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  1. Comment on Introducing XBOX backward compatibility on PC in ~games

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    To me this implies that they are also modifying the games in some way.

    We are also adding new features to make your gaming experience better than ever.

    To me this implies that they are also modifying the games in some way.

    3 votes

  2. Comment on Introducing XBOX backward compatibility on PC in ~games

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    So not blanket backwards compatability, just ports.

    So not blanket backwards compatability, just ports.

    11 votes

  3. Comment on AI companies are buying tons of old books because they're free of AI slop in ~books

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    Honestly, more expensive than buying the books will be the process of scanning them.

    Honestly, more expensive than buying the books will be the process of scanning them.

    8 votes

  4. Comment on The Clacks Overhead, a hidden memorial in ~life

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    I just realized its not indicated anywhere, but I am the author of this article. He was a close friend of mine, and Ive had this article written since 2 weeks after he passed but waited for things...

    I just realized its not indicated anywhere, but I am the author of this article. He was a close friend of mine, and Ive had this article written since 2 weeks after he passed but waited for things to hurt less before I uploaded it to my site.

    9 votes

  6. Comment on Tildes Game Giveaway: June 2026 in ~games

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    If no one else claims it, Ill take VTOL VR off your hands. I dont have a VR headset yet (hopefully the steam frame is reasonable, otherwise VTOL on linux is just a pain), but I do have a friend...

    If no one else claims it, Ill take VTOL VR off your hands. I dont have a VR headset yet (hopefully the steam frame is reasonable, otherwise VTOL on linux is just a pain), but I do have a friend who loves co-op flight sims and would be estatic if I was able to join him in it.

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Tildes Game Giveaway: June 2026 in ~games

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    Ill gladly take warpips, decenders, and shotgun king. Im not much one for sports, but I do enjoy watching the fencing events at the olympics. If it counts as a sporting event, I do really love...

    Ill gladly take warpips, decenders, and shotgun king.

    Im not much one for sports, but I do enjoy watching the fencing events at the olympics. If it counts as a sporting event, I do really love robotics competitions, Ive been both a student and a mentor in FIRST robotics.

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Friday Facts #443 - More planet deliveries in ~games

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    Imma have to rework so many things to take advantage of the circuit network splitting!

    Imma have to rework so many things to take advantage of the circuit network splitting!

    3 votes

  9. Comment on When is a bird a ‘birb’? An extremely important guide. in ~enviro

  11. Comment on What's a game you're dying to play that doesn't exist? in ~games

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    For #1, have you had a look at NEBULOUS: Fleet Command? They recently added a campaign mode and campaign editor.

    For #1, have you had a look at NEBULOUS: Fleet Command? They recently added a campaign mode and campaign editor.

    1 vote

  12. Comment on Tildes Survey #8: What is your favorite video game? (Results) in ~talk

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    Also factorio for me. This might be hyperbole just a little bit, but I think factorio is near-perfect. Its polish and QOL features blow pretty much every other game out there out of the water....

    Also factorio for me. This might be hyperbole just a little bit, but I think factorio is near-perfect. Its polish and QOL features blow pretty much every other game out there out of the water. When im designing something in factorio, sometimes it feels less like playing a game and more like coding in my heavily customized neovim setup, in that building is just streamlined that much. I follow FFF's religiously in my RSS reader, and am working on getting the speedrunning achievements now.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on Bureaucracy is eating the world in ~society

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    Im not sure how much I agree with this article, but I think I agree that while the individual regulations make sense in isolation, their sum adds up a lot, and only larger players can afford it....

    Im not sure how much I agree with this article, but I think I agree that while the individual regulations make sense in isolation, their sum adds up a lot, and only larger players can afford it. Im torn on how valuable small buisnesses are for their own sake, though, and suspicious of giving them exceptions, as in my experience they can be just as underhanded as big ones. However, Im curious to see what others who might be better informed think of this.

    BTW, the author has a vendetta against people allowing untrusted javascript in the browser. The tab name will change if you tab away without disabling JS.

    Meta: Should this go in ~society or ~finance?

    10 votes

  15. Can't post URLs with CJK chars in them?

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    Hey, Im trying to share a post from マリウス.com, but clicking the submit button just returns an error that the link is not a valid URL. Ive also tried percent encoding to...

    Hey, Im trying to share a post from マリウス.com, but clicking the submit button just returns an error that the link is not a valid URL. Ive also tried percent encoding to %E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B9.com, with the same results. I assume this is not intentional @Deimos?

    EDIT: It looks like punycoding it to xn--gckvb8fzb.com works.

    11 votes

  16. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Oh, Ive played through all the zachtronics games as well, yah. actually 100%ed a few of them.

    Oh, Ive played through all the zachtronics games as well, yah. actually 100%ed a few of them.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Ive gotten into shapez2, and Ive gotta say, Im relieved that Ive found another factory game, was worried Factorio had completely spoiled me. (Ive tried satisfactory, and bounced off of it due to...

    Ive gotten into shapez2, and Ive gotta say, Im relieved that Ive found another factory game, was worried Factorio had completely spoiled me. (Ive tried satisfactory, and bounced off of it due to jank and the first person view.)

    Im really enjoying the core premise of the game: There are no recipies. Instead, you have shapes made of 4 quadrants, each of which can be 1 of 4 shapes and 1 of 9 colors, and these shapes can be stacked 4 high. Every operation is valid on every shape, operations like splitting a shape in to 2, rotating a shape, stacking one shape on top of another, swapping the west halves of 2 shapes, etc. Its closer to mathematical operators than to traditional 'recipies' that most automation games use.

    Ive finished the 'main' game, making increasingly complex shapes and delivering a higher and higher throughput of them, and this past weekend I started on the final challenge of the game: the MAM.

    With the circuit logic the game provides you, its possible to make a factory that makes any shape. You give it a logic signal containing a shape, and it makes that shape from raw materials. Ive made a factory that can make any single shape, so now I need to make 3 more of them and build a system to stack them on top of each other in order to make the final shape. Theres a few more complications than that, but after Ive finished this MAM, I think Ill put it down for a bit, do some other hobbies that Ive been neglecting.

    2 votes

  18. Comment on I'm going on vacation in ~tildes

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    Have a good trip!

    Have a good trip!

    2 votes

  19. Comment on What I learned building my first custom water loop in ~comp

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    Thanks for the in depth explanation! I didnt consider that the coolant isnt necessarily completely non-conductive, it would just need to have a high enough resistance to not count as a dead short...

    Thanks for the in depth explanation! I didnt consider that the coolant isnt necessarily completely non-conductive, it would just need to have a high enough resistance to not count as a dead short on 12 or 24v lines.

    1 vote

  20. Comment on Business idea and feedback thread in ~talk

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    Rackmount KVMs are close, but they typically dont have their own battery, and dont function as IO expanders, either. (Also, they cost an arm and a leg, for some reason. My laptop is cheaper than...

    Rackmount KVMs are close, but they typically dont have their own battery, and dont function as IO expanders, either. (Also, they cost an arm and a leg, for some reason. My laptop is cheaper than that one...)