Notices by Derek Caelin 🌱 (derek@social.coop)

We've had a two-month drought here in #connecticut. This morning we had rainfall - thank goodness.

Listen to: China steps up on climate change as the new Trump administration signals a retreat - https://one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5181981:nx-s1-5263609-1

@chriswood thank you!

Added a bevel to the wand handle, and started carving a pattern.

#woodworking

A reading of Beowulf, translated into modern English. https://youtu.be/AaB0trCztM0

The US no longer supports capping plastic production in UN treaty | Grist
https://grist.org/regulation/us-backtracks-production-caps-global-plastics-treaty-united-nations/

Can global warming stay below 1.5 C? : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/18/nx-s1-5183222/1-5-celsius-global-warming-climate-change-cop29

@OWGF WANT

TFW you're watching the Valve #HalfLife2 documentary and you look at one of the developers, and you say, "Where do I know this guy from?", and you realize he's the model for Cave Johnson from #Portal2.

https://youtu.be/YCjNT9qGjh4?t=1559

Kiddo wants a wand, I did the first cuts this morning. Need to figure out how to embelish.

My feed is:
* 1 part people sharing pictures of wilderness
* 2 parts people blaming Democrats for losing to Trump
* 1 part someone enthusiastically boosting something in German
* 1 part tech is good, actually
* 2 parts tech is bad, actually (especially Blusky)
* 1 part BIRDS

@Brynawel great book.

@Some_Emo_Chick Ooph. This hits.

@daubhinb.bsky.social 👋

@ElectricDryad It was a great game. I think I liked the story more than the gameplay, so I'll watch a video playthrough.

Another angle, and a video link.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS804Qha0Fs&t=8655

It's wild. Dad would like renumeration or at least a citation, but I don't know who to ask about this, a scene in a 4 year old game.

Oh my god. My dad's painting, The Planetary Suite, is referenced in #TheLastOfUs part 2.

I am absolutely astounded.

@faehnrich yunohost is lovely! For a while I had my website, a nextcloud, and a mastodon server all chugging along on a very slow RaspberryPi3. It was very satisfying.

As opposed to #cyberpunk2077, I did not feel as though I was embodying Joel (or Ellie). I was watching them make decisions. About the only decisions I made was how to spend my upgrade points and whether to kill people loudly or quietly.

In an RPG I would be considering how my character would react to a given scenario. In #TheLastOfUs, I would sit back and say, "oh, Joel is going to straight up murder these people now."

I'm [checks notes] eleven years late to the party, so I don't expect the following to be earth shattering, but it turns out that #TheLastOfUs is a good game.

It was a remarkably cinematic experience, which is to say, the parts that were most engaging to me were the cinematic cutscenes between gameplay.