Exclusive: More than 100,000 B.C. households at risk of homelessness due to rental crisis; “The rental crisis is worse (in B.C.) than pretty much anywhere else in the country.”
The average rent in B.C. increased 30% from 2016 to 2021: “The rental crisis is worse here than pretty much anywhere else in the country.”
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the "Really good boy" weapon mod was one of my favourite things in the original game. Due in no small part to the fact that you can pet the dog after you summon it. Really happy excited for the sequel!
Thanks for the well thought out response! I was looking at that one. How granular is the temperature at low temps? Will it keep something nicely at below the boiling point?
This isn't surprising. Todd Howard already stated that given the choice between fidelity or framerate they would choose fidelity every time. It's disappointing that he thinks that's still what people want in 2023, but it's not surprising.
Need to queue up the house building theme after that one
I wish, but this one is particularly hard. Storing video takes a LOT more than hosting a text based service. There is peertube that you might want to check out though!
Not. A. Chance. I will also encourage my mastodon instance to not federate with them.
OST's are my JAM!
Ori is a classic. - It's equal parts haunting and jubilant.
Death Stranding - Don't be so serious. Every song is a masterpiece.
Overwatch - It's just good fun
Witcher 3 - hey lele lelele lele lele ley!
Cyberpunk - Dark, broody, and invigorating
Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2 - Absolute fantasy. If you want a VGM OST to plan your d&d session to, this is a great option
Red Dead Redemption 2 - Maybe it's partly because Arthur Morgan's story is so incredible but this soundtrack gives me the shivers. "May I stand unshaken... Amid, amidst a crash of the world?" omggg give it to me D'Angelo
There's tons more I'm missing here. But these ones stand out to me.
Edit: Formatting
True, and even if there were it would be a massive pain and probably the best thing to do is not engage with twitter at all.
So what you're saying is, if I have a Twitter account and I start blocking many MANY people it costs Elon money? Interesting.
So one of the defenses we have against this is the federated nature of lemmy. It's not "Lemmy" that you join. It's an instance run by some people you hopefully have found to align with your values. That instance does not need to grow large on its own for the whole network to be strong and you can maintain moderation in the instance by limiting then number of members joining. This doesn't weaken Lemmy, there are other instances that denied applicants can go to and they can all interact. Think of it like a bus service where if one bus is too full, you can just catch the next one. Except the next bus is already there waiting for you. It may just be enough of a disruption to stop a hivemind from moving in and taking over entirely, especially if instances are founded on a strong sense of culture. Beehaw certainly has its own culture compared to other instances and that's a great thing to hold on to when lot's of people show up and want things to work here exactly how they worked elsewhere.
Edit: We don't WANT to host the mass exodus from reddit. But if during that exodus a bunch of people who find they like our way of doing things better happen to join us then that's amazing.
That's a video specifically about non-induction electric tops, but thank you!
Thank you for sharing the experience, I'll have to adjust my expectations lol. Having an even heating is something I was hoping for for things like crepes or omelets. But on the other hand what I have now is a regular electric glass top, and it makes me nervous with how easy it is to scratch. Scratches can make the entire glass top crack and it's super expensive to replace. Any time any splatter happens or anything boils over for even a second if it drops onto the hot glass it INSTANTLY becomes burnt on and needs to be scraped off but you can only use special non-abrasive detergents..
Induction would suit my needs well enough for most things and I can probably adjust to the times it doesn't.
I'm looking for a hotplate or portable type. One thing I've seen people take issue with is a small heating area? Is this an overblown issue? On many of the units I have been looking at they say there's a ring that's like 4-6 inches in diameter that heats and I'd like to be able to cook evenly on a larger skillet.
Does anyone use induction burners? Looking for recommendations.
I'm looking at buying an induction burner but it's hard to find which brands may be reliable. Most of the youtube reviews are done by review bot channels and relying on amazon reviews in this day and age... yeah. So does anyone have any experience with these and know of a brand that I can go toward?
It is so hard to keep seeing content that I'm subscribed to instead of youtube just deciding I've watched enough of that sort of content and flooding me with 100 videos that are tangentially related to one video I clicked on by accident.
Do you remember when horse armour was $5 and people freaked out so badly Bethesda walked back on mtx until they felt ready for FO76?
I grew up in one of those and have moved in the past couple of years to a place that is ever so slightly better but not by much. Currently it's a suburban sprawl dominated by single level strip malls surrounded by asphalt moats. It can be tough out there!
Good recommendations! I love both of those channels!
Here's some others that I follow. Maybe we should start a thread for content creators to follow.
https://www.youtube.com/@CityNerd "CityNerd is a channel and community that embraces all things cities and transportation, approaching things with a profound love for urban environments and an analytical bent. " Ray's dry, sarcastic, delivery of Top 10 worst lists are amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes Stories of great urban planning and urban experiences from the Netherlands and beyond. There are a lot of reasons why Dutch cities are so great; it's not just bikes.
I'm sure I don't need to actually list this one, but for completeness here it is. The OG.
https://www.youtube.com/@alanthefisher "The Numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster for you suburbs." Alan posts content on rail and urban ideas. "Just one more lane bro" guy.
https://www.youtube.com/@Shifter_Cycling "A channel about urban cycling, bike commuting and the ways we get around our cities with author, journalist and creator Tom Babin." This is a channel that's great for getting familiar with the more practical aspects of using bicycles as a mode of transportation.
https://www.youtube.com/@AdamSomething Makes urbanist content sometimes, other times he rants about various topics
https://www.youtube.com/@OhTheUrbanity "Oh The Urbanity! traverses cities by foot, bike, and public transit and aims to make informative and (hopefully) entertaining videos combining streetscapes and demographic data." Montreal based duo posting urbanist content
https://www.youtube.com/@RMTransit "Ever wondered why your city's transit just doesn't seem quite up to snuff? RMTransit is here to answer that, and help you open your eyes to all of the different public transportation systems around the world! " I have never seen someone as passionate or informed about transit systems worldwide as Reece from RM Transit
This Is What It Takes To Be a Strong Town. Is Yours One?
When it comes to improvements to your town or city or even country, it can often feel like you are powerless in the world. But you're not alone. A city is made of communities and communities are made of individual people.
One day our kids or our kids kids, or their kids, will be able to safely just walk to school. And it starts with finding your community, finding out what works from people all over the world, and then maybe introducing the ideas to your neighbours or voting for city/town council members who align with your goals.
I just wanted to drop a more hopeful message rather than news or information.
Building Better Cities: 8 Steps to Transform Your Urban Environment
8 Really good suggestions for how you can help make improvements in your town. The first, simply voting, is so important and also pretty easy.
Approximately 2 billion parking spots cover this country, enough to pave over the entire state of Connecticut. Cities are cracking down.
From a Vancouver Island fire hall to a Kootenay city hall to a Vancouver elementary school, subsidized housing above community amenities is poised to see massive growth.
The City of Montreal announced Tuesday that it would develop over four dozen projects aimed at expanding and improving the metropolis's bike path network. The 53 projects estimated to cost $30 million will develop and upgrade 59.1 kilometres in the cycling network, spanning 14 boroughs and four othe...
$30 million dollars goes so much further on active transport infrastructure than it would on cars!
A fuzzy cloth like material created in blender
Attached: 2 images Some fuzzy cloth material that could be used on socks, plushies, sweaters maybe if they are worn out. #blender3d
Trying to get comfortable with the shader nodes in blender I sometimes create random materials. I mostly post them on my mastodon account but I will test the waters here as well.
The basic idea for the shader is to get two weaves going at 90 degrees from each other. I used a voronoi, scaled down in one direction to make each bit long rather than round, with a low randomness to make each weave. Then pipe it into normal and displacement maps to get the texture out, and use a colour ramp to add the albedo and some light subsurface scattering. Tinkering with the bsdf is just me playing with slider, I didn't have any real direction with those.
If this were going to be for a photoreal material this node set up would be an excellent base to start from, but it would take many more layers and details to use.
What do you think? Do you have any suggestions for materials for me to try?