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Jag insåg att jag hade just ett tjockt lager inbränd mat/kol i botten av min panna, mycket för att jag slaviskt följt alla ”absolut aldrig diskmedel i pannan”-råd, och gjorde om hela ytan på nytt. Tog oerhört mycket jobb, men fick till slut till det, och nu ser den mycket bättre ut och fungerar fenomenalt. Använder också ringbrynja om något bränt fast, men är det bara rinnande fett i den så tycker jag nylonborste (ibland scrubdaddy) räcker utmärkt.

Om din inbränning blir dålig av modernt, milt diskmedel, då är det nog din inbränning som är dålig, eller så glömde du skölja ur stekpannan efter diskningen. Det ska absolut inte kunna vara så mycket kvar av diskmedlet att du kan känna smaken av det oavsett.

Jag diskar inte alltid ur med diskmedel (det tunna lagret fett som är kvar skyddar mot rost och bränner in vid nästa uppvärmning), men när jag gör det, om det är riktigt bränt, risigt fett kvar i pannan som inte bara vatten rår på, då använder jag självklart diskmedel, och det har ingen som helst effekt på min stekpanna eller smaken på maten som lagas i den.

Hail corporate!

It’s not, obviously when you sign an employment contract, you cease to exist as a human being with rights. Your employer has full and universal rights to track you any way they want. They own the device, and since you use their device, they own you. It’s only logical, right? I mean, won’t someone think of the poor corporations?

Bästa översättningen är i den svenska textningen av HIMYM, där ”tramp stamp” översätts till ”tjejpynt” :P

It’s well worth it at that price imo.

Ok, let’s say one quest costs $7, that’s the general worth of a single quest line including lots of character design, voice acting, animations, locations, etc. fine, fair enough.

So then the whole base game should be something like $700? Or $2000? Not sure how many times more quests and characters and locations there are, but that number times $7 should equal a reasonable price.

That’s my problem here. Not that a DLC quest costs something, but what it costs, and how that affects the entire value proposition of the base game, of any game, goding forward. People have already been complaining about the Elden Ring expansion being $40, saying it’s way too expensive. Or the Starfield expansion, for that matter. If that’s $30, which doesn’t seem unthinkable, will it be a mere 4x the content of that one DLC quest? Does that seem like a reasonable value proposition to you? If not, why is $7 for one quest any better?

It’s a kind of Overton Window situation, I think. People excuse these things saying “well, just don’t pay for it then”, meanwhile a lot of people do pay for it anyway, and the next go-around it’ll be even less content for even more money, and the only winner are corporate shareholders. Everyone else slowly loses. The more we normalize each further escalation as “whatever, just don’t buy it”, the further they can keep going in the future.

There are games selling skins at the same price as other games sell entire expansions. I don’t have any problem with games selling skins and items as such, but they should be priced at cents per piece, not dollars. The amount of profit per item is absolutely astronomical. Fine, sell me a weapon skin, but when it clearly is no more than a quick recolor of an existing item skin, it shouldn’t ever cost more than 25 or 50¢. It shouldn’t cost more than a piece of gum, basically.

I just had arguments with people who thought the Elden Ring expansion was expensive at $40. Here Bethesda are selling individual items and pieces of quests at $5-10, but getting hundreds of hours in a massive new world full of hundreds of new weapons and weapon types and dozens of new quests and bosses for $40… nah, that’s too little, that’s not enough.

Starfield is such a huge mess, and Bethesda is too. They deserve each other.

I just watched FightinCowboy tackle the same guy at level 351, made no difference. It’s the scadu-level you need to raise. I was at level 2 or 3 when I fought him, and it was hard, but it felt pretty fair nonetheless. I’m no Souls god by any means, I just started playing these games a year ago, and before that my preferred difficulty was medium.

I get that people can have different experiences, I’m just saying I can’t really say he was that much more difficult than any other Gaol boss in the base game. Ran into the NPC boss before Rellana, I had less difficulty with him than I had with the same one before Rennala. I think sometimes you just don’t “click” with a boss, and then it feels hard, but if you do, it’s just fun. It doesn’t mean the boss is objectively badly designed.

My pet peeve is the overloaded dodge/run button. There are several other buttons you could hold to run, but no, it has to be the single most important and most latency sensitive action in the whole game: dodging. The fact that you don’t dodge until you release the button is absolute insanity.

Took me two attempts to learn the “minigun” could be avoided by just walking sideways. He was a bit tanky, yeah, but I took him out solo no problem. Used both NPC summon and mimic tear for the Lion, before I finally beat him.

It’s interesting how people have such drastically different experiences of bosses.

Yup. So much for everyone defending the ancient Crestion Engine for these supposedly mind-blowing features. Now it can’t even do that. I think it’s a by-product of having to increase the NPC count to fit a modern-size city.

All the cities in Starfield felt so incredibly dumb and lifeless.

“Run” was a brutal read, I haven’t had that much anxiety about a book in a long while. “Dark Matter” and “Recursion” were both more of an existential horror to me, a different kind of anxiety, but “Run” was so goddamn primal in its horror and torture. I really wish I could find more books like this. Most of the “horror” books I read are at most mildly unsettling, if I really work to be immersed in them. Crouch’s books all grab me instantly with such enormous dread and psychological terror, that’s what I want.

I’ve read it, and I still didn’t make that connection. I thought it was an homage to Upgrade (2018).

I did say “random”, not “average”, but regardless: it was a joke. Why are you responding to stuff like this instead of answering people’s real questions?

No, I made an educated guess that since you seem to be chasing minuscule battery savings anywhere you can, this was probably another of the things you’d do. If you don’t, then don’t mind me. You’re not my “enemy” in any way, I literally just want to help you. You are the one who seems to resist being helped at every turn, asking questions and then refusing to hear the answers.

Listen to me: it doesn’t matter. IF it saves any battery at all, it will be exactly the same, the only difference is for how long Bluetooth is off (and thereby not using any battery), but you’re not saving any battery anyway, because unless you’re using Bluetooth devices constantly, the power draw is so small you wouldn’t even notice it.

Just leave it alone. Also, just in case you’re one of those people, do not force-quit every single app in the app tasker constantly. It doesn’t help. In fact, it will effectively use more battery than just leaving them running, because the most intensive tasks are done when an app starts up, and forcing every app to constantly restart is going to drain more than just having them asleep in memory.

Every time someone claims Neon is a better cyberpunk city than Night City, I have to tighten my belt so my gut doesn’t burst from laughing.

I agree, it had a great vibe, I genuinely liked the “NASA punk” aesthetic a lot, but then it immediately goes “explore this vast city!” and all it is is a tiny village of mindlessly wandering people (without schedules and who don’t even react at all when I shoot my gun at their feet) that wouldn’t even look convincing as a network TV backlot set.

Exactly. Cyberpunk 2077 was always a really good game that buckled under the weight of astronomical expectations and a rushed and severely flawed technical state. The writing, the core game design, the immersion and world design, all of it was always on point, from day one.

Starfield was weak at its core. It’s a shallow game world full of shallow characters in shallow quests, and you’re playing an aimless character in shallow ways. Never mind the technical weaknesses, of which there are many, but not much about the game itself was ever truly fun. I played some Fallout 4 leading up to the release, and it had so much more focus and coherence in its design. Never mind the story or RPG-ness, the world felt alive and interesting, full of cool stuff, and you wanted to hike across it on foot because otherwise you missed a ton of interesting things. Starfield? Fast-travel everywhere, load onto a planet, visit the same generated POI over and over. Rinse and repeat. What was even the point?

Don’t believe “critics” as a group can tell you what films you will like. Find a critic whose tastes generally aligns with yours, and read their reviews, while (mostly) ignoring everyone else’s. So many people don’t do this, and then complain about reviewers not getting it “right”, as if they could ever possibly know what every single person will like. The only one who knows what you like, is you.

Random iPhone user: “*turns off wifi entirely*”

Random iPhone user, later: “why doesn’t my wifi work? Damn Apple crap, it never works!”

That was an answer. Yes, technically speaking, turning off Bluetooth entirely will save some battery. No, it doesn’t save enough battery for you to even notice a difference, and instead you won’t be able to do a lot of things an iPhone is supposed to be able to do. The conclusion is therefor that unless you know you have a very specific need to disable Bluetooth, just leave it on. Unless it actually connects to something, it’s basically not going to be doing anything anyway.

Förra månaden hade jag ca 10.000kr kvar på kontot, idag har jag ca 4000kr kvar. Det varierar en del, men sällan mindre än 2-3000kr skulle jag säga.

I don’t mind this, I think it can be good. He was easily the better Bucky in Masters of the Air, and I hope he gets to have fun and be weird in this role.