CancerMancer @ CancerMancer @sh.itjust.works

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mobility scooters with RGB under glow lighting

This but unironically. I think I need to find someone willing to let me do this to their scooter or wheelchair; I've got parts to spare and if it gets even a few chuckles it will be worth doing.

I've seen some concepts for mall-like communities based around retirement homes and elementary schools. Add a library, some shops, and other services, and you're off to a great start.

The old-but-still-able folks can serve as crossing guards, read books to kids, play games with them, perhaps help with coaching or other tasks, etc.. The young kids benefit from the wisdom and time spent with good role models, the retirees get much-needed social interaction, structure, and purpose.

A man can dream.

Yeah it's becoming a bit uncanny when I pickup a game and see Mandalore, SplatterCat, or AlphaBetaGamer covering it a few days later.

Even without Steam around, do you really think Average Joe is going to check a bunch of storefronts looking for a game? Nah, they're going to see what comes up on Twitch/YouTube and then play that. That would have meant nothing but sponsored garbage forever. Steam saved us from that fate with Greenlight and later opening the door entirely (and favouring indies in their upcoming and new lists)

Do you remember Direct2Drive? Opened up in 2004, digital storefront for games run by IGN? No? That's ok, neither does anyone else, and it had the pull of fucking IGN. That's the market Steam was launching into at the time, a time when many people were openly exclaiming PC gaming was dying.

At the time gamer chat was a mostly text-based affair over several places and services, and voice was the realm of the few people with the skills to get TeamSpeak/Ventrilo/Mumble going or a connection to those people. Steam did something wild and brought the whole community together in one place. All the games, all the gamers, and all the developers in one place.

That's how Steam ended up a monopoly, and with their collection of mature services no one is going to beat them at everything. If you want to beat them you're going to need to focus on one aspect of their service, beat that, and then work with other people who have targeted other parts of the service and connect. In other words, you need to do the exact opposite of Battle.net/Epic/Uplay/Origin/etc. but none of those companies will do that because they are too selfish to give up any part of the profits.

Only the FOSS community would have the required mentality and why would they step on Steam? Linux gaming has never been this good. It's almost like the only people who could take on Steam view it as an asset.

Oh and just to be clear: virtually no other service has even tried to do anything but be a worse version of Steam. GOG and Itch.io instead opted to focus on what made them different and thus occupy meaningful niches, but everyone else continues to be worthless to this day and they only have themselves to blame.

I had a friend refuse to use any 7 Days to Die modlets because they're "unsafe" despite being simple XML translations. He wouldn't even use one I wrote myself.

Yeah I enjoyed it for longer than that but it just becomes so tedious once you have a few ships.

I prefer Starsector and Avorion.

My library and tastes are pretty eclectic so I think Steam's recommendation engine struggles with me lol. That said, I love how it sends me shit no one seems to know about at the time, like Kenshi, Volcanoids, PULSAR, etc.

As I understand it the issue is actually that people weren't allowed to sell their game for less on other platforms, but they weren't necessarily trying to sell Steam keys.

Oh wow I've owned this game for quite some time. Decent game but ultimately I think Starsector and Avorion are better.

What about GOG and its DRM-free games? What about Itch.io and its exceptionally low cut and pretty much completely open-door policy? There are other services that are good. Origin, UPlay, Epic, and other stuff sucking does not mean they're all bad.

All I ever wanted was good fights and for that short time where SBMM was actually what it said on the tin, I got them. But then somehow devs started getting it in their heads that what people really want is noobstomping, and while I'm sure some people want that, they can go fuck themselves. That shit made me want to play less because it was too easy all the time, and then when the cheating became too rampant to ignore I just stopped playing competitive shooters.

It turns out sending in a human instead of a vegetable might work out. That said, many complaints about her past as a "law and order" piece of shit are very valid.

Who do you trust to decide who the Nazis are?

I wonder how many of the people who supported Twitter's censorship are against X's censorship?

I for one would like to stop censoring individuals.

You would think that the kind of person who loves Factorio knows the rule: never book launch day off.

At least now we have options like Pikapods where you can just throw a containerized server up cheap. Even people who might be overwhelmed by a VM can do that.

Man what a trip, felt like I was hopping around the old web again.

I'm no fan of Hexies but economics - at least as understood by neoliberals - is not real.

Same. I always wondered how ideas like giving what you can, loving thy neighbour, and forgiveness to the extreme somehow results in Supply Side Jesus, "Protestant work ethic", jail time for addictions, "law and order" politics, etc..

These people have strayed so far from the teachings and I'm not sure how they can claim to follow them and then blame homeless people for being homeless.

Connect the internet connection directly to the router, then connect the router to the wall ports. If it doesn't have enough ports, connect the router to a TP-Link switch, and then the switch to the wall ports.

Wall port 3 only connects to one device (PC) so no further action needed.

Wall port 1 connects to 2 or more devices, so connect the wall port to a TP-Link switch and then from there to your Nintendo Switch docks and the Pi

After that unless you've done some weird configuration your gear will all be on the same subnet. You may want to manually assign the PC's IP address to make it easier to use streaming, but that's not mandatory.