Yeah… Todd and Emil… are gonna have to… actually make something good.

For the first time in a decade.

Right so like Asha’s statement said that no publically announced games have been cancelled.

… Does Elder Scrolls 6 … actually count as publically announced?

Its never had a release date or window, its only ever had one trailer, basically just a panning landscape shot…

FallOut 5 certainly isn’t any kind of actually ‘publically announced’.

Yeah I can enough wiggle room there that Asha can basically be a fascist and just straight up tell Todd and Emil exactly what to do, and threaten to fire them if they don’t.

Also just… as a former MSFT employee… I do not have enough lols to type in response to ‘we’re going to make sure there are no more than 5 layers of management, and also having a COO is probably a good idea’.

Yeah. Yep. I … actually just straight up agree with that one, yep.

Too bad expressing such sentiments a decade ago wasn’t exactly uh, well reviewed by my superiors at the time, oh well, cest la vie.

Excellent!

If Dr Who ever randomly abducts you, you’ll be slightly better suited for the experiencd than most!

I think MO sells his own merch shirts, with linux inspired/related designs.

Like the penguin with showering equipment… that he almost certainly designed to be worn to conventions, with linux people, to politely remind them to bathe, lol.

Hah uh yeah, sure!

Though, As I’ve said elsewhere… in terms of actual implementation of this, I’m really a novice at best, maybe up to ‘intermediate’ at a few things.

From the rest of this thread, it seems kyliann0087 is more well versed in this, has their own bit of an ongoing service set up in i2p land…

I am happy to try to help, but you might ask them what you’ve just asked of me, I suspect if they agreed, they’d be more useful than I would be.

I’m uh… more of an I2P fanboy/evangelist, lol.

EDIT

ok here are some of the resources i mentioned earlier/elswhere in the thread, but was too lazy to link earlier:

Mental Outlaw:

Intro to I2P (5 yo youtube video)

Make Linux Ungovernable with I2P (much more recent youtube video)

How I run Darknets From My Home Internet (5 yo odysee video, because some of this content/info is apparently too spicy for YouTube)

An ‘Awesome-I2P’ list, basically a curated list of many different I2P projects/software:

https://github.com/mikalv/awesome-i2p

Which of course is why we need kernel level anti cheat.

Because they stop all of those hacks!

…That are still rampant…

…despite the kernel level…

Wait a minute.

Exterior Government Aviator

I fly a Raytheon, Psychic Debaser

Exterior Government Aviator

I fly a Raytheon, Psychic Debaser

Biology, means nothing to me

Wire up the birds and schizos will flee

Tinfoil hats, do not wash well

With a good enough joke, they will sell

Feathers, will fly

Beamed through the sky

Bird brain, magnets

Deniable dragnet

… approximately to tune and cadence of:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0OEbuDP5Yys

Did you account for the switch from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar?

Don’t worry if you didn’t, this has tripped up a number of apocalyptic religious cults as well, they had to rewrite their time tables to Doomsday when somebody pointed it out to them.

But yeah, basically, 10 days got wiped out of conceptual existence in the uh, great time refactor of 1582. … and more confusingly, it wasn’t like, globally adopted at the same time, so, sometimes, in some places, adoption resulted in the nullification of 11, 12, or 13 days.

Happy to be an annoying yet hopefully ultimately positive influence, lol.

Its almost like a game that requires or significantly involves regular monotonous grinding is … like, definitionally, a poorly designed game.

You can have a regular, repeated activity or loop.

But if that loop itself is boring, rote… the game has failed at actually being engaging, thus rewarding.

The loop itself should be what offers the potential for reward, and that reward should be experiential, not… systemitized sequential progression.

Petition to change the phrase:

‘You can’t compare apples and tomatoes.’

… now it makes considerably less sense, and also does splash damage against the concept of a vegetable.

Agreed, it would make little sense to me also, to try to make an eepsite federated forum messaging protocol… thing … also work in clearnet, just keep them apart.

I’d actually be surprised if there aren’t already eep-chans, 4chan/2chan/whatevers that exist in eepland.

Entirely seriously, look into sets of ‘post surgery recovery pillows’.

They’re usually made of something similar to a dense foam mattress, and they’ll be in modular, arrange able shapes to make it easier for people with serious injuries to recover at home, in a supported, semi reclined position.

… You can rearrange these into shapes that support positions other than sleeping/sitting.

Usually, these are cheaper than … basically the exact same things, but explicitly sold as ‘sex aides’ or what not.

Sometimes there is junk in both the trunk and the frunk.

Shit I didn’t even know that existed, thanks!

I won’t lie, setting it up and configuring it and actually using it is basically confusing as fuck… I’ve been doing this kind of shit for decades, and this is fucking complicated to me.

So… yeah. If more people could use this, maybe we could actually get something approximating a user friendly set up/usage guide or setup script type thing.

I think MentalOutlaw has a video or two explaining it, but… those would be several years old by now, may be out of date.

If you can actually figure out some more shit there, document it, that would be extremely useful information, imo.

Theoretically, at least a modified version of lemmy should be constructible within I2P land… but trying to make it accessible via clearnet would… almost certainly be basically not worth it, and arguably defeat the entire point?

It is possible to use I2P as effectively an extremely complex VPN sort of thing for clearnet, via outproxies, but you then just have to trust the outproxy, basically.

Godot actually has uh…

https://github.com/func-godot/func_godot_plugin

Basically… works to both rip and also create Quake, Quake 2, Half Life 1 maps.

Its also a pretty extensive framework.

If you wanna step up a bit from a Doom clone, to a Quake clone… you could do it with this.

There’s also Godot VMF…

https://github.com/H2xDev/GodotVMF

Can actually rip and convert HL2, TF2, L4D… basically Source up to roughly 2013 maps.

I don’t think its much of a map creator/editor though? I think the idea is you just actually make your map in Hammer, and then basically import it into Godot.

I managed to … mostly correctly … decompile.or convert or whatever, some maps.from NeoTokyo, an old HL2 mod, so… will probably at least mostly work for HL2 mods?

It does rely on the actual SourceSDK though, so… probably not ok for commercial use?

I2P

I2P!

I2PPPPPPPPP!!!

We can build another internet here, if we want to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P

Imagine p2p torrents, but crazy encrypted, and you build an internet out of that. That’s basically I2P.

Everyone is a dns/routing server for everyone else, and no one actually knows whose traffic is going where.

If you stay inside of I2P, its basically impossible to be de anonymized, unlike with TOR, where a government LE or Intel agency can just operate nodes and de anonymize people.

Sometimes, I want to ride my bicycle.

Sometimes, I don’t.

So basically:

His companies are hilariously insolvent, so he rolls them all together and does the biggest IPO of all time to raise money.

But he still needs more money.

So then he tries to do a corporate bond issuance… doesn’t go super duper well.

So he still needs more money.

Welp, ok then, jack up fees, whatever, not very original, but does at least kind of work.

Any takers as to whether or not he’ll still need more money?

If you guess correctly, you get a free Neuralink installed in your head that you can send OTA bluetooth firmware overrides to nearby devices with your brain!

Or well, maybe it works… maybes its the opposite of that. Whatever.

… But you can recharge them with your solar roof tiles! And then get in your Tesla Roadster! And then take a Starship ICBM flight to Hong Kong or Moscow or Buenos Aires or Rome! And then take the hyperloop to Antarctica!