N95s are fine for prolonged use. Study after study has shown that wearing a mask has a negligible impact on blood saturation, heart rate or cognitive performance.
"Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of laboratory‐confirmed influenza/SARS‐CoV‐2 compared to not wearing masks (RR 1.01, 95% CI 0.72 to 1.42; 6 trials, 13,919 participants; moderate‐certainty evidence)."
come on now, be more creative.
the cochrane review has been debunked a thousand times. event the authors expressed concerns about how their conclusion was interpreted and themselves pointed out the flaws in the review design
Noctis was an amazing experience. It had no right being as immersive as it was. If you liked the idea of NMS, give it a go; it nails the alone-on-the-frontier mood a lot better.
As NMS "improved" and fleshed out the game world, it lost a certain poetry that it had earlier on. There was something really unsettling about the earlier universes that felt - dare I say? - liminal.
Well - kinda? Liminal implies a particular mood or feeling - which is what the Back Rooms stuff was also aiming for. I think some of it succeeds remarkably well and some of it doesn't.
I have always called this mood lonely exploration, or melancholic curiosity. It has liminal qualities in that you feel between encounters or between spaces of meaning.
It sounds bad but indeed, early NMS did feel kind of meaningless, which as you said had a certain poetic quality.
Melancholic curiosity, or loneley exploration, are two things I am trying to capture in games I make. There is a game called Infra that I highly recommend if you enjoy that mood, and city infrastructure.
Taking of immersion I loved how all the ui is integrated into the geometry of the ship. Makes it feel coherent like a real object. Not enough (non-sim) games do this.
I always just assumed it was simply because it was a last-ditch effort.
But I just Googled it, and someone on Reddit pointed out: "Hail Mary full of Grace."
Groan... Actually makes me like the book a little less than I already did. (Edit: Which I know is against the grain here, as evidenced by the downvotes for not liking the book.)
The observatory predates the invention of refracting telescopes. It was used to determine the position and movement of stars and planets, not to observe them. The "quadrant" is a device to accurately measure the angle of an observation:
I've been building out my sim racing setup with 8020 for the past three years. It's a goodsend if you want to build something durable, fast and cheap but can't work wood.
I did my entire IT degree on an Eee PC and I won't hear a bad thing said about it. It was the only working laptop I could afford and with Debian on it it was an IRC/shell/light browsing beast.
As far as I'm aware, bypassing the firewall is not illegal, just highly discouraged.
We openly bypassed the firewall to access Google Analytics data through VPN and nobody batted an eye. China can't afford to crack down on that without scaring off pretty much every foreign company looking to do business on the mainland.
(eg https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-99100-7)