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The sub is dead, long live the community!

Sad to see the Marathon name being zombified for another wealth-extraction "game" from Microsoft Sony. Excuse me for getting my evil megacorps confused. I forgot that after they made the power armor space combat game, MS bought them to make a power armor space combat game, but then they went independent again to make the power armor space combat game, before being bought by Sony to make a power armor space combat game.

Like I needed more reasons to never shop nintendo again. SteamDeck fully supplanted the switch and switch 2 is DOA for me.

It used to get recommended all over Stack Overflow, but I did really love reading Göedel Escher Bach. That book taught me to see math as a game or, equivalently, as purely exercises in shuffling symbols around, with intent.

That shift in outlook really unlocked the fun in math for me. I learned about category theory through Haskell shortly after, and got into number systems and the surreal numbers and quaternions after that. There's so much neat math out there that the wall of calculus and linear alg really imposes right before all the good stuff.

The country has collapsed several times, because of those things. The Civil War was the US collapsing over the rich landowners refusing to move away from slavery. The great depression was also a collapse of the old order, and ushered in the current MIC-based order.

The solution to the Civil War and slavery was Reconstruction, which was so successful that the rich rallied a counterrevolution to resuppress people. The solution to the great depression was the war economy and global looting that kicked off after WW2. Looting the planet with petrodollars has kept Americans complacent and happy enough til now but the rich have run out of places to loot other than home.

So now we're back in crisis, perched on the edge of a new collapse. After several million or billion people are killed by disasters and genocide, things usually settle back into a prosperous mode for the survivors for a while until the stupid rich take over and collapse the system out of greed. Again.

I've been playing The Last Faith, which is basically someone's 2D Metroidvania BB fan game. I also played Lies of P and should probably finish it as its an excellent game in its own right.

But it is also a BB clone, and what I've learned from the clones is that BB (and FromSoft soulslikes in general to some extent) are absolutely lightning-in-a-bottle games. I don't think we'll see another BB or even another Elden Ring, because getting all the aspects right is insane to pull off.

Its not just good gameplay, which is tough but i think somewhat straightforward to copy. Lies of P is probably better, mechanically, than BB and does a lot right that other clones mess up. But BB wasn't just copying, it took the template laid out by DaS and DeS, made them faster and more aggressive. The "gun parry" is unique and an interesting new take on high-risk and reward defense.

The lore is also really hard to do right. Blasphemous 1 and 2 skate a fine line between being wonderfully spooky dark fantasy and incomprehensible piles of word salad. Last Faith and LoP are somewhat more straightforward but that makes the lore kind of dull and filled with basically meaningless names. OK, instead of blood vials or estus we got healing injections. "Formulated by the Sisters of Sanguinity to heal the sick but what if the healing juice was actually making people monsters!?" 🙉 Even the items snd descriptions feel cribbed off From's homework.

I mean, I see why fans just want a PC remaster. There doesn't seem like much you could do with a spin-off or sequel other than water down it's legacy. Better to take their core competencies and apply then to a new genre or theme. Like how BB was gothic DS. Or ER was open world DS. Or Sekeiro was Japanese DS. They could do a goth steampunk Armored Core, that would be pretty novel?!

Managed to auto-typo the URL and the article title, how embarrassing.

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import birthday;

let myAge1 = 4;
let sisterAge1 = 2;
let myAge2 = 44;

let sisterAge2 = birthday.deriveAge(myAge1, sisterAge1, myAge2);

print(sisterAge2);

  

Any bugs should be reported upstream. Please open a tracking issue to sync changes with eventual upstream fixes.

Casualy sliding this out of my pocket like, no way bro, i always keep that thang on me!

What if I told you that there are roughly 4 million steamdecks in existence. Ref

And that this is about 1\3 of the Steam Linux market. Ref and about half of the entire handheld PC market. Ref

Of course, we dont know how many MAU GOG has so maybe 4 million new customers is baby numbers, but Steam seems enamored enough of that market segment to commit huge new UI and store features (deck verification, "Runs on Deck" filters, other deck specific stuff) including the game controller mappings which do help with non-deck also but were clearly a necessary element for handhelds. Maybe deck users, it being a committed gaming platform, spend more on games?

Anyway, trying to get subscribers (always a teeny fraction of your free users) ahead of converting new non-customers into customers, seems like bad econ to me.

If GOG is so hot for game preservation why not see if they can score an emulation deal to bring lost handheld titles to PC\deck? Sega might be down, NeoGeo is owned by the Saudi's, I'm sure they'd love some free money for their back catalog. That's in line with Lutris' mission of being the one game launcher for your entire library. A few strategic investments and partnerships could open up GOG as the gateway to classic gaming across devices, but that would require some vision to carry through.

Yeah I'm only still lurking there for the porn, and frankly, lemmynswf is getting better! Still not enough thirsty gooners to really support a diverse biosphere of onlyfans models, instasluts, and tiktok thots, but growing all the time. Also has the problem most of Lemmy does that like 4 posters are responsible for 95% of the content.

Stock growth, not user growth. Valuations are all made up, and the oligarchs are orchestrating for tech stock values to plummet so they can go shopping for user data, cheap employees, and tech stacks. (In that order)

Good read! I really need to use Gemini more. The Lagrange browser is available on everything and might honestly be my favorite browser of anything! And there is actually plenty to read, I'm just so addicted to the fast dopamine loop he talks about, even here on Lemmy or on Mastodon.

Props for #2 being a #2, but of these I usually go for 6. My personal favorite though is Pentel twist erase.

Though all the kuru toga enthusiasts here have convinced me to give them a try.

I also buy 5s in bulk, those shitty bic pencils are the "little brother" option when my D&D players forget their own writing instruments.

Folks seem awfully confident in their ability to encode other things with only a single letter, but who said you get spaces or other seperators?

I'll take A, so I can express how i feel everyday now:

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YOU'LL HAVE TO SPEAK UP ME HEARTY! THE MATES AND I ARE RAIDING 7\11 AT DAWN FOR CANDY AND SODA! ARRRRRRRRRRRR(oooooooooo)!

CRANKIN' THAT HO(RSEY SAUCE) ALL OVER MY BIG FAT B(EEF N' CHEDDAR)!!! AWOOOO BROTHERS!!!

(hey you gonna finish those curly fries?)

One of my favorite books! Great world building and quite thought provoking!