Tlaloc_Temporal

I’m here for the same reason. Interestingly enough I figured out how to make the app I use work again, but by that point reddit had gone to AI slop hell.

We we’re hit especially hard because they shrunk each island individually. Just the Canadian mainland looks the same size as the states.

On the other hand, seeing Russia shrunk like that makes me think we could be bigger!

Isn’t a theory more rigorous than a hypothesis? The closer you get to math, the less weight “theory” seems to have.

Please no, it feels like we just got out of the phase where everything has zero-effort zombie versions.

Just let latin die already.

The low spec target seems pretty important.

The ship building is really cool! Getting there is tedious and annoying, but being able to walk around your ship is fun. It’s like Space Engineers with 99% less avoidable mistakes!

I wonder how good Starfield might have been if they dumped most of the planetside stuff and just had ships and space stations, all using this modular build system.

I don’t think that’s all that hot of a take. The big killer in Starfield is just how much not playing there is between the playing.

In Fallout, just walking to a new place you’ll stumble on a few ruins, a couple fights, maybe even some faction action. You’ll get some loot, spend some time and resources, maybe discover a good story or unique item. And in Fallout 4, all the useless loot can be broken down for upgrades to your equipment and home base, so most of it is nice.

Is Starfield, there’s nothing. Maybe a generic fight with pirates you could easily run from. Even if you happen to find good loot, it’s not really that good.

I’m glad you found fun in there though!

Silksong was 8 years, and had some of the craziest hype ever, and it’s been solid.

Terraria is precisely the game I ran from executable alone.

I think this amount of competition could be good if individual competitors were allowed to fail. All the parts that build vendor lock-in would need to be removed, and more things would need to be interoperable, but it could be quite good and even specialised.

Each storefront could live or die independent of each library and each game service. If one company tried to squeeze money from users, they could just take their elsewhere, without worrying about losing access to games or connections to friends.

Of course no company would create such a system voluntarily, most depend on monopolistic practices to survive. It would take monopoly busting-policy or a foss group to even begin such a thing.

I think you switched to cons without saying.

I admit I haven’t tried very many, but I think you can launch any steam app “normally” without steam running. If you can find the executable or startup script, you can just point a shortcut to it. Some games will need Steam Services to run, but it’s not blocked or anything.

I’ve had decent results running jetbrains IDEs from a Fedora Toolbx, probably doesn’t have to be fedora though. You just have to start them from a toolbox terminal.

There’s a flavor of bazzite made for developing now, Bazzite-dx

The difference here is that an artist has control over the medium. Every letter was put there with intent, every stroke carries meaning. Deciding not to do these things can also carry weight, and even the decision to let chaos decide is a choice.

GenAI isn’t that, it removes the creative process entirely. Sure, you can get creative with prompt engineering, but the resulting art is the prompt not the AI generation.

It doesn’t matter how much work you put into micromanaging an artist, a commission is not your art. Similarly, it doesn’t matter how intricate and elegant your prompt is, you did not generate the result.

I’m not ok with calling him one of the good ones, but one of the somewhat decent ones seems about right.

Wow, Win98 logo and media buttons? Truely between eras.

I actually like the context key above the arrow keys, another method of effectively right-click is nice. Those Win keys are crazy though, that’s the perfect place for extra function keys. Imagine having f13 & f14 that you can bind to anything without worry!

It’s basically just chaining together portals to move quickly. Effectively line-of-sight teleportation.

Place portal A next to you, then place portal B somewhere else. Step through to location B, then replace portal A with portal C in a new location. Rinse and repeat.

Triple portal is a bit of a misnomer, it’s more like walking a pair of portals around. You go through to a new portal, then move the old one somewhere new. It’s just like walking, except your feet are portals and you can move them almost instantly.

Having a middle option of ratings in common categories would be nice too, like what I’ve seen many reviews do in text.

There was a lot of work done behind the scenes to make sure that all those systems still worked. Probably too much, but it did work.