Feet the Hedgehog
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Iâve run out of ports on my router, are network hubs reliable for things like a NAS and TV where latency isnât a problem?
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Does anyone remember that clip (or maybe supercut) of the blade runner commentary where ridley scott is explaining things with statements like âpeople always want to know what the significance of this was. I have no idea! I thought it was cool!â
I found it quite illuminating but now I canât find it again.
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I have the 5 disc box set of DVDs that Iâm pretty sure has a bunch of commentaries on it, so I could potentially find the source â but I also have no way of ripping a DVD any more.
Iâm not sure if that is helpful, sorry.
oh, thatâs okay - there was just this clip of ridley being totally off the rails which is very relevant in the current discourse (even though he didnât direct the new one). Everyone has vague memories of it but nobody can find it!
Any thermic water bottle recomendation?
Stanleyâs trending too much right now and i donât wanna just buy one because of it. Maybe thereâs better / cheaper alternatives, similar prices and such.
A friend suggested me Zojirushi ones but it never hurts asking more people
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yeah zojirushi or Snow Peak but itâs pricier. Dont bother with Stanley. I have strong feelings on this topic
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donât go tiger. iâve had a few break on me before. i donât own a snow peak water bottle but do own a few other pieces of their gear and can corroborate that they are well made if not overpriced.
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used a zojiroushi thermos daily for years before switching to snow peak. No real complaints about the zojiroushi just wanted something with less plastic. Snow Peak is expensive, but itâs just a metal tube thatâll last forever and is easy to clean. Works as advertised. Often on sale too bc all their stuff is overpriced though good quality
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i got a similar one to this early in the year and itâs been doing me well so far. i actually got it specifically because someone compared it to a stanley and it kept stuff cooler for much longer.
https://www.pichau.com.br/copo-termico-zinnia-zr120-600ml-com-canudo-azul-znc-zr120-bu01
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Yeah - itâs fine. Itâs actually more than fine for game applications too as a home user. If you want me to start getting technical I canâŚ
You want a âswitchâ and not a âhubâ because of how the packets are processed and routed. This is not a big deal because âhubsâ generally donât exist anymore.
I recommend you get a 1GBASE-T (1 gigabit) switch because they are super inexpensive, while also being pretty future proof for home applications. The next step up for consumers/prosumers is 2.5GBASE-T. The home industry will probably jump to 10G after that. You donât need any of that because youâre approaching line rate for most connections to the ISP - which is why youâre future proof.
Unless you like live in Korea and get sick fiber. Then get a 10G router and a 10G switch and go nuts!
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Sadly Snow Peak is not avaliable in Brazil lol
Importing one would cost a kidney
@Skellingtor hmmm thatâs ultra cheap!
I donât like Pichau but for that price, if itâs the real deal, i think itâs worth trying.
Thanks!
Yes! Thankyou. all of that is very helpful. I have 1gb service but I donât think Iâll be pushing more than 200Mb at a time. My nas is slow, I donât use my TV for streaminh. Iâll probably get the 1gbase-t like you suggested in case that changes.
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Iâm starting to read âAddiction by Designâ and am enjoying it, though itâs a few years old now. Iâve been kicking around some thoughts on play within the context of videogames generally, and was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for strong texts about the âwhyâ of game playing. (âMan, Play, and Gamesâ was mentioned in this book, and the four categories are interesting, but I am wondering about what ways people break down play within the realm of videogames these days) Anyone have suggestions? Also any follow ups to âAddiction by Designâ would be interesting.
Edit - Things Iâve found so far - âGames (Thinking Art)â, âTheory of Fun for Game Designâ, and âExtra Lives: Why Video Games Matterâ - just looking at samples so far. Lemme know if you know any of those are particularly worthwhile or not really on what Iâm talkin.
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Iâm also interested in this!
I have recently heard of Play by Stuart Brown. It was mentioned in a YT video. The video focused mostly on different âplay personalitiesâ identified by the author. I found that interesting but havenât looked deeper into the topic yet. Iâm generally wary of putting people into distinct categories when it comes to psychology [1] but some of the ideas resonated with me and I since wanted to look deeper into the science of play in general.
I havenât read the book yet so I canât vouch for it. Iâm a bit suspicious of it especially since the introduction to the topic states: âAs we mature, we develop a style or mode in which we are most comfortable being playful. Dr. Brown calls these styles of playfulness, âplay personalities.â These are not based on scientific data, rather Dr. Brown discerned them from thousands of interviews and observations.â (Source, a non-profit founded by the author mentioned above)
Feels a bit like someone is trying to sell me a personality test but maybe Iâm too cynical. It sounds interesting, though!
It was mentioned in the youtube video, that Brown says people donât neatly fit into one category and probably have one dominant and possibly multiple secondary preferred modes of play, so I might be judging too hastily. Just donât want to endorse what I donât know and psychology is full of weird pseudoscience. âŠď¸
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Itâs now older (2010 or so), but I read Jane McGonigalâs Reality Is Broken as establishing a couple of interesting explanations for why games. She is making her arguments to establish the benefits of cooperative games and alternate reality games; the basic elements she outlines include how games motivate investment because their rules and purposes make sense in a way reality often doesnât. Games arenât escapism, exactly, but they are alternate spaces to manage problem solving, dexterity, and failure and feel accomplishment. The first six chapters are good material for discussion. (Later chapters are more about using the lessons from game design to apply to ARGs and gamification.)
I see McGonigalâs work alongside people doing work on serious games, like Ian Bogost (Persuasive Games, How to Do Things with Videogames, Play Anything). I canât remember if Bogost exactly defines âwhat is play?â but in Persuasive Games he makes a pitch for procedural rhetoric, or this idea that the very experience of play (interacting with procedures) makes arguments by modeling how processes work. So game processes, in addition to being their own thing, help us understand processes in the world.
More recent stuff that may scratch the itch includes Brendan Keoghâs A Play of Bodies (2018), about the phenomenology (actual experience) of play, and Lindsay Grace in Doing Things with Games (2020), which really approaches social games like a textbook, with benefits (it will answer in detail exactly what the author thinks play, games, and other elements are in its first section) and drawbacks (on occasion, you may want more to be said). There may be better stuff; I just end up reading around in games criticism once a year or so.
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Play Matters by Miguel Sicart was good ten years ago. Probably still good now.
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Where is a good place to source old corded telephones? Iâd like to get some for a thing and am looking for the kind people actually had in their homes and not a bunch of office ones with the big screens.
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My dadâs house. How many are you looking for? 
You should also be able to find some in surplus sales when businesses close.
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