Rocket League might be nice.

freeware mods continue to be the cradle of game development innovation

This has already been happening in various places for a few years now. It’s just becoming more regular each year.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/17/opinions/deadly-heat-waves-wet-bulb-climate-change-ki-moon-verkooijen/index.html

Glory to the Gyros!

I guess justified resistance against occupiers is based on

Not exactly surprising, but interesting to see.

Pretend we are playing a game within a magic circle that separates us from all the normal rules you have been taught.

Are the LLMs a testing ground for groomers? This is pretty disturbing to contemplate.

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The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly he can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

-Condi Rice

This was said by the National Security Advisor of the USA, the only country in the world that used nuclear weapons … on civilian cities … twice … for no militarily objective reason.

Watching that shit unfold really got me into politics. Being disillusioned with Obama’s 8 years got me into real political economic theory though.

Why does piracy need a business model? Sci-hub etc already exists.

Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism

You deserve condescension for your willful ignorance and lack of humility. That’s just how the world works.

This seems more like just a reality of LCD / LED display tech than anything. CRTs (remember those?) can do a lot of resolutions pretty well no problem, but new stuff not so much. I remember using a lower rez on early LCDs as a ‘free AA’ effect before AA got better/cheaper. This just seems like a response to folks getting ~4k or similar high rez displays and gfx card performance unable to keep up.

I was just playing around with gamescope that allows for this kind of scaling stuff (linux with AMD gfx). Seems kinda cool, but not exactly a killer feature type thing. It’s very similar to the reprojection algos used for VR.

mostly just folks very resistant to learn some quite simple things due to their overly propagandized worldview

I’m talking about people that have trouble with basic understandings of political economy like:

leftism : anti-capitalist :: liberal : anti-communist

I can only imagine the shock they are experiencing

we’re mostly pretty chill if people can be chill with each other, unfortunately some folks are just uncomfortable with understanding the complexity of the world I guess

I mostly use index trigger shifters, but I’m open to trying non-indexed friction shifters. Supposedly less maintenance due to cable stretch with them. I guess those are both considered manual though.

Oh you mean on automobiles?

I learned to drive stick in a very hilly and traffic congested city. It was pretty intense. Haven’t driven a stick vehicle in a while though.

it’s the same story of ‘pull yourself up by your bootstraps’ too

Probably would need to scrap this data from all the various instances to build up the dataset:

https://lemmy.ml/instances

https://lemmygrad.ml/instances

https://hexbear.net/instances

https://lemmy.world/instances

Also a Hemmer scene is also very similar to an Alien 3 scene iirc.

e: Looks like there’s some folks noticing. https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/star-trek-strange-new-world-alien-franchise/

This whole article is just about the first Gorn episode and has references detailed out pretty well. The conclusion is such wholesome trek though.

Throughout the first three Alien movies, the recurring and omnipresent true antagonist is the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. This corrupt stand-in for capitalism is responsible for repeatedly placing the crews in danger. The motivation? To harness the profit potential in the difficult-to-contain xenomorphs, of course.

This leads to plenty of self-serving behavior. This is embodied by company-programed android Ash (Ian Holm) and company man Carter Burke (Paul Reiser). In both cases, the characters are not motivated by survival. They instead serve only themselves and capitalism. Thus they often prove to be equally or more dangerous than the xenomorphs themselves.

But in Strange New Worlds, capitalism isn’t a problem. In the post-scarcity society of the Federation, it isn’t necessary to turn on one another to solve problems. As a direct result, more members of the Enterprise away team survive than make it through any of the Alien movies.

The tagline for Alien states, “In space, no one can hear you scream.” But that’s only true if you aren’t surrounded by members of your tight-knit, utopian community, as is true for the Enterprise crew. Ripley deserved to have people like this watching her back.

I’m pretty wiggly until I get into deeper sleep. Got to find that spot and position of maximum

rotating saucer artificial gravity is a cute idea

this would be a cool spin-off/fanfic for The Expanse universe though

We Our Space Comrades

seems like we’re on target for the Irish Unification of 2024 at least