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- Comment on First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself | Quanta Magazine 3 days ago:
The property is (was) specific to convex polyhedrons.
- Comment on Banana 4 days ago:
I’m with you! The texture is a horror.
- Comment on Fear their power 5 days ago:
The opening line of that wikipedia article says they’re “equivalent to sexes in multicellular lifeforms”
- Comment on Beware when following communities/magazines on Mastodon 1 week ago:
Friendica handles that situation well, because it treats the top most post/comment that it’s aware of as the parent, and then any replies as children, and then it only ever displays the parent. You can then sort your timeline to either show the parents in the order they were posted, or by the order of most recent activity.
Either way, 100 replies to a parent post means it still only appears once in your timeline.
The way Friendica does timelines is something I wish more micro blogging activitypub platforms would implement.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 2 weeks ago:
I played them all back then! My favourite was Curse of the Azure Bonds, because it tied in with the book that I had absolutely loved
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know how many of these hold up in their own right these days, but these are the formative games I played before 1990.
- Reach for the Stars - The first 4X game. It created and introduced me to a genre that I still love today!
- Dragonstrike - A dragon riding flight simulator set in the D&D setting of Krynn. It was release in 1990 though, so it’s only here if we fudge a little
- Pools of Radiance - The first D&D CRPG. I know for sure this one doesn’t hold up, but it was amazing back in the day!
- Tunnels & Trolls Crusaders of Khazan - Another CRPG, this one also from 1990. It sticks out in my memory mostly because I found a “gatling bow” which would empty your quiver by firing all of your arrows at a target when you took a shot. I also found a never ending quiver. It was game breaking. I’d hit things with 30 arrows per shot and just annihilate everything.
- Kings Quest IV Perils of Rosella. A real time adventure/puzzle/RPG game. First game I played with a dedicated female protagonist!
- Sid Meier’s Railroad Tycoon - Another “Made in 1990” game. It was the first (and IMO, still the best) game in the Railway Tycoon series and I believe it was also the first game in the “Tycoon” genre
- Sim City - The first in the Sim City series, and the first of the “Sim” titled games. I loved it back in the day, even even got to play it at school. It doesn’t hold up very well against later games in the series though.
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 3 weeks ago:
IMHO, the US has bigger fish to fry than transphobia
Yes. That’s why the politicians keep talking about trans people. They are explicitly stirring up transphopbia as a simultaneous distraction and unification tool
he liberals call everything phobe.
Literally the only reason you’re even talking about this yourself is because of the neonazis. You’re literally doing their work, whilst somehow thinking you’re immune to it…
- Comment on Unifying the Fediverse 3 weeks ago:
You’re pretty much describing Friendica. It does everything you’ve listed there (and more) except for Matrix.
- Comment on Why is lemmy full of insufferable lefties. You could be left wing and end up becoming right. Simply because of the insufferable people you meet here: don’t fit into there rules your gone, your trolled 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Honestly, it sounds perfect. A chance to get some independence, yet still close by so he's got a safety net and support (and so you can simply stay in each others lives)
- Comment on possibilities 2 months ago:
Por que no los tres?
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 2 months ago:
Alternative theory. It impacted a similar proportion of the population, but people in general were vastly less likely to be in situations where it impacted their life in an overly negative way
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 2 months ago:
Rather short sighted of him to let interest build up over thousands of years!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Are you truly happy? Then that's true happiness, however you got there...
Are you not? Then it's not, however you got there...
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 2 months ago:
Aristotle was writing about myopia over 2000 years ago...
- Comment on BaDumTss 2 months ago:
It would be ionic if it does
- Comment on 2 months ago:
blahaj zone doesn't, but we manually approve applications.
- Comment on Why is land/sky so cleanly split between mammals/birds? 2 months ago:
when mammals have reached such places, flightless birds have almost immediately experienced population collapse.
New Zealand bird like in a nut shell
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 2 months ago:
This is what I do. It stops it from auto updating and from phoning home, but still lets the individual apps function. Some of the apps don't work, because they can't update either, but if we get desperate, we just punch the TV through the pihole just long enough to update the individual app. It's a reasonable middle ground.
- Comment on "Tea cup" app - user database leaked today (incl. drivers license & IDs). Daily reminder not to give your ID to online services [THEY DO NOT PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION] 2 months ago:
Someone spilt the tea...
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 2 months ago:
I don't care if I like them. I very much care if I'm making money for people who are actively trying to take away my rights
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 2 months ago:
He left Mozilla (chased out because he's a homophobe) and went on to found Brave, where he still remains
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 2 months ago:
The fact that the dev behind brave is a homophobe isn't opt in though...
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 3 months ago:
You mean comment chain right :p
- Comment on cookie combs 3 months ago:
Someone hexed those cookies
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 3 months ago:
Mostly because they used to rule the world, but everything they touched wasn't gold, it was all yellow
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Hi, from another instance (technically two) that doesn't require emails!
- Comment on this 82 year old woman dressing like she was 40 or younger makes me think about how ridiculous I'll look like when and if I reach that age. Am I misguided? 3 months ago:
"acting" your age says everything. If you're acting, you're not living authentically. And sometimes that's just how it is. But if you're aspiring to a life that involves confining yourself so that you can live on other people's terms, maybe you should dream bigger.
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 3 months ago:
Think of it this way.
"I went back in time to save my family" in an infinite timelines story means that going back in time spawns in infinite number of worlds that didn't exist before, in which the family doesn't make it, and an infinite number in which they do. And not a single one of those families is the "real" family of the person who went back in time.
The fact that the author choose to focus on one perspective in which it seems like the time travel has made a difference, doesn't change the fact that it didn't make a difference, and the family they were trying to save is gone. The infinite copies weren't "saved" from anything, because there are infinite versions that weren't.
The only way to tell a meaningful story in that situation is to create situation where the actions of jumping back in time alter the future of the person jumping back in time. And that means you either suck up the paradoxes, or you write a clever story in which the paradoxes are neatly accounted for before they ever occur (or you write a closed loop story)
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 3 months ago:
Invincible can't move between the infinite timelines though, and no storyline is hanging off of the important changes he makes those timelines by travelling through time/dimensions. He's not "saving" anyone by jumping through to another universe
