Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

At scale, search is indistinguishable from social engineering.

... huh.

... 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.

I especially like how I used “in case of trouble” in some old service notes, because the whole Bastion soundtrack is amazing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-jU9EFTMhbY

TFW going through your own old documentation from 3-5 years ago, and your brain remembers exactly what media you were reading or listening to when writing the prose.

This is a really neat way to teach folks how privacy works in the digital age: https://twitter.com/Klonick/status/1102970732890316801

tl;dr: using only Google, visit a public place and see just how many folks you can de-anonymize, as a lesson in how to protect oneself (and in this case, legal clients) from the same process.

Someone is using Kass as their character model in this Wind Waker Randomizer race. The fact someone went through the effort of adding that to this older game has improved my mood significantly.