cykros

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by cykros 4y ago
I wonder how the median life expectancy has been changing in the past few years. Using the mean certainly allows for some shock and awe, and certainly serves to scare people (considering how much it is skewed by things like infant mortalit
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by cykros 4y ago
Not quite roleplaying, but adjacent, are dungeon crawlers, many of which are solo friendly. Most notable would probably be Gloomhaven (check out Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion if that $184 price tag is a bit much at first for a $30 taste), o
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by cykros 4y ago
One step that may be good is clearly defining where a war stops being a retaliation for something in the past and becomes a war of aggression. Whether or not the current situation in Ukraine is one of aggression depends largely on whether
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by cykros 4y ago
They were ready for a conditional surrender before even the first bomb was dropped; the bombs facilitated an unconditional surrender. At the end of the day, they seem to have had more to do with letting the Soviets know the time of day more
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by cykros 4y ago
Or irssi/weechat inside of a screen/tmux session on a host with ssh to attach/detach at will?
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by cykros 4y ago
The issue was never that Linux wasn't ready for the desktop. It's that the average user was never ready for the desktop. Perhaps evidenced by the fact that as soon as they were given the alternative of handheld computing applian
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by cykros 4y ago
It's a little bit more nuanced than that. Could OPEC+ release oil to the market? Sure. Will they, amid the Ukraine situation? Often, perhaps not, but maybe. Could we domestically ramp up domestic production? Yes, though the quest
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by cykros 4y ago
The sanctions on Russia are certainly not helping on the fuel front (never mind the food/fertilizer front), and as bad as things were made by the handling of COVID, this additional blunder took things from limited options to no options
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by cykros 4y ago
It WILL move into recession? I think we finally found the world's first one handed economist. Someone let Harry Truman know!
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by cykros 4y ago
If it WERE true, we'd be using a lot more wood and coal still, alongside petroleum. And you'd need to constantly be finding ways around the horses and carriages on your way into work. But for all the ways it isn't 100% true,
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by cykros 4y ago
When I heard Matt Frewer was involved I initially said, "At his age?!" Then I remembered, it's not 1987, and Max can actually be computer animated this time around. Though in fairness he was spry enough in Altered Carbon th
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by cykros 4y ago
You: I'll disrupt anyone I feel like, because my pet issue is important enough that absolutely everything in the world needs to stop until it is addressed. It's not saying both sides have good points -- it's saying we're
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by cykros 4y ago
I'd sure hope we'd at least be mostly made up of folks that'd at least have the decency to go to IRC, if not self hosted Matrix servers. If we're flocking to Discords, we really HAVE fallen a long way...
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by cykros 4y ago
In my experience, the best solution is have a core group of people come to a decision to use a platform that is just inconvenient enough that it doesn't become too popular, be that an irc channel, usenet, xmpp, etc. The old war of AOL
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by cykros 4y ago
Climate != weather. Warmer global temperatures don't mean that it will be warm everywhere. It's hardly an out there idea to suggest that climate change could likely result in a new ice age (see: The Day After Tomorrow).
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by cykros 4y ago
Microsoft did it pretty well with Minecraft Earth, from a UX point of view anyway. From a "managing finite system resources" point of view, it was a spectacular failure, which is why the game failed. Even the top notch hardware
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by cykros 4y ago
No, they depended on Google Glass coming out with them -- which they were about to, back when Ingress was still in Beta. Glass flopped, and Niantic floundered, but got a new lease on life thanks to the April Fool's Joke that was Pokem
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by cykros 4y ago
One need only look to the lore of Ingress to see the real aims here. Niantic, or, the NIA, has always had intel and manipulation in mind (you could almost say they aspire to be "shapers").
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by cykros 4y ago
I was shocked and appalled when they killed Field Trip, honestly. It's the forgotten Niantic app, but was a big part of what built that map and POI database in the first place, and was something I at least occasionally fired up when i
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by cykros 4y ago
I picked it back up the other day ultimately thanks to this thread and remembering how much better things were in their early days, and am giving it another go, as I ultimately put it down giving their later offerings a shot. They've
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by cykros 4y ago
In fairness, when they started Ingress, Google Glass was in Beta testing. We all KNEW it was just around the corner. The videos of being able to SEE the portals in the real world had us drooling. And then...it never happened. Microsoft u
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by cykros 4y ago
Niantic is too afraid to move fast and break things, as a famous robot once put it. They started with an interactive game that included location based chat and ultimately even made way for the ability to track players actions on an intel m
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by cykros 4y ago
Paramount has done just fine for the last century. If you mean as a streaming platform, they only recently started even trying...and thanks to Star Trek, they've had a pretty decent start.
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by cykros 4y ago
This is true, but it fails to take into account back catalog the legacy media companies such as Paramount, Disney, NBC Comcast, and to some extent even HBO have to fall back on. They gain subscribers simply to watch the content they made 2
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by cykros 4y ago
They're pivoting to including an ad-supported tier. Microsoft is on board for providing the ad-platform. I wouldn't worry about Netflix going away within the next few years. Whether it tops the markets like it did the past 10 y
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by cykros 4y ago
Ingress was much better about giving you a real reason to pick out specific places. You didn't HAVE to do it, but building large fields to cover big territory was (and may well still be) a huge part of what made the game fun for a lot
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by cykros 4y ago
Minecraft Earth's big failure was being just too bloated for most hardware to handle it. I was running a fairly current Pixel phone and in one of the AR modes (build or adventure) watching the battery drain was like time lapse photogr
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by cykros 4y ago
Spot on. Ingress was fun when there was engagement, and it largely came down to whether or not your local community was particularly lame. However, that it was even able to succeed as well as it did had largely to do with not being particu
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by cykros 4y ago
Take the gloves off, make a cyberpunk game. C'mon; who doesn't want to run around down dark alleys in the middle of the night to do sketchy missions, and jack their deck into a megacorp's system to fight off some ICE? But yes
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by cykros 4y ago
You're probably right; I was overestimating the amount of funds that are actively managed (ie, would be in a position to act on this in the first place). Had the ratio of active:passive been higher, and a bit of coordination in place,

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