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conciselyverbose, do games w What are your favorite 1000+ hour games?

lol the problem with Destiny is they turned it into a treadmill and stopped putting the work into character and level design.

Elden Ring can easily take more than 100 hours on your first playthrough, and different builds significantly change your play style.

BG3, similar deal. Subsequent playthroughs are probably going to be accelerated, but there are a bunch of different story choices you can make that feel different, the party members have their own story lines, there’s a special custom character called Dark Urge that’s intended for a later playthrough that has it’s own twist, and you can change the strategy of encounters a lot with different party constructions.

Rimworld calls itself a story generator because you’re going to fail and have people die and whatever, but every game plays out different, there are a good couple scenarios, and there’s expansions and mods you can add on top of that for variety.

Just the first couple that come to mind. I’m not near 1000 hours on any of them, but they all have a lot of content.

JackbyDev, do gaming w Thinking of starting a little beehaw minehut server for minecraft what version should I go with? (java)

Infdev

ALERT, do games w Is a Quest 3 really worth it?
@ALERT@sh.itjust.works avatar

yes.

bjoern_tantau, do games w Is a Quest 3 really worth it?
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

The only reason I’m not playing more VR is that it’s more involved than playing without. You have to make space to play. If you’re playing from PC (which I would recommend) you have to set that and the games up. And then it’s usually more fun to play standing for which I don’t always have the energy.

My Quest 1 is not logged in to Meta so I only play free games from Sidequest or whatever free games I used to get from Meta. Plenty to play with that and PCVR.

“Smaller” games like Moon Rider are usually more fun. At least in the long run. Full games like Alyx are few and far between. But ports of older games work well. I dare say that VR is the best way to play Doom 3.

MyOpinion, do games w Is a Quest 3 really worth it?

It is very much worth it! It is a great value for what you get. I highly recommend you connect it to a strong pc and purchase your games on steam so that you get the best quality visuals and when you switch headsets in the future your games will be available no matter what headset you choose.

catloaf, do games w Is a Quest 3 really worth it?

It’s a medium-term hype thing. But worth is a subjective decision that only you can make, depending on how much you’re willing to spend and how much you want to do VR things.

I would never recommend the Facebook-owned ones though.

astro_ray, do astronomy w It pains to admit but i got Bird Jones'ed when buying my first telescope

what is bird jones?

einfach_orangensaft,
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Its like a newtownian just that it has a spherical mirror (cheaper to make) and uses a corrective lens in front of the eyepeace.

MrFappy,

Alright, now explain it.

Forester,
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It’s an inferior telescope with a cheap mirror and built in contacts to make it work

echo,

Awesome ELI5. Now… why is it called that?

keckbug,

As with nearly everything in astronomic optics, it’s named after people associated with its creation. Robert Jones and Thomas Bird are the two in this case. Here’s a thread on Cloudy nights with good info.

Klanky,
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Thanks for that thread. I’ve never heard of a Bird-Jones design before so it was super interesting.

einfach_orangensaft,
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my fav from that thread (and i propose to make this a copy pasta):

My entire gripe around these scopes is the instruments being offered today, the sub-aperture lens arrangement is not doing any corrections. The lens is a straight up Barlow, nothing more.

If you look at the Bird-Jones design, the design is very specific in the design of both the primary & correcting lens. This means that both elements need to be not only matched but also well manufactured in order to work as designed. When you then look at the few true Bird-Jones instruments that were manufactured, such as the Tasco 8V (which was manufactured by Vixen), the Celestron G8-N and one other (escapes my mind right now but I’ll add it when I remember), these scopes were not cheap but pushing flagship status for these brands & supplied with swish mounts. And none of these scopes can be readily collimated by the end user as the alignment of the optics is so precise it is done in-factory. The 8V alone still maintains almost cult status.

The Bird-Jones design is not without its own shortcomings. It is not perfect without aberration. It is important to remember the ideas behind its design, to provide a short tube OTA option with what was able to be readily manufactured at the time, that being good spherical mirrors.

What is made today is a far cry from what a Bird-Jones offers performance wise. Made cheap with a poor spherical primary & that they are totally collimateable by the end user shows these are not a precision scope. Add to this that not a single Bird-Jones instrument is to be found anywhere else besides these cheap things. Doesn’t this say something?

These cheap instruments, really all cheap instruments are a double edge sword. They make astro more accessible, yes, but their poor quality ends up killing off more people’s enthusiasm for astro than firing it up. Add to this that for many novices if the mount is not a complicated equatorial one then it isn’t an astronomical instrument, & the difficult manner of using a wobble-tron mount & tripod with the mental gymnastics required just too much for most people who buy these and just give up way too soon.

Yes, there will be a few people who will be able to make these scopes work, being all they can afford, and all power to them. I will support such persons. But these are very few compared to the overwhelming number of people who just give up after the poor experience they get from these instruments. Too them astro is just all too hard, and mainly because of a poor instrument.

Call these cheap instruments what they are, a barlowed Newtonian.

mindbleach,

Guy named Bird, guy names Jones.

SkaveRat,

Okay okay

But why were their last names that?

obywatelle, do wolnyinternet w Kolejna fala uciekających z Twittera - warto przeczytać
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Takich postaw zdecydowanie na Fediwersum brakuje. A od narzekania że ludzie wolą Bluesky też userów takiemu Mastodonowi nie przybędzie.

Zwłaszcza że za pół roku wszyscy wrócą na Eloneksa.

rickt137, do astronomy w It pains to admit but i got Bird Jones'ed when buying my first telescope
@rickt137@astrodon.social avatar

@einfach_orangensaft I had a Bird Jones - worst optics I've ever seen in a telescope. It was cute as a button sitting on my desk, though!

Peppycito,
rozlav,

not available (T_T)

Peppycito,
wacpan, do zapytajszmer w Dlaczego ja? Odcinek o squacie
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Tak, był w jakimś paradokumencie, z dekadę temu, chyba na TVNie, nie pamiętam, czy “Dlaczego ja?”, ale może tak – skłoting pokazany z patologicznej strony.

FellowEnt, do games w You know what would be cool? If all those (job name) simulator games could all be joined.

Sounds like the metaverse, neat concept!

echodot,

But like a really boring version of it without any kind of gameplay mechanics and it’s just basically life.

can, do games w You know what would be cool? If all those (job name) simulator games could all be joined.

Pretty sure we’re in that

SharkEatingBreakfast,
@SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz avatar

I’m not having fun or making money.

Who do I send a bug report to?

can,

A therapist

lastweakness,

But therapists are expensive :(

Crafter72, do games w How do I download anything from Nexus Mods?

Nexus mods isn’t shady, they inform user regarding data breach. They provide mods and have been serving mods ever since pre 2010 I believe (registered myself on that site back in 2014 ish).

Maybe slightly off-topic, I recommend to use Viva New Vegas guide as based on my testing the game is more stable and suitable base for modding up your New Vegas install, however also check out every mods you are going to install especially older mods pre-2018 (for me) as they sometime aren’t optimized which may makes unstable issue with the game. Hope you enjoy the New Vegas!

Strayce, do games w You know what would be cool? If all those (job name) simulator games could all be joined.
CrunkBy, do games w You know what would be cool? If all those (job name) simulator games could all be joined.
@CrunkBy@lemmy.world avatar

Add in Thief Simulator and you’ve got the ultimate game

Lost_My_Mind,

steals your game save

Oh, irony!

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