Mikina
@Mikina@programming.dev
- Comment on What games did you sleep on for too long? 11 hours ago:
It semi-counts, but I’d also add Space Station 14 to the mix. Semi, because 14 is prety recent, but it is a modernized mostly 1:1 rewrite of Space Station 13, which is the game that I’d consider myself sleeping on.
It’s my current obsession, that game is just so much fun. A disaster simulator where you throw 100 people into a ~2 hour long shift on a space station, and ask them to keep it afloat. From people doing engineeirng, atmospherics, science, medical, security, cargo and command, janitor, barkeep, etc. It’s a great roleplaying experience.
The core design is that most of what you can do can fail spectaculary. Engineering powers the station with a contained black hole or a ball of tesla, better hope they keep the containment maintaned. Science is doing research on artifacts by doing randomly chosen stuff (touch, spill something on it, look at it, etc), which has a random associated effect from “create a monkey”, “get radiactive”, to “a thermonuclear explosion”. Better hope they did scan the artifact before they touched it.
And to add to that, you also have a lot of different antagonist roles you can randomly get, from a blood cult that kidnaps and converts people to spill enough blood to summon their diety, through thiefs, terrorists that want to arm the nuke and destroy the station, to changelings or sleeper agents that are tasked with killing specific crew.
It’s loads of fun, and the community is amazing, especially on medium RP server.
- Comment on What games did you sleep on for too long? 11 hours ago:
I’ve recently started and got through Death Stranding in the past month, and it was an amazing experience. I have not played a AAA game for a looong time, and having an actual motion-captured movie and animations to go along with your game, instead of indie animations and cutscenes, is pretty sick. Plus the game is gorgeous.
I also had no idea how cool the lore and setting is, from what I’ve randomly heard about the game, all I knew is it’s about delivering packages and hooking people in remote areas up to Wifi, I didn’t know
(only minor spoilers, it's in the first 20 minutes, so basically the first cutscene)
that you also have a rain that rapidly ages anything it touches, unburned corpses turnin into invisible monsters that eat people, which you can only see by hooking a fetus in a pod to yourself, and if the monsters eat anyone alive it literally nukes everything in 50 miles radius to a crater.
Some of the parts of the story were a little bit weird and a lot of people don’t like it, but I like weird, and this had some pretty sick ideas. And the gameplay is also fun!
- Comment on Stop Talking To Me, Google Search 1 day ago:
Ah, fuck. Of course.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Blasts Centralization of A.I. Power 1 day ago:
Because they AI massively sucks, lol.
- Comment on Stop Talking To Me, Google Search 2 days ago:
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 2 days ago:
This, aside from recently playing Death Stranding I got for free, and occasional Guild Wars 2 because they are pretty cool, I have not paid for (or played) an AAA game for years at this point.
There’s so many cool indie games if you know where to dig, there’s really no need to play another remastered AAA slop.
- Comment on Stop Talking To Me, Google Search 2 days ago:
With Ecosia and noai.DDG right there, I don’t see any reason why would you ever use Google.
I only see it when I open a new browser on a VM or something by accident, and it just sucks and makes me immediately leave.
Most of my search usage is looking up concrete websites because I don’t have history on and am lazy to remember or type the whole URL, and google is the only one where I have to click through a screen blocking dialog then scroll through LLM bullshiting about something before I can get to the link.
- Comment on Hell yeah. 2 days ago:
I found the same image from April, 2024. A lot of articles about it from this week, but also a few here and there, including one post on 9Gag (wow, haven’t heard that name in a looong time), from April 2024.
So, if it’s real, it’s not recent.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 3 days ago:
still willing to drop 80 dollars on it.
- Comment on Is it even possible to drop 20 lbs in a month? Are there any diets for people who want to go to the extreme? Kind of like celebs do for roles? 2 weeks ago:
Is this how the math works? It feels weird - I remember recommended intake for me being around 2000 or something (for a regular 30y.o semi-active male), which would make this require getting into negative calorie intake.
I know literally nothing about this, though. Or are the 70 000 calories factored from how much a body burns? So, it’s basically impossible in 30 days for someone whose daily burn-rate is lower than 2300, based on his age/sex/activity?
- Comment on Is it even possible to drop 20 lbs in a month? Are there any diets for people who want to go to the extreme? Kind of like celebs do for roles? 2 weeks ago:
There’s a lot of serious illnesses/medical conditions that will make you loose a lot of weight, very fast. I think i.e some cancers are one of those.
They usually also kill you pretty quickly, but you didn’t ask for healthy.
This is more of a reminder - if you inexplicably loose a lot of weight, it’s not something to celebrate, but get checked up ASAP.
- Comment on Odd weather we're having 2 weeks ago:
That was my first thought, but I also started Death Strading literally three days ago, so I might be biased.
Btw it’s a way better game than I expected. The lore itself is pretty cool, plus the gameplay is suprisingly more addicting and fun than I expected from something that looked like frustrating package delivery simulator, especially given my super low frustration tolerance and attention span. I’ve been having a blast so far.
Highly recommend.
- Comment on Hoi4 huehuehueheue 2 weeks ago:
Masaryk, the first Czechoslovakian President, left a letter on his deathbed to be opened later (migt’ve been after 100 years?).
It was openned last year, and one of the parts read (translation mine):
Hungarians… Get rid of some of them, Or we will never know peace here.
I think it’s pretty funny, as a half czech half hungarian.
- Comment on They were right all along... 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I kind of assumed that would probably be the case, and while this kind of reasonable approach to technology, that was highlighted in the book, sounds pretty nice in theory, it does put a lot of power into few hands, which historically (and unfortunately) never works very well.
- Comment on They were right all along... 2 weeks ago:
The only exposure I have with how Amish work is from Newport’s Digital Mininalism book, and it sounded pretty reasonable. (Don’t know how correct it is, though)
The way he put it, they don’t outright ban and refuse all technology. Every time a new tech comes out, they have a few people give it a try and then decide as a community if/how to best use it without sacrificing their core values.
For example - a telephone? We don’t want that, because then it would break the sense of community if you could just call anyone, without having to call on them/meet then for dinner, etc. But, we’ll have one phone in a village in casr we need to call for outside help in an emergency.
Assuming that’s true, I would suspect that especially in regards to medicine, they would be pretty open. But yeah, I guess it absolutely depends on the community, and how cultish/reasonable are the people making these calls.
- Comment on Loosing my religion 3 weeks ago:
I highly recommend it, especially the kind where you have a pre-written set of characters and story with semi-scripted events, instead of just being “bring your own character”. It’s such a different experience, because every character has a purpose, has as lot of conflicts, and everything is made to just work.
For example, one of the best LARPs we had here was a Disco Elysium inspired one, and it’s just such a cool experience.
But be careful, there is a reason why people compare this kind of LARPing to heroin :D You will probably emotionally crash out after it ends, just like it is pretty addicting.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I might’ve been wrong, see other replies to my comment. It might’ve been some kind of honor equipment rental, where you can borrow sporting equipment, instead of it being a locker for people to store things in.
But the context of the post is basically the same. City did something nice, people vandalized it :D
- Comment on Loosing my religion 3 weeks ago:
Oh, it was definitely how that world worked, and she played that role really well.
But, the experience (especially in multi-day nonstop LARPs, where you immerse into the world and your character really extensively) is pretty indistinguishable from real-life. At least in how you perceive it. For the few days, your life has these problems now. And you just accept it and get into it, and don’t even consider a difference between real and “imaginary” problems. It’s hard to describe, tbh.
I was not trying to imply that any of the involved people were grifters, I was mostly talking about the experience of being in a situation like that, where you have to actually talk to someone like that. I’m pretty sure that there wouldn’t be much of a difference between talking to someone who can roleplay well and has spend two days in their character, vs. talking to someone who spent most of their life being indoctrinated like this.
Or rather, the problem-solving part of it. I had literal days in that world to figure out how to approach this, what to say so it would work in that situation, how to argue with her. I didn’t come up with anything that would work, and things that I came up with were swiftly rebated by fanatic religious speeches. Just like she had a pretty easy time of coming up with arguments I couldn’t say much against, that would still be perfectly in-character, as she told me after the LARP.
EDIT: I may have misunderstood your comment, sorry :D. Yes, you are right, it was how the world worked - we did eventually all died because some kind of evil has been awakened, lol. But that doesn’t change anything about the experience of having to argue with someone who’s indoctrinated in a cult vs. you, who don’t believe in stuff like that. It’s difficult. From my point of view, they were grifters, because I had no indication of proof of what they are saying, so I did my best to figure out what to do or say, and I couldn’t come up with anything.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Oh, you are right. There seems to be some text on the outside. Might’ve been just some equipment to borrow.
Ok, it might need more context :D
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I would guess that the City of Mississauga has installed public equipment lockers for people to store their things in, and within days, all of them had broken glass because someone has stolen the equipment stored inside.
But I’m just guessing based on the picture. I wouldn’t expect the context to be much different, tbh.
- Comment on Loosing my religion 3 weeks ago:
I remember playing this 3 day LARP, the kind with pre-written in-depth characters and story that is played over 3 days strait in characeter, in Wild West setting, where I played a Trapper that was about to marry someone from the local village, my family was married into but my parents died shortly after.
It eventually turned out that the whole village is a cult that eats people to keep some kind of evil imprisoned, and I still can’t forget the nights spent trying to reasonably argue and discuss with my fiance that it’s definitely not ok and we should just leave.
I obviously never had to have discussions like this in real life, but it was pretty interesting how extremely futile it is. They have so many arguments you can’t say anything against. Once they start with “But this is our purpose given to us by God, if we don’t do this the whole world will end”, or “It was God’s will”, you really don’t have much to say to that to get through.
Of course, it was just a LARP and she played her character well, but now I can pretty vividly imagine that talking to someone who’s so much into anything like that is extremely difficult, to the point of being futile.
(I managed to convince her to leave, the winning argument was “Your grandmother tried to poison me, here is proof”, lol).
- Comment on Day 707 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
Awesome, thanks! Managed to get it working, and even found a version with the Czech dub, so all is good! Thanks for reminding me the game exists :D
- Comment on Day 707 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 weeks ago:
Are you playing on Linux by chance? I did finfld a few Windows guides, which I assume would ve easier due to Windows Play whatever, but it also sounds like it would make it hell to set up on Linux.
- Comment on Day 707 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 weeks ago:
Oh, that was my favorite game. If I recall correctly, it also was dubbed in my (Czech) language, which made it awesome.
I have to check if you can reasonably play it on PC.
- Comment on Don't fuck them 2 months ago:
I’ll take a look. This is the second quote from him that resonates with me prety deeply, he seems like a cool guy.
- Comment on Don't fuck them 2 months ago:
I knew I recognized him from somewhere.
I have no idea who he is, but this is my favorite quote ever, as someone who’s both a goth/punk poser and works in cybersecurity.
- Comment on I've been waiting for this for a long time. 3 months ago:
I have no problem admitting that, it is indeed a repost from Reddit. But it’s also the only April fools that I found genuinly funny, and since I didn’t see it here I wanted to spread the joy :D
I thought about creditting it, but that’d kind of ruin the joke, plus I don’t really care about creditting Reddit anyway.
- Comment on I've been waiting for this for a long time. 3 months ago:
Mindustry is also FOSS, right?
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- Comment on Quiver, ladies, quiver 3 months ago:
In case anyone is interrested in this, I highly recommend the book Mind Illuminated.
It’s what sold me on the whole meditation idea even through I was mostly sceptical, by clearly explaining it, and givng reasonable arguments about why it works. It also has a pretty good guide in general, with clear steps to follow and pay attention to.
I’ve been told by a lot of people that meditation is good and you should do it, with vague reasons why, and this book explained it to me clearly enough to finally get me to give it a try.
