ShaunaTheDead

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[–] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I guess it's not so much RTS. It's like making hard decisions. It's a lot like Frostpunk in that way if you've played that game. There's an element of danger and your villagers can easily die, and sometimes you have to make hard decisions or sacrifices.

[–] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 7 points 1 day ago (5 children)

It's very good if you like city builders with RTS elements. There's no combat in it at all, it's just you and your villagers against the storm, hence the title. It has a lot of challenge missions and an overall story so the replayability is quite good.

[–] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It was a disc and the trees were able to be interacted with face to face so I think those are inexplicable except for "they're magic".

There's a wikipedia article with some depictions actually right here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Trees_of_Valinor#Creation

[–] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 6 points 2 days ago

Yeah, you'd have to get up high at least.

[–] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 67 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Elves in LOTR have technically infinite vision because the world used to be flat and illuminated by two glowing trees that resided in Valinor. Because the world was flat, and Elves have essentially perfect vision at any distance, they could actually see things that were on the opposite side of the world.

After Morgoth (aka Melkor, aka the evil god that Sauron worships) and Ungoliant (the mother of Shelob, the spider that nearly kills Frodo) destroyed the trees then the world was made into a globe and Elves infinite vision ability, while still useful, wasn't quite as powerful as before.

[–] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 41 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Unfortunately the next step is World War III which lasts from 2026 to 2053. It almost kills all of humanity and very nearly leaves the planet uninhabitable.

[–] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 34 points 1 week ago (32 children)

While you're at it, switch over to DD/MM/YYYY for the date format. The only 2 configurations that make sense is that or YYYY/MM/DD. Either go general to specific or specific to general, MM/DD/YYYY makes no sense.

[–] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why would they be hostile to that idea? It allows you to run the VPN only on your browser instead of your entire system which is sometimes preferable.

[–] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

Well it seems like Wikipedia's list of countries is pretty sparse. They only have USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, EU, and Brazil.

[–] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It's quite good and also I like that they largely support Linux. They have phone apps, browser extensions, desktop apps, and even CLIs. They also have downloadable configurations for OpenVPN and WireGuard if you want to go that route. They've also got what I assume are fairly basic features of most VPNs like kill switching, private DNS servers, etc.

[–] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

It's extremely confusing but there are basically 2 measurements systems for food energy:

There's kilocalories (abbreviated as cal) and there's kilojoules (abbreviated as kJ). It can get very confusing because some places will label them calories (cal) and Calories (kJ), lower and upper case respectively which is extremely confusing because 1 kJ is equivalent to 4.81 cal.

According to Wikipedia the US and Canada use kilocalories (cal or calories) and pretty much the rest of the world uses kilojoules (kJ or Calories).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_energy#Nutrition_labels

The main difference between the two is that kilocalories are a measure of heat energy, where 1 kilocalorie is the heat needed to warm 1 liter of water by 1 degree celcius. Whereas a kilojoule is a measure of energy usually described by force in newtons.

They're both actually from the metric system, but kilocalorie is the old and obsolete form while kilojoules is the currently accepted metric measurement.

[–] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 26 points 2 weeks ago

And yet F:NV has the best writing of those 3 examples.

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