imperialism, state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas. https://www.britannica.com/topic/imperialism

Gee, totally not what Russia is doing, my bad

/s

It’s one of those great ironies, because flight was a requested feature since the beginning and being locked into fixed flight paths left people wanting free flight even more. Back in 2006-7, I don’t think most people, or even Blizzard, could predict how much it’d hurt the social aspect of the game.

Starfield? I would argue it’s much worse than NMS, though I don’t know how the current game is. Back when I played, a couple of months before the first dlc dropped (before the buggy update, even), you were extremely limited in choices for base building. You had like 4 or 5 prefabs of a living quarter which came pre decorated.

Starfield offers good ship customization (and stupidly talent-locks a lot of it), unlike NMS, which only added a tiny bit of that in an update last year I think

Evil org tries to take over the world, 10yo kid beats them with the power of animal abuse FRIENDSHIP. Absolute cinema, my friend

Sometimes you are high on hopium and copium, you’re hoping that it gets better later on, or you just overlook some problems.

Sometimes you’re already too used to the game, so it doesn’t fully entertain, but it isn’t “feeling” like a waste of time yet. This happens a lot with “endless” games like most MMOs and “game as a service”

If you don’t mind, I can spoil the story for you:

Wish he would just fucking choke on a shredded datacenter GPU, that would keep most of humanity busy with celebration

They’re not “fighting NATO”, they’re fighting for their own imperialistic bullshit.

It affected everyone using the app, no matter the instance. For example, if me, a resident of programming.dev, tried to look for the mod_abuse or power_tripping communities of any instance, I would see no results. If you tried to connect as a user from any of the blacklisted instances, the app wouldn’t even work

When you use tesseract to connect to one blacklisted such instance , you just get a message informing you that Tesseract is “incompatible with that instance” which leads one to think of a technical issue, like an API mismatch, rather than the dev being an opinionated coward. - https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/72685299

Regarding the frontend, seems it also worked “behind the scenes” on the browser, which is stated in the post I linked in that quote. Unfortunately, the github links are all 404 now.

Violence is not the answer, it is the question and the answer is YES

Look on the bright side, all that plotting and scheming will make for a great series of tales for centuries to come

The whole culture seems sexually repressed, if you look at it. The internet loves to joke about holding hands being the culmination of porn, but it feels like they treat anything beyond touching hands as sexual

Might as well rename lemmy into crossings

Anyone who didn’t get in on the first hour and sold 3 hours later, tops, was bound to lose money.

“If a girl losing virginity before marriage and marrying someone else is normal, then why not a girl falling in love with someone who raped her”

The first thing that comes to mind is because women are fucking human beings and not objects whose value is inversely proportional to how much dick she’s taken.

But that’s not what either of the guys complained about

Tesseract is an android app people could use to connect to lemmy. For some reason, the dev had several instances, words and users completely blocked within the code, without letting the person who downloaded even know about it, much less disable the blocks. One of the things it blocked were “mod abuse” communities.

As expected, things exploded once it was made public. No problem in having personal biases, everyone has them, but shipping an app with those biases baked in and hidden from the user is a shitty thing to do.

ublock origin -> create custom filter. Not gonna trust the EU for fucking up again

Richard P. Gabriel, in his essay “The Rise of Worse-is-Better,” expounds on this theme (see Appendix A). His thesis is that the Unix design philosophy requires that all design decisions err on the side of implementation simplicity, and not on the side of correctness, consistency, or completeness. He calls this the “Worse Is Better” philosophy and shows how it yields programs that are technically inferior to programs designed where correctness and consistency are paramount, but that are evolutionarily superior because they port more easily. Just like a virus.

The highest achievement of the Unix-aesthetic is to have a command that does precisely one function, and does it well (…) This philosophy, in the hands of amateurs, leads to inexplicably mind-numbing botches like the existence of two programs, “head” and “tail,” which print the first part or the last part of a file, depending. Even though their operations are duals of one another, “head” and “tail” are different programs, written by different authors, and take different options!

From The Unix Hater’s Handbook

(I like Linux, but it’s not all sunshine and rainbows)

Not only of capitalism, but of any system that allows hoarding power and repression against those unsatisfied with it.