[-] sleisl@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Emoji give us an extra avenue of encoding emotion into our text, something that is usually difficult. So I think everyone should be using them 🤓

[-] sleisl@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

Talos Principle 2 is just… wow. It’s been years since I played the first game and it’s remarkable how fast the sequel was able to get me back in the space of “I’m here to solve puzzles and argue philosophy…”. Everything I loved about Talos Principle has been polished or expanded, and the way the writers somehow managed to get me to accept that we need to solve a bunch of puzzles to advance the plot - AGAIN - is impressive.

I’m so happy the game is this good.

[-] sleisl@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Lmao I’ve only seen this toy in Korean memes where people print them super sized and instead of the blade it has a phone holder. I had no idea it was supposed to be a knife blade.

That is to say, the Korean youth already has the ridicule of this story covered.

[-] sleisl@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago
[-] sleisl@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

I use rtorrent+rutorrent for a web UI, and it’s starting to show its age…

Is there anything else out there that can handle 10,000+ torrents? I seed a lot of ebooks 🤓

[-] sleisl@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

the OR shooting was a reference to SCP-674

[-] sleisl@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

http://mynoise.net

Amazing library of customizable ambient noises and soundscapes, pretty much all recorded and developed by one guy. I think “Rain on a Tent” is the best rain track available on the internet.

[-] sleisl@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

alley address????

[-] sleisl@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I guess I’d try to give as broad a view as possible, kind of to show that sci-fi can be literary as well as purpose-built to explore specific ideas.

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet

The Left Hand of Darkness

The Sparrow

Player of Games

The Quantum Thief

[-] sleisl@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

I think the giant default subs are the same but I’ve definitely noticed less activity on my smaller niche interest subs (the whole point of reddit for me) since the apps shut down.

[-] sleisl@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

To this day RL is the only game I play with a claw grip for exactly this reason lol.

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Meta/Instagram launched a new product called Threads today (working title project92). It adds a new interface for creating text posts and replying to them, using your Instagram account. Of note, Meta has stated that Threads plans to support ActivityPub in the future, and allow federation with ActivityPub services. If you actually look at your Threads profile page in the app your username has a threads.net tag next to it - presumably to support future federation.

Per the link, a number of fediverse communities are pledging to block any Meta-directed instances that should exist in the future. Thus instance content would not be federated to Meta instances, and Meta users would not be able to interact with instance content.

I'm curious what the opinions on this here are. I personally feel like Meta has shown time and time again that they are not very good citizens of the Internet; beyond concerns of an Eternal September triggered by federated Instagram, I worry that bringing their massive userbase to the fediverse would allow them to influence it to negative effect.
I also understand how that could be seen to go against the point of federated social media in the first place, and I'm eager to hear more opinions. What do you think?

[-] sleisl@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

building your economic empire is definitely my favorite thing about the X series. X4F was pretty weak when I played it on release but I’ve heard it’s much better after a few years of updates.

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