PolarKraken

@PolarKraken@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon loves The Lord of the Rings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In truth, my drift from gaming stemmed from very similar self knowledge, I have such a wealth of ways I can spend my time (including with my kids when I can convince the older one, lol) with stuff that has small but accumulative impacts.

  No shade on gaming, engaging with art and storytelling and just straight up play all have deep value and I’d argue all people need those things, but yeah. For me a few games in particular that end up feeling like “Chores Simulator XYZ” and which I almost consider a genre of its own (Stardew Valley, Valheim, TerraFirmaCraft MC were my few) helped me better understand my changing preferences. I’m like “why am I building this fake house and collecting the materials and etc. when my office, garage, and outside areas all look kinda shitty?” I have pets who like activity, I have projects and chores and people to see.

  Now, I also do feel overburdened pretty often and my job is challenging and tiring, but yeah. By and large I just enjoy more IRL time spent these days, while also missing the former thrill of gaming with this kind of deep ache.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon hates reddit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’ll be honest, I don’t have a lot to say about how those kinda scenarios should be managed at the moment, I haven’t thought that stuff through too deeply I’m realizing. I’m pretty happy to defer to folks with experience in community moderation and such, I’m frankly a pretty poor candidate for that, for several reasons (somewhat moody, sometimes fond of borderline hyperbolic takes, etc.).

  I do think users should be able to have the experience they want, but that’s vague enough to be almost uselessly uncontroversial, and I also recognize that some people’s wants can be incompatible with others’, without either necessarily being unreasonable or unfair. So, another partial reflection of the human condition in general I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon loves The Lord of the Rings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know that feeling so well, sadly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon hates reddit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yeah that’s a reasonable take and I do know what you mean. I broadly like what federation offers over centralization, but it’s not without its quirks and some drawbacks, I hear ya.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon loves The Lord of the Rings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much same for me! Not sure if I played the actual first or just one of the real early ones, but that def drew me to this one. You should play it! I paid full price and would have paid double, knowing now how thoughtfully made it was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon hates reddit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I’d add, having returned to this, that it’s a bit off-putting for you to be sharing your preferences for how they behave with their own instance, given your non-involvement with that instance itself, or trans things in general.

  One of the major points of federation as a concept is for folks to not be mandatorily subject to some overarching singular approach to content moderation. You’re here, so I think it’s reasonable to assume you care at least a bit about the way this platform works and what makes it unique(ish) and valuable.

  At the risk of coming across more hostile than I intend - why on earth does Blahaj need to specifically, only, be about trans topics, to be a valid space in your eyes, when it seems they mostly just want to exist how they prefer and interact with federated Lemmy stuff, in the ways federation explicitly intends?

  I’ll admit that I don’t always remember to look at where a given post originated from before commenting, and I should get better at that - could be that’s all you need, too 🤷‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon hates reddit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hilariously this comment is precisely as confusing to me as the comm itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon hates reddit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I really don’t understand that comm either, but I haven’t looked too closely cuz I’m not that interested. I also moved off .world entirely for my accounts because I don’t like some of their moderation stances. I understand why they have them and don’t begrudge them for it, to be clear. But I do eye them warily as a kind of emerging de facto instance in some ways (AKA potential for more centralization than seems wise, given their need or desire to comply with certain local laws that limit speech).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon hates reddit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Blahaj has a no tolerance policy on trans rights, from what I understand, and I think they like how they run their stuff. Maybe you know that already, but if not, maybe that’s helpful? It’s not so much thin skin as “we’re here for the purpose of not seeing that kinda stuff, so we block it here”.

  DB0 is legitimately one of the coolest places on the modern internet, I’m curious to hear what kinds of things you’ve seen bans for. The admin/host (by the same name) seems to have very rational, reasonable takes toward moderation, and he values transparency and community feedback. Frankly from my own (instance-level, not community or thread) observations, he seems like a model of high-quality moderation. Your experience sounds off to me, but I hope that doesn’t come across as an accusation, I don’t intend one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon hates reddit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it all changed after Trump’s victory and all the crazy shit he started immediately doing. I have both contributed to the problem, and lamented the shift. I don’t want this platform to be about slinging half-baked political takes (lumping myself in there, to be clear), but also I can’t blame anyone for wanting to discuss the terrifying stuff we’re seeing. Really was cooler here, even just 6 months ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon loves The Lord of the Rings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like your taste. These are some bangers lol.

  If you haven’t, you should play Armored Core 6. It’s a FROM game, and it feels like one, in all the best ways.

  But it’s also a mech game, and it feels like one, in all the best ways! Every button assaults your enemy, every motion feels fluid, fast, effortless - or huge, heavy, clunky - your mech is your mech, and many thoughtful builds can become OP. The customization is bananas. And yet - some fights will remain challenging.

  With all sincerity, easy 10/10 game for me, I proceeded from NG -> NG+ -> NG++ directly, which is a first for me and I’m an oldish dude. AND I felt thoroughly rewarded by the end of NG++. It’s a literal perfect game, just unreasonably fun and well-crafted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is investigated⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Something something about staring into the abyss, tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft 1.0 comes out⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The amount of aggravating bullshit Microsoft introduced made it so I dread when my daughter asks if I can get it working for her, despite having bought it once as an OG, and at least once since. Badly tarnished maybe the game of a generation or era of gaming imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Mirror AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, interesting and brief read!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer interview: my Q&A with the creator of Lutris⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just bought two oldish business class Dell laptops this last week and put Bazzite on em both, for the fam. Easing out our Chromebooks we’ve used for minor things, just can’t abide a machine that won’t let me actually own it anymore, with the way the world’s going.

  Not exactly revolutionary lol, but your enthusiasm demanded something in response, so I wanted to let you know that we (and I bet lots of others!) are all in. And I really hope you keep doing stuff like this!!

  If I haven’t contributed something to Lutris by this year’s Hacktoberfest, by golly I’m committing (heh) to putting an open issue to rest during best month.

  Cheers and thanks again!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer interview: my Q&A with the creator of Lutris⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks so much for sharing! I’ve recently moved to daily driving Linux and went Bazzite for the gaming element (which I’ve since only somewhat used, lol).

  Haven’t dove into the bits and pieces that really make the games work much yet, had no idea Lutris was all this! Particularly the wider library management / enablement, the very thing the dev called out as not well known lol.

  AND I was very happy to find out it’s all Python! That’s my bread and butter (and it’s delicious), I may just have to do a wee bit of dev’in someday too. If I ever get around to the games lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suicide is cringe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the suffering required for a human to legitimately want to kill themselves is extreme, kinda by definition. So uhh…yeah homie might wanna continue keeping that to yourself lmao!

  On the other hand, suicidal threats with no actual sincerity, to get attention…on that I agree with ya. Cringe AF.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a fighter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah man we’re pretty squishy! I’d imagine an adult gorilla has to consciously try not to hurt us in physical interactions of any kind lol, like me with my own kiddos. Fairly sure just pulling off a limb would be well within their capabilities. Guaranteed death sentence, and a brutal one, no question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a fighter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Grappling a gorilla is such an unbelievably bad idea lmao, no matter the BJJ steez. You’re right, things are fucking tanks, just flat out invulnerable to us hand-to-hand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a senior citizen⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, similar feelings from me in a lotta ways, especially regarding the “churn” we see where continuing tech evolution makes our expected output rise in almost precise equilibrium with the rise in quality of life tooling and general sophistication we get to “enjoy” (and I mean, sincerely, some stuff like IaC has made irritating tasks joyfully painless in comparison to the bad good ??? old days ).

  BUT! Something maybe we can all get a little excited about - in some important ways (Linux ecosystem, federation trends, self-hosting capabilities and enthusiasm, urgent global need to diversify cloud reliances) - FOSS is in a strikingly beautiful place today. It’s never been more important, and it’s never had a stronger, more diverse, and arguably more passionate array of people working hard to make great shit for us all.

  Cheers and take heart!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Damn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell yeah! And another dope thing about the whole shebang, turns out the derivative < - > integral operation is wildly useful for describing…everything.

  The simplest example, that I love the most, is just the very pedestrian (pun intended) relationship between a car’s position, velocity, and acceleration. It’s just enough “levels” (of diff < - > int) to have some instructional “meat”, and it’s a totally ubiquitous experience.

  And then, when peered at more closely, that kind of relationship starts to crop up everywhere, suggests so much more!

  Calculus is best maf

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Damn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, the heart of the issue is that each object’s path changes continuously, and the forces involved change in kind. Even worse, the objects interact with each other, again continuously - it’s not one-sided.

  If you imagine trying to do it pre-Calculus, some kind of “just map it all out into a grid, etc.”, you can see the problems this continuous change imposes (exercise left for the reader).

  By involving the Stravinsky Interpretation, it quickly becomes clear that the dimorphic superposition destabilizes. The clever reader might object “but what if you fold in all the noodly surfaces to recohere the manifold?”

  And that clever reader would be right! But we didn’t know that until old Dr. Isaac “Zeke” Newton came along and made it that way.

  Some say the devil himself taught him how it’s done, because no one else can read his notes! So keep your eye on old Zeke when you run into him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon contracts herpes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so sorry :(

  This happened to my wife, FWIW, from an old horrible partner (abusive too, v cool). Her outbreaks got milder over time to where now they’re a minor inconvenience at most. And they don’t get in our way, so to speak.

  Even though, yes, some folks are now preemptively and permanently out of your dating pool, I’d argue that a lot of the people self-excluding in that way have done you a favor.

  Love is strong stuff! I can imagine how low you feel about this, but I hope you allow space for it to improve over time and you don’t give up on having a sex life or romantic partners. You’re worthy of love, this dumb (and seriously common) disease can’t change that :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#lovewins⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, I don’t remember much, and not in his books in general. Although I am the kind of reader that’s wholly uninterested (no shade to those who feel differently!) - but it’s entirely possible it’s there and my brain doesn’t really hold onto it! But put bluntly his stories are usually bleak, romance would fit a little oddly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#lovewins⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Awesome!! And I don’t think it was a series when I read it, so been a while for me too lol. And yeah, Revelation Space books are just so, so good. Can’t say enough good things about the worlds this guy builds. Artifact in the meme would fit right in, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#lovewins⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This post really doesn’t call for this comment but here we go -

  One of my favorite authors wrote at least one book in a setting where many galactic civilizations have come and largely gone, and treasure hunters try to “crack baubles” - break into old vaults and such left behind. Think Space Indiana Jones! But what’s really compelling and brain melty to me is that these civilizations used entirely unknown tech and physics in some cases. So they’re trying to break into and steal things they cannot possibly even comprehend, which is SO foolish and so fucking cool, and if that were available to me, my curiosity would utterly demand I keep at it until dead or worse.

  Book is Revenger by Alastair Reynolds. Plus it’s got one of the scariest fuckin pirates ever, so I mean, Space Indiana Jones with horrifying unknown tech treasure and implacable, immortal(?) pirate villains…that’s gonna be a strong recommendation for the right flavor of reader lmao.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Antony Starr is glad ‘The Boys’ is ending: “I don’t like seeing things outstay their welcome”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good luck with that aneurysm lol, hope it clears itself up