Kaldo

Lorca got me through discovery for a season or two and then he was gone, I don’t think I watched anything beyond it. I hear it’s only gotten worse, somehow

Oh you have an issue on Linux? Just try a different distro

(this one hurts more because it technically usually works)

Is singleplayer more compelling than Ark or Conan Exiles? Games like Valheim or Project Zomboid can completely take over my life but Ark/CE was always just kind of an aimless boring grind.

I used to in the beginning but soon realized it’s either kinda dead (people don’t use it, people from lemmy don’t even see it) or completely filled with spam (because the magazine has some generic tags).

It also didn’t work reliably and it wasn’t clear which posts go to Mastodon and which don’t, but that might have been resolved since.

It’s a neat idea for small discussions or questions that don’t warrant a thread, but it needs better implementation and wider adoption in order to be actually useful.

And that Kira hut episode

If a glorified autocomplete algorithm can write more informative and concise commit messages than you, the actual author behind the code, I think you need to sit down and think long and hard what that actually implies.

Moon sugar is just plastic

I’m really disheartened that most of the people I follow on twitter haven’t moved to other platforms, or if they did they decided to go to bluesky that is the same shit as twitter (or is bound to be in a few years).

I really need to hear how many football fields can fit on this asteroid before being able to judge its size

Tbf mods always feel like they are just hacking and jury-rigging existing mechanics to fit a new theme (which they, well, are). If we can get proper support for ST-specific things like the neutral zone, warp drive-based maps rather than hyperlanes, larger focus on exploration or random anomalies, it could be interesting. It wont replace stellaris for me but it I can see ST fans preferring it over a (possibly janky) mod implementation… but this is all assuming the official conversion is not just as janky and limited by the old engine ofc.

Yeah, “All” or “subscribed” is not granular enough, I like having groups based on my interests at that time - software / gaming / etc. Would be nice to have for sure.

Multireddits

Users can de-federate client side already

Factually untrue

Unless you are “intentionally keeping the land dry for better yields and easier access with heavy machinery” or have “hordes of underpaid immigrants working for you” I don’t think you should feel called our or lumped together with them in this characterization 😋

I did not vote for Lord Ruler

Last summer was hellish and droughts were everywhere, it seems like this summer is gonna get just as rough if not worse >.>

If I’m interpreting it correctly he’s using that example to say war isn’t inherently part of human nature but rather a result of culture (aka environment and society). I’m saying the example could also go to show that the reason that tribe abhors violence is because of their unusual society going against nature.

The Batek people of Malaysia are so averse of killing other humans that refuse to do it even when threatened with slavery https://peacefulsocieties.uncg.edu/societies/batek/

So, war is cultural, not biological.

Wouldn’t this only imply that pacifism is cultural, not that war isn’t biological?

Benevolent global AI dictator. These never go wrong in sci-fi after all.

(has to be true AI like Daneel Olivaw, not this fake LLM crap though)

I’ve been watching Strange New Worlds recently and I kinda like it even though some of the episodes have made me angry at how dumb everyone is acting. I also kinda wish that they could cut the budget of SFX by half and instead make twice as many episodes if they can be written well too? Maybe I’m just still spoiled by 20+ episode seasons that the older series used to have, but just 10 episodes doesn’t feel enough somehow.

Dunno about discovery, I agree with other users that it’s not that good, but I can tell you that it’s not required to understand SNW even though there’s some story overlap there.