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IT'S FINALLY OUT!!!

My first commercial game and my first game under the Ioncom brand. It's an action, roguelite, dungeon-crawler with limited lives and permadeath.

It's currently Linux exclusive, but the source code is available and you should be able to compile it for anything that SFML runs on.

ioncominteractive.itch.io/refr

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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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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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"This summer/winter is going to be one of the hottest/coldest on record!" is something I've heard my entire life and it means literally nothing.

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Glad I decided to host my own Forgejo, which is also very anti-LLM (and also has an impossible to spell name).
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Are the only people left on 4chan suicidal trans kids
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Apparently the OpenMonero trading platform has been compromised

https://x.com/monerobull/status/2080627692773282014

I've never used it, and it looks like a clone of the old LocalMonero so it has all the baggage that did back in the day. But this breach seems particularly bad:

- bad 2FA implementation meant all accounts could be compromised
- full account takeover was possible
- wallets drained
- trader chat fully accessible, in some cases involving banking info or user addresses if part of trade conversations

This isn't confirmed, since OP could be talking about their ass. But if anybody's using this place, you might want to pull out your funds and stay away from it for a while.

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2010: :blobcatnerd: we don't have enough participation in open software
2026: :blobfoxnerd: please stop trying to participate in open software
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@lain Have you seen the new FreeNet?

You can deploy these little rust/wasm smart contracts to manage app state.

https://docs.rs/freenet-stdlib/latest/freenet_stdlib/prelude/trait.ContractInterface.html

Their chat app: https://github.com/freenet/river/blob/main/contracts/room-contract/src/lib.rs
Room state: https://github.com/freenet/river/blob/784b2084d8ab62a341d58c76573c29326afa6106/common/src/room_state.rs#L20

Looks like it just drops old messages on the floor, but most likely it's not that hard to make it keep history.

Limitations are search (because shit's encrypted) and they have no name service (but I think you could probably implement a Namecoin validator as a contract)...

Interesting because it might be a way to build a federated app without all of the fussing around with the protocol itself...
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@echo I tried a shitty Arabic accent when calling the Dick & Maddox show back in 2015. fast forward to 1:03:35.

I'm not joking, that was actually me leaving a voice mail for them before they had their big gay breakup. I wonder if Dick Masterson still has my phone number.

https://biggestproblemuncucked.libsyn.com/episode-48
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if american bans open source llms im gonna flip my shit
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@coolboymew @thomasroiloup what's the point of an american comics reaction channel? "wow, just wow, another obese tranny of color telling FUCKING WHITE MALES to check their privilege. this comic is bad."
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Apparently if you run GrapheneOS your a pedophile cop hater.

US government agents (border patrol at an airport) were targeting this guy over "Cop City protests" and during the interrogation they threatened to seize the phone if he didn't enter his pass code. He entered a code to wipe it (a feature of GrapheneOS). They charged him for destroying property in effort to prevent seizure.

The pedophilia? It's part of standard procedure (or a tactic to pressure people into confessing stuff even if unrelated to the questioning) according to boarder patrol agents to find evidence of prohibited items. Keep in mind this was all they questioned him about besides cop city protest related questions and identifying other people.

This isn't the first time boarder patrol agents have done this with activists. In ~ 2017 the FBI attempted to target or more like intimidate Ian Freeman using false inferences of child pornography at an airport.

In 2016 an agent made a false swearing to obtain a search warrant under the claim that child pornography would be found. Almost a decade later the FBI was forced to return the equipment with no prosecution, arrest, or child porn ever found. It gets more disturbing in that the search warrant itself as I understand it was sealed hindering the public from getting to the bottom of what justified this persecution. It was sealed under the guise of "national security".

They likely also targeted him months prior to a raid by posting fliers around Keene on an almost daily basis suggesting he was a pedophile and a danger to the children.

The FBI also put him on a list that boarder patrol would then use to question him for many hours. This despite knowing all along that there was never any child porn in the first place.

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Ironically, if #Codeberg really manages to establish itself as the mostly-GenAI-code-free forge, it'll be the prime target for all #GenAI scrapers to prevent/delay model collapse 🙃

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now, when user freedom finally seems in our grasp, codeberg tries to ban the two most important instruments that work towards it. i think this shows that the whole free software world is both confused and divided to an extremely unhealthy degree. the way forward will reveal itself.
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codeberg for years displayed this behavior, i'm not sure why anyone would expect anything else.

also perfect example for that 95% of "hacker" culture is has completely abandoned their anarchist roots as soon as their political leanings got into power.

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