[-] luciole@beehaw.org 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Been playing mostly Our Adventurer Guild. Super fun indie strategy RPG. Pretty close to the ending I think. If you've got a Final Fantasy Tactics itch I recommend you check it out! The art and the dialog is kind of goofy, but don't be fooled this is a solid game.

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submitted 1 week ago by luciole@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org

The widely held belief of the echo chamber has been bothering me for a while now. I don't question the phenomenon itself. It's happened often enough; I totally agree this is a thing. What bugs me though is the idea that the root cause is members of a group agreeing too much.

Agreement is good wtf. Consensus should be a welcome occasional checkpoint. How are you even supposed to build healthy communities if you don't share some common ground, like say equality for all. Sealioning is not a vaccine against radicalization. If anything the constant bickering from contrarians has the opposite effect.

Diversity may be a better sign of healthy community. Diversity of age, origins, gender, whatever. I don't believe such a community turns into a radicalization timebomb for being like-minded. We need shared values to build upon, lest loneliness swallows us all.

Nevertheless I feel that obsessing over the homogeneous aspect of an echo chamber is mistaking the symptoms for the essence. My intuition is that the danger is in the discourse itself and to a certain extent in the platform used. I can't say I've made up my mind on the specifics though.

What do you think? It's OK if you disagree lol 🤪

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 49 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I fully expect this to be yet another chromium reskin.

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submitted 1 month ago by luciole@beehaw.org to c/music@beehaw.org

Love the dark autumnal vibes. Music that takes its time.

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submitted 2 months ago by luciole@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/23941424

Blue ticks, but for business web links.

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submitted 4 months ago by luciole@beehaw.org to c/gameart@sopuli.xyz

Salamander (Life Force in the USA) is an arcade scrolling shmup developed by Konami in 1986 as a spin-off of Gradius.

I never actually played. I just enjoy that artwork 🔥

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 46 points 4 months ago

It's important to note that opting into the Apple ecosystem locks you out of any form of agency on your hardware. They've moved hard against repairability and they maintain a stranglehold on spare parts.

For that reason I prefer my personal desktop computer to be a PC I can open, maintain or upgrade myself in terms of hardware. The operating system is my choice as well.

I understand not everybody has the means or interest to tinker with their machine, but I still think Apple's business practices regarding hardware is wasteful and polluting.

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submitted 5 months ago by luciole@beehaw.org to c/music@beehaw.org

Young artist with inspired angsty compositions. They have an EP out and I'm hoping they eventually get around to dropping a full album.

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 65 points 5 months ago

This image is generative AI drivel.

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submitted 5 months ago by luciole@beehaw.org to c/gameart@sopuli.xyz

This one has a special place for me. The lushness and the other-worldliness is so appeasing.

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 74 points 6 months ago

Also chaotic neutral: prioritizes issues by curiosity.

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 71 points 7 months ago

To be fair when it came out seven years ago it really shook up the portable gaming scene. Every portable console coming out since is an iteration on that design. The joycons can go to hell though. And those weird ass online plans.

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submitted 8 months ago by luciole@beehaw.org to c/music@beehaw.org

Fresh new Louis Cole dropped along with announcement for a whole new orchestral album to be released Aug. 9.

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submitted 9 months ago by luciole@beehaw.org to c/science@beehaw.org

It’s March 14th! An excellent day to eat pie and do maths. I might brush up on my geometry and try the NASA Pi Day Challenge.

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submitted 9 months ago by luciole@beehaw.org to c/music@beehaw.org

"SMILE is a post-punk band with a singer who prefers not to sing."

Whole album's a banger. Sort of Sonic Youth vibes except I don't get bored halfway through (sorry Sonic Youth fans 😬)

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 47 points 10 months ago

Personally I find the "there is no such thing as a real picture" argument facetious and dangerous. Filters, optimizing zoom and autofocus is not the same as convincingly taking someone out of a scene they were in or putting them in a scene they never were in. One is a purely aesthetic adjustment while they other purports false information. Samsung Generative Edit further trivializes the latter and leaves no indication of the manipulation.

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 55 points 1 year ago

The basic idea is that the West has declined irrevocably, beginning with what Srinivisan calls the birth of the centralized state that disempowered wealthy industrialists with antitrust laws, securities regulation, central banking, and adversarial journalism. Now, the thinking goes, we’re on the backswing with wealthy individuals reclaiming their power over supposedly corrupt public institutions, and we have the internet and its currency—Bitcoin—to lead us out of the darkness.

So the billionaire techbros feel powerless (wtf) and are offended by criticism (oof) so they want their own techbro dictatorship with no free press. Also please no peasant to support, only exploit. Got it.

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 135 points 1 year ago

She has 110 millions insta followers. 100,000 represent a 0.1% loss. I wish only 0.1% of the population were homophobic.

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[-] luciole@beehaw.org 52 points 1 year ago

Yet, in a redacted copy of an internal email chain released on Friday, Jim Kolotouros, the vice president of Android Platform Partnerships, wrote: “Chrome exists to serve Google search, and if it cannot do that because it is regulated to be set by the user, the value of users using Chrome goes to almost zero (for me).”

So Chrome’s whole point is bringing users to Google Search… and Google Search's whole point is Google Ads. I’m Glad I use Firefox.

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 59 points 1 year ago

Wrong question, in my humble opinion. A bubble is speculative at its core. It’s about traders, the stock market, investors, speculators and shit placing much more value on a thing than what it’s worth. The distance with reality grows massive, until everybody wakes up and "pop!" all that sweet sweet wealth (or savings, for the peasants) vanished into thin air. Think housing market or beanie babies.

The question here is if indie game dev can remain sustainable. It’s like restaurants: the more there are, the harder it gets. The risk is not nearly as sudden and explosive as a bubble though. If there are too many, some shops close, others shrink.

Furthermore, the tools and knowledge required for gamedev keep getting more readily available. It’s an art too, so there will always be someone somewhere with the overwhelming drive to do it, profitability be damned.

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 72 points 1 year ago

OK hear me out: Minecraft in survival. For real. Nothing jump scares like a creeper going "psshht" in your back, telegraphing that you’re about to die in a destructive explosion. As you walk a narrow path over a chasm of lava in the Nether, the wail of the Ghast might make you fall out of sheer panic before it even shoots at you. The Warden is a special kind of scary too, as it’s nearly unkillable and will detect you by the noise you make. It sounds kind of silly but there’s plenty of players making the remark that Minecraft survival is basically horror.

And it’s all in a child friendly, non gory, voxel style.

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submitted 1 year ago by luciole@beehaw.org to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

This report published on August 30 by Vias (Belgium) studies the relationship between the car’s characteristics (such as size, weight and power) with injury severity in case of collision. It’s available in French and Dutch only, but it includes an English summary.

Here’s an excerpt:

With the exception of vehicle age, we find that vehicle characteristics that reduce the injury severity of car occupants, such as high mass, are more likely to be detrimental for the other party. For example, when the mass of a vehicle increases by 300 kg, the probability of fatal injuries for car occupants decreases by half while the same probability for the other party increases by 77% for car occupants and 28% for vulnerable road users, respectively. A similar pattern is seen for other vehicle characteristics such as power and pickup trucks. This indicates an opposite relationship between occupant safety and opponent safety, or put another way: vehicles with a high capacity to protect their occupants (= high crashworthiness) tend to have a lower capacity to protect the opponent (= high crash aggressiveness).

Big takeaway for me: if the vehicle hitting a pedestrian or a cyclist is a pick-up, the victim is 91% more likely to be severely wounded and 196% more likely to be killed.

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submitted 1 year ago by luciole@beehaw.org to c/music@beehaw.org

The song's on the album Favours: https://slagqueens.bandcamp.com/album/favours

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