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- Comment on I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game 22 hours ago:
Aviassembly.
Its fun in the way that building airplanes in KSP is fun. The game is small, and the physics are simple, but for $10 its a good value.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 1 week ago:
In PlanetSide, there’s just one big map that never resets.
The team I played with would try to bring the front line to a bridge before logging off for the night. Bridges were notoriously difficult to cross, so you could count on no major territorial changes happening while you sleep. The zerg was content to snipe across the bridge all night, and when organized Ops resumed the next day, the bridge would simply be bypassed by mass airlift.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 1 week ago:
PlanetSide 1, the MMOFPS that was the former record holder of “Most players in an online FPS battle,” which was eventually surpassed by PlanetSide 2.
In its heyday it was a fascinating sociology study.
During EU prime time, players would self-organize into squads of about 10 players. They would apply light pressure to the entire map simultaneously. Territorial gains would be made by attacking undefended bases.
During USA prime time, players would self-organize into platoons of about 30 players. They would press a few strategic locations with medium force. Territorial gains came from fixing operations (using a small force in an easy to defend location to keep a large population of opponents busy) and local numeric superiority at lightly defended bases.
During Chinese prime time, players would group up into a singular mass. Everyone just ran face first into the meatgrinder. No territorial gains were made.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
IP law itself is a band-aid over capitalism’s disincentivizing of humanity’s innate tendency toward ingenuity, innovation, and iteration
public domain is the default, its IP law and the artificial scarcity it creates which is useful to the capitalists
- Comment on xkcd #3069: Terror Bird 3 weeks ago:
A quick dive down a wiki hole has left me with the impression that this guy’s contemporary duck-size proto-horses had large canine teeth.
I don’t like my odds either way.
- Comment on xkcd #3069: Terror Bird 3 weeks ago:
holy shit, its a horse sized duck!
- Comment on ChatGPT is shifting rightwards politically 3 weeks ago:
I wonder if the trend we all noticed where it became progressively dumber over time was a result of an intentional lobotomy to make it more conservative?
- Comment on What games other than Smite have a lot of pantheons (beyond Greek and Norse)? 4 weeks ago:
The Axis Unseen is about hunting (while being hunted by) cryptids from a large variety of mythologies.
- Comment on What are some old freeware PC games you've kept playing over the years? 5 weeks ago:
Not freeware, but currently $2.39 on GOG:
Master of MagicIts like Civilization with wizards and dragons.
- Comment on Do spiders poop ? 1 month ago:
counterpoint: nobody poops but you
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 month ago:
its not like the us wasn’t getting anything in return
Thing is, what the USA was buying with its expensive umbrella over Europe was a disarmed Europe. At the time, the USA felt it was in their interest for EU to be weak.
For a variety of reasons, the rise of China perhaps being at the forefront, the USA no longer believes its in their interest to keep EU toothless.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 month ago:
Juche.
I wish I was kidding.
They’re doing a North Korea. Building a completely isolated war economy.
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 1 month ago:
this sounds like what Google wanted to be since its inception: ask a question, get an answer
somewhere along the journey, the reality of needing to make money drove the enshitification of search results: ask a question, get offers to sell you an answer
this seems like a step in a better direction
- Comment on Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code 1 month ago:
Right wing ideologies are a symptom of brain damage.
Q.E.D. - Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 month ago:
When the Berlin Wall fell, the predictions made at the time were for several decades of low intensity conflict (‘war on terror’) followed by another major world war. This is the expected state of the world, not some surprise outcome from out of nowhere that the capitalists haven’t planned for.
Australia is still being shielded from Chinese expansionism by NATO’s anti-access and area-denial strategy emplaced along the islands off China’s coast.
If the war in Europe expands and heats up, it will be European cities that get destroyed and EU citizens who will have to choose to fight for their autonomy or preemptively surrender to subjugation by the Tsar. USA pulling back from supporting Ukraine forces the EU to pick a path and walk it. Either they build an army capable of self-defense, or they’ll be overrun. The fighting in Ukraine prevents Russia from building up forces, buying the EU time to arm themselves, if that’s what they decide they want to do. If they move fast, there’s a chance they can win the war before it really begins.
Expect to see nuclear proliferation. Modern wars have shown that non-nuclear armed states are a toothless prey species that only exist so long as their nuclear armed neighbors permit it. During the reconstruction era following WWII, USA’s relative advantage in infrastructure and technology allowed them to grant credible security guarantees. Now that the rest of the world has caught up, USA’s defense promises have lost credibility (for example, see Ukraine).
The ocean is full of submarines, and the coastlines bristle with long range, precision missiles. World trade is expected to be among the first casualties of the next world war. Countries that are not self-sufficient will be unable to replenish their losses. Economic protectionism is a matter of national security.
Dismantling USA’s Federal government serves the interests of organized crime, ie the capitalists that own Wall Street. They’re getting squeezed by de-globalization but also expect to be able to expand into new criminal enterprise enabled by deregulation and the dismantling of the Federal government’s investigative capabilities. Without having someplace better to invest capital, might as well let it ride despite the chaos. With a world war, and possibly a nuclear exchange, just over the horizon, there really isn’t any safe place to put one’s money, except perhaps housing and real estate in those parts of the world expected to survive. Canada. Siberia. Greenland.
If we do nothing to reduce atmospheric CO2, global heating will eventually cap out at 5 degrees C and won’t go higher due to diminishing returns. The far north will need to invest in agricultural infrastructure, but once that gets built out in the warmer world, there will be more arable land than there is today. Its going to be boom times for real estate developers.
- Comment on Is it normal for high sugar contents like in cake icing to make my uvula tickle? 2 months ago:
I get that too.
- Comment on The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC 2 months ago:
Imagine thinking CNN is center-left 😂
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 3 months ago:
Kerbal Space Program: progression from being unable to get a rocket into orbit, to collecting a surface sample from all 5 of Jool’s moons in a single launch
- Comment on Epic Store's Unreal Tournament page now has free download links to Unreal, Unreal 2, and Unreal Tournament '99 4 months ago:
Anyone know what version of TacOps mod is compatible with OldUnreal’s version of UT?
- Comment on DayZ creator reveals a "Kerbal Space Program killer" with kittens and challenges license owners to sue him 5 months ago:
Did the publisher know which ip they were working on?
gestures broadly at the current state of KSP2
To quote every Oblivion NPC: “I don’t know you, and I don’t care to know you.”
- DayZ creator reveals a "Kerbal Space Program killer" with kittens and challenges license owners to sue himwww.rockpapershotgun.com ↗Submitted 5 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone 6 months ago:
over charging customers and under paying employees
- Comment on Dell Sales team told to return to office 5 days a week 6 months ago:
That’s the crux of the issue.
Who’s going to buy it for a high price, if there is no demand for office space, because workers are all remote?