[-] Fluid@aussie.zone 105 points 4 months ago

There's no better ad for piracy than the greed of corporations. Don't let ads shit in your head. They disrespect you, you disrespect them.

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submitted 5 months ago by Fluid@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

These words appear on almost all food labels these days, but they are kind of meaningless. Take something like those flavoured waters, "ingredients: water, flavour". They taste amazing, there's definitely a bunch of 'stuff' in there, but they don't tell us what it is on the label?

I thought we used to have number codes for additives and what-not that they had to disclose so we knew what was in it. Did the food labelling laws change somehow? Or are these new additives something different which can just hide behind the word 'flavour'? Genuinely curious if anyone has some idea, there doesn't seem to be any explanations on the food standards website...

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I'm using a windows partition for PCVR to a Quest 3 via steam. Some games seem to struggle despite a pretty beefy card (6750 XT).

My question is whether using adrenaline is a good idea with VR? It doesn't seem smart enough to realise im using VR when it's running, instead choosing settings which match my monitor, meaning it's picking the wrong up scaling and other settings for my headset. Do most people just disable this software, or are there settings which help VR?

[-] Fluid@aussie.zone 44 points 6 months ago

Yeh, I'll wait until the bugs are ironed out and my distro (mint) determines it's stable. No need to start asking for troubles when everything is working smoothly.

[-] Fluid@aussie.zone 113 points 7 months ago

Walled garden platforms doing what walled garden platforms do I suppose...

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submitted 9 months ago by Fluid@aussie.zone to c/mtg@mtgzone.com

Does anyone else not draft as much as you would on arena because of how expensive it is?

For a casual drafter that just wants to play around with the new set for maybe 1 or 2 drafts a week, the cost feels so ridiculous I just don't play. I would love to draft MKM but I cant justify the cost to simply play a digital card game. With so many other ways to monetise the game via cosmetics now, it would be nice of WotC to ease up a little and make drafting more free-to-play friendly.

/endrant

[-] Fluid@aussie.zone 45 points 9 months ago

Exactly. Steam figured this out early on and it's how they have maintained their dominance in the game distribution business. It's the same lessons the entertainment streaming platforms must learn - your value is convenience. Add more walls between consumers and content? you will be cast aside.

[-] Fluid@aussie.zone 44 points 9 months ago

It's taken longer than I expected, but more and more people are realising streaming services as a model are not good, by any measure.

They cost more in the long run, you are made powerless as a consumer (perpetually increasing costs and removing your favourite content), and you can't even get 'everything at the convenience of your fingertips' cause the market is fragmented and they remove things periodically. You own nothing and pay more. Absolutely stupid model that deserves to die.

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submitted 10 months ago by Fluid@aussie.zone to c/mtg@mtgzone.com

The topic of UB is continuing to create controversy as the number of non-Magic IP products explodes. The Professor put out a recent video on the topic predicting a future Universes Within product to make up for all the unique UB cards being added to the mix, but looks like MaRo has quickly shut that idea down.

What are players who don't like UB supposed to do when there are no Magic versions of those cards? This is now just reality.

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submitted 11 months ago by Fluid@aussie.zone to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

It seems the only way now is to navigate to the community you want to post it, and menu>post. Is there a way to add a post button on the bottom bar perhaps, then have a post screen with a community selection? If not, might be a cool idea for future maybe if enough people think that would be useful. Cheers

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Blue cheese beer? (aussie.zone)
submitted 11 months ago by Fluid@aussie.zone to c/homebrewing@sopuli.xyz

I saw an article about a blue cheese beer by some US brewer. Got me thinking, I wonder that this would go? Anyone have an idea how to achieve this? I can only presume throwing some blended cheese into the fermenter would just cause a yeast infection.

[-] Fluid@aussie.zone 50 points 11 months ago

Walled-gardens are fundamentally bad for communication. Discord is not a solution, it’s a problem.

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submitted 11 months ago by Fluid@aussie.zone to c/movies@lemmy.world

My friend and I have spent far too long searching on old DVD and Bluray forums for spoilers on how to access the easter egg “Chimp Commentary” supposedly available on the BluRay edition of Tim Burtons infamous Planet of the Apes reboot.

Hoping that maybe someone else out there may know how we can amuse our tiny ape brains by finding how to enable this easter egg. We’ve tried every combination of menu buttons and no online resources seem to work for the Bluray edition of this film. Has anyone else been able to find this thing?

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Lost Caverns of Ixalan WotC Survey (survey.marketpointsinc.com)
submitted 11 months ago by Fluid@aussie.zone to c/mtg@mtgzone.com
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submitted 11 months ago by Fluid@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

Looking at picking up a quest 3, but want to try one out before I buy. Doesn’t seem like the usual places (JB, EB, department stores) offer any way to test them? Does anyone know of retailers who have demos?

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submitted 11 months ago by Fluid@aussie.zone to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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submitted 11 months ago by Fluid@aussie.zone to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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I’ve been using the notes app to write short thoughts, notes, poems, random ideas, etc and have found it really clunky for this. It has no simple way to edit formatting while typing or after, and a few other designs that seem to distract me. Wondering if anyone else had found this also, and maybe looked around for a better app?

[-] Fluid@aussie.zone 44 points 1 year ago

It’s just so bland and formulaic. Against deep RPGs like BG3, it just pales in comparison.

[-] Fluid@aussie.zone 47 points 1 year ago

Ahh yes, the same PM who has a list of 5 directly contradictory statements as his so-called ‘plan’, that one right?

[-] Fluid@aussie.zone 48 points 1 year ago

Systemic problems require systemic solutions. Enough of this cop-out environmental policy of shifting blame to consumers, we need to put the onus on producers and importers.

[-] Fluid@aussie.zone 42 points 1 year ago

I don't understand why some users really want a native app? A webapp is better in almost everyway. You don't need to build and maintain multiple pieces of software, it just works across multiple devices and configurations. You don't have to install and give permissions to yet another piece of software on your device, creating yet another vulnerability. It's like asking for betamax when DVDs exist. What's a benefit of doing so, just that in comes up in the app store when searching?

[-] Fluid@aussie.zone 60 points 1 year ago

A failure to properly regulate the import of yank tanks. Stop letter them in, simple.

[-] Fluid@aussie.zone 67 points 1 year ago

Greedy capitalists believe line must always go up. They will sacrifice every moral principle to their invisible hand god.

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