If you can get past the background noise, this is one of my favorite old YouTube videos and it’s basically this: Windows Vista Speech Recognition Test

This also works (wait for the chorus)

Even better is when it just opens the homepage of the app instead of a direct link to what was given.

Plastic molding and design are way easier with no moving parts.

Yeah, but that unfortunately is asking someone to spend some decent money. It’s a problem that could definitely be fixed in softw- Oh no. Don’t get me started… Nice try.

(insert lengthy explanation and complaint about compression and audio mixing here)

I often forget about them as soon as they release. Part of it also is that they usually fall off the map after the first year of being popular and then are never brought up again. That’s why I commented here is because I was surprised to see someone still talking about this game.

The most recent other examples I can think of are Pragmata, Where Winds Meet and Crimson Desert. I’m not even saying I think these games are bad, just poorly marketed to anyone other than the existing audience for them.

My god, UX has taken a cliff dive in the last 20 years. There are so many things being replaced with touch buttons and touch screens that DO NOT NEED THEM. A good old physical clicky button is going to remain the best way to interact with 98% of digital inputs and yet product designers cut 1.2¢ by putting capacitive touch interfaces.

Fuck touch buttons and any other non-click-button control that doesn’t need to be. Just let me push the button!

I haven’t played it but I can tell it’s not for me. I’ve seen many games in the last decade come out that seem to be a part of what I call a “fantasy island”.

It’s hard for me to describe, but I know it when I see it. In general, most of these story-heavy massive award-winning RPGs are relying on the player already liking the aesthetic and gameplay style. And if you’re not already a big fan of this style of game, they will do little to try and set it apart from the others.

None of the trailers or gameplay I’ve seen is there to convince someone to play it. They just expect that you’re already into this genre and you know if you’ll like it. It isn’t just E33, it’s all the games that fit on my fantasy island metaphor.

And it’s not just JRPGs and not just fantasy specifically, but just this category of games that “all the gamers” are playing that are “the best game ever” based on awards assume you already have the rest of the genre to compare to.

On its own as a standalone game without knowing about JRPGs, it does nothing to bring in other types of players. And thus, I have yet to try a single game from fantasy island.

Not quite the same, but many colony sims allow you build very compact walkable cities. Timberborn and Surviving Mars come to mind as being quite good at giving the feel of city management on a smaller scale for me personally.

Haha thanks. I’ve been making an active effort to jump on threads like these where I can sense the BS.

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So many comments confused, but the important part is that the yeast survived in the cold.

“Yeasts that are active at very low temperatures can offer advantages in different areas,” Sarhan says in the statement. “If fermentation is possible at room temperature or even at refrigerator temperatures, energy can be saved since no additional heating is required. Furthermore, the yeasts could also be active during transport, meaning they could contribute to fermentation already on their way to the manufacturer.”

You’ll pretty much never get a good picture of the moon without a tripod and 1-2s exposure paired with at least a compact zoom lens. The problem is that the moon is super bright against the sky so you have to bring your exposure way down to compensate. On a phone, it’s pretty much lost all the useful info it normally uses to fake a good result. Zoom in at all and bye bye quality.

For what it’s worth, I’ve always aimed to write my searches in as few words as possible to avoid bringing results from other unrelated topics into it. Most of my searches read like a caveman and often don’t show much relation to one another, but I get the results I’m looking for. More reinforcement of your point than anything that search history is almost impossible to determine the motivation behind.

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Why don’t you make like a tree and get outta here

Yes it is

We’re just speedrunning into this future: https://youtu.be/YJg02ivYzSs

It’s a big club and you ain’t in it

I can’t imagine buying something with the mindset wrapped around what someone else in the future might think it’s worth. If I’m buying it, I might as well like it. This is such a sad way to view the world.