https://www.eurasiantimes.com/a-whopping-900b-debt-chinas-once-profitable-high-speed-railways/?amp
It'd be good to have high speed rail but not at any cost.
Queue tankies going crazy to defend the absurd cost...
Why would mid-late game players buy low level items on the Grand Exchange?
I'm new to Runescape and so confused as to why players would buy low level items such as wood, ore or bronze armour from the Grand Exchange, are they just hoarders who have a compulsion to collect everything?
Why didn't they simply make the car cheaper without software locking features?
Seems like a bit of a lousy move on the part of Tesla
Good review by Mortismal Gaming:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8h64EYMoLF8&feature=share9
This guy specialises in reviewing CRPGs and his reviews are really good. Often he reviews games after 100% completing them
Recently I've discovered the joy of CRPGs, having previously only dabbled in them without spending any significant time on the genre.
With Baldur's Gate 2 just around the corner, which I'm sure many of us are hyped for, I wanted to try a similar CRPG to get a feel for whether I'm going to want to play it. Enter DOS2; this game is made by Larian Studios, the same studio making BG2, and is an absolutely incredible game.
From the graphics, which are stunning even 6 years on from release, to the combat which makes you think about your moves in a manner similar to how you might do in a game like chess, and best of all stories which are for the most part genuinely interesting. I frequently found myself surprised at events / characters / quests I found throughout the world, even small things like hearing someone screaming nearby then discovering they had been torn to pieces by voidwoken.
I recently just finished Act I and just started Act II but wanted to share a bit of love for this game as it is an absolute masterpiece with a well deserved 95% positive rating with 144k reviews on steam.
Please share your experience with DOS2 and whether or not you have fully completed the game!
I'm very excited as I've only recently discovered how fun CRPGs are. In preparation I've started playing through Divinity Original Sins II and am up to Act 2 so far.
The scene from the Livestream with the vampire and druid bear was so out there I can't wait to see what other crazy/interesting things are in the final game.
I've only completed Act I and can't believe Act II will be even bigger, there's already so much to do in Act I. Are there only two acts in total? After DOS2 I plan on playing through Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous and then maybe Pillars of Eternity 2
Also that, according to the WHO, processed meat is carcinogenic and red meat is probably carginogenic so people are giving themselves cancer by eating it.
Source:
Why a cure for ageing would benefit everyone and not solely the ultra wealthy
If you put aside ethical and humanitarian reasons for making a cure for ageing widely available, there is still economic considerations, i.e. if you are a government you will be presented with a choice between:
Do I pay to treat people for ageing, even though the treatment might initially be expensive, or do I let them age without intervention?
The former option might actually be significantly cheaper because people in an advanced state of ageing cost more money. They have more diseases, since many diseases are age related such as dementia, cancer and cardiac disease, and need more healthcare and also can't work anymore.
If instead, the government pays for rejuvenation treatment they save on all the other healthcare costs and their people don't have to stop being productive.
So perhaps in the future when a cure for ageing is actually developed it will be made available for everyone rich and poor alike
"Thus, rejuvenation by age reversal can be achieved, not only by genetic, but also chemical means."
https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.204896
-- Journal of Aging
Full journal article here
https://www.aging-us.com/article/204896/text
"Thus, rejuvenation by age reversal can be achieved, not only by genetic, but also chemical means."
-- Journal article abstract
The full journal article says "in vivo" not "in vitro". They have already successfully regenerated mice which are organisms biologically similar to humans.
Edit
I was wrong about this. The journal article does only talk about results obtained "in vitro" but mentions other studies that have successfully reversed cellular ageing "in vivo".
The ability of the Yamanaka factors to erase cellular identity raised a key question: is it possible to reverse cellular aging in vivo without causing uncontrolled cell growth and tumorigenesis? Initially, it didn’t seem so, as mice died within two days of expressing OSKM. But work by the Belmonte lab, our lab, and others have confirmed that it is possible to safely improve the function of tissues in vivo by pulsing OSKM expression [22, 23] or by continuously expressing only OSK, leaving out the oncogene c-MYC
So in this study the results were only in vitro but other studies have successfully reversed cellular ageing in vivo.
Like I already said earlier, it would be better if no company was allowed to pay games publishers to block out publishing on their competitor consoles but Sony have already been using this dirty tactic for years.
MS said they are buying Activision Blizzard so Sony cannot block games from being released on their platform once again.
So to directly answer your question it is "ok" because it is a defence strategy to prevent Sony blocking them out of games. It is no worse than what Sony already do and at this point if they don't use strategies like this then their platform risks fading into obscurity leaving Sony with a monopoly which is bad for consumers.
In the console market they are the underdog because their console has significantly less sales both in terms of units and game sales
Can't wait for this to be released. IIRC a lot of it was built in the rust programming language which is a bit of interesting trivia
Not exactly the same as what you suggested but I just tried using Steam Link with a Bluetooth controller and it worked surprisingly well. I'm wondering if I could get this working when outside my house using a private VPN server, sort of like my own home version of GeForce now
News about the merger being approved was being discussed on Beehaw and everyone was dogpiling on Microsoft saying they're the devil for buying Activision Blizzard.
When I pointed out that Sony are also not innocent, as they regularly pay publishers to block release of games on Xbox, my comment was deleted.
At this stage Xbox is the underdog when compared to PlayStation and need a deal like this to not fall out of the market which would be a bad thing for everyone because it would mean less competition.
Of course it would be much better if no company was allowed to make exclusivity deals with publishers.
Saw a game on Google Play that had great reviews (4.6k AVG with 77k reviews) so downloaded it thinking I finally might have found a good mobile game only to find it was trash like almost every mobile game I've ever tried.
Is it me, am I the problem, or are virtually all mobile games terrible?
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Edit
Thanks for everyone's feedback and suggestions, I've been trying out some of your recommendations as well as trying out Steam Link to play my steam PC games
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Just wanted to bring some more well deserved attention to this awesome game!
After playing too many city builder games I thought it'd be a long time before I got into another but after seeing the crazy high rating on steam (95% positive with more than 11k reviews) I decided to try it out and boy is it awesome.
I've been hooked playing this game for the last couple weeks now, I'd love to hear Lemmy's thoughts on the game
Official description:
> A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
To understand why you might want to use tmux try the following:
- Open your terminal
- Start editing a file with vim or nano but don't save the file
- Close then re-open your terminal
You will have lost your progress, next we can repeat but this time using tmux so you don't lose your session:
- Open your terminal
- Start a tmux session using
tmux - Start editing a file again using vim or nano
- Close and re-open the terminal
- Type
tmux ato re-attach to the existing session
Note that this time none of your progress is lost.
Aside from enabling you to have a persistent session, tmux also allows you to have multiple terminal panes open so you can do more than one thing at a time in the window, to see what I mean try this:
- Open your terminal
- Start a new tmux session using
tmux - Type
topto begin listing processes - Press
ctrl bthen%to make a new split pane - Enter
lsor other terminal commands
You will see that you can use more than one panel to do things. This can be useful for example if you want to watch run tests and also run other commands.
I thought I was sick of top down building games like this until I tried AtS and it has been a blast
TL;DR; tried gaming on Linux again after not having done so for ~10 years and am absolutely blown away by how much improved it is
Today I decided to get some use out of an older/leftover PC that I had laying around after upgrading. My plan was to plug it into the TV in our lounge room so that my 5 year old can play some of the less demanding games she enjoys from my steam library (stuff like Slime Rancher 2).
Originally my plan was to install Windows on it only to discover I couldn't do this due to TPM / secureboot requirements that the older hardware couldn't handle, this was infuriating and felt like I couldn't use my own machine which used to run Windows fine.
To understand where I'm coming from; I've been a Linux user on and off for more than a decade and in the past had been able to play some games using Wine but it was often fiddly or simply wouldn't run the game well enough which is why I generally just dual boot Windows for gaming.
I decided to give Linux a try as I'd heard steam has made gaming on Linux much more approachable than it once was using a proton compatibility layer (which under the hood uses Wine but making it a bit easier to use).
After installing Ubuntu 23, Steam and then enabling the proton compatibility in Steam settings I am absolutely amazed at how easy it was to get most games working!. My daughter has been playing Slime Rancher 2 and it works really well and I've also tested a few other games such as Cult of the Lamb and Dredge and they also worked well. This is such a leap forward to how I remember the state of things back ~10 years ago when I last played games on Linux.
From recent developments it seems like gaming on Linux is really beginning to pick up momentum and I look forward to the day game publishers place great import on releasing native Linux ports but until then am super grateful for the work the good people at Wine have been doing as well as Proton and Steam for making it easier to use.