I mean, it’s Valve. But it will be funny when #saveTF2 happens for the third time next year, and Valve does their now-yearly ban wave again and everyone repeats wondering if the problem is solved.

I enjoy the idea that some shitass mason hated whatever king hired him, built all the stairs as quickly and poorly as possible, and then to save his ass later had to be all “oh hmm yes the stairs? That’s a feature actually” and somehow it winds up catching on

Has begun? Didn’t it happen like a year or two ago, resulting in Valve tweeting about solutions coming “soon” and then predictably doing nothing?

Though I don’t know where you live, I’d be surprised if your police were actually underfunded. More likely the funds are wildly mismanaged and spent on garbage like crowd control weaponry, fear-mongering “everyone is an active enemy combatant”-style training, or straight up APCs.

The little coal guys from spirited away are real!

In my experience steam will still give you s refund if the game is rendered literally unplayable

It is happening now but evolution takes a long time. If there were a ton of adaptations that happened in the next 10,000 years, that would be incredibly fast on an evolutionary timescale

Unless the game is solely bottlenecked by processing stuff

yyyyep. Pretty much any mainline GPU made since 2010 should be able to handle TF2 just fine, and if you’ve got a 1060 or better I seriously doubt your GPU is the problem. The problem is that CPU usage is horribly optimized and it can only really utilize 2 threads (not cores, threads). After that it’s your clock speed that makes a difference.

I played competitively on a 680 and an overclocked i5-4690k@4.2Ghz until I finally upgraded last year, and would only dip below 100FPS playing pubs on Halloween. In 6s I never went below 200.

I mean, back in the day, I already used to get better performance when I would boot in Ubuntu 16 instead of Windows. Not sure that’s the case anymore with modern stock Ubuntu but I imagine Mint would still do better thanks to having less bloat. But I have trouble imagining that better shaders are going to help many people at all.

edit: the vulkan update probably won’t help. the switch to 64 bit has the potential to be HUGE.

This might help very slightly but it isn’t gonna fix it. Runs terrible on windows too

Everywhere I go… I see his face…

Trek tends to fudge the dates on purpose. It’s supposed to take place In The Future, and you’re supposed to be thinking about whatever philosophical concept the episode is about, not the exact timeline of events. From Wikipedia: “stardates were originally intended to avoid specifying exactly when Star Trek takes place.” I hate linking to Fandom wiki pages, but I’ll say the page on stardates goes on at length about how inconsistent Trek time is.

Jumping around within a single episode is a little funny, but doesn’t surprise me. Some writers try to be consistent, but maybe only for a few connected episodes, and some don’t try at all. Sometimes a character will die, but an earlier episode or a flashback with a clearly later stardate will see them alive. There’s all kinds of technobabble about where they are in the universe, and light speed relativity, and so on, but at the end of the day the show isn’t trying to hide any serious messages in its timeline so long as the story of the episode makes some level of sense.

Sure, why not? She can probably handle any danger without me

It harms THAT SPECIFIC PERSON’S ability to enjoy the game. Your group probably enjoys you if you guys play together regularly.

Reviewer 2 aint never heard of replication and wouldnt know what scientific rigor was if it kept slapping him in the face

No

I drove cross country last year and saw signs of bedbugs in 3 of the 4 stops I’d picked out ahead of time. One of them was straight up still treating the room and even using a home remedy (had diatomaceous earth scattered all around the room) and then told me to my face they didn’t know what I was talking about. From what I hear, it’s only getting worse.

Airbnbs might not be any more professional about handling the situation, but at least they handle a smaller volume of people.

But how would a user on A find anyone on B before federation? I know Lemmy can initiate federation through the search function just in case you’re the first to look for something on another instance, but I don’t see how that would work on Masto.

On desktop there should be a small “about” link in the bottom left, from which there is a “moderated servers” dropdown menu where you can see defederated servers. I don’t see anywhere to view the servers you ARE federated with, but if it’s listed at Mastodon’s official website (whoops, I actually meant this)it’s probably in.

I don’t see anything on the official Masto app, but that app is just missing a ton of functionality in general.

For what it’s worth, here’s an account that reposts everything NASA puts out: https://social.beachcom.org/@nasa

wouldn’t an untradeable share just be worthless? give employees stock options