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  • For a light, simplistic open source editor that's easy to get into, Goxel has been my go-to. I'd liken it to a voxel sketchpad with how easy it is to load up and simply mess about with.

    For a more robust open source editor that's kinda rough around the edges, there's VengiVoxEdit, which I've honestly only scratched the surface of personally.

    For a similarly robust editor that's less rough around the edges, the standard recommendation is MagicaVoxel. It's a solid choice, but I'm not sure if the developer is continuing work on it or not, which makes a difference here as it's not open source. It still works fine right now though, so if you're on Windows/Mac, it's a good option for a smooth, feature rich editor.

  • Mainly games built for replaying, so arcade puzzlers like Super Hexagon/Tetris Effect/Mixolumia/Equaline/etc, roguelikes such as FTL/BrogueCE/etc, or strangesims like Powder Toy or Vilmonic. Although even with those it's more occasional, like when I'm uncertain of what I'm wanting to do.

  • I should finally get into that. I keep putting it off for silly reasons that will never be addressed by putting it off. Can't get better at making models if I never make any, much less texturing a model if I never texture anything.

    Also one of my favorite finds in a related area were voxel editors. Highly encourage anyone into voxel art from games like VoxeLibre or Minecraft to look into them. All the fun of building with blocks with a lot more flexibility.

  • No, since there is only the PowerPC bits on the disc, there is no way to play the game on a newer x86 cpu without downloading the x86 bits

    Something worth adding here, if you happen to know, would be if the games still work after download & install while offline. Microsoft's been rather inconsistent with this over the years (which is part of why Xbox One fell behind PS4 at launch).

  • maybe CDPR (hopefully the cp2077 release was just a fluke but we’ll see).

    Cyberpunk 2077 was Witcher 1 repeat tbh, people forgot Witcher 1 was a mess at launch since they patched it up a bunch and some other stuff to try to make amends

  • Saw where you mentioned being into fighting games, action games, & shmups, so I wonder which games you find yourself bouncing off of more.

    Along with reasons other have mentioned that are similar to my own (many games demanding a lot of time, better finding what games really click with me, etc.), I've also been put off by other details (hyper-monetization, big budget photorealistic & cinematic styles, etc.). Personally it's less being into very few games, and more being into more specific kinds of game design and creative style, which are sometimes harder to find.

    Like not being into drawn out progression systems immediately narrows one's options pretty significantly, especially among many recent games.

  • Pretty sure all the adweb enclosures have been doing this for years now. Even pre-Musk acquisition people mentioned that Twitter seemed to bury posts with links, this is just Musk putting it upfront.

    This is how these businesses try to squeeze people for money. Bury outbound links unless you pay up to have them as ads/sponsored/promoted posts.

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  • Misskey is fascinating and in my opinion more compelling than Mastodon. It's also strange to see them write "somehow" as I'd think with their instance and username they would be aware that Misskey is developed in Japan, by a Japanese developer.

  • If you skip the technobabble and politics about free (as in freedom), what’s left? If it’s just a platform that feels more complicated to sign up, because you have to learn about instances and it’s not clear which one you want, plus your friends aren’t there, plus it’s just 45k users total instead of a lot…?

    The complication arises by making the mistake of pointing people to the backend, and the backends confusing matters by presenting themselves as platforms like existing corporate platforms. As noted, you reduce that by inviting them to join or browse your respective instance (or if you're self-hosting, to whichever open instance you think is amenable).

    You're right though that some positive thing would help, and that's really down to whatever positive thing you found and want to share with others about these spaces. For me it's as simple as them being open and ad-free. I'm reminded of it every time I find myself trying to browse enclosures without having an account and they simply won't allow me to browse much before prompting me to sign up or subscribe to view more.

    In a way that's kind of the irony of the fediverse, a major feature is that you don't have to sign up at all in many(most?) cases.

  • Yeah, it's not without faults, so ProtonMail and similar may be a good compromise, or encrypting and sending longer documents. Ideally one day email will be rebuilt from the ground up with encryption.

    Also to address your later comments, E2EE messengers are great, but short form writing is simply a different use case from long form.

  • I disagree. Stoicism at its worst may lead to resignation. Absurdism encourages defying the meaninglessness of existence in large part by recognizing meaning is made.

    In the face of a cold, uncaring existence, absurdism or existentialism are two great philosophies to employ to reimagine how we want to be in the world and how we want the world to be compared to stoicism, which would reach its limits with and within reason. Absurdism recognizes reason's limits and realizes one needs more than reason alone to persist.