I played the heck out of the Renegade demo, it scratched a FPS RTS itch I didn’t know I had. I wonder if it holds up?

Is the experience at all spoiled by the game’s popularity? It’s a great game in its own right IMO

I’m playing World of Goo, a physics game from 2008 that I bought in a Humble Bundle forever ago.

I tried it again on a lark and it holds up, I got sucked in. Classic physics game. One level takes me less than 15 minutes to complete, but it varies significantly.

There are interesting conflicting pressures in the game: you want to build with as little as possible, because the building material are your little dudes you’re trying to get to safety. Gravity exists, and weight distribution matters: sometimes you must harness this fact to win.

Some levels are about building methodically, carefully choosing where to use the corpse of a sacrificed little dudes, because it is an immutable choice.

Other levels are about dynamics and timing, and you can get tantalizingly close to saving your entire team in these levels.

Its old, its cheap, it should run on most things₁. Strong recommend.

1: not android: NetFlix did one of their closed market acquisitions making “free” games here

I like this idea! There might be an increased danger of a battery explosion: it’ll be near bright sunlight, away from where people will see it, with an old battery. I wonder if there are battery diagnostics that could provide an early warning?

I’m sure most of us have a fistful of old phones somewhere, the idea of using them for something is appealing.

the cheeto of damacles swings, and we fear it not

Same, workspaces are great!

It’s still Firefox, so it’s the same. I installed uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, no different there.

I’m trying https://zen-browser.app/ now. It’s an open source fork of Firefox. The UI is much changed: vertical tabs and workspaces. It was a bit of a shock, but it’s growing on me.

Librewolf has some trouble with some websites. For example, it won’t load one of my own that makes a GRPC request over TLS, stating that the certificate issuer is unknown despite it being the same certificate used on the accepted-as-secure page the request is made from.

I do not know Idaho, but I agree it is an awful reason. It is soul wrenchingly stupid. It has reduced my faith in humanity and decreased my fear of a comet.

It’s Olive Garden

Someone in my family wants this to happen because it will make travelling to their favourite restaurant easier.

This will require strengthening domestic manufacturing, […] develop[ing] workforce resilience, domestic capacity and innovation right here at home. […] The solution lies in strengthening Canadians’ right to repair the products and devices we rely upon.

I found this overly strong at first, but it holds water. If there’s a market for it that means a domestic capacity for it and related technical, manufacturing-adjacent things.

DIY repair has saved me a lot of money and headache, and saved a lot of stuff from landfill. It should be an easy sell, but with everything going towards a subscription model - overtly or covertly - we aren’t supposed to own things anymore. I would expect the balance of lobby money to be on the other side of this issue every time.

$11 is wild for all that!

The New Order was enjoyable vengence porn against Nazis, it’s a good time; maybe I need that again!

I’ve been playing the heck out of Harebrained Schemes’ BattleTech; I haven’t binge-played like this in a long time. It never feels fair; 2-1 odds is typical, but it’s always possible. Pretty satisfying to overcome unfair situations. Makes me feel smart and capable! Plus, jumpy stompy robots!

The company managing this land for the owner is a private island broker: https://www.vladi-private-islands.de/en/island-archive/canada-east/central

I’m too early in the game to know this well, but I feel the lack of mod support. This feels like a game that would really thrive with community support, but they have no plans on supporting mods or open sourcing it. They are currently working on a new project that they haven’t elaborated on yet.

Still, I got this game for $14 and if I can find some people to play with I’m absolutely going to get my money’s worth - this kind of game just doesn’t exist with this level of depth. I love the technical detail of how the ship works on and how the systems interact with each other.

I just got this game and I’m having a blast, this is the style of game I’ve been hungry for for a long time.

i’d settle for more sidewalks in my town

on some streets they just paint a line down the road and call it a sidewalk - one of these is on a road touching an elementary school

I’d probably do this for a hobby project

but financial software? no way in heck!