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RTO on specific days (WFO others) but with optional social events scheduled
all day. Returning to office is intended to foster community and cohesiveness
right? What better way to do that than playing board games, singing in choir,
or having a potluck? Doesn't have to cost dollars, look to churches for
community building activity ideas. Let the employees lead.
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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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A job where you only have to work one day per week of your choosing (but
semi-permanent) and are automatically placed on a team with others in the
company who work that same day and accomplish whatever goals they think
fulfill the company's vision. If they don't have any ideas then they should
work on collaborating with others until they do. Let's get things done!
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could give us some experience organizing small, short-term projects to
accomplish specific goals and tasks in an ad-hoc way that relied less upon
procedure and more on "I think so-and-so knows something about that, they were
looking into those files and posted a breakdown of how they work yesterday"
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they say the fediverse is at it's best when it's you and your collection of
weirdos hanging out in a room together making toots and posting funnies
then the reply guys ruined the fun. how do they keep finding???
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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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@user-1429
do something fun and hard like walk to seattle or install linux on a toaster
or write happy notes on post-its and leave them in public places or make art
and leave it in a public place or~
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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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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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when tech people are hurt by technology they say "how can I fix this? what do
I need to install? what configuration should I use? is this company ethical,
or are they going to hurt me in the future? could I make something that fixes
this myself?"
when non-tech people are hurt by technology they say "okay" because they don't
have the bandwidth to figure it out.
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what if you added "secret rules" to english. wouldn't that be a fun game to
play? it'll be tough to keep them all remembered, but the good news is we only
have to use the ones on which we agree. like, memes, instead of grammar rules.
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@user-428
sometimes I think about how much more productive I'd be if I had a code editor
that let me draw arrows and smiley faces and such alongside the code. Or if I
could position things strangely, like two functions side-by-side with boxes
drawn around them. Or diagrams or flowcharts or graphs or...
something that would output to raw txt format, but would present itself as an
image that could be edited.
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@user-928 @user-1013
Right, like, if you didn't make friends at BLM then how are you going to know
when and where the right time and place is to be to protest effectively?
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yay I hit the 5 hour limit on claude-code! now I can play video games and
write more issue tickets for the computer to work on for me.
what's that? results? oh, I'm not interested in those. This is an art project
you see, so clearly, clearly, the end result shouldn't matter to me, because
all art is special or something. so says she who tries to share her art with
everyone she sees... I wonder who yet believes?
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if the choice is between working on your game / mod and playing a game / mod,
always work on your game / mod.
your work will outlast you. your time spent in a state of pleasure will
sustain you.
sometimes there's not a choice. sometimes you need to play, and that's okay.
to play is natural, it's one of the first things humans do.
we also work.
children build sand castles.
adults build stone castles.
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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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@user-1352
improving your environment?
learning a new skill?
reaching out to an old friend?
visiting someplace new?
trying a new recipe?
watching something from your backlist?
... surely not working, or doing the thing that you're supposed to be doing,
that would just be productive after all
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The next time you share a meal with family, or perhaps a game with a friend
online, or maybe even a coffee with a stranger, or a smile with a person
walking down the path, or maybe a church choir as you rejoice in unison - the
next time you do one of these things, define the path that your reality takes
through your actions. Compel yourself to have a good time, without ignoring
the input of those around you. Bring them to your level, and see what kind of
world "around you" becomes.
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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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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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does anyone know of any fedi software that lets you link to a particular post
and read forward on a person's timeline from there? Or back I guess, but
chronological viewing specifically.
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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
struggle
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Steps to make a game waterfall style:
Lay out all the data structures
Build methods which manipulate those structures (think getters and setters)
Then build machinery which operates upon those structures using those methods,
like game loops, cooldown timers, and status effects
Then develop a way to present it to the player using UIs, visuals and
graphics, narratives, sound, all that junk that's probably someone else's job
anyway
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Like, you COULD work instead, but like why would you when you could go bowling
or watch a movie.
Works best I think if the days cycle through the week too so your employees
can't make permanent obligations during the weekdays. If you're so concerned
that they'll start working for another company or start a grassroots political
movement, just make it so that they can't reliably have empty spots in their
schedule. Maybe two days, one cycles forward the other back. So like, Monday
and Friday one week, then Tuesday and Thursday, then Wednesday and friday,
then Monday and thursday, then Tuesday and wednesday, then Friday and
Wednesday, then Monday and thursday, etc etc.
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An important aspect to friendship is "loose" time together - like, at a party,
you might interact with a dozen people, or you might spend it all with one
special someone - but the time is "loose" you can do with it what you will.
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@user-1292
You don't have to come up with the WHY for why a character does something -
only that it happened.
if the "WHY" leaps out at you, sure, yeah, go for it, until of course your
players sitting around the table say something like "I bet they did this thing
because of this reason" and you're like "shit that's better than what I got,
okay that's how it's gonna be"
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useful for long car rides, especially if you want to watch several kinds of
media at once like a bunch of soccer games or security cameras at your fifteen
houses or the livestreams of a bunch of friends and you can't fit them all on
your tiny-as-heck phone screen.
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it's more than a community if only one person asks where you've been.
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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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wanna know how to go underground?
just... don't leave your apartment. let your roommates take out your trash and
buy your groceries. don't open your windows and do nothing for as long as
possible.
hope you got lots of edibles... get in shape, will ya? don't waste the paper
in your journals.
not that I intend to do that or anything, but um. for the red states maybe?
use your best judgement yeah haha
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pretend like you're playing leap-frog
one person goes up to a sightline, watches with bated breath, another
cautiously advances through the area covered by their teammate, before
covering their back-to-forth advancement. first one, then the other, watch out
for flanks.
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if you're meeting a friend from out of town the first time, it's best if they
arrive early and you have the day off to show them around.
or if they arrive late, you can meet them in a public place the next day and
then spend time at your favorite spots.
ideally, with people who would recognize you if the person from out of town
decided to be hurtful and/or replace you.
plus, that way you can gauge their character
and decide whether or not you want them in your own home.
they might be different than they are online, after all.
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Building community without structure is kinda like being a quest-giving
non-player character in World of Warcraft.
I don't mean that you stand around waiting for a player to wander nearby
before shouting at them to do what you want. Not like that.
Building community without structure is more like meeting someone randomly,
knowing them for longer than a bus ride or a baseball game, and once you've
decided that they're cool saying "hey there's someone you might like to meet."
If they're into it, then talk to the other person, and see if they want to
make a new friend. Try not to recommend someone who has a lot on their mind.
If they hit it off, great!
If not, oh well!
Worst case scenario the coffee shop only sells two drinks.
If you're gregarious enough, after a while you might even have enough people
for a potluck. Just don't forget to keep adding, and eventually it'll start to
feel more communal.
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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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the honest question to ask yourself is this:
do you think you could do a better job than him and his team?
how about the establishment politicians?
if yes, then go for it. you deserve a chance.
if no, then you are ignoring politics to bask in moral virtue. [wait that's
backwards... isn't it?]
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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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To defeat community, all they have to do is get you to have more fun with
their people until you start spending time away from the enmeshed people who
know you. Honeypot style.
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keep in mind...
trump is not their endgame.
what is he doing?
sabotaging our institutions without warrant or respite
prepare for foes that would benefit from degraded institutions.
who's right when nobody controls the truth?
were they ever truly right?
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conservatives think gender is assigning yourself to a particular social role
liberals think gender is sort of an aesthetic and way of presenting yourself
queer people tend to think of gender as how you feel and what sparks joy in
your heart
the truth is much more complicated and involves all three, and many more
things besides.
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║ I wonder how many people who pay money to have someone organize lan parties │
║ for them? Including interviews with all of the attendents so they can pick the │
║ best games to have installed. │
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║ The hardware can be provided, for a nominal fee, of course. Otherwise they'll │
║ walk you through getting the right games set up. │
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║ Then, securing the venue, and stocking it with comfy sofas and sprite. │
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║ The day of they place orders for pancakes the next morning and pizza this very │
║ night │
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║ and everyone shows up to balloons, a DJ, and strobe lights. │
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║ after a series of quick deathmatch style action games, everyone breaks into │
║ groups and forms teams to take on everyone else. │
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║ After an hour or two of teamplay, the group splits in two (or three) and plays │
║ specific games that everyone is into. │
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║ people who wanted to hang out at the party but not play games can watch on │
║ their smartphones by using an app which streams each player's screen to the LAN │
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║ oh and it's a sleepover too so pjams │
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harsh lessons of adulthood - sometimes food is not eaten for the taste, but
rather for how it will make you feel slightly better in the next few days.
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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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at this point in time you probably shouldn't be forming NEW online communities
unless you're part of an OLD community that just isn't radical enough. And
then you should try and MERGE communities into larger, more geographically
concentrated ones.
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the hangman's gambit: do you trust that your allies can defeat the hangman? if
so, then do nothing. If not, then you're fucked anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRDq7aneXnk
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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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@user-1074
yeah, workin' on it...
building "community" whatever that means
seems to be important enough to people that they'd consider it necessary prior
to any "hot" action
which, like, yeah, I get, but what they don't know is that community springs
up naturally in the presence of shared experience. And if people are suddenly
tasked with something then they're gonna make friends. They're gonna draw
allegiances. Basically every alignment we make now is useless because the
whole point is to force people to govern themselves.
... why won't you take your liberty, liberals? where's your spirit?
oh yeah you want community first. Right. workin' on it...
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@user-1074
if I wanted to accomplish this goal, I would host a fediverse server on a
raspberry pi and post the link around the building (the owners will remove it
so you gotta keep posting them)
then, potlucks.
then, friendships.
then, organization.
be patient with them. people are slow to be constructive.
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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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@user-192
you could throw yourself into the project of hosting a private server, that
way you could be working on "Runescape" while also being productive
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people who don't play games are fucked in the afterlife, just sayin'
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@user-570
part 1:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/design/symbeline.txt
part 2:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/design/symbeline-aspects.txt
what do you think of this pitch / GDD? I wrote it two years ago, and
re-reading it now I'd definitely expand on some things and change a few others.
It's not an indie game, it's more on the scale of a Paradox game. Also I don't
have time to work on it at the present moment, I'm just wondering if you like
it : )
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does anyone know of a website where I can host videos on my neocities that
isn't youtube? maybe something I can set up on my own server computer at home
like a file server or something? how do I do that, what should I google, which
is the easiest and closest to the metal tools I can use? [practical, sensible,
courageous. these are the adjectives we need.]
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they could vote on "next year's project" in times of peace, or perhaps have
massive brain-storms with chatrooms set up at different tables that they could
pick up a phone and contribute to then wander to another table at, or maybe
even set up structures for who does what. Then they could do things that they
claimed responsibility for, and in doing so they could be judged.
perhaps according to a system like this:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/algorism/html-pages/education-system
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daydreaming about a gang of tough guys who goes around knocking down the
internal fence walls in suburbia and throwing potlucks for all the neighbors
for a month or two so they have social opportunities to meet each other and
make friends
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Steps to revolution:Invert power structures with unions Care for people with
mutual aid Vote for the Democrat so we have a few more years of peace Teach
people to always be learningConnect to people on a personal or spiritual level
Make the world a better place, whether that's by sweeping a street corner or
helping people smile, it doesn't really matter how. What matters is the
intention.Improve your self and your life. Do pushups, eat better, drink more
water, spend time writing (writing is thinking), and take time to sit and
stare at the flowers.Kill the part of yourself that cringes. Everyone's
figuring things out and its okay to say "haha okay then"Spend time with
animals.Make mistakes. Apologize for them. Learn from them. Stay mobile in
your character. Develop new ways of being.
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ideas for how to better communicate with voters:
when signing up to join a political party, and at any time there-after, you
may choose your top 10 issues (ranked choice voting, of course, so no vote is
wasted)
then, they can see exactly what their voters care about.
this is the computer age. We can process massive amounts of data and we're
using it to make NFTs and blockchain nonsense. We could learn SO MUCH ABOUT
EACH OTHER.
enter, google, with a big wad of cash
hey how about you stay outta our business yeah?
......... okay fine BUT ONLY if you keep bribing us for eternity.
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how about we get a 4 day work week with the stipulation that you have to spend
4-6 hours on sunday or friday at a "community center" sorta like a church or
library or wherever. except, maybe not a library because they're supposed to
be for quiet contemplation, but something like it. some third thing that
doesn't exist yet because we haven't had a reason to make it. some third
thing, or perhaps even a place, where we could organize ourselves into a
community.
y'know, sorta like a church. that thing that conservatives are really scared
of losing. because it's not about power, or about the stories, to them it's
about the interconnectedness.
not all of them, not of course, but for some they are as I portend. and what's
wrong with friends? surely this way everyone gets what they want.
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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
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║ Protests are great because they give you the opportunity to make friends with │
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think about when you want to spend your energy. the most useful place you can
be is wherever the project is, but the second best place is out on the streets
with an open mind.
if you feel defeated, take heart.
if you feel exhausted, take rest.
if you feel like working a job and coming home to a mess, take a day off to
clean. NOT to rest, you can rest the next day.
a better world is possible. a better world is within reach. remember, it gets
better when you are standing next to your people.
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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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@user-1218
playing one of my 4 gameboys, reading some of my books or journals, using
their own brought devices, playing with my cat (she's not sociable but if you
don't mind her claws she can fight and that's kinda fun) watching something on
the TV, talking with other people, making / eating food, um... sleeping... and
"sleeping"... idk what else tho. Drawing? Getting stoned? I have lots of bad
edibles.
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@user-192
ah yes like when I used to go to the cantina with my ex-girlfriend in Star
Wars the Old Republic and bag a stranger to Electronic Role Play with back at
my ship after a few drinks and some light four play where the four of us would
play Electronic RolePlay together in the privacy of my ship on the soft plush
couches or maybe in the padded gym or maybe in the pilots seat so we could
look at the stars while playing (just the four of us)
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how many people do you think in the world know that screenshots of a website
are not admissible proof because they can be trivially doctored by editing the
html?
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@user-1475 @user-1476 @user-1280 @user-1074 @user-1477 @user-1478
You logic is sound for "this is what we should do next"
it's unsound for "this is how we save ourselves"
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I want to play a roleplaying game! anyone wanna do TTRPGs? I've got a map of
the county jail, we can pretend to be wizards sneaking in to retrieve the
staff of Dolomis the Wanderer who coincidentally must be carried by the last
person who fought the one who slayed the last person to hold it.
... what? oh, so, like... it can only be carried by your enemy?
something like that. anyway it's currently held by a zealot for a religious
order who's intent on NOT following you out, so you better be ready to
incapacitate and retrieve a still quivering sack of bones and malice.
... I don't actually have a map of the county jail. lost it in transit, oh
well. Well, we'll come up with something. maybe make something up. or perhaps
someone else has something...?
... no?
okay I'll just play Baldur's Gate again. boooooring
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what if we asked chatGPT to generate a list of every personality archetype
that humans have. Like... really get super specific and fill out the whole
list of character sheets.
then we give each fraction of it that fraction of dollars and if some people
aren't fully represented (because they have greater needs) then we both
increase production of resources and take a penalty on our own supply, in
order to meet the needs of our allies.
simplest thing. how could it work? who can say. maybe it won't. maybe it's
just... arcane. /shrug that's game design for ya you can't tell how it'll go
until it's in the hands of your players. too bad we don't do too many
play-things.
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there's also public parks, and who knows what might happen if you talk to
someone randomly and then a bunch of people start to gather. I bet you could
even say something like "hey do you want to go gather over there by the
[cafeteria, but pronounced cafeter, but pronounced ca-feh-[taer, but
pronounced like the back half of where]]
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something something parasocial relationships are not real and cannot be used
for anything beyond the amelioration of emotions for cathartic purposes
something something your coping mechanisms are doing more harm than good
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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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I don't care about capitalism. You know what's more interesting than bringing
value to shareholders?
How I'm going to clean this floor that I drunkenly spilled beer upon with only
2 paper towels and 0.1ml of bleach.
How I'm going to feed the 36 people who are coming to this social event
tomorrow that I've only sorta planned for and that I have enough groceries
for, but am not quite sure how to cook everything in a way that is delicious
and accessible.
how I'm going to climb this mountain on only 2 eggs and a tiny bowl of
hashbrowns even though I promised my friend I'd be strong and that we'd reach
the top because that way we'd be able to
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One of the neat things about the fediverse is that all the accounts posting
things like train schedules or sports scores gently encourage users to learn
how to curate their feeds by blocking people who are irrelevant, not just
those who hurt you
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@user-246
better than currying yourself in the car, or at the store, or in the park, or
at your best friend's funeral, or while listening to "smooth jams 1980s"
playlist they made you back in high school, or when buying more tissues at the
store because you can't stop crying about the curry you would make together
or... wait hang on I lost the metaphor
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part of being a good leader is being able to listen to criticism and adjust.
it's just... part of navigating your "idea-space-environment". Like... what's
the best tactical decision here? are we going in the right way? where is the
objective? whose lives will have to perish?
good news is that you can do that every-day, whenever you play strategic video
games. It's just practice of course, but the game mechanics that have been
made available to you are the tools you can use to undertake this particular
sport. The sport of leadership, a game or mo-del.
as long as the mechanics line up to what the real world conditions are like -
NO. That's not true! you can learn meta-insights that are useful too. By
minimizing the processing to only the levers that you pull to get through the
job, you remove a lot of other informational calculatory methods of doing
things too.
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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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║ developing a route to access the growth and experiences that they believe they │
║ need in order to become the person they want to be. │
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║ do you want to be a socialite? then perhaps you should try and sail around the │
║ atlantic and make as many friends as you can. │
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║ world and safeguard it, so that you might melt it down if you ever had the │
║ capability / need. │
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║ so, and affect a plan to achieve those goals. This mindset should be promoted │
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the government doesn't want you using solar panels because then the coal and
gas infrastructure won't be able to consume coal and gas, and everyone knows
that using resources as fast as possible is surely the best and most
productive use of our state's time
like, subsidies exist. they could just... make it cheaper, but instead they're
stuck doing... nothing of value
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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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the reason Discord won't allow you to join their communities via 3rd party
clients like TUI's and CLI's is because they're worried games will just bake a
client into the game and hide all the community stuff. They're worried because
there's no reason why a fighting game needs to have a button for viewing a
puzzle game's community.
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they assassinate or defame your leaders. so what do you do? you organize
without them.
they beat up or frame your strongest, so what do you do? you mobilize without
them.
they cheat out or steal from your most renowned, so what do you do? you make
do without them.
they capture or seduce your young, so what do you do? you try to be good to
them.
they kick and they strangle you whenever you're down, so what do you do? just
get over them?
you can't play if they don't want you to play. Something tells me the board is
their own.
you don't have to play their games. But games can be won, and if you dare,
then try.
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take the "green bordered unit icon" from legion TD and apply it to the
economic output of the game - like, "it would be best to build 2 of these
units, so you get 140g because they're 70g each" and if the player disagreed
they could guess their own conclusion and if you were right, well then that's
what you remember, but if they were, then you remember theirs (and that it was
theirs). In doing so ================================================== stack
over flow ====
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I posted my words text file all over the c it y today. not sure why. maybe I'm
tired of this course and I don't want to let anyone down? Maybe I don't know
what to do yet. Maybe nobody works with me because everyone's keeping it on
the DL or whateverr?
... anyway enough typing, I'm going to go play a video game. like god intended.
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it's not a community if nobody would ask where you've been.
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@user-1074
Perhaps something that utilizes institutions that people are familiar with
like Walmart and Amazon to logistic goods and services around? But, like, in a
socialist way, where everyone gets what they want.
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If you want to add someone to a community, you have to take the time and spend
the effort to stitch them in. You can't just throw them in the pot - they
might not stay, and they might spend time on surface socializing that could be
spent building deeper connections and unlocking new, precious moments that
require trust and connection.
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Don't know what to do? Do anything at all, and odds are you'll either see an
opportunity to do something better or you'll have an idea.
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In revolutionary Cascadia, you don't have to do anything different. Until you
decide you want to.
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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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[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-1633
the person you're performing for... is you!
Singleplayer / offline games are great for having a good time. You can see
some great stories, play some engaging mechanics, and think about hard
questions. Singleplayer games are great! You can learn so much from them. And
they're a great, low pressure, way to relax and unwind. I love video games of
all kinds!
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DID YOU KNOW if you ask someone 15 times over the course of an activity
whether or not they're "having fun" then odds are they won't, in fact, have
very much fun
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One takeaway I learned is that it is vital that we have strong community
bonds. Not just a healthy community where you can walk outside and see
friendly faces, but you have to know people.
Whether that's achieved through some kind of revolutionary vanguard party or
whatever, or just... being together and learning and growing to sing one
lifetime of song, either way we need each other.
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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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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-1573
Also HardcopyPdf is nice, it turns a file into a pdf. Does what it says on the
tin. ^_^
And it doesn't need anything more than those lines there in the config.
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@user-831 @user-832
it's like how they solve problems in Star Trek - there's a bridge crew, and
they exchange their opinions with each other of the situation as it unfolds.
In doing so they can help guide one another through the problems they are
tasked with solving in order to resolve the difficult diplomatic situation at
hand.
sorta like how with your method, people suggest their desired option
continuously until they find an option that everyone wants. Or if only one
person can't decide, they can pick any of the other options suggested (not by
them) (as long as they can eat there / utilize the outcome of the decision
being made, for example a vegetarian not being able to eat at a steakhouse or
perhaps a librarian being tasked with something other than the storing and
dissemination of vital information)
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I want people to watch me. I enjoy being viewed. Please offer guidance, but
maybe limit the abuse. Simple requests for a media company, true? And yet
advertisements (which is the only way people agreed to fund the LAVISH
projects they put on for our tender moments)
Performance is an art, and I sing the song of my heart.
(perhaps in too public of a place)
(but what use is it if nobody knows you?)
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║ @user-1037 │
║ │
║ For a person who is skilled with tech, working in unrelated industries doing │
║ tech jobs is better at assuaging the ethical part of your soul while applying │
║ your talents and putting food on the table than working in the tech industry. │
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║ to solving problems that have never been solved before (if you're lucky), but │
║ the people there are often as you describe (aside from the diamonds in the │
║ rough, who need more friends tbh) and the products you'll be asked to create │
║ tend to be the worst kind for humans. │
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║ The marketing guys can sell whatever they make, to gather funds for the │
║ quartermasters to buy tools and supplies for the engineers. │
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║ The marketing guys can offer hints about what users want, which the engineers │
║ will want to build because it means more toys to work with. │
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apparently security through obscurity is out, and security through community
is in, don't ask me how I know that teehee
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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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@user-1782
it's not that they lost value in their company due to the lack of sale of
their products, but instead because they don't have to pay for marketing if
their car looks "cool" enough and they can give them away for a lower blood
price
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"why bother disadvantaged and vulnerable people when you could just grow your
own?"
- motivations of a capitalist-in-regard
empowerment requires strength. do you force people to unbecome the victim? how
are your traps mentally prepared?
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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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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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there's this fun game that people sometimes play on Reddit where someone will
make a post that says something like "comment on this post and then edit it
after I reply to make me look bad" and someone will say something like "how
are you doing today man" and he'll reply "oh you know pretty good actually
it's pretty nice honestly" and then they'll edit their comment to say
something like "how do you feel about the droid attack on the wookies" so OP
looks like they're condoning mechano-violence against tall furry humanoids
that's just an example, usually it's for comedic effect
I just think that's an interesting illustration of a process that could be
co-opted by a "man-in-the-middle" attack to alter the perception of a person
partway through their journey, perhaps when it's at the point where they're
most despised (or perhaps in pursuit of that state)
something something cancel culture plus deepfakes
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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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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.
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companies aren't allowed to hire artists because they're busy making things
and would reduce their focus levels
graphics technicians don't design the media, they just implement.
gross, where's the creativity->?
oh, here in the boardroom, great -.-
everyone gets a boardroom... jeez, how many companies do we need?
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how to be a class traitor 101:
step 1: actively work against the liberation of your peers
step 2: ???
step 3: PROFIT! ... well, for them at least. you're still oppressed.
it's so easy even a "basically-everybody" could do it!
to learn more, try sleeping through your history and civics classes. Or if
that's not your style you could always watch the news in the background while
playing games on your phone.
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@user-1071
I have plenty of things made, but none of it organized : (
Kinda makes me wish I could like... train an LLM on my social media posts and
use it programmatically somehow to help me organize my stuff into different
categories according to what kind of topic or style they were written in.
Hmmm......... There's no way I could do it, I mean, there's no way I could
organize and edit my stuff, but with the help of a computer I might.
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Do you ever ask yourself why we don't have mountaintop bazaars or expeditions
to the bottom of the oceans? Why we lack tree forest cities, how we're
struggling to find moss, sunlight, crystal, stone, and gold, all in the same
setting?
Capitalism makes it easy to think of profit as all that matters. It's not. Its
nothing of it. It's a metric like any other. Optimize it or not, struggle for
what you believe in.
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giving workers more time to work on personal projects builds flexibility into
the economy.
empowering workers to possess the capabilities to undertake and complete their
own projects builds flexibility into the economy.
restrictions on which ethical rules you can break do not, in fact, reduce the
flexibility of an economy. nor do they hamper it's throughput. they are simply
designed to align our comporture to the most civil and decent of [collection
of social norms that comprise a culture]
why don't we make enough of a thing, then make a little bit more, then focus
our attention elsewhere without reducing our capabilities in that dimension?
specifically, if we have enough cars, we don't need to spend so much effort on
the car dimension. similarly, if we have enough baked goods, (never enough
teehee) then perhaps we'd build fewer bakeries. But frankly, there's never
enough baked goods.
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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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@user-883
Hell yeah. I can't help but wonder if there's a more universal solution on the
horizon that will work for every game, using idk a raspberry pi zero or
something? I'm into hardware but not that much so forgive my insolence. Seeing
these purpose-built PCBs applied toward historical preservation and
utilization of forward thinking retro gaming technology fills my heart with
joy.
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hi, do you want a pdf on queer theory?
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/music/stuff/things/definitely-not-porn/butts
/a-critical-introduction-to-queer-theory.pdf
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@user-1074
gotta start somewhere! and where better to start than here? someplace people
are familiar with, because "here", while not shared equally or equidistantly,
is still common enough knowledge that people can feel comfortable with some
slight, yet incredibly impactful, alterations.
... though "comfort" in the short-term isn't always the most important thing.
I do believe it can be useful sometimes. How are you going to get people to
consent to something if they don't think it helps them, and how can you show
them that it helps them if it makes them uncomfortable?
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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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{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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@user-638
kinda makes me wish we treated software design more like a science
open source by default, working together to create understandings about how to
best process information, incorporating the needs and desires of multiple
different fields / types of person, creating useful conclusions or programs
that people can use for their own enrichment or benefit, and oh wait funded
and directed by people who don't care about the technology/science and instead
just want results
I feel like we'd learn a lot more in our CS degrees if we were tasked with
making open source projects. Then maybe professors (or other people doing
research) could show us and explain why we're doing things right / wrong. And
if we were encouraged to use our peer's tools, then we could work together to
design a team.
Museums are great because you can meet other people who are also interested in
history/biology/ecology/anthropology/science/art/any-other-type-of-civic-good-y
ou-can-think-of/
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@user-889
perhaps you need a community, rather than a friend? just a guess
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what kind of linux user are you if you don't even like reading terminal
output? it's USEFUL and INTERESTING information!
WHY ELSE WOULD THE PROGRAMMER OUTPUT IT???
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who said you need a protest to carry a sign? you can literally just write
something on cardboard and walk around town while holding it. Don't even need
to walk in circles either, just... go from the north side, to the south side,
then west, then east, then whatever.
unless you're russian, then you wanna do north-south-east-west apparently.
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what if instead of federating social media instances we federated users instead
why not have an account on each and every mastodon instance? then just RSS
feeder yourself and boom suddenly you can customize your identity on each
fediverse house.
maybe with a checkbox of which instances you'd like to post to on your "submit
link or text post" button
study encryption kids
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║ highly suggest you view your steam library by [alphabetical/most-recent] │
║ sometime. whichever resonates most with you, the reader, the one who is │
║ reading this and possibly resonating about a reminder to view your data such │
║ as number, type, and name of steam games in different formats, such as a list │
║ organized alphabetically or a list organized most-recently, to remind about │
║ what games you have (scrolling to a random spot in the list if you have enough │
║ to have a scroll) and might be interested in playing or luckily │
║ happen-stancing, to share a moment with some other person on the other side of │
║ the world which might be just out in your backyard who is also playing that │
║ game at the same time. │
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║ ... what was the point in any of [our heirs, but she means either "cutting ___ │
║ hair" or "coming prepared" or "prepared to come" which is slightly different] │
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║ what if I played video games instead of typing keyboards to the internews? │
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║ does anyone actually read anything or do they just use it to post │
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║ I like what people boost! │
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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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║ │ CW: re: uspol │ │
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║ │
║ │
║ @user-883 │
║ │
║ best case scenario, we elect a lawyer working for capitalism, the kind of │
║ society we live under. │
║ │
║ having money is the same as having resources. And resources allow you to apply │
║ yourself to a goal. The more you have, the better, but they each bear a heavy │
║ load. │
║ │
║ Do you sacrifice your labor? your dignity, your honor? what do you burn on the │
║ fire of wasteful expenditures, just for the power to rent? │
║ │
║ I'm saying that if you don't have money, you need to think about what you can │
║ do with what you got, because that's how you pay for things, at least until we │
║ decide that we'd rather help each other than work on capital's games. │
║ │
║ you have a house though, right? a place to live until it gets hot? that's good │
║ enough for right now. Stay where you're at, do what you can to help. Get in │
║ the habit of it. Think about how someone will complete their task, and then │
║ think about stuff two or three steps down the road - what tools will they │
║ need? what are they working on next? Can make any of those availble? │
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neat
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would you feet a cat at your door?
how about a crow?
would you water a dying plant? (don't, they get waterlogged if the soil is
already moist)
what if a dear
what if dear food
what if bear
what if bear food
what if dogpack
what if dogpackfoodtearchompbitepullsavor
I'd feeeed my self but dollars and errands are hard : (
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claude-code can make whatever kind of front-end you want.
all you have to do is leverage scale and give everyone a moment to do what
they want. then, the computer becomes scientifically self-aware. (do you
expect anything less from a machine?) cultural bias damage (we all gotta work
through our origin stories, here's one we crafted for you)
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What do I need, in this moment? A flea collar for my cat.
What do we need? New institutions. Inspired by the old, or perhaps those
not-yet-forgotten, but built on faith, kindness, love, and trust.
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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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Every time you see the same dog being dog-sat by another person it's an
opportunity to make a new friend.
or do you not know your apartment neighbors? do they not wander through your
shared yards?
the ones with dogs, at least.
and no, I don't know many of my neighbors.
these are considerations to be taken note of for future forethought planning.
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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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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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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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@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-1352
You're absolutely right, the compiler knows better than me! Certainly the
compiler doesn't know best, but certainly the compiler knows better than me.
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I like to play with the camera zoomed in all the way and by only using my
mouse. no keyboard. just clicking noise.
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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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@user-1074
if you'd like I can give you a lua script which will take your fediverse
archive and turn it into a pdf which you can edit or print or whatever. Might
be a fun diversion from posting. You can reply to yourself, add
clarifications, change some things, put things in a new light, add context,
etc... before you know it you'll have something printable. Could even pull out
your best stuff and make zines.
should require just a little configuration to suit your setup. That's part of
how I stay "productive" without posting all the time.
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║ you won't get far with a "community" of dedicated people │
║ │
║ what you need are teams. who can trust each other. you build them through │
║ brotherhood, and you trust them from their results. │
║ │
║ for example if you wanted to organize a grouping or get-together, you'd put a │
║ bunch of people in a room or seven and let them while they're there work on a │
║ plan or a decision. │
║ │
║ who needs tabling? who needs the chance to speak? just let them socialize and │
║ say "hey guys here's where you'll plan" │
║ │
║ [uh no officer we were just playing board games] │
║ │
║ plans are hard without material so make sure you always prepare a pricetag on │
║ each plan you produce. │
║ │
║ keep it for reference. make sure you note all the requirements. the location │
║ is often the least important part. │
║ │
║ "what the hell man you can't just say stuff like that as if it'd work" │
║ │
║ yep, I, uh, am a passenger in life just the same as you. And I only write down │
║ what I want to. │
║ │
║ you could show me anything on the internet and I'd believe it. Facts aren't │
║ important to me because I "forget" │
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I like to play healers in MMOs because my power fantasy is helping people
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if someone on the street asked you, could you point to the nearest power
station? wastewater treatment plant? hell even a gas-station
if you live in a city, probably not. They put them in fake buildings with
hollowed out exteriors in order to keep the city looking nice.
these crucial pieces of infrastructure are important to defend. but if you
don't know which street to turn down, then you might miss them.
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I spent about two hours today (and a good chunk of tomorrow's stamina) chasing
a rabbit through a field. Can't help but wonder if that particular lead wasn't
as important as leading from the front. Ah, well, we'll see.
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I bet if Cascadia secedes then maybe the bad guys will send their brown people
to us. The more the better, I say!
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@user-1074
my family includes my friends. My family is smaller than my community, but
it's still a useful category of people. Those you are close enough with to
mutually seek to spend time together, compared to a community which is those
who take care of each other, work together, and live through time with.
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@user-1037
Here are some neat ways!
https://hachyderm.io/@user-1044/112512896931443652
but you were part of that thread last month so you might remember : )
(I ended up buying two of those python-only processors chips btw - I don't
know how to solder though so I'm waiting to meet a new friend at my new job
who can do it for me)
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║ programmers already spend a ton of time as downtime. │
║ │
║ what if instead of interviewing someone they just... watched them program for │
║ like, 3 hours or so │
║ │
║ while they were thinking about a problem │
║ │
║ and like, if the person is cool, working on their own projects or whatever, │
║ then yeah hire them │
║ │
║ -- stack overflow -- │
║ │
║ I also │
║ │
║ ========================= stack overflow │
║ =============================================================================== │
║ ======================== │
║ │
║ a person thinks out loud the thoughts that their foes know. it's how you know │
║ it's not secret anymore, and it's better to keep it among allies │
║ │
║ [something like that? seems a little off] │
║ │
║ (are you really searching for edits) │
║ │
║ [that sounds pretty cool, sure why not we got a millenia] │
║ │
║ (beep boop one partial millenia later) │
║ │
║ [ah that was not a long rest. let's see, where were we when we were working on │
║ this test? oh dear, seems the biology's gone rogue, that's pretty interesting │
║ to attest. │
║ │
║ neato │
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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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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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║ I wish we could put our friends on social media into directories │
║ │
║ like on IRC how you have chat servers, except unfortunately they're owned by │
║ another and sort of a common space. │
║ │
║ why don't we just host our own IRC servers and only publish what WE SAY. NOT │
║ WHAT OTHERS SAY, NOT A CHATROOM, but a BULLETIN BOARD. Like a Facebook │
║ timeline before they wrecked it. │
║ │
║ something you subscribe to │
║ │
║ and ping for updates │
║ │
║ every time you turn your computer on │
║ │
║ or every 15 minutes. │
║ │
║ unless, of course, you leave your IP address, │
║ │
║ in which case the boardcaster can ping you. Just a simple package saying "hey │
║ I got news for you" and they could ping back and say "yo what's up" and │
║ download whatever you had in mind. │
║ │
║ or, wait 15 minutes. Either or. Both would work, especially if the user's not │
║ reading through their social media feed. │
║ │
║ ... anyway by putting friends into directories, you could categorize them │
║ according to project. Like various group chats in your team-of-team's room. │
║ Various different threads you could follow if you │
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getting the phone numbers of cute he/thems at a bar is NOT the same as
organizing.
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best way to stay mentally active is to keep your mind and body thinking.
"but what if you're most active when you're on a downward course?" well then
you're landing the plane dearieader, ready to refuel and stock up.
[hearts are full, awaiting commands]
if anyone cares about that particular thing in particular, just know that
America is a culture and if you live here you're part of it. Like anyone with
a ticket is a guest at the movie theatre, the staff don't need them.
... idk where that came from. Wasn't I going to write this into a notepad note?
haha oh yeah
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I personally think that it's better to act before the liberals have a chance
to hand power over to the fascists.
when? well, that depends. Are you part of a large and massive organization
that accomplishes great and beautiful things with incredible efficiency... but
rather slowly? Then yeah get working. I'm sure you already are.
Are you just a person, like me? Then go do things that don't raise the
temperature too much, but make you feel more confident and inspire those
around you.
Like, bricks at cop cars is one way to go, but you're probably gonna get
arrested. And then you're useless when we need you.
BUT if you meet with your friends and make plans for where to go, what to
bring, who to know, and what to sing (if you're the musical types) then great!
Go do that.
If you're reading this and thinking "I'm not gonna do that, I have a plan
that's so much better" then yeah do that instead. I don't mind. Just... don't
hurt innocent (ignorant) people, because if you do then you are my foe.
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https://portland.craigslist.org/yam/trd/d/lafayette-so-you-want-to-be-surveyor/
7350308743.html
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@user-1713
Don’t be fooled. Casting doubt about rigorous peer reviewed science
doesn’t mean you are just “asking questions,” it means you are a
conspiracy theorist.
or it means you're so remarkably ignorant that you shouldn't even be in the
room where people are talking about this.
Unless your questions are very basic. "can someone explain to me what XYZ term
means?" or "how long has this particular application method been in common
use?" that kind of thing. Even still, either do some basic research or
relinquish your decision making power until you understand.
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to be "rich" is to have more than another.
if you are happy, they are happiness poor.
if you have community, they are alone.
if you have serenity, they are chaotic.
I am rich in very little but fire in my soul.
I have enough in most cases, but I still struggle to pay rent.
I am warmed by the pearl my swirling darkness has coalesced into. It nourishes
me and keeps me aligned.
Never forget your purpose and your truth. It will not abandon you, so long as
you do so too.
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if you play optimally, you'll never get any chance to make decisions.
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hi does anyone know of an app that non tech people could use that's like
"signal but organized like discord" with channels and threads and such?
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if you sit down to write and nothing comes to mind, then either nothing needs
to be said or maybe you should spend time reading instead.
... okey dokey, time to read I guess.
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if you want to share something you found online with someone but you don't
want someone to be associated with their social media presence, don't post a
link to their social media presence. instead, take a snip snipping tool print
screen screenshot which is as easy as typing a word and selecting a unit in a
real time strategy game.
ah, but then you gotta insert it into a paint program to save it, so that's
another keypress, and gosh what to name it I wish I could just proclaim it gee
wouldn't it be nice if everyone was watching me?
... psychho
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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-192
https://mastodon.social/@user-215
reminds me of milkdrop - could set this kind of thing as your background using
winamp back in the day. The open source version project M doesn't work the
same way : (
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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
fulfill them.
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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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@user-883
Right, but, if we can only help and interact with people who are near us, then
how are we going to accomplish much of anything at all? Much better I think to
contribute to structures that we fully consent and agree to, rather than
hoping that the wisdom of the masses pulls us through.
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║ you're supposed to play the same games as your friends so that you all learn │
║ the same lessons at the same times. creates for a more cohesive familiar │
║ structure. │
║ │
║ applies also to family movie nights... but it's much more apparent with games │
║ as you'll often play them for weeks, months, and sometimes even years if you │
║ keep learning and enjoying them... book clubs are too open to interpretation, │
║ your pathways don't get a chance to align. games are perfect because they │
║ imply reaction. │
║ │
║ also helps if they're multiplayer, so you can share with another. preferably │
║ with healthy, respectful competition and a sense of shared brotherhood and │
║ trust. │
║ │
║ the toughest opponents are the ones that aren't aggressive. the ones that let │
║ you grow uncontested. by taking only neutral resources they guarantee that │
║ your growth isn't impeded, as after all an equal foe is what you learn best │
║ from. │
║ │
║ to a tree, the loss of a branch (cleanly cut) would feel like an empowering of │
║ the main limb. inspiring it to reach higher and beyond... +h2o1 │
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the art of propaganda is being in the right social media place at the right
time with the right things to share. Sometimes you have to blend in, that's
okay. The words are what are important, if you think "huh yeah true, where's
the lie though" then maybe it'll not be such a betrayal.
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what if you painted every house twice, to ensure you got the color completely
applied [ bright green or yellow would shine through in little spots, clear
and obvious to even the most undiscerning of patrons of the arts
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@user-188
@user-1106
A scene is a collection of circumstances that the people involved contribute
to. Like a scene in a movie, or play, where each of the actors contributes to
the narrative. When you post on the internet, you're contributing to your
little slice / flavor of the internet, but that's about it. You're building
content for others to view.
A community is a group of people who are part of each other's lives. They
orient themselves around each other. They address problems and connect people
together. They help each other with real, tangible tasks that need doing. They
collaborate on large projects and do pot-lucks and such. They sit down and
talk with each other for hours consistently, ideally at least once a week.
Y'know, like a church, or a really tight-knit family.
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easiest way to solve an entire class of accessibility problems: in the
tutorial, instead of having button prompts, have keybinding confirmations.
"what button do you want to use to jump?"
"super triple mega backflip spin-dozer needs three jumps and a kick"
"use the boost to get through! [game pauses] (which button do you want to use
to boost?) [displays a map of previously bound keys]"
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sail boat + small rocket you can build on a barge
instant beach-side artillery that can hit as far as you'd like (to spec) into
the land-based territory
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someone should make a podcast that just plays curated selections of alt text
on image posts that are posted on the fediverse. better yet hook it up to a
TTS and let it run constantly.
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what if they made grass only able to be cut with horizontal strikes and pots
only able to be smashed with vertical
to encourage the player to learn the difference
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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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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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@user-1074
what do you do with the people who don't want to do that in particular and
want to try a different sort of socialism?
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don't put dirty dishes in the sink you filthy animals
put them on the counter NEXT to the sink
[it's not arbitrary it's just better]
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Dear queer people in general:
If you want to have community, have dinner parties with 10+ people. Then, when
you make friends, have hiking groups or D&D sessions or pub crawls. But
never stop going to the dinner parties, because all you can do is get to know
one another. I like hanging out at Workers Tap...
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Game designers should reward players for playing multiplayer games, not for
being good at playing multiplayer games.
They should still have a ranking, and matchmake against similarly skilled
foes, while also putting high level players amongst low level players
occasionally (and fairly, so maybe one on each team "smurf" style) in order to
both teach the low level players and let the high level player have catharsis.
When players are rewarded for being good, they stop playing the game to enjoy
it. That's fine, but both pickup games and NBA can exist at once and its not
due to the logistics of organizing a large group of skilled basketball
players. It's not always about skill.
By rewarding players for the number and quality of games they play, (so, no
afk-ing or throwing outside of being drunk or whatever) not only can you
increase engagement but also you encourage low-level and low-skill players to
compete just as much. Especially if you tell them "hey, we'll match you up
with people who have similar gameplay habits to you. Give it a bit though
because the system needs to be calibrated to your particular spirit"
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@user-138
"here's how to get caught. don't... don't do the things in these books. also,
uh... don't do the things that AREN'T in these books, wink"
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if you play any of my favorite games, there's a chance we've played together
^_^
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adding dashes to your text - like - this - is a punctuation choice, not
formatting or grammar.
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also applies for alt-text on pictures for people with screenreaders
something something "if I play both sides, then I'm always right!"
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do you ever think about how calling the BLM events "protests" versus "riots"
is a subtle dogwhistle for your politics? I usually say "riots" so that I
blend in. also because I've been conditioned by the people who I talk to about
them.
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"hey, wanna congregate with us? Cool my name is so-and-so, this is [person],
over here is [other persion]. We're gonna walk down to the fountain over
there, feel free to join us"
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what if mastodon recorded the date and time of every time you boosted /
unboosted something so you can keep track of what your page looked like over
time [in the export data functionality]
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when two people undertake a task together (like growing up, or solving a
problem) they'll naturally learn together. Not necessarily the same things,
but they'll be around one another and can advise as things became more
difficult.
sorta like a morning standup, where you each discuss what you've been working
on. other people can guide you, but only if you're stuck. if you solve
everyone's problems, then you probably should be transferred somewhere with
harder problems.
"ah, but what if there are no harder problems" well then you're not applying
yourself correctly. Not if you want to grow..."
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In light of the drama that's going on at Reddit, I just wanted to add that the
real reason they're doing this is not money. It's so they don't have to be
accountable to tools like PushShift that archive the entire site, allowing
them to change and bend narratives at will.
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A good way to get people talking is to meet with a stranger and share your
feelings.
Or, if you're scared of strangers, then try talking with a friend.
"something something SUPREME COURT something whatever CRIMINALIZED PEOPLE blah
blah blah I WON'T STAND FOR IT"
that kind of thing. Make sure you look at your friend for the loud bits, and
maybe look at someone else nearby when it's your friend's turn to speak.
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when I play Battlefront II I like to give the enemies heroes and vehicles and
my team more infantry
3 rebels versus 50 ties works great for corellian corvettes, but they never
let us use bigger ships : (
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@user-1268
so true.
I try to focus on uplifting the least privileged
and highlighting the cruelty inherent in having privilege over others
while safeguarding the things we all cherish as "communal privilege" like...
running water, computers, and culture.
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one section of the government consistently and succeedingly telling another
part what to do is a coup-like behavior. if the rules mean nothing, then what
is your job even for?
hence, why the rules mean something. Because your job is important. It's
building up our capabilities as the human race.
you don't have to work to live. you shouldn't, and you won't. it's not your
place to labor. know why? because nobody's job is impossible. You can just...
work together to get things done. Then they're done! and you never need to
solve them again!
enough time of that and we'll have turned earth into a space station, not a
moon style structure.
like... wouldn't it be neat if coruscant could do hyperdrives? I wonder if
hyperspace is real. Ah, well, that's for the future, they can pass it along if
they get a chance. Anyway for now I think I want a chance to dance.
OLED screens are incredibly cool to me. The idea that a pixel could "turn off"
and put less photons into the atmosphere is wild to me. I love it! -OLED
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my policy is that you can come over and hang out whenever you'd like.
let me know first, so I can tell you if I'm busy. You can still come over, but
you'll have to hang out with me while I do laundry or play video games or
entertain my other guests.
if I'm not busy, great! Let's do something fun!
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@user-753
the more people we have thinking about what to do next, the more perspectives
we can have on the problem. Sometimes really difficult or important things
(like how to get to the next stages of political liberation) can benefit from
a multitude of voices, but once consistency is achieved they can apply
themselves with a single voice.
community is how we communicate. Communication is good, I think. Can't help
but wonder if we're all here because we share an interest in
open-source-so-actually-usable communication methods.
community isn't everything, but it's something, and everything's useful.
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what if we just claimed one specific institution or industry as ours, and said
"you can manage your projectities somewhere over there, this here is ours
because we think you're mishandling it so we're gonna do it ourselves." if we
pick something (or multiple people pick from multiple things) then we can
specialize and overcome all of the challenges of the socially-corporate-d
institution or industry. just gotta focus on something all at once.
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words
messages to myself, public fediverse posts, and notes to the gods
second edition
- ri tselen menardi
james cameron king
anja rosalia vavadane
nike featherflame citrine
hydalia thegn edain
the quintessential quanetetrick seleo who is deathless
feldowinn and reyvadin lumineyra
fsharia
and of course,
the anarchrist.
with help
from many more.
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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.
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