Transcendant

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[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I hear you. This latest expedition is the first one I've ever skipped, I find sport fishing IRL very boring (and a bit cruel) so the idea of adding a boring activity to a game I'm already quite bored with really missed me.

I hope they do something truly momentous down the line with this game, the bones have SO much potential! Imo adding some sort of way for players to make their own quests & activities would be a huge boost and could be done without too much reworking of the code.

[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I could be wrong, but I'm not sure what you want is possible.

As I understand it, planet generation all comes from a singular initial seed. So it's probably much more complex than editing your save file, which will contain info about your specific save like inventory contents, ships owned, words learned etc.

I hope they do add terraforming, it would be really cool, but if I've correctly understood the way the proc gen works... Difficult to implement. This is why an update to the proc gen changes all the planets (initial seed).

[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

For years I was adamant that I didn't like ambient, I think because I'd only been exposed to very boring drone stuff. Then I discovered Solar Fields / Carbon Based Lifeforms and it changed my musical world.

I'm quite horrible at self-promo so sadly it's just gathering digital dust, but after 20+ years of writing dance music for myself and others, I decided to get heavily into writing ambient / chill. Made a load of trippy animation videos and setup a youtube... if you love Solar Fields, without meaning to sound bigheaded I think you'd enjoy them.

Ambient / Chill by Ain

[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I love anything by Solar Fields for tasks requiring concentrating, it's especially good for reading scifi.

Whenever he releases a new album though I have to listen to it a few times, before I can have it on in the background... It's very beautiful and intricate.

[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Yep has to have no lyrics or I get pulled into the song!

[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Hey look! Smoky's over here takin' A shit!

... Well, I ain't gonna tell nobody else

[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago

Steam doesn't kick me out of my single player games when my internet connection drops for a split second. I quite like that

[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (5 children)

"Don't say things about someone behind their back, if you wouldn't be prepared to say it to their face"

[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's fairly simple... Gender-affirming care is ok if THEY do it.

[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

I learned not to say things about people behind their back, that you'd not be prepared to say to their face, aged 14.

Cost me a black eye & split lip, also some pride. Valuable lesson though that stuck with me to this day over 2 decades later.

Knoble, sorry for calling you Knobless.

[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

My dad is a pensioner now, and got put in a lovely bungalow by local housing association. It came with with a lovely garden, and he was really excited by the prospect of a cherry tree.

Well, the cherries are ready, and the birds ate the lot!

[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

And if you ever get close to him? ...... he'll betray you, too.

 

Hey all.

Finally in my 40s I'm fortunate enough (with a lot of family help & a mortgage) to be buying a home. It's end-of-terrace; just spoke to the surveyor today after he's done most of the inspection and he's found a lot of structural problems.

Feeling a bit defeated, it's taken so long to get to this stage of having an offer accepted, and being close to exchanging contracts. It's an old house so while I wasn't expecting it to be fault-free, I'm quite disappointed and I guess looking for some advice / reassurance.

Not got the report in text yet but he mentioned potential subsidence; rising damp; cracked walls; problem with the chimney stack; window frames; and others. Said it's all stuff that can be fixed, but potentially expensive. My plan is to wait for the text report next week, then contact the estate agent and attempt to negotiate a price reduction in line with the cost of the repairs, which imo will run into at least £15k. Considering it's on the market for £85k, and the owner wouldn't even put the electric on for viewing because she didn't want to pay £1 a day standing charge, I'm anticipating some pushback.

But, should I even bother? Is this 'sunk cost fallacy' at play? I certainly feel like if they're not prepared to negotiate re repairs then I have to walk away as I could buy a well-maintained property round here for the total cost of around £100k!

Any advice much appreciated.

 
 

Making this post because for some reason this show has flown completely under the radar for many. I had no idea it existed until it was mentioned on a comedian podcast I listen to (Bud Pod).

Of course, the BBC have kindly deleted it from their catalogue. Not sure of the rules here re pirated content so won't post any links, but I found it on both Internet Archive and torrent (torrent is much better quality). It also features a young Benedict Wong, his character is so different from how we know him today!

Well worth a watch, especially if you're a fan of Sean Lock.

 

10 years ago, I'd have put my ability to visualise at 0 out of 10. Practice and occasional halucinogen use has got me to 2 out of 10. It causes no end of problems in day to day life, so I'm interested to hear if anyone has tips or just experiences to share so it doesn't feel such a lonely frustrating issue.

edit informative comment from @Gwaer@lemm.ee about image streaming, I did a bit of digging on the broken links, the Dr isn't giving the info away for free anymore without buying their (expensive) book, but I found some further info on additional techniques here, pages 2/3: https://nlpcourses.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Image-Streaming-Mode-of-Thinking.pdf

 

Heya all. As per title, I'm looking for a good dark theme for qbittorrent. So far I've tried three (MumbleDark, Dracula, DarkStyleSheet), and they all have black text on dark grey background for unselected torrents.

This, imo, is about as clever as going 4000m underwater in a rinkydink submersible that's barely rated for 2000m. Surely someone wouldn't go to the trouble of creating a dark mode, with black text on dark grey. Wondering if it's something to do with my windows 10 setup, or just how it's designed... can anyone direct me to one that doesn't have this 'feature' or solve why this happens? Help much appreciated!

 

Am doing the newspaper questline after I reunited them all... so happy for them but fuck PLEASE can you guys learn a new song?

Or, even finish the one you're currently playing, it's only 30 seconds or so long and just loops forever. I've had to start muting the game whenever I'm near a stable, I write music for a living and this week had that sodding theme (along with the 'Yah yah!" from the conducter) stuck in my head for days, one of the worst earworms I've ever had. When I finally got some music done, one of the synths now strongly reminds me of 'Yah yah!", noooooo.

Would be great if we could have sliders for the music / sound FX, at this point I'd rather put a Spotify playlist of classical music on!

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