xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club
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- C/++/#, Python, Java, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, Assembly
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Joined Jun 2020
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I have a lot of ideas when it comes to worldbuilding. I have always been a fan of science fantasy (combining both tropes from sci-fi and fantasy), but I feel like most works haven't embraced both genres to their fullest potential. The original Phantasy Star series is probably the closest because they weren't afraid to actually call magic "magic" instead of "the force" like in Star Wars.
I plan on using these ideas for my dream game (or series), but I'm posting these worldbuilding concepts anyway just in case I never get to creating the game, and I just don't care if other people use these ideas. They most likely have already been done before (in fact I know some of these ideas have been done before). I'm using AI to generate these concepts because I suck at drawing.
Anyway let's begin. First off, I think alien worlds should combine both ancient technology, futuristic technology, and everything in between. Technological progress isn't a linear path, so you shouldn't assume that aliens go through the same technological progression as we do. They might be flying interstellar ships, but they might also still be wielding swords and bows. So you can have spaceships flying over medieval style villages or even mudhuts. Star Wars has basically already popularized this, so this should be a no-brainer, but you can always take it a step further. For example, replace lightsabers with steel swords while still having space travel.
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In case you want to follow me on Nostr, here is my public key:
npub1p254warljd049k4j67aftzzpj6keshfa649uk3uhxea33h2g679snnl0qt
I plan of mostly talking about gamedev stuff on it though. I want a more laid-back experience.
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This goes with what I said earlier, every gamedev community (outside of /agdg/ threads) is pozzed. You will be ostracized unless you fully subscribe to SJW ideology. It's why even in the indie scene, it's hard to find non-pozzed game developers. You even have to request an account (while providing links to other sites and profiles for manual approval) just to be on this instance.
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Fun fact: even I don't know how to pronounce my own username, so feel free to pronounce it anyway you want.
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As the pandemic ended, mRNA vaccine makers saw profits drying up—so they rolled out new shots for flu, RSV, HIV, monkeypox, bird flu, and cancer, all in just a few years.
Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/health/how-covid-vaccines-paved-the-way-for-mrna-cancer-vaccines
#TheFreeThoughtProject
Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/health/how-covid-vaccines-paved-the-way-for-mrna-cancer-vaccines
#TheFreeThoughtProject
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India’s Election Commission Advances Voter Digital ID-Linking Initiative
https://reclaimthenet.org/indias-election-commission-advances-voter-digital-id-linking-initiative?utm_source=fediverse
I'm pretty sure the Tesla attacks are a psyop made to get clueless RWers to think that electric cars are "based" now, and buy Elon's kill-switch backdoored cars.
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@raucao
> . Our capitalist system is largely based on a competing theory, the “subjective theory of value”, which states that value is defined not by the labor required to provide a product or service, but by market forces, or more concretely by the subjective value negotiated between a buyer and seller. I admit this theory is compelling when applied to some examples, for example when explaining the value of a Pokemon card. When it comes to intellectual property, however, I find it very unsatisfying, given that a laissez-faire free market would presumably evolve a very different approach to intellectual property. As such I think that intellectual property as a concept depends at least a little bit on Marx for its legitimacy, which I find very funny.
i guess he's spot on with that, IP is socialism
> . Our capitalist system is largely based on a competing theory, the “subjective theory of value”, which states that value is defined not by the labor required to provide a product or service, but by market forces, or more concretely by the subjective value negotiated between a buyer and seller. I admit this theory is compelling when applied to some examples, for example when explaining the value of a Pokemon card. When it comes to intellectual property, however, I find it very unsatisfying, given that a laissez-faire free market would presumably evolve a very different approach to intellectual property. As such I think that intellectual property as a concept depends at least a little bit on Marx for its legitimacy, which I find very funny.
i guess he's spot on with that, IP is socialism
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Windows 3.1 in HD?! Modern GPU Support with the New 2025 VBESVGA Driver!
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Truly free #GNU/Linux distributions like #Dragora, #Trisquel, or #Parabola tend to have fewer contributors but all the same hosting expenses as larger distros. Have you donated to support them yet? https://dragora.org/en/donate.html #FreeSoftware
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The Covid-19 pandemic should teach Americans to never defer to “experts” who promise that granting them boundless power will keep everyone else safe.
Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-corruption/five-years-later-we-remember-how-politicians-unleashed-covid-tyranny
#TheFreeThoughtProject
Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-corruption/five-years-later-we-remember-how-politicians-unleashed-covid-tyranny
#TheFreeThoughtProject
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For years and years, I've been searching for a rare Canadian computer game - and I finally found it. Really excited to get to share Crosscountry BC.
If you grew up here there's a good chance you played Crosscountry Canada at school. This is the local BC version, made just for local schools, and tracking it down was *really* hard.
https://cdrom.ca/games/cancon/2025/03/18/crosscountry-bc.html
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I got my hands on a Sharp Keitai 4 and for the next month I'll be using it as my daily driver, as an experiment.
No touchscreens, no Google services, no doomscrolling, just me rawdogging a (badly translated) Android 10.
Would you be interested in a blogpost summarizing my experiences afterwards?
No touchscreens, no Google services, no doomscrolling, just me rawdogging a (badly translated) Android 10.
Would you be interested in a blogpost summarizing my experiences afterwards?
Why do people complain about roguelike mechanics in everything, but not this?
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@adiz @lispi314 @pup though to a lesser extent its irrelvant because these extremists deny that they are even doing actions. an ethical framework requires acknowledging that you are doing it, and then defining if its good or bad to do that.
it cannot really be said they are actively being either of the two because they deny that they even doing what they are doing. which makes it the worst. shrug.
it cannot really be said they are actively being either of the two because they deny that they even doing what they are doing. which makes it the worst. shrug.
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@lispi314 @adiz @pup deontologists are okay but it really depends on what the set duty is. they can end up being terrible people since they are only concerned about maintaining the duty (the consequentialist could decide that disobeying the duty is optimal, assuming their moral calculus is reasonable)
virtue ethics is just dead, overall. nobody does that.
virtue ethics is just dead, overall. nobody does that.
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@lispi314 @adiz @pup thats the insidious part about it. they have rendered themselves incapable of understanding what they are doing.
people try to explain it to them and they do not acknowledge that they are doing it and then proceeding to defend it. it is simply spacing through the empty void in their heads.
people try to explain it to them and they do not acknowledge that they are doing it and then proceeding to defend it. it is simply spacing through the empty void in their heads.
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@lispi314 @adiz @pup
> Untold evil in the pursuit of a good is /by virtue of its consequences/ evil (regardless of the original intent, the consequences are the point), particularly when the net outcome is vastly increased amounts of suffering rather than any amount one might consider "equivalent or lesser".
consequentialist and utilitarians do not have virtues. they have a calculus of world state and whether one world state is better than another.
in increasing degrees of brainrot extremism, they do not consider "people i don't like" to be "people," so that calculus assigns suffering to negligible. it is only evil if the world state score decreases and i can just classify people i don't like as furniture.
which, is what historical communist extremists have done (lenin, stalin.)
> Only the impractical fools.
well, that's who runs things now (cf. nixos, python, opensuse, opendesktop, fedora)
> Untold evil in the pursuit of a good is /by virtue of its consequences/ evil (regardless of the original intent, the consequences are the point), particularly when the net outcome is vastly increased amounts of suffering rather than any amount one might consider "equivalent or lesser".
consequentialist and utilitarians do not have virtues. they have a calculus of world state and whether one world state is better than another.
in increasing degrees of brainrot extremism, they do not consider "people i don't like" to be "people," so that calculus assigns suffering to negligible. it is only evil if the world state score decreases and i can just classify people i don't like as furniture.
which, is what historical communist extremists have done (lenin, stalin.)
> Only the impractical fools.
well, that's who runs things now (cf. nixos, python, opensuse, opendesktop, fedora)
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@lispi314 @adiz @pup
> How does that have anything to do with making technology into malware that abuses the user?
its fundamentally an issue of virtue ethics vs consequential ethics.
the virtue ethicist says that imposing decisions on the server admin is unvirtuous, so even if the intent is well intentioned the action is impermissible.
the consequential ethicist is not concerned. nazis bad, so anything that imposes that belief on others is good. killing an unlimited number of orphans is good if it results in one nazi dying.
my main issue with that crowd is they don't even have the presence of character to acknowledge they are naked consequentialists. if you read the tickets, the dev actively sidesteps and denies that they are making decisions for people at all and has an unlimited supply of copes that "we're not doing anything, we're just hurting nazis" as though the means they are intending to do so psychologically don't exist at all.
the everything is political crowd tends to oxidize people that want to just make tools (because the tool isn't being designed specifically to *their* own ends.) they also tend to be completely blind and unwilling to acknowledge what they are.
since one of my deepist maxisms is to always know what you are, this doesn't work well for me
> How does that have anything to do with making technology into malware that abuses the user?
its fundamentally an issue of virtue ethics vs consequential ethics.
the virtue ethicist says that imposing decisions on the server admin is unvirtuous, so even if the intent is well intentioned the action is impermissible.
the consequential ethicist is not concerned. nazis bad, so anything that imposes that belief on others is good. killing an unlimited number of orphans is good if it results in one nazi dying.
my main issue with that crowd is they don't even have the presence of character to acknowledge they are naked consequentialists. if you read the tickets, the dev actively sidesteps and denies that they are making decisions for people at all and has an unlimited supply of copes that "we're not doing anything, we're just hurting nazis" as though the means they are intending to do so psychologically don't exist at all.
the everything is political crowd tends to oxidize people that want to just make tools (because the tool isn't being designed specifically to *their* own ends.) they also tend to be completely blind and unwilling to acknowledge what they are.
since one of my deepist maxisms is to always know what you are, this doesn't work well for me
- Sex
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- Linux Mint
- Programming Languages
- C/++/#, Python, Java, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, Assembly
- Personal website
- https://xianc78.codeberg.page/
Joined Jun 2020
