WooChooTrain

joined 2 years ago
[–] WooChooTrain@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow the description of the flag in the flag code is amusingly vague: "The flag of the United States shall be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; and the union of the flag shall be forty-eight stars, white in a blue field."

According to the wikipedia page, the exact specification is given in "Executive Order 10834," but strictly it only applies to flags made for and by the federal government.

 

I bike as my primary form of commute / transportation, and whenever I hit a pothole or go over some particularly rough patches of road I worry that overtime this could damage the watch. Anyone have any insight into this? I did a bit of research and it seems like many watches these days have some sort of shock-resistance in the form of Incabloc or other technologies. But then I see posts like this which are worrying...

[–] WooChooTrain@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Oof that sounds like it could get tedious. I suppose this is something that might be solved as more people use it, and it builds up an internal catalogue of books?

[–] WooChooTrain@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Cool! They advertise their "machine learning AI" recommendations system, do you have any experience with the quality of its recommendations?

[–] WooChooTrain@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Interesting! Is there a specific reason you don't use one platform for both ebooks and physical books?

[–] WooChooTrain@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Once I buy a place and aren't planning on moving so often, I'd like to do this! But the thought of moving a large book collection is a bit daunting.

[–] WooChooTrain@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I'm not sure either. To me, the loss of resources on death and the bonfire system are also really big parts of a "souls-like," so without these two, I'm leaning more towards souls-influenced, than strictly souls-like.

[–] WooChooTrain@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Dare I say Silksong? The first game was perfect in so many ways, I’m really excited to see in what ways the improve and build on it.

 

As title. Even better if whatever you use also helps with recommendations! I’ve been mostly using Goodreads, but Bookwyrm looks like a neat decentralized alternative. Does anyone have any experience with it?

[–] WooChooTrain@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I’m crossing my fingers hoping they’ll eventually have the option for 3rd-person game play, similar to Skyrim (and Starfield!). It feels like a waste to spend time collecting cool clothing and armor, as well as customizing our character, only to see them occasionally in a mirror.

 

FightingCowboy: "I don't know who the dude was that looked first saw this and said it was going to be souls-like, but you gotta stop doing drugs, man."

VaatiVidya: "I'm curious, what do you see. Armored Core, or Souls? ... No one can deny, there is a lot of souls influence in this."

This is partially tongue-in-cheek since even FightingCowboy admits later that some elements of the gameplay (e.g. the speed and deliberate movement) is similar to souls, but I found watching these two videos back to back pretty.

[–] WooChooTrain@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Thanks for trying that! Inconsistencies like that are probably why comments don't sync correctly, right? For instance, on this thread (https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/10635/Today-at-23-00-GMT-there-will-be-a-30-minute-technical) there are 13 comments, whereas on the corresponding thread in Lemmy (https://lemmy.ml/post/1194271) only 3 comments show up.

[–] WooChooTrain@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

That's possible! I thought that could be the issue. I was a bit confused because it looks like "posts" are put in the "microblog" category on kbin which I thought loosely corresponds to Mastadon-style posts. But maybe I'm wrong...

 

Found this on r/apple on Reddit. Also a nice exposition: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/09/apollo-reddit-demise.

 

Specifically, I'm trying to post (an image) to boston@lemmy.ml from my account on kbin.social. The post shows up on kbin.social, but when I go to https://lemmy.ml/c/boston, it doesn't seem to be there. Is there something special I need to do to ensure it's viewable?