emb @ emb @lemmy.world

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Game seems cool, but it requires a download to play. They don't meet my basic requirements for a game I'd even consider buying.

Pretty late... but hopefully that makes the online more approachable.

My wife prints a lot (and needs color, cardstock support), and this is what we went with. Had it about a year now, and it's been fairly reliable. A couple streaks and minor issues, but nothing major. Get a good amount of prints per ink refill.

Not a lawyer, not even close, but I'd be a little weary of using the exact same list.

A list of things with no creativity involved won't fall under copyright, but the argument would be that they exercised creativity in curating a list of those specific figures. They could probably argue it and succeed. But since they're pulling from the public domain, I doubt they'd go after anyone on it.

Would definitely be a problem if someone bases new things on designs from that game. Derivative work from public domain work still gets copyrighted, right?

General interest

• Hardcore History (the best!)
• A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
• Myths and Legends

Game history

• Retronauts
• Video Game History Hour (Video Game History Foundation)
• New Books in Game Studies (I haven't listened yet, but the description sounds interesting anyway)

Talking about current video games

• Kit and Krysta
• Vic's Basement (Electric Playground)
• Easy Allies (Haven't tuned in since a lot their personalities left, but they've still got a solid crew)

I like the Very Short Introduction series - they're short non-fiction books aimed more-or-less at educated adults who aren't so familiar with a topic. And I found their Philosphy book to be worth a read.

It spends some time introducing some common philosophical questions before covering a few classic texts.

Not good at all, but I'm just happy to be there.

Thanks all for the answers! I knew I didn't do everything, I'll make note of this one for future playthroughs. Wonderful game, I do feel like I'll be coming back sometime.

Question - the scene in the thumbnail, of everyone hanging out around a fire - does (or where does) that show up in the game?

I played through recently and don't remember coming across it. Not sure if I forgot or missed something obvious.

"What the size of your book collection says about you" - I feel like there's gotta be a bell curve here, with "you don't read enough" on both sides.

I've got a bunch of books, but it's faster and easier to buy them than read them.

If anyone else was confused by the typo, difficult > default.

I'm not sure what to think. On one hand, yes, Google is of course slimy. But if Mozilla loses it's big source of funding (and crumbles as a result), that may put things in a worse place?

Then again, it's a shame that the only major competing browser engine is funded by the dominant browser's company. Maybe Mozilla can be fine without it?

Any backup method still contributes pretty heavily to linkrot. But maybe for any significant comments or submissions, make sure archive.org or archive.is has the page. That's something anyway.

I can understand not wanting to leave them any scraps, but my preference for balance still falls toward leaving the old and deciding to focus on changing the future.

I suppose there's truth to that, yeah - I get it, but just don't think the tradeoff is worth it. I know Reddit probably loves the whole "add reddit add the end of your search query" thing people do, and they probably do get some onboarding from it. But my conjecture is that ongoing everyday traffic and content is more important for them, and if that were to dry up the value of the general purpose search results would follow. In my mind, deleting old content disproportionately affects users vs the company.

And just personally, I see value in the old stuff still being there. For many years people put worthwhile information there, and the website wasn't so aggravatingly user hostile. In the present day, I think the energy is much better spent trying to make alternatives more appealing. Make an account on Lemmy or something, add a post to a community here, that kind of thing.

I'm very much not a fan of this approach. Preservation of conversation history on the web is valuable to real humans who may have bookmarked pages or be searching for obscure info.

And I'd have to imagine the whole corpus from past years has probably already been fed through AI. Besides that, editing/deleting comments probably only hides them from other users, Reddit may very well keep them saved (or at least have backups).

Best thing anyone can do, IMO, is avoid giving them new traffic and content. Attention is the currency they deal in, and most of it comes from people browsing new content.

The funny thing is, having full control of it doesn't fully make it better. You'd think that's objectively just an improvement, but there's peculiar value in channels curating what's shown and when.

Even moreso, it's was wonderful to know that the TV didn't keep a bookmark of what you've watched or how far you got, and if you miss something you miss it. You could just stop watching something, or miss several episodes and pick up on it, and that's fine - liberating in retrospect!

There's a more direct version of that, I guess from KDE, called KdirStat.

I hadn't heard of the one in the op. But if I had to guess, it looks like it's a different take on the same idea.

I don't have any better tips for getting involved, but I just want to say thanks! OSS clearly needs help from skilled designers all over the place. Any time someone like you steps up, it's a good thing. n_n

On Desktop Enhancer for Youtube has this - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/enhancer-for-youtube/ Though I thought Firefox had Picture-in-picture as a browser feature... I can't remember since I never use(d) it.

But clearly you're asking about mobile. No idea if this or any other extension is supported there.

It is really cool! I expected to it to enjoy seeing the machinery in both main parts come together, but I did not expect the surprise 1-2 cameo inside the console.

I just built the NES/CRT set. It was about 2600 pieces - not very big compared to a lot of the serious sets I'm sure. But the only real one I've done.

Definitely would do it again! It was very relaxing to take a few minutes out of each day and go through a bag of legos and instructions. I was kinda sad when it finished - the end product is cool, but the fun was really in putting it together and slowly watching it turn into a thing. I mean, I'd enjoy doing it again, but I don't expect or plan to for any reason.