CodexArcanum @ codexarcanum @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I'm glad to have briefly entertained y'all!

Do you also immediately hear the theme song in your head when you see the last panel?

Looks like another fan of TA/SC grew up to make their own RTS, and I'm here for all of them!

I'll join in the controversy. New Vegas is fine, great game, way overhyped. It rolled straight from the initial sentiments (Fallout fan boys loved it on release and called it "the real fallout 3" and you can imagine the rest), into generous comparisons to every new game ("is Game X the next New Vegas?!") and straight into wistful nostalgia.

I liked Fallout 3 better. It's more goofy fun! I like exploring the DC ruins more than Yet Another Mad Max Apocolypse Desert. I liked the story line and (yes, the ending was silly and forced) but i liked how the plot wrapped up! I had finished all the side quests I wanted, it felt like a fitting end, a solid wrap up to a difficult life, where I'd made amends for the sins of the father and made a better wasteland.

I mean, then the BoS DLC replaced it with a non-ending so you could have Endless Adventure ™️ and I think that really set the tone for Bethesda's downfall. There's no one moment, but that DLC was a big sign that the philosophy of games internally was shifting. Fallout 4 was also enjoyable but to me went too far away from the RPG hybrid balance that FO3 had, imho, gotten perfect. The most vocal people wanted more RPG hence the cultish love for NV, but it seems the mainstream wanted more Action and hence the "tuh-ripple Ayyye" treatment of FO4 and subsequent games.

Very very skilled idiots.

On that--and as a highly skilled idiot myself--we fully agree!

The adage "social problems don't have purely technological solutions" is something I've known for years yet must continuously remind myself of and reintegrate it for new issues.

It's a shame the old vision of computer specialists integrated into empowered teams building bespoke solutions never really came to pass. Not enough profit in that model, when mass market slop is so lucrative.

Not that I disagree with the sentiment but in most software systems localization does not just mean translation either. Localization as a practice includes date, time, and number formats, preferred units of measure, language and dialect, and sometimes a few other things. I'm not saying localization or translation are done well, or that the Big Tech companies give any shits about it at all, but its not as though computer professionals are all entirely ignorant of these distinctions.

DRG and Warframe also hit the critical requirement of actually being games that are fun to play!

I haven't played a lot of WF, but I've got hundreds of hours on DRG. There is no grind. Getting holiday loot takes 5 to 8 matched total, and the Seasons are long and very relaxed. I maxed out XP for this season already and the next probably won't start until at least this summer.

The community is going strong, the game is fun, Ghost Ship seems stable and like a nice place to work. It's so stupid that more companies don't see that they could run like this instead of chasing "get rich quick" corporate schemes that always alienate the fans.

For me it's trying to remember what I was doing, realizing I'm right outside the door of an extremely difficult boss that I'd given up on, and now i also have no idea how to play anymore. At that point I either uninstall the game to wait longer or I flush the save and start anew.

rizzing?

The paradox of the n-word pass is similar to the paradox of the daoist leader; if you were of good enough character (as an outsider/Bourgeoisie) to warrant the privilege of leadership/cookout, then you'd be wise enough to never want to use them.

Imagine working in the department the company is now named after and realizing your whole product line is irrelevant and the AI-people get all the money now.

Google announced that something like 25% of their code is AI generated now, and it'd be hilarious how much these companies have enshittified themselves into a cycle of constant self-owns except that we keep suffering for it too.

Like every google app and service is bad now. Search sucks. YouTube apps are bloated, have been crashing, and the algorithm is serving up just random stuff now. G Maps won't stay open on my phone, and randomly minimizes itself. Gmail is out of space, full of newsletters, and also degrading in search.

Facebook is the same deal. I've been on it more recently because I need to track events and it's all anyone in this city uses. Searching for the name of an event, which you've stated you're going to, by it's exact name, will find nothing, or an older version of the event from 4 years ago. The feed is 90% ads and sponsored posts, mostly videos. And the videos aren't ads, they're just random tiktok-wannabes about paint mixing or machining stuff. It's utterly bizarre to be inundated with clickbait that desperately wants your attention for no reason.

I consider myself a pretty good engineer and it's amazing how little these companies can accomplish with literally tens of thousands of developers. Its another of the great paradoxes of our times: individually, software devs must be among the least productive workers of all time, and yet as a group the profession (the computer itself really) has realized such astronomical productivity gains that we're probably already past the point where anyone really needs to work full-time ever again.

Monk knew all along, just too anxious to tell you! He's very relieved you finally figured it out.

I'm pretty happy to be off .world and exposed to the slightly wider 'verse. The MLs and Hexbears aren't all that bad. I've seen some absolute dogshit leftist takes from some of them, but I've seen plenty of dogshit "centrism" on .world too.

Ultimately, you just have to do some of your own blocking/moderating work, while trying to remember that only anarchists are always right and to be patient while everyone else catches up.

So then do you define a company with 400 million annually and over 2K employees as Medium Tech? Because that ain't no mom-and-pop tech shop seeking to undermine the status quo, that's got to be in the top 10 companies in that space. Obviously MS and Atlassian are bigger, but gitlab is like number 2 for git!

It's true, doh

Probably because your original comment sounds like a shitpost. If that's an authentic problem you have then it sounds like you've got malware in your browser, or maybe someone with higher access in your network hierarchy (apartment or university admin) is doing a redirect of some kind, though why to porn i cant imagine so I think we're back to "malware in the stack".

I looked into doing something similar with Wikipedia and the recommendation is also to use Kiwix, and the offline file size is also very large.

Welcome to the collapse! Hoarding "clean data" for personal use is like hoarding clean water and food: you need a place to keep it, and it starts going stale the minute you shelve it. So either buy a digital bunker to load up with what you need or ask the all knowing AI gods for answers like the other poors.

Also the Stack Exchange software used to be open source, surely there's still a fork somewhere. You could certainly run your own Developer QA site, but like with Lemmy, the problem then is getting enough traffic to be able to productively tap into the collective wisdom.

(Edit: sorry, this comes across mean spirited but I'm honestly sympathetic and just nihilisticallly frustrated to be in a similar situation. I foresee a big NAS and a lot of downloads in my future, but I hope we also find ways to share our forbidden knowledge until the day it can be free again)

I also stopped posting there years ago for much the same reason. You could feel the strangulation of the community as duplicate questions started getting shouted down, posts got turned into "community wikis" against your will and your own questions started getting edited to better fit someone else's plans and ideologies. The company was sold shortly after, so maybe animals can sense their pending extinction (some of them anyway)?

I miss those days when writing an answer genuinely felt like helping to grow the global community of friend developers. It's a shame no technology has been discovered that will let the small amount of collective good in us all work together against the assholes, but alas it seems the opposite is always true.

"Censorship forced me to flee a pro-nazi site to another pro-nazi site," is a contradiction worth noting. It highlights the general pro-nazi vibe going around big tech.

I donate about $7 a month to my masto instance (Hachyderm, funny enough) because:

• Twitter wanted $10
• I know about 1% of users donate
• I like having an independent instance run by people I feel ideologically aligned with.

For similar reasons I will very likely donate something to db0 this quarter to support my Lemmy habit.

I still have reason to use Facebook, reddit, Instagram, and those places all suck. It's so dire scrolling there and literally 80% of the content is ads. I canceled all my streaming services this year but I'm still going to pay for independent social media because it's worth it.