Berry Bury Berry, A Game About Digging a Hole, and Scritchy Scratchy are the games that I know of that are closest to the gameplay loop I’m looking for. Basically, doing a simple satisfying task to buy upgrades to make the task more efficient. Also similar to a lot of old flash games.
Man, people here have a very different sense of “A long time” on YouTube. I was hesitating to include TimeGhost because I’ve only watched them for about eight years.
For stuff I’ve been watching for less long, the creators that come to mind are:
Timeghost - they do history documentaries, focusing on chronological “real time” content, such as their current series, the Korean War Week-by-Week
LEMMiNO - does deep-dives into supposed mysteries. His older stuff isn’t great, but shifted towards higher-quality long-form content about 8 years ago, and he does a good job on them.
AHOY - does documentaries on the history of games, and adjacent tech and culture. Not usually super deep, but well written, produced and animated.
Desync - makes stupid gaming videos, usually abusing bugs or just being silly. Doesn’t post often, but on the rare occasion he does, it’ll be well produced and funny.
For stuff more at the age I was thinking of originally, 10+ years:
John and Hank Green - cover a whole range of topics, although nowadays, it tends to be a mix of advocacy, science, philosophy, and just sillyness.
The Yogscast - Just a plain old gaming channel, albeit with unusually frequent and higher production quality videos. Nothing extraordinary, but consistently good and fun, despite the fact that they’ve been making videos for nearly 20 years.
Tom Scott - short video essays, explainers and documentaries on a variety of topics. Primarily, videos on different interesting places.
TomSka - The ASDF Movie guy. That said, just as good or better are his other skits, and now even his long-form content and videos essays.
This looks really good. Do you have a recipe?
Where do you think all the aforementioned hard drives came from? Lol. Its just that so many of the other parts are proprietary/old that I can’t mix-and-match to make something more useful. For a breif period, I had four separate working desktops, and not one had a standard power supply or mobo. I swear all of that should be made illegal.
That’s basically what I did, along with the new PSU, but thats still a lot to spend on a hobby/luxury, unfortunately, so I can’t really afford to tinker with it more than that.
With this sort of thing, I’m always left wondering what I’m missing in terms of the hardware. Like, I’ve been collecting bits and bobs of old hardware for years, but it feels like if I want anything more than an absolutely basic raspberry-pi-level server, I need to buy dedicated hardware. For example, I want to put together a nas, especially since I do have a collection of spare, old hard drives, but would want raid for that. Unfortunately, its rare to find a mobo that has more than four sata ports, and all the power supplies I have available to harvest from other systems are either too weak, or are proprietary, meaning I’m halfway to buying a new PC anyway. Is there something I’m missing, or do others just have more disposable income?
Its a very experimental spinoff that feels a bit more like tactical RPGs rather than the classic XCom formula. Its definitely not as good as the mainline games, but it still fun and offers something different.
It can be disabled, but IMO, choosing to leave its default so low is pretty hostile towards your most dedicated users. I know you don’t agree, but as seen by the pushback you received, many dedicated users in the fediverse’s already small userbase were against that design decision. I’m not trying to attack you, and I’d still rather use PieFed than Lemmy, but a user looking to set up shop somewhere will want to know about design philosophies like that, whether it affects them immediately, or is just something they may be concerned about in the future.
I’m using PieFed at the moment, although its more a matter of avoiding the Lemmy devs’ hate and support of violence.
PieFed is definitely developing faster, and has a host of features Lemmy doesn’t as a result. PieFed has following users, de-duplication of posts, flairs, among other stuff, which Lemmy still lacks. That said, the PieFed dev has some very weird opinions on social media design, so for every new feature, there’s an anti-feature. For example, I love the extra moderation tools, but the voting quota limits the ability for more dedicated users to contribute. Its mostly a dislike of internet culture and those who spend a lot of time online, so PieFed tends to discourage things like memes. All-in-all, I’d say PieFed is better, but if you care about the specific downsides, you can easily disagree.
About that, or less. Right click > inspect element and then select the text and type/paste whatever you want.
Alternatively, take a screenshot of the site, put a white block over whatever you want to replace, then insert the new text. Takes a tad longer, but requires less technical know-how.
I mean, if you’re worried about people spreading misinformation using out-of-context/editted screenshots, there isn’t really any reason to single out AI. Honestly, its far easier to just fake a screenshot directly, or use HTML editting than it is to coach an AI into saying what you want, than editting that. Not only that, as well as being easier, its also more effective, given that prompts can also be edittor, or AI as a “”“source”“” can be bypassed all-together, insted altering primary or otherwise verified sources directly.
Don’t get me wrong, AI is terrible for misinformation, but this post has nothing unique or specific to AI - you could literally replace all references to it with with Microsoft Word, or even a pencil and it would make zero difference.
That’s not a centaur, thats an abomination.
My rarest achievement is for getting 32 silenced revolver kills in Red Orchestra 2 (0.3% of players). Technically its not too difficult, but since its a shooter with a fairly low TTK, you don’t normally use the sidearm much. Further the silenced revolver is a pristige varient that has to be ground out using the original revolver, and performs worse than the unsilenced, so there is no reason to get the achievement except for completionism sake.
The achievement I’m much more proud of is Crypt of the Necromancer’s Vow Down, for completing a full roguelike run with Monk. The gimmick with Monk is that the game is its normal roguelike-on-a-beat, but if you touch any gold, be it an enemy’s drops or dungeon loot, you die instantly 100 to 0. This means that as well as the normal difficulty of the game, you have to plan around where you kill enemies to ensure that you always leave a safe path. I’m pretty confident that this is the most difficult thing I’ve ever done in a game. Technically 0.7% of player have the achievement, but given that 0.3% also have the achievement for completing the impossible New Game++++++++ character, we can effectively call it as 0.4% of players.
I mean, while it is cannon, they mostly avoid it nowadays because there is so much weird stuff around it. While Pokemon are depicted as animals, many are suggested to be sentient and/or just as intelligent as humans, so things get very messy even within the universal canonical stuff, nonetheless stuff that they’ve swept under the rug.
Congrats, and good luck! 🙂
As someone who supports psychotherapy practice: You’re massively underestimating how bad many therapists are. Even in regions where it is fairly strictly regulated, its not rare to find psychotherapists with no idea what they’re doing and/or no care for their clients, nonetheless without a more comprehensive understanding of neurodivergence or trauma. Far, far too many treat psychotherapy as a checklist of CBT activities, ignoring the needs of individual clients or the contexts of their concerns.
Again, psychotherapy is useful, proven to be effective, and generally good, but its not at all rare to have terrible therapists, or to have those that don’t “click” with you. Statememts like,
Whether you were game for that or not is a different question
just make you look like an elitist asshole, and discredits the field, particularly to those who have had similar experiences (which is not a small number of people).
Edit: Although to be extra clear, if the therapist if asking you this question, they probably don’t know what they’re doing.
But like, they can already do that with exclusivity deals if its just for games, nonetheless bad looking ones. The only way this would benefit them is if they genuinely think this actually looks good, or they’re trying to further inflate the AI bubble, and one of those two options seems far more likely than the other.
But like, they can already do that with exclusivity deals. This tech just adds extra overhead to that.
Its not the worst, but even this chart has some pretty significant issues. For example, both BBC and The Economist are said to have left-wing bias, which in and of itself is weird, but even weirder is that the BBC is said to be both more accurate and less left-wing than The Economist.
Cold water wakes you up because its a shock, in the same way stubbing your toe would wake you up. Its not something specific to fish, but technically go far enough back and we got much of our sensory system and brain from fish (as did almost every other animal on the planet).