, $359.10; 256GB: -15%, $449.65; 512GB: -20%, $519.20) (store.steampowered.com)
Live until June 13th.
What petty hill will you die on?
For me I say that a truck with a cab longer than its bed is not a truck, but an SUV with an overgrown bumper.
Waypoints - Hike your own trail in this print at home game from Postmark Games. (www.kickstarter.com)
In Waypoints you play as a hiker traversing a landscape of mountains, valleys, lakes and woodlands. Over four days you'll travel from waypoint to waypoint, discovering different landmarks, animals and gear that might help you in your hike.