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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Open-ended, "sandbox" style MMOs are a lot trickier to get right than "theme park" style ones like Star Wars: The Old Republic. Games like SW:TOR require a lot of content to be developed, but you can at least be pretty sure that if you develop fun quests then players who like questing will have fun.

For a "sandbox" style MMO, you have to design systems that lead to interesting player interactions... and then hope players actually interact. This is complicated by the market share for sandbox games being smaller overall, meaning you can't guarantee there will actually be a sizable player population. Also sandbox-style players are sharply divided on basically every topic from "how much PvP should there be" to "how much grinding should there be" so you quickly find yourself either targeting increasingly narrow slices of players or trying to appeal to multiple playstyles at once, which is even harder.

I think this is why sandbox games have mostly moved towards smaller worlds and self-hosted servers, like ARK and Rust, where they can thrive with small player counts and individual play groups can tweak the experience to better suit their needs.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (14 children)

https://meetunmeat.us/product/luncheon-style-meat/

Water, Non-GMO Soy Protein, Palm Olein, Seasonings (Onion, Black Pepper), Natural Flavors, Potato Starch (Thickener), Modified Vegetable Gum, Wheat (gluten and fiber, Sugar, Yeast Extract, Vinegar, Potassium Salt and Paprika Oil (color)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Much safer than fidgeting with your actual switchblade, which is extremely tempting, lmao.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (10 children)

I don't understand the chart in this article about body type vs. underwear style. It doesn't relate to the question that it's located directly under, and it makes no attempt to explain why, for example, thin men shouldn't wear boxers.

I can't tell if this article is AI generated or just rushed out by someone trying to meet a quota.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

Okay the image is messy but the snake coiling around the scales is actually a sick concept.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's not what the article is saying though? It doesn't say the Greeks thought the sea was red, it says they didn't have (or at least rarely used) a word for what color it is, so they only described it by its other attributes (like how dark it was).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I think you need to use the same phone number you signed up with, but other than that I don't know. If you signed up with a burner phone, maybe you could do that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't know, but mine guesses correctly when I'm a passenger about 90% of the time. Unlike the other commenter, mine doesn't have a bluetooth connection to my car or a device in my car.

Once in a while I have to tell it I'm not driving.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

For each trip it tells you things like how often you touch your phone, what % of the trip you spent using your phone, and how many times you braked hard (which is a proxy for things like tailgating or general inattentiveness, since it can't see the road). Mostly it seems to be a "don't use your phone" score. There's an overall score, and you can see how big your discount is, but the score itself is largely meaningless without the ability to compare to other drivers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Discount on my insurance.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (20 children)

My driving is being non-secretly scored, I have an app just for that. Currently it just complains that I have power saving mode on all the time, so I don't know if it's not working or if it is and I just can't see the results anymore. (I'm not turning off power saving mode.)

[–] [email protected] 101 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

The $250/month plan supposedly includes unlimited traffic. If there's actually a limit where you're supposed to switch to a more expensive plan with no standardized price, maybe CF should say what the limit is?

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