The swarmers attack in the original #Homeworld was, for 12-year-old me, a moment of awakening. The "I am so scared and this is so cool" feeling remains one of my defining experiences of interacting with media.
https://youtu.be/lO8r8PSCdNI
Same sort of feeling with the Turanic Raiders attack: https://youtu.be/dTKakINXjl8
You see these beautiful, terrifying ships sweeping in toward you, the music swells, they're getting closer, and the *game will not give you control* until the last second. It was breathaking.
I got a "new" phone this week (refurbished pixel phone) because I discovered, to my dismay, that my old pixel 3a stopped getting security updates last summer! 😬
TFW when you read books on software development with a detailed set of principles and best practices and then say, "now remember, this is not a once and done exercise".
Can it? Can it please be? I have limited resources and mental bandwidth and not everything can be an integrated, holistic process. I can only think of one thing at a time...Certainly every time I try to talk about more than one thing once people get confused.
Obv. we should strive to be better. I'm just tired.
/rant
@e53b5062 Thanks for writing this note. I'm surprised that Warren signed on to this legislation; I have a lot of respect for her judgement and this seems very out of character.
I want a #startrek game but instead of commanding the bridge or firing a phaser I want to be working in the hydroponics bay or engineering.
#LowerDecks has a great vibe. The crew knows about the mission but they might not necessarily be on the bridge when the command comes in from the admiral. A game could be about the grunt work of being an officer, maintaining the ship, repairing the holodeck, the occaisional away mission or two, and the social dynamic of working with the rest of the crew.
To be honest, this is part of the reason I didn't participate in side quests. I *felt* the pressing need for V to save herself. Side missions for this life that was destroying me didn't seem relevant (I never really needed money.)
But maybe that says more about me and what I was looking for in the game, than the game itself. I think other people are able to switch tracks from "story" mode to "game" mode easier than me - separate the plot from the entertaining mechanics.
If anything, I think the #cyberpunk2077 story was *too* effective, because I have no interest in buying the DLC.
The value add is, more flavor to this merc life, more ways to emerse yourself in this high tech, low life world, more ways to participate in the practice that brought about your own destruction.
I internalized the story so much that the opportunity to experience more of Night City is actually repellant. My V got out, you want me to send her back?
To be honest, this is part of the reason I didn't participate in side quests. I *felt* the pressing need for V to save herself. Side missions for this life that was destroying me didn't seem relevant (I never really needed money.)
But maybe that says more about me and what I was looking for in the game, than the game itself. I think other people are able to switch tracks from "story" mode to "game" mode easier than me - separate the plot from the entertaining mechanics.
*MY* V chose to leave, others chose to stay, others chose to be fully absorbed by the Corpo world. These are all viable outcomes to the same question; "what matters to you in this terrible world?"
If anything, I think the #cyberpunk2077 story was *too* effective, because I have no interest in buying the DLC.
The value add is, more flavor to this merc life, more ways to emerse yourself in this high tech, low life world, more ways to participate in the practice that brought about your own destruction.
I internalized the story so much that the opportunity to experience more of Night City is actually repellant. My V got out, you want me to send her back?
It's been a month since finishing and I've had a chance to reflect on #cyberpunk2077's narrative.
I think the branching-start-branching end model for storytelling is elegant. V can start in different places and end in different places. What results is a different perspective on fundamentally the same story: Night City and its hyper-capitalist, merc-dominated life, chews up individuals and destroys them as it perpetuates itself.
*MY* V chose to leave, others chose to stay, others chose to be fully absorbed by the Corpo world. These are all viable outcomes to the same question; "what matters to you in this terrible world?"
I feel bad for the folks following me on YouTube for my videos on open source software and discover all I post on is composting and local sustainability issues.
The Earth Innovation Institute is hiring a full-stack developer who will work on LandScale. They're partners for Terraso; it's a good project, I recommend checking it out!
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3727334958
#hiring #jobs #JobOpportunity #fullstack #developer #LandScale #Terraso
My partner and I made lazing about the house and reading into "a thing" this weekened.
We introduced our child to the idea of "a Cozy" - where we all put on PJs and read books/play games together.
It was *marvellous*. Ordinarily we struggle to be together *AND* find something that everyone wants to do. Just being in each other's company with books for an hour or two was glorious.
Now our child just wants to "cozy" all the time. :)
#bookstodon #books
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/111/139/107/162/301/477/original/9deefbc211ac577a.png
Thoughts going out to the folks who are likely going to be impacted by a U.S. government #shutdown.
That's people impacted by the federal government services stopping, AND the people who are directly employed by the gvt - all 23 million.
I was travelling abroad on a State Department-funded project 10 years ago when the government shut down. We kept working on our project without any clear expectation that we'd be paid for the work. We came out OK, but will that be true for for everyone?
I read a good WashPo article on the whole Musk/Ukraine/Starlink debacle.
https://wapo.st/3P7FAUw
I'm no Musk apologist, but the narrative is more complex than I expected.
I didn't know, for example, that there was a StarGuard satellite system for military purposes that eventually the Ukraine network got added to.
It's still strange for a single person to control another country's national defense strategy.
#musk #starlink #ukraine
Which characters from fiction would you marry forever?
- Sam Gamgee, LOTR
- Hermione Granger
- Collin from Blackout/All Clear
- Toad from Frog and Toad
#bookstodon
@cd602371 Ancilary to your comment, but interesting to me from your article!
> Indeed, the general gap between rich and poor when it comes to voting is a registration gap, not a voting gap: both poor and rich people who are registered vote at the same level (Herd and Moynihan 2018).
@cd602371
Great quote:
"As a result, an administrative burden Catch-22 emerges: those needing the most help are less well positioned to overcome the barriers on which that help is conditioned (Christensen et al. 2020). Rather than targeting services only to those who needed them the most, burdens can end up becoming unnavigable for those without the resources to deal with them. "
@cd602371 Ancilary to your comment, but interesting to me from your article!
> Indeed, the general gap between rich and poor when it comes to voting is a registration gap, not a voting gap: both poor and rich people who are registered vote at the same level (Herd and Moynihan 2018).
It's been a month since finishing and I've had a chance to reflect on #cyberpunk2077's narrative.
I think the branching-start-branching end model for storytelling is elegant. V can start in different places and end in different places. What results is a different perspective on fundamentally the same story: Night City and its hyper-capitalist, merc-dominated life, chews up individuals and destroys them as it perpetuates itself.
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