AnarchistArtificer

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[–] AnarchistArtificer 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can really relate. My mood tanks everytime I see a reminder of the holidays. I used to have a friend who was also estranged from his family, and we'd be grumpy arseholes together over Christmas.

[–] AnarchistArtificer 2 points 1 year ago

I think you've excellently captured the difference here. I didn't get heavily into Elite Dangerous, but on one of my longest journeys, I scanned a few things that no-one had ever scanned before. I didn't discover any awesome looking space phenomena that would be worth sharing (at least, none that hadn't been discovered before), but the prospect that I could was exciting.

Even just the idea that my name would be on other people's screens if they came and scanned the same things I did, because we were all sharing the same world.

[–] AnarchistArtificer 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I don't generally like AI generated images, but this is great

[–] AnarchistArtificer 3 points 1 year ago

Yay, learning!

[–] AnarchistArtificer 2 points 1 year ago

When he was sentenced, Navalny said “I perfectly understand that, like many political prisoners, I am sitting on a life sentence. Where life is measured by the term of my life or the term of life of this regime."

[–] AnarchistArtificer 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is just needlessly hostile. You seem to dislike America, but imagine if the things that you dislike could change and America could be better. The article linked is a part of the process to understand and hopefully change things so that this kind of awfulness never happens.

Why be so unkind? You and OP appear to be on the same side, wrt being against gun violence.

[–] AnarchistArtificer 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think "satanic" is being used in an adverbial sense, rather than as an adjective. By this, I mean that worship that is satanic in manner, which in this sense, means not Christian. By contrast, satanic (adj) worship would be something that actively involves worship of Satan or Satanism.

That being said, I'm probably thinking about this more than he did.

[–] AnarchistArtificer 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How many leftover working parts were there, or was it a perfect fit with no surplus?

[–] AnarchistArtificer 4 points 1 year ago

That is the sweetest story, thanks for sharing

[–] AnarchistArtificer 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a term from gaming which, in the broadest sense, means how they paint the sky to make it look authentic. Imagine being inside a cardboard box - the sides are painted to look like rolling mountains and hills, and the top face is painted to look like a cloudy sky, and if it's done well, all of these should connect up and give the impression that you're lookint at a real sky.

[–] AnarchistArtificer 14 points 1 year ago

Anti-paywall link https://archive.is/MfHFY

I'm doing my part!.gif

[–] AnarchistArtificer 3 points 1 year ago

I have also had trouble getting into games like this, but advice from my friends is that it's actually less about the simulation, more about the stories and hilarity that can emerge from the simulation. In particular, I was advised to name each of my starting dwarves, and also to be less "smart" in how I played. In Rimworld, for example, I would load earlier saves if I lost someone important, and I was depriving myself of the kinds of chaos that these games are best at, like the glorious exuberance of rebuilding a colony from one person after a dreadful invasion.

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