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  • I just finished playing X3: Terrain Conflict, and I’ll never play another X game.

    As an achievement hunter, I normally play past the point of normal enjoyment, but this game told me, more or less, to go fuck myself.

    The first kick in the nuts was completing “Dead Is Dead” mode.

    You don’t get to save (with the exception of shutting the game down, but the save will delete upon starting it back up).

    The game is prone to crashes, meaning you can have your entire save wiped in an instant because the game decides it doesn’t like it when you use the fast forward function within 10 seconds of a cut scene.

    On top of that, one of the campaigns requires you to set up a massive complex of microchips and silicon, which also has a chance of triggering a crash each time you place a factory down.

    The final 2 achievements are basically “grind until we say stop”. Which functionally resulted in me leaving my computer on overnight, four nights in a row.

    The fact that the devs left the game in this state is inconsiderate at best, and disrespectful at worst.

    Besides, the game is basically just an excel sheet simulator, it really isn’t very engaging.









  • When I was 12 my Mum gave me my first PC, it was a second hand work PC with a tiny HDD.

    There wasn’t enough space to install The Sims, so I deleted the Program Files folder, thinking I don’t need any programs, only games.

    I bricked my PC lol. Needed a tech to reinstall Windows. Thankfully, I could tell him I needed enough space for the game and he debloated it as much as he could. Legend.


  • Zozano@aussie.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzProtons
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    6 months ago

    Wanda, I wish I had an extra inch

    noo timmy, you’re still a child, why are you already so concerned with how others perceive you??!

    Cosmo, I want a flashlight so bright I can see inside a black hole.

    LOL here you go. Want me to teleport you to the event horizon for testing?


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    6 months ago

    Technically not. There are habits, which are mental, and then there are chemical addictions.

    Regardless, you could simply wish for crack to magically appear in everyone’s blood stream in a constant pace for the next week, then turn it off suddenly, and watch everyone (except the crackheads with a stash) go through hell together.




  • Well, no, but the value isn’t so much in raw resources as much as it is facilitating the means of processing them.

    Like, sure, you could try to make several trips from the swamp back to your main base, or, you could set up a swamp base and process the iron you find while you’re there, circumventing the need to load up a boat full of nothing but scrap iron.





  • Zozano@aussie.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzBig Science
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    6 months ago

    The part which annoys me is about intentions.

    Sure, lobby groups do pay off some people with a PhD to lie for them (Patrick Moore), that’s not up for debate.

    But to imply that this is the norm is just ignorant of how research is conducted.

    Most scientists are either employed by a company, working towards a very specific, non contentious goal (like developing cold fusion), or are involved in research at a university, paid for in grants by their government to research whatever has been approved as worthy of investigation.

    Nobody is pressuring these researchers to find evidence to support any particular agenda, the chips land where they fall. There’s no fat cat smoking a cigar telling the climate science team at their local university that they need to find more evidence to crash the petrol stocks so they can sell more solar panels.