ulyssessword
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ulyssessword
1d ago
I like the gameplay direction Naev went more than Endless Sky's. It gives you rechargeable missile and fighter bays, actually-long-distance travel, and severe nerfs to capturing ships and building fleets. Also, fighters can usually dodge heavy laser fire and battleships can largely ignore light weapons, which forces some variety into your builds.
ulyssessword
4d ago
Sounds like a perfect time for “[awkward silence]”.
ulyssessword
5d ago
Sorry, that was the wrong screenshot, and I'm also on desktop. Here's the actual screenshot (but mobile is the same AFAICT):
ulyssessword
5d ago
Is your UI the same as mine? Can you tell if I visited the comment section in that second link in the screenshot?
ulyssessword
5d ago
Feature request: Some way to differentiate between "X comments, and you've seen all of them" and "X comments, and you've seen none of them".
ulyssessword
5d ago
What does that mean? I'm pretty picky, and often do look at Youtube or Instagram, see that there's nothing interesting there, and then close the tabs and go to bed or sit under a tree with a physical book. Maybe I'm a bit odd. If I'm feeling... stressed? I'm not sure what the state is... I'll refresh The Motte or something over and over for a while, and yeah that's dumb, I shouldn't do that. I should probably take a nap at that point.
I'm right there with you, but I don't think it's universal. I feel like I won the lottery of fascinations because the supposedly-addictive (and also useless) content that gets spread around is just boring to me, so I don't get sucked into those holes. It takes zero effort whatsoever on my part.
ulyssessword
5d ago
...but calling this "screens" feels like calling slot machines "levers" or something.
I'd go much, much broader than that. It's like calling slot machines, toasters, forklifts, and home gyms "levers". Sure, they all have the same basic interface, but they're wildly different than each other in every way that matters.
"Screens" covers direct communication with IRL friends, pseudonymous (or real-name-but-it-doesn't-matter) social media like Twitter/Discord, longform content like ebooks/movies/TV/podcasts, shortform content like news articles/memes/alerts, official interactions with the government or other institutions, ads, games, work, etc.
Being on screens all day is probably worse than pulling levers all day, but it's still wildly underspecified. Even if they define it better in the actual podcast than your comment, it still feels like they're over-reaching with the label.
(unless they're talking about eyestrain and neck problems, but I have a feeling that never came up)
Anyway, is there anyone out there who has an actually useful way of discussing "screens," especially in respect to children, but also in general?
I'm keeping an eye out, but I haven't really seen it. One step better is people talking about "algorithms", and how there's a race to the bottom as genuine value loses out to virality.
ulyssessword
6d ago
Fake News You Can Trust lives up to its name once again. Their article correctly identifies that Mamdani condemned the right-wing victims, and that the perpetrators were left-aligned (I can't confirm "ISIS-inspired Muslims"). The other 95% is fake, of course, but they got the key points.
There was a recent article in the CBC (I believe), talking about "modern slavery" in Canada's temporary foreign worker program. They interviewed a worker who talked about the poor conditions he was facing in the job, and how it had stayed that way for over a dozen separate trips. The author didn't seem to realize that something was pulling him back to those jobs after he left at the end of each previous term. Or rather, they had the term "slavery" floating around the article, and left the readers to reach their own conclusions.
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