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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

They look so disappointed and concerned.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Isn't it hot?

Extremely

Makes me laugh every time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The ability to hide posts that are the exact same but posted in Different places. It is very annoying to browse through 3,4,5 posts with the same text, same image and same poster just in different communities.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Nicht "Drachenball" aber ein andere "Übersetzung" die mich nicht los lässt.

Original Titel "You Were Never Really Here" von 2017, hierzulande ist er dann mit dem Titel "A Beautiful Day" erschienen. Nach der Filmbeschreibung, passt der Titel "A Beautiful Day" nicht so wirklich und wenn dann schon ein englischer Titel verwendet wird, wieso dann nicht den Originalen?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Even worse is that it is a trademark. There was a kickstarter for a game "prey for the gods" which could have gotten a trademark dispute over the usage of the name "prey" from bethesda.

So they changed the name to "praey for the gods" to not have to deal with yearlong legal battle and burn the Kickstarter funds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Nvidia shield with a custom launcher. Google updated their Android TV home which made 60% and More of the dashboard just ads so I added projectify as my launcher. There are now only 2 apps being shown on my screen. Plex and Google Play (for updating apps).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

You know, I was really sick and tired when they updated the nvidia shield with the new android TV version that makes most of the screen show stuff that are basically ads. It didn't even let me show only stuff I was interested in and this constant "oh you are hovering over this item for 0.000001s so you seem to be interested in this, let me start the video for you with audio" no god damnit I was reading something else or got a text.

I had to install a different launcher so that I could only show on the screen what I actually wanted to see. I have basically removed or reduced all ads as much as I ca.

Lately, I was at my parents place and they don't have that stuff. Even the 1.5 minutes of ads for a free service is so disruptive to me watching something.

What has this to do with PlayStation?

Well, on the shield you are still able to install a custom launcher that is more to your liking, you could disable the internet access and completely stream your own local content. But on the PS, you don't have that option and are completely at the mercy of what they think you should watch and see on your screen that you bought with a console that you also bought with your own money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

How is asking a question "defending it"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Interesting point but isn't that more for practice? I mean more in the range of a very controlled and secure environment in which those phasers are not being able to hurt anybody. So the actual area doesn't need to be highly shielded or protected because the phasers wouldn't do any damage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Serious question here: isn't the Warp core not the best place to do this? They probably have the right equipment and sensors in the engineering section to do that test and I would also image that the warp core would be much safer because of its added protection systems than anywhere else on the ship, right? So if the weapon blows up, they shut that section off, wait for it to blow and dust off the consoles.

It also looks like they are firing away from the warp core and not at it.

As for data standing right behind it, I mean, he is an android who doesn't fear death or injury...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Short answer: Because their motivation is to win!

I read something about this in the Book "Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development: From Concept to Playable Game With Unity and C#" by Jeremy Gibson a while ago, maybe that can explain this a bit.

Basically, every Player has some Intention or the "Player Intent" which is described by the Personality Types of Richard Bartle. For example, you have:

  • The Achiever who seeks to get the highest score in the game and wants to dominate it
  • The Explorer who seeks to find all the hidden places in the game and wants to understand the game
  • The Socializer wants to play the game with friends and wants to understand other players
  • The Killer who wants to provoke other players and wants to dominate them

And then you have two others that you will be encountering:

  • The Cheater who only cares about winning and does not care about the integrity of the Game and they will bend or break the rules to win
  • The Spoilsport who doesn't care about winning or about the game but rather will break the game to ruin the other player's experience

So, the motivation to "cheat" could either be that this player doesn't really care about the game, is able to get away with cheating and just wants to beat the game. According to Jeremy Gibson, a cheater might not cheat if they can win legitimately but I would argue that cheaters are usually not great players in the first place so the bar would be pretty low for them to "win legitimately".

As for the spoilsport, this is extremely hard to work against or prevent because the motivation isn't about the game anymore but other players, to make their experience miserable so that the spoilsport can gain satisfaction from it. Hence also the use of "don't feed the trolls".

With that being said, when you ask why someone would cheat, the question would rather be "What is their motivation" and the answer to that is "to win the game, at all costs". And, most of the time, they will get away with this because they apparently cannot be caught as quickly as they can still continue doing it, if there is any action against them at all.

 

I have an Ender 5 Plus with some upgrades ("Old" MicroSwiss Direct Drive, Exoslide XY, custom shroud) and I occasionally have the issue in which the Cables for the Print head as well as the Filament Feeding Tube interfere or get caught on something on the printer.

The most recent example was when I printed (or wanted to print) something and in the middle of the night I woke up and checked up on it and it had a layer shift. Turns out that the filament feeding tube got caught in the X belt of the exoslide and prevented it from moving properly.

I already printed some brackets for the cables on the backside to the print head but the tube is still fairly unstable and flopping over after some time. The same with the filament feeding tube, since they are delivered in a spiral they are fairly fixed in that position and while I could and now have oriented it into a position that it wouldn't get caught, I need a more permanent solution.

What I am looking for is something to keep the cables upright, maybe even some "boom arm" that has some clips on it that pull/hold the cables up but also not as tight so that it interferes with anything...

Here is an image of my Printer. which pretty much shows the issue.

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