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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Makes me curious about how common these incidents actually are. It's pretty easy to think somethings a widespread epidemic from sensational reporting on it, but have it actually not be common at all, at least when compared to the population or other causes of death.

According to wikipedia, there were 1,358 people who died in the US from mass shootings between 2006 and 2017, so about 113 people per year. For comparison, the US had 430,934 deaths from car wrecks over that same period, so about 35,911 deaths per year. So you're over 300 times more likely to die from a car wreck than a mass shooting (which would bring up the question of if you would be willing to visit a country with cars if you're unwilling to visit the US due to mass shooting fears).

With india, I'm curious if it's the same thing, where just the scope and size of the country makes it easy to paint a bad narrative when in reality things aren't so bad. On the other hand, a lot of the really bad rape stories to come out of india involve multiple rapes happening to the same person (like that recent story where a woman was gang raped, went to the hospital, and got raped by a doctor at the hospital). When it happens multiple times to one person like that from different sources, it feels a lot more like a widespread issue than just random cases of bad individuals doing bad things.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

I think the main thing concerning about it is the stories where someone was gangraped on a public bus, or things like that. It's hard to imagine something like that happening at all, the fact that it could be happing and people there joined in instead of stopping it is what makes it so horrifying. There are also that recent case where a woman was gang raped, went to the hospital for it, and got raped again by a doctor. It's easy to discount individual cases of a bad individual doing something as bad individuals in a large society. However when one person gets raped multiple times by different people suddenly it feels like it's not isolated bad incidents and is instead a wider cultural problem.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Favorite: Steam Deck, it's my favorite piece of gaming hardware I've ever owned. The controls are fantastic, it's now frustrating to use other controllers that don't have back paddles, gyro, or track pads.

Least favorite: cheap off-brand controllers, with bad tactile buttons, sticking buttons, analog sticks that drift, analog sticks that only register 8 directions, etc.

Also, Wii U. I have some mixed feelings on it because I have some good memories with the system, but the hardware never paid off. Their were almost no games that made use of the gamepad screen in a way that wasn't just a gimmick, generally the only real advantages of it were being able to play on a handheld screen while the TV was being used (a feat that the switch and steam deck so far better) and being able to have split screen multiplayer where the players can't see each other's screen (limited because you only have 1 game pad, and the deck struggles to do two different rendered screens for many games, with games like Hyrule warriors having to cut the enemies in half when doing split screen).

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

I've heard you want to install Aurora store through F-droid, which should give you the x86 compatible version.

You can also try this, which can install libndk which lets you run some ARM apks on x86 (although installing x86 apks is recommended when possible).

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can install Gapps to use the play store, or use other stores like Aurora or F-droid. You can also install apps directly from apk.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Additional fact: Guinness World Records was the same Guinness as Guinness beer. It was created by Hugo Beaver the managering director of Guinness Breweries, the book was distributed to pubs and used as a promotion for the brand.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's rare, but yes. There are some games with kernel anticheat that can only be installed on Deck with windows or android app support. There are games that you may not own on PC, or are much cheaper for the phone version. Some games get dramatically better battery performance if you run the phone version vs the PC version (the recent Roblox tool claims up to 4x the performance by running the mobile version). Finally there are some games that aren't on PC at all.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://x.com/SadlyItsBradley/status/1806471231656296815

Here's the source on Valve maybe preparing to add it.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I love all the art that's come out of the Brotherwise Cosmere games. The Call to Adventure game is worth picking up just for all the great art alone, and I'm really excited to see everything we'll get out of the new RPG.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

No, it's a lot smaller than a semi trailer. A semi trailer can hold at least a Megawatt generator if not bigger.

The 200kw generator they use is a military model, maybe 4.5'x10' in size?

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

From reading about it on other websites, it sounds like all the customers buying these were well aware that they were buying generators.

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