the screen hoopla shouldn’t have happened in the first place if they just ignore the 4:3 purists :P
What was the issue there?
Mind doing a side shot? I'd be curious to see how thick they are compared to each other.
Also do the sticks and buttons touch the screen? I thought I heard that was an issue with some clamshell handhelds. Whoever the reviewer was I believe speculated it may ware down the screen protector.
Maybe the blog that is hosted on a Nintendo Wii. It's not the most practical hack but I find console modding really neat and the "because I can" style projects are particularly fascinating to me.
Some other favorite hacks are a bit more practical and have to do with extending the life of existing products. RebbleOS, for example, is an open source firmware that took off after Pebble shutdown following their acquisition by FitBit in 2016. It's allowed people to continue using their e-ink Pebble watches largely unchanged. They can still do things like fetch the weather and voice dictation.
On a related note for anyone interested there are a lot of programs out there for using other peripherals such as webcams, Xbox 360 Kinects, PSVR cameras and headsets, and so on for VR on PC.
iVRy Driver and Driver4VR are some pretty popular paid programs on Steam that assist with the setup process.
/r/PSVRHack is neat if you are in that ecosystem.
It depends if I feel the death is deserved and if I'm having fun.
If I'm playing something like Battlefield and keep dying because of someone's skills with a plane I'm fine with that and it definitely feels like it's on me. If it's someone sliding around shipment in Call of Duty mobile killing me as soon as I spawn and I'm lucky if I end their kill streak I feel like that's on the game because of baked in mechanics being frustrating to counter.
I would say it's definitely the most noticeable with games like Elden Ring. I suck so bad at them but I feel like I deserve each death and don't feel irritated by dying.
It's only in situations where someone is hacking that I would actually blame another player.
I recommend joining the official discord group as well as AngryTurtle’s discord group for friendly people to play with.
Is this a YouTuber's group or something?
Thanks for all the other tips though.
The added caps I got from people on my team completing quests was nice. I am still not sure how voice chat works with teams though. It seems like I can voice chat with them no matter where they are on the map but I don't know if that removes the proximity voice chat.
Is scrapping legendary gear better than turning it in to that legendary exchange machine? I still haven't figured out what that does.
Which is a shame, because it’s just as fun as FO4 otherwise.
I get you. I would definitely play a Tale of Two Wastelands mod that combines Fallout 4 and 76.
Isn't an initialism a subcategory of acronym by definition?
Is that correct? I think by definition an initialism can be considered a form of acronym. The way I worded the question includes those subsets of acronyms
Mount Your Friends is an Xbox 360 era go-to for me. Very easy to get into and gets people competitive (in a good way). The only downside is it's probably not the most appropriate game to play with kids for your situation
This is the kind of bar of soap I am talking about. It's kind of a contoured oval.
I know there are copyrights on soap shapes. I've read several soap shape patents like Theodore G Brown's hollow bar of soap designed to contain slivers of old soap and Douglas Lee's helical soap.
I've tried to go through Conopco Inc's list of patents (the trademark holder for Dove) but I can't seem to find much. They also own a plethora of other companies though so it's been challenging to swift through.
On that note I also looked for subsidiaries of Unilever (they own Dove) to see if any of them make similarly shaped bars of soap but it doesn't seem like it. Brands of soap outside of Unilever such as Irish Spring (owned by Colgate-Palmolive) do sell contoured/"dog bone" soap but I don't recall seeing any that match Dove's design.
I did find a book called Chemical Product Design: Towards a Perspective through Case Studies from 2007 and chapter 9 is titled "Design of the Dove Beauty Bar" which sounded promising but it seems to be mostly about the chemical composition and reducing soap scum in bathtubs. This is also apparently one of the theories as to why they are branded as beauty bars instead of soap. The other theory being it was an advertising tactic by David Ogilvy to appeal to women.
Someone on Reddit claims their grandfather invented the shape of Dove soap and posted the original wooden models. They backed up their claims by getting into contact with Unilever. I couldn't find any useful information in the comments.
I could probably go to a grocery store and see if any other brands have similarly shaped soap and cross reference that with the release of that style of soap by Dove to see if the copyright has lapsed but that would probably mean looking for old advertisements.
For context I was in the shower thinking about different shapes of soap and it made me wonder if that specific design (contoured oval) was originally chosen primarily to either:
A) Minimize the amount of contact on surfaces after being used to limit residue build up and prevent it from becoming stuck to tubs, shower, sinks, and so on.
B) Work better with the human body by maximizing the area that comes into contact with skin and wearing more evenly.
I imagine these days Dove would say both but that feels a bit like saying the stay-on-tabs you find on canned drinks were designed with a hole to hold your straw in place or keep bees out of your drinks during the summer.
All of this made me wondering if there was a patent somewhere and I've now spent about two hours looking for it. I don't really know why I became so invested in this. I suspect there's going to be a simple answer.
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Is Simitone worth trying? How does it differ from the regular version of The Sims? Is the project dead?
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I mentioned Simitone in another post here and it made me consider giving it a try. A couple years ago I attempted to set it up (I think it may have been around 2018 after seeing a post like this on ModTheSims) but ran into some kind of issue that kept me from actually being able to play. I'm wondering is it worth the effort?
From talks in forums it seems like it isn't being developed anymore.
The SimsTek Wiki goes into specifics stating the following:
Simitone was cancelled when Rhys was sent a ceased and desist from EA over attempting to publish the project to Apple's App Store sometime after EA announced The Sims Mobile. He noted that it had the real potential to cut into EA's revenue and that the company wasn't having it. The code was released to the public but is still treated as proprietary software.
But doesn't site a source.
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As of December 9th 2024 the FreeSO server, a reimplemenation of The Sims Online, has shutdown
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You can find the FreeSO final post here if you would like to read it.
For those that want to know more about The Sims Online here is the Wikipedia page.
If you want to see people playing the game several YouTubers such as CallMeKevin and Plumbella.
There are other servers that exist for FreeSO such as SimNation and FreeMyLand but I haven't tried them myself. Others such as FSO Brazil don't seem to exist anymore from what I can tell based off of a very minimal amount of digging.
Here are some other screenshots from just before the end:
Related:
Here is an article about multiplayer in The Sims 4.
FreeSO also serves as the base for Simitone.
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Do you find you switch back and forth between games quite often?