Octopustober [none/use name]

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  • Octopustober [none/use name]togamesGames best with your dad
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    4 years ago

    Are you looking for something to play with your Dad or something for your Dad to play with other people?

    Terraria is great if you want to play with your Dad. The basic controls are simple and you can help with the complex parts of the game.

    3D games tend to be difficult for old non-gamers to learn. They have a lot of trouble moving the camera and moving themselves at the same time. This includes first-person 3D games like minecraft. If you watch old people play they wind up staring at the floor or sky a lot. 2D games are usually easier to start with.


  • Octopustober [none/use name]tofeedback*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    The same things happens. However, it does work sometimes but I can't isolate the circumstances under which it works. When I first got your message it worked but then it didn't when I retried it later.

    I have my firefox set to clear just about everything when I exit it. This includes history and cookies and stuff. I wonder if that could be related.

    EDIT: Middle-click to open works fine roughly 1/5 to 1/10 of the time. Tested this by middle-clicking the bell a bunch.


  • Octopustober [none/use name]toMain*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    It probably doesn't. Russia and Australia are very high on this chart because they have a lot of oil and gas and mining. The pollution from those is assigned to the producers (Russia, Australia) instead of the consumers.








  • It's not feasible in games like Cyberpunk. Stealth has to be balanced with guns-blazing gameplay. If you make stealth significantly worse then almost everybody will just start shooting instead. There will be a small group of people who'll do stealth basically regardless of how good it is, but you can't game design around a small minority of gamers. The best you can usually do for this type of game is add basic option stealth gameplay that smoothly transitions to FPS, i.e. you can snap a few necks to start out with and then start shooting when the alarm gets raised.

    Stealth gameplay is especially hard to design because it requires a lot of effort in level design. You can't just design the stealth gameplay-loop once and call it a day, you have to integrate stealthy gameplay in every area you add. This is why you can't add good stealth to every game, it's too labor-intensive to add if only a few people will benefit from it.

    This is why just about all the games with good stealth are dedicated stealth games. You design each area with stealth in mind since that's how all the gamers will be playing and you make your combat options shitty so you're forced to play in stealth mode the whole time.



  • Octopustober [none/use name]toMaindid you guys hear the news???
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    4 years ago

    Here's the story: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/these-rats-learned-to-drive-tiny-cars-for-science/ . It has a 30s video of the rats driving.

    Scientists were trying to teach rats to drive cars to find out how enriched environments affect learning. While checking the stress levels of the rats they found out that the rats loved driving the little cars around. Driving the little car was so great that there was no real difference in stress levels between the rats in the enriched environment and the rats in the unenriched environment.

    Edit: From a Marxist perspective I think you can draw the conclusion that people like driving around in little cars. We need mass transit of course, but we also need bigger and more accessible go-kart tracks for the masses.




  • Octopustober [none/use name]touserunion*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    I'm not sure what the appropriate community would be or whether anti-china posting is appropriate here at all. I just suggested /c/anarchism because that's where the criticism mentioned in the post is coming from. I think removing either is a poor idea but would support removing anti-china posts over pro-china posts if we had to remove one.


  • Octopustober [none/use name]tofitness*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    Well crap. The only other thing I can think of is to minimize dynamic load. Basically land with your foot but continue falling forward for a moment, and only then push off. It separates the forces from landing and the forces from driving yourself forward. It's difficult to do consistently though, even with decent experience.


  • Octopustober [none/use name]tofitness*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    That concrete is very likely to be what's causing it, asphalt is slightly better. Running too soon after shin splints can also cause recurrence. In practical terms, you may need to to switch to biking or roller-skating or something. Maybe get access to better paths somehow. The other option is to force your running form to change.

    In terms of running form, heel-striking is worse in terms of injuries and you want to do forefoot-strike if possible (landing on the balls of your feet). The problem with heel-striking is that you can land very hard on your heel with little discomfort, this is both inefficient and may cause shin splints. Landing on on the balls of your foot forces you to not land as hard; early on this will feel weird as you're forced to "pull your punches" when landing but as your running form improves you'll be able to reuse the energy to move forward.

    Shoes are very hit or miss in terms of helping shin-splints. It's different for everybody whether types of shoes help them or not. I wouldn't get new shoes for shin-splints but if you get new shoes for other reasons then try them out.