Very intriguing concept and immediately compelled me to play more. Also, I was sitting at the bar when I started playing and someone noticed it over my shoulder and asked what it was and if it was on iOS. I told them it was open source so probably not but they noted the name anyway. I think you've got something good in the works here!
My only notes so far are that the options are a little confusing at first glance and that the area where you drag shapes from is too close to the zone where you drag up to switch apps so I kept accidentally switching while trying to move pieces.
Otherwise great work! Looking forward to losing track of time playing this in the morning before work 😅
It started with "fully automated luxury gay space communism" memes in 2015 or so. Up to that point I had considered myself a libertarian in my early 20s, and a progressive liberal in my late 20s. Those memes made an impression on me that lingered in the background, and I saw them as a counter to the growing support of white supremacy and fascism that Donald Trump represented.
I think the big turning point for me was 2020, with the George Floyd protests laying bare the fascism that already existed in the US, and the complete failure of the government to care for the citizenry while bailing out the corporations. Those events crystallized my feelings that capitalism was a failing system and led me to find out more about Marxism and the reality of socialist philosophy, as opposed to the propaganda about it that I had grown up with.
These days I proudly call myself a socialist and strive to explain the concept to people I talk to whenever it's relevant. I think so many more people would think of themselves as socialists if they simply understood it better.
Love this album, and I still sometimes jokingly shout "shut up! I'm trying to be funny" at my friends if they interrupt me. The songs are amazing but the crowd interaction is just as memorable for me
That was the voice of the people the Dems failed to sway with their centrist militaristic bullshit. They tried to court the right and it was a bad plan that made them lose. I voted for Kamala because I was worried about Trump. That was the last time they will earn my vote that way. Fuck them.
I installed mint on a new laptop recently and it was completely painless. To be fair I've used Linux before but it's been over a decade and I didn't have any major hiccups. I installed steam and was playing games within 15 minutes of finishing the install. The UI is very familiar and comfortable for windows users and the entire ux seems to be designed around not making you use the terminal unless you have to. I highly recommend trying it out.
Not so much a quote as a poem, but it's brief so here's the whole thing:
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.
Man hands on misery to man,
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.
"This Be the Verse" by Philip Larkin
As for what it means to me, I think it speaks for itself. It's bleak and devastating, yet beautiful. I love the elegance and simplicity of the writing. It's the only poem I have memorized because it's so aesthetically pleasing and emotionally resonant. It has stuck with me since I first heard it over 10 years ago.
I always tip 20%, more for exceptional service. I've worked as a cook for about 15 years, at various places from dive bars to fine dining. At some places the servers and bartenders make insane money, often more than the chef who is usually on salary and not eligible for tips. But at a lot of places, the servers barely make ends meet and live not only check to check, but hand to mouth, week to week depending on the business. I never assume anyone is making bank so I tip well as a professional courtesy and to make up for people who don't tip.
Increasingly these days, I've heard about and worked at places where the tips are split with the back of house crew, up to 40%. That ends up meaning that nearly 50% of our monthly pay is in tips, and that's a blessing and a curse. Having PTO is basically worthless because missing out on the tips hurts so much.
Here in Seattle, they just raised the minimum wage to just over $20 an hour, and tips and benefits can't be counted towards that. It's a step in the right direction, but because capitalism is going to capitalism, it means that's barely enough to live in the city with a single income source. So I still tip well regardless.
Most places in the country are not that fortunate, so I encourage everyone to tip their servers. If you think you're going to force owners to pay people more by not tipping, you're not only wrong, you're actively making life harder for people who will likely never make as much as you if you work any sort of office job.
The system sucks, and needs to change. Some people can't afford to tip generously, and that's fine. But if you don't tip out of principle, you're just an asshole.
Apparently as another poster pointed out hexbear.net isn't there, or rather it redirects to chapo.chat when I checked it just now. No idea why they'd think that means it's dead though. I was just pointing out the defederation as a possible source of their confusion.
I've always been a fan of using an asterisk, which I refer to as starcasm