Well, that’s not good

I was completely unaware this was coming out. I’m curious to see what NMRIH die hards think of it before I buy/download it.

I see someone else read this NY Times article today. Wild read, I was trying to get things done around the house and it sucked me in.

Edit: OP posted the article in another community, can’t believe I missed it. https://kbin.melroy.org/m/news@lemmy.world/t/411895

Wikipedia link for Unsinkable Sam

Apparently there is a Wikipedia page dedicated to Titanic Conspiracy theories, who knew!

In regards to swapping the Olympic with the Titanic, this section summarizes:

British historian Gareth Russell, for his part, calls the theory “so painfully ridiculous that one can only lament the thousands of trees which lost their lives to provide the paper on which it has been articulated.” He notes that, “since the sister ships had significant interior architectural and design differences, switching them secretly in a week would be nearly impossible from a practical standpoint. A switch would also not be economically worthwhile, since the ship’s owners could have simply damaged the ship while docked (for instance, by setting a fire) and collected the insurance money from that ‘accident’, which would have been far less severe, and infinitely less stupid, than sailing her out into the middle of the Atlantic with thousands of people, and their luggage, on board, and ramming her into an iceberg”.

It is actually getting better, it just takes time.

In fact, according to the above Wikipedia article it was in a great spot in 2019 and then a volcano erupted:

In 2019, the ozone hole was at its smallest in the previous thirty years, due to the warmer polar stratosphere weakening the polar vortex. In September 2023, the Antarctic ozone hole was one of the largest on record, at 26 million square kilometers. The anomalously large ozone loss may have been a result of the 2022 Tonga volcanic eruption.

Apparently, a volcano eruption. The last paragraph of this section states:

In September 2023, the Antarctic ozone hole was one of the largest on record, at 26 million square kilometers. The anomalously large ozone loss may have been a result of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption.

Currently it cannot. It does let you select which applications it records from though (ex: I have it set to record my game audio, discord, and my microphone, but not Spotify).

I wonder if this is related to the latest Lemmy update?

…is this not just a muffler/silencer for leaf blowers? Good on these kids! This definitely falls under the ‘why didn’t I think of that!’ category for me.

They could make more specialized robots, but I imagine the selling point is the versatility. A specialized robot can make food at a fast food restaurant, but can it also deliver food to customers, mop floors, and clean bathrooms? Adding a specialized robot to a kitchen or a factory floor may require you to completely re-design how the floor/room is set up, but adding a humanoid shaped robot would not require any extra setup (well, besides teaching it/programming it).

Spot has been used as a security guard/ inspector at some sites. Going up stairs/ladders would be extremely difficult for something on wheels/treads, but for a robot that works like a human it could be easy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryococelus_australis?wprov=sfla1

Wikipedia article on these bugs insects

Also wanted to drop a comment that this is awesome and a fantastic use of AI!

I’m really disappointed on this one. The original star wars battlefront and battlefront 2 were some of my favorite games and I was looking for an excuse to go back and play the campaign, but with upgraded graphics

I’ve got 14hrs played so far and I am enjoying it still. I am currently level 21 and have beaten the first story boss.

TL;DR Jack of all trades, master of none, but does a good job of mixing things together. 8.5/10 so far.

Palworld is kind of like fortnite imo: it didn’t invent the monster capturing, exploration, crafting, or building, but it is one of the first games to mix them and it doesn’t run like complete ass. The building is kind of basic, the exploration isn’t too in depth but there is always something going on( you can find fast travel beacons, area ‘boss’ monsters, story bosses, dungeons, and there are pokemon throughout all of this), the monsters have some variety but they all feel like a mix of different asset grabs, and the crafting is simple (BUT, you can use your monsters to craft for you and take care of your base).

I’d say individually each of these things are rated 7/10 or 8/10, but when you put them all together it’s pretty great. The crafting and the base building are there, but I just come back, build some things up, and then the monsters do all that for me while I go back to exploring. Last week I went through and beat Raft and Palworld is a breath of fresh air: I’m not spending hours grinding resources and crafting shit, instead I’m wandering around finding new monsters and locations and I come back and stuff is built. The crafting and resource finding isn’t the entire game but it’s a nice accessory. Similar to fortnites building + battle Royale, I didn’t think monster capturing + base building would be that fun, but they have done a great job of mixing the 2. I find myself looking for certain monsters so that I can have them do certain tasks at base, and that’s a win-win in a way.

The game is kind of janky in parts: I’ve had monsters fall through floors, some areas feel like they were ripped right out of other games (I swear some of the old, broken down churches look like they were stolen from elden ring), and the climbing mechanic isn’t fully polished, but unlike other early access games it runs pretty well so far performance wise. I’ve gotten so used to games like valheim, cyberpunk, and starfield where the game comes out and just runs like complete ass (30fps or less) for the first few weeks. Hell, we were playing Raft last week and our host told us to stop building the boat more b/c he was scared the game would crash. I’m not running Palworld like I ran CS:GO, but it feels like a steady 60fps+ at all times which is really great. As a counter to that though, hosting a dedicated server is okay at best so far. There is a memory leak that has the game go from taking 2-4gb of ram up to 8gb+. After 8gb gets used the computer I have hosting it tends to crash and then I have to manually turn it off and on again to get things going.

In the end, I know I’m going to get my money’s worth out of it (30+ hrs), maybe even double that(we’ll see) and I’m happy with that. I’m not expecting this to be the next Skyrim/baldurs gate/fallout, I don’t expect to play this for thousands of hours non-stop, and that’s fine b/c there is other stuff out there I’d like to play anyways. Similar to Valheim (I have 58.2hrs of playtime as of writing this), I expect to play through palworld, shelve it, and if there are any updates in the future I might come back to it.

I had to close and re-open the app and it made me sign in again, but so far so hood.

I am very hype for the release of this one. It hasn’t been officially confirmed (besides some discord comments), but AI enemy changes may also be coming which would be great.

I have a Samsung Odyssey plus (Windows Mixed Reality, it’s getting kind of old at this point) and I was able to 3D print inserts for it and use lenses from a cheap pair of Zenni glasses. In total, it cost me around $30 USD and I wasn’t expecting much from it, but after I slipped them on it was just as great as using contacts!

Instructions for this are here: https://hackaday.io/project/174826-hacking-vr-prescription-lenses-adapters

For those that haven’t played it before, H3VR (Hot Dogs, Horseshoes, and Hand Grenades) is a VR shooter with some of the most detailed firearms in VR. It’s not as detailed as Escape from Tarkov (unless you download some mods), but a ton of firearms built into the game have full functionality, from guns where you can add grips, grenade launchers, sights, scopes, etc. to a fully functional stinger MANPADS. The attention to detail is impressive!

I have a disturbing amount of hours in this specific game mode for this game. Something about moving through the levels, eliminating enemies, and getting better guns is a ton of fun.

Looks like he wrote this article for his book on this that is coming out on Oct 24th: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/217260/ours-was-the-shining-future-by-david-leonhardt/