voracitude

That's fucked up, dude. A kid got raped. Quit being weird.

It's not you I'll be disappointed about. It's all the people who didn't sign up for your wacky bullshit cult who might not have died except for your towering selfishness, and arrogant ignorance. That's what you're advertising here, and every time you tell someone you're anti-vaccination: that you're selfish, arrogant, and ignorant. They might or might not think you're a piece of shit too, that's up to them, but I sure do.

Oh no, the media is failing to load for me in Voyager!

I don't want to spoil too much for you, but it's too bad I didn't get footage of my run where I accidentally shifted flammable gas to acceleratium. Not quite as bad as when Dunk managed to shift it to acid (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59w5bTIUHVA - acid turns most solids into flammable gas, so shifting that to acid forms a feedback loop), but my frame rate was in the single digits whenever acid hit another material even if it didn't destroy the whole world and kill me immediately.

Tell me more! I've only seen some very early previews, where the movement looked floaty like Warframe but with gameplay too slow to support it. Combat looked kinda clunky. I'm just getting back into Warframe after a long time off, but I love the gameplay loop and I am very curious to see how DE applies the lessons they've learned to a new codebase, instead of what is likely an ancient mess of tech debt that probably makes the infested look like /c/cableporn.

Have you played Warframe? Did you like it? How would you say it compares to Soulframe so far?

You're not cheating, you didn't pick pyro.

Jokes aside (not really joking though), you're not cheating - you're just kicking the challenge can down the road. The sorceries of Vinheim alone won't keep you from going... Hollow... kekeke.

Sketch? That's pretty funny, I could see doing that for an in-joke with someone they were close to.

we just need to show them the truth

I once read this on lemmy and it stuck with me. I think it applies here:

The autistic trait that bites me in the ass most often is the unshakable belief that if I can just show someone the truth, they'll believe me.

True for me, and worse, I never seem to learn.

You know what bothers me about this site? No "about" page. Who the fuck is Jesse William McGraw? Aside from a hacker who, by his own admission, got caught, convicted, and sentenced to prison?

After a little digging I'm not sure "hacker" would be the right word: https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/hacker-known-as-ghostexodus-sentenced-to-more-than-nine-years-in-federal-prison-7145501

Script kiddie, maybe. His opsec was non-existent; he posted his "hacks" to YouTube.

Secondly, free speech is regulated everywhere, and very much in the UK:

Article 10 is a qualified right. Accordingly, freedom of expression does not protect all statements, where the rights of the individual must be balanced against the public interest in permitting free speech. This means that the legislature and the courts can intervene to penalise or censor the use of language or conduct which crosses a culturally acceptable line.

(https://www.lawble.co.uk/freedom-of-speech/)

If that sounds nebulous, that's because it is. It's supposed to be able to catch problems in real time; we see what allowing stochastic terrorism has wrought in the US.

I believed in Chris Roberts because of Freelancer and backed it on Kickstarter, and have watched from the shadows as the story has unfolded. I occasionally dipped my toes in to see how it was coming along, but the performance was awful on midline hardware so I put it back down and waited. Now that the turmoil at the top has come out and people are leaving, I don't hold much hope for the future of the game.

I think the reason it gets a ton of hate is that Roberts had gone and proven that Microsoft were absolutely right to take Freelancer away from him so it could get finished. They weren't shackling a maverick genius, they were mitigating losses from his poor leadership.

Maybe check out Starsector by https://fractalsoftworks.com. It's written in Java so it runs on basically anything, and it's 2d top-down but the detail on the ships is great. I love this game very much because it scratches most of the itches I was hoping for from Star Citizen.

Came here to suggest it and here it is, the newest comment! The modding scene is insane, too, for such a relatively small and unknown game.

I love Starsector. I just wish it was written in something more performant than fuckin' Java. But, if it were, there probably wouldn't be the mods for it there are today.

One of these days, I'm going to get around to writing a quest line of my own. Honest.

I understand. I don't instantly block someone, but if the choice is between arguing pointlessly and blocking them or the community, I'll block and move on. This does impact how useful the site can be for me, but I don't think using it less is a bad thing.

I've come to the conclusion that social media is simply bad for a person, because I think it amplifies negativity. I'm not sure if it's because we can't see each other, or if it's the asynchrony preserving what might have been a fleeting nasty thought and echoing it undiminished into the future, or that and more. I can't think of a way to fix it - at least, not a way other than being the change I want to see, but it's hard (as you've found) and takes a heavy toll on my emotionally-dysregulated ass. And sometimes I'm not the change I want to see - said emotional dysregulation is a bitch to manage.

Maybe that's what community is, a constant struggle to communicate effectively with other people. Or maybe platforms like lemmy and reddit only claim to offer community, but don't really. Maybe they can't, with all the pseudonymity. Maybe nowhere can, nowadays, with so many bad-faith actors seemingly infiltrating every online space that exists.

I'm sorry you feel beaten down by it, bud. I don't have answers, but you're not alone. As a maker, remember: everything you build will outlast the negativity. The blizzard of shit takes will wash away with time, posts being deleted to save space and so on. Your creations will be shared and preserved by the people that like them and find them useful. I take solace in that, personally; maybe you can find some too.

Edit: top lel. I haven't read this yet but the headline jumped out at me after having just posted the above: https://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2025-01-07/the-internet-hasnt-made-us-bad-we-were-already-like-that-the-mistake-of-yearning-for-the-friendly-online-world-of-20-years-ago.html

Then why is labour in such short supply?