[-] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 9 points 6 months ago

Drink when R2 appears.

If you think that's not enough for all 9 movies than add C-3PO.

That should have you well paced for all of them without killing you or being too slow.

[-] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 11 points 7 months ago

I think that's a really key point - back in the days of the PS2 to 360 era, it was all about Xx_Graphics_xX and there were so many 30fps games that dipped to 15 at times, making "30FPS" feel worse than it was.

That said, 30FPS can still be rough. IMO Dragons Dogma 2 running at 30 on the PS5 is pretty rough. Even excluding dips, but it has them. But the game Heroes Hour on the Steam Deck running at 30 is perfectly fine. Similarly, setting Red Dead 2 to get a consistent 30 is fine too.

Consistency is huge, for sure!

[-] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 9 points 9 months ago

I just want people to be able to compete if they use cannabis. But you're right that it would likely devolve lol

[-] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

It is a great resource but? it caps out at the Wii era so... not for this case.

[-] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

I feel like selling it internationally is your best bet. Find someone in Australia and sell it to them for fair shipping.

Selling it locally is just going to make you tear your hair out. You're trying to sell a popular device that has just had a refresh and a fair sale, outside of Facebook Marketplace or somewhere where a buyer is, quite frankly, not knowledgeable, I feel like your chances are just very slim.

On the other hand, Australian's are looking at ~$1,200 AUD for a "new" high model that someone else bought and supposedly didn't use.

You'd be doing the Steam Deck community a favor by selling it to an enthusiast without charging them extra just because they're down under.

[-] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

You also don't have to set it up to skip automatically, it will play through with a popup option to skip.

[-] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

It's how long archeology has said we have had permanent settlements.

In reality it's likely far earlier than that, we only just found a settlement from 11,000 BCE in Turkey, Gobekli Tepe which was likely a sanctuary/shrine, as well as other towns in the surrounding area likely having started before even then.

Big archeology pushed back to say that that's not 100% certain and that humans were still nomadic, despite all the evidence showing otherwise. It was finally just recognized officially a couple months ago.

[-] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

It can be both. It's also a world with armored bounty hunters and political stakes, so saying it's only for dwarf space bears is a little disingenuous.

Star Wars is able to encapsulate the inane with themes that struggle with in the real world, only limiting it to just one or the other is antithetical to the very inspirations that it draws from.

With the context of Andor, to make it lighthearted would be a disservice to the deaths of the rebels who made the events of Episode IV possible. Moreover the events and themes from Andor and Rogue One are tonally aligned (would be weird if they weren't). It's one of the few pieces of SW that actually did a strong job connecting three sequential events of a story over 40 years later (coming from someone who enjoys 98% of what we've gotten), I personally think the reason it was able to work was due to the efforts to remove that halo filter of the force. By Andor not having that tonally lighter feeling to it the measure of success has a different sense. There's also the morally grey side of rebellion, which tons of SW games cover but rarely done in canon.

I think for all those reasons it's more than Andor just "trying" to grittify something lighthearted. Rather it's the highlight of a necessary ruthlessness that it can take to bring about rebellion and that successes aren't always light.

That's how I feel anyway, there's a strong tonal theme for each faction of Star Wars and I think rebels not having the same extent of cushioning from the force that the Jedi do makes for a more compelling piece :)

[-] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

I started smoking with massive bong hits and I'll never move away from that, so I needed to find a vaporizer that was able to provide what I was looking for. I've been through a long list, all with their own pros and cons and various "best" ways to use them.

I started with the FM V5.0s, then the Grasshopper, Arizer Air, Solo 2, VapeXhale Evo, then Mighty family with the Volcano and Plenty, Arizer V-Tower, then the Fury and the Tiny Might.

For bongs, most of these suck or have shortcomings. The Grasshopper (no longer available and should honestly be avoided) was incredible and served me very well, but the company was mishandled and effectively scammed people. However, it was the pinnacle of portable bong vaporizers - seriously unparalleled and its only shortcoming for me was you'd have to reload it if you wanted more than ~2 or 3 very large dense hits (i.e. group sessions). It's too bad it's unavailable, because it really was the best ("when it worked", as the users memed).

The VapeXhale Evo, also no longer available sadly is the next best, only "second" to the Grasshopper for bong rips because it's a desktop vape and it has a heatup time. But the pros outweigh those "cons" that make it "second", easily reloadable baskets and the best convection bong rips on the market at the time. Alas, the company grew old and repurchased and rebranded until a new unit never released and they folded. The biggest loss aside is the ez-load bowls, since they are compatible with a number of devices. Anyway... it was nifty, it heated a glass element that heated the air and made it a full convection vape.

The Mighty is ok for bongs. I differentiate them via the actual glass and pressure of the bongs. Imagine a beaker bong or any bong that you hit and the smoke/vapor condenses in the glass before you carb it and get it all. The Mighty does not do that at all. The Mighty is a bubbler that you when you hit it you get some smoke/vapor - no condensing. It's not my preference, so I personally am not very satisfied with the Mighty as a bong ripper when compared to my other options.

The Volcano is just loud. It's fine, it's fun to have the bong percolate itself but, well meh. It's expensive and loud, it uses a lot of bud but it does put out a lot of vapor. The older V-Tower model is in a similar boat, it's quieter but a little less efficient than the Volcano. I use them for gatherings. The Plenty is fairly disappointing.

The Arizer portables (I have the Air 1 and Solo 2) are weaker than the Mighty through glass so not what you're looking for for bong rips.

Finally, for portables worth mentioning that leaves the Tiny Might. It's a great vaporizer, I find it fairly comparable to the Grasshopper and I'm pleased with it overall. My only shortcoming for it is that I'm constantly reloading bowls, but otherwise it's a strong consistent vaporizer.

But for you OP, I would suggest looking into Ball Vapes. I personally can't 100% recommend any particular one as I'm unfamiliar with the specifics of each and what they all entail, but as a brief overview; ball vapes are desktop vapes controlled by an e-nail PiD controller and are essentially e-nails for convection heating. It's actually just the exact concept of the VapeXhale Evo just inverted, since we are moving the heating elements to the top of the bowl (rather than it being confined).

You can build your own for about $100, but there are plenty of kits available from Cannabis Hardware or Vgoodiez (and I'm sure others, but you can't go wrong with these two.)

[-] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

I don't know what anyone would expect from the company that brings us corporate malware? Seriously the ROG services are ridiculously invasive and difficult to get rid of and have a reputation for a reason.

All that invasion just for a terrible program that can hardly sync your lights.

[-] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Bethesda is a publisher as well which explains that

[-] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

For what it's worth I've read that most torrenting hosts will be adding support for it (at least qbit has said)

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