isosphere

@isosphere@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Highwave, makers of the Hotjo (as seen on DS9), will be restocking the Deep Space Purple color on Friday, November 15.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My partner hates this mug with a passion. Maybe I should get one 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BREAKING: EA releases C&C source code under GPL3!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I played the heck out of the Renegade demo, it scratched a FPS RTS itch I didn’t know I had. I wonder if it holds up?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 25th⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the experience at all spoiled by the game’s popularity? It’s a great game in its own right IMO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 25th⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m playing World of Goo, a physics game from 2008 that I bought in a Humble Bundle forever ago.

  I tried it again on a lark and it holds up, I got sucked in. Classic physics game. One level takes me less than 15 minutes to complete, but it varies significantly.

  There are interesting conflicting pressures in the game: you want to build with as little as possible, because the building material are your little dudes you’re trying to get to safety. Gravity exists, and weight distribution matters: sometimes you must harness this fact to win.

  Some levels are about building methodically, carefully choosing where to use the corpse of a sacrificed little dudes, because it is an immutable choice.

  Other levels are about dynamics and timing, and you can get tantalizingly close to saving your entire team in these levels.

  Its old, its cheap, it should run on most things~1~. Strong recommend.

  1: not android: NetFlix did one of their closed market acquisitions making “free” games here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨compost.party: a repurposed smartphone running on solar power. It's a web server pieced together from scraps, humming in the attic of an apartment building.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like this idea! There might be an increased danger of a battery explosion: it’ll be near bright sunlight, away from where people will see it, with an old battery. I wonder if there are battery diagnostics that could provide an early warning?

  I’m sure most of us have a fistful of old phones somewhere, the idea of using them for something is appealing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, workspaces are great!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s still Firefox, so it’s the same. I installed uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, no different there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m trying zen-browser.app now. It’s also an open source fork of Firefox. The UI is much changed: vertical tabs and workspaces. It was a bit of a shock, but it’s growing on me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Librewolf has some trouble with some websites. For example, it won’t load one of my own that makes a GRPC request over TLS, stating that the certificate issuer is unknown despite it being the same certificate used on the accepted-as-secure page the request is made from.

  I’m trying zen-browser.app now. It’s also an open source fork of Firefox. The UI is much changed: vertical tabs and workspaces. It was a bit of a shock, but it’s growing on me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 9th⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  $11 is wild for all that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 9th⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The New Order was enjoyable vengence porn against Nazis, it’s a good time; maybe I need that again!

  I’ve been playing the heck out of Harebrained Schemes’ BattleTech; I haven’t binge-played like this in a long time. It never feels fair; 2-1 odds is typical, but it’s always possible. Pretty satisfying to overcome unfair situations. Makes me feel smart and capable! Plus, jumpy stompy robots!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek - Fleet Command - Lower Decks 2 Part 1⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  500 internal errors in console, video doesn’t play