Postmortal_Pop
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- Comment on Should I actually be prepping right now out of fear of hackers? 3 hours ago:
Hey, full disclosure I’m a mental health provider so you are wholly in the right to question the position I stand on this but for that it’s worth, I’m in the field because I had very similar feelings to you and fell validated by letting my experiences help others.
There’s a lot in this post that is an accurate read but I do genuinely want to emphasize that the past 15 years has seen a lot of these things become the albatross of this field as it shifts culturally towards doing better. My company for instance is the government approved mental health provider for one of the most populated counties in the state and it’s not even remotely capable of medicating people, let alone giving shock therapy. The best we can do is med management which involves interviewing you once every 3 months and getting refills ordered for you.
More importantly, they provide a lot of services that aren’t Therapy and that’s what I really want to point you towards. Personally, I do parent peer support. My job is to visit other parents of children with behavioral and mental health issues and just encourage them to fo the best. I joke that I’m something between a well meaning neighbor and a state appointed friend.
I really think you would benefit from some genuine peer support. I’m going to be frank, some of what you’re saying is pushing the crazy line and while I’m not one to judge I think your focus could really use an outside perspective and some human contact. I want to emphasize that I’m not calling you crazy, our infrastructure is held together by zip ties and bent clothes hangers, a stiff breeze can probably knock out the power grid where you are, because it literally does every June around here. That said, a bunker full of canned beans and 9mm isn’t going to improve that.
Get yourself a camping stove or a propane grill, learn a few good recipes for rice and beans, but fumpingball your money into solar and generators isn’t going to get you anything but less money. The banks getting hacked would only be possible if the wealthy didn’t need them to control the masses and the tiny cabal of wealthy pedophile psychopaths already run the world. Prepping for an apocalypse isn’t going to give you the security you’re looking for.
For what it’s worth, I take that control back in my life by deciding how I engage with the culture I have grown to resent. I make as much as I can and when I can’t I try to learn how before I go buy it. Turns out nice furniture is a lot cheaper when you build it yourself.
- Comment on Looking for a mature, modern open-source game on Android that plays great 5 days ago:
Stay awhile and listen
- Comment on Looking for a mature, modern open-source game on Android that plays great 5 days ago:
If you don’t I’ll share.
- Comment on Looking for a mature, modern open-source game on Android that plays great 6 days ago:
It’s not quite what you describe but I’d argue it’s very much what you’re looking for. It runs Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction on Android with some quality of life mods and the option to mod it more heavily.
D2Lod is actually very different from D2 Resurrected or Eternal, mostly because it was made when games weren’t live services. There were a lot of changed made to D2R that increased the grind which aren’t present in D2Lod. It’s the full game with an engaging story, cinematics, decent replayability, a solid gameplay loop, and you’ll probably recognize the birth of a lot of familiar mechanics in it (borderlands is literally just d2 with guns)
It’s a really reliable and open source app, I’ve been playing for weeks and it only crashed once on the very first run of the game, but I think that’s because it took too long and graphene killed it. It does use the original d2Lod files which aren’t open source but they were programmed for windows 95 so they’re closed source like a picket fense is secure.
That is possibly the only issue I expect you’ll have with the game, it’s by no means retro but the graphics fit the age. Great for what they are historically but even I can see the improvements made for D2R. Lastly you do have to own a copy of D2Lod and use the cd keys to activate it. The github tells you how to get them officially but I’d be happy to just give you the files and keys from my 2001 Battle box. I bought the game and I’ll gladly remind Blizzard of that every chance I get.
- Comment on Looking for a mature, modern open-source game on Android that plays great 6 days ago:
Love this game, haven’t had that experience since DX ball on windows XP.
- Comment on Day 842 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 6 days ago:
Oh, it’s not rogue like at all if that helps! Closest thing is that if you die you leave all your gold on your old body, but you can just store it in your stash instead of carrying it on you.
- Comment on Day 842 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
I love that you’re practicing photography skills in n what would otherwise be just content padding for the sub. I’ve mentioned it before, but seeing your posts is one of my favorite things on Lemmy. I don’t get enough time to game at the moment but your joy for it reminds me why I love the hobby.
Have you ever had a chance to play classic Diablo 2? I’ve recently found a project that runs it as an app and its been kind if crazy thinking about how formative this game was for me. Even the concept of my username is a call back to my days playing the Necromancer. Turns out my love of borderlands is because it’s just D2 with guns. If you ever wanna give it a shot, I still have my mint condition 2001 battle box and I’d be glad to share the keys.
- Comment on Should i flip over a beetle? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Should i flip over a beetle? 1 week ago:
I always give them a hand. I also go out of my way to move them to safer or nicer spots. This world is not built for them like it is for us, so the least I can do is help where I can.
Recently there’s a monarch that has been hanging around my front garden patch and I’m pretty sure it’s the Caterpillar that was trying to get run over in my drive way. I moved it to the flowers we have there and I’m happy to see it doing well.
- Comment on Is it a good idea to take your physical dvd's and cd's or whatever and make a digital backup? 1 week ago:
If you send me your files, I’ll host them on my server and give you free access to it.
Bought a whole domain to share free streaming with friends and family only for none of them to bother…
- Comment on My ECON Professor always said that the Black Market Economy always influences the legal economy. Is this actually true? Does this not mean the legal economy is making money on criminals? 2 weeks ago:
Think about it like this, your pot dealer isn’t spending all that money on more pot, that’s they’re primary income. That pays their rent, utilities, groceries, etc.
If you’re a dealer, that can make a lot more money than most entry level careers and that income is relatively economically detached so it’s not going to change too much during economic downturns. So that means while the rest of the area is struggling they’re going to still have a steady income. In that situation, the purchases made by drug dealers will remain consistent while the rest of the population cuts back and this skews the data that companies use to decide what they stock.
Decades back I worked at a Walmart that had a disproportionate stock of huge TVs and Xbox stuff because this guy would be in to buy a 360, TV, and a new phone every other week. We’d shoot the shit about different tech, I talked him into trying new Vegas when he got bored of CoD. We both fan-boyed over the twist in BioShock. Heard his name dropped while visiting my stoner friend and his dealer informed me that I’d been offering game suggestions to the guy responsible for basically all the drugs in the county. Regional distributor for the drug trade was maybe laundering money by flipping all the consoles at Walmart? I don’t know, but he was definitely skewing the orders of that Walmart.
- Comment on Is it "Their name is Trevor," or "Their names are Trevor" if you know 2 Trevors? 2 weeks ago:
“These are the trevors”
“These are Trevors one and two”
I used to know 3 guys named Cody. Eventually their names evolved into Co-one, Co-two, and Co-three any time we were referring to them outside of individual.
- Comment on With Reverse-Engineer-Everything, has Software become basically worthless? 2 weeks ago:
I’m in no way an expert on this but my understanding of ai reverse engineering is that it’s buggy and lazily made. If that holds true, then I don’t see any reason reverse engineering software would ever compare to classic piracy.
Now I am excited about it because reverse engineering software would give us far better results in breaking DRM, spoofing live services, or bypassing anticheats that lock us out of games for not using the right OS. I would love to see fallout 76 or Destiny 2 Rebuild for private servers, offline, and lan play.
I do think it poses a serious threat to the subscription model and I’m all for that. There’s a satisfaction in using the weapons of the enemy against them.
- Comment on What is Kratom? A friend of the family just died today. And that was the last thing he was using. Is it like K2? What type of high is it? 3 weeks ago:
Kratom is a tropical evergreen native to Southeast Asia. It’s an agonist for a few opioid receptors and has been used for centuries to treat opium withdraw. K2 on the other hand is synthetic pot.
My understanding is that Kratom high isn’t really a big thing. Like trying to get high on ibuprofen or CBD. It has some promise for pain management and anxiety but it’s hardly something you’d party on and if you’re worried said friend OD’ed I can tell you it wasn’t on Kratom.
- Comment on To those who think the economy will never get good enough to afford basic necessities (and you're probably right), what will you do to not only survive, but enjoy life with the only life you have? 3 weeks ago:
And you can look up how to apply for a permit, and how to meet code, and the exact point you can get to before a tradesman is uncomfortable signing off on it for $50 and a plate of brownies.
Yeah, a house from scratch on your own is a stupid task. Even before all this nonsense that was a community project so taking that from my argument is like assuming I told you to make your own economy to escape this one.
On the other hand, doing a good job to restore a shitty building on the creep isn’t that big an ask. This year I get to use salvaged wood, stolen gravel, and Walmart brand power tools to lift and level the floor in my house because the previous owner wanted it off the ground and didn’t take the time to put enough support under it. Few days in a crawlspace and the cost of pizza and beer to save $20k plus materials and I get to make sure the job is overdone instead of underdone.
If you ever find yourself in a similar situation, or you need to know how to do taxes, or restore/construct furniture, or need something very niche constructed out if salvaged parts, hit me up and I’ll help for pizza and the support of the community. If all of us know some things and help each other, we can all make it out together.
- Comment on To those who think the economy will never get good enough to afford basic necessities (and you're probably right), what will you do to not only survive, but enjoy life with the only life you have? 3 weeks ago:
Fuck, ask me! If I can do it I will teach!
- Comment on Is the 3DS worth purchasing despite it being "obsolete" today? 3 weeks ago:
The hacking scene for the 3ds is fucking amazing. I’m literally on here while I wate for mine to convert the Pokemon Emerald file to native game file. I can literally access TOR on this thing, it’s frankly unbelievable what you can do with homebrew.
- Comment on To those who think the economy will never get good enough to afford basic necessities (and you're probably right), what will you do to not only survive, but enjoy life with the only life you have? 3 weeks ago:
Get good at things.
The vast majority of our economy is an economy of convenience, taking money in exchange for doing the little things we don’t want to. The thing is, most of us have never stopped to check if we actually don’t want to do those things. Meanwhile, all the benefits of doing those things are being reaped for profits by assholes.
Get out there and get good at something, then find other people that are good at things, and help each other out.
- Comment on How do "pirates" go about getting their username uploaded with a torrent? Like Fitgirl or NoSteam or something? How do they become big and famous? Can the average joe do this? 4 weeks ago:
Consistency and quality. That’s where fitgirl and yiffy get it. If you show up and repave a road every time someone mentions a pothole, eventually you’ll get a reputation for it.
- Comment on Where can someone in the US Midwest get a Clove tree? 4 weeks ago:
I think you missed the part where I was planning on keeping it as a bonsai, it’d be insane to try to grow that for crop here.
Unfortunately, neither of those locations carry clove and I’m hesitant to do the Etsy route because of the high chance of scams.
- Comment on Does the net positive of Eugenics out weigh the negative? How so? 4 weeks ago:
That’s the thing about sci-fi, it’s a warning about potential horrors but that doesn’t mean horrifying things can’t have a positive.
I wholly understand that the point of gataca is oppression that comes from giving humans another metric to oppress. It’s spelt out plainly. Unfortunately, like the main character, I’m also the product of people who didn’t think about what they’d be passing on. Now in my thirties, I’m in the early stages of arthritis, my eyes are failing, and if family tradition holds I’ll have less than a decade before a sudden and undetectable heart condition kills me. If that doesn’t get me I have early dementia waiting in line.
I’m three quarters through the life I was given and I knew the name of my killer before I was ten. To me, Gataca is a world where some forethought on my parents would mean never having to do weekly injections so that my flesh does not consume itself. A long and ordinary life without pills every morning or regulating my diet for inflammation.
SciFi isn’t about the dangers of science, it’s about the dangers of science misused. The moral of gataca is that people are more then the sum of their parts and to value them on such is cruel and unjust. It’s that parents have a responsibility to their children, regardless of their own feelings on it. But it’s moral isn’t that correcting bad genetics is wrong. No one deserves to be born broken.
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- Comment on Day 810 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 weeks ago:
I’m planning on 3d printing and then probably using automotive vinyl to as a nice aesthetic. I’ve been big on auto vinyl lately lol
- Comment on What can I put on a street lamp to stop the light in one direction? 5 weeks ago:
Get scissor cut black plastic sheet, something that’s ridgid, and silicone fishtank adhesive.
Cut the plastic to match the shape of the glass sections that face your window. Clean the glass with alcohol, then apply a thin layer of silicone to the plastic piece and press it to the glass. Use a finger to wipe any excess and ooze into a tight seam.
So long as it doesn’t hit sweltering hot, freezing cold, or rainy for the next 24hrs it takes to cure, that plastic isn’t comming off without a putty knife and effort (it will come off fine without harming it, but not on its own)
If you want to increase the chance that no one will do anything about it, do the same to every lamp on your block. Nothing hides vandalism like uniformity.
- Comment on Day 810 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 weeks ago:
Ah man, I really wish there was an easy way to modify them with capacitive touch. Those dual layers were a pain back in the day and a bigger one now.
Having never had a ds before I got it to hack, I’m not a fan of the way the hinges woble so I’m designing my own shell and mechanics to adapt it.
- Comment on Day 810 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 weeks ago:
Oh my dude, if you have access to a ds, you gotta hack that bad boy ASAP! Gba ROMs can be reliably forwarded as native games and pksm is like a combination save editor and pokebank right on the device! The hardest part is just finding a working ds these days.
- Comment on Hand em over (plz) 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Former NFL coach Mike Tomlin is sharing a massive Minecraft city he spent twelve years building 5 weeks ago:
I really want to like VS but the progression is painfully slow. I love the story, I’ve put literal hours into chisel art to the point that I got to mod just to make my own doors, and I love the concept of the progression, I just desperately need 4-6 other people so none of us have to do all of the damn work. I quit playing a while back when I’d spent 3 days logging on with the goal of exploring and ended up wasting all my game time doing chores before I could get out and about.
- Comment on Day 810 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 weeks ago:
Hey, I just finished a full run on the GBA port of Crystal! I was using a hacked N2dsxl and honestly it was an all around blast.
I get what you mean about gen2. I was the target demographic for gen1 when it came out, but I wouldn’t find my favorite Pokemon until I went back as an adult. Ghost type all the way.
- Comment on Are airsoft H&K SL8 replicas still a dream? 5 weeks ago:
Honestly yeah, it’s my go to for a lot of different projects. That said, I find you can get a near factory finish with abs, including textures you can’t print, without any changes in weight or sanding work using slurry and nonbinding materials to transfer the texture.
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