Cultist Simulator was a disappointment after being hyped about it for a while. From the outside it looked like an addicting roguelike power fantasy type of game but it wasn't. It's a purposefully obscure game with no clear goal, which would be alright if there was some kind mystery to unfold or if the journey was enjoyable. There's no mystery as far as I can tell, it's all flavor text. The gameplay was interesting in the first few runs when I was still learning mechanics but after that it's just tedious. It's also really punishing if you don't play carefully all the time. Other than the vibes/atmosphere I have no idea what anyone enjoys about it.

2w ago

Lemmings, please give us your info dump.

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Lojcs @piefed.social 2w ago

Makes me feel bad for those who aren't doing it by their choice and might get east damage from it

2w ago

LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in

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Lojcs @piefed.social 2w ago

It still has idiosyncrasies that create friction. Looking like it's from early 2000s is much less of a problem imo than confusing buttons and unintuitive workflows. E: It's also strangely laggy and multimonitor support on wayland is still not fixed

3w ago

VPN only with ID check in UK?

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Lojcs @piefed.social 3w ago

I wasn't meaning age verification in particular, Google deciding to mandate developer registration for Android apps and Samsung removing to option to unlock the bootloader on their phones also happened last summer

3w ago

YSK: Extreme wealth inequality is baked in to the system

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Lojcs @piefed.social 3w ago

This is true and I've said so in my original comment. Notice how the boss isn't winning because they happened to win first in a series of dice rolls

3w ago

YSK: Extreme wealth inequality is baked in to the system

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Lojcs @piefed.social 3w ago

It is not an opinion that people don't earn money by randomly trading with others, wtf are talking about??

I'm actually triggered about this

3w ago

YSK: Extreme wealth inequality is baked in to the system

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Lojcs @piefed.social 3w ago

Scientific American isn't an academic journal and there's no paper about this published in 2017. There's a Scientific American article about it written in 2019 though. I think you're referring to the part in the article that says it matched real world data remarkably after they modified it in 2017.

I don't think this model is an x-ray that reveals the bones of the system, as its premise about how it works is plainly inaccurate. Maybe scientists can gain actual insight by studying it further but I don't think drawing conclusions such as the title on social media is healthy.

At best the model teaches why gambling is a bad idea even if the chances are perfectly even. At worst someone looks at this and decides all anti capitalist evidence must be flimsy

Edit: Nvm found the paper you were talking about. Once again, it is based on this but it is not this. Either way it doesn't conclude that since it is similar it must be the underlying reason.

3w ago

YSK: Extreme wealth inequality is baked in to the system

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Lojcs @piefed.social 3w ago

I don't think this is as good a model as you or the oop seem to think it is. Nobody is under the impression that you can make even by buying and selling random things. And gambling your money against other people isn't something people can afford to do unless they already have money to live comfortably. Real people have fixed needs they have to buy and usually a fixed value they can create to make money.

I don't think a model that doesn't share any similarities with the system can be used to prove that inequality is baked into the system. I don't mean that it isn't, but I couldn't in good conscience claim so based on this alone. Please keep your standards for evidence high yall.

Also the article completely misses the reason why wealth accumulates in the model. It has nothing to do with compound ratios being confusing or the amount one can afford to wager. This is simply a normal distribution with flipped axes and a bottom cap of 0. Inequality arises even if you change the game so that richer people give more when they lose and receive less when they win.

3w ago

VPN only with ID check in UK?

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Lojcs @piefed.social 3w ago

I wonder if in the future we'll get to know exactly who pressed the digital freedoms crackdown button on the summer of 2025. Things were going backwards already before then but the sudden acceleration is curious and concerning to me.

3w ago

Western Digital's HDD production for 2026 is already sold out

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Lojcs @piefed.social 3w ago

These unnamed companies have collectively pre-purchased several exabytes of storage capacity

So.. What's the point of this? Even the openai ram purchase was bizarre to me as they've been able to train their LLMs without gobbling up all the ram just fine, then the ssds and now hard disks? It's not even the write cache that sold out, the hard disks themselves are.

I don't think there's any untapped source of data for llm training is there? Datasets can't get larger so I fail to see any reason this would be necessary.

Does anyone know the reason they're buying up storage? No cynical doomerism please.

3w ago

Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place

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Lojcs @piefed.social 3w ago

Are they original / how did you buy them / how much did they cost? I tried buying Seagate 3 times the last 4 years and every time it was shoddily repackaged with fake stickers and such