Crotaro @ Crotaro @beehaw.org

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Maybe we should acknowledge that neither North Korea nor the USA are without fault and that in some aspects they are similar enough that they would be confused with each other in a blind test.

The main difference for the vast majority here is that public outrage and votes in elections for their respective governments won't change a thing in North Korea.

If you haven't seen it yet, check out Fight Club. Rewatched it a couple days ago because my gf didn't know anything about it except the meme of "First Rule of Fight Club..." and I had last seen it possibly 20 years ago.

If we factor in failure rates, definitely the Valve Index Controllers.

I fucking love them when they work, but this is the second or third time that I had to get one replaced by Valve in the 7 months of having them. Please, Valve, Index users are already paying premium money. We'd like controllers that don't just stop working properly despite NOT having hit them against walls repeatedly or anything of that sort. It also can't be super lucrative for you if for every sold pair you create and ship out 5 replacements.

Very cute! Are they eating rye flour or what is that powder?

Yup, now the only reason for me to occasionally switch to the actual YouTube page is to give videos likes and subscribes (that actually count for the person and aren't just bookmarks for myself)

I'd love to know that, too. I understand craving the security of a monthly "paycheck", but I avoid subscriptions whenever possible because all those individual "Giving that cause/software/YouTuber 2€ per month is barely noticeable" do become noticeable at some critical mass

nah man

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I have one that I like to imagine as secure as fully randomised passwords. It's four words but, because I'm a cool pwnz0r, the second and last word are written in leetspeak. The phrase is super easy for me to remember and the leetspeak portion has become muscle memory by now. But I only use it for my password manager. For everything else it depends if there's a good chance I'll need to login via my phone (no pw manager there). If yes, I use one of my couple rather-safe passwords. If no, I'll let KeePass2 go to town with a random one.

Oh and I'm subscribed to the haveibeenpwned leakletter, so i know as soon as possible when definitely to change my password.

Maybe a music instrument community? I don't know if there's already a place where we can exchange our progress in learning instruments, music writing and the likes?

Oh wow, I had no idea! That's quite interesting Thank you for the comprehensive answer and link to the blog!

Weird, I thought I only saw a single DLC thing on the store page. Must've missed it

Very much agree that I'd rather see a game's development conclude with a bang instead of just slow dev burnout.

What do you mean that MT's situation seems more complex? I haven't been following news on that front.

Oh? I specifically checked the Steam store page just to be sure. I guess I must have not scrolled far enough hah

Incredible! It's incredible how, for so many content updates, they kept the game fresh and interesting. Andy only a single paid expansion and it's even only 9€!

I wish Motion Twin all success and can't wait to see what else they come up with. If I'm not mistaken, they're currently working on a co-op top-down slasher with cute animals getting absolutely obliterated and everything is super fast, no? I believe that one is already on my wishlist!

I'm learning to play the hurdy gurdy and getting kinda okay at it. I would say, the hardest part is reading the music notation and then quickly translating that to the buttons I need to press. My spouse is learning to play the concertina; her's arrived yesterday in the mail. And I'm very, very slowly working on a personal webpage using Neocities.

My gf already sent me an instagram reel of just that and I wanted to just rip their new toy off their faces so bad.

This is the one, if you're interested.

it’s hard to totally land that message when the game offers no alternative.

I'm of such split opinion when it comes to this argument against the game. I've read it so many times now and I kind of agree that there should have been some nuanced choice that changes the story in such a way where Walker tries to redeem himself? If I recall correctly, the only choice that actually made a difference for the end, was what you did in the very end scene with the mirror, right? And, of course, the choice not to play the game.

Then again, would it have been better if the player had had the option for a less shitty (not necessarily good or positive) path? Sometimes in life, especially during war, the only things that happen to you are shit and even what you do might be out of your control, because you only have one option that results in staying alive or because your mind is so focused on the task at hand that you can't even consider other ways of tackling a problem. This might be a bit graphic, but I think Spec Ops puts you in the passenger seat with a maddened driver. You tell the driver your destination (finishing the game) and he just hits the pedal and, no matter how much you protest, he roadkills every person on the way there. The car doors are unlocked and he occasionally stops, giving you an opportunity to get out. When you finally arrive at your destination and complain that he killed all those people, he goes "If you had left the car, I would've stopped." I don't know, I feel like I have a point here, but I can't put it into words.

Also, there are games like Animal Crossing that aren't criticised with "Well, the message (of positivity and being rewarded for hard work and cooperation while being friendly) falls a bit flat, since the player doesn't even have alternative options, aside from not playing the game."

So, yeah, I'll leave it at that now, since I think my comment is plateauing in its insightfullness.

Better ground transportation could be a big game changer. At the moment I could either fly to London for a couple hundred quid at a convenient time of day within 4-5 hours door-to-door, or I could spend a substantially higher amount on a train ride that takes three times as long and requires me to change trains at least twice in the middle of the night.

This is such an annoyance, not just from an environmental point of view. Even here in Germany, where we really do have a pretty great train network (mind you, the network is great, not necessarily the "adhering to time schedules"-part), it's sometimes cheaper and faster to fly from city to city than to ride the literal Inter City Express trains, whose sole purpose it is to quickly connect far-away mid-to-large cities.

I see! Well, I hope your future games turn out more interesting. And if not, honestly, no harm in tinkering with a boardgame until it's fun, if the base ruleset isn't.

I never knew that having your own domain was that cheap! I'm pretty happy with Port87 at the moment, but I might use a custom domain in the future, if it's really that affordable.

Oh that's a cool and really helpful thing I didn't know about Gmail! I think I'll use the plus-trick for the few sites that won't play ball with Port87! Then, on that front, Port87 only has the advantage that people who try to mail the bare address would receive an automated response, telling them to use one of the sub-adresses (you can choose which to show in this automated reply).