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3 votes
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The oldest unsolved problem in math. Do odd perfect numbers exist?
11 votes -
The Houthis are very, very, pleased
24 votes -
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
20 votes -
Inside Out 2 | Official trailer
16 votes -
NEXT Life Sciences announces successful clinical evaluation of the delivery method for Plan A contraception for men
25 votes -
Green corridors - How a Colombian city cooled dramatically in just three years
17 votes -
Bugs and glitches of high-level NES Tetris
10 votes -
Climate deniers don't deny climate change any more. They do something worse.
65 votes -
You can not simply publicly access private secure links, can you?
11 votes -
Research paper compares LLM responses based on politeness of requests and finds quality difference
28 votes -
New York governor sends national guard to subway in crime crackdown
21 votes -
Benedict Cumberbatch reads Alexei Navalny's final letter
14 votes -
Sweden officially joins NATO, ending decades of post-World War II neutrality
36 votes -
Filming for James Gunn's Superman has commenced in Norway, and the DC Studios co-head is teasing the first scene
11 votes -
When Hollywood gets it right – the best fencing scenes
11 votes -
350,000 Californians are now on the FAIR Plan, the last resort for fire insurance. Now what?
36 votes -
Bertrand Russell's message for future generations
9 votes -
Denmark has pledged to put up more statues of women, with the country's culture minister saying the capital has “more statues of mythical beasts and horses”
12 votes -
Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson just negotiated higher audio royalties for all audiobooks on Audible
56 votes -
Russia is burning up its future
21 votes -
Nikon is acquiring US camera manufacturer RED
21 votes -
Humble Choice - March 2024
March 2024's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games. Steam Page Opencritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of...
March 2024's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games.
Steam Page Opencritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin – Ultimate Edition 70 41/60 Win ❓ Unknown 🟨 Gold Nioh 2 - The Complete Edition 85 87/88 Win 🟨 Playable 🟨 Gold Saints Row 63 56/64 Win ❌ Unsupported 🟨 Gold Citizen Sleeper 84 91/94 Win, Mac 🟨 Playable 🎖️ Platinum Black Skylands 77 80/82 Win ✅ Verified 🟨 Gold Soulstice 71 70/78 Win 🟨 Playable 🎖️ Platinum Afterimage 76 77/80 Win ✅ Verified 🟨 Gold Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter N/A 68/77 Win 🟨 Playable 🟨 Gold Does anyone have experience with any of the games and, if so, would you recommend them? Is there anything in here that you're particularly excited to play?
14 votes -
The problem with California Prop 1
8 votes -
Ukrainian forces strike Russian troops at Avdiivka coke plant using AASM Hammer guided bombs
16 votes -
Polymath - Toolkit to automatically segment music tracks and convert to MIDI
10 votes -
Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender has been renewed for two more seasons
27 votes -
Norway and the Sámi people end a dispute over Europe's largest onshore wind farm – deal includes a future-oriented solution that safeguards reindeer farming rights
14 votes -
Can Europe’s trains compete with low-cost airlines?
17 votes -
Rivers reborn: Alewives continue to make a recovery in the Penobscot watershed in Maine
13 votes -
What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
9 votes -
What’s ‘wrong’ with east Germany? Look to its long neglect by the wealthy west.
9 votes -
Rooster Teeth is shutting down after twenty-one years
56 votes -
Bobiverse book 5 (Not till we are lost) - coming Sept 5 2024
22 votes -
Why do so many mental illnesses overlap? A concept called the “p factor” attempts to explain why psychiatric disorders cannot be clearly separated
28 votes -
One in four school-starters in England and Wales not toilet-trained, say teachers
40 votes -
Is it time for a user growth campaign?
Take a look at the Tildes Statistics site. Couple things: 1, and most obvious: there has been a decline in users over the past few days for the first time that I'm aware of. 2: (I was going to...
Take a look at the Tildes Statistics site. Couple things:
1, and most obvious: there has been a decline in users over the past few days for the first time that I'm aware of.
2: (I was going to make this point before the user decline occurred but it's probably moot now) Due to the scaling of the Y-axis, it appears that there is healthy user growth in the site. But if you look at the numbers, we're talking about user growth of roughly 60 people over the past month.I know we want controlled growth, and I know we don't want to open it up to the masses. But we also want this site to succeed (i.e. provide interesting discourse and keep people coming back on a regular basis). I don't believe success can happen when growth is stagnant (or, declining!)
I don't think that the conversations are necessarily stagnant per se, in fact there's an impressive amount of thoughtful discussion relative to the size of the user base. But if a given topic is too niche (e.g. MLS football or MUDs, two of my interests), the odds of finding like-minded users to discuss with is obviously lower.
Is it time to consider some sort of growth campaign (one that is not reactionary a la the Reddit API changes) in order to infuse some new life into this awesome site?
37 votes -
Ever more undocumented Indians risk everything on illegal routes to reach US
11 votes -
Yorushika (ヨルシカ) - Sunny (2024)
6 votes -
The Nintendo DS emulator Drastic is now free as Yuzu lawsuit fallout begins
26 votes -
Egyptians are buying and selling gold just to stay afloat
9 votes -
Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition PC specifications revealed, out March 21
19 votes -
"The biggest myth in speedrunning history": A cosmic ray didn't help a Mario 64 speedrunner
6 votes -
Liberty University hit with record fines for failing to handle complaints of sexual sssault, other crimes
17 votes -
On creation for creation's sake
I want to make a game. ... is what I've been telling myself for the past few weeks. Honestly, I might have subconsciously had this thought for the past few months, if not years. Strange as it...
I want to make a game.
... is what I've been telling myself for the past few weeks. Honestly, I might have subconsciously had this thought for the past few months, if not years.
Strange as it sounds, I've gone on a weird mental journey in getting to the point where I'm able to acknowledge this desire. I've always had a vague, constant urge to be creative, but for the past few years, this urge has been tied to an outcome: "I want to write a JS library because it'll make for a cool product later"; something like that. Inevitably, having that outcome in mind makes me set a standard of perfection for what the thing is supposed to be, which makes me start planning every piece of the thing, which... tires me out, and then I just don't do it.
I'd say I've been better about this recently, in that I'll sometimes do one-off things because it seems like fun at the time. Small coding projects that serve no purpose at all. I randomly got into drawing for a week, so the day's drawing for that week. Rediscovering this process has been fun, and it's definitely been fulfilling to just marvel at my work without having to check off boxes for what the thing is supposed to do.
But now, I've got the idea that I want to make a game. A game isn't a small project, or at least not as small as what I've been working on recently. I'm pretty sure my motivation for wanting to do this is entirely intrinsic: I just want to do it, I don't want to sell it, I don't care if nobody plays it. And yet, I'm still finding it pretty hard to do anything.
Firstly, I don't have much time during the week to work on this game; I also work full-time. Second, when I do have time, I find it pretty hard to make any progress. A game isn't small, so I feel the need to plan stuff out, even just roughly. Which is what I do at work. So then it just feels like work. I tire of planning pretty quickly, and I think I've come to conflate this tired feeling with burnout at work, so I just stop and scroll on the internet.
Sometimes I'm able to focus and just write something without planning. It's nice when I'm able to do this, but inevitably I start thinking about the bigger picture... "Okay, the protagonist feels X because the theme I'm going for is Y, which..." and then the planning starts again.
Anyway, this is all a very long way to say that I struggle with creating for creation's sake, partly because budgeting my time as a full-time laborer is hard, and partly because I have trouble seeing the trees for the forest, so to speak. Have you all ever had to deal with this? I'm curious to know what's helped you, or just your thoughts on the topic/my situation.
Cheers!
24 votes -
Annoying hospital beeps are causing hundreds of deaths a year
27 votes -
Creation of a European Environment Authority -- Thoughts/opinions?
11 votes -
They're always guilty ... or are they?
22 votes -
Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut is coming to PC on May 16
19 votes -
Microsoft to end its Android apps on Windows 11 subsystem in 2025
14 votes