YES for Sacrifice. This game is a piece of art. I don’t get how it was never remade or it never got a sequel. Such a loss…

I am also from Germany. Political and cultural developments that happen in the US will in some form arrive in Europe with a delay of about 10 years, at least that is how I often felt.

Bass Player here, I am pretty confident this is a flute.

Serious question: you use it instead of wiping, not in addition to? I have a hard time imagining the bidet would be more sanitary without the use of mechanical force (wiping) and/or soap. Is it really just a jet of water that is supposed to remove any residue, regardless of consistency?

Please have a look for statistics that are adjusted for purchasing power, first of all. Then please compare the LCoE of nuclear power to for example wind energy - it’s only comparable (and comparably low) because decommissioning and waste disposal is not factored in - you pay for that via taxes. Also, at least in Germany there is the Merit-Order system im place, which artificially creates a price for electricity with the explicit goal to make it more independent of the costs of each individual source. While you are correct that prices have been high (also after adjustment for pp, but not as much), the price shock in recent years was due to gas, for instance, and would have been high even if many nuclear power plants were still on the grid.

I am just saying that things are not as simple as some comments on this thread make them out to be. The statement that nuclear is cheap (it is only if you ignore the expensive part of the costs) because my electricity bill is small is just not reasonable.

I just realized I engage in a discussion on a shitposting community. I guess I am kind of new here.

Yeah I got that impression from the other comments. I might go back to just that part for the hell of it. Seems to be kind of a meme.

Yeah I don’t know, I remember something about extra super steel in the beginning, where it was kind of like “assertive entrepreneur makes eggheads do the impossible”. That is just not how anything in engineering works at all. Was kind of a turn-off for me also.

But I am glad that this stuff made it into a cool train story for you. I like your sentiment.

Levelized costs of electricity are different from the spot price. Market price doesn’t tell you anything about cost efficiency of nuclear (or any other source).

Started reading Atlas a couple of months ago and put it aside after a third or so. I am used to reading “conventionally boring” stuff but this was such a slog. Super sterile, the characters are stereotypical, the message Rand wants to bring across seems awfully clear very early on. It may be the historical context that makes it more interesting, I didn’t see it, though. Just couldn’t do it.

Reading your comments on this thread is a relief, maybe there is nothing wrong with me after all.

Yes I put it there to point out that I enjoyed even more mediocre games like Pillars more than Divinity. Thus my confusion.

Steam says I got roughly 25 hours in. I remember that I really wanted to enjoy it, but it didn’t come, so I put it away.

I enjoyed both Baldur’s Gates, Planescape Torment, Pillars of Eternity, Arcanum, Gothic, I don’t know, pretty much RPGs across the board I think.

I love CRPGs and was excited when I got recommended this game - it got a lot of praise. Unfortunately, I found it to be tedious and overall uninteresting. That wouldn’t be worth mentioning if this game wasn’t on every top-rpgs-of-all-time list… I honestly don’t get it and I am confused.

There is dozens of us!

Sacrifice by Shiny.

I still think it is one of the absolutely best games I ever played. Totally unique gameplay, story and overall feel. The world really sucked me in for a long time.

I think didn’t get the love it deserved at all. I would be so excited if it ever got remade or a sequel but it seems unlikely.

I played that a lot, also the second and third parts.

I remember starting the first game, I had no clue what to do and I put it aside again. Then I tried again, somehow got over the extremely high entry barrier in terms of difficulty (or so I remember) and I loved it. That feeling when you got your first decent ship or later on stations… It was a wild ride.

A time lapse of the history of the universe:

Very minimalistic, but I like the sound and visuals. Just try to tune in and enjoy an existential crisis at the end!

I see it this way: federation is unironically a feature, not a bug. What will the platform look like in 5 years? Maybe none of the currently “big” instances will exist anymore, but others will have taken their place. Maybe a rotation of popular instances will be normal (probably not), I don’t know. I can always make a new account and move to another instance - I find that beautiful.

I think if you retain the expectation of a monolithic all-in-one network like Reddit is, the Fediverse might not be for you - but for others, it will be right! Federation won’t kill Lemmy, it may attract a certain demographic for sure, but again, I see the merit in that.

I just read your article and have to say your approach resonates with me and I appreciate your transparency. Do other instances use this too and is there may even a collaboration with other instances on this list? It’s not going to become easier keeping this list up to date I guess

I don’t understand either. Not having any “social media features” like a profile site or “karma” is a big plus for me. I use my account for access and saving links, that’s all I expect.