xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@danielhudson

A good game is a *system*. Systems simulate thinking you need elsewhere in life. It's like training.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafl_games

If you're growing up to be a viking raider, a game about escaping the middle of a board to a corner is probably good beginner's practice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_%28game%29

If you're a minor Chinese noble, who needs to conscript and lead an army of peasants on short notice, a game about territory control and logistic encirclement is probably goos practice.


Similarly, from the era when most games were made by developers primarily for themselves, true *simulators* are a fantastically good facsimile for whatever you want more practice in.

There are other great potentials with the electronic mediums... But mass market productions are coopted now just like music and film.

What can I say? Either you can play Star Control 2 and understand what there is to get out of it... Or not. Don't lump it with "Press F To Pay Respects".

Sometimes I think about how literally every community I was apart of went to shit as the people did too.

The wild part is realizing there are tons of people living The Boxed Life IRL; in trailer parks/shitty apartments/boomer basements across America (and other Anglosphere countries).
https://youtu.be/TYNBIpezQ4g

There are tons of burnout autists on the internet who wasted their life away in front of a computer screen, communities subverted by a website collapsing with no bunker or drama whores wrecking things, and promising projects turning to shit.

Honestly what keeps me going online at this point is trying to try to leave my mark somewhere, as much as I feel the time to enjoy the "good days" is passing hard, there's a giant void because of it now, moreso because everyone bitching about it has no drive other than to drive to the wagecage every single day or living as a druggie in a tent city, physically or metaphorically.

Are you going to make a mark in your life (long or short) or are you just going to flame out a druggie, trying to get your next fix, wondering why your friends who gossip like women in a parking lot won't talk to you anymore? It's not a hard choice but many people are just incapable of thinking of the future outside of getting another hit/fix.

@parker@pl.psion.co @graf@poa.st

This is why we should replace the left/right - auth/lib political compass with moral/amoral - honour/dishonour.

Interesting concept.
@46da9d8ac399a2ec9b2fbbf8bfb51544f2d8cee9052b735dde66c91d3f56ab9f@mostr.pub @Bad_Banner@poa.st @Wyatt@poa.st @grey@poa.st

My vidya choices.

IM SO FUCKING TIRED OF EVERY CONSPIRACY THEORY COMING TRUE. NOW THE FUCKING "BIRDS ARE DRONES" GUYS? REALLY???

RT: https://nicecrew.digital/objects/c4caf933-8016-4a67-85f9-5ea962346f30

united states history:
we do a little terrorism

every united states politician:
i cannot believe people would think of doing things
d.. do you know what country you are in? lol.. lmao.

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@theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe
Hot take: I think it's proof that federation is working.
The utopian ideal of a single all-encompassing fediverse shouldn't be the goal, but that servers who want to interact can do so without interference from third parties.

You'll notice their attempts to police the entire network have largely failed, as more and more people splinter off and create new instances with saner policies and approaches.
I'd argue if they were being successful, Mastodon would be the only server software.

Today Rome was founded