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Glowstick, (edited ) do astronomy w Northern lights predicted in US and UK on Monday night in wake of solar storms

Anyone got a map? Saying “as far south as the midwest” is a pretty useless descriptor of where this might be seen

EDIT

map

swpc.noaa.gov/…/aurora-viewline-tonight-and-tomor…

Krrygon,
@Krrygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Thanks for posting the map! Looks like here in central washington, I am out of luck haha. Better luck next time, I s’pose!

Glowstick,

The red line is the “view line” so you might see a glimpse way off on the horizon

stoy,

I have the Aurora Pro app on my iPhone, it sends me alerts when the forecast predicts northern lights in my area (around stockholm)

Shdwdrgn, do astronomy w Northern lights predicted in US and UK on Monday night in wake of solar storms

But the solar flare was yesterday, if there was going to be any good viewing of auroras it would have been last night, or more likely a couple nights ago (from US time zones). The peak of it occurred shortly after lunch yesterday and it’s calmed down back to normal today.

mihnt,

I mean, these are highly funded government agencies reporting this from both sides of the planet. You know something they don’t?

Shdwdrgn,

The agencies were correct about the information, however unlike OP apparently I know how to adjust for time zone differences. Monday morning in Australia is still Sunday in the US, so yes that would have been the correct time for the warning. But this article was posted here a day after the event occurred, all of the warnings expired, and the Kp index had dropped back down to more moderate levels. At the peak of the event the Kp index reached around 8.0. When I posted my comment yesterday it was sitting at 1.66, well below the threshold for seeing auroras anywhere in the continental US. If you had any chance of seeing auroras here it would have had to be Sunday night, not Monday night.

ODuffer, do astronomy w Northern lights predicted in US and UK on Monday night in wake of solar storms
@ODuffer@lemmy.world avatar

Complete cloud coverage predicted in UK, as per usual, until perhaps June.

then_three_more, do astronomy w Northern lights predicted in US and UK on Monday night in wake of solar storms

It feels like this has happened a fair few times this year. Is the sun entering a period of heightened activity?

hperrin, do astronomy w Astronomers discover Milky Way’s biggest stellar black hole – 33 times size of sun

33 times the diameter, volume, or mass?

Nm, it was in the actual headline. The mass is the answer.

FlashMobOfOne, do gaming w Does anyone have "Neopets revival" on their 2024 bingo card?
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I mean, it’s legitimately a bright spot.

But with November of this year likely heralding the legitimacy of fascism in the US, it’s incumbent upon us to try enjoy the silly shit before that comes along.

Telorand,

You speak as if it’s already decided. It’s incumbent upon us to enjoy the silly shit and do our damnedest to prevent the fascist rise.

Go play some Neopets, and stop listening to news orgs for a while (you’ve likely already decided who you’re supporting, anyway), especially the ones who trade in the 24h News Cycle; they have a vested interest in selling rage, not nuanced journalism. Hope eats into their profit margins.

FlashMobOfOne,
!deleted7243 avatar

You speak as if it’s already decided.

I think it is. Trump won in 2016 because people were largely impoverished and Democrats didn’t do anything about it. The impoverishment is worse now.

BUT, that does make it more important to enjoy the silly shit. Absolutely.

Telorand,

I think Trump won, because people underestimated him and thought it was somebody else’s problem to go vote.

We will have to agree to disagree, plus, I don’t want to derail this Gaming community into a political debate. Enjoy your games! If you see a golden Shoyru, it might be mine.

FlashMobOfOne,
!deleted7243 avatar

Fair enough. Enjoy your awesome Neopet!

Dasnap, do gaming w Does anyone have "Neopets revival" on their 2024 bingo card?
@Dasnap@lemmy.world avatar

My wife occasionally jumps back on, and it’s always interesting to see how little it’s changed.

Zahille7,

I like it. Like a time capsule for the internet.

livus, do gaming w Does anyone have "Neopets revival" on their 2024 bingo card?
@livus@kbin.social avatar

Cool, I still have my pw but haven't been there in years. Will go and feed my immortal pets.

toxicbubble, do gaming w Does anyone have "Neopets revival" on their 2024 bingo card?

they promised a mobile game years ago, still waiting

caseyweederman, do gaming w Does anyone have "Neopets revival" on their 2024 bingo card?

We’re getting a Magi Nation revival too. It’s a good year.

jsomae, do gaming w Does anyone have "Neopets revival" on their 2024 bingo card?

I had it on my bingo card for 20 years and just took it off :(

jsomae, do gaming w Does anyone have "Neopets revival" on their 2024 bingo card?

Article mentions the death of flash was a nail in Neopets’ coffin, but they don’t mention the open source Ruffle project which resuscitated Neopets’ flash content.

KingThrillgore, do gaming w Does anyone have "Neopets revival" on their 2024 bingo card?
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

If only Club Penguin would get resurrected.

Kaboom, do gaming w The disturbing online misogyny of Gamergate has returned – if it ever went away

Yes, because reviewing products poorly and then not buying said products is aggressive harrassment. Im not obligated to buy products, even if Im not being pandered to. You are not entitled to my money.

GammaGames,

You should educate yourself on the subject 👍 you appear to be defending death threats while not actually saying anything substantial or relevant

Wow, there’s an article on the subject right there! How convenient

parpol,

Are these death threats in the room with us right now?

teawrecks,

If your claim is that randos on the internet don’t send death threats at the drop of a hat, you must be new here. We all know gd well everyone involved recieved death threats.

parpol,

And I’m sure you have at least one example. After all, there are a lot of rapists out there too, but we aren’t going to accuse anyone until we have some evidence.

Cube6392,

Bruv you are severely misremembering the movement that allowed the alt right to coalesce. No one is saying it’s bad to not buy products you don’t want to buy. We’re saying it’s seriously concerning the racism and sexist that attached itself to that movement has congealed into something permanent in our political climate

shnizmuffin,
@shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol avatar

Did you read the article? What are you trying to say?

Just after Summer Game Fest finished, the anti-woke gamers found a new target: a report at IGN, which credibly and comprehensively lays out a history of sexism at the developer of upcoming Planet-of-the-Apes-meets-Sekiro action game Black Myth: Wukong. The response – surprise! – was to go after the woman who wrote it, while also spinning up a ludicrous conspiracy theory that IGN was blackmailing the developer.

Targeted harassment of a journalist isn’t, “reviewing products poorly.” I went to go find an example of exactly what was being slung their way, but they took their whole profile private.

parpol,

“which credibly and comprehensively lays out a history of sexism”. There was nothing credible about this.

The wukong sexism allegations were all made up or based on severly mistranslated Chinese statements, and they magically appeared after the company behind wukong had refused to pay SBI a 7m dollar extortion fee.

PhlubbaDubba,

Shock of shocks, a company that refuses to work with a D&I consulting firm is soon found to have serious D&I problems.

Bro this is like saying there’s a conspiracy afoot because the cops “magically” showed up to arrest me just days after I shot someone in broad daylight, or that the tree “magically” only fell through your roof after you told the insurance salesman to fuck off, or that your house only flooded “magically” right after you told the plumbers you could handle the burst pipe yourself.

parpol,

Except the flood was made up.

PhlubbaDubba,

Tell that to all your rotted out walls and floor boards.

Kaboom,

Because the insurance company callled their mob to break your pipes.

PhlubbaDubba,

Yeah because Tony Soprano definitely has the time to come break your pipes specifically over not buying some dude’s flood insurance.

That definitely checks Occam’s razer. What is your salmonella from the pasteurization mafia now too?

parpol,

Just drop it. It came out that the sexism allegations were false. It doesn’t matter what you say here, because the point is you’re wrong.

FarceOfWill,

Did they also mistranslate the Chinese women commenting on trailers that the studio is gross and don’t want women playing their game?

It’s honestly tragic, if you read that article it’s primarily about the Chinese game industry culture with one game and studio used as an example because it’s a supposedly a AAA game to rival western studios.

ign.com/…/how-black-myth-wukong-developers-histor…

We’re being asked to believe ign has slandered a large Chinese studio, entirely made up, and kept the article up regardless. It just doesn’t hold water. Harrassing some poor women off social media and writing long comments about everything being made up is easy, but ign are still standing by the article six months after it was published.

parpol,

The entire article at this point is just “these women who want to be anonymous claim x and y”, with all other “evidence” gone now. I can make similar claims about IGN and my claims would hold as much water.

TehPers,

I’m not sure which game this comment is in context of, but steam reviews showcase the issues pretty clearly. For example, I went on the steam reviews for MTGA at one point for fun and saw a comment complaining about there not being enough white male masculine looking avatars. I’m not sure how Gideon Jura (literally the definition, even in cards, of a masculine white guy) and Garruk are not masculine enough for this person lol.

Most likely, from how the comment read, they were complaining about the female portraits and portraits with non-white characters. I’m assuming they missed the NB character portrait (Niko Aris) since they didn’t specifically call them out.

I also remember back when Horizon: Zero Dawn came out there were a lot of people complaining about a female MC. Personally, that was one of my favorite parts of the game since it gave a non-traditional perspective of the story in my opinion. Maybe some people disagree, and that’s fine, but giving a game a poor review just because the MC is female is honestly just a dishonest review of the game.

You are not entitled to my money.

I don’t think the article claimed anyone was, at least from my read of it. It’s your loss if you refuse to enjoy games over such a petty reason though.

It’s also honestly just childish to give a game you haven’t played a bad review for having a more diverse cast. The main character is literally on the box art - if it bothers you, then the game is clearly not for you. It’s like me reviewing an otome game poorly because I don’t like otome games.

PhlubbaDubba,

Hi there, you seem to be equating death threats and harassment with voting with your wallet, which is wrong and stupid and you should fucking know better.

Also, if everybody else doesn’t need to feel pandered to in order to feel good buying a game with a protag that looks like you, you being so “principled” and “vote with your wallet” about games featuring characters that look like everyone else is pretty fucking sus.

You don’t live in a bubble of no context, where this energy at defending black consumers who aren’t interested in yet another generic brunette white male dudebrotagonist with the snarky quips even Spidey and Joss Whedon would be cringing at.

Kaboom,

Mate, theres thousands of quality games that pander to me, more than Ill ever have time to play. Why would I bother with with a game thats not particularly good and doesnt even pretend to want my money?

kbal, (edited ) do gaming w The disturbing online misogyny of Gamergate has returned – if it ever went away
@kbal@fedia.io avatar

[false claims that] journalists gave the recent PS5 game Stellar Blade (pictured below) bad reviews because its female characters are too hot

That seems an inadequate way of summing up the Stellar Blade controversy which on the whole was considerably more ridiculous than that.

Silverseren,

The Gamergaters really wanted the game to get bad reviews so they could use it to fuel their self-victimhood.

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