xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

Mines and missiles have limited ammo now. I've also added a HUD. It's just text and it uses a TTF rather than a bitmap font. Bitmap fonts seem to be difficult in SFML. Supposedly, vertex arrays solve this problem but I haven't tried them yet.

#gamedev #SFML

@All_bonesJones Looks interesting. I don't really care about the experience points though. I'm looking for more of a pure action-adventure experience and not so much action-RPG experience.

@ryo But you still have to add it to your address book. It's pretty cumbersome.

@ryo Well, I don't see I2P going mainstream. Tor, maybe, but from a normie mindset, there is no need to use I2P when Tor already exists. Even sites like Facebook and Twitter have onion domains. Which goes with my point earlier in that there are plenty of darknets out there. There will always be an obscure one.

And I'd say that the internet was already mainstream by the 90s. Except that, normies only used it for taxes and stock trading.

@ryo I think airplanes used to have ethernet. It used to be common in waiting rooms decades ago, but I haven't checked if they still have them.

@Indigo Wikipedia actually has an article about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin#Biotic_(microbial)_hydrocarbons

@coolboymew @All_bonesJones Crusader of Centy isn't bad, there's just nothing grand about it. The game is pretty linear and the story doesn't make up for it (it's pretty fairy-tale esque). Doesn't help that for half the game, you lose your ability to talk with other humans meaning that you can't talk to over half of the game's cast for a good chunk of the story.

@ryo
>Which is why I'm rather worried about bringing DNS to I2P (I talked about it earlier this year I think)

Yeah you have.
http://asc7ewkcvat2wsoi5yuwkej5ukyrqqnpnzpj4u34r2jxnoxhnbx6yqad.onion/blog/gatekeep-i2p/

I'm actually kind of mixed on the issue. I understand people wanting to preserve the culture and the darknet is probably the closest thing we have to Web 1.0, but the fact of the matter is that if normies are still using shit like Facebook, Discord, Google whatever, etc then that only ensures the power that those companies have and it affects ALL of us.

I actually do want normies to become more tech-savy and actually use software and services that actually respect them, including darknet software, for their own benefit. If you can't stand the mainstream culture, there will always be some darknet that would be obscure.

@terminalautism Back when I worked in fast food. We had some recurring customer that would actually bring a desktop to work on while eating, but it was one of those all-in-one desktops so it might as well be a laptop.

I used to love laptops as a kid. I'm probably much younger, but I grew up during the mobile computing revolutions during the mid-2000s and early 2010s and laptops were the closest you can get to having the full desktop experience on the go, even if it was less portable than a phone, PDA, tablet, or MP3 player. I even wanted to forgo the cell phone and just use a laptop to make phone calls. Thank God I never did, even though smartphones are trash, moreso than laptops.

I don't hate laptops. I just hate using them for everyday computing. I feel like besides planned obsolescence, the reason why I end up replacing my laptop every two years is because I use them way too much.

Also, I made a mistake on System76 using Libreboot. It's actually Coreboot (maybe okay if you're not full freetard), but their computers still seem to be pretty expensive. Even the Meerkat which is supposed to be their equivalent to the Mac Mini can cost >$1000 depending on the configurations you set in your purchase.

@ryo Pirated GOG games on the darknet is nothing new.

@Indigo
>Maybe the EU was a bad comparison, what I mean is more like an agreement between sovereign nations to follow a set of common rules in terms of diplomacy, trade, travel, immigration, etc., more like a series of treaties than anything else (y'know, what the EU should be *in theory*).

I think alliances only really worked without being governments of their own back in the days of monarchy because back then the kings and queens of different countries were basically like neighboring families. Now, elected (or selected) politicians are basically strangers to foreign nations' politicians and it gives NGOs the opportunity to hijack these countries while manipulating foreign relationships.

I'm fully on board with Hoppe in that monarchies (good monarchies) are superior to democracies. Problem is that I highly doubt that any secessionist state would be a monarchy.

>I don't know enough about the oil thing to give an informed answer, I was mostly just using that as a commodity that comes from Texas that other places need.

The theory is that oil is actually not a fossil fuel, but instead is a byproduct created by certain bacteria, and is actually much more abundant than what it appears to be. The theory goes that the Rockefellers made up the fossil fuel "myth" to make it look more limited resource so they can lobby for legislation and crush competition. It's a conspiracy theory that I want to be true and I want to be exposed because if it is true and it is exposed to the public, it will have a MAJOR effect on the world and in a good way. Production will be RADICALLY decentralized. Power in certain nations will be reduced DRASTICALLY. And of course secession would be possible.

@ryo
I'm actually not in the need of a new laptop right now. My current laptop is a Dell gaming laptop (not alienware). It currently has a fan problem, but at the very least, it seems to be repairable.

I honestly, feel in more need of a desktop computer. I actually haven't had one in years. In fact, I never even built one because I was always given laptops as gifts when I needed a new computer, I don't play the latest AAA games so I never felt the need, and the lack of space. But I realize that I feel WAY more productive on a desktop computer than a laptop. However, I'm probably going to build my own desktop if I'm going to get one. I would only consider System76 as they have already mitigated IntelME and flash libreboot (neither which I have ever tried to do before), but I swear their computers are Apple levels of expensive. Even their mini desktops can reach the $1000s.

But I'm also nearing the two year mark on my current laptop and normally something breaks to the point where I can't use it and it is either too difficult (if not impossible) to fix. I'm trying to use this thing for as long as possible though.

>The reason I don't is because none of them ship with a JP-106 keyboard layout

Well, given how non-existent the FLOSS scene is in your country, I doubt that's going to change anytime soon. You can try to ask these companies.

Every Zelda clone fan and Genesis/Mega Drive fan keeps on saying that this is a hidden gem, but I don't see why. It's good, but it pales in comparison to Zelda. It's pretty linear (uses the Mario style level select for the overworld), lacks sidequests, and using animal partners in place of items doesn't sound appealing to me at all.

@lanodan @Moon That's just some variation of some shitty Poast (maybe /pol/?) edgelord copypasta.

@ryo That still doesn't change the fact that even those ThinkPads and ToughBooks will inevitably fail. I'm not against using old computers. If you are able to use a 2009 Thinkpad as your daily driver, then that's great.

I also kind of feel obligated to support these alternative hardware manufacturers, so there will still be that option when using old Thinkpads becomes next to impossible (it would probably take decades but still).

Also, think of a scenario where more and more people wake up to what hardware manufactures like HP, Dell, Apple, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, etc are doing and learn that they can just use older computers if they use a lightweight Linux distro. Prices for older computers would skyrocket. I see the same thing happening with used cars now that they are literally putting DRM (with some countries even mandating it) in cars. The only difference with computers is that there aren't that many countries mandating backdoors in computers (yet).

Basically, I just see using older computers as a short-term solution to a long-term problem.

@beardalaxy They're going to keep on creating glowie-ops and keep the flag at half-mast until people start begging to repeal the second amendment.