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  • PhreakyByNature@feddit.uktoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlSpeedrun timers on self checkouts
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    6 months ago

    I do scan as you shop. So when I get to the checkout, answer a question about whether everything scanned OK and then pay. But today we had 70+ items in our shop and got flagged for random spot check. Some exasperated cashier, frustrated she actually had to do some work and couldn’t just sit there having excess calories around her waist weighing her down heavily breathed “I need to check 40+ of these”. So that took forever.







  • I love working from home. But I do go in more because it’s partly mandated but I take great flexibility with it. It genuinely helps me to be in a couple of days a week, but I’d like that to be my decision, not management. It isn’t the same for everyone either. Many roles are better off remote tbh. Our employer assesses category of work done and applies some full wfh where it makes sense, but some I feel get mischaracterised.




  • Currently travelling and managed to get my beard in check almost a week ago. Will probably be untouched for another month. My hair is also getting long. I’m afraid of weirding people out but every time I get a haircut and beard trim + wet shave they always make my beard too short and it’s annoying to grow it back to how I want it. I generally keep it reasonably short and neat but let’s see what happens after this next month of travel.




  • No idea how I found this out, probably just from being on the BotW subreddit, but the specific timings are 23:30 - 00:00. This guarantees a crit effect from your meals (more duration, more hearts etc).

    In my head it was informed in a loading screen or by an NPC but I can’t find anything online that confirms this, so guess I just came across a thread once!

    I think 5 x Hearty Durians is 20 temporary hearts normally but under a blood moon I got 24 temporary hearts in one recipie.


  • Morrowind would just soft reboot the Xbox during load screens. I think Blood Moons are a smarter move overall as it adds to the fun and gamer knowledge that enemies have respawned etc, but the Morrowind implementation was such that the player wouldn’t notice the background soft reboot, because the screen retained a static loading screen during the process.

    Also Skyrim (PS3 at least), just added the info tracking the game state to the save file which made it incredibly large after many hours of playing so some found it unplayable.

    That said there’s evidence that most night time blood moons are scripted (i.e. for gameplay), and anything you see during the day is a “panic” one, added later in the coding timeline, for the memory free up purpose. Blood moons weren’t originally planned for that (or they were maybe but timing wasn’t implemented?), but they work well for it.