Libra00 @ libra00 @lemmy.world

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Why is 'some rich dumbass says some stupid shit' still a headline in today's world? smdh.

TIL Slashdot is still around.. haven't been on that site since the early 2000s.

I'm not saying abolish social structures altogether, I'm saying change them, and we change them all the time too.

Oh. Yeah, it's very appropriate, it's just old-school internet slang I don't see much. :)

Yeah, you could maybe combine the sliding-tile-puzzle thing with the beneficial spell so you're not just sitting there watching everything play out with nothing to do (though autobattlers are apparently a thing so maybe that'd be fine?)

Also, if you happen to find that game based on Game of Life I'd like to give that a shot, sounds interesting.

I wasn't disputing it, just marveling at how long it's been since I've heard someone use the term.

Turns out (from someone else's comment) that the service they offer is access to the paid faster download options on many sites for a smaller fee collectively than they would be charged per-site, so kinda no?

Oh no doubt, but the reduction in taxes and regulation will benefit all of them.

Oh, interesting. Fair enough, that seems like a useful service then.

Now for sure. I want as much life as I can get so modern medicine is a must. I'm taking 2 different medications without which I would die sooner rather than later, so that's just a non-starter. I at least have a chance of being born in a country with good healthcare today, but that's just not an option 500 years ago.

What is the core gameplay loop you envision here? Cause I can come up with a few ideas, but if you have specific ideas they probably won't apply. Also there's a particular balance to be struck: if you hamstring the player too much it won't feel like a game, and if you give them too much leeway they won't feel trapped. Here are a few ideas off the top of my head:

Direct but limited intervention: the princess is a sorceress who is trapped by magic in the tower which means she can't leave and doesn't have access to her full magical powers (you could include a progression mechanic where the more bosses the knight defeats, or the more magical crystals he shatters, or whatever, the more you can help him.) But she's still scrying on him, watching his progress, throwing the occasional beneficial spell or nuking crowds of dangerous enemies before he gets overwhelmed, etc. The reduced interactivity will make the player feel trapped (and slowly less so as the game progresses), and maybe the scrying window starts out smallish so you can't see the whole field at once and it slowly grows as her power increases.

Distraction/misdirection: The knight has made it to the tower/castle and has to fight his way through the guards, but instead of attacking the guards directly you're trying to cause a ruckus to distract the guards so he doesn't have to fight them all at once. This could even be a stealth game where you're knocking things over and banging pots and pans or whatever to distract the guards as he sneaks by them.

Puzzle game: The castle/tower itself is magical and has floor tiles/walls that can be moved around, and the princess is manipulating the castle around the knight to give him the best path through obstacles and to limit the number of guards that can get to him in any given room.

It really depends on what kind of game you want to make here.

You shut your mouth, the 90s were definitely like 10 years ago right?! :P

Wow, I haven't heard the term 'script kiddie' since I used to hang out on alter.net/#hack on IRC back in the 90s.

No, DOGE is about dismantling/looting the parts of government that are capable of regulating and taxing oligarchs in the name of 'saving money.' If they somehow do actually save any money (and with the recent removal of most of their 'successes' from the website even that is heavily debatable) it will just go into more tax breaks for the rich.

Data harvesting is just part of the looting, but it's gravy, not the main course.

Sounds like a scam to me, 'cause all downloads are at 'the best of your internet speed' unless you're doing something on your end to throttle it. Reminds me of the bullshit 'Monster Cable' thing from the early 2000s, it was basically an expensive ethernet cable that purported to somehow increase your internet speeds. Yeah, bad ethernet cables can reduce your internet speed, but only over longer runs (unless the shielding is visibly damaged or whatever), but this thing was only 6' long so it was just a regular ass cat5 cable with a fancy paint-job that costs twice what a regular old 6' patch cable would. This seems like the bullshit software version of that.

Yup. I'm fortunate that I don't have that gene or whatever it is, I love cilantro.

I eat celery and peas, I like scallions in certain dishes, I get pickles and lettuce on my burgers or sandwiches.. I'm eating plenty of green stuff, just not that green stuff. I've never tried zucchini tho, will have to check that out.

That was in fact my point, yes, that capitalism needed to be replaced with something that isn't blowing up on the regular. But that's not very likely to happen until it blows all the way up and the 'silent majority' who are content and propagandized into inactivity discover just how fucked they are and are forced to wake up.

You were effectively saying 'we can't change big stuff', and then I provided an example of a big thing we changed because we decided to. My point, then, is: sure we can, we do all the time. We won't because we're all addicted to cheap goods and outsourced labor and shit, but won't is a fair distance from can't.

Celery I don't mind, it's just pretty bland without PB or cheese or w/e. I think you're thinking of cilantro though, and.. probably a combination of nature and nurture; I'm sure if I ate more of those foods as a kid I would like them more too. shrug