Very interesting; thank you

Good idea

I feel you. The Network Effect is real, and the niche subreddits need a HUGE overall userbase to work at all.

The total population of Lemmy + Kbin is about the size of a medium size city subreddit.

I’m staying here for now. I sometimes cheat and browse reddit not-logged-in. I don’t know what the answer is.

“ESA survey showed” – not exactly an unbiased report

I have memories of buddies in college being SUPER into it. I was never very good. But it still stands out to this day as a game with a unique feeling of speed and motion and control.

Agreed. It’s one of the more creepy aspects of social media that mostly leads to “gotchas” (“oh your account is only 2 months old? your opinion is invalid!”) and stalker-ish behavior – and one I wish fediverse had learned from instead of copied.

Cool. I remember a buddy showing it to me in his college dorm room. I was more interested in Unreal Tournament (which released a year later) at the time and probably couldn’t afford to buy another game anyway. But I was positively obsessed with Half Life 2 a few years later…

Factorio would cost me $370

Dyson Sphere Program. Factorio and Satisfactory tend to get all the press, but DSP is AMAZING.

• They learned a lot of quality of life lessons from older factory games and built them in, e.g. you get bots right away.
• The visuals can be breathtaking: not because it’s raytracing/whatever fancy tech, but simply the scale of the game: giant gas planet rises at the horizon, etc. – and you can fly to just about everything you see. Star 5 light years away? You can fly to it and visits its planets and moons, and then ship stuff between your home system and the new system
• It does power exceptionally well: there are a ton of power sources (https://dsp-wiki.com/Energy_Sources#List_of_Fuels), and a lot of depth in figuring out how to power your mega factories. You can even charge up a battery and ship it by spaceship to another moon/planet. Going back to Factorio’s simplistic steam/solar/nuclear power feels like a let down (of course, Factorio has its strengths, like trains and extreme polish).

It’s in early access, but it’s one of the most polished early-access games you’ll find. They’re currently working on a large combat update that should drop in December. Price-to-value ratio is ridiculous. It’s $20 and I have 155 hours in the game.

I’m so hyped for the next Rimworld DLC!

with Valve continuing to rapidly improve Proton, just about any Windows game runs on Linux now

I hope this is actually true, or becomes true. The only reason I’m on Windows is for gaming.

Heck even my Bitwig DAW runs on Linux.

I thought there’s no way… when you boot up!? Sure enough. “the ad in question pops up when players boot up their Xbox”

Wow

There’s something so cozy about pixel art. Brings me back to the mid 90s, playing ancient DOS adventure games in my buddy’s attic

Based

I’m between games at the moment, so I’m revisiting old favorites: Factorio and Hitman

I’ve got something like 170 hours in the modern Hitman trilogy over the years and still enjoy coming back to it sometimes. The only thing that comes close to it in the stealth genre is the Dishonored games.

Likewise Factorio: over 300 hours and the core loop is still so satisfying – can’t wait for the DLC, though

I was playing Baldur’s Gate 3 but I’m burnt out on it at the moment. Combat is relentless in that game…

Took them over 350 years to admit Galileo was right about the earth rotating around the sun…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M&t=25s

Is this satire? Are you playing a role? Poe’s Law means I cannot tell.

This is actually a useful comment in how well it succinctly distills all the batshit crazy conspiracy theories of the modern far right. It’d be useful to screenshot and put in a Wikipedia article on how propaganda takes over people’s brains.

Even frog facts?

“The skin is semi-permeable, making them susceptible to dehydration, so they either live in moist places or have special adaptations to deal with dry habitats. Frogs produce a wide range of vocalizations, particularly in their breeding season, and exhibit many different kinds of complex behaviors to attract mates, to fend off predators and to generally survive.”