FrostBolt

en passant got me from 1000 rating -> 2800. buy my book.

Dingo massage / doggy massage

Agreed. It feels like a bunch of people broadcasting to the void with megaphones. Threaded forums are 100x better

Yes, I love Factorio

Fantastic! Thanks

I’m just here for the thumbnail

pleasure you dog

That’s disgusting!

BTD6?

That game is so addicting…

This isn’t unique to video games*. It can happen with anything that you spend a ton of time on, and either burn out on or start to develop more refined taste in. I’ve had it happen with:

• novels
• board games
• movies
• people

You start to see patterns, tropes, or just plain get burnt out on something. It’s a sign you either need to take a break, or that your tastes have simply become refined enough that you require a higher bar to find something interesting.

I’m in my 40s and definitely don’t play games as much as I used to. But there are still times I get sucked in and have a great time. Most recent example: Cosmoteer, a spaceship building game with loads of freedom and creativity. I’m also looking forward to the Factorio DLC and the Dyson Sphere Program combat update.

Edit: case in point that I can still get excited about games: I finally tried Shadows of Doubt and, wow, what an interesting game. It’s like a Deus Ex shadowy sneak-around world with detailed voxel simulation.

* though the enshittification phenomenon is a real thing, and why people should play more indie games

Hopefully one of the DLCs adds land vehicles 🤞🏻

I’m so glad this community exists

Yeah, it’s been in the news 😩 We broke the global average temperature record something like 3 times last week. The graph that accompanies the articles is actually quite scary

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/climate/climate-change-record-heat.html

Non-competes have always seemed dubious at best. And even where they do exist, they have expiration dates.

100% impossible to not read it in the voice actor’s voice

I can’t believe I used to think he was a smart, interesting person. What an absolute buffoon.

Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time… a long time

It’s easy to tell from fediverse observer stats that most of the new users aren’t not organic: new accounts is almost a couple orders of magnitude higher than daily active users

What I wonder is: what’s the motivation for these bot network attackers? Is it some script kiddie doing it for lulz? A reddit “nationalist”? Russia and China getting an early start on propaganda tools for the newer platforms?

That’s a great idea

Same here. I had used reddit since 2010 and must have had close to a dozen accounts. I didn’t like too much info piling up under any one account. And I used a local city subreddit a lot.