I played BG3, put over 100 hours, it took me 2 years. But I don’t mind, it was an easy game to pick up after a break and continue with, and the quests were rewarding in themselves, you didn’t need to complete the whole game to understand it.

There are definitely games I have started played, then couldn’t remember what I was doing after a break and wasn’t enthused enough to return to it. I can’t remember specific games but I know it happens.

Sometimes I need to open Firefox and Jetbrains IDE at the same time, and then my laptop chokes.

I have all sorts of background programmes, docker containers, and typically 5-10 foreground programs open. My laptop doesn’t like me 😅. Or it does now, that I just increased the RAM by x4!

I play them because I enjoy them. You can normally pick out the main storyline and just follow that.

Personally I just play a long game over the course of a couple of years.

Nice, I didn’t know about that!

we have also been advised that some users are using this tool at countdown and woolworths, two supermarkets in new zealand. they have been scanning these codes in place of an “everyday rewards” card. please do not do this, it is probably in violation of woolworths or everyday rewards’ terms of service. if you choose to violate their terms of service, they may invalidate any points accrued using this tool.

lol, reminds me of all the piracy and DRM evading stuff that is “for educational use only”.

Just upgraded my laptop from 16GB to 64GB RAM. It’s amazing!

I also have a hard drive upgrade planned but will try a different OS this time, so needs a bit more planning (going from Nobara to Bazzite). Will be going from 1TB to 4TB storage.

If it helps, the savings are minuscule. I don’t use the loyalty schemes at all anymore. If there’s a discount only for members, I actively avoid buying that product. I mostly get non-perishables at the supermarket and stock up when it’s got a discount for normal people.

At this point in time, the bill is simply a proposal by one member of parliament. It goes in the biscuit tin, and only gets looked at if it gets drawn out at random.

To get prioritised, it needs support from all the parties in government. Our far right “deregulate and downsize government” party would have to support it, and it would be a very telling move if they did.

I had not seen it. I feel like we have a lot in common right now with the people who were living through the post WW2, cold war error, thinking the world was going to fall apart. These articles read like dystopian fiction, but it’s really happening.

Yeah it would be a shame to waste them. My house isn’t quite big enough, maybe Peter Jackson could hang them from his mansion or something? Would be pretty cool to have.

I think it’s clear at this point he is trying to create the unstable market. A stable market isn’t a good place to make a lot of money. The ups and downs are where money is made (and lost) in large amounts.

Yeah I understand. I even have trouble enjoying the idea in the land of fun and games because the land of real life ruined it for me 🙁

My guess is someone needed it at some point, and jumped through the hoops to get it approved. It has no ongoing cost, so even if it takes staff time to review and set it up in the repository, it would easily pay for itself from not having a subscription. But it would rely on having staff with previous experience to not lose your gains through lost time learning.

They described it as “locally themed replacements”, so I’d guess not, though I guess you can’t rule it out 🙂

Can you imagine how hard it must be to hire someone with the skills those Wētā Workshop folk have? I expect there’s a really good reason to tide over a downturn with some work to keep the team busy if you have hope over the horizon.

Ok but what do the numbers look like when you add donations to the Taxpayers Union into Act figures?

I use GIMP at work. It’s officially approved in a very tightly restrained environment, literally in a repository of software people can install from. At an enterprise with thousands of employees.

I’m pretty sure only people who know what it is install it, never heard anyone so much as mention it.

At this point there’s got to be a less than 20% chance this plan will see the end of the month, or even the end of the week, right?

And there aren’t any details, right? A movie isn’t a car, it can be made in 10 places at once. How do you tariff a movie that was shot in Europe with scale models from NZ that was financed and produced by a US company?

How do you do it when it’s an animated movie created by remote workers all over the world?

Do it!

And ask them why they don’t have an official Lemmy account 😆

Hmm maybe. I was thinking maybe the council might see this as a tourism draw, and have some tourism boosting money they could put into it.

Honestly I’d love to know what it costs to get a bit Gwaihir with a Gandalf on its back.

It would easily be worth hundreds of thousands as part of a tourism push, but I guess it would cost millions. But really I have no idea, it might be less costly than I’m assuming (or perhaps the replacement ones will be a lot cheaper, since they don’t have a Hobbit movie to help finance it).

Personally, after seeing all the pictures of pet tigers in the US, I’ve been put off anyone having a pet tiger.

Cool idea but it doesn’t seem right.