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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.







  • Zozano@aussie.zonetoMap Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyzWorld timezones proposal
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    The first argument is silly. You could simply search “Sunrise time Melbourne”.

    The second argument is also silly. Some people do work jobs overnight, and they don’t say they work 19:00-24:00 + 0:00-2:00

    They simply say “I’m working Friday from 19 till 2”

    Third argument is the same as the first. Look up “sunrise time Melbourne”.

    Besides, a single format timezone works best when the people who use it are prepared to let technology dictate floating values.

    Sunrise time is always changing, and our bodies have evolved to wake with the sun, not with some arbitrary number.

    That’s why I use Suntimes to wake up.

    I set my alarm to “sunrise minus one” and I always wake up one hour before sunrise.

    I work from home, so work always starts for me “sunrise plus one”.

    I set my alarm to tell me to sleep at “sunrise minus 10” and I get 8.5 hours sleep which is fine for me.






  • 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.


  • 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.