LMagicalus

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/30613715

It has a very specific use and context

I went into Moderator Zone, then hit Mod Log. But it seems random? It's not a modlog of my comments and posts, and it's not a mod log for my moderated communities. So what is it? To that end, what is the Moderator Zone in general?

Obligatory

Title Text: It was finally destroyed with a nuclear weapon carrying the destructive energy of the Hiroshima bomb.

This was obligatory. It's also where the community icon comes from!

As you can see, the template is fairly simple, no real frills needed.

Also, title text: The symbol for degrees Felsius is an average of the Euro symbol (€) and the Greek lunate epsilon (ϵ).

To me, everything has, like, a correct feeling it has to give before leaving it to rest. If not, it's a little too rough, or smooth, it just feels off. And I can keep feeling it after stopping touching it. And anytime I look at the object. I can feel it when I watch a movie or show and someone puts something down in some indescribably wrong way.

To be clear, this isn't a placement thing. Organization and whatnot don't matter, it's just like "Oh my foot just dragged forward on the carpet, that was weird and rough forward, now I have to do it backward to make it feel right," or "I just put that down and from the sound, I can tell it went down wrong. I gotta go adjust it." That loops until I get it just right, usually a process of 2-45 minutes.

Around the fediverse, any time a bizarre unit of measurement is used, the inevitable comment is something along the lines of "Americans will use anything but metric."

Well, we gotta compile these bizarre units, so that Americans can make an informed decision on what measurement system (other than metric) to use!

Posts from anywhere are fine; crossposts, links to comments, articles, screenshots from outside apps, anything!

If you're interested, use one of the links below to check it out! (These all link to the same place, just different formats because Lemmy gets weird sometimes.)

[email protected] [email protected] discuss.tchncs.de/c/anythingbutmetric

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12238838

Satellite weighing as much as adult rhino to crash through Earth's atmosphere today

A satellite will likely make an uncontrolled return through Earth's atmosphere today, according to the latest estimates from the European Space Agency.

It says ERS-2, which weighs about as much as an adult male rhinoceros, is expected to re-enter at about 11:32 a.m. EST — plus or minus 4.6 hours. The agency can't predict exactly when and where the satellite will re-enter because its return is "natural."

I say new to exclude the remakes, because those do kick ass.

The three new Zelda games on switch are Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom, and Echoes of Wisdom.

BotW and TotK should have been a new franchise. They're way too different mechanically from everything in the series beforehand. Innovating on the gameplay makes sense, but this was doable within the established formula (see Link between Worlds for how to do this well.)

Now for quality. BotW is a fantastic game in most facets, and most of my complaints I can recognize as me problems (I dont love the fact that just getting to a shrine makes it teleportable, it feels too easy to just cut the exploration by running to all the shrines in an area. However, this is a preference, not an objective flaw.) I think it would have done very well on its own, and didn't need an existing IP to support it.

TotK is where my complaints overlap. It should've been in the separate franchise, and I think it's a TERRIBLE sequel, and far more mediocre game. The tutorial is worse and way too long, they didn't add enough to the world to justify reusing the entire map, the underground area is largely barren, the zonai shrines existing at all is contrived bs, and the zonai building mechanic, while cool, feels incredibly unbalanced and strange. Its like it just got bolted on without any of the other devs being told.

Echoes of Wisdom is a crying shame. After two complete deviations from the games the Zelda series had become known for, I was excited by the trailer! But then the echoes system poked it's ugly head in. I hate, with a burning passion, games where puzzles have "free form solutions." The old zeldas were full of tightly crafted puzzles, and they're by far my favorite part (and, notably, the meat of the games.) So being handed a world where the main mechanic is "use these basic tools however you want!" by another game is just infuriating. I love immersive sims, but these are not a replacement for actual puzzle design (this sentiment also applies to the zonai building in TotK)

TL;DR: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom should've been an original franchise, and TotK and Echoes of Wisdom have lazy game design unbefitting of the Zelda series.

Now I can replace all the twist caps in my house

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/7368806

Anything else?