supersquirrel
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- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 2 days ago:
A bridge is a tool for connecting things don’t connect, it is not federation.
The relay layer/app view forces you under the control of a centralized, the only thing meaningful about that kind of federation is hosting costs for processing and storing post data are offloaded onto the user.
Which when you think about it is actually pretty fucking insulting to the fediverse and what is trying to be when bluesky pretends it is aiming for federation and decentralization.
- Comment on Bottom of the Ocean 3 days ago:
there is a youtube channel that shows all that shit tho
m.youtube.com/user/SchmidtOceanVideos
It is hours and hours of the most powerful non-fiction hallucinogens you can possibly take but also it is very calming and relaxed often with a friendly science narrator.
In a way I guess it is like going on a field trip with Mrs. Frizzle but from the slightly horrifying perspective of actually being on the field trip.
The deep sea dropped so much acid it just got stuck down there, and at this point nobody fucks around down in that neighborhood when it comes to being as absolutely fucking weird as possible.
Scifi movies don’t have shit on the actual real deep sea.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 3 days ago:
Try going to the home page of instances of accounts you like (or of instances that seem interesting) and browsing there federated feed, you can discover tons that way.
As a general mastodon instance mas.to looks good and is a nice size with a good stable history.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 3 days ago:
bluesky does not have functional federation by any reasonable measure.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 3 days ago:
Curation was made by users.
Right, users not corporations make social networks, so the community not for profit corporations should own those social networks.
Can we not all see this as the same old pattern of predatory rent seeking behavior applied to online communities just seasoned with even more jargon and condescending handwaved half explanations?
- Comment on Epic roguelike Caves of Qud now has a proper tutorial 3 weeks ago:
What an epic game, I haven’t really gotten into it beyond the initial zone but even the world building of the default starter zone is fantastic. I feel like this game transports me to a different place more than any AAA game with gorgeous graphics.
- Comment on In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment? 3 weeks ago:
Subspace Continuum
- Comment on Radio Station Replaces Journalists With AI 'Presenters' 3 weeks ago:
Freight trains are thousands of feet long and haul unbelievably large quantities of material, the idea that it is inefficient to have a human (really a pair of humans) oversee and be responsible for a machine that large is laughable honestly.
…so is the idea that there is a genuine shortage of people willing to work as conductors, it is a convenient lie companies tell to rationalize why nobody wants to work for them because they pay shit and respect their employees so little that they won’t even give them unpaid time for necessary doctors appointments.
This point is even more true for passenger trains.
- Comment on Radio Station Replaces Journalists With AI 'Presenters' 3 weeks ago:
Why do we need to get rid of the job of human radio presenter?
Techbros keep telling me AI frees people up to stop working shitty jobs and pursue their dreams, but the truth is none of these tech evangelists give a shit about anyone’s dreams if they aren’t some lame vision of factorio where the factories pollute the planet churning out ripoffs of human culture.
- Comment on Netflix's "Team Blue" of Halo, Overwatch and God Of War vets close without a single game to their name 4 weeks ago:
Pathetic showing for a massive waste of talent and money.
- Comment on Arma 4 will release in 2027 5 weeks ago:
This is good news and between Operation Harsh Doorstop/other unreal engine games in the pipeline with modding support and arma reforger/arma 4 we are finally leaving the era of stagnant big map shooter design where modding options were basically the source engine or sticking to the ancient and abandoned bf2 engine.
Will performance be prioritized in development though? Given bohemias track record I doubt it, and it really heavily limits the potential of their games compared to a game like Easy Red 2 or Operation Harsh Doorstop that can easily simulate large battles on even a mediocre gaming computer with humans and tons of ai.
- Comment on Minetest breaks the chains of being a Minecraft clone with a new name — Luanti 5 weeks ago:
The minecraft modding scene is also a serious longterm threat to microsoft making money off minecraft, so I hope the Luani modding scene continues to grow!
(I don’t think microsoft will necessarily kill java minecraft but microsoft clearly sees minecraft java as a dead end, you are fooling yourself if you think otherwise)
- Comment on Minetest breaks the chains of being a Minecraft clone with a new name — Luanti 5 weeks ago:
Hell yeah I love it!
- Comment on GTA IV footage generated with AI shows the power of AI for future PC game remasters 1 month ago:
how about we try remastering more games with with well paid human game devs who are given job security and are allowed to actually have a healthy worklife balance?
- Comment on Expert 1 month ago:
whos got recommendations for lesser known horror films?
- Comment on Epic Games reduce their cut for Unreal Engine games for same-day Epic Store launches 1 month ago:
Side note definitely the coolest game on the unreal engine is the free and moddable tactical shooter (with vehicles) Operation Harsh Doorstop.
…steampowered.com/…/Operation_Harsh_Doorstop/
There really hasnt been a good modding plaform for games like this since Battlefield 2.
- Comment on Ubisoft investors push for company sale as shares hit decade-low 1 month ago:
There are plenty of Ubisoft games I would buy if they werent by Ubisoft.
Even if I want the game though, it just isnt worth the bullshit not to mention, will my game even work after Ubisoft inveitably cancels support for it.
Ubisoft in every aspect from blatant slaps to the face of customers in their behavior to boring overly simplified map janitor mechanics treats its customers like they are gullible sheep who will sit there and tolerate whatever bullshit Ubisoft shoves down their throat so long as the graphics are pretty.
I swear I can feel the condercension oooozing out from their corporate boardroom from thousands of miles away.
Every single Ubisoft game would do better with sales if it didnt have Ubisofts name on it, I am quite confident in that.
- Comment on Sorry to be a bother... 1 month ago:
I think it is a case of using a purposefully absurd metaphor because more straight forward ones are too obviously in conflict with basic immutable, toxic aspects of people’s belief systems that function to labotomize their empathy for the hardships of others.
You know how like other cultures use fairy tales and myths to talk about taboos or impossible truths so does “western” culture use the absurd framework of spoons to talk about the “impossible” state of being incapable of what the ruling class demands of us daily.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
Great description, the thing most people get wrong about defending science and history is that they dont convey how fucking weird it really is.
- Comment on Tech CEOs are backtracking on RTO mandates—now, just 3% want workers in the office full-time 3 months ago:
Also Fortune is ignoring the serious damage done to the health of many industries by arbitarily hurtig workers and forcing them off of career paths for no fucking reason.
Fuck MBA rich asshats, people need to stop putting them in charge of things they dont know shit.
- Comment on Breast Cancer 3 months ago:
Sure, I definitely overreacted and I honestly was pretty stressed out the day I replied so yeah, fair. I think I have a point, this just wasn’t the salient place for it and I was too tired to realize that in the moment.
- Comment on Breast Cancer 3 months ago:
shrugs you know people have been confidently making these kinds of statements… since written language was invented? I bet the first person who developed written language did it to complain about how this generation of kids don’t know how to write a proper sentence.
What is in freefall is the economy and basic idea that artists and writers should be compensated, period. What is in freefall is that making art and crafting words are now shit on by society as a respectable job worth being paid a living wage for.
There are a terrifying amount of good writers out there, more than there have ever been, both in total number AND per capita.
- Comment on Babe wake up, new VLC update just dropped 4 months ago:
Please use foodgrade coconut oil when inserting this update!
- Comment on Dimensions 4 months ago:
You know the weirdest shit about fractals is that if the fractal is space filling (you repeated the pattern at all scales for infinity and end up filling a 2d area with lines somehow than that fractal exists between the integers of dimensions. A 1d simple line fractal pattern can through the bullshit magic of math have a dimensionality of 1.65 or whatever, it is weird shit.
- Comment on The wonderful Dune Imperium's digital version is getting its first expansion in July 4 months ago:
I haven’t played the board game but I have heard it is a brilliant complex multiplayer strategy game that really captures the shifting factional politics that the books and movies are so focused on.
I am super happy there is a digital version of Dune Imperium, really good digital versions of really good board games are super underrated. Especially when the core strategy of the board game is so good it makes super complex pc strategy empire games with terrible UIs, confusing resources and a million little fiddly useless decisions look pretty absurd in how much useless stuff they add just for stuffs sake.
I think the digital version will allow many more games of Dune Imperium to practically happen remote than otherwise would happen.
- Comment on any tips for playing CDDA 4 months ago:
If you need more focus to the game play Sky Island, also / and ? are your best friends
- Comment on Multiplayer Arcade-Style Indie Game Recommendations? 4 months ago:
Rubber Bandits is a nice alternative to Boomerang Fu too
- Comment on Multiplayer Arcade-Style Indie Game Recommendations? 4 months ago:
In terms of twin stick games, Voidigo is currently giving Enter The Gungeon a run for its money.
fanatical.com/…/build-your-own-revival-bundle
i recommend this bundle, donut dodo, round guard, indie guards in that bundle,
Also Hyperparasite in this one fanatical.com/…/platinum-collection-build-your-ow…
Spelunky 2
Chronicon
Heroes Of Hammerwatch
Helldivers 1
Barony
Terraria (of course)
Broforce
Duck Game
Don’t Starve Together
Nuclear Throne (of course!!!)
Streets Of Rogue!! (keep your eye out for Streets Of Rogue 2!!!)
Wobbly Life
PlateUp
Shovel Knight
Petal Crash
Definitely Sneaky But Not Sneaky
Sigma Impact
Cassette Beasts
Spirits Abyss
Cosmos Quickstop
DIG
Farm Together
Death Road To Canada !!! <-----
One Step From Eden
Mutant Football League
Rampage Knights
Maniac (who cares it isn’t co-op it is hilarious as a pass and play)
X Morph Defense
Monaco
Tricky Towers
Wizard Of Legend
Childre Of Morta
Skulls Of Shogun
Fury Unleashed
Himno the silent melody
Dungeon Of The Endless
Adventures Of Shuggy
Renegade Ops
Omega Strikers (online team based)
Cryptark
Ms Splosion Man
Full Metal Furies
Battleblock Theater
Colt Canyon
Cook Serve Delicious series
- Comment on ChatGPT has caused a massive drop in demand for online digital freelancers — here is what you can do to protect yourself 5 months ago:
I get sooooo much schadenfreude from programmers smugly acting like their jobs aren’t going to be obliterated by AI… because the AI won’t be able to do the job correctly, as if that matters in this late stage of collapse and end state capitalism.
- Comment on ChatGPT has caused a massive drop in demand for online digital freelancers — here is what you can do to protect yourself 5 months ago:
Not only are you a fool, you spit in the face of people trying to begin careers in your field because you are so naively confident that this massive change in the labor market conditions of your industry won’t affect you or other graphic designers negatively.
Please retire, change careers or at least keep your mouth shut and actually listen to less experienced people in your industry. Stop acting like a boomer, it is just embarrassing yourself and publicly committing your online identity to words that will age so terribly that it will make your future self’s head spin.
