I do like that you can keep the stats of gear you’re wearing but change the appearance of it to anything you’ve collected before. Nice to actually be able to look good and have good gear.
One thing I’ve done is turn off the Minimap. It’s made it more interesting - I actually pay attention to the landscape details and the golden path thing is actually useful. Just wish you could keep a compass visible.
I just bought a steam deck, and bought hogwarts legacy when it was on sale a while back on a friend’s recommendation.
Decided to give it a try - such a great game! I tend to compare opens world’s to Skyrim, and the detail in the quests is so much better. It’s not just ‘clear this dungeon’. Plus they’ve really thought about what sucks about those other games and really tried to avoid them. Plays great on the steam deck too, I’ve got it capped at 45fps and it never skips a beat.
I don’t think I’ve had this much enjoyment from a gaming device ever. I’ve done the console and game pass on the phone mounted controller, and that was not very consistent. The instant pause/resume button is a game changer with young kids waking up in the night.
Not at all bothered by performance - in fact I’ve seeing articles about how ‘this windows handheld beats the steam deck in tflops’ but an constantly thinking - 'yes, but it’s a handheld. Is it good at that? Battery life, pick up and go etc are super relevant, not just performance.
Bit of a tangent there, but I am having a great gaming time.
You can tie the tongues of barnacles together and use that to bring down entire buildings when they reel each other in. Oh and btw it’s open world and you can level the whole place ala bf3.
Perhaps random was the wrong choice of words. The construction of the theoretical time zones is completely non-random. Some of the country specific changes seem to be though.
I was thinking of the time zone carveouts that wrap around some islands - like Kiribati, where the IDL swings around it with giant straight lines that don’t resemble it’s EEZ. How were they decided? I can’t seem to find anything on it.
Seems though, for most international ocean travel, it doesn’t matter (per your excellent links- thankyou). Ships just use an idealized date line at 180 until they hit an EEZ and will use that if they need to communicate with that country.
Really interesting!
I did a bit more searching and found This article, where the author intentionally used EEZ boundaries to make a time zone map that incorporates sovereignty.
He stated that currently Maritime time zones are randomly drawn straight lines on a map, that aren’t representative of the country that’s forcing change.
Ok so this raises a question that I couldn’t answer satisfactorily myself by googling.
Are deviations to time zones a land thing?
What I mean is that the Northern Territory in Australia follows UTC +9.5, despite being in what would be considered the +9 band.
OP’s map shows the NT border, but the wiki image on time zones shows the boundary of the time zone extending into the sea between it and Indonesia.
Does the time zone change (between +9 and +9.5) when I step foot in the NT, or does it follow something like the Exclusive Economic Zone?
Could be Falkland islands? They’re 3 hours behind UTC, but that time zone band it’s in would be for -4 Amazon time
Yeah but none of our coast is the edge of a time zone (unless it showed daylight saving), so we’re invisible. Kind of cool.
Area covered by lava?
I found this Reddit post that might help: https://www.reddit.com/r/identifythisfont/comments/ckdydi/hopefully_easy_the_typeface_from_old_anatomical/
This isn’t changing the picture though - this is our new currency, the ‘dollarbuck’.
Current exchange rate is 1AUD = 1 Dollarbuck
Porque no los dos?
I love that there’s a relevant Posy video that is only 22hrs old
Vista wasn’t that bad. The dodgy selling it on computers that couldn’t handle it was an issue (much like they still do with selling laptops with only 32gb storage).
I still think it was one of the nicest looking - black taskbar with the start button sticking up, sidebar widgets, aero glass etc
For anyone interested in reality:
What’s under the Opera house itself (Reddit link): https://www.reddit.com/r/sydney/comments/djhxyk/underneath_the_opera_house/
The underground carpark for the Opera house that’s actually under the Botanic gardens close by: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-08/why-is-the-sydney-opera-house-car-park-spiral-in-shape/9270864
Why was it seen as a misstep?
I have memories of ramps, black z cars and a hotdog mission…
I think so, it doesn’t look like any device from here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_(PDA).
The logo is from the first palms, but it’s way too curvy
My mind read that as ‘hearing challenged voters’ and thought ‘geez I wonder how loud they had the pa’
There are no eggs. Anywhere.