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  1. Comment on Have you ever designed/created a spaceship for fiction, RPGs, etc? How did you do it? in ~creative

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    The Starsector blog has some good posts on how they designed various ships for the game. The "Creating Threat" blog post is a good recent one. You could also find some design docs on the ship(s)...

    The Starsector blog has some good posts on how they designed various ships for the game. The "Creating Threat" blog post is a good recent one.

    You could also find some design docs on the ship(s) for Avatar (the blue alien people movies) and The Expanse for inspiration.

    2 votes

  2. Comment on Against 'Metroidbrania': a landscape of knowledge games in ~games

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    Honestly I don't think I understand what "roguelike" means anymore, but I'm also low-key salty about how the word has been suffocated. Best I can tell, "roguelike" these days means "this game has...

    Honestly I don't think I understand what "roguelike" means anymore, but I'm also low-key salty about how the word has been suffocated.

    Best I can tell, "roguelike" these days means "this game has some sort of procedural generation and consequences for dying" which is so broad as to be useless.

    Meanwhile, the words "rogue-playing game" have been living in my head as an idea for a genre of games that are basically "Skyrim, but it looks like NetHack".

    There is a massive difference between NetHack and Dwarf Fortress and Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead and Dead Cells and Binding of Isaac and Balatro and Slay the Spire. I don't think it's unreasonable to want different words to categorize these games differently along the spectrum of "inspired (in apparently even the meagerest of ways) by Rogue".

    I guess we have those words though: "classic roguelike", "roguelike deckbuilder", etc.

    8 votes

  3. Comment on Looking for recommendations for a new home router in ~tech

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    Oh thank god I've got a big motorcycle trip coming up tomorrow and there's no way I was going to have time to rewrite my comment lmao enjoy saving that money

    Oh thank god I've got a big motorcycle trip coming up tomorrow and there's no way I was going to have time to rewrite my comment lmao enjoy saving that money

    1 vote

  4. Comment on Looking for recommendations for a new home router in ~tech

  5. Comment on Looking for recommendations for a new home router in ~tech

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    I'll write a proper comment later today and message you the hardware I used but right now I'll say: Get a generic router mini pc off amazon. Install opnsense on it (easy for you, you already use...

    I'll write a proper comment later today and message you the hardware I used but right now I'll say:

    Get a generic router mini pc off amazon. Install opnsense on it (easy for you, you already use Linux).

    Buy a few Grandstream wireless access points. These do the actual WiFi. The router mini pc just does the wired connectivity. These access points seamlessly mesh and can all be managed from a single master AP.

    Opnsense is an open source "turn my computer into a network router" distribution of BSD. It's easy to install (easier than a Linux distro I'd say) and will get updates and security patches as long as the opnsense project stays alive. No more "sorry your router hardware is arbitrarily old so we won't support it anymore" BS

    Grandstream seems to be a mostly unknown brand but their stuff is comparable to unifi and I've had great success using it at home. They have WiFi 6e and 7 access points available

    14 votes

  7. Comment on Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown in ~music

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    Or maybe "the system" works fine but just doesn't apply to sumo?

    Or maybe "the system" works fine but just doesn't apply to sumo?

    3 votes

  8. Comment on Zen browser / chrome alternatives in ~tech

  9. Comment on The death of punctuation in ~humanities.languages

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    okay but punctuating how because i know some people who have got so done with autocorrect that they just turned it off and cant be bothered to manually punctuate anymore and ive seen some people...

    okay but punctuating how because i know some people who have got so done with autocorrect that they just turned it off and cant be bothered to manually punctuate anymore and ive seen some people here on tildes and other websites and even blog authors who dont bother with much puctuating either like they wont use apostrophes commas or uppercase letters but theyll at least user periods to stop their sentences still which i think is a bit like her telling you to take the condom off but then you pull out before finishing inside her but what do i know

    27 votes

  10. Comment on Valve announces new hardware: Steam Frame, Steam Controller, and Steam Machine in ~games

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    Number 342,589,734 on the list of "tech-related things that should be illegal".

    HDMI foundation not allowing open source drivers

    Number 342,589,734 on the list of "tech-related things that should be illegal".

    11 votes

  11. Comment on Valve announces new hardware: Steam Frame, Steam Controller, and Steam Machine in ~games

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    Apparently Valve tried OLED first, but couldn't push the brightness high enough to offset light loss from the pancake lenses. I don't know enough about this stuff to say whether that explanation...

    Apparently Valve tried OLED first, but couldn't push the brightness high enough to offset light loss from the pancake lenses.

    I don't know enough about this stuff to say whether that explanation makes any sense or not, so make of it what you will.

    11 votes

  12. Comment on Need pixel art software recommendations (it can be free or paid) in ~games

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    Pixelorama is a decent alternative if you'd rather not buy a program right now. It's free and open-source (made with Godot even). If you're literally just starting out with pixel art and you don't...

    Pixelorama is a decent alternative if you'd rather not buy a program right now. It's free and open-source (made with Godot even). If you're literally just starting out with pixel art and you don't want to buy anything yet, this is what I would recommend. Otherwise, Aseprite. (Also note you get a Steam key if you buy it from aseprite.org)

    Aseprite's source code is actually publicly viewable and the license allows the code to be distributed and compiled by users. If you use Linux, Aseprite might already be available to compile via your package manager.

    6 votes

  13. Comment on An AI-generated country song is topping a Billboard chart, and that should infuriate us all in ~music

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    I don't think @Protected meant "is there any significant difference between AI country music and this Bo Burnham parody song" but rather "is there any significant difference between AI country...

    I don't think @Protected meant "is there any significant difference between AI country music and this Bo Burnham parody song" but rather "is there any significant difference between AI country music and [what this Bo Burnham parody song is trying to say]".

    And "what this Bo Burnham parody song is trying to say" is something like "most country music superstars are pandering liars".

    8 votes

  14. Comment on Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ in ~society

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    [CITATION NEEDED] You're immediately jumping to the worst possible conclusion of "omg they'll destroy all the private grocery stores run by immigrants!!!" scenario because it's the best basis for...
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    They will not be supplementing them; they will be competing with them, and it will be unfair competition. Given that grocery stores usually operate with very small profit margins, the city-run (=subsidized) stores will push many of them out of the market and crush the livelihoods of locals who own the independent grocery stores

    [CITATION NEEDED]

    You're immediately jumping to the worst possible conclusion of "omg they'll destroy all the private grocery stores run by immigrants!!!" scenario because it's the best basis for your argument, but it's a completely hypothetical scenario and a disingenuous starting point.

    Mamdani wants to open "five municipally owned stores, one in each New York City borough", specifically targeting food deserts and "areas with limited access to full-service supermarkets".

    You are assuming that these city-run grocery stores would compete with private stores. However, there are significant areas of New York City that are currently under-served by private grocery stores. It isn't clear at all whether the city-run stores Mamdani wants to build would meaningfully compete with the private stores that exist elsewhere.

    City-run grocery stores would not be some radical new frontier for New York City either:

    So city-run grocery stores are really just the next logical step to improve food-access in the city.

    I want to circle back to this "unfair competition" idea though.

    Even if the city didn't already provide a variety of food-related services without harming private food-related businesses...

    Even if the city didn't already subsidize most of its private grocery stores...

    Even if the private grocery stores weren't under-serving areas of the city...

    Is it really "unfair competition" if the city-run grocery stores can provide goods and services better than the private grocery stores? Why is that competition unfair?

    And even if that is "unfair competition", is that automatically a bad thing?

    Because my opinion is that, especially for goods and services that are necessities:

    If the government (local, state, etc) can out-compete a private enterprise on the market, then that private enterprise does not deserve to exist.

    To say "the government should not run their own grocery stores because they would unfairly compete with private grocery stores" makes about as much sense as saying "the government should not provide free and universal healthcare because that would unfairly compete with private health insurance".

    23 votes

  15. Comment on Zohran Mamdani wins New York City mayor’s race, capping a stunning ascent in ~society

  16. Comment on A Nazi tattoo exposes US Democrats’ greatest weakness in ~society

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    It took me way too long to find an actual image of the tattoo. Apparently it was spotted in a frame from a video where Platner dances in his underwear at his brother's wedding:...

    It took me way too long to find an actual image of the tattoo. Apparently it was spotted in a frame from a video where Platner dances in his underwear at his brother's wedding:

    https://i.horizon.pics/7cSXoq6doJ.jpg

    4 votes

  17. Comment on What's your video game comfort food? in ~games

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    If you like Endless Sky then Starsector might also scratch that itch. You can download the game for free from their website (it isn't on Steam) and get a CD key from the end of Sseth's Starsector...

    If you like Endless Sky then Starsector might also scratch that itch. You can download the game for free from their website (it isn't on Steam) and get a CD key from the end of Sseth's Starsector review video.

    3 votes

  18. Comment on What is your 'Subway Take'? in ~talk

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    Lmao want you to know you're not the only one who feels this way

    After I was apprehended by the fun police

    Lmao want you to know you're not the only one who feels this way

    10 votes

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  20. Comment on What is your 'Subway Take'? in ~talk

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    Sure, but there's nothing automatically wrong with wanting to sound fancy. In some contexts, utilizing "utilize" might have a more appropriate effect on the text than using "use". In technical...

    Sure, but there's nothing automatically wrong with wanting to sound fancy. In some contexts, utilizing "utilize" might have a more appropriate effect on the text than using "use".

    In technical documentation, for example, "utilize" might be used to describe something the software makes use of, while "use" might be used to describe something the user makes use of.

    "The software utilizes this function...".

    "The user uses this button...".

    I like that we can have multiple words that mostly mean the same thing and can mostly be used interchangeably for different effects, or to give reference to different things.

    3 votes