Hey foxhole is a great one, but it doesn’t have the bar i guess.

But chilling collecting b mats and making shit are great places to have chats

That’s a solid list

I’ve had a blast playing it. Beaten it several times and have all the achievements bar two really hard ones.

Right my GPU died the other day, in thought about upgrading and shits damn expensive.

Nah?

Yeah that’s the plan, the case is huge but full of water cooling etc

Yeah my gaming pc is from 2014 and runs modern shit fine. Well did, my GPU seems to have packed it in over the weekend. So I’m on the verge of buying a entire new machine. Ten years is pretty good

Ohh that’s a terrible thing to do, where would you go to do that so I stay far far away

We have 15 cables connecting the whole country.

Then when the government said they would put fibre in to every house in Australia they were voted in. Then only when to the exchanges. So it’s bottle necked at exchanges onto copper again for distribution to houses.

Its a nightmare for me in Australia.

We have the shittiest internet thanks to our clown government.

It will take me 2 days to download the game.

At best I can get 50mbs download speeds on fibre in a capital city.

5g phone is faster

Connections shits me. I hate how they will put in clear connections but you’re aiming for more obscure ones.

Strands and the Mini is where it’s at.

I played so much wordle, I own the app and everything but I lost interest in it

I wander the house singing the theme song to my wife all the time, she has never seen Dave the Barbarian and it drives her mad when I do it

I didn’t realise it went so poorly. I was watching trailers thinking it looks awesome. No wonder it all just dropped off the map

Me twooi

Man I used to have this as a kid, it took me literally years to beat the damn sniper training mission. Cause i was a stupid kid and didn’t understand the word stealth

Its abundance of sunlight and heavy investment in solar cell technology has positioned Saudi Arabia well in its transition to becoming a leading exporter of renewable energy. Indeed, solar energy currently makes up more than 80% of the Kingdom’s green energy capacity. However, these cells bring a twisted irony, as their operation exposes them to overheating risks. Cooling systems are therefore necessary, but many depend on electricity.

An international research team led by KAUST Professor Qiaoqiang Gan has designed a potential solution. Their device needs no electricity, as it extracts water from the air using nothing more than gravity and relies on cheap, readily available materials.

Along with keeping the solar cells and other semiconductor technologies cool, the water can be repurposed for irrigation, washing, cooling buildings on which the solar cells are placed, and other applications.

Scientists estimate that the atmosphere contains six times more water than all the fresh water in the rivers combined. “This water can be collected by atmospheric water harvesting technologies,” says Gan.

While these technologies work reasonably well, in arid environments like that of Saudi Arabia they require electricity to harvest practical amounts of water. This demand risks deterring the adoption of solar cells in rural regions of the Kingdom, where electricity infrastructure is costly.

One reason for the low efficiency is that the water adheres to the surface of the harvesting device. Professor Dan Daniel and Shakeel Ahmad, a postdoc in Gan’s group, found that by adding a lubricant coating that is a mix of a commercial polymer and silicon oil, they could collect more water by relying on only gravity.

“A common challenge in atmospheric water harvesting systems is that water droplets tend to remain pinned to the surface [of the device], necessitating active condensate collection. Our coating effectively eliminated pinning, enabling true passive water collection driven by water,” says Ahmad. “Since this system operates entirely on passive radiative cooling, it doesn’t consume any electricity.”

The solution is based on previous technology made by Gan, which he describes as “vertical double-sided architecture.” That system was originally designed to reflect thermal heat back to the sky to keep the solar cells cool but not to capture the water produced.

The new device was tested six times over the span of a year in natural conditions in the town of Thuwal, about 100 km north of Jeddah, and could almost double the rate of water collection compared with alternative atmospheric water harvesting technologies.

Along with Gan and Daniel, KAUST Associate Professor Gyorgy Szekely contributed to the study, which was published in Advanced Materials.

Along with the efficiency of the water collection, Daniel is equally excited about the economic benefits of adoption.

“The system doesn’t consume any electricity, leading to energy savings. Moreover, it doesn’t rely on any mechanical parts like compressors or fans, reducing the maintenance over traditional systems, leading to further savings,” he said.

So my physical version must surely have gone up I’m value too then. What an investment

/s

That really is the power or civilisation.

Just one more turn then I’ll cook dinner. Two hours later haha

Yeah I play civ 6 a lot, my wife and I have thousands of hours combined. People have bosrd game nights we have civ nights.

I can’t see us upgrading any time soon unless there’s something spectacular but even then going from 5 to 6 was hard work

Xbox game pay

Not to mention in 5 years you can replace one part on the pc and increase performance.

You don’t need to upgrade every part every time

Really? They animated all of that and just left it out of shot?

There’s something great about watching the AAA games industry fall on their face.

I’ve been playing Pokemon Go, started back when it came out after niantic killed their other game I was playing to make pokemon go. (Not bitter at all)

Played a few weeks gave up.

Now I’m 30 and was out running and thought hey why not do this at the same time.

Is this on pc? I can’t imagine servers are up on xbox right?

So pokemon from my youth would be rated R18 today haha.

Loot boxes etc all should be nuked from orbit though

Best game of the bunch

Yeah certainly a solid article, unfortunately I haven’t felt the need to upgrade from civ 6 at all. So I probably won’t move on unless it is absolutely amazing

Ocarina of time, 3d, lock on, one enemy attacks at a time. So much of modern gaming pulled from ocarina of time

The insane ramblings of a mad man

https://youtube.com/@theotherfrost?si=zTlbND31qtQtALfy

https://youtube.com/@theotherfrost?si=zTlbND31qtQtALfy

Yeah I just searched him up on YouTube and gave him a sub.

It concerns me though what second wind is going through though.

I only watch cold take, fully ramblomatic, and design delve. I will watch them anywhere though.

Edit…

https://youtube.com/@theotherfrost?si=zTlbND31qtQtALfy

Link to frosts personal channel

What really?

I just watched cold take from 3 days ago. That’s a shame

Thoughts like that is what will prevent idiocracy from happening and I’m not sure I don’t want to see the real world version of that.

I come to say stellaris too.

You won’t regret it, well maybe the countless hours you will lose to the game

Masters of Orion was a great game I had as a young kid. Never understood what I was doing until I was much older.

Got it in a scholastic book fair

Player count for a game like this doesn’t matter.

It isn’t a greedy corpo product that needs to farm engagement to fleece every cent from its players.

It’s one time purchase, I wish gamed journalism’s would drop the bullshit player counts matter for every game.

Even after no one is playing BG3 anymore they still made their money and have no more ongoing costs.

Not like fallout 76 where it costs them daily to maintain servers etc. Then it matters

Have you got Oracle of seasons? I had both when i was younger. They’re awesome games set in the same place but slightly different.

When you beat one you get a ring code so you can take stuff into the other version of the game too.

Ages was more puzzles from memory and seasons was more fighting oriented.

I have such fond memories of them both

If you can’t afford it you can’t afford it. My two cents though is I would have paid double the cost to play BG3.

Infant I did, I bought it for myself had such a great time I bought it for my wife too