Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space
Dragon. Agender, otherkin, occasional artist and writer, infosec engineer, in about that order. Avatar by Xeirla. Singular they/them preferred.
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Joined Aug 2017
Also, that DF and "cozy" can now feature in the same sentence demonstrates just how far it's come. I'm proud of them.
Found design porn on the Dwarf Fortress wiki: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/images/7/7f/Dwarf_Fortress_material_cheatsheet_by_DeXoteric.jpg
Between this and playing Vintage Story, it's been a really good time for cozy block building games.
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Anyway, this is why we need more romance folks and fewer "hard scifi" writers in space fiction. They know the dish, and they know how to serve it.
And I suppose I get the appeal of "yeah, that but hundreds of planets and millions of generic people".
But my dude, if I wanted that, I could play an Elder Scrolls game.
We've seen that, it's a mile wide and an inch deep. I don't need generic dialog to make me feel like an always-needed, nigh-unstoppable superhero.
I want the dish on what the space bartender thinks about the locals. Why the drapes are red. And who got slipped a cup of piss instead of their gargle blaster for being a jerk.
@Leviamicky Yeah. YEAH. Ostranauts kind of has this vibe too, and it's something I've been trying to get into.
I used to be a huge Star Wars nerd, and the parts that stuck the most with me weren't the movies, or the important books like Shadows of the Empire, X-Wing, or (what I read of both versions of) Thrawn.
It was a humble set of volumes that told us about who the background characters were. Like this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_Mos_Eisley_Cantina
I think I got it then, then somehow forgot. The people are what make those worlds, and so many folks forget that.
The longer I play space games, the more I think about Deep Space Nine instead of Elite.
Like, the whole "procedural generation, infinite universe stuff" is great and all. But what matters most is the perspective and weird stories this creates. And the humanizing -- for lack of a better term -- ways that people learn to live in those settings.
This is why I think SS14, particularly the longform roleplay servers, are very good "space" games. Give me that gossip, it's the lifeblood of this place.
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I made a Furry Telegram Group for everyone who wants to switch from Windows or recently switched to help each other with problems we encounter.
Old Linux users (like myself) are welcome as well.
DM me for the link.
Boost for reach.
@roguecnidarian Like, I think that we kind of peaked at that idea that portable devices could be allowed to be offline some or most of the time. And so much of the software-as-a-service-but-AI-to-sell-your-data-back-to-you brainrot comes from giving that up.
@roguecnidarian I mentioned this somewhere before, but this is kinda what led to me dusting off my (homebrewed, well-cared-for) 3DS (pedantic: New 2DS XL).
Especially compared to the whole always-on, your-console-is-a-cloud-client model of newer tech, having stuff be fully offline, having full confidence in my data, and having it just work is... fucking liberating right now.
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Imagine, if you will, a wyvern. Then imagine the wyvern doing a biiiig stretchy. Imagine those big wingies stretching across the entire room. Imagining this had no purpose, congratulations!
@roguecnidarian Tbh: if this is the headfake companies convince themselves into, instead of actually hoovering up and stealing monstrous amounts of user data to back these claims: that might be better somehow?
Laziness in ad copy saving us all would be a hell of a thing.
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politics, reference to US politics
Did you notice how Trump and Musk, in several weeks time, managed to convert pretty much every single punitive government system and structure into something oppressive that furthers their personal agenda?
If you are not in the US, please learn from this for your local politics. This is why you want to avoid having punitive systems (and systems that otherwise control or restrict people) as much as possible. They are like catnip to authoritarians; they're a big cannon that they can point at anyone they don't like.
That includes prisons, border control (yes, even tourist visas), intelligence agencies, cops, and so on.
A healthy governance system is built out of systems and structures that *lift people up*, that take care of them, that encourage positive contributions to society. Those systems cannot be as easily subverted, and they also produce consistently better outcomes (just look at basically any research on this topic).
Build systems that support and inspire, not systems that restrict and control, and then your government won't be so vulnerable to the first ambitious authoritarian that happens to pass by.
It's really only a single small step from "keeping out illegal immigrants" to "deporting all Jewish/Black/trans/disabled/etc. people". You've already built all the infrastructure for them.
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@mawr Anyway, my plan is to live long enough to see them tried in the Hague just like Duterte is right now.
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@mawr IMO: nah.
Shit's bad. But there's a benefit to the most brazenly stupid fascists being the ones with wealth and power instead of the more competent ones. And that's that they're single points of failure, bad at securing their gains, and more about smash-and-grabs than building their power to last.
That said: hoo boy this still sucks.
Awhile back, I vaguely recall a friend (@mawr, I think?) saying they were glad Google+ hadn't succeeded. Because Google would be much more competently evil with that data than Twitter was.
Anyway, I think about that a lot now.
Dragon. Agender, otherkin, occasional artist and writer, infosec engineer, in about that order. Avatar by Xeirla. Singular they/them preferred.
Also on @Goldkin (meow.social) for follow requests that don't work here.
Joined Aug 2017
