kusttra

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

It also seems like there's some sort of unlock mechanism for what civs will be available for you to choose from in the next era - you'll assumably have to do certain things in an era to unlock specific civs for the next era

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Nope. They push the yeerks off of Earth, and then chase them out into space

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

As someone who read all 54 core books last year, this is factually incorrect

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm taking a break from Animal Crossing to try and finally finish Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch. We'll see how far I get this time. It's got a lot of classic RPG feel that I really love, and the Ghibli animated cutscenes are gorgeous, but I'm really not used to having to "watch" my games, so we'll see.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Continuing with my wizard's island in Animal Crossing, although I'm more just putting my daily time in right now. I finally worked up the drive to continue on my Minecraft chateau build, so that's eating most of my creative energies right now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'm not super sure. If I recall correctly, we've known for a while that something was going on, because surface hearing alone couldn't account for all of the water evaporating from oceans, but we couldn't tell what. In defense of humanity here, the concept of photons interacting with something as comparably massive as molecules is kinda wild. We were caught way off guard when the photoelectric effect was announced, and that's photons interacting with whole atoms instead of just elementary particles. The idea of the photomolecular effect is thus even wilder.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If you read the article, it's pretty clear. Instead of the energy of the photons being used to heat the water molecules to state change, that energy is used to break the molecular bonds between small groups of water molecules, and those groups are small enough to then be picked up by the air and evaporate. This way, the energy contained in a photon is converting much more liquid water to water vapor than if that same amount of energy was actually used to excite the water molecules, as in a microwave.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I own and have played the Gameboy remakes a few times. I would say going 1-2-3 shows the progression of game mechanic development really well - each feels like a refinement of the previous with some fresh new ideas added in. Additionally, though it's a fairly loose tie , the story across the 3 of them is related. That being said, though, I believe 2 is pretty widely considered to be the worst game in the entire franchise, so... Your mileage may vary. It is admittedly the one I've played least, and I probably haven't picked it up in the better part of 2 decades, so it's a bit vague for me anymore.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Last weekend I just needed something simple for a while, so I finally started an Animal Crossing island on my switch lite. My wife and I have put a bunch of time into crafting an island on our original switch, so it's been fun to start so over. I forgot just how slow moving the game is, though. 😛 My plan for the island is to keep it standard fantasy themed - my house will be a wizard tower on a hill, amidst a dense forest. There will also be a "secret" fruit forest that you have to quest for. All the houses and buildings will be located in a single, village-like area with some farms