Those reviews really overblow the importance of that mechanic. It's just little side things that happen while you play "the real game".
It will probably be removed or reduced for the full release considering it doesn't add much value to the gameplay either.
I bought the game on release purely to support the studio and I would definitely recommend waiting.
It's an excellent game being made but you can really tell that they didn't quite know where to go with this game. They pulled together mechanics from various genres that don't fit together that well.
The waiting mechanics are a non-issue since you are usually playing "the real game" while side stuff is happening in your town.
Graphics, art and music are all fantastic, as expected from a game by Moon studios, but performance is an issue. Greatly improved since launch but still not where it should be.
They are listening to feedback though and I'm sure they can get everything in proper order in a year or so.
Damn, it's 20 bucks now? You have to play a lot of different games to make that worth it.
I'm thinking of Ripping my CD collection again. I'm researching a way to use a LLM to tidy up the metadata.
If you ever figure out how to use AI to determine the genre(s) of a song, let me know. Have been looking for something like that for quite a while.
Yes, season 7 is currently running and has 10 more episodes remaining.
But why does it end up washing out colors unless I amplify them in kwin? Is just the brightness absolute in nits, but not the color?
The desktop runs in SDR and the color space differs between SDR and HDR, meaning you will end up with washed out colors when you display SDR on HDR as is.
When you increase the slider in KDE, you change the tone mapping but no tone mapping is perfect so you might want to leave it at the default 0% and use the HDR mode only for HDR content. In KDE for example, colors are blown out when you put the color intensity to 100%.
Why does my screen block the brightness control in HDR mode but not contrast? And why does the contrast increase the brightness of highlights, instead of just split midtones towards brighter and darker shades?
In SDR, your display is not sent an absolute value. Meaning you can pick what 100% is, which is your usual brightness slider.
In HDR, your display is sent absolute values. If the content you're displaying requests a pixel with 1000 nits your display should display exactly 1000 nits if it can.
Not sure about the contrast slider, I never really use it.
Why is truehdr400 supposed to be better in dark rooms than peak1000 mode?
Because 1000 nits is absurdly bright, almost painful to watch in the dark. I still usually use the 1000 mode and turn on a light in the room to compensate.
Why is my average emission capped at 270nits, that seems ridiculously low even for normal SDR screens as comparison.
Display technology limitations. OLED screens can only display the full brightness over a certain area (e.g. 10% for 400 nits and 1% for 1000 nits) before having to dim the screen. That makes the HDR mode mostly unuseable for desktop usage since your screen will dim/brighten when moving large white or black areas around the screen.
OLED screens simply can't deliver the brightness of other display technologies but their benefits easily make it worth it.
I would second getting a separate microphone/headphone instead of a combined headset.
All the headsets I owned over the years were significantly worse in audio quality and broke after a few years, usually something related to the microphone.
I went with a Sennheiser 598 with a Modmic for years, which was ok but switched to a beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro about 4 years ago.
So far my favorite out of all the headphones I owned. Very clear sound, comfortable, actually "Made in Germany", and they still provide replacement parts on their website. Replaced my ear pads just a month ago or so.
The Modmic is decent but there is a lot of room for improvement, I was never able to find a proper alternative though.
Sodium-based batteries currently have a lower energy density than lithium-based batteries so they are only useful in some applications.
When I worked help desk, a coworker of mine took a call where someone called in because one of the thin clients was on fire. The user was advised to call 911.
Well, did he try to turn it off and NOT back on again?
And yet I do not think I will be using my Bosch in 25 years because some cheap internal plastic part will have broken down while the Makita would still run.
I don't think you can import pfSense configurations into OPNsense. I switched from a DIY pfSense box as well and redid the config.
You can look for a converter or install pfSense onto it though.
Would you say the same thing about a car?
"We know the door might fall off but it has not fallen off yet so we are good."
The chances of that door hurting someone are low and yet we still replace all of them because it's the right thing to do.
These processors might fail any minute and you have no way of knowing. There's people who depend on these for work and systems that are running essential services. Even worse, they might fail silently and corrupt something in the process or cause unecessary debugging effort.
If I were running those processors in a company I would expect Intel to replace every single one of them at their cost, before they fail or show signs of failing.
Those things are supposed to be reliable, not a liability.