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What "unique" or single-game-genre games have you enjoyed?
  • EVE Online AKA Spreadsheets Online, back when I played it in 2009. No idea if it's the same now. Almost entirely player driven economy and factions (outside of hi-sec).

    Elite Dangerous, sort of. No other Space Sim is on its scale (I wouldn't really call something like Space Engine a space sim). Unique, but mixed recommendations because it's a very shallow game in a lot of ways, but it's got a cool vibe. Speaking of which...

    Space Engine. Not really a game, so much as a universe-simulator. It is unknown to this day how a mortal could create something of this grandeur. Maybe the source code will be released eventually.

    Someone else already mentioned Noita :(

    Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is the most realistic game ever made. No other game had made me ask "what would I do in real life?" before. Of course, this dies out the more you learn the meta, but your first dozen or so runs are special.

    Minecraft is hardly unique now, but when it came out it was one-of-a-kind.

  • Average US presidential debate
  • I've only finished the anime up to season 4, but I don't think the theme is that "Nazarick is evil and evil skeleton overlord is fun", but rather "do the ends justify the means Nazarick takes", given that Ainz wants to create a utopia where all races live in harmony. It's very interesting writing given how much time and humanity is given to side characters that are eventually destroyed or imperialized by Nazarick.

  • Average US presidential debate
  • That's funny because if you actually watched Overlord you'd know Ainz' goal (besides getting back to the real world) is to create a utopia where all races are equal. But keep throwing buzzwords if it makes you feel good.

  • Average US presidential debate
  • For someone that hates the right you make a lot of generalizations. Every country with power is a mess politically, but that says nothing about their art.

  • South Carolina implements one of US’s most restrictive public school book bans
  • Very well, we will give proper education outside of the schools.

  • PC gaming is mainstream. Now what?
  • I keep playing open source roguelikes and ignore the corpoids encroaching on my passtime

  • You must pick one
  • I will never own a game console again (excluding things like the steam deck which aren't locked down), so red pill is an easy pick for me. Though if there's any PSN garbage I'm not touching it, or obtaining it through other means. 🏴‍☠️

  • Average US presidential debate
  • If you've ever watched Overlord you'd know the dead deserve to rule over the living

  • Thought on Graphene?
  • Left

  • RCS vs SMS/MMS?
  • Encrypted XMPP/IRC+ZNC/other plain text protocol is the best. Mobile data is everywhere and cheap, especially for text messages. Only one person has to do the heavy lifting setting up the server on a VPS with encryption; connecting the clients is easy. The hard part is getting people to use them when network providers and Android/iOS devs shoehorn SMS/MMS/RCS as the default and only option.

  • I don't even know name of these Jokers
  • Seeing double is decent and easy enough to trigger if you're playing pair, three of a kind, four of a kind, full house, etc (basically anything but high card and flush). Main downside is it's only a 2x mult, but that's often good enough to beat ante 8 if you have some other easy to obtain xMult.

    I've only just unlocked Merry Andy so I can't comment on it, other than that it must go hard with banner and delayed gratification. According to the wiki, even if you put Andy right of burglar, it still kills all your discards, which doesn't make much sense to me; but it wouldn't be a very good synergy anyways (maybe would be okay for a crappy straight flush deck, but even then you're working with -1 hand size).

    I've never gotten a good run with golden ticket, but I could see it generating crazy econ with gold seal + gold card and hanging chad/sock & buskin/hack/other retrigger jonklers. It's a lot of prerequisites.

  • what’s your thoughts on Linux and Windows…
  • Your ability to ride the fence is admirable OP, don't let anyone take it from you 🙏

  • Le Eevee au chocolat
  • cum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • What uses of a smartphone do you think most people miss out on?
  • postmarketOS, native, on pinephone. There's a few mobile devices these days that can run mobile Linux.

  • Le Eevee au chocolat
  • Make the chocolate white and then it will be based

  • 12 words that change everything
  • you sure you didn't mean to post this in [email protected]s?

  • Is pixel 4a too old for a new phone?
  • Random hardware suggestions, using mobile Linux support as a litmus test

    • Pinephone (Pro): Main downside is that OG Pinephone has extremely anemic hardware, and the charging circuit is not controlled through hardware for some insane reason; hope the kernel devs of whatever OS you put on it knows how to not turn your phone into a bomb. Also Pine64 as a company has gotten flak for their support of Manjaro. Can't deny how good the price is though.
    • Fairphone 4: Good hardware, but expensive. I don't own it, but it works good on postmarketOS according to the wiki.
    • Librem 5: Overpriced compared to the earlier members on this list, but you can guarantee the phosh interface will work well considering it was developed by Purism as well.
    • OnePlus 6 and 6T: I don't know much about these, but they're very popular with the mobile Linux crowd.

    As for the pixel, there's work on it but it's still broken at the moment. As for the hardware being too old, I haven't used anything Android in a while, so I don't know how much performance degrades each release, but a mobile Linux distribution should run just as good today as it will 20 years from now, assuming you use the same interface.

  • Is this the electron-alternative we've been waiting for?
  • Nah I ain't about that rust life

    cgi on the other hand... 😍😍😍

  • Thought on Graphene?
  • I don't trust the google kernel when it comes to privacy or security. You think with how many people use Android and with how bad actors Google are they wouldn't put a backdoor somewhere?

  • how easy is it to install arch?
  • It's as easy as following any set of instructions. Whether or not you actually understand what the instructions are doing is an entirely different story. If you actually want to learn how to operate a posix system, doing a bunch of command line installs of Linux isn't going to help you with that. What will help is living in something with excellent documentation like OpenBSD, with minimal reliance on external tooling. Once you have the skills, they'll transfer anywhere.

  • All purple level poker hands!

    obtained during typecast challenge, wouldn't have been possible without planet tycoon and astronomer

    jonklers: blueprint | bloodstone | cardsharp | astronomer | satellite

    seed: 2NFN355P

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    Favorite OpenBSD Utilities & Libraries?

    Utils:

    ssh

    • obvious

    mg

    • debloated emacs
      • even smaller than nvi/nex!

    tmux

    • a lot of people don't realize this is an OpenBSD project
    • session retention

    doas

    • configuring sudo feels horrible after configuring doas
    • invaluable in ports

    pf

    • ironic that this is most popular outside of OpenBSD (PFSense)

    ifconfig

    • command line interface translates directly to configuration files

    login.conf/login

    • anything on PenguinOS seems insane by comparison
      • especially oom killer

    sndio

    • actually works
      • hopefully this gets popular outside of OpenBSD ;) ;) ;)

    vmm/vmd

    • still in its early stages, but I love it

    got (technically not an OpenBSD project, but adjacent)

    • debloated git
    • partial git compatibility

    Library Functions/Syscalls:

    pledge & unveil

    • interesting new approach to jails
    • set and forget, no interaction needed on the user's end
      • with exceptions like chromium & firefox

    strtonum

    • far nicer than strto* functions in stdlib

    malloc

    • now with use after free and leak detection! who needs valgrind?
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