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mrnarwall

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  • Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown gets a combat deep dive and release date

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  • I played the demo shortly after it released. It was mostly a rehash of the pilot episode with some tutorials for the various game aspects. I enjoyed everything except the starship combat. Without knowing anything about what has changed over the last few months, I hope that has been improved, and I'll likely purchase the game when I can

  • “Gifted word learner” dogs can pick up new words by overhearing their owners’ talk

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  • During the COVID lockdowns, my dog was able to pick up the words I use when I end a zoom meeting. He still knows them today and will run into my room with a toy

  • What Youtube channel has maintained high quality standards over the years?

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  • You can blame this all on me for my ignorance. As someone from the US, I can't say I am very familiar with the details on Australian versus New Zealand geography. No miffing was intentional, I assure you!

  • What Youtube channel has maintained high quality standards over the years?

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  • Primitive technology. There are many imitators, but the original is a man on his own in Australia. His videos focus on building structures in the woods. Starting with river mud, he will make a furnace in order to make bricks in order to make a building to sleep in in order to use it for kiln drying for larger structures etc.....

    Be sure to watch with subtitles to read his explanation of things!

    Edit to fix: he is based in Australia, not new Zealand.

  • Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post

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  • This confirms what I expected. I thought I was going crazy the first time I saw an ask reddit repost and I recognized all the top answers. Eventually they bots will outnumber the users and dead Internet theory will prevail

    There are definitely pockets of reddit that don't have their content flooded with bots, but they are the exception in today's day and age. I especially enjoy the college football subreddit, as there still isn't quite something similar on lemmy

  • The FAA is set to start cutting flights to contend with delays and staffing shortages

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  • The Real World is an ongoing reality show on MTV. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was in the 1997 season that took place in Boston Massachusetts.

  • it was only 8 years ago rule

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  • I had problems with all of his bond movies, but for the most part the problems were never him. I didn't know who he was until I saw casino Royale. I think he was a great bond, I just wish the writing was better in his movies

  • Online Dating (2 questions)

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  • In my experience, the matching part doesn't really mean anything other than the conversation between the two of you is now possible. Both of you need to participate in that conversation. And it needs to go well if it means you'll have a date. The statistics are not great for men, and nothing is organic about the process, so you just have to protect your feelings and understand that if they don't talk to you, or if it doesn't go well, it can be for any number of reasons.

    Try your best to not get frustrated, because each individual person is doing their own thing, it's not you versus all potential matches. You are you. They are them. It just doesn't work out sometimes

  • What's the first thing you'd do with a Star Trek holodeck?

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  • I would want to do so many things. I would want to do a ninja warrior type course, but with adjusted gravity or something. I'd make it into a gym with everything I need for my workout. That or maybe recreate a sports stadium and watch football from today, because I missed all of it? The possibilities are endless

  • The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy — and four times the subprime bubble, analyst says

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  • I read through the non paywalled link and I couldn't find any info on if this analysis adjusts for inflation or not. 17 times larger (before inflation possibly) seems so ripe for cherry picked data points in the name of sensationalism, that I wanted to confirm this one idea, and I didn't. Did anyone else find anything like that?

  • What Are Ya'll Playing?

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  • I'm playing through hollow Knight for the first time! I have always enjoyed Metroid and most of Castlevania, and with the silk song hype I felt it was time. I have no idea how far along I am, I don't suspect very far based on how full my inventory screen is. And I'm using the strategy of "re explore old areas once you learn a new move", which is working okay, but I'm getting a little annoyed by how much back tracking I'm doing. I want to find the map for the jellyfish area, but I can't get past this black barrier.

    There are fun optional platforming areas that remind me of Celeste. Now if I only I had unlimited tries like she did. And the boss battles are challenging and punishing in a way that reminds me of elden ring - everyone has a pattern, and they will hurt you if you are too greedy with your attacks.

    Overall I recommend it if you enjoy Metroidvanias

  • smol

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  • Maybe this is the one they put in the museum

  • How long did it take you to get used to glasses?

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  • I started needing glasses when I was 13. I couldn't see the writing on the chalkboard any more. My eyes have slowly gotten worse since then and nowadays I need them all the time. It's still an adjustment every time I get a new pair, but you get used to it real quick

  • for people who got diagnosed in adult age! whats your story?

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  • Growing up, I was always described with words like "spontaneous" or "spastic". I would feel a grasp of content in school but absolutely no interest in doing whatever I deemed as "busy work", including homework. I turned into a very mid student even through college.

    After college, I got a full time job but with no real direction or aim towards anything. I was discouraged by a bad economy and always having bad feelings with interviews. Eventually I found a job in tech, and started applying myself and found that I could write software as a career, and feel mostly good at the end of the day.

    It wasnt until COVID, and working from home with my wife, that I noticed how different we are about our ability to context-switch from chit-chatting and generally being social to actual productive work. I eventually broke down crying and we made changes so that I would be left mostly alone. Talking about these encounters with my therapist I eventually was told that I meet the symptoms of ADHD. Soon after I got tests and it the diagnosis was confirmed.

    While things have gotten better (being able to put a name to it, and having sources of knowledge to read in has been helpful), it hasnt been a night and day difference from before. I can still get distracted, and I still have to protect my ability to focus. Most of what has been helpful is more around trying to manage my energy and mental state (sleep, proper diet, taking breaks, exercise, etc), and then trying to understand and identify when I am more likely to struggle with focusing

  • Reddit CEO pledges site will remain “written by humans and voted on by humans”

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  • I've worked on some enterprise projects specifically to detect bot activity, so that they wouldn't waste ML resources on a fake customer. While it's a bit of a cat and mouse game, they can certainly review past data for their advertising campaign and the conversion rates they are getting in order to determine if reddit ads are worth the money

  • How common is it to need to know the absolute inner workings of something in order to do it?

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  • I've struggled with this mentally, especially when I first was learning how to code. Eventually I realized while it's great to know the ins and outs, you can allow yourself to only worry about what you need to know to get your code running (and that's okay).

    Write a script to go a thing, then learn about how to automate that with a cronjob, then learn about coding in the cloud. If you start too big you might get overwhelmed

  • This community seems a bit inactive. I'd like to contribute

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  • I have been a bit lazy here. I focused instead on arpeggios for a given key, and working through the major keys (as I don't think I've ever been exposed to minor keys, and that can be a later problem). I can play those fairly well, I have the major key pattern memorized at this point. I just cant seem to handle two hands at once

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    What are the most unhinged cartoons in your expert opinion?

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  • Freakazoid was unhinged and spastic in a way I haven't seen since

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    What are the most unhinged cartoons in your expert opinion?

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  • As I recall, aeon flux started in the United States on mtv as part of its "liquid television" block in the early 90s. Back when the station was owned by viacomm, same as Nickelodeon. It shared several voice actors with Rugrats too