It’s worth mentioning the ancestor of all Diablo-like games, Rogue. It’s incredibly simple, but highly addictive. You can play it online.
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It’s worth mentioning the ancestor of all Diablo-like games, Rogue. It’s incredibly simple, but highly addictive. You can play it online.
There’s always Diablo 1.
But my favorite is Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, which was made by some of the people who created Fallout and has a LOT in common with it. It’s an open world, a combination of classic fantasy with elves, dwarves, and halflings with a rising steampunk technology that competes with magic. There are many schools of magic and technology, as well as social, stealth, and combat skills. The graphics are very crude by today’s standards, but the gameplay is outstanding.
There’s a lot of potential here, I think. But don’t expect it to be like your Reddit experience; for all it’s faults and failures, it was a well-developed platform and community that underwent enshittification. It took me a while to realize that it was wrong to expect the same degree of involvement here on the Fediverse at this point. This is the new frontier. It’s growing like mad, but it will take time to reach the full flowering of its potential. We can’t be sure what it will be like when it’s a mature platform and community; I hope that it won’t be exactly like Reddit.
With any luck, it will be better…but different. Let’s face it, Reddit had been going downhill for years before things hit the fan!
When I walk along a street, I count the number of drivers I see using their phones. It’s been a consistent 50%. And the ones who aren’t on their phones tend to be elderly. So what’s surprising about an increase in pedestrian deaths?
I’m in the same place without having read that piece you mentioned. And I’m not going to be looking it up.
As I see it, climate change is the greatest threat the human race has ever faced. It makes World War II look like a squabble in a kindergarten playground. We should all be INCREDIBLY impacted by this, and yet everyone keeps going on as if nothing is happening.
But I think 50 years is a little bit of a narrow time frame. More likely we’ll all die within 100 to 150 years. I mean, our species will go extinct.
Lately I’ve been thinking about what a sane society would do to try to mitigate the worst effect of climate change, while preparing society for the world that’s coming. A world without fossil fuels or basic infrastructure.
I don’t know about deletions, but I requested my data for takeout more than two weeks ago and I still haven’t received it.
Yes, a LOT.
Wouldn’t e-bikes be a relatively stopgap measure? They still require a relatively advanced and carbon-wasteful technological base, after all: maintenance and repair for the bikes themselves (including regular replacement batteries, which are definitely NOT environmentally friendly), plus paved roads in good repair (again, requiring a lot of fossil fuel expenditure).
There’s also the likelihood that as the Earth’s environment becomes increasingly hazardous we’ll require protection from the elements more and more often - protection which would be difficult to add to a bike of any sort.
The US military has projected that basic infrastructure in the USA will be collapsing throughout much of the country in less than twenty years. It’s hard to see how ebikes will be practical under those conditions. Gearing towards long-term lower-tech solutions would seem to be a wiser choice.
Those sociopaths have weighed down this sorry planet for far too long.
So we need to hunt them down, then.
Jerboa is crashing more and more frequently. I’m getting maybe five minutes between crashes now.
I’m using Jerboa for Lemmy, version 0.0.35.
Imgur is heading for an IPO too. And they’re going to be purging all NSFW content. In other words, they’re busy committing suicide.
I did exactly that. And ever since then, I’ve been backing up my full uncompressed photographs onto several duplicate hard drives and flash drives. Plus my videos, of course. I really should set up a server so I could do all that automatically, but I don’t really know how and don’t have the energy to figure it out.
Kim (1901) by Rudyard Kipling is the story of a boy coming of age in colonial India. Kipling grew up in India himself, and the sheer richness of the many cultures that Kim experiences as he travels across India and up into the lower Himalayas with a Tibetan llama is mind-blowing. Meanwhile Kim is drawn into the “Great Game” of spying between the European powers. It’s a deeply moving and beautiful book. Best of all, you can download it for free in all the major ebook formats!
I was part of a group that left Goodreads when they sold us out to Amazon and Amazon started censoring reviews they didn’t like. We set up a community on Google Plus to research alternatives to Goodreads and secondarily, to Amazon itself.
I set up the spreadsheet we used to track our discoveries. It’s WAY out of date, but it’s still there - unlike Google Plus.
It didn’t exist back then, but BookWyrm would by far have been the best choice. It still needs some improvements, but it’s already outstanding.
I’m BobQuasit@bookwyrm.social there, by the way.
I will never trust Google for anything since they killed off Google Plus. Getting rid of “don’t be evil” as their corporate motto was a huge giveaway.
I want to abolish work, not reform it. Reforms always end up getting rolled back by the plutocrats.
It was well before I turned one; I was still in a crib. It was dark, nighttime, and incredibly hot. Some sort of animal with glowing eyes stared at me from the floor.
I thought it was a dream, but decades later my parents confirmed that when I was a baby the thermostat had broken and we had a night where the temperature was 100°. As for the animal with glowing eyes, that was our cat.
I don’t care as long as they don’t take away NotePad. NotePad has useful features I’d hate to lose - such as stripping out all formatting, and being able to search/replace wildcard characters as themselves, rather than as wildcards.