Takios
@Takios@discuss.tchncs.de
Gay furry IT person.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 2 days ago:
My reddit account got a strike by an admin for describing the risks involved in traveling to the USA currently (abduction, torture for an undetermined amount of time). The appeal I made to that was accepted but it left a sour taste in my mouth.
- Comment on Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene 6 days ago:
The cruelty is the point
- Comment on Microsoft tests ad-supported Office apps for Windows users 2 months ago:
Thunderbird has a calendar by default now.
- Comment on I love the future. 2 months ago:
Huh, today I learned!
- Comment on I love the future. 2 months ago:
it’s the theory that vaccinated people “shed” their vaccinations to other people, which is complete bollocks.
- Comment on Gulf of Make a Report to Apple 2 months ago:
I just checked how it is for me to be sure. My Streetcomplete changes show up immediately on openstreetmap.org/edit.
- Comment on Gulf of Make a Report to Apple 2 months ago:
As far as I know the edits are applied immediately in the backend, however the rendering of the changes can take some days.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 5 months ago:
I play on a smaller galaxy size and have a beefy computer.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 5 months ago:
It’s a mix of strategy and role-playing. Sure if you want to survive on higher difficulties, you probably need a build that is meta. But on medium difficulties or lower you can pretty much roleplay your empire as you like and there’s many mechanics in the game that help with this. Your empire can be a democratic haven for all, a mega corporation, a machine hivemind forcefully assimilating organics into its network…and much more.
There’s also a great exploration aspect of the game. Your exploration vessels regularly find anomalies that tell a neat little story and provide bonuses to your empire (which can range from a small resource bonus to making one of your leaders immortal).
Of course, there’s also the power fantasy. You start with just one planet, but you will quickly expand throughout the galaxy. You can then wage war against other empires, build a federation together with them or convince the galactic community to crown you as Emperor of the entire galaxy. But the game also regularly throws adversaries at you if the AI empires are starting to become no match for you, may it be one of the space fauna suddenly becoming extremely hostile or a Great Khan uniting a marauder horde and demanding everyone to become their vassal.
It is also rare that a bad outcome leads to a straight loss. Losing a war (usually) does not doom your empire but you only lose a bit of territory or get vassalized, both giving you ample opportunities to build up your strength again or make allies to stand together against an enemy.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 5 months ago:
Stellaris. I’m almost at 1400 hours in the game and while I now play it a lot less often than in the first 1000 hours, I still get the itch to play it again a few times a year.
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 5 months ago:
Barrier of entry is marginally lower. With mastodon you’ll have to make a decision on what instance you’re creating your account. With Bluesky there’s just Bluesky.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 5 months ago:
In authoritarian environments, any compassion you show the declared enemy is a grave offense and needs to be punished severely.