Takios
@Takios@discuss.tchncs.de
Gay furry IT person.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 1 day ago:
I play on a smaller galaxy size and have a beefy computer.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 1 day 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? 1 day 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 days 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 3 weeks ago:
In authoritarian environments, any compassion you show the declared enemy is a grave offense and needs to be punished severely.
- Comment on It's coming! :( 1 month ago:
Firefox not getting better in the last 15 years is quite disingenuous though.
- Comment on Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people? 2 months ago:
Core Keeper comes out of Early Access soon I think and should be up your alley
- Comment on Consumer, we have detected that you are above the poverty line. The 99¢ price printed on this Arizona tea can only applies to those below the poverty line. Your total comes to $3.67. 3 months ago:
Dynamic pricing should be illegal. A price for a product should be the same for everyone and not dependant on their income, which smartphone brand they use or how much yoghurt they eat per day.
- Comment on Shart, not fart 3 months ago:
The worst fate.
- Comment on Shart, not fart 3 months ago:
I swallowed shampoo
- Comment on When Harris had to pick a VP, all media kinda agreed it should be a white male, to balance the fact that she is black and a woman. So Waltz is the DEI hire. 3 months ago:
Walz seems to have pretty good merit, I think
- Comment on JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip 3 months ago:
That 0.18mb accumulates quickly on the server’s side if you have 10000 people trying to access that image at the same time. And there are millions it not billions of images on the net. Just because we have the resources doesn’t mean we should squander them…that’s how you end up with chat apps taking multiple gigabytes of RAM.
- Comment on Israeli minister says it may be ‘moral’ to starve 2 million Gazans, but ‘no one in the world would let us’ 3 months ago:
It would be moral to drop any support to a government that thinks like this. It would be just to topple a government that thinks like this.
- Comment on If anything happen to Linux today, like what happened to Windows, most of the internet would be dead. 3 months ago:
We tried to fight against having to install Crowstrike on our Linux servers but got overruled by upper management without discussion. I assume we are not the only ones with that experience in the world due to the need to check a checkbox for some flimsy audit.
- Comment on CrowdStrike downtime apparently caused by update that replaced a file with 42kb of zeroes 3 months ago:
I agree that the code is probably poor but I doubt it was a conscious decision to crash the OS.
The code is probably just:
- Load config data
- Do something with data
And 2 fails unexpectedly because the data is garbage and wasn’t checked if it’s valid.
- Comment on CrowdStrike downtime apparently caused by update that replaced a file with 42kb of zeroes 3 months ago:
Problem is that software cannot deal with unexpected situations like a human brain can. Computers do exactly what a programmer tells it to do, nothing more nothing less. So if a situation arises that the programmer hasn’t written code for, then there will be a crash.
- Comment on Microsoft fixes Windows 11 bug causing reboot loops, taskbar freezes 4 months ago:
Most Video Games work on Linux these days.
Anti-Cheat software is usually still a problem though due to their invasiveness that cannot be handled easily.
- Comment on Baidu: Driverless Car Hits Jaywalker in China 4 months ago:
I don’t think “posts on social media” is a good indicator for what the public thinks anymore, if ever. The amount and reach of bot or bought accounts are disturbingly high.
- Comment on Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour 4 months ago:
Same thing that happened at Boeing.
- Comment on Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour 4 months ago:
Openstreetmap is really good…except for the detailed information about shops which is why I still use Google Maps if I need to know opening hours and other information.
OSM is just not widespread enough to be on the radar of shop owners to put their information on it themselves so volunteers have to do it. :/ - Comment on Wasps 4 months ago:
They seem pretty chill if you’re willing to share your space and food with them
That sounds like extortion though.
- Comment on Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows 5 months ago:
I have a big library of music, mostly MP3 or OGG and don’t really see myself pivoting solely towards streaming services where access to songs could be revoked at any time or could be changed/censored like movies or series sometimes are on streaming platforms. I do use YouTube for listening to new music and when I like it enough, I buy it to download (or acquire it in a different way if it’s not available).
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
Helldivers 2 works on Linux.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad 6 months ago:
Ads have evolved into a cancer that is just growing and growing, making everything around them worse.