cacheson
@cacheson@kbin.social
- Comment on Why did lemmy.world defederate from ani.social? 1 year ago:
Fair enough. Thank you for the transparency and for resolving it quickly.
- Comment on Why did lemmy.world defederate from ani.social? 1 year ago:
Yeah, probably. Aside from the fact that Dessalines and Nutomic aren't actually trustworthy, it's still a bad idea to blindly follow these kinds of decisions. I'm all for instances curating how they want to, but that requires them to deliberately decide for themselves, not just delegate to an outsider with an entirely different editorial policy.
- Submitted 1 year ago to support@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on The ultimate life hack the government doesn't want you to know 1 year ago:
The government doesn't want you to know this, but identities are free. You can just take them. I have 458 identities.
- Comment on During Pride month, Target sells shirts and flags. Gun ranges? 1 year ago:
Something something penetrator tip
- Comment on Would it be okay to host FossCAD on lemm.ee? 1 year ago:
Cool cool. Ping me once you get it set up? I'm not directly involved in any FossCAD stuff, but I'm interested in seeing more firearms content in general on the threadiverse.
- Comment on Would it be okay to host FossCAD on lemm.ee? 1 year ago:
Looks like kbin blocks hackliberty. I'm assuming that at least a few others do too, due to the conspiracy theorist bent of hackliberty. In any case, midwest.social is significantly larger, and you'd have better reach there.
- Comment on Can we defederate from rdq2.net? 1 year ago:
US conservatives used to actively distance themselves from nazis and fascists. That was before the Tea Party, which later morphed into MAGA. When a fascist movement became their key to power, they had to stop repudiating nazis and other fascists and start running interference for them.
- Comment on Would it be okay to host FossCAD on lemm.ee? 1 year ago:
Maybe midwest.social would be a good fit? They're a US instance, so there shouldn't be any legal issues with FossCAD stuff there. They've also got a Socialist Rifle Association community already, so it seems that gun communities aren't unwelcome.
- Comment on Can we defederate from rdq2.net? 1 year ago:
the word “Nazi” totally lost it’s meaning and the scope is ever increasing
Sus.
- Comment on If bullshit jobs are *really* bullshit, how do businesses justify the expense? 1 year ago:
Other commenters have covered the organizational inefficiencies that allow bullshit jobs to exist pretty well. I'd like to also point out that larger organizations have more of these inefficiencies (part of what is known as "diseconomies of scale", the counterpart to the more well-known term "economies of scale"). Our capitalist society actively subsidizes larger organizations, both literally and figuratively, resulting in more bullshit jobs and more economically wasteful behavior in general.
A non-capitalist free market society (such as a mutualist one) would have significantly smaller and more efficient organizations across the board. One can't eliminate organizational efficiency entirely, but we currently have a lot of room for improvement.
- Comment on Please fix Rule 1. 1 year ago:
Yeah, this is why I like topic-specialized instances:
- They have admins that are actually interested in the topic and will tailor the rules appropriately.
- Hopefully are set up in and administered from friendly jurisdictions, to reduce legal risk.
- Will be less likely to shy away from the risk of (possibly frivolous) legal action, whereas the admins of a general instance are more inclined to play it safe.
We need to think of what we're doing here less as recreating reddit, and more as linking together all those old phpBB-style forums.
- Comment on Please fix Rule 1. 1 year ago:
Y'all could set up on psychedelia.ink instead: "A Lemmy instance for all things psychedelia or psychedelia-adjacent."
There may be other appropriate specialized instances as well, that was just the first one that I noticed.
- Comment on The Weekly Discussion Topic - Rougelikes [1] 1 year ago:
Before I get into curmudgeon mode, I want to plug my two favorite roguelikes:
- Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - Zombie/sci-fi apocalypse survival roguelike with a bonkers level of depth to it. It's very actively developed, and the devs are constantly adding more stuff to it. They also have their own lemmy instance at cdda.social.
- Doom Roguelike - Perfectly encapsulates the early Doom games in roguelike form. This one is on the opposite end of the complexity spectrum from CDDA. Much simpler gameplay, though still highly tactical and challenging when you crank the difficulty up. The same author has created a spiritual successor, Jupiter Hell. I haven't logged enough hours for it to supplant DoomRL's position yet, but I do have to say that the atmosphere of it is fucking amazing.
With that out of the way, let's move on to "old man yells at Rogue Legacy":
The term "roguelike" has been stretched to the point of uselessness, often for marketing purposes. This necessitated the introduction of the term "traditional roguelike" for those of us that still want to discuss actual roguelikes. Binding of Isaac, Dwarf Fortess (fortress mode), Dead Cells, and Slay the Spire are all excellent games, but they're not roguelikes in any useful sense. If I'm looking for games that are "like Rogue", none of those are good suggestions. Moria, Nethack, Pixel Dungeon, DCSS, and DoomRL are.
Cataclysm: DDA occupies a bit of a weird space here. It fits within the technical definition of a traditional roguelike, but the overall experience is more of a departure from Rogue than other traditional roguelikes are. It's almost more akin to Minecraft or Terraria, in that you face dangers to gather resources to create items to face bigger dangers to gather more exotic resources to create more powerful items... and so on. I sometimes refer to this type of roguelike as "neotraditional", in order to acknowledge this departure.
Before anyone accuses me of being prescriptivist, sometimes prescriptivism is important. I'm not for haranguing people over every terminological deviation, but some terms are unique and useful, and we should try not to muddy them. "Begs the question" and "reactionary" come to mind. "Roguelike" was one, but it's pretty far gone at this point.