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  1. Comment on Tildes feels like the last bastion of the Information Superhighway in ~tildes

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    Yeah, when I discovered Tildes I read about Deimos and his previous work on reddit and it was just and list of "oh he was the reason behind this positive change". When a small site like this kicks...

    Yeah, when I discovered Tildes I read about Deimos and his previous work on reddit and it was just and list of "oh he was the reason behind this positive change".
    When a small site like this kicks off, I normally don't bother, because it's so much effort from every single user to get traction and if a part of the community crumbles, then the whole thing slides into the abyss.
    But with Deimos' track record I thought I'd give it a shot and I am extremely happy I did!

    8 votes
  2. Comment on Ask Tildes: Job security - does it exist, how to deal with lack of, how to process being fired / unemployment in ~life

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    Yeah, I learned the hard way that corporate is cut throat. I have had a few horrible experiences with past companies and been made redundant once. My outcome is that it's very hard to have loyalty...

    Yeah, I learned the hard way that corporate is cut throat.
    I have had a few horrible experiences with past companies and been made redundant once. My outcome is that it's very hard to have loyalty to a company who views you just as a number.
    Same goes for the people honestly. I used to make good friends through work and I had to stop because it made some horribly messy social situations. I've learned to split work and life as much as possible and it has helped a great deal, but a part of me is upset I can't really enjoy those possible friendships outside work. But I know how it can go, and it's not worth the risk.

    Sucks, but that's the way it is. Money is money and people are incredibly expensive.

    15 votes
  3. Comment on Looking for some recommendations for games where you can build your own spaceships etc in ~games

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    Unrelated to your question, but I spoke to a 50 something year old dude on a plane recently and he showed me his steam profile where he had, I do not lie, more than 14,000 hours in Empyrion. That...

    Unrelated to your question, but I spoke to a 50 something year old dude on a plane recently and he showed me his steam profile where he had, I do not lie, more than 14,000 hours in Empyrion.
    That is almost 2 years of non-stop, 24 hour gameplay.

    Not shockingly, he was in the military and must have had a desk job, because Holy shit that's a lot of gameplay.

    3 votes
  4. Comment on Looking for some recommendations for games where you can build your own spaceships etc in ~games

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    When I said "ship editor" I guess I meant like a creative style, unlimited budget "make your hopes and dreams ship" ship editor. Maybe it does have one and in that case great! Another suggestion...

    When I said "ship editor" I guess I meant like a creative style, unlimited budget "make your hopes and dreams ship" ship editor.
    Maybe it does have one and in that case great! Another suggestion and I agree with Last Starship too (although I gather since it's in alpha you're looking at a shorter parts list than most games).

    2 votes
  5. Comment on Looking for some recommendations for games where you can build your own spaceships etc in ~games

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    My middle name is "spaceship building game". It's a bit of a mouthful and kinda annoying for official forms, but I live with it! To be honest though, I prefer more functional games over artistic...

    My middle name is "spaceship building game". It's a bit of a mouthful and kinda annoying for official forms, but I live with it!

    To be honest though, I prefer more functional games over artistic and it sounds like you want something creative so I'll try and be open minded.

    I'd say the original Space Engineers is still great for designing cool ships, but the new one will be much better for being more creative with it's smaller blocks and universal grid.

    If you don't mind 2D Ostranaughts has a ship editor, it's pretty good.

    There's games like Cosmosteer too which are also 2D but I don't think it has a ship editor.

    If you want highly technical, highly customisable but probably the most insane entry here, then Starbase is hands down the best space ship building game I've played, but the actual game is dead.
    You can jump into the Starbase test server and design whatever monstrosity you want then get it lost in deep space when your fuel connector falls out and you forget to pack a spare one.

    Otherwise, good recommendations in the thread!

    Edit: since you mentioned not spaceships, Stormworks is like the ultimate ship ship designing game. It also does cars, trucks, trains, planes and helecopters but boats is it's heart and soul and it's very good at it.

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

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    Great! Thanks for the tips, looking forward to it!

    Great! Thanks for the tips, looking forward to it!

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

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    Nice! The new Steam family is really good, I've been enjoying a bunch of games I never bought but considered because of it. RE the DLC the steam pages for them all have pretty crap reviews, is it...

    Nice! The new Steam family is really good, I've been enjoying a bunch of games I never bought but considered because of it.

    RE the DLC the steam pages for them all have pretty crap reviews, is it like a "get them if you like the game and they are on sale" kinda deal?

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

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    I have a freind who gave a similar warning, he said to keep going with the main story at least until I learned the Master Strike ability, then decide if I wanted to explore around. Honestly, the...

    I have a freind who gave a similar warning, he said to keep going with the main story at least until I learned the Master Strike ability, then decide if I wanted to explore around.
    Honestly, the main story seems interesting so I'm good with that. Most of the time with Elder Scrolls games the main story seems so boring I go looking for the more interesting side quests. But this feels different.

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

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    I'll be sure to post if I do get there! Might be the week after as I'm on holiday on Friday.

    I'll be sure to post if I do get there! Might be the week after as I'm on holiday on Friday.

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

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    Like many things, GTA was the best when it was a passion project. It's now a money making machine and I don't think we are going to see the same from Rockstar either. Honestly, the indy scene...

    Like many things, GTA was the best when it was a passion project. It's now a money making machine and I don't think we are going to see the same from Rockstar either.
    Honestly, the indy scene these days is amazing, it's just finding the gems is quite hard and a lot of work.
    There's definitely some euro jank GTA clones still coming up on steam. I agree it's not the same though!

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

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    I saw that the new Kingdom Come: Deliverance was coming out this week and I decided it was time to play the first one. Kinda embarrassing really, I kickstarted it and got a cool special physical...

    I saw that the new Kingdom Come: Deliverance was coming out this week and I decided it was time to play the first one.
    Kinda embarrassing really, I kickstarted it and got a cool special physical edition thing with it then literally never played it. It was always just a "maybe next time" kinda game.

    Well here we are!

    Incase you are unaware, Kingdom Come is an epic, huge, historically accurate, European RPG made by a kickstarted band of game developers wanting to make a AAA game. And it seemed to work.

    I'm 4 hours in and I think I'm also 3.85 hours of cutscenes in too. Man this game has a lot of cutscenes and they are loonnngggg. I mean they are good, but Holy shit like you could get popcorn and grab a drink while they are playing.
    Well, the last cutscene had the into title and a bunch of developer credits, so I assume I'm in the game now!
    So far the world looks huge, it seems like there's a bunch to do and the main quest actually is kinda interesting for once. So yeah, I'm in.
    I don't have many thoughts to share yet, except the intro is fucking long. I mean there's some weird and wonderful stuff to show and tell the player, so I get it. It's just long.
    I'm sure next week will be more interesting, check back for my thoughts then.

    11 votes
  12. Comment on Can VLC or some other Windows program shuffle through a playlist without ever repeating a file, while also storing that state for future sessions? in ~tech

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    I might be talking out my ass here because it's been a long time since I used it (and apparently it's not been updated since 2016) but Clementine used to do it (for music) I'm pretty sure. As...

    I might be talking out my ass here because it's been a long time since I used it (and apparently it's not been updated since 2016) but Clementine used to do it (for music) I'm pretty sure.
    As memory serves I had a huge playlist with a lot of files and I used to shuffle through them over multiple sessions, I think you could force it to never repeat?
    But again, pinch of salt and I dunno if I'd recommend it today.

    Good luck though trying to find something! Seems like a pretty specific use case.

    3 votes
  13. Comment on [SOLVED] LG C4 TV annoying brightness changes in ~tech

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    I understand your thinking here but I'd consider a partially solved or something alike? At least for the immediate future I have no plan to try and fix the native app problem and I think it might...

    I understand your thinking here but I'd consider a partially solved or something alike?
    At least for the immediate future I have no plan to try and fix the native app problem and I think it might be misleading to others seeing the title that it's still an active request.

    4 votes
  14. Comment on To those who have been trying out Kagi: what do you think of it? in ~tech

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    I uh, don't know? I think I'm going to struggle at the end of the trial. Like the interface is nice, the results seem fine, I also like the lack of ads, SEO spam and "sponsored results" but I feel...

    I uh, don't know? I think I'm going to struggle at the end of the trial.
    Like the interface is nice, the results seem fine, I also like the lack of ads, SEO spam and "sponsored results" but I feel like I just don't search a lot these days.
    Usually I'm looking for something specific and it'll come up on any browser anyway, then if I'm coding or something I've been finding Copilot or just searching Stackoverflow more useful than search engines these days.
    I'm not sure. The price is gonna be the killer when I get there. I'll pay a small amount for the slick interface and not having to go through changing all my browser settings again, but if it's more than like €9 I'll probably not renew.

    However I think I would recommend it to other power users though, I can see the value, I understand why people like it. I have some freinds I am sure will love it.

    2 votes
  15. Comment on [SOLVED] LG C4 TV annoying brightness changes in ~tech

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    Correct. I tried all the suggestions in this thread and nothing actually corrected it on native WebOS. However I would be keen to get a service remote (or surely you can get the ir code or...

    Correct. I tried all the suggestions in this thread and nothing actually corrected it on native WebOS. However I would be keen to get a service remote (or surely you can get the ir code or something and flash it to a ir blaster?) to try at a later time.

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

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    For what it's worth, Drova is pretty well balanced in terms of exploration, in that you could explore everything right from the start of the game, and that's fine, you'll see a lot! Maybe get some...

    For what it's worth, Drova is pretty well balanced in terms of exploration, in that you could explore everything right from the start of the game, and that's fine, you'll see a lot! Maybe get some good levels and gear, but the game is split into acts and until you progress the main story you won't actually get harder enemies nor better gear.
    So really, it's intended to pace at your own leisure. I'd recommend progressing the main story when you feel the combat is too easy, because 99% of stuff you "miss" in previous acts you can still do later (unless you are like achievement hunting).

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

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    To be fair, I bounced off it the first time out of frustration because I went to reasonable random places and felt very lost. Nothing made sense, nothing linked up. But second time I decided to...

    To be fair, I bounced off it the first time out of frustration because I went to reasonable random places and felt very lost. Nothing made sense, nothing linked up.
    But second time I decided to keep going back to the same place and keep following the same lead, then had a much better experience as it felt like I was actually like, working it out.

    But yeah, I mean, I can understand why you'd not enjoy it tbh, I think Outer Wilds is a little over hyped.
    Obra Dinn on the other hand is fucking good and everyone should try it.

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

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    Advice for Drova which is not well documented: when you get the choice between Nemeton and the remnant camp go hard for one side or the other. If you role play your character at all then sign them...

    Advice for Drova which is not well documented: when you get the choice between Nemeton and the remnant camp go hard for one side or the other. If you role play your character at all then sign them all the way onto on side or the other, if not then sign yourself up and be on board.
    It sounds weird, but the story does not lend itself to being a free agent or changing sides.
    Except for that, enjoy! It's a wonderful game and I had loads of fun!

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

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    Nice description of Animal Well! I think it is an outstanding merit of game design (by one dude!) which really scratches the right itch for a lot of the puzzles. Bbuuttttt I kinda wish it had a...

    Nice description of Animal Well!
    I think it is an outstanding merit of game design (by one dude!) which really scratches the right itch for a lot of the puzzles.
    Bbuuttttt I kinda wish it had a little more interlocking systems rather that skill based puzzles.
    I won't spoil anything. The dev says the game is in three distinct layers, the "first layer" which anyone can play and it's awesome. The "second layer" which people can work out on their own and it's more of a challenge. This was also fun to work out, but started the trend into "you are gonna need to platform good to complete this"
    And the third layer which requires community effort and is hard. Where I was less impressed to be honest.
    Thr community BLASTED through the content which was meant to "take year, maybe never be solved" in like less than a week lol.
    But my issue with it is there's more dumb hard platforming and the tools you have don't really get more interesting or anything. Which is kinda what I was wanting out of it. And I think that's a me issue.

    Curious what you thought of the later puzzles and systems. Maybe you could spoiler it or something.

    2 votes
  20. Comment on [SOLVED] LG C4 TV annoying brightness changes in ~tech

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    Yeah that was along some of my thoughts too. But it being the native app it doesn't let you configure HDR at all or tells you when it switches. But on the external device on Dolby Vision it's...

    Yeah that was along some of my thoughts too. But it being the native app it doesn't let you configure HDR at all or tells you when it switches. But on the external device on Dolby Vision it's totally fine.

    2 votes