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[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I’ve never seen naptha (i.e. Zippo lighter fluid) do anything to any painted or finished surface, nor any of the plastics I’ve ever tired it on.

I'd guess that it's probably bad news for natural rubber. IIRC, naphtha is similar to gasoline, and gasoline will mess natural rubber up.

That being said, I have a can of naphtha myself.

kagis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_rubber

The two main solvents for rubber are turpentine and naphtha (petroleum). Because rubber does not dissolve easily, the material is finely divided by shredding prior to its immersion.

Sounds like it.

One other thing to keep in mind is that it is (obviously, given that that's how lighters that use it work) quite flammable in vapor form and the fumes aren't great to breathe, so this is something you'd want to use in a well-ventillated area.

EDIT:

https://kleanstrip.com/solvents-and-thinners/vmp-naphtha/

Klean-Strip® VM&P Naphtha can be used in place of Paint Thinner for oil-based paint, varnish and enamel when a faster drying time is desired.

So I don't think I'd want to casually get it on oil-based paint, since it'll be a solvent for that too.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 3 days ago

Hammerfight

Oh, yeah, I liked that one. Pretty unusual game. Kind of a faux Middle East setting, mouse-controlled aircraft using in significant part melee weapons. Not incredibly deep, but the core gameplay loop did a good job of sucking me in.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/41100/Hammerfight/

Brigador

https://store.steampowered.com/app/274500/Brigador_UpArmored_Edition/

CrossCode

https://store.steampowered.com/app/368340/CrossCode/

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Can also do both. I keep both a motorized 12V compressor (which runs off a 15 amp circuit) and a manual foot pump in my car, though I've never needed to actually make use of the foot pump.

I have definitely used the compressor, though.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago

Huh. I wonder if rental agencies are supposed to provide a spare.

I've certainly never checked to see whether the well has one in a rental before hitting the road, the way you did. I'd probably just wind up unpleasantly surprised if I needed one and it wasn't there.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The extra weight of a donut, or even a full-sized spare, is by & large negligible but it probably nets them like .3 mpg on the fuel economy tests & makes them look better.

I'm betting that the critical factor for the manufacturers is space, rather than mass.

https://www.toyotanation.com/threads/upgrading-to-a-full-size-spare-wheel.1690741/

Not sure what trim levels are offered in the US, but the 3.5L V6 here only has a donut while the non-hybrid/2.5L Ascent models get a full size spare.

An HEV should be better-equipped to deal with MPG reduction from weight than an ICE vehicle due to regenerative braking, so if weight is the main constraint, I'd expect the HEV to have the full-size spare. But the opposite is true; it's the ICE vehicle that has the full-size spare. The HEV needs more space for its extra hardware, so my guess is that a lack of available space is what's pushing the full-size spare tire out.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago
[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Escape Velocity also had a sequel or two done by Ambrosia Software themselves. I remember playing and enjoying them.

kagis

Escape Velocity Override and Escape Velocity Nova.

It looks like Ambrosia Software's website is now down, so I assume that one can't legally purchase it any more.

It looks like Escape Velocity was never ported to anything outside of classic MacOS, so playing it today probably entails obtaining a classic MacOS emulator and abandonware copies of the binaries.

While Endless Sky is neat and last I looked still getting expanded, it also didn't have as much story content as the Escape Velocity series either (again, at least last I looked).

The image of each planet in Escape Velocity series (not really worth keeping IMHO, as they were saved at 8-bit depth) were done with KPT Bryce, a now out-of-print terrain generation and rendering software package. Probably one of the better-suited applications for it, as it was pretty good at letting one quickly turn out alien-looking landscapes. While there are newer terrain generation software packages, I have to say that Bryce did a lot of neat stuff and I don't feel that there's something that quite fills its "exploration" role in modeling and rendering software today. For example, procedural generation of textures using slope and altitude (so, for example, you could get rocky faces where generated terain was steep, or snow at high altitude on mountains).

 

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If that happens, then he won't have a great way to point to any new community. Maybe monitor !newcommunities@lemmy.world or !communitypromo@lemmy.ca, and he could post an announcement there?

 

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I mentioned that the MediaWiki wiki for the game went down:

https://lemmy.today/post/13158414

Someone on Reddit restored a static copy onto GitHub:

https://old.reddit.com/r/cataclysmdda/comments/1g7k8nj/so_i_restored_the_cdda_wiki_kinda/

This is not a real MediaWiki instance, and search does not function.

They later mention that the original is back up at a different location:

https://cddawiki.danmakudan.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

I'm not sure that this is the original: it doesn't seem to be possible to log into the system using credentials for the original, and new account creation is broken. It's also quite sluggish. But it is running a MediaWiki instance, and search functions, so at least for read-only use, it makes the old information accessible.

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