on its 50th anniversary, let’s all remember that microsoft has been profiting massively off the genocide in palestine and has recently been targeted by BDS: https://noescapevg.com/xbox-has-been-added-to-the-bds-list-so-what-now/
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fracture [he/him] @beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Elon Musk says X hit by 'massive cyber attack' as users unable to log in2·4 months ago… can a brother get a source on this??
fracture [he/him] @beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse [Kotaku]11·4 months agoit… works but it doesn’t work nearly as well as discord for gaming screen sharing, at least with the bit of testing i’ve done with mh wilds
fracture [he/him] @beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•Need MOBA ARAM-games where you just queue in with heroes and go into team fights1·4 months agono recommendations but i just hopped back on HotS and share your sentiment haha
fracture [he/him] @beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•The Great Decentralization: What happens when sprawling online communities fracture into politically homogenous, self-governing communities?4·6 months agoi guess? we talk a lot about the consequences of being in an information bubble but i think we’ve experienced it very little. and it’s hard to imagine the consequences are going to be worse than… this waves hands at the current state of things
fracture [he/him] @beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•The Great Decentralization: What happens when sprawling online communities fracture into politically homogenous, self-governing communities?6·6 months agoi tend to think that the internet, up to this point, has been relatively forceful in exposing you to opposing viewpoints, which, from a mental health perspective, is quite taxing on individuals (we’re not really wired to constantly be confronting really fundamental disagreements all the time). so i think that an internet where people are less constantly thrown into friction with each other will be a net benefit, even if there are some consequences for the otherwise information bubbling
fracture [he/him] @beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Technologist: 'Fining Big Tech isn't working, make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain'1·6 months agowould love to see a source for AI helping with the covid 19 vaccine
fracture [he/him] @beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Google Contract Staff Reach Union Deal Banning Keystroke Monitoring11·7 months agokind of ironic that this article is hosted on a site with several pages worth of cookie selections that you have to scroll through and opt out of
enshittification of the net continues
it is proprietary, but it’s worth noting that bsky is also federated, so it is less centralized than e.g. xitter. it uses a different protocol than mastodon and i don’t know many details about it, so unfortunately this is about the extent that i can speak on it
edit: it looks like you can get more details from others in this thread
fracture [he/him] @beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•Publishers are absolutely terrified "preserved video games would be used for recreational purposes," so the US copyright office has struck down a major effort for game preservation26·8 months agoif it’s not worth preserving
IT’S NOT WORTH PURCHASING
rarely, i like to play a fluffy, feel good game with no real stakes. enter: Flynn, Son of Crimson
there is absolutely no chance of anything really bad happening in the game, the worst that happens is your powerful guardian diety dog loses his powers at the beginning of the game (but it’s OK, he just rests until you reclaim his powers and he feels better). you never really feel like anyone is really in danger, you get to play a pretty fun 2d action platforming game, and it has some really fun sections later on that make you feel awesome
it wraps up nicely in probably 20 hours too, if you want to 100% it, so it doesn’t overstay its welcome and lets you experience all of its content with low demands. really a lovely little experience. it’s not pushing the envelope at all, but if you want basically 20 solid hours of lighthearted fun, this is a great way to get it
gonna throw in my caveat here; ITT is a really good co-op game but there’s like a 25% chance the story isn’t for you. it’s the kind of story where, if you think about it too much, you start to realize that the characters do some pretty fucked up stuff including
::: graphically tearing a plush doll apart while it screams for mercy
:::
i don’t want to come across as judgemental if you enjoyed it; i get that some people are gonna find it more slapstick than anything. but it was more than enough to make me and the person i played it with flush it, and i wouldn’t feel right not mentioning it for specifically “uplifting games”
if you can ignore the story, the co-op gameplay is super solid, though
(sorry if the spoilers don’t show up right, my client doesn’t show them properly)
fracture [he/him] @beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•Recommend me your favorite linear games!1·8 months agolots of great suggestions in this thread, just wanted to shoutout this little indie i played and had a delightful time with: Flynn, Son of Crimson
it’s a little 2d adventure game with pretty linear progression, although there will probably be some backtracking if you want to 100%. but it’s level based and not open world at all. the movement and combat both feel pretty good, the story is very fluffy and feel good, and you have a giant dog as a pet, what more could you want?
it’s probably like a 15-20 hour game in total, if that. a great time if you want something short, fun, and uncomplicated
fracture [he/him] @beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•AI-Powered Social Media Manipulation App Promises to 'Shape Reality'1·9 months agobeyond the obvious ways this is fucked up, imagining this happening with AI gen text is insane. trying to craft a post to both empathize with another poster, kindly demonstrate flaws in thinking or logic about a point they usually care a lot about, and trying to explain how the different point of view better supports the things they care about it such a monumental effort already that AI just cannot do. no actual persuasion will come out of this (not that a ton happens on the internet to begin with, but even less than that)
and honestly if you’re firehosing people like that, AI is just going to absolutely drown out any actual communication from happening. at some point, we’ll just have bots going to war for us about our points, and no one will be reading it
fracture [he/him] @beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•Eurogamer: It's been 12 months since Microsoft purchased Activision Blizzard, so what's changed?1·9 months agobig shoutout HOTS… i should tap back in… FUCK deadlock (note: this user has not played deadlock)
fracture [he/him] @beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Low Tech Magazine: Communal Luxury: The Public Bathhouse6·9 months agoi would have liked it if this had offered a COVID perspective on communal baths. i’m inclined to think that a hot moist environment is a likely place for it to flourish, and it seems odd to neglect to mention that three years of a pandemic probably had an outsize impact on the number of bathhouses still open in 2022
obviously we probably don’t have a ton of data on how to circulate air and filter COVID out of bathhouses, but i also bet there’s a way to do it in a relatively energy efficient way
anyways, it feels like a major spot that’s lacking in an otherwise informative and well thought out read
fracture [he/him] @beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•After is a new dating app that tries to tackle ghosting3·9 months agoreally good thoughts and write up that you linked, thanks
fracture [he/him] @beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Now Dell sales staff must be onsite five days per week • The Register5·9 months agothat’s YOUR union, go get involved and fix it!
even unions are gonna eventually fall to corruption and laziness if ppl think they’ll solve your problems for you
the union IS you (and your coworkers)
fracture [he/him] @beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•The eagerness to grave dance on unpopular games has become a bad habit1·10 months agothis take in the article was really funny
My guess at the real reason for all this grave dancing is that it feels like a victory over FOMO. If the new $40 game sucks and no one is playing it, I can safely go back to whatever I was playing before without worrying that anyone’s having fun without me.
i don’t know what most people’s reasons for deriving enjoyment from concord’s failure are, but there’s no way FOMO cracks the top 3 lmao
seeing the trailer, i definitely thought it was a bandwagon hero shooter that might have had some creativity if a bunch of suits didn’t say “make it GotG”, but realistically, it launched with little fanfare, in competition with valve’s first new game (beta) in ages. not that it was fated to fail but it didn’t have a lot going for it
honestly check out archipelago, it’s a framework that allows you to play a lot of different randomized games with your friends. you can play synchronously or asynchronously, and if you’re handy with code, you can even add any game you want to it
appendix
“what’s a randomizer?” a randomizer is a method of scrambling the items in a video game, while keeping it solvable, to be able to re-experience the same game with a fresh sense of progression. an easy game to think about this with is something like metroid or zelda. you need powerups to unlock certain parts of the game, but what if you could find those powerups anywhere you found a missile expansion or a chest? that’s what a randomizer is
“how does that work with multiple people?” now imagine that, between you and your friend’s randomized games, the items for both games could end up in either game. if we use the metroid/zelda idea from earlier, metroid might have zelda’s boomerang, while zelda might have metroid’s morph ball. the logic to ensure the games are solvable is still there, but you might be stuck waiting until your friend finds your key item. this is called “being in burger king” or 'being bk’d"
other vocab
check: any spot you can collect an item in a randomizer (think all collectibles and powerups in metroid, for example)
burger king: when you have run out of checks of your own and are waiting for someone else to send you a critical item you need to make any meaningful progress again. named after the first multiworld randomizer, where someone was stuck for so long, they were able to go to burger king for six hours and return only to still be in the same situation