Garry nuked the Facepunch forums

How in the FUCK is this the first time I’m hearing about this? It’s been over a decade since I browsed them last, but those were a massively important component of the whole Garry’s Mod community.

I think a big part of the failure, beyond the absolutely massive amount of mismanagement, is that a lot of the stuff that made GM awesome has had it’s “lunch ate” by other development engines and sandbox game systems. Facepunch was never going to be big enough to fully challenge Second Life, or Roblox, or Unity, etc. They had a niche that they should have focused on.

On top of that, there’s a problem that commonly happens with games that have deep modding communities that get “sequels”: All of the awesome stuff that the community spent years building on the last game won’t work with the new one, so there’s not any real reason to switch until the amount of content in the new game (from the devs or the community) passes a critical threshold.

And then changing the underlying creation tools so drastically from the last game by jumping from Lua to C#? Yeah, let’s just throw away most of the skills the community built up!

What a shitshow.

Hell, I’d press it for fun

I’ve been an adherent of Notepad++ for ages. What’s the draw of Kate?

There’s a little bit of the “screechy tsundere” voice here and there going on that was pretty common at the time, but a lot less than most shows of the era. Beyond that, the dub is great, imo.

Edit: should have scrolled down, somebody already said ir

Honestly looks too low to be a beard. Most beards start closer to the mouth.

Missed shots just add to the mythos of these chucklefucks as some sort of noble martyrs to such a degree that I always have to wonder if these aren’t false flags.

Long long maaaa_aaaaaaaaaa^aaaaaan

https://youtu.be/pbDNNexgiqs

Exactly. I’m not helpdesk anymore, thank god, but my team still has a ton of day to day work that’s tracked in the ticketing system.

Well, for years I’ve been stuck in project hell, doing work that isn’t easily fit into the ticket system. My last review my boss said I had only closed about 1/3 of the tickets of the next lowest person on my team, and that it doesn’t matter except we have a new exec watching that shit, so I have to make it look better.

So the next project I got, I chose to do something manually that I could have automated, that required the help desk to open tickets direct to me about 2-4 times a day whenever someone new needed access to the system I was setting up, until the project was done.

A week in I automated the “manual” task anyway and had a bunch of tickets I could close with a copy-pasted resolution.

I would feel bad, but my co-workers game the metrics even worse than I do.

I think it’s the shooter of Charlie Kirk. But that’s purely based off the mention of Erika Kirk.

Calling any court he’s tried in a purely religiously motivated one is fucking rich though.

As far as I know, he was caught red handed. No room for doubt. The law isn’t void just because he killed someone the world is better without, lol.

At least with Luigi there’s a bunch of extenuating circumstances that create some plausible deniability. This is just “This guy killed someone I think needed to die, so the rule of law shouldn’t apply!”

It’s not entirely clear if the funhole comics (these ones) are in the same continuity as unix_surrealism or not.

Personally I’ve considered them separate, but maybe they’re centuries earlier prequels?

Either way, it’s all great stuff.

As others have suggested, the RE1 remake is great. I don’t know how well it would perform on the Steam Deck, but there is a mod that increases the resolution of the pre-rendered backgrounds that is great as well. Probably won’t make much of a difference on the Deck’s screen, but might be nice if you have it attached to a larger one.

Descent into

Glad some of them are finally realizing it at least.

Man, every privacy comm on lemmy could use a sticky about this sort of stuff.

What is your actual risk profile? What are your goals and why? Basics of privacy vs security vs anonymity, practicality, trust.

That drastically increases the risk. Then you have to have hosting experience on top of everything else, and if your OpSec isn’t fucking perfect the powers that be will tear you a new asshole.

Any sort of proof of stake or weighting of power is game-able and abuse-able. Even 1 person gets 1 vote just results in a black market of people exchanging theirs for some other thing of value. It always comes down to a division between those who “have” and those who don’t. Even simply having more power through length of time invested creates power dynamics.

That doesn’t mean that things can’t get better or we shouldn’t try, but it does mean that it’s something that can’t just be waved away with magic phrases.

Because they didn’t have the level of control they wanted, or the mechanisms to prevent being censored they wanted, on other social networks.

Federation allows anyone who finds their ideas censored on one community to make their own. If they get censored from an entire instance they can hypothetically spin up their own instance relatively cheaply. As long as a few instances federate with yours, your content can spread pretty damn far.

All the while, within the bounds of your own instance you control it all.

So it’s a combination of reach and control.

Isn’t there a federated instagram-like?

I’m not a particular fan of npm, but you’ll probably see this kind of thing with any package manager of similar size. More a matter of what’s the most attractive target than the package tech itself.

!funhole_waiting_room@piefed.social should work as a clickable link I think.