I’m sorry I’ve really tried to understand what your position is but I can’t wrap my head around it. I find this really interesting but I don’t understand it, are you willing to help?

Itten is “normal” RYB color wheel, yes?

Can you ELI5 how Munsell is different? The graphic you linked pretty much looks like it showed the same RYB archetype, with some layers and different levels of brightness… Isn’t that just RYB with extra steps?

Here’s some things that might help us meet in the middle:

-I understand radio/light/EM spectrum/frequencies/amplitudes

-i struggle with concepts of hue, contrast, brightness, luminosity, flux

-i am not an artist at all. I have pretty strong aphantasia - I’m not sure if that’s relevant but it seems like it might be in this case so I’ll mention it here

Can you post examples of what correct and incorrect models look like?

Wow ok you can hate the term but I think it’s nuts that you’re laying its prevalence at the foot of FOX news. It’s standard corporate buzz speak. There’s no politics here.

You sound a bit unhinged, tbh.

Because it’s unashamedly love

You can self host Protect. It’s what I did for ages when I was using a few of their cameras. Don’t have to use cloud unless you want to.

There’s a lot of downsides to ubiquiti (I’ve been dunking on them all over this thread) but there’s a LOT of great stuff too, and being able to self-host their management suite if you choose to do so is GREAT. That doesn’t make me want to invest in their walled garden for cameras, but for people who want to get into a functional ecosystem they’re a great choice. Overall the price:performance curve is not worth it to me, though, but neither are apple products, even though I know they work well also.

I’ve experimented with ubiquiti cameras and for the most part I find them very overpriced for their quality point. They’re good cameras, but they’re not ONVIF compatible so if you want to get into their (super overpriced and limited) ecosystem you won’t be able to intermix other cameras easily.

A good example is their doorbell camera. It’s just not good. And they don’t have more than one model, so if you want a good one you’re buying something else, that won’t work in their software, so now you’re using two systems to watch your cameras.

I’m glad they work for you, but I don’t recommend getting into their camera ecosystem.

This is a blanket statement that doesn’t really hold up.

Commercial off the shelf cloud service based smart home = control over you.

Fully self hosted smart home = control over your house.

Oh it’s definitely easier if it’s on Wi-Fi. I mean, ask 20 people on the street if they even know what zigby is and you’re gonna get 20 blank stares.

But for people who are into this type of thing either to regain control of their networks, to optimize their networks, or both - it’s objectively the better choice in most ways other than easy mode adoption.

Personally I have a TON of small Wi-Fi devices that are constantly transmitting (cheap interior cameras for keeping an eye on pets all over the house - all my security cameras are hard wired) so I try to limit new Wi-Fi traffic onto the net if I can help it.

It’s more about having fewer devices on Wi-Fi network IMO.

Until Wi-Fi 5, only one device could talk on Wi-Fi at a time, and even with 5+ the number of devices is limited by a ton of factors, so the more devices you have chattering the slower everything gets as devices wait their turn to speak, have collisions, time out, try to speak again, etc.

You can mitigate this through several different methods, but removing randomly transmitting devices will always be a benefit.

Zwave, zigby, all of those all operate in a different band so it’s better for your internet connection to wireless devices if you can offload stuff into those ranges.

I just don’t like paying that much to suck at something so hard

I can understand why it was polarizing. The game for sure broke a lot of norms in the franchise, and I too wasn’t happy about that at first, because it didn’t meet my initial expectations. But I think the weapon system is designed to encourage the player to explore the game mechanics, which if you just stick with one type of weapon you miss so much of, so I think it’s important to the game that they had it the way they did.

But yeah, I remember hating it at first so I definitely get it. My perspective changed but I totally understand if it never worked for you.

Stat/EXP loss on death.

Unskippable cut scenes, especially before a boss. I want to play on hard difficulty, which means I WILL die to bosses. Do not force me to watch that shit 5+ times or I’m out like trout.

Frustrating?

I dunno, my mind changed a bit on this once I played BotW. As long as weapons are significantly different enough and there’s always ways to be effective with each, and you get a non-stop slew of them to rotate through, it’s fun.

If you lose any of the above conditions though and you’re just constantly trying to repair your weapon set, needing to pack stupid numbers of repair kits or stop at the corner store in town or whatever to repair your only set, that’s a no from me dawg.

But it can be fun. When I first played BotW I was really frustrated about durability until I complained about it to my friend and he was like “dude who cares, just pick up one of the 20 weapons laying on the ground and keep moving” I realized that I no longer need to hoard all the best weapons and I could just send it, and the game got way more fun.

That being said, most games do it poorly and 90% of the time I agree with you. Looking at YOU dead Island 2

Lol. As a fan of the farming sim genre, I approve this message.

No. But they’re really inexpensive and link up to people’s Amazon accounts so it’s easy to manage your books, if you are a person who likes to use Amazon for that.

I’ve had two Kindles, the first was before they had touch screens, and I loved it (this was a long, long time ago). Even with the hard case eventually I broke the screen after many years of travel and use, and hated the one I replaced it with. Awful piece of garbage, I wanted to return it and get one with physical buttons but they didn’t make them any more and I was too lazy to do second hand searching. I’ve never used Amazon to buy e books but I got a lot of free ones over the years (mostly cookbooks) and it was handy to be able to just download them directly to the device, but I prefer to manage books over USB and that always worked fine.

E-ink is amazing. Battery life lasts for ages, which really is what you want for a dedicated reader. There’s other types on the market, but it’s hard to compete with Amazon’s prices and feature set - especially because they sell ones that are ad-supported and that REALLY drives the prices down for people that are willing to have their lock screen be an ad that goes away when they wake the device, which is an easy compromise for most.

My Kindle just collected dust now, I use a supernote as a note taker and I use it for ebooks also. It was about $500 USD - granted it does way, way more than a Kindle, but yeah. I could probably get an ad-supported Kindle for 1/10 the cost, maybe, not sure what their prices are these days. Not saying that competing dedicated readers are in that price range, they’re not, but Kindle dominates the market due to brand recognition, advertising, and as far as I know they were the first to really offer a product like it in the first place so they’ll always have a big piece of the market, like iPods did in the MP3 player space vs objectively superior competitors that came after it.

Probably my favorite in the thread. Congrats.

Been a bit since I played but I remember them being good, but iirc I still preferred mouse+keyboard when I was using ranged weapons, but that’s more because I suck with controllers than any weakness with the input method.

Take that with a grain of salt though because it really has been a while. I recommend you try it out.

Great game. Very much a terraria analogue, but top down.

Terraria is a masterpiece with many, many more years of development so it’s not the most fair comparison if you want to say that it’s better than Necesse, which I think it is, but this gem is IMO 2nd place in whatever the “terraria” genre might be called.

Boring? What do you mean