Takios
@Takios@discuss.tchncs.de
Gay furry IT person.
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 1 day ago:
Unsurprisingly. Games have gotten way more expensive and a lot more soulless. Gems like BG3 are a rarity. The recently released “enhanced” edition of Neverwinter Nights 2 is an awful cashgrab and an disappointment after the successful enhanced edition of the first one so I’m just playing through the original release with an unofficial patch again…The only game I’m looking forward to this year is the new Anno and given that Ubisoft has its fingers in it I’m still wary about that one.
- Comment on Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks 1 week ago:
Keep in mind that legal/illegal can (and often is) be different from ethical/unethical. In a perfect world, laws protect everyone equally from unethical behavior. But nowadays, law is more and more misused to protect the upper class and oppress the lower class. Not saying it wasn’t so before already, but it’s leaning that way a lot stronger in recent times again.
- Comment on Reevaluating my password management 1 month ago:
Been usingthe same setup for years as well and Im happy with it, never had any issues with it
- Comment on Jellyfin over the internet 1 month ago:
Wireguard VPN to my fritzbox lets me access my jellyfin.
- Comment on how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days? 1 month ago:
Honestly just in ~/Music and stuff I’d like to listen to on the go gets copied onto my phone.
- Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 1 month ago:
I bought mine secondhand because I had a bad feeling about giving google money just to degoogle as well but still really wanted to use GrapheneOS
- Comment on Had a take about Supergiant Games that recieved a lot of pushback fromy two longest running best friends. 2 months ago:
Pyre is more like a visual novel with some gameplay here and there. Now I don’t mind story heavy games but towards the end I found myself just clicking through the absolute ton of dialogue there was. Vastly preferred Bastion and Transistor which almost never interrupted the gameplay but were still able to tell amazing stories.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 2 months ago:
with the right person you can also be quiet with for hours
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 2 months ago:
hello yes I’m an ai company. let me torrent all the things pls thank you
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 3 months 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 3 months ago:
The cruelty is the point
- Comment on Microsoft tests ad-supported Office apps for Windows users 5 months ago:
Thunderbird has a calendar by default now.
- Comment on I love the future. 5 months ago:
Huh, today I learned!
- Comment on I love the future. 5 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 5 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 5 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? 8 months ago:
I play on a smaller galaxy size and have a beefy computer.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 8 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? 8 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 8 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 9 months ago:
In authoritarian environments, any compassion you show the declared enemy is a grave offense and needs to be punished severely.