phario

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[–] phario@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Nah this is changing.

This of course is what they said about tablets. Now people are replacing desktop or laptop workflow with tablets, or alternatively tablets are being designed with removable keyboards so the lines are blurred.

I know scientific researchers who now only travel to conferences with tablets instead of their laptops.

Finally, I predict that we’re moving to cloud computing. It’s the natural way. You VPN into a network and your computing is done on a cluster or on a central computer.

The same is already happening for gaming. People are connecting controllers and glasses like the Xreal Air to phones, then networking into a computer to play a desktop game on their phone.

[–] phario@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nope! Enjoyed it, though perhaps not as much as the second. ME1 reminded me a bit of Knights of the Old Republic (and Jade Empire around the same era), which had slightly stilted dialogue and choices. It was good but it still felt cartoonish.

Apart from Jacob, who seems like a caricature, the characters and acting from ME2 seem so much more real.

[–] phario@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Cheers I’ll remember that.

[–] phario@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes.

I think with something like this you have to do a literature search. Even then it’s kind of tough because I’m sure it’s very hard to do objective tests of these traits.

You might say that any activity has similar aspects. Learning a difficult passage in music, learning to speak languages, learning to throw a basketball through a hoop, etc.

I’m not sure there is a huge amount of evidence that video games teach resilience any more than any other similar activity. Moreover, it’s easily the kind of thing that our biases set us up to believe things that aren’t there. For every person who learned resilience from video games, there might be three other people who learned poor lessons, like “I should be lazy and play video games and not study for my exams.”

With academic or professional resilience, I can’t say I’ve seen any positive correlation with video games.

I could easily argue that excessive video game play makes you less resilient to doing non-video-game challenges.

[–] phario@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are so many recipes with minor variations. In the end it doesn’t matter much except for some points I’ll mention. Here is a random one. https://www.vickypham.com/blog/vietnamese-beef-noodle-soup-pho-bo

I would say that a lot of the cooking process is hard to explain via a book. Videos are good. This one seems to be done by a very knowledgeable woman. https://youtu.be/xxM4t8vP-0A

After skimming the above video I’m really impressed by that woman’s knowledge. One thing i am not sure she discusses is the process of skimming the fat off the broth.

[–] phario@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

After having moved to the UK, where Vietnamese food is not so readily available in areas outside of London (and similar) I’ve gotten used to making my own pho.

The main problem are the herbs as it can be hard to get all the necessary herbs outside of Asian supermarkets.

It’s a really good dish for special events as well, since few people I’ve met dislike pho.

[–] phario@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m starting to learn about PC building so tagging along here as well (from the UK). Is there a reason why you took a micro atx motherboard with a mid ATX case?

[–] phario@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not reading par se but I’m an audiobook fan and also a fan of the Star Wars Expanded Universe (Legends). I’m enjoying listening to the new recordings of the first Thrawn trilogy.

These re-recordings will probably be the last of its kind, given Disney’s declaration of non-canon.

[–] phario@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As a scientist I briefly read the Twitter chain by the company with some description of their methodology.

Honestly I didn’t really follow it and it’s hard to critique based on buzzwords and Tweets. The person who was posting it sounds like a businessman, throwing jargon and words rather than something coherent.

Ultimately I think that people are surprised by figures like “50% of gamers are female”. It might be 30%, or it might be something else. Maybe asking the questions a certain way biases the responses a certain way.

It’s hard to glean anything based on what I’ve seen. I don’t have any skin in this game, and I don’t care either way, but all I’ll say is that it’s hard to figure out the truth based on the information available.

[–] phario@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (27 children)

Women also make up 50% of PC video game players and 54 percent of mobile game players.

I find a lot of these figures really hard to believe, to be honest.

Looking at the link, there is little I can find about their methodology.

[–] phario@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It reminds of those stupid calculations that the music industry did back in the old days of Napster and other P2P sharing about how much money they lose.

When in actuality, I suspect that an actuary or accountant can estimate that this open sourcing of a 20+ year old game probably brings in new revenue in terms of consumers being interested in the franchise.

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