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 "I could name the top 10 best strategy games of all time and each of them
 would shine in a different particular way and none of you would know a single
 one of them"
 
 - me talking about strategy games
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--- #1 fediverse/4072 ---
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 I like games that test my reflexes
 
 I also like games that test my wit
 
 but most of all I like games that test my patience with strategy
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--- #2 fediverse/3992 ---
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 gamers compulsively say "gg" after every match but I think the best games are
 the ones that are even - neck and neck - could go either way - always a tense
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--- #3 fediverse/3980 ---
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 just means that's the most entertaining type of strategy we've found so far
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--- #4 fediverse/5353 ---
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 some of my favorite games are behind me and I can't describe how happy I am to
 have known here
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--- #5 fediverse/977 ---
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 @user-696 
 
 to me, the most technically and gameplay impressive video games tend to be the
 ones that develop their own engine specifically for the project.
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 "oh also I should mention that if you think about her too hard or too often
 there's a chance she'll overhear what you're talking about anyway so try not
 to think about her too much."
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--- #7 fediverse/2620 ---
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 I am not asleep. But you cannot expect a strategist to act based on
 information she doesn't have.
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--- #8 fediverse/2786 ---
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 the best way, I find, to be deserving of trust is to do the best that you can,
 and be honest when you cannot do more.
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--- #9 fediverse/3927 ---
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 okay but why has nobody ever approached AI from a game design perspective like
 seriously there should be researchers who are multidisciplined in this kind of
 thing
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--- #10 messages/740 ---
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 had a dream that we gamified all work and then put them into one single
 mega-game so whenever you wanted you could work on an arbitrary project and it
 would spin up a new game and take your inputs and use them to accomplish
 whatever was happening
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--- #11 fediverse/5052 ---
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 "hello, I'd like to make games using your tools and art assets. I will sell
 anything I make to you and only you, and if you don't want it that's fine too,
 I'll just play it with my friends sometimes."
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--- #12 fediverse/3759 ---
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 I can't get into a game with swords like this, I'm sorry, those aren't swords
 they're stat sticks...
picture of an anime girl offering a sword  picture of a second anime girl looking at the sword with disgust because the sword is obviously ornamental or ceremonial in some way. It has strange spiky bits and weird impossible-to-use features like a dragon shaped handle and an impossible shape.
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--- #13 fediverse/97 ---
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 @user-110 Exactly! I play games to practice strategy and empathy, not to stand
 triumphant over a virtual foe. Why should I care for the lessons of others
 when mine so often go unlearnt?
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--- #14 fediverse/3177 ---
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 I want to point out how for every game that released in a month, they had at
 about 5 people playing it and averaged their scores.
A description of the rating procedure for Nintendo Power magazine circa 1998.  There are 10 total evaluators, each with around 3 specialties in genres such as action, adventure, puzzles, fighting, RPGs, sports, etc.  Each game is scored proportionally with game design at 25% of the final score, satisfaction at 25%, graphics at 20%, play control at 20%, and sound with 10%
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--- #15 fediverse/4855 ---
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 "you should be acting like these people want to destroy you."me, to me
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--- #16 fediverse/2881 ---
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 "never lose your totem"
 
 I only lose things when in motion. at rest I know where everything is.
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--- #17 fediverse/3453 ---
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 my favorite thing about strategy is how it can be abstracted!
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--- #18 fediverse/2434 ---
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 I spent most of today asleep. I guess that's what I get for chatting all night
 with a stranger. gonna putz around a bit, should be nice.
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--- #19 messages/910 ---
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 all you need is to be steam friends with one person and then your whole
 organization knows what you're trying to say with game titles
 
 (I just like games)
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--- #20 fediverse_boost/2965 ---
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  i will use CW for #USpol if computer people start using CW for tech computer boring linux software posting. i said what i said  
  
                                                            
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--- #21 fediverse/4388 ---
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 I'm sorry, but you can't play any more video games for a while. No more
 spending time on hobbies. When you meet, discuss what needs you see and how to
 fulfill them.
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--- #22 messages/610 ---
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 I'm sorry, but you can't play any more video games for a while. No more
 spending time on hobbies. When you meet, discuss what needs you see and how to
 fulfill them.
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--- #23 fediverse/3210 ---
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 @user-1209 
 
 well, every boomer shooter is about moving as fast as possible and shooting
 with pinpoint accuracy, so... that's-the-game.jpg : )
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--- #24 fediverse/3912 ---
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 the quickest flaw in a novice's strategy is to act upon what is there, not
 upon what may yet be.
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--- #25 fediverse/3320 ---
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 Infinity is not the highest number.
 
 Infinity is not any number of numbers.
 
 Infinity is all of the numbers in one sigil.
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--- #26 fediverse/1349 ---
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 @user-950 
 
 ah yes but how could anyone hurt me if I don't make myself vulnerable. It'd
 simply be unfair to play a game without any stakes. But if you insist...
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--- #27 fediverse/5345 ---
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 you can't win every battle, but if you're losing then you've lost.
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 @user-1074 
 
 you can't start a game of chess with a checkmate. you're not wrong on the
 goal, but the timing would only be possible if a significant amount of other
 unnamed "effects" were in play. Or rather, if a whole lot of other conditions
 were made to be true.
 
 I find the best strategies are the ones that rely the least on externalities
 and potentialities. Fewer points of failure, smaller attack surfaces.
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--- #29 fediverse/3892 ---
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 "they should make clothing stores for tall people"
 
 uhhhh have you ever heard of "big-and-tall"
 
 "yeah but I'm not big, just tall"
 
 smh
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 The difference between tactics and strategy is a level of abstraction.           │
 Tactics are crucial, but context dependent. Strategy is ALWAYS useful as a       │
 method of planning.                                                              │
 If you typically play base-builder games like Starcraft or Age of Empires, try   │
 playing a game like Supreme Commander or Factorio - both of them are one level   │
 of abstraction up.                                                               │
 If you typically play arcade turn-based strategy games like Civilization or      │
 Catan, try going up a level of abstraction with Dominions 6, or any game         │
 developed by Paradox Interactive like Hearts of Iron, Crusader Kings, or         │
 Stellaris.                                                                       │
 If you tend to play luck-based games like Poker or Monopoly, try playing an      │
 actual game instead of resolving a system that's predetermined by the initial    │
 board state and results of chance-based-mechanics with minor (if any) input      │
 from players, like perhaps Star Realms, Magic the Gathering, or Dungeons and     │
 Dragons. Each highlight a different type of choice in their mechanics. You       │
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--- #31 fediverse/84 ---
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 Life is just a series of minigames for your primate brain to solve that are
 generated by an impossibly complex algorithm with a dash of ethical
 value-based choices thrown in.
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 @user-95 back when games had more value because you only had like, 6 of them
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--- #33 messages/664 ---
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 Part of the reason I like Reddit is because you can have multiple different
 conversations about the same topic at once.
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--- #34 fediverse/6294 ---
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 if you play optimally, you'll never get any chance to make decisions.
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 most people have no conception of what ancient battles look like until they
 play a Total War game and see one from above
 
 (total war games also aren't that accurate tbh, there's a lot more
 standing-near-each-other-and-throwing-rocks involved)
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--- #36 fediverse/5185 ---
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 frankly it makes a ton of sense to me that computer programmers would have a
 game playing in the monitor. Gotta keep those brains active after all.
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--- #37 messages/109 ---
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 That's why I like talking about things I'm interested in. It makes me more
 likely to be able to bring up something I've been thinking about.
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 if you play any of my favorite games, there's a chance we've played together
 ^_^
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--- #39 fediverse/5239 ---
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 I play video games to help me think just like programmers play video games to
 help them sleep
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 I can type my thoughts 1000x more coherently than I can speak them. Hence why
 I post here.
 
 feels useless to speak 1on1 - feels insular to speak to a group. Hence why I
 speak here, which is totally public that anyone might see, and somehow I feel
 so much more productive engaging in an endless conversation with myself.
 
 you can't win a war by walking in circles...
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--- #41 fediverse/2544 ---
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 video games are useful for inspiring the mind engaging in a child's play,
 teaching lessons of strategy through the observation of mechanics engaged, or
 filling the heart with emotion, as any good artwork will do.
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--- #42 fediverse/3506 ---
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 @user-95 
 
 like, trading cash for drugs in front of a police station? I couldn't agree
 more!
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--- #43 fediverse/1880 ---
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 sometimes I decide against playing a Steam game because I don't want it to
 jump to the top of my "recently played" list
 
 Wish I could have like, a heatmap of when I played which game. I think that'd
 be useful for the archival process of my life.
 
 ... how pathetic, she measures her life in gameplay.
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 And then if there's 10 of them [clones] that are in on it...
 
 They can spy on them by being different "selves" of their own at once.
 Systematized identity refraction.
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 whose idea was it to optimize our candy toward the ones with the most sugar?
 
 [wait a minute I got like 4 toots written but not posted, what the heck where
 did they come from? I'm gonna post them without reading them]
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 "The supreme court has criminalized homelessness. I should become homeless."
 
 Is not a thought that in my twenties I would have thought I'd wrestle with in
 my thirties
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--- #47 fediverse/6292 ---
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 I'm stuck. I don't know how to leverage whatever talents I have into making
 things happen. Maybe I should seek advice from a wise elder...
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 "but... why?"
 
 portable linux with buttons, great for pick-up-games or communication, can
 throw several in them in a backpack if you want clustered cooperation, they
 work as radios (if the signal reaches) and can transmit text (if you use a
 radial-style keyboard)
 
 [this is all just a pitch for... something, what, you want something? ha
 you'll find no things with me, I know nothing of antifa or whatever]
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 "Hi chatGPT, can you take every post that I make on the fediverse and replace
 all instances of criminal acts with references to fruit and all locations with
 several sentences of poetry about horses and their beautiful cocks?"
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 the most successful strategy is always to strike from a position of strength.
 whether that be timing or power, the goal is to defeat the problem that lies
 before you. One by one, problems are solved, until at last you're through the
 worst of it. Then it's just a matter of expressing dominance, and "this is how
 thing's're gonna be."
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--- #51 fediverse/978 ---
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 @user-699 @user-78 
 
 I say "blep" when I intentionally stack overflow in order to avoid painful
 thoughts
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--- #52 fediverse/4852 ---
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 i like games like factorio or cities skylines where there's always something
 going on but the game only changes when you touch it
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--- #53 fediverse/252 ---
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 I'm convinced that the best and most simple advances in technology comes from
 accurately graphing your system and saying "well why don't we just..."
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--- #54 fediverse/2481 ---
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 on one hand, conversation to spark insight.
 
 on the other, being connected to me.
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--- #55 fediverse/5694 ---
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 if I can convince them not to fight will you give me what I demand?
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 there was a time, when a university was tantamount to heresy
 
 ======================= stack overflow =====================
 
 Magic Survival is the witchiest game I know of.
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 [2] players who played better should be compensated to a higher degree. no
 more than +/- 50-100% or so - this encourages players to "play their best"
 while also keeping the stakes relatively similar.
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--- #58 messages/288 ---
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 "homeless" is just cap-talk for "too poor to function"
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 I like to play healers in MMOs because my power fantasy is helping people
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 most of the world has no idea what goes on in most of the world.
 
 who could ever know everything? its impossible to be over-hear-ed.
 
 I love video games! but I don't like Breath of the Wild because there's so
 little picking-up-and-throwing things, and instead you use your magical
 insights to do sorcerer powers which solve all of your biomechanical
 puzzle-toy-boxes. heck the dungeons are like 5 minutes tall!
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 "mom can we have some kirby's air ride"
 
 "sure we have kirby's air ride at home"
 
 the kirby's air ride at home:
a picture of a pre-release image from Nintendo Power showing an obviously unfinished version of Kirby's Air Ride the Nintendo Gamecube game... except for Nintendo 64. Clearly it was delayed.
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 I always disappear right when you need me the most because you're supposed to
 take the next step.
 
 The reason I do that is because...? You fill in the blanks. Tell me why I do
 that. I know, and I want you to know, but I can't say it.
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 @user-95 one of the most empathetic people I ever met on VR chat was consoling
 me with their mic off while I was oversharing about some stupid things people
 did to me in the past. things that stupid me thought were okay and actively
 encouraged because I was stupid. anyway when their mic was off their body
 language spoke for them. I'll try that next time.
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--- #64 fediverse/1162 ---
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 There are some games that I play where I am struck by the thought that "wow,
 this game was made by programmers" and often, they are among my favorite games
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 "what if cannons were aimed like rifles?"the guy who was ahead of his time for
 rocket propelled grenades or laser guided airstrikes of small munition
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 @user-1443 
 
 they need to do stuff like that or else the republicans would never win...
 
 which honestly is the most heartening thing I've heard all day.
 
 there are more of us than them, thank goodness.
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 @user-883 
 
 solicitation brings to my mind the idea of a person walking in the front door
 and talking to the receptionist, and if that's what you tried then I'm not
 surprised it didn't work.
 
 But maybe if you knew someone higher up it might get a bit more traction?
 Ideally for a place that already does workshops of some kind.
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 honestly we should be building cities in the most boring locations, not the
 most beautiful.
 
 like below the crust.
 
 or space.
 
 the surface is a pleasuredome, why waste it on scrubland and turf?
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 "well done!" he said, and i can't stop thinking about how happy it made me
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--- #70 fediverse/406 ---
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 "imagine if this was the last thing you remembered"me, last night, in a state
 of mind that I don't remember today
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 in strategy, the first move is always public knowledge, while the second is in   │
 reaction to the first, as a contestation.                                        │
 This is good design because well designed games reflect reality, and the first   │
 move is very rarely a surprise. Timing can shock you, methods can scare you,     │
 but the strategic goals are almost always known in advance to both sides.        │
 The third move is to challenge your foe's advances while striking in a new,      │
 unexpected way. The fourth almost always addresses the unexpected, often with    │
 force out of proportion to the impact of the third, leaving the second to be     │
 defeated by the first and third in tandem. The fifth is a feint, as the first    │
 and third come to bear against the fourth, while the sixth is a rapid retreat    │
 and attempt to regroup. The seventh should strike where they intend to be, not   │
 where they are. Beyond that you must press your advantages and shore up your     │
 critical weaknesses, while sacrificing the weaknesses that are not part of       │
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 @user-661 
 
 so, you should strive to be compassionate and honest, in order to keep fear
 from ruling your life?
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 @user-1755 
 
 ... I do that, but I do it because I want to find common subjects to talk
 about. Or I think "if I was working on a project, who can I ask if I need
 help?"
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 did you know that almost everyone could technically become competitive with
 olympians? it's just a matter of single-minded focus and determination over
 lifetimes of time. they are the most admirable because of that, and we cherish
 their presence in our life-world-line.
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 speedrunners forget how to play (toy) their favorite toys and learn how to
 play (instrument) their favorite instruments
 
 EDIT: it can be relearned. focus on the tandem.
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 @user-78 
 
 ah but if you increase it then I might be able to actually finish a thought,
 wouldn't that be a tragedy xD
 
 @user-91
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 "hey listen! Do this thing to hurt me! Build the infrastructure to do it so
 that you can use it on people who deserve it!"
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 advice is always solicited.
 
 help meeee e tell me how I'm wrong so I can get better
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 holy carp I'm so good at this game!
a picture of win / loss statistics for the game Star Realms (digital) - the pictured statistics include:  total games: 1979 total wins: 1043 win rate: 52.7%
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 I realized the reason it's so difficult for me to get into a new video game is
 because my perfect game existed at one point, but no longer, and all else
 pales in comparison.
 
 The make-believe games of children are without equal. They represent our inner
 truth and desires, cast upon the canvas of our experience through the outputs
 of imagination and physical exertion.
 
 I'd spend my time as a child wandering through the forest with a stick in
 hand, climbing on things and exploring. I grew up in Wyoming, and the forests
 there look like this:
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 programming makes you smarter which is why we should teach it to everyone we
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 @user-1035 
 
 Even better if you say "you do you too"
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 "say superfluous on a social media post rn so I know it's you"
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 the things that I suggest we do when we hang out are not because those are the
 things I most want to do, but rather because they are the things that I think
 you'd want to do.
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 a game that automatically streams every single game of it that's currently
 running for anyone to watch...
 
 like Supreme Commander, a definitely super awesome game that you surely
 wouldn't and definitiely definitely shouldn't train an AI on.
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 okay ttyl I gotta go play video games I guess >.>
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 @user-1544 
 
 yep that's like... my whole strat
 
 it totally works outside of the internet, because everyone online is
 politically invested -.-
 
 most everyone IRL is morally invested tho so they tend to follow what I'm
 saying and if they can't find any issues, then they'll believe your
 conclusions.
 
 I've also found that speaking what you believe is more efficient than
 highlighting contradictions in what they believe.
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 @user-1218 
 
 my ex boyfriend told me to
 
 also I thought it would be a good idea so I could find a job, but now I have
 one (sorta) soooo
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 Has that tree always been there? How is it so tall with such a thin trunk?
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 I can always tell when people who believe in me start thinking of me because I
 start feeling the urge to do pushups
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 everyone's all against ai because it's big tech but it doesn't have to be that
 big it can be [minimized but pronounced marginalized]
 
 == stack overflow ==
 
 distributed
 
 so I think the idea is that by the time you would use AI, there's been enough
 time to rewrite the software to work on handheld laptops in a distributed way
 
 and we'd vote on what to ask the amphora of great knowledge, the answer could
 always be 42.
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--- #92 fediverse_boost/5566 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  We have to figure out how to take care of each other and fight alongside one another which means we have to actually, like, listen to each other.  
  
                                                            
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 @user-1573 
 
 hehe mine is technically 2016 and it's BARELY capable of it, so you're
 probably right. It was top of the line, but also a hand-me-down.
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 Hey, can someone please accomplish my dreams for me? I'm too busy being a
 waste of potential!
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 if you want to win when confronting a spirit, all you have to do is convince
 it that you've beaten it.
 
 as long as you're persistent then you're fine. Unless, of course, there's a
 beast of a man hiding behind the illusion, in which case you should do your
 best to avoid being stabbed or whatever.
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 @user-889 
 
 I'm always here if you need me. Let me know if you'd prefer Telegram or
 something.
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--- #97 fediverse/5322 ---
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 "I am liberatory" they tell me, yet everyone I know has a job.
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 Lua is 100% better than Python in every way, fite me
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 Peace is a lie. A precious, sacred lie, that we cherish above all else.
 
 War is the game of states. Violence is the trade of the [survival of the
 fittest/natural chain/endless pain/gods gifted mercy]
 
 >;-)
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 @user-1074 
 
 so, you're saying we should select for good people, rather than loyal people?
 
 If so, I tend to agree.
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--- #101 fediverse/1825 ---
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 if one person is honest to everyone, then no-one can be honest to them for
 anything they want to keep hidden.
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--- #102 fediverse/1771 ---
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 if you can't find them when you need them, then you don't have them.
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 folding tables in the park
 
 seated around which is a spark
 
 all we really need to do
 
 is talk about what we need to do
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 @user-1218 
 
 ha wild
 
 well, survival games! shareware games are more of a distribution style and
 less of a genre, like "subscription software" versus "usable software"
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 "we cannot win"
 
 is a lie they tell you so that we cannot win
 
 if we all believed that, I think we'd die.
 
 and yet still we profane
 
 and yet still we remain
 
 contrasting and opposing their untruths.
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 awwwww, I wish I was tacticool : (
 
 sure would be nice to have SOMETHING going for me >.>
 
 ah well guess I'm more of the "eepy sleepy" type teehee
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 @user-30 That makes sense to me. Would you say most "soulslike" games don't
 scratch those gameplay itches you have?
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 @user-1165 
 
 I am an anarchist. My strategy is to let the DSA be the centralized vanguard
 party. If another emerges, let them share responsibilities - every burden
 taken off your back is more energy that can be applied to what you are sworn
 to care for.
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 @user-757 @user-192 
 
 true and my suggestion doesn't provide a tracelog, pretty much just the status
 of the variables when it pauses or ends.
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--- #110 messages/1231 ---
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 Has it ever not been? Logic beats gold. Just ask strategy and famine.
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 They say that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, which is why
 there's nobody like me.
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 and though I am perfect, I'm better than none of you.
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 Consumption is contribution to a capitalist system. Normalize taking whatever
 you are given and living as humbly as you can. Only when everyone does that
 may capitalism die. Talk to them, learn from their stories. Teach them your
 ways but don't force anything upon them. Any ounce of regret is defined as a
 mind not aligned to the angle of perception that designs the line that the
 collective mind co-re-assigns.
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 @user-246 
 
 oh, you mean the "/100" button? saves three keypresses I guess!
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 "this game is too hard" she whined, as she played on the hardest difficulty
 setting
 
 "this game is too long" she pleaded, as she failed to get absorbed by the
 story and characters
 
 "this game is too fast" she avoided, as life comes at ya once and then it's
 gone
 
 "I'll never get another chance to be who I am right now" she remarked, as she
 considered how society is designed not to have the best life,  but to extract
 labor from us. That's not what our ideal should be, she thinks to me, and I'm
 like... bro figure your shit out you're harshing my mellow
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 whyyyyyyy am I cursed with this 1024 character limit
 
 why can't it be like, 16 characters total. I think that'd limit my thoughts
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 "girl why do you talk"
 
 girl why do you listen
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 http://www.cyberlore.com/Majesty/
 
 this is my favorite game ever!! too bad it's old as dirt.
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 @user-579 
 
 maybe if you pitch it to them with a presentation and offer to set up the
 infrastructure they would give you extra credit or an award or maybe just
 brownie points
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 @user-921 
 
 where tf is all this discourse I always hear about like what are ya'll talking
 about
 
 ... are you talking about me
 
 [silly intrusive thoughts teehee pay no mind]
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 maybe I should try microdosing, see if I can convince this part of me to stick
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 strategy games level up your wisdom stat.
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 google glass, but all they do is stream whatever you're doing to specific
 people. like walkie talkies, but for visuals you can see on your phone. Could
 help coordination as you'd be able to drop in and see exactly what someone was
 up to (with their express pre-stated consent)
 
 [cooking, cleaning, writing, hanging out, playing video games, w/e]
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 [picture] now that's what I call motivated [a computer made this? no, I did,
 reflecting off of it's beautiful statistical form]
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 gonna play more video games, currently have 11 tabs of written posts open in
 my browser...
 
 (okay a few of them get a little off-topic, but hey I have ADHD what do you
 expect of me)
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 can't fucking wait till we're done eating the rich and I can go back to a
 simple life of playing with my cat, making video games, writing poetry (bad
 poetry, but I like it) and hanging out with my friends.
 
 gotta build the social infrastructure to get through this phase first, though.
 something something echo chambers exist IRL too
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--- #127 fediverse/2826 ---
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 why yes, I am just talking to myself. how did you guess?
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 @user-1074 
 
 me too 🥰 I'm saying they should be the other end of the spectrum, rather
 than the middle of the graph
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 if you want to win, play suboptimally without danger of losing.
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 "yay! now that the war is won, we can go back to being moderate!"
 
 not ideal.
 
 did you forget to be for something when you set yourself against your foe?
 
 (if my girlfriend reads this: I'm not referring to the conversation we had
 about that one thing, but I have been thinking)
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--- #131 notes/running-with-rifles ---
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 this game is what we are missing
 thank goodness for that
 for if this is missing in our timeline
 we'll be better off at last
 we can have games, stories, and practice wars
 but none of them are precious
 precious implies worth
 they are worth nothing but entertainment
 no problem solving utility
 nothing of value
 save for perhaps the spatial awareness and strategization that comes
 from being a part of such a deadly ba-lance.
 
 anyway game time teehee just for me, don't worry about it I'll show
 you why it's a HORRID THING
 that won't be coming to our shores, no siree
 
 bye
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--- #132 fediverse_boost/4943 ---
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--- #133 fediverse/5805 ---
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 the most interesting news about video games I've ever read was titled
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--- #134 fediverse/4901 ---
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 "hey what if we broke our product and made it impossible to use without being
 caught by github"
 
 - computer touchers in a union
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--- #135 messages/678 ---
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--- #136 fediverse/2438 ---
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 these are the plans you should be making as you sit around a table discussing
 what you want the future to look like.
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 Okay bear with me, but, what if we took the AI that they use to play games
 (like, the kind that memorize the best way to play space invaders or whatever)
 and instead of A and B and start and select they could use programming
 languages to try and recreate exactly a winning move, which in this case is
 just the exact behavior that is created by the test case playthrough of Super
 Mario Bros or Space Invaders. Free open source everygame!
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--- #138 messages/1236 ---
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  true AI is when no decision or logical momentum can be explained by "... and
  that value was randomly generated." -- (my opinion)
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--- #139 fediverse/4744 ---
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 me to my cat: "don't eat so much that you puke, okay?"
 
 me to me: "yeah I can take on another task, I'm almost done with this one and
 then I'll just do that one and maybe this one'll get back to me at the same
 time as this one which conflicts with this other thing so maybe I'll just
 puke, okay?"
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--- #140 fediverse/3952 ---
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 they want eye tracking so they can tell what kinds of ads to sell me
 
 I want eye tracking on the desktop so I can select enemies in MMOs easier
 
 we are not the same
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 hey. wanna know what would be really cursed?
 
 --
 
 if trump dropped out and musk took his place
 
 --
 
 good thing it'll never happen because those dinguses can't accept defeat and
 will never tactically retreat
 
 --
 
 maybe something to keep in mind for 4 years from now. eyes on the prize for
 now means our eyes aren't to our flanks.
 
 what else could they do that would come out of left field?
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--- #142 fediverse/2676 ---
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 if you asked me to start talking, I could continue for hours explaining          │
 technical details of computer systems or the different types of win-conditions   │
 in different strategy games or how to make good pasta with only 3 ingredients    │
 or what it's like to be a cat, how must they see things or overcome barriers     │
 between them and solutions?                                                      │
 ..... anyway it's important to be able to talk for a long period of time at      │
 the drop of a hat because if your conversation partner needs you to              │
 immediately initiate a conversation, you can do so.                              │
 there are a myriad of reasons why someone would want an immediate                │
 conversation, including "acting casual" or because they want to be distracted    │
 from nearby suffering or whatever.                                               │
 in addition, being able to follow long conversations with little bits of         │
 useful and actionable information thrown in to an otherwise indecipherable       │
 melange of verbal goo.                                                           │
 what's important is to trust your conversation partner, and to know that         │
 they're giving you what they can because they trust nothing around.              │
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--- #143 fediverse/1362 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 it suddenly became relevant in your life for a different reason and you wanted
 to share it again to see if anyone wanted to talk about it so you could
 explain your feelings and see perspective from someone who's maybe approaching
 the same or similar thing from a slightly different angle?
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--- #144 fediverse/2466 ---
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 do as I say, and as I do.
 
 or don't, do as you want to.
 
 I hope you do want to do what I say to do.
 
 I wouldn't say it if I didn't think it was right.
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--- #145 fediverse/4437 ---
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 buying guns is one thing
 
 but food is just as important.
 
 stores run out, but quartermasters know where to find things.
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--- #146 fediverse/1385 ---
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 listen if your man page is more than like, 10 pg-down's, then you might want
 to consider breaking that utility up into smaller pieces.
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--- #147 fediverse_boost/5147 ---
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 if you don't have a lot of time but still like games, like for example a new
 parent or if you're focused on your career or always traveling, I recommend
 the game
 
 Star Realms
 
 in the digital version, which can be played on a phone or computer, has a mode
 called "48 hour turns" where each of your moves has time to think for two
 entire days. Most of the time you won't need two days, but it gives time to
 work on other things.
 
 for people who enjoy this mode, it is not uncommon to have 3-5 games running
 at once. When they have time, they can play as many as they can, and as long
 as they're keeping up with it there's very little chance they'll lose time.
 
 kinda like words with friends, except space strategy.
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--- #149 fediverse/5123 ---
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--- #150 fediverse/1600 ---
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 @user-1037 
 
 oooo those are cool, but it didn't have the "puzzlepiece" arrangement. It was
 more... 2 dimensional I think? More like putting marbles on a chinese-checkers
 board. And they had relationships if you moused over them, like...
 semi-transparent arrows connecting them I think? It was different than
 anything I'd ever seen before.
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--- #151 fediverse/798 ---
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 I'm doing a game jam, so... see ya in a week
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--- #152 fediverse/3124 ---
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 I should not have to follow 16 steps that I don't understand just because you
 decided my system wasn't good enough for me.
a long list of steps in order to update a gentoo system to a new version (not even the newest version, I might add)
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--- #153 fediverse/5177 ---
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 when they say "capitalism is a competitive game" what they mean is "capitalism
 is a game where everyone wins when someone else loses" and what we hear is
 "capitalism is a game of trying to screw you out of as much money as possible"
 and the truth is "capitalism is a game that you can't play" because 95% of the
 people who will read this toot are not stock-owners.
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--- #154 fediverse/1713 ---
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 @user-1071 
 
 like a king who dictates on high, the taller the chair the farther the fall.
 
 how simple is it, when everyone trusts you, to betray the wishes for direction
 they grant upon you. By leveraging their direction to forward your own ends,
 you are depriving them of the liberty to choose their own ends.
 
 how cruel is it! to be the reason for distrust! alas, who can you go to for
 guidance if not anybody you trust?
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--- #155 fediverse/5517 ---
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 ... what was I thinking about again? oh yes video games are fun because they
 are a form of play, and all humans love to play. it is natural to their forms,
 just like it is natural to the form of a slinky to slink down stairs.
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--- #156 fediverse/2442 ---
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 all media is an echo chamber, between the screen and you.
 
 social media just lets you talk back.
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--- #157 fediverse/6007 ---
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 I always get the syntax backwards, for some reason...
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--- #158 fediverse/6441 ---
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 you can only ever talk to a community while on mainstage.
 
 er wait sorry it was this:
 
 you can only ever talk to people in a community, not the community itself.
 unless you are on mainstage.
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--- #159 fediverse/3917 ---
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 people who don't play games are fucked in the afterlife, just sayin'
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--- #160 fediverse/228 ---
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 @user-186 oh great, another video I'm going to have to show to all of my
 friends because it's so good.
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--- #161 fediverse/2791 ---
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 @user-1358 
 
 you don't go golfing to relax.
 
 well, maybe you do, but he doesn't.
 
 he goes golfing to talk about shady shit.
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--- #162 messages/630 ---
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 Pay attention to me, for I am convinced that "me" is what we need.
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--- #163 fediverse/2111 ---
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 when someone deletes what they were typing and starts over, that means they
 have something more to share and you should try and figure out what it is with
 questions.
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--- #164 fediverse/1931 ---
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 these two things took me all evening. I played some video games too. I put
 them in one so you don't have to see so many of them.
a picture of a page from the bicycle notebook.  first part is a collection of brainstorming and diagrams drawn in pursuit of Raleigh, my stab at artificial intelligence.  It's not done yet, in fact it's hardly even a design. It's more like, a thought in the mind that is slowly evolving to adapt to challenges that it might face when being implemented.  and sometimes it's like, beautiful architectures that I'm like "what could I do with these?"  anyway then it starts to devolve into kooky-dookerie about halfway through, and the rest of the notes are written in slant-form -> like, instead of reading one-after-another they sorta change tone and intonation rapidly in a cycle - it's super disorienting. Except visually it's like, tilted text, like a picture-frame that's nudged to one side and hanging from it's frame instead of it's wire holding-point.  do blind people often touch paintings? I doubt it, because it damages the painting. Alas, that materials are finite and flawed and degrade and become stone again. Good news though, sometimes pictures can carry meanings that are impossible to describe visually, but not impossible auditorily.  like, the sound of the voice in your head as you read the plaquards at a museum that displays ancient artifacts or bones of massive beasts or gemstones or science experiments or art or culture or mechanical motion displayed like clockwork and hope.  history is one of my favorite. you can find them by the side of the road. they're lovely homes 4 us many fediverse posts placed into a single image to be passed around as a bundle for people that the viewer decides might want to see them - y'know, like an artwork.
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--- #165 fediverse/3620 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 Yep! back in the day be-fore "four play" you could generally only single-play,
 and for "four play" you'd typically find friends be-fore play-ing.
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--- #166 fediverse/3979 ---
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 most strategy games teach strategy as if it were still 1867
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--- #167 messages/551 ---
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 This gun is my sword 
 This blade is my weapon 
 And my foes will lay before me
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--- #168 fediverse/161 ---
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 I wish games started with everything unlocked and if you wanted you could
 "start a journey" or whatever and lock everything but a few options... then
 slowly as you play the game you unlock new things to do until eventually
 you're back where you started.
 
 Essentially... starting at level 100 and having the option to prestige right
 away. If you want the experience. While playing a game. That you have every
 right to enjoy as you will.
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--- #169 fediverse/5552 ---
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 I once heard that when you click a link, the developer of the website can tell
 which website you came from. idk if that's true or not.
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--- #170 fediverse/1537 ---
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 I'm better at waterfall than agile, why is agile the only option T.T
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--- #171 fediverse/3491 ---
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 @user-620 
 
 "hey I have an idea let's poke a wounded animal with sharp teeth until it
 feels like it's backed into a corner because it's been spending the past
 couple years ruminating and telling itself that we want to kill it and it's
 children"
 
 it doesn't matter what the truth is - they believe what they want.
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 if heaven and hell are evenly distributed, I'd much prefer to find myself in
 hell, as it'd mean another got my place in heaven.
 
 why yes, I would die for a stranger, why do you ask?
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--- #173 fediverse/3000 ---
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 I'll swear not to lose my mind if you swear to make the world a better place
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--- #174 messages/431 ---
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 Rent is expensive because they only want you living there if you're working.
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--- #175 fediverse/1535 ---
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 I only take things that aren't mine if they're in the trash. Or near the
 trash. Or in a store.
 
 so weird how the store won't let me leave until I give them some of my
 dollars. This quartermaster drives a hard bargain!
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--- #176 fediverse/1643 ---
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 sometimes it's important to be innovative, and sometimes it's important to put
 your head down and work. Which is why we're always kept busy on things that
 benefit them, not us.
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--- #177 fediverse/2607 ---
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 @user-249 
 
 most people don't talk to me so either you're braver than most or I hit a
 common chord that you and I share
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--- #178 fediverse/5444 ---
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 if the good guys always win, the bad will slink into the shadows and do
 dastardly deeds out of sight.
 
 if the bad guys always win, the spark of goodness will wink out.
 
 I think I'd prefer if they were cowering in our wake.
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--- #179 fediverse/6021 ---
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 you volunteer for things because you want a say in how they turn out.
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--- #180 fediverse/3707 ---
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 phew I'm tired of productivity, gonna play a game and fall asleep ^_^
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--- #181 fediverse/3974 ---
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 it is significantly more engaging to watch people play MMOs when they've
 unbound all their action bars from their number keys and are forced to click
 on all the abilities. That way you can actually follow what moves they're
 doing.
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--- #182 fediverse/6321 ---
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 "hey. wanna stretch with me? oh, whatever you want. I'll be doing my own
 thing."
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--- #183 bluesky#25 ---
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 if you give me 1000$ I will dine with you for a week.
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 @user-883 
 
 right, like the games the rest of us play aren't good enough for you? need to
 toy with our lives a bit to really get into the flow? yikes
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--- #185 fediverse_boost/95 ---
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  "A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."  
  
                                                            
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--- #186 fediverse/5169 ---
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 if you ever find yourself in a situation where you have to describe everything
 that you do,
 
 leave that situation
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--- #187 messages/626 ---
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 Talk to veterans for tactics and discipline.
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--- #188 fediverse/4051 ---
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 somehow, on average, Star Wars Battlefront 2 is the best game to play with old
 friends
 
 as long as you stick together, of course
 
 and maybe invite all of your other bros
 
 after a couple optional initial exploratory 2pvE matches [co-op]
 
 especially if you play on "normal" difficulty
 
 [I wonder if anyone's ever studied whether or not people born at similar parts
 of the year have anything in common?] [doh that's astrology]
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 literally zero secret messages in the game titles. I just feel like playing
 one or another because of the *gameplay*
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--- #190 fediverse/3199 ---
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 @user-763 
 @user-883 
 
 me three, and I was 13 T.T
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--- #191 messages/754 ---
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 If you want to get to know me, play my games
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--- #192 fediverse/3810 ---
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 doing my best to get at least one bugfix or feature done per day on my
 video-game mod. I think the regularity and discipline could do me well.
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--- #193 fediverse/3287 ---
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 oh great my games are randomly crashing now in ways that they didn't used to do
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--- #194 fediverse/5119 ---
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 we should treat computer production more like vehicles such as cars rather
 than fast fashion disposable vapes and shiny and pretty concrete-and-glass
 solarpunk houses.
 
 also I believe cars should be entirely and completely mechanical. Even the
 radio should be entirely analog. No capability for remote code execution if
 there's no code being run...
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 "can you just shut up for a second, we're trying to fight fascism"
 
 me too babe
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--- #196 fediverse/2307 ---
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 "If you can't find it, you don't have it"
 
 ugh I know, me-from-the-past, now shut up and tell me where my USB-C cable is.
 I have like 4 how did I hide them so good when packing ? ? ?
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 tell me this: why do Starlink satellites need lights on them at all?
 
 can't they just operate in the dark, as floating hunks of metal sending
 signals to-and-fro?
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--- #198 fediverse_boost/3734 ---
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  i think my complaints about rust really boil down to “i know what im doing and this language is designed for people who don’t”  
  
                                                            
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 I legitimately think computers should write code and software engineers should
 write legislation and lawyers should resolve problem tickets made by aggrieved
 citizens while judges do their best to just keep the boat floating
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 when tension increases, decrease the amount of decisions made so we have more
 time to decide how we feel.
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