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2025-04-27 20:33:26 UTC

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Truly feeling a strength of conviction in this piece about the game hitting 4M players in less than a week
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/411/829/617/040/975/original/85c5057288cebd93.png

2025-04-25 14:22:25 UTC

Seems the boycott of Microsoft's gaming products for the corporation's involvement in the genocide is a dud? Oblivion Remastered peaked at nearly 200K concurrent players on Steam alone, and guessing by discourse the next Doom game is going to be pretty big too

2025-04-13 17:32:13 UTC

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Isaac Arthur has been a very important channel to me but you might want to know: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldjerking/comments/16969o4/comment/jz21e15/
Also: https://kolektiva.social/@cibo/114053178727558478

2025-03-15 08:29:21 UTC

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TXTmob is a direct predecessor to Twitter

2025-02-22 11:59:01 UTC

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This is not a scold, just a list of suggestions in case the options are present around you and if you have the capacity to do these things. Most of it is just stuff I've been reading or thinking about lately, from the (current) relative comfort of Western Europe. I'm not an authority in any way:
See if there are mutual aid groups around you. See what they need help with. It can be helping with the dishes, informing migrants of their rights or providing blankets to the homeless. This doesn't seem like much but it comes very handy when safety nets break down and the network is there and rock solid. If there is nothing or you don't know what good you would be, read a zine or two about the topic every week. Overall, logistics > being a hero.
Look up if there are any TeslaTakedown demonstrations around your area. This is a low risk action that has a fair chance of building up in the coming weeks/months and it can bite the one powerful person whose assets are actually vulnerable at the moment. Not only is it low risk, it will get you used to direct action and you will socialize with like-minded folks. This can provide you with a chance to help build up mutual aid groups in your vicinity, who knows? Anything can happen here as options present themselves.
If you are far from everything and/or can't move easily, but are good with computers, consider thinking about what kind of tools you can contribute to or create. It can be an app to help organize. It can be cryptography related. It can be something more ambitious with more devs involved like a way to organize on cybernetic principles. I'm not saying to hit the IDE right away. Even spending time on the whiteboard could make a difference down the lane. Maybe it won't help now, but if fascism and NRx freeports become a long term fixture of our lives, we are engaged in a marathon and laying out foundations now is better than having nothing. In general I think that if you have the capacity to learn complex topics, consider building up your skills.
https://wedontagree.net/the-party-of-truth

2025-01-20 18:57:55 UTC

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If you go for a city block scale playable area or mission based with different locations this might work as long as the station looks big enough

2025-01-20 07:49:48 UTC

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Long ago I experimented with that on Unity. Making the model on Blender was a learning experience.
I made the landscape with procedural generation. The heightmap was a texture looping on one axis, and modifiers allowed me to add buildings while the landscape was on a flat plane before I toggled and could see the result as a cylinder.
In-game you could walk/fly around the thing.
Sadly I was too busy to avoid homelessness for the next two years to continue and never got the momentum back

2025-01-20 07:43:22 UTC

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That will rule immensely

2025-01-20 07:32:57 UTC

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Maybe you don't envision this scale but an imsim set in an O'neill Cylinder is what I'd do if I wanted to make a videogame, so I support this decision

2024-10-03 18:49:13 UTC

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This one! https://www.pixsoriginadventures.co.uk/system-shock-strategies-and-secrets/

2024-10-03 17:03:33 UTC

[@beka_valentine](https://kolektiva.social/@beka_valentine ) I was reading Doug Church's interview in a System Shock strategy guide, and I see that he's a real one
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2024-09-25 22:08:21 UTC

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Well this DX mod left me hungry for more because it got the right spirit (read: radical). Guess I'll get their full-length Neofeud which I kinda remember [@beka_valentine](https://kolektiva.social/@beka_valentine ) saying is one of the best cyberpunk games around https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud
I don't know if they still intend to make a full-length Terminus Machina one day but "Deus Ex as punk as it gets" would rule so much

2024-09-25 20:10:27 UTC

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Aw man it's actually a demo? I wish it was more fleshed out and polished but it's hella interesting and unique. A more radical Deus Ex.
Also it's darn hard. Drone strikes and unavoidable bots galore at the end

2024-09-24 22:43:30 UTC

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I'm hotwiring solar panels for a steak and DDOSing squads of androids just to grab a bag of copyright-violating seeds in a trashcan. I'm living the life

2024-09-24 21:00:48 UTC

Tonight I tried Terminus Machina by @npub1r8w…mx27
It's a Deus Ex mod set in its own world, where you are a homeless hacktivist scraping by in a future where all the white collar jobs have been automated, the rich got armies of androids, and you can be on the receiving end of a drone strike for walking in the wrong neighborhood.
It's kinda a period piece in the sense that it extrapolates from e.g. Occupy, its lingo and the events in Greece (austerity, Golden Dawn) which are still casual discussion points. I don't know how long it is but I guess it must be short since some of the dialog is written like it's trying to cram as many ideas as possible, like when I mediated to stop bigots withholding charity food from migrants and got a whole lecture on class warfare. Can come off stilted but it's put where it's effective.
Mechanically it got its own twists. You sniff packets on public networks that you decipher by switching algorithms and tables. You scrap objects lying on the streets like dead smartphones to craft gadgets such as a LED mask (to fool cameras or do social engineering). It seems you can also do guerilla gardening lol. It's a lot grittier than being the nanoaugmented agent from Deus Ex but still sci-fi feeling. CyberPUNK where the PUNK is front and center. Did stuff I wouldn't brag about to not starve.
It's difficult but it's good stuff.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/terminus-machina

2024-09-12 19:30:14 UTC

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Paging @npub1k3f…mxaw in case she is interested

2024-09-12 17:52:23 UTC

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Yeah it's definitely irrelevant and might never be even on cosmological timescales. Just yet another gotcha that probably isn't

2024-09-12 17:49:44 UTC

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Yeah and even the prospect of something outlandish like actually terraforming the place if we wanted to isn't an unsolvable problem. Not like nerds haven't been busy on the whiteboard for years already https://phys.org/news/2017-03-nasa-magnetic-shield-mars-atmosphere.html

2024-09-12 17:35:09 UTC

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Also right now I see a lot about Mars' lack of magnetosphere and I don't know how to tell them that this has actually been thought about for a while and isn't the gotcha they think it is

2024-09-12 16:33:05 UTC

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"I'm just not interested in industrial production"
"I'm just not interested in computers"
Let's see how well that would have went

2024-09-10 18:43:51 UTC

Was reading this piece criticizing Four Thieves Vinegar https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/anarchist-drugs-all-yeahboy
And its (much less substantial) recent followup https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/anarchist-drugs-again
Some of the points I don't care about ("you owe capitalists, anarkiddies!") but I wonder if there have been responses to the more technical arguments here

2024-08-14 14:20:46 UTC

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Another day, another "But what about bad people? Checkmate anarchists"

2024-08-04 19:58:39 UTC

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Seems like a good pretext to make bigger space stations while we are at it

2024-08-04 19:44:02 UTC

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I wonder what heat management would look like. Big radiators?

2024-08-03 21:55:46 UTC

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I should (I should also test their Deus Ex mod Terminus Machina)