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I start writing the implementation and get the "variable not defined" error and then let the ide add the declaration. It's less keys to press and misspell.

I do like subtites almost everywhere, but hate these slides.

Maybe I also want adjustable playback speed, fast forward and readable high contrast subtites in my real live playback.

It's working great. I only can't get multi language and the emoji dictionary to work. The help page says I need to change the spell checker in the android settings but I can't find that option 🤔

There is rockbox that is an alternative firmware that adds every feature missing by default

It might have cracks in the silicon crystal that might burn in over time.

But yeah, impressive that it could take this big of hail balls without braking the glass.

There are lots of other ways for progression instead of inflicting more damage because of some numbers.

I think of:

• Just getting better at jumping/slashing/tactics

• Having limited gear that you have to switch out or improve throughout the story

• Gaining new abilities or allies

And just that if you keep "improving" and inflicting more damage and have higher defense, at the same time the opponents become stronger, it would have been the exact same difficulty level if the numbers just stayed the same.

It's not really emulation. It's running on the same architecture and most of the windows libraries can be used as is with mostly only the win32 library that needs to be wrapped. That already existed for years as wine. It's mostly graphics and peripherals that are broken.

The most important thing proton added to improve gaming was a DirectX translation layer that translates to Vulcan and also loads of fixes and additions to wine.

Not a lot of games run faster but apparently in some situations, the Vulcan precompiled shaders seem to run better than native windows, although that probably means they could make their native version better as well. For older games, the Vulcan translation layer is a lot more efficient and faster than native. Also CPU and IO heavy games might run faster on the Linux kernel.

If you cannot complete a task cause you aren't strong enough, you have to either grind for exp or get better gear by collecting pointless objects and doing the list based crafting.

These things have nothing to do with any story progression and just suck up time and that's the point of the meme. You can perfectly design a game that uses less lazy ways of giving players a rewarding feeling that don't hold off the story line or take loads of time.

There is nothing wrong with gamers that want to have this, it's that every game that goes this route is not for a lot of casual games so it's not nice that almost every rpg goes this route.

Why I'm dragging pay to win into this, I don't know. Frustration with current generation games probably 😆 Also that they want you to spend lots of time in the game so you would spend more money in it, while I want to just play 1-2 hours and have a nice experience and story.

Addiction? Greed?

Doesn't experience points based progress imply grinding?

There are more ways to have progression and I agree that exp points is a lazy (or pay2win) solution.

I'm not arguing with any of these points and not if it can be done or that it might be less draining on the environment. The reality is that it's not there and any current project can't use them. It's either uranium reactors, wind, solar or hydro (maybe also tides?)

And, like I said, it's normal that these types of projects are more viable in China with laxer safety and no political roadblocks.

We should halt current efforts with the promise of some better alternative in the future. If currently the cheapest and easiest is solar, we should do that. When newer nuclear reactors price themselves, it can change.

But a promise that newer nuclear reactors might be cheaper and safer is no argument for building a current generation nuclear reactor.

Are there even any commercial thorium reactors in use?

As solar and wind are already more economical and less of a financial risk than uranium reactors, I don't see anyone from western countries, with strict safety concerns then china, investing in newer nuclear technologies. Maybe when every office building and industrial complex has solar panels on its roof, there might be renewed interest.