[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 26 points 9 hours ago

Fracking is just a bad idea all around, with all the water shortages around the country we don't need to be polluting the water we have. It could maybe be done safely to a certain extent, but there will never be enough oversight to ensure that.

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 4 points 11 hours ago

This is going to be the sort of thing if you use it four or five times your skin melts off.

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 35 points 2 days ago

Changing stuff and seeing what happens. If you change two things the universe will let the problem be fixed, because that leaves you uncertain which thing fixed the problem.

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Verizon has been trying Fios for decades now and I think I know one person that has it. Verizon is already a very very difficult company to deal with. Them buying Frontier will only make things worse.

Companies should not be allowed to acquire other companies if callers are on hold more than 5 minutes when trying to speak to a person at the acquiring company.

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 55 points 2 days ago

That ridiculous, Trump is the best useful idiot he has. If Putin is saying he prefers Harris it's only to take advantage of his infamous status and get people not to vote for Harris.

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

I'll vote for him if he starts doing a Scottish accent exclusively.

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

Conservatives have changed, they are way more extreme now and don't hide their prejudices.

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 14 points 3 days ago

So the iPhones can't have buttons but the cases can? That's just buttons with extra steps.

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

Putin should stand trial for every one of these deaths.

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 8 points 4 days ago

People call RDR2 a masterpiece and yes it's very beautiful and very detailed. But the gameplay systems and controls don't really feel quite right to me, and I feel the same the same way about Star Wars Outlaws. Plus to me the games just feel similar when you're wandering around big wide open areas.

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 13 points 5 days ago

Same. It took me a bit to get the settings how Iiked them and figure out the gameplay loop. But now I think it is similar to Red Dead 2 or a Ghost Recon game. And it's set on gorgeous Star Wars maps.

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago

As others have said, it does set you free eventually. Takes too long IMO. The world is really nice and beautiful. I never got totally on board with the control scheme and UI.

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Green dragonfly (i.imgur.com)
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That's no moon! (steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net)
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Valet parking seems to be getting more common at some city locations that don't have a good parking situation.

How do you feel about valet parking? Doesn't bother you in the least, will do it if you have to, will never do it, something else?

Personally I don't like some random person driving my car.

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I've never smoked, but I've been around people that do. What do people feel during/after smoking? It doesn't seem to make people high or hallucinate or anything. It maybe mildly relaxes them?

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I've been getting diverted on sidequests, capturing ships, and exploration too much.

But I really don't want to do the Constellation questline yet, I've seen some spoilers and I'm not ready for that . I'm thinking of concentrating on the UC Vanguard or Freestar Collective questlines. Can I complete those without interfering with the Constellation questline?

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Just went through a Starfield experience that sort of awed me. Wanted to capture some pirate ships, I took a mission from Freestar Rangers mission terminal to destroy a "Crimson Fleet Captain." I thought it was a person, but that's the name of a ship.

Engaged the ship, battle was fairly easy, took out their engines with EM weapons and boarded the ship. I was immediately blown away by how big and full of stuff the ship was. I've got a couple class B ships, but this one was probably 5 times the size of my Aegis. There were rooms after rooms, a few big open areas, several kitchens and sitting areas, a medical bay, storerooms, weapon rooms, armor mannequins, and a medium size trek-like bridge. The ship had at least 3 levels, and had probably 10-15 pirates to fight. Got to the captain's chair and was able to sit in it because I had leveled up my pilot skill enough. The ship was mine! I did this sort of thing last week with a smaller but impressive ship, but wasn't able to sit in the chair because my pilot skill was too low, so I had to abandon it.

All the time I was fighting my way through the ship I was saying "oh my god" to myself as I saw how much bigger this ship was than the ones I was used to.

For all it's shortcomings Starfield really nailed the ships, they are very unique and even compare very favorably to ships from Space Engineers, Empyrion, and Elite Dangerous. Elite Dangerous ships might give them some design competition but you can't walk around in them IIRC.

ETA: The ship is apparently originally a Crossbow III, it's not all that huge but compared to the starter ship it's massive: https://inara.cz/starfield/ship/1984/

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Sound clip is pretty creepy.

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Like ants nesting on a river bank, some only live a few days. A colony could live for many ant generations on a riverbank but when a big flood comes their entire world is wiped out.

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