• PunnyName@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, this feels like it had to be staged in some way. I know there are examples of people who do shit like this, but it doesn’t seem like it’s a thing that would ever happen regularly.

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        Probably wasn’t that high regularly, but people have an astounding knack for balance. I can definitely see a pre-modern deliveryboy carrying 50% of that monster pile at once on a busy day.

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        I wonder if it’s during an event or something, and so the road is closed, making it more possible?

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        Could easily have a rope securing system through the middle as well. Stack everything, thread the rope and tie off at the bottom.

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      When bicycles did come into the picture around the turn of the century, they revolutionized the industry. By that time, Tokyo was sprawling, so there was more ground for demae to cover. “You want the noodles to still be hot when you arrive, so speed is of the essence,” says Kapur. “In a lot of cases, they would be carrying lunch to one entire company, so that’s why they’re carrying maybe 20 or 30 portions together.”

      Interesting - it all being one delivery instead of several makes more sense!

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      this is a lot more believable for 2 reasons - I have seen them (not in person, but you get the point), and they have this base, in which all the tiffins(lunchboxes) are kept, so all this essentially acts as a very large single body, unlike noodle carrier, who had them all in a vertical - stacked setup, with the dabbawala setup, the center of gravity is much easier to be aligned across their head, but with noodle guy, that is genuinely hard, even balancing one long stick that way would be hard, it would just tip over, although in motion it would be comparatively more stabler

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      Is Death Stranding worth picking up on PC this late in the game? Does it still have a decent player population? From the way I understand it, the stuff you do in the game world has an impact on other players (like building a bridge to make an area easier to reach, for example). Are there still things to do?

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        Yes. Items placed in the world decay over time, for reasons explained in game. All the player built infrastructure needs to be maintained.

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          Makes sense, thanks. So then that leaves me with my remaining question: are there enough players left to maintain things? Or is it kind of a “hopeless cause” scenario now, cause things are decaying faster than people can maintain them, due to a lower player count?

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            It’s possible, though arduous, to maintain it all solo. The game fragments who sees what so even at peak you generally only saw things built by a small subsection of the playerbase, so no one ended up presented with just everything already done and nothing to do. Steam is only showing daily peaks of about 1000, but that’s still more than enough for a healthy mix of established and unbuilt infrastructure, I’d expect.

            edit: And actually the all-time peak on Steam for the Director’s cut was only about 6000. So the 1000 daily peak now is definitely fine.

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        Oh yeah. It’s definitely worth it. And if you need someone else on, I’ll jump back in and drop stuff too. Heck I just might do it anyways.

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        You only ever see a small portion of what others built. They get copied into your world so you can remove them without affecting others. Constructions also degrade over time, but I think only while you’re playing.

        It’s on you to build things linking them up. You might get a few bits of road, or a few pylons or the odd vehicle lying about, and then need to put another pylon on a mountain to link them together.

        It’s kind of cool, but certainly not a game for everyone. It’s very Kojima.

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        I actually played offline because I felt it worked better without other player structures.

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    While I’m tripping over literally nothing carrying a bowl of ramen from the microwave to my couch.

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      Its amazing what a good camera + good lens + good film can do

      Digitization results can also be pretty good if you have well preserved negatives

      That said, beyond that statement I can’t answer much more.

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      A lot of historical photos we seen were taken in situations where the photographer couldn’t meter for light or pull focus precisely without letting the moment slip away but film photography can look really good. All of these are much older than the 1930s

      1919:

      1917/18:

      1919:

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        For some reason the last photo is being compressed down to 1MP. The version I have is 9MP and you must trust that it’s a good looking photo

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      I would imagine it’s staged. The street is wet and the tires don’t seem to have a lot of tread. There is no way this guy would be able to peddle and stay stable at the same time.

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    I believe it happened and all. But I wonder how. How did he get it on his shoulder and keep it there when overcoming the initial inertia. Then getting there without stopping suddenly. Then how did he get it down? The pure mechanics boggle my mind.

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      Thats just the name of the newspaper. But the quantity of these photos suggests that even if it is staged it’s not that much of an exaggeration.

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    I’d guess a combination of “shelves” being held up along a central pole while not being fixed so that the combined weight creates additional friction on the boxes and stops them from sliding off the stack into the streets