Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

At scale, search is indistinguishable from social engineering.

... huh.

@Balinares BABA is WIN
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... is really good. I get a definite Subnautica vibe from it, and I've stopped and gasped at the scenery several times now.

It's also letting me build sustainably without messing too much with the game's (very, very, very pretty) ecosystem, which I was hoping for and greatly appreciate.

I play a lot of games that focus on optimizing resource harvesting/extraction. Lately, I've been much more interested in "builds that take just enough" and give back to the simulation than builds that optimize on maximum strip mining rates.

I guess it's a good way to tinker with how these builds might work in practice -- and I kind of translate it into real projects around the house here, including our solar panel, 3D print, and plant projects.

I guess I never mentioned that we now have the ability to recycle plastics entirely on our own here at home, powered by the sun. I should document that sometime.

This looks like a game I will play, but I'm not digging the "strip mine the planet for resources" aesthetic promoted by the trailer: https://www.satisfactorygame.com/

I think I'm going to use it to simulate solarpunk and augmented/hybridized nature builds to see how those pan out.

Last month was house repairs, houseguests, and snowpocalpyse parts one and two. This month is travel, in which I'll be flying out to the mothership for $JOB tomorrow. Between both of these have been cooperative and builder videogames to manage stress, which seems to be a usual pattern for me.

I will never stop having the urge to build and create, even when circumstances feel demanding or doomful. In a way, it's comforting. I need to figure out how to share more of that here again, at some indeterminate time when I have enough spoons again.

Doing my best to keep it together while the world seems much too scary. It isn’t much, but it’s something.

Keep warm out there. It’s cold and stormy and gray right now. Share the warmth, if you can.

@Aradia Our tulips have also started to come up, so it seems to be a quorum.

@Kyresti In all seriousness however: I can see why BD spends so much on their fab and has a dedicated medical grade silicon supplier. None of that stuff is cheap. @..@

@Kyresti One of the amusing sliders to play around with: upload a model to Shapeways, then see what it’s like to print in their most expensive materials.

Not that I recommend printing in copper, solid gold, or reinforced steel fill (ow, ow, oww), but they’ll happily quote very high numbers at you for what it would cost.

@zetasyanthis @Soreth (💜)

@KitsuneAlicia@octodon.social A motion I now use is substituting bullet jump for quick melee strike (which I’d been using previously for equipment-locked sorties). It’s taken some getting used to, but it prevents zoom from being taken away from snipers or inadvertently homing ground slamming.

It’s especially weird right now with PC on melee 3.0 and console 2.0, since I keep forgetting they also changed how the next weapon key and blocking work.

@mawr ... I may need to scribble on the rules sheet of my copy of Rampage/Terror in Meeple City now, for the next time folks play.

@leafnoodle Yeah, for one-off, I wouldn’t worry about it too much.

@leafnoodle As already mentioned in thread, only likely happen due to profiling, unlikely at US-CA border, but it helps with peace of mind.