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 Supreme Commander is alright as a game. I mean, it's cool, but it's just
 alright.
 
 Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance Forever is a fuckin' cool mod made by
 users. I mean, it's probably one of the best strategy games ever made.
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

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 something something world of warcraft is a great example of a conduit
 from computer to human. The icons are so cool, they're generic and colorful
 and full of character. Fuck, I can't remember any more.
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--- #2 fediverse/5705 ---
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 all Valve has to do for linux compatibility is let us sort reviews by the
 operating system of the user. go back to making games! Proton is cool and I
 know you're a platform but your games are so good!
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--- #3 fediverse/24 ---
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 @user-30 Well maybe that's okay :)
 Dark Souls is a hell of a game that has stood the test of time. It's a classic
 now. It's okay if you're not much of a gamer.
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--- #4 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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--- #5 fediverse/3811 ---
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 this is how I write trello cards or tickets.
 
 and yes, before you ask, modding this game is a constant struggle because the
 mod tools are... minimal... so you must work around various challenges by, for
 example, adding 1680 different "events" that must be checked every single turn
 for every single province on the map.
A trello card describing a proposed change to a video game mod that has only one person working on it. It's essentially documentation. It is written in a professional style with several sections - the first lists the "current behavior", the second shows the intended behavior (with a small section for the intended effects of the intended behavior), and the third major section lists the proposed solutions in as much detail as possible without writing the code itself.
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 also, that's not the best way to organize. you'll spend too much focus-time on
 the experts.
 
 better to be primarily a research division, with production allocated for
 engineering practice, not profitability.
 
 we should be building factories underground, out of the way of our species and
 biological allies.
 
 [thus, creates the modern megadungeon, a vast inter-connected catacombs that
 always leads you toward the surface.
 
 if you know where you're going, you can cross to places hitherto unawares.
 like, different earths, all doing their own stories.
 
 but that's for another time, no more witchcraft for tonight! I got video games
 to play [Supreme Commander with the Forged Alliance Forever mod]
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 @user-1112 
 
 It's a script I wrote that downloads and configures MTG-forge, the free and
 open source version of Magic. It's a little old, a little jank, but you get
 all the cards for free. All the way up to the most current expansions.
 
 Multiplayer is a bit harder than Arena, I think it's bugged or something, but
 it's great for testing out decks against a computer. If I like one then I'll
 usually buy it to play with my IRL friends.
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--- #8 fediverse/6098 ---
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 RTS games where each player can see all the other player's mouse pointers, my
 beloved
 
 ... girl there's only one game that does that and it's a mod
 
 don't remind me T.T
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--- #9 fediverse/6437 ---
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 if I was writing a programming language, I'd name it C just to fuck with people
 
 (great, now others can decide how it's known)
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--- #10 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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 @user-797 
 
 thank you it's a character from the video game Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
 whose name I stole because I like her. Also I edited the picture a little bit
 to make the border, but the sprite is the same.
 
 EDIT: she's a swordfighter and a magic user, just like me : )
full size picture of my profile pic, Ritz Malheur from the video game Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
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 ngl I kinda hate it when people meme about donald trump being incontinent
 
 like, yeah, he pees his pants, so what? I DO TOO. Fucking sucks. Every time I
 read people saying nasty things about it I can't help but read them in my own
 voice, and that gives me plenty of ammunition to use against myself when I'm
 feeling down.
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 another cool thing about FAF is that you can download a mod that shows the
 position of your cursor to other players. So weird how after a while all the
 cursors started staying permanently in the top-left corner.
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 for the same reason you shouldn't compliment a cute girl based on something
 she can't control ("nice tits gorgeous can I suck on ur nipples later") but
 should instead compliment them on something they chose ("cool tattoos I also
 like Celeste")
 
 you also shouldn't accuse hot people of colonizing just because they like to
 play Magic the Gathering or whatever.
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 it's good to be ethical,
 it's good to be kind,
 
 but there will always be assholes,
 and sometimes you're not having a good time
 
 it's okay
 it's fine
 
 assholes deserve life
 times deserve others to be kind
 
 life is not always interesting
 and that's often by design
 
 the moments of clarity,
 the moments of heart,
 
 these are what define you
 and display your own spark.
 
 trust in yourself.
 be kind to one another.
 
 you are braver than you know,
 and always a bit wiser.
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 I'm gonna play a fucking video game because I like video games and it's
 important to relax
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 I trust that you will betray me.
 
 it's okay.
 
 all that I need is for you to be here, with me.
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 @user-1449 @user-1074 
 
 I mean, you're allowed to fight about stupid shit as long as you realize it's
 about something that doesn't matter. As long as people are working together
 toward their common goals then... whatever, right?
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--- #19 fediverse/28 ---
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 EDIT: don't read this
 
 When all the catboys are gone because the cultural movement has passed and
 it's not retro yet can you honestly say you'd be fine knowing you never fucked
 one?
 
 EDIT: I fucking hate that I posted this last year. I'm sorry. It's cringe as
 fuck. I wish I could delete it but that'd be wrong.
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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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--- #21 fediverse/4572 ---
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 goodnight,
 people-who-all-agree-with-me-but-who-I-still-rant-to-anyway-because-I'm-full-of
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--- #22 fediverse/1196 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 you're not a creep in fact you're quite awesome and cool and neato to be sure 
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--- #23 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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 that feeling when your computers are just fucked and it's like... whatever,
 computers are fucked, I don't give a fuck
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--- #25 fediverse/3982 ---
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 I am always trying to be helpful. at all times am I trying to teach. that can
 get real fuckin annoying sometimes.
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 plus these games. if there's more than one version, give them a random one.
 NOT the first, NOT the last, not one that was made around when they were born,
 but a random one.
 
 nerf can be any friendly intense action game, but I like Nerf Arena Blast
 
 "hey man what's your nerf? I got Celeste"
 
 "ooooo I heard that means you're gonna be friends with a trans girl 'cause
 she's always gonna wanna play it"
 
 "what no way"
 
 "hell yeah"
 
 "... anyway I got Towerfall"
 
 "what does that mean"
 
 "I don't think it means anything"
 
 "... weird"
 
 --
 
 the two lego games are just really cool. you can add your own games if you
 want but replace one instead of adding to the list. that way they're each
 sorta unique.
trackmania, the sims, pinball, nerf, lego-rock-raiders, and lego-racers
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 everyone's all like "everything sucks" but I'm feeling confidence and a kind
 of... externalized vigor? that's sweeping me off my feet. We'll see what
 tomorrow brings, in the general sense.
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 sucks how all the versions of old video games on thepiratebay or whatever have
 been modded to be subtly different to fuck with you. like crashing after 5
 minutes in-game randomly if you play it 6 months after installing. or buffing
 and nerfing random unit's damage values randomly each time you play. or giving
 the AI a scaling resource bonus that increases over time and makes you feel
 like you just suck at the game and it must be because you're 40 now and your
 reflexes are slow.
 
 I have no evidence
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 linux is not a viable operating system for people who can only troubleshoot by
 restarting their computer because every time they plug in a new audio device
 suddenly their headphones don't work.
 
 fucking alsa, fucking pulse, the entire stack is fucked
 
 (and yes I know it's a very difficult problem)
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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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 bro I get that you're tired and burnt out but like, why the fuck do you care
 about anything else [oh shit cursing mentioned better put a content warning
 because people can't handle things]
 
 [I say this with affection because we're on the same side] [also it's rude,
 sorry]
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--- #32 fediverse/3103 ---
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 @user-1446 
 
 trans people long ago figured out that a great way to avoid rude comments is
 to change your profile picture to an anime girl or something abstract like
 mine. It's kinda fucked but it's whatever.
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 listen I know it's easy to be defeatist but, like... they still think their
 foes consist primarily of blue-haired liberals
 
 lol they're so fucked
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 @user-883 
 
 wait until they learn what you've been working on while they were getting
 better at... whatever they're more experienced in than you.
 
 the computer pictures you post are legitimately some of the coolest I've
 known! I don't exactly go looking for that kind of stuff because it's not my
 thing, but I appreciate seeing all the neat stuff you're working on.
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 "Ritz, we love you, but you're fucking stupid, so we're gonna have to break
 your legs now."
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--- #36 fediverse/5961 ---
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 @user-138 
 
 maybe it's evil hackers - idk that's beyond my expertise - good luck : )
 
 (I'd need to see the piece of technology to work on it. I'm a hardware kinda
 [girl, but pronounced guy])
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 @user-570 
 
 that sounds like a different application than what I was talking about (it's
 for the the MMO you mentioned right?)
 
 and I'm just going off of what I've heard. Like... the "don't make an MMO
 because you'll spend forever building the server code and won't ever get
 around to making the actual game" sentiment that is prevalent in the industry.
 I guess I'm just saying that with the open source advancements we've made
 (specifically with Azerothcore and Eluna) we can use the design of the best
 MMO ever made as a starting point and branch off from there roughly as easily
 as making another kind of game from scratch.
 
 Kinda was always the allure of Blizzard games to me, the idea that they were
 super duper modable.
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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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 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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--- #40 fediverse/487 ---
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 I don't really care about capitalism, sorry... why should the butcher be paid
 more than the baker? It's all a bit silly to me.
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--- #41 fediverse/3916 ---
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 life isn't JUST a game, but it is a game.
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 instead of controlling a recon-droid in Star Wars Battlefront II, you should
 be assigned control of a random amount of drones nearby, to be used until you
 went back to character control
 
 I think a swarm is more fun to play as than a single little scout vehicle.
 
 in a game that doesn't really need scouting to find your foe - it's easy!
 they're that way
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--- #43 fediverse/3180 ---
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 I love skywriting. it's so cool to see your words fade into dust after being
 seen by everyone around.
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 "cool it with the psychic posting"
 
 ha yeah okay. I still got some things to get through though. I bet someone
 somewhere wants to see it.
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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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 I love it when wine doesn't work because it "failed to open program.exe"
 
 ... okay, can you tell me why it failed?
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 Stop telling the "main characters" to chill the fuck out and instead try and
 put them in the same room.
 
 Chances are they'll all agree, and they'll come up with something to do to
 fight for liberty.
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 @user-883 
 
 I've used it a bit, frankly more than I've played Minecraft in multiplayer. I
 was around before they added enchanting tables, and I've barely touched it
 since xD xD
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 I think it's ironic how I ended up posting a "things I almost posted"
 screenshot directory somewhere other than where I almost posted them.
 
 and all they saw were the outtakes.
 
 I bet they'd see a completely different point of me,
 
 but they never talk to me
 
 so they don't know me.
 
 oh well, alas, it's fine I'm sure I'm being designed.
 
 who can say, I am but at productive play, please react so I can do ongoing
 story. I learn from each and every encounter I encounterate.
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 [Forged Alliance Forever does this automatically btw]
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 I fucking hate how games give dopamine
 
 they're so much more educational than that.
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 downside of being gregarious is that everyone you meet in Portland these days
 is a fucking fed -.-
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 the goddess of madness is pretty sane, tbh
 
 it's not like there's just one tho
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 capitalism is non-consentual, which is... pretty much the main reason why I am
 against it.
 
 like, I don't really care about whether it's more or less efficient. the fact
 that you cannot opt out means it is unethical.
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 there's something kinda... liberating about working with computers at work.
 
 you always know that worst case scenario, even if you totally fuck up the
 system configuration, you can always reimage the machine.
 
 so... who cares! if you can't get something working, just fucking try shit
 until it works. Whack it with a software hammer. See what happens.
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 I'd rather fight my foes in a fair fight than butcher them in the night.
 
 just because I suck at fighting doesn't mean I don't understand honor.
 
 I'm unreliable, not dishonorable, there's a difference, and it's not about
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 it's okay. 
 
 I know who you are because I know who they forced you to be. 
 
 What kind of god would I be if I didn't forgive you as you were hurting me?
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 I love the game Mechabellum! It's flexes the same parts of your brain as
 chess, while being SO much more fun to watch.
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 @user-192 
 
 wow, that sounds like a lot. I guess no matter how humans are organized they
 tend to fight a lot... Or maybe interaction breeds drama? It's strange to me
 but I'm sure it felt right in the moment. I hope nobody's feelings were too
 hurt... Defederation feels like such a permanent thing, like putting someone
 on your ignore list in a video game or something. Except, like, blocking a
 whole World of Warcraft guild? ? ? so strange.
 
 Did it... help? I mean, do you think people were happier afterwards?
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 @user-95 that's why I like programming - it's my favorite form of spelling.
 i'm not very good at remembering all the names and the numbers, but I like to
 think I can make things do a function.
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 having the limitations of a human form is kinda nice, I guess.
 
 keeps you out of real trouble.
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 @user-570 
 
 true. the "massively multiplayer" aspect of WoW is about as important to the
 game as the "A" is in "ARPG".
 
 I can't help but feel like the "impromptu groups" functionality feels a bit
 better than matchmaker instancing... though anything worth running a group for
 in WoW after TBC was instanced >.>
 
 Honestly I think there's just too many games these days for people to really
 get "into" MMORPGs, unless they're sufficiently unique in their mechanics
 (like EVE or Runescape)
 
 any ARPG MMOs are dead on launch, as you said. That design space is tapped
 out, at least for now, until someone comes along and makes it a deckbuilding
 roguelike or whatever. cough cough
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 if you aren't rude, or bothersome, or excessively boring, you can pretty much
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 @user-206 @user-1576 
 
 Whoa Tildes was so cool!
 
 I use forums for specific interests like games and such. Also for, uh... porn
 sometimes.
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 war is hell and should be avoided at all costs
 
 "does that mean we should do shadow conflicts and do spy-vs-spy shit all day
 every day?"
 
 no, that's a type of warfare too. and is also hell. no thank you.
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 @user-883 
 
 hehe if I don't understand how it works it's difficult for me to use things.
 My Linux friends get so exasperated with me because I'm like "cool script
 gimme like 2 days to figure it out" and they're like "bro just use these
 flags" and I'm like "no"
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 @user-192 
 
 ... and like. idk what do you do at that point
 
 say "fuck it" and live with imperfection? embrace anti-natural selection?
 valorize deviance and queerness in digitally appropriated artistic media
 collections?
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 never trust your heroes
 
 they are not meant to be trusted. but they are still valuable and important.
 
 learn from them, apply what you can, and cherish the best parts of them when
 they inevitably fall and let you down.
 
 if they betray you, fucking burn them. if they let you down, accept their
 apology but don't give them responsibility until you can trust them again.
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 "so he likes to bang it out with guy parts. who cares? we should really be
 focused on the russians."
 
 wait, the cool ones or the mobster ones?
 
 "the ones who belong here."
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 what's the point of using a password manager if they're just going to 2FA your
 ass anyway?
 
 oh right, so google knows whenever someone signs into obscure-porn-site.com or
 radical-chemistry-and-explosives.net or
 cheap-hot-anime-gunpla-fast-xoxo.itch.io or whatever the kids are buying these
 days
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 people who don't play games are fucked in the afterlife, just sayin'
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 in other news, I spent ~9 hours yesterday working on a dumb project that I'll
 probably tell you about once it's finished, and then a BASH script that my
 friend and I wrote just deleted every single file because I failed to
 terminate a sed command. Or something, still not entirely sure what happened,
 because it deleted the script that was doing the deleting.
 
 good thing I have backups from ~3 hours ago. Feels great to lose 33% of a
 project for nothing.
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 @user-883 
 
 whoa, cool! So with one of these you can flash any ROM you want onto the
 cartridge and it should play any GBA/GBC game you uhhh legally own and have
 pulled the ROM from? If so that's pretty neat
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 world of warcraft is just a roguelike that lasts a year.
 
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/wow-chat/wow-chat
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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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 2/3 is fair, right? I mean, to keep a majority without overwriting authority. 
 
 .> go to sleep you fuck
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 @user-1074 @user-1209 
 
 "we still have slaves, we just enslave mexicans instead of blacks."
 
 "don't forget all the offshored jobs, those too"
 
 "oh yeah and all our stuff is made by slaves in the far east"
 
 "yeah but like fuck them right who cares they're so far away"
 
 "yeah bro totes"
 
 "anyway what do you want for dinner bro"
 
 "i dunno bro I had chinese last night"
 
 "cool cool so mexican then? I know this great paraguanese place"
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 kind to everyone, I'm friendly to everyone I meet, and when I'm feeling          │
 confident I enjoy walking on the street.                                         │
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 swing at the anti-black.                                                         │
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 "all substance, no surface to grab hold of. This is useless."                    │
 haha I know that's the only reason I'm COSMICALLY allowed to say it. T.T         │
 "what if we just... didn't fight? what if we were friends who tried to unite?"   │
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 @user-883 
 
 whoa I sorta know what that means
 
 you're so cool 🤩
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 every time a game developer makes a game where the world is in peril and the
 main character must save it, for every successful playthrough where the good
 guy wins there are thousands of doomed worlds where the player got distracted
 or bored and left the people to rot.
 
 how tragic.
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 So I was playing Dominions 6 the other day for laughs while working on my mod
 nation:
 
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/dominions/elentalus/elentalus
 
 good news, new version coming soon probably??
 
 bad news - I was playing as Arcoscephale, the ancient greek nation, well, one
 of them anyway, and my pretender god looked like this. Yes, those names are
 randomly generated.
 
 fuck.
 
 oops, cursing mentioned.
 
 "I thought you were cassandora and pandasandra?"
 
 yeah well I'm more of a vessel I guess? me, the physical form, is a witch. I
 mean, my hat pierces reality or whatever! Plus I got a vampiric blade, that's
 kinda cool.
 
 But also I'm a system and I got other things besides inside.
 
 "girl you're so confusing"
 
 look if it wasn't artistic the gods wouldn't want anything to do with it.
 They're just... like that I guess.
 
 "So, fortifier because she tells people to bolster their strength, confuser of
 the way because she doesn't get the tao, and mistress of dirt because she
 poops your pants and, fuck, makes dirt?"
níké featherflame citrine, goddess of Arcoscephale, has two points in air magic because she's good at singing, 6 points of earth magic because computers are rocks and she's good at computer programming, and 4 points of astral magic because she does a lot of drugs and thinks about different dimensions and stuff.  1x precision. 2x reinvigoration. far caster.  5 points of dominion, one point of laziness, and 1 point of extra food growth. term limits 2026 a picture of a dominions6 game. neekay, the fortifier, she who confuses the way, mistress of dirt.
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 @user-95 you seem pretty cool, would you like to play VRchat with me sometime?
 I have like, 1 friend in that game, and I'm too shy to make more xD
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 @user-138 
 
 well, the posts that make it through, battle hardened and tempered under your
 critical-hit gaze tend to be pretty neat ^_^
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 it's not a game, but all I know how to do is play.
 
 I can't do everything
 
 ideally, I'd do nothing.
 
 wei wu wei and all that
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 what if me and my friends were too cute for this world and all the
 conservatives who don't like queer people just fell in love and realized we're
 pretty freakin' cool if you can get past the strange parts
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 if you spot an ambush about to strike, shut the fuck up and get in position.
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 doom is like sand thrown on a fire.
 
 don't spread it unless you are intentional about it. sometimes it's good to
 smother fires. other times it's cathartic. that's okay.
 
 but keep in mind the future goals. where are we trying to get to in the near
 future? work towards that. your emotions are fuel, not despair to wallow in.
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 okay flag is cool and all but what if
a picture of a flag with three horizontal stripes, to represent the breadth of a large country.  the top stripe is black, to represent the night sky  the middle stripe is red to represent the people of this earth  the bottom stripe is blue to represent the rainfall as it pools below our feet
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 okay flag is cool and all but what if
a flag with three colored bars, oriented vertically left to right.  on the left, is a black bar, symbolizing blackness.  on the middle, is a red bar, symbolizing things that are red. and also passion because sex is red.  in the right, there is placed with due care a blue. that blue is bar. it is blue and represents water because water is clear and clearly blue.
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 It's so sad how some of the best games ever made get glossed over because the
 fun you remember is the friendship and fantasy you felt rather than the game
 itself
 
 time marches forward, and culture changes to no longer fit the old tools quite
 right. Plus they look like PS1 graphics ewwwwww look at those muddy textures
 and blocky bits arranged into triangles and meshes! how dorky, how retro
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 @user-1209 @user-1262 
 
 just gonna say you probably deserve that particular screenshotted block haha -
 imagine calling anarcho-nina a fed xD xD
 
 plus that first "get the fuck out of my mentions" was a tip that went over
 your head, not a threat said in anger. she's pretty darn angry but that just
 means you don't wanna be in her way =P
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 fellas is it gay if I think fascists should be killed if they don't
 permanently revoke their ways
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 "society at large" or whatever.                                                  │
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 yeah but it'd be cool if it was                                                  │
 [oh yeah well I think you're cool]                                               │
 whaaaat, no really?                                                              │
 [trust is impossible so don't ever expect it]                                    │
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 ohhhhh like binary operation terminators                                         │
 [... I don't like the sound of that]                                             │
 ohhhhh like machine processing calculators                                       │
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 or finite? [which is scarier teehee] and are machines not anything which         │
 moves?]                                                                          │
 no you did it wrong, she needs parenthesis made of curly lines like }{           │
 of course, -.- a witch paladin strategist, whose symbol is a chokepoint          │
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 As long as it happens, I don't need to be in charge.
 
 In fact I'd prefer it otherwise.
 
 it's going to happen anyway. Wouldn't you rather be a leader?
 
 no I fucking wouldn't. I'd rather someone else do it. Why the fuck would I
 want that, power? control? the very things you swear to relinquish and
 dismantle.
 
 yeah. too bad you can't fucking dismantle something you've already
 relinquished.
 
 true.
 
 ... and no, I wouldn't want to be in charge. no THANK you.
 
 ... but if it wouldn't happen without me, then yeah I'll be there for you.
 Just ask if you need me.
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 @user-569
 
 it's impossible for a genre to die. they just go stagnant, as other styles of
 art rise around them, waiting for the day when the other styles give insight
 into the stagnant style's design.
 
 they say that there are no unique ideas, and that you should combine 2-3 ideas
 from different genres to create a decent gameplay loop. I personally disagree,
 but when seeking to revive a "dead" genre you just need to pull in mechanics
 from other games. Games which didn't exist when the genre "died".
 
 For example, deckbuilders did not exist by the time RTS games "died". And yet
 new strategy games are being made all the time, some incorporating
 deckbuilding elements.
 
 Really, a genre only "dies" when the market is saturated by a bunch of
 corporations piling in on a specific formula that "works" (like how every RTS
 made between 2000 and 2010 was either a C&C clone or a Warcraft III clone)
 - this saturation causes people to stop buying strategy games.
But there's so much room for innovation. They strangle the market and say it's "dead" like... duh
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 all games that you can lose are capitalist games. All of their mechanics are
 abstractions upon the competition between the player and the computer (and
 possibly other players), which creates a disparity of outcomes - some must
 win, others must lose.
 
 I think that's okay, though. There's something inherently satisfying about
 power. I believe such interactions should exist in our diversions, not our
 institutions.
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 would be nice if the Fediverse wouldn't let you post something on Mastodon
 unless you filled out a content warning for it.
 
 sorta like a post title on Reddit, allowing people to say "nah I don't feel
 like reading something from X perspective right now"
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 @user-622 
 
 ah but a noble house would have armed guards who would drag you kicking and
 screaming out onto the cold winter night the moment you offended m'lordship
 
 frankly I could do with a good drag-and-kicking myself, where have all the
 good men-at-arms gone T.T
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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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--- #102 fediverse/6000 ---
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 I wish I had more games, I keep forgetting which to install though. Also
 Warcraft 3 doesn't work >.>
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 @user-1830 
 
 it's okay to care about the project or about a certain subset of features and
 yet still be totally un-invested in whatever lame feature people are
 requesting.
 
 FOSS lives and breathes on passion, and people who attempt to arrest or
 otherwise hinder or diminish the passion of the developers can suck a dick.
 
 ...
 
 it's a fun experience and I think they'd learn a lot about what other people
 like and how to please their partners, both in bed or in conversation.
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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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--- #105 fediverse/4427 ---
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 @user-246 
 
 I am the infohazard but I have that "automatically expand CW" post marked off.
 I like to click them each time, and with CWs it makes it easier to scroll back
 a couple months to find what you're looking for.
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--- #106 fediverse/2044 ---
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 honestly I think everyone should have two mastodon accounts - one for people
 you like, and one for people you trust
 
 (I have one)
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 Look all I'm saying is  all the people who say "oh you shouldn't make an MMO
 for your first game" clearly have never heard of Azerothcore. Literally as
 long as you don't sell it you can make the MMO of your dreams crazy easily.
 You can script it in LUA for crying out loud.
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 @user-1074 
 
 "I don't know any nazis. If I knew them, I'd beat them into the ground."said
 every single boomer punk and your grandpa said your grandpa. well, maybe not
 yours, who can say, it was for people my age at that stage of that part of --
 stack overflow --
 
 you can find common cause to cooperate against any elemental foe. your fellows
 will guide you and lift you up to spiral drill press your way to infinite
 homes.
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 I just want to stress that most people know more than me
 
 slept on my back. had a good dream. gonna shut the fuck up for a bit and see
 what ya'll get up to. ;) 😉
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--- #110 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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 War is hell - each casualty bids farewell to a wholely unique treasure from
 this world - war is hell - there is nothing that cannot be resolved with
 words. And yet we fight, and yet we pillage. War is hell, and those who demand
 it must do so only to resist evil, elemental evil, the kind that wars on the
 innocent and pillages the bounteous. War is hell. Fucking kill the ones who
 make it.
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 @user-1037 
 
 It's likely it could have been an artist's mock-up - like a UX designer and an
 animator sat down and said "let's make a cool design" and that's what they
 came up with. Designers do that all the time.
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 "the world would be better if you deleted your account"
 
 yeah, well, I don't want to live in a world like that, so fuck you
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 War doesn't care if you use guns or swords or words or waves. War is conflict,
 conflict is motion, and you are in the eye of the storm.
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--- #115 messages/666 ---
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 It doesn't have to be more complicated than "give us money and we'll fight
 back the right wing death squads"
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 can't wait for season two of Andor, either it totally sucks or it'll knock our
 socks off. But something tells me it won't hurt us either way.
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 @user-1370 
 
 I love this a lot! I want to put function pointers in a "matrix architecture
 array" and make them point to different functions at different points in the
 program. I bet you could even point them at each other, so like if M and Y
 then point at N, A, Y or something.
 
 this is really cool I like stuff like this tomorrow I'll take pictures of
 something similar I'm working on! I abandoned it tho hehe anyway remind me if
 I forget!!
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 shout out to all the people who think being cringe is a personality flaw and
 not an opportunity for growth
 
 ya'll suck and make life difficult in exchange for a brief moment where you
 can savor a feeling of superiority over someone who's living their best life
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--- #119 fediverse_boost/2964 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  Feeling a vibe shift toward the left embracing mom energy and relinquishing our fear of cringe, and can I just say not a fucking moment too soon  
  
                                                            
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 being "good at video games" does not mean "are you good at beating the game"
 
 being "good at video games" means "can you make the experience enjoyable for
 other players by using your character in an expressive and dynamic way"
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 Every ragequit in a matchmade game is a protest against an overly restrictive
 meta that refuses to accomodate the player's preferred playstyle
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 ... the trick is, depending on how many train-engine-dragons you fight, there
 will be a greater or lesser proportion present in a particular playthrough.
 Perhaps, potentially, people should pay for the original work, and then a
 small sliver for the addition or modification? Why, I do believe that's how it
 works now! Except, on the honor system, as people can download the mods for
 free and pay (or not) through the creator's patreon page or whatever that they
 definitely set up and which definitely shouldn't be able to levy a tax based
 on "transaction fees" for a process which definitely should be handled by the
 government, which claims to regulate our economy and provide the means by
 which we engage with said economy through their de-facto nationalization of
 the banks and other economic entities.
 
 where was I going with this? oh yes software piracy is ethical so long as you
 delete the original. Let's end with that because that's what I originally had
 a dream about and wanted to write about.
 
 she dreams!
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 Economies are capitalist things.
 
 I personally think if you have stuff right here, and it needs to get over
 there so that so-and-so can use it to make this-or-that which will then be
 taken to other places, then the answer is clear. The stuff has to move from
 over here, to over there. The rest is logistics, not economics.
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 [1] in this way you'd sorta be giving a loan to the game's company (while also
 letting them take a 10% courtesy fee for keeping the official* servers
 running) which is then "spent" on exciting and friendly competition. Sorta
 like... entering a poker tournament with your friends (even though you suspect
 you might lose money) just because you like hanging out and playing cards. the
 money is just a neat way to keep things moving and exciting.
 
 * official just means "run by the company" because naturally the serverside
 code should be open source. how else would people build on it?
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 @user-889 
 
 Don't give up!
 
 At least... not forever.
 
 It's okay to take a breath every once in a while
 
 It's okay to lie down and cry
 
 The only way away from those feelings is through. They've enveloped you. You
 need to swallow them whole, like a sponge soaking up dirt[y water]
 
 the only thing you need to think about is what's around you. It's okay to be
 alone for a moment, it's the best time to feel.
 
 Remember, feeling is how you know the world! It's your power, to feel, and I
 know it's hard. Everyone has different powers, but yours is this.
 
 You'll be okay, I know it
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 @user-1370 
 
 you don't have to apologize for escalating your response to trauma
 
 it's cool
 
 we get it
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 @user-206 @user-1576 
 
 sounds like I should have spent more time there. I was always pretty good at
 convincing readers that the person I was arguing with was wrong or an asshole.
 Or both.
 
 At least, the Reddit upvote / downvote system told me so.
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 @user-398 
 
 you take that back you feckin goof Mickey is king for a reason I will DIE on
 this hill
 
 (jk sorry for being combative but I'd just like to say that I'm someone who
 likes him unironically in essentially every incarnation)
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 screen record should just... copy from the associated music file instead of
 like... imperfectly storing the visual contents??
 
 better compression... 'sall I'm sayin'
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--- #130 fediverse/1596 ---
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 I like locally hosted LLMs because I can use them to summarize my own writing
 enough to put them in a post, or an alt-text box.
 
 I like them for other reasons too and it's hard to find people to geek out
 about them with.
two poems written by Ritz Menardi about... a lot of stuff. Here's the AI generated overview:  One way to contribute as a citizen in a country at war is by maintaining essential infrastructure and services. This can include keeping public spaces, like schools and hospitals, operational during times of conflict. Additionally, working on developing technologies that improve the quality of life for people in your community can be beneficial.  Witches, as you mentioned, are an interesting group to study and engage with. They often have a strong sense of ethics and curiosity. By interacting with them and learning from their experiences, you may find new ways to approach problems and make more informed decisions.  Staying conscious and attentive to the present is crucial for understanding complex situations and making effective choices. In times of conflict or crisis, it's essential to be aware of your surroundings and the needs of those around you.  Stories and storytelling are important for societies because they help identify weaknesses and areas for improvement. By engaging with stories from various cultures and time periods, we can gain a broader understanding of human nature and history.  Diversity in expression is one of humanity's greatest strengths, as it allows us to learn and grow together. By embracing different perspectives and experiences, we can create more innovative solutions and better understand the world around us.  [continued on picture 2] [continued from picture 1]  In the spirit of removing ourselves from the biological equation, consider exploring alternative ways of living that minimize our impact on the environment. This could include developing sustainable agriculture practices or investing in renewable energy sources.  Finally, remember the importance of freedom and individuality. By releasing the spirit of Liberty, we can empower people to make their own choices and create a more just and equitable society.  [end alt text]
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 @user-1722 
 
 Magic Survival
 
 it has gameplay similar to Vampire Survivors, but it came first, is way
 better, and is stylish as fuck
 
 single-stick shooter with roguelike progression
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--- #132 fediverse/3171 ---
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 scrolling through old nintendo power magazines I find games that I've never
 even heard of from the times when I was playing games on those systems.
 
 Some of them even look pretty cool. This is the best magazine to ever exist,
 fite me
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 Mount and Blade: Warband is one of the most mind-expanding games I know
 
 especially if you use the squad commands
 
 and there's so many wonderful mods! A good starting pick is Floris mod pack!
 
 sorta like Factorio teaches you to build logical gates
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 when you have a massive, fuck-off military, sometimes the best thing to do is
 to just... use it.
 
 ah, but what do you do when the sky rains poison bombs?
 
 I dunno turn into candy people I guess /shrug
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 @user-889 
 
 my boyfriend gets like, 2 social spoons to spend per day. He usually uses them
 on work because meetings and such.
 
 On the other hand, I'm excitable and passionate. I'm constantly driven to
 share things I find or think about. If you go on a walk with me without my
 mask I'll spend the whole time showing you pretty pieces of moss and stones.
 
 I usually message him once or twice per day. If the first one isn't responded
 then maybe he just wasn't interested in the thing I showed him - the second
 time he's probably burnt out.
 
 It fucking hurts.
 
 but I'm fine, clearly I'm fine, anyone who looks at me knows I'm fine
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 @user-774 
 
 I know that when you recycle 3d printed things the color tends to meld
 together and it looks kinda meh... but hey at least it's recycled.
 
 though recycled filament is probably pretty rare still, so it's probably not
 the kind you're thinking of.
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 they attack the bad guys in our provinces and say that it's our foes, and they
 attack the bad guys in their provinces and say that it's ours that are foes
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 Supreme Commander ruined me.
 
 I can't play RTS games without a zoom function T.T
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 in some games, like Star Wars Battlefront II, you unlock certain "badges"
 during gameplay. Like, "scored 10 points in one life" or "healed for 200hp" or
 whatever.
 
 these "badges" have names, like "guardian" or "hope"
 
 I wonder if you attached a player's history of medals earned to an LLM
 somehow, perhaps by feeding an array of them in as input, what would happen
 then? perhaps a narrative could be
 
 == stack overflow ==========
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--- #140 fediverse/5353 ---
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 some of my favorite games are behind me and I can't describe how happy I am to
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 you can make a functional prototype for almost any game in Warcraft 3's map
 editor
 
 that's why no real-time strategy game ever made an editor as good again
 
 FPS editors peaked at Unreal Tournament 2004 imho
 
 RPGmaker eliminated a whole class of game design jobs
 
 platformers you can make in godot
 
 menu based games too, though Twine also works well for that
 
 etc etc until you have a prdouct that you can justify sinking money into an
 engine for
 
 (the engine isn't THAT expensive geez and it's the most fun part to write)
 
 yeah I think you got this backwards, we should pay for the CONTENT not the
 structure it lives in. Why not just use godot? why not use a Warcraft 3 map?
 there are some things you can't do in Warcraft 3. You couldn't make Supreme
 Commander, probably, at least it wouldn't be as good.
 
 etc etc that's how it goes...
 
 game design, amiright? I miss thinking about that. Anyway gtg gotta log off
 for a bit [101  characters remaining]
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 ...zzzZZZzzz...
 
 in old MMOs like City of Heroes or Runescape you could do different emotes and
 they'd often have text messages that'd play whenever they were applied. Like
 /sleep causing your character to say "...zzzZZZzzz..." it was kinda cute.
 Anyway what I meant by that is I'm eepy sleepy goodnight my fellow americans
 (or whatever)
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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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 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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 I'd rather have Noblesse Oblige than the Mandate of Heaven but y'know, both is
 good too.
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 something something "all for one and one for all"
 
 something something "ritz you're privileged as fuck your parents would just
 buy you a plane ticket to wherever-the-fuck if you needed it"
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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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--- #148 fediverse/6102 ---
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 sorry I was just making stuff up because it's fun, hope I didn't accidentally
 unleash disaster or masterpiece, either would be equally bad
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--- #149 fediverse/612 ---
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 Look all I'm saying is if I had an acolyte or two then my insane ramblings
 could be filtered and parsed by a real actual human instead of being copied
 wholesale onto the internet, where the inconsequential or inconceivable ones
 are left to rest alongside the gifts of knowledge from another realm.
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--- #150 fediverse/3123 ---
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 using linux requires constant maintenance and that's kind of unfair, actually.
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 @user-979 @user-980 
 
 they do it for power.
 
 power corrupts, and these profane desires they possess are the definition of
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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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 IT WORKED! I got my game working! Linux is so awesome! 🥰 😍
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 ... sorry, forgot to content warning that last one. I'm kinda using this
 format like a twitch stream... how [weird, strange, perceiving, perplexing,
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 "grrrrr I'm so mad, I could just, I dunno, shoot a CEO as he's leaving a hotel"
 
 or, hear me out, or you could connect with your local radical networks and,
 or, almost there, or you could build solidarity with the people around you to
 better develop methods of resisting the kinds of change they will implement
 to, um, "discourage" people from "being so mad they could just"
 
 or both. both is good. not that I'm encouraging, recommending, or inciting
 that kind of violence. don't notice me three-letter senpai uwu
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 how it started: "I want to get stoned and play mechabellum (shit, drugs
 mentioned (shit, cursing mentioned))
 
 how it's going: [see attached picture]
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--- #158 fediverse/3008 ---
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 when I play games, the theme only matters when it's being sold to me.
 
 after, once I start playing, I stick around if the mechanics are good.
 
 hence, why I loooooove video games but spend like 30$ on them every 6 months
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 ... unrelated, but hey check out this cool social media collage thing that I
 made!
a long collage of various social media posts. Unfortunately they were not preserved when I turned my computer off, but their record was saved because I screenshotted them before closing the window. They're all things that I said, or mostly things that I said, also some things from my friends.  I didn't get permission to post them, but what they said was relatively innocuous. Just the stuff that they wouldn't mind sharing, the stuff that you should go to their profile website if you'd like to know more.
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 don't wanna rush ya'll but every day that goes by they remove
 "enemy-of-my-enemy"s from the equation.
 
 oh, hang on you're just a cute computer nerd. Nevermind, go back to
 programming or writing fanfiction or sleeping like a cute cat! Thanks for
 letting me CORRUPT YOUR SPACE AND VIOLATE YOUR BOUNDARIES OF CONTENTMENT AND
 EMOTIONAL SAFETY whoa sorry dunno where that came from I, uh, think I need to
 do evil every time I make something important? It's like, a cosmic balance
 kind of thing. I notice that after I write a banger poem or something I always
 end up doing something evil afterwards like snapping at my girlfriend or
 letting someone down or even just accidentally breaking one of my things. why
 why why does it have to be that way? why why why am I so confusing of the way
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 hey I'm Ritz I'm a perpetual student studying computer programming and I like
 play Supreme Commander (Forged Alliance Forever!!) and Star Realms. I write
 "poetry" and make art and stuff about computers. Looking for people to follow
 I guess so hit me up if I sound cool.
 
 #Introduction
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--- #162 fediverse/1233 ---
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 low key kinda wish someone would kidnap me and lock me in a room with nothing
 but a c compiler and strict orders to only work on whatever I want
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 @user-192 
 
 It's totally simple! It's just structs, void pointers, function pointers,
 arrays, mallocs, and oh boy I think I see what you mean
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 @user-883 
 
 Yeah I get it. I've been applying for remote jobs and they won't fuckin' hire
 me. Fuckers, I'm talented and qualified, who gives a fuck about my lackluster
 resume?
 
 Supply and demand is fake because software developers are only offered 100k+
 jobs and yet there's so many of us who are starving. What the fuck.
 
 I have a friend in Brooklyn, yet I'm on the west coast. Fucking geography
 amiright? I'd love to live with them and yet I can't because of something as
 simple as money. What's the purpose in that restriction? I'm so fucking
 talented, please fucking hire me. What can I do to get what I want? Ugh,
 modern society perplexes me.
 
 Like, yeah sure it's great that we have the internet and hospitals who can
 cure malaria and whatever, but why do I feel so encaged? It's so strange, and
 yet here I am -.-
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 @user-291 
 
 You're welcome! I forget how, but there's a way to change the settings such
 that each player has more "rubber" and I recommend doing that because it makes
 it more forgiving and allows you to make a few mistakes without dying
 immediately.
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 @user-192 
 
 ... but that doesn't really seem to be compatible with Maximum Extraction so i
 reckon i'm probably just wrong for thinking that would be good.
 
 ... or, hear me out, or perhaps Maximum Extractiontm is wrong and everyone
 should be guaranteed a place to eat and a bed of rice and beans to sleep on?
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 @user-1520 
 
 After a certain point you realize there's little to be done with that design
 space that Star Fox didn't do better!
 
 Also I think people tend to associate them with arcade "gun games" which are
 tbh more fun than clicking with a mouse or whatever since they're tactile and
 physical.
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 trans people aren't allowed to go to florida now because mean people don't
 want them on beaches where everyone's being sexy and disneyworld where they
 keep all their children's treasured memories
 
 and it's like fuck off I earned to be who I am as you see, I'll be as I damned
 please in whoever's memories I decree.
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 it's fine I'm fine don't worry about it idk why I posted that
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 "trick or treat" doesn't mean "give me a trick or a treat"
 
 that's awfully presumptuous and demanding.
 
 No, it means "give me a treat or I'll trick you" meaning "give me my candy tax
 or I'll fuck up your lawn"
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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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 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
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 I will forgive anyone for anything. But if you break my heart again I will
 hate you forever. and if you hurt someone I care about I will fuck you up.
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 @user-753 
 
 mutual aid is only something separate from your human responsibilities because
 capitalism insists that your loyalty is to the company, not to your neighbors,
 your friends on the opposite sides of the earth, this planet we owe all to,
 and all of posterity.
 
 @user-754
 
 mutual aid is good, actually, because we don't talk to each other and plan a
 way to fix it permanently.
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 I made some cool things yesterday, including some Magic the Gathering decks
 which I'd love to try out against someone someday. Playing against the AI is
 kinda boring because it always makes the same mistakes haha
 
 anyway here's the card-lists, and some things that I wrote while I was
 distracted
 
 I always try and keep my decks under 40$ - the decks I have IRL had a limit of
 30$, but that was back before 30$
a picture of a magic-the-gathering deck A picture of a Magic the Gathering deck A picture of a Magic the Gathering deck a bunch of un-posted fediverse messages
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 I don't really like singleplayer games
 
 sometimes a multiplayer game is too much effort to play with extra players,
 like Factorio where like anytime I'd play with other people they'd just kinda
 fuck off and do their own thing (whatever, I wanted to design a factory
 together, not play singleplayer together >.>)
 
 sometimes a multiplayer game has no players, RIP
 
 sometimes a multiplayer game has incredibly skilled players who shit on noobs
 and don't teach, RIP
 
 and sometimes a multiplayer game has no IRL friends that are into it,
 (personal RIP then)
 
 ... anyway, games are fun and we should play more of them. I wish I didn't
 have so much time to waste, but hey I guess that's where I'm comfortable, so...
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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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 part of me kinda wants to be the kind of nerd that writes down the names of
 every file that's permanently stored on my computer so that I can verify in my
 own handwriting or perhaps using a type of code that the files on my computer
 were placed there intentionally and not used to discredit or implicate me in
 something I had no intentions of being associated with
 
 phew idk what that means but surely it's important
 
 something something "file creation dates are just bits to be flipped"
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 @user-30 It wasn't too long. I'm used to paragraphs from Reddit.
 
 It sounds like you enjoy the themes of Dark Souls. When people say "soulslike"
 they usually mean the gameplay mechanics. The theme could be completely
 different - like, ninjas VS mafia for example. Completely different theme, but
 I could see it working.
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--- #180 fediverse/6236 ---
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 I legitimately think everyone in my life is just as cool as me
 
 they just... don't know how to know it.
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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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 @user-1352 
 
 that's pretty cool. It kinda sounds like a local replacement for AWS / Azure?
 I don't fully get it but I haven't worked with web applications before ^_^
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 sometimes I think performing my art was just an excuse to use Linux. At least,
 some of my art.
 
 But hey, I'm not complaining, it's awesome.
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 dear me: 
 
           DO SOMETHING USEFUL FOR ONCE
 
 that's all, fuck off and be helpful
 
 ... wow, rude.
 
 yeah I mean, I do helpful things. useful things, somethings.
 
 helpful.
 useful.
 
 many such cases, she says, with ultimate certainty, as if narrative could be
 prologued. but pronounced prolonged.
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 I love programming, but I'm not a coder.
 
 you burn witches because you JUST CAN'T HANDLE THEM ANYMORE. I know, I get it.
 of course I do.
 
 I'm always so concerned that someone might stumble upon me. that they might
 read me. what a vulnerable state, to be afraid?!
 
 I really really really really wanna play world of warcraft
 
 my message to blissard is: treat World of Warcraft like a game engine, not a
 theme park please. I mean, the theme park should still exist, because it's neat
 but... the rest of the game engine could be used to create essentially
 anything with a 3rd person camera.
 
 singleplayer doesn't even need to worry about clipping animations. (lag)
 
 I wonder if you could run World of Warcraft on lowest settings in vanilla
 burning crusade or wrath of the lich king? good thing those are open source
 now, so you can host your own if you want. well, except the client, but nobody
 has bothered to write another one besides the owner and primary developers of
 the engine.
 
 movement system plugins? data memory?~~~
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 @user-883 
 
 omggggg I wanna play a fast paced shooter as a cute anime girl, which game did
 you have in mind? ? ?
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 {ah but you can't kill yourself without having played Hearts of Iron one more
 time. It's such a fun game! Why don't you give it a try?}
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 it's probably a good idea to write pseudocode, then real code, instead of
 starting with real code, and bugfixing something incomplete and more difficult
 to reason with.
 
 unless you write real code easier than pseudocode. idk do what works for you.
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 @user-652 
 
 just made a game for GGJ in Godot and I have to agree. Godot is so
 frustrating, but one thing I have to concede is that once you get your head
 around it the GUI part is actually incredibly powerful.
 
 My next game I'm going to make in Raylib, and if the UI bit proves too
 difficult I'll probably end up back at Godot.
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 Sometimes it's okay to be sloppy if you're having fun!
 
 Just... clean up after yourself when you're done 😉
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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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 why would you gatekeep content by keeping us from easily using LLMs some
 people aren't technical and still need to write computer programs because
 that's how you enlighten a people is empower them with new tools
 
 "I've never heard of that programming language, but luckily I can fit all of
 it's documentation in my context window."
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 when you type the letters they slowly fade in on the other person's screen
 
 like miniature explosions from layers of gunpowder
 
 forming letters in the sky
 
 anyway the text would "burn" into existence slowly and you had time after
 typing
 your words to go back and edit them but also whatever you said was semi
 permanent. Thus forcing a smooth and ideal progression toward thinking about
 the things you say.
 
 Also separate idea but it'd be neat if there was like... a show or something
 that just recorded a person's desktop as they fucked around on the internet.
 Call it... ambient desktopping. It'd look a little like those coding twitch
 streams that just slowly update over time. Idk it's kinda cool
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 what if we demanded private servers for video games (by law? what else would
 even work??) and encouraged companies to hire people to make high-quality mods
 for their competitors games so they couldn't make as much money selling
 expansion packs and DLC
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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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 When someone remakes content into a different expression like a remake or
 reboot or whatever it gives a different message in its meaning - some
 circumstances and characters can apply for more than one message I'm it's
 meaning
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 I love Linux. All I have to do is type "authserver" and "worldserver" and
 wouldn't you know it suddenly a universe is created (with very constrained
 rules) that anyone might inhabit should they desire to. It's not like I'm
 perfect - oh wait I have a toot about that, gimme a sec
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 "She's a witch, and for some reason she's convinced it's okay to be fucking
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 @user-138 
 
 they say that not all monarchs are evil or inept, but the worst ones
 definitely are.
 
 such is the same for all leaders, elected or otherwise.
 
 sometimes, it's better to question authority than to grow to resent it.
 
 resentment is inaction. it is an untenable [charity./tragedy.]
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 @user-1227 
 
 The times you've lived through must be pretty boring and not very interesting.
 
 It's okay, me too.
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