Sunsofold
@Sunsofold@lemmings.world
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 days ago:
Space Engineers
Ares at War scenario with Industrial Overhaul and Weapon Core to make everything as complicated as possible
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Modded MC, specifically TFC packs
It hits almost all the right points to lock me in.
- Comment on Blackbird Interactive acquires full ownership of Hardspace: Shipbreaker IP 1 week ago:
Worried Blackbird was a publisher for a moment. Shipbreaker is great. I beat it twice (normally and no clones) and still play for relaxation. Captain Shack mentioned it during a stream a few days back and I was just thinking how it’s probably the only game where i’d actually willingly buy a DLC for a new set of ships or a sequel with the ability to add ships as workshop mods.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 week ago:
Instead, investors did the fucking, and now here we are.
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 1 week ago:
patiently waits for paper to publish
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 1 week ago:
You could also just not play games that think they are allowed to access the kernel at all. Seems safer, more affordable, and basically without downside. They aren’t even that good of games.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
How much do you trust your father? This could go great or terrible. She could be a friend’s daughter who he genuinely thought would be a catch, or she could be a prostitute he’s trying to use to manipulate you. You’d be in a better place to know.
- Comment on Mushroom Lamp (Gnarled edition) 1 week ago:
I know, but you were thinking it SO LOUD.
- Comment on Can’t put solar panels on your roof? Plug-in ‘balcony solar’ may be for you. 1 week ago:
A long time ago I saw a thing about how foolish the creator thought it was people had stopped using awnings. They keep out the worst of the sun in summer and let it in during winter, when the sun is at a lower angle. My immediate next thought was, ‘why don’t we have solar panel awnings?’ They don’t require making holes in your roof you then have to worry about leaking. They can be mounted at the same angle as the roof so they wouldn’t be less efficient in many places. They could be added like eaves and keep the sun from heating the walls too, a huge benefit in hot areas.
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 1 week ago:
Correct, for killer functionality to work you have to connect the camera to an automated turret system.
- Comment on Call of Cthulhu 1 week ago:
‘It says… no tresspassing?’
- Comment on Call of Cthulhu 1 week ago:
There are no runes on the clam. The runes are in your eyes.
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The first higher part is basically a whimper but the lower part is more akin to mumbling or muttering.
- Comment on Why do people like the Punisher comics? 2 weeks ago:
I mean… James Bond is also just a guy who shoots people. Most non-action movies are just a series of conversations. How the story is told is often far more important than the boiled down concept.
- Comment on How do gameplay youtuber develop interesting commentary? 2 weeks ago:
I heard from one of the old big names of the space, AntVenom, way back when. The most important part is enjoying doing it, and I mean every part of it. You have to enjoy sitting there, talking to yourself while you play. You have to enjoy video editing. You have to enjoy collaborating with other content creators and putting a focus on making it interesting to watch more than interesting to play. If you don’t enjoy the process, you don’t actually want to do it. You want something you think you will get from it, and you won’t last.
Just pretend and give it a try. Use free (as in price) software for the first run. Play a game, something you were already interested in and just spout off to an empty room about whatever comes to mind, because that’s basically the gig. Then edit it down. This might take much, much longer than the recording. Regardless of whether you upload it or not, you get a taste. If you actually enjoy the process (not imagining what it might lead to, but the actual process) do it.
- Comment on Recommendations for games to play on a treadmill (i.e. not too intense) 3 weeks ago:
Turn-based RPGs generally move at the speed you do, so they aren’t intense in a way you’d have to worry about, and there are a LOT of them. Many Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy, etc. games.
What I call ‘procedural’ games would also work, things where it’s less about pushing yourself to have perfect reaction times or compute complex values in your head, and more about just walking through the process in search of the Zen of flow state. Lots of simulator games fit in the category: train station renovator sim, house flipper sim, power wash sim, rover mechanic sim, mech mechanic sim, etc. Hardspace: Shipbreaker is a favorite in this category. There are also games like ‘Papers, Please’, ‘Contraband Police,’ etc. where you run down a checklist and try to spot anomalies.
Life games serve as well. They usually don’t have a hard limit on how you play through them so you can play as you like and progress in whatever way. Stardew Valley, Staxel, the My Time At … series, Farming Sim, etc. all lean toward just being pleasant rather than an intense challenge.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 3 weeks ago:
It’s harder to doctor, but that’s not really the big worry with a contract. Contract disputes are usually more along the lines of ‘he didn’t pay me’ or ‘she didn’t deliver the goods.’ It’s much rarer for it to be an ‘I signed a contract that said BLAH, but they forged a contract to say BLAGH and faked my signature on it.’ As for censorship, I’m not sure what you mean. A government would find it difficult to obscure an on-chain contract but that’s also not really an issue. I don’t want to guess what you mean.
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 3 weeks ago:
Quite abnormal. Not bad, though.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 3 weeks ago:
From what I’ve heard, the biggest problem is the inputs. You can write a ‘smart’ contract that says ‘if I get a pizza, user9000005 pays user30000004 XXX bitcoins’ but there’s no direct sensor for ‘user9000005 has a pizza.’ Someone has to manually put it in. At that point, it’s not automated. It’s just a payment processor with way less certainty, so why bother?
- Comment on You can (probably should) remove personal information from a photo before uploading it to social media 3 weeks ago:
The data is different for a ‘photo’ one took vs one of many other types of image. Your camera/phone can often include a lot of surprising data, possibly even your PII or location. An image you made in krita or with a screenshotting tool is somewhat less likely to have such data.
- Comment on About the worldview of a magical game。 3 weeks ago:
The gatekeepers are disintegrating. Now it is up to you to sort through the onslaught of fanfiction to find the originality.)
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 3 weeks ago:
Insert Invincible ‘you don’t’ meme here
But seriously, you can’t. You either choose to be ignorant of 99.99% of the world or to be ignorant of 99.9% of the world and live in a perpetual scramble to absorb all the disparate information. Most news isn’t worth knowing in and of itself, only serving as data to construct deeper understanding, so unless you are going to actually connect the dots, it’s a better use of your time to let the world act as a filter and only pay attention to what hangs around long enough to get through to you.
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 3 weeks ago:
One of the biggest problems with human societies is that parents, by necessity, have their brains broken and, due to modern values/life, are under constant strain. Being a parent means (generally) the kid is priority 1, then there’s everything else. This is a necessary irrationality, but if this means you have to do the occasional genocide or violate someone else’s civil rights to ‘keep our kids safe’ then, by god, those people are just going to have to suck it up and die. Sometimes, if you have the time, you can talk some people around and remind them, one day their kids are going to have to live in society as one of those 'someone else’s and won’t always be their precious little baby, but almost no one has the time and energy for a more nuanced thought than ‘save the babies!’ much less if they also have to work 48 hours, commute 10 hours, and parent their kid(s) for 167 hours each week.
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 3 weeks ago:
I did something similar, but also had mods to change player model and starting scenario, and unscale combat from your level. I started as a young girl who just lucked out of magical enthrallment by a necromancer and aged her a year every time she went up a level. I started in the middle of nowhere with a stolen kitchen knife, some slaves’ rags, the now-dull ring that had once held her in thrall, and no one to help.
It really turned the game grim: little girl stumbles into town, nigh dead from no food and crab attacks in the wilderness, looking for help, and the locals offer to put her to work. But, by the time I’m at level 20, she’s in her 30s, has plenty of food, rich furs, fire magic, and a heartful of revenge plans to keep her warm, and has acquired a circlet that made her fire even hotter. The eventual plan was to complete her schooling and then go on a necromancer roasting hunt, but the game broke. Fun little run. Could almost make a book of it.
- Comment on A Hellraiser video game. What do you all think? 3 weeks ago:
No way of knowing. Trailers are absolutely the least informative piece of game media regarding how it feels to play a game.
- Comment on A Hellraiser video game. What do you all think? 3 weeks ago:
No reason survival horror has to include fighting back. Plenty of games don’t involve anything more in that area than a distraction to keep you alive a moment longer.
- Comment on How do you combat boredom? 4 weeks ago:
Do nothing.
This is not a joke. Sit comfortably, commit to doing nothing for a period of time, and then do nothing. Do not have your phone. Do not prepare by ‘just taking care of these few things’ before doing the nothing. Do not look up the random thing that pops into your head. Do not set up music, a podcast, or some other distraction.
Just. Be.
- Comment on Is it sexist to say "I've never worn a wet dress before" 5 weeks ago:
Classic. It’s only sexist if you are sexist. If you assume dresses are ‘womens’ clothes,’ and that women are inferior, it’s possibly sexist because you are elevating yourself by declaring yourself to not be one of those lowly dress-wearers. If you don’t have that internalized misogyny, it’s just a statement of boring fact.
- Comment on Are password managers secure to use? 5 weeks ago:
It’s a balance of probabilities, like everything in security. Which is more likely? A. People are careful, using good, strong passwords, and maintain vigilance, but are targetted by an advanced attacker who will hack the protonpass system to get their database and the necessary keys to open it? Or B. People get lazy, use the same password for everything because remembering stuff is hard, and everything they own ends up protected by the modern equivalent of combo 1, 2, 3, 4, 5?
If you are truly capable of generating and memorizing enough good passwords to handle all of your accounts, that is technically more secure, because a password manager can create a single point of failure for all accounts. However, most people aren’t able to do that and will resort to crap passwords or using the same single crap password for every site.
