Moneo @ Moneo @lemmy.world

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/r/futurama and this sublemmy/whatever have made me hate the fan base. Same memes over and over.

FYI I haven't used cosmos. This post was the first I've heard of it, but I'll likely try to migrate to it at some point.

There it is. Thanks for sharing.

There's 4 aren't there? Fair enough, I liked his writing but a third of the way through the 4th book I realized I didn't give a shit about the characters anymore.

The age dynamic between them is really fucking gross and pointless too.

That first book was amazing though, no doubt about it.

Don't forget about the 'sorry' key.

Hyperion would be cool but for gods sake they better stop after the second book.

Hard agree. There's sci-fi/fantasy settings and then there's sci-fi/fantasy writing. Star wars is a fantasy story that takes place in a sci-fi setting, if you're so inclined. But it's hard fantasy in my books.

If your book is focused on adventure and characters it's probably fantasy, if your book is focused on humanity or other grander themes it's probably sci-fi. Focusing on whether there is magic or elves or whatever is completely missing the point in my opinion.

The whole debate is childish. If you refuse to read a book because there is X race or X technology or whatever then you really need to change your priorities.

It's like when people say "I don't watch cartoons". Fuck off!!

But why does it matter? In Dune characters are able use mindfulness to control their body so finely that they can manipulate molecules. So there's a "scientific explanation" but for all intents and purposes it's magic.

I don't understand the need to draw hard lines, the fantasy/sci Fi distinction has always just been a way to describe the setting moreso than the genre. Many fantasy novels read like a typical sci-fi and vice versa.

I feel like you mentioning Spock/elves just highlights how similar the two genres are. Sci-Fi (in theory) uses a future universe as a setting in which to explore characters/themes. Fantasy uses a fictional universe as a setting in which to explore characters/themes.

Preferring one to the other feels pedantic. Is Dune sci-fi or fantasy? Does it matter? I say no. Grumpy rant/

"We were going to charge $60 but then we added 40 hours of tailing side quests so now we're charging $120" - Ubisoft.

Hours of gameplay is a god awful metric and only a corporate dipshit could utter such a stupid fucking sentence.

That got me thinking about when we'll hear the first case of AI generated security camera footage used to frame someone. Which leads me to wonder when it will be standard procedure for cameras to digitally sign their footage.

Yeah one fleshlight is more than enough for me.

There must be a term for middle-ground people like me. I've used computers my whole life, as a kid I portfowarded to host WC3 servers, as a teenager I self-hosted minecraft servers both on my pc and rented linux servers. I'm a software developer and I've dabbled in dozens of technologies and have a decent understanding of so many computer/IT related things that most people don't even know exists.

I'm trying to say I think I'm a tech wizard but putting me in the "less tech savvy" bucket with my mom feels weird. Self hosting was a nightmare to get setup. There's just too much shit to learn and when all you want is a Sonarr/radarr/jellyfin setup you're just figure out the important details and get the damn thing working before you forget it all.

I like having all the customization available to me but I only want to learn details that are relevant to what I'm trying to do. It's like game developers using Unity instead of writing their own physics engine. Yeah sure I could study real hard and painstakingly implement my own engine but it's going to take fucking forever and there will be ever-present hidden issues plaguing me as I make the part of the game I actually care about.

The main disadvantage is it will be very hard to debug and fix when something breaks

This has been my experience self-hosting the normal way though lol. Yeah I've learned a bit but it's not really an area of expertise I'm super keen on expanding. Getting my self-hosted server up was a bloody nightmare. Sharing drives, hardware pass-through with proxmox, containers, samba, mounting drives. There's an endless list of services and configurations that I fucked around with until I got it working, never 100% sure which changes were actually necessary. If an issue comes up I have to relearn the 90% I've forgotten and try and remember wtf I did to get it working in the first place.

All of this is the experience of someone who is more computer literate than 90%+ of the population.

Even learning docker-compose is a task in itself because you need to become accustomed to linux text editors and the linux file structure (which btw is still a complete fucking black box to me).

The need for an app like Cosmos is obvious. There are a million ways to fuck up your home server trying to do it yourself and most of the time you're just following tutorials made by other people. Why not just have an app that follows those tutorials for you and guarantees it's done correct and securely?

universally hailed as a great game, but I still call that underrated

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I *sort of *understand what you mean. Factorio is a complete labour of love. I can't think of a developer who respects their playerbase more than Wube. The fantastic optimization, the way they've handled mods and bugs, the FF blog and overall communication, just everything about them is awesome. So maybe I'd agree Wube is underrated? Factorio sold extremely well and has great reviews, so calling it underrated is just strange.

Yeah I'm not trying to say they are facing similar challenges just that the rationalization for using the term seems the same.

I still think we need another phrase. It's the same logic that people (myself included) used to defend using gay as a slur.

Would you though

Ahhhh the ol' Canadian loop hole.

Chat gpt????