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  • Nostalgia marketing operates on roughly 20 to 30 year cycles, so we're dead center of 90s nostalgia. As the current decade wears on, there should be a gradual shift to 2000s era nostalgia (and another revival of the 80s, the most marketable decade). I can't say that looming war in the middle east doesn't give me those warm Bush 2 era vibes, though we are a bit early for it.

  • There is no place for Fascists within the Open Source and Free Software communities or the society at large. You will never fester your poisonous roots here. Go back to the cave you crawled out from where no sunlight can reach.

    NAZI! DEVS! FUCK! OFF! 💯

  • The author taking Camus' other advice, and imagining Sisyphus happy, then going farther, into realms of the fantastical, and imagining Camus happy too.

  • Yeah, limbo is all the unbaptized adults from all time periods, floating on a sea of trillions of aborted and miscarried fetuses. God keeps saying He's going to deal with it and clean up the backlog eventually but at this point I think He's just holding out for Armageddon when everyone gets in for free anyway. God never closes His browser tabs either.

  • MAKE AN ASSESSMENT

  • OK, but classic, bounder, gentry, and women's are all slight variations on the same grip? I might roll my hand through all of those and couple more while idly holding a lit cig.

    Or is the graphic really trying to tell me that transition is as easy as flipping my hand over, loosening my grip, and laying my thumb on the end?

  • There's an active court case in New York uncovering indications of tampering and wild statistical anomalies. This blog is a little conspiratorial sounding, but it's also doing a difficult job of putting back together the pieces of what is looking like a well executed technological coup.

    https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-they-didnt-just-change-the

  • Where's the twin peaks meme community? c\blacklodge? c\rrdiner? c\damnfinecoffee?

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  • Oh. Where you going?... Oh, you men are all alike. Seven or eight quick ones and then you're out with the boys to boast and brag. YOU BETTER KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT. Oh... I think I love him.

  • Commandos to me is the start of a different lineage of real-time tactical stealth games, which goes on to include Desperados, Shadow Tactics, and Shadow Gambit (yes, most of those were made by the same team).

    Outside of the OGRE-alikes (FO Tactics, FF Tactics, Disgea, and so on) some other options for tactical games that are a little different:

    • Nexus: The Jupiter Incident - sort of a 4X game mixed with tactics, or like Homeworld with a lot fewer units
    • Myth: The Fallen Lords (and sequels) - classic pre-Halo Bungie titles that mix RPG and strategy. Somewhat defining for the RTS genre too.
    • UFO: Aftershock and sequels - a series that tried to revive XCom before Firaxis rebooted it. Not as good, but pretty interesting and fun, a little easier than old school xcom but not as polished as the newer ones.
    • Cannon Fodder - a UK classic, very arcadey but very fun and lighter than all these other "serious" games
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  • This is a good idea, but also working remote frees up time to meet new affinity groups.

    Not to dump on people's relaxation strategies, but even the most introverted person can't survive on video games and gooning alone.

    If you don't want or like hanging with coworkers, find a local bar to hang out at and meet some folks, go to a community board game night, join a choir, attend an anime viewing night, just do something to take initiative and meet some folks that like what you like.

  • New Orleans also had No Kings in the morning and (corporate sponsored, thanks Shell Oil!) Pride in the afternoon yesterday. Lots and lots of folks made this same silly sign or a variant. "No Kings, Yassss Queens" etc.

    I tend to concur with the sentiment that it still promotes monarchism as aspirational, but I think a lot of protest signs are "heart in the right place" kinds of things. Like anyone that snow clones "Make Something Whatever Again" I hate, quit validating his slogans with copies!

    Or calling Trump TACO and using tacos as mocking images. I don't want to associate Trump and tacos, I liketacos! And he doesn't "chicken out", if you think his tariff nonsense is about playing chicken, please learn what "market manipulation" is.

  • I'll reiterate a comment I made earlier today:

    Peaceful protest is only a meaningful choice when violence is also a real option.

    Otherwise you're just holding a pointless rally. Might as well show up with handcuffs on already.

  • Yatta! An ancient amusement from the early days of the internet.

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  • Trying to imagine objects in higher than 3 spatial dimensions.

    Imagining 2 or more temporal dimensions.

    Designing a system of governance that is fair to all constituents, physically realizable, and marketable enough to convince future constituents to follow it.

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  • I have a vague notion of a new color. Success!