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'Baldur's Gate 3' lands on Mac September 21
Ofer said:
Regarding F-Zero: just watched the Nintendo direct announcement. That was really disappointing. I was hoping for a modern remake of the game. Instead it’s the original and only available as an online option for people who subscribe to Nintendo’s subscription service. Boo!!!!![...]
It's cool, but yeah ... i was hoping for them to remake it. Even acknowledging that it exists (outside of Smash) is a huge step up though.mpantone said:[...]
BD3 has serious GOTY competition from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. They are neck-and-neck atop this year's leaderboards at Metacritic and Opencritic. My money is on the Nintendo title. Remember that there are 125+ million Switch units. And Nintendo titles have a different sales curve than PC or other console platforms. Nintendo sales are spread out over a longer duration.
That said, I applaud Larian for bringing BD3 to macOS. This game has two very distinct playing styles: solo and multiplayer. Watching solo play is generally a snoozefest, great for the one whose is playing. Multiplayer is totally different, more like genuine old-school tabletop D&D with so many moments of hilarity just from party interaction.
But for sure, BG3 is not the runaway GOTY winner with three months left in 2023. Not by a longshot.
ToTK was fantastic, but it's also just kinda BotW+ and I think that's going to really hurt it come awards time. BG3 easy winner for me : )
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Inexplicably, there are two indistinguishable models of second generation AirPods Pro
I thought you were going to make a joke about not swallowing them, because apparently that's a thing that happens. A lot. 😬decoderring said:Whatever they did, all we can really say about all this is, if you have the 2022 AirPods Pro and the 2023 AirPods Pro, don't put them in a bowl and hope you get the right pair out.
Hehe…
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'Baldur's Gate 3' lands on Mac September 21
Tomorrow has a bunch of goodies. Got a Night City Wire sandwiched between a Nintendo Direct and a Sony State of Play. I don't expect a lot from the State of Play (third-party and indie focused), but the Nintendo Direct is supposed to have one banger.Japhey said:
Can’t wait for Phantom Liberty either. Did you see they are having the Night City Wire Event tomorrow?[...]
BG3 is easily GOTY, so it's really cool to finally see it come to Mac after the delay (which all things considered wasn't too terrible.) -
Apple's 'Mother Nature' sketch was a complete dud, and didn't belong in the iPhone 15 even...
Hot take:
It was over-long but I liked it. It had some good bits. These things can be subjective 🤷♂️
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FineWoven is here, as Apple phases out leather in watch bands & cases
clexman said:
Yes, those cow farts are so much worse than the forever plastics.[...]
Cows are mostly raised for their meat and milk. Using their leather just means that there is less waste when the edible parts are harvested.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965262102120XThe leather industry is one of the most polluting and highly resource-consuming sectors. About 0.25 Mg of leather is produced from 1 Mg of raw material and requires 15,000 m3 - 120,000 m3 of water, finally generating 15–50 Mg of wastewater and 400–700 kg of solid waste (Hu et al., 2011), to say nothing of odors, greenhouse gases (CO2, H2S, NH3) and volatile organic compounds such as amines, aldehydes and hydrocarbons. The amount of chemicals emitted is influenced by the type of treatment and the technology used to process leather in a tannery (Fela et al., 2011). It is estimated that the global production capacity is approx. 15 Mt of leather per year, which shows the scale of the problem (Hu et al., 2011). Until now, landfilling and partial disposal were the only practices used in tannery waste management, mainly for economic reasons.
