Marcel Vos!

If you ever wanted to learn more about RollerCoaster Tycoon 1/2/OpenRTC than you thought possible, this is the channel.

This video is a follow up to the longest coaster, and if you’re thinking “I want to get off Mr Bones Wild Ride” then yes, that coaster is long but…

So Cohn did mention comprehensive privacy laws and the ability to leave platforms. These are absolutely things that need to happen.

However as an individual there are still things you can do. Cohn mentions Bluesky because it has no algorithm (except the “Discovery” feed). Cohn also mentions (in the video) Mastodon. And the truth is you don’t need to switch fully, just don’t only slurp down the concentrated hate machine(s).

Look at Lemmy. Reddit decided to be pricks and a bunch of individuals jumped over here to create what I think is a pretty good community. That doesn’t mean the problem is solved. That doesn’t mean Reddit isn’t still a problem. That doesn’t mean Lemmy is perfect. But that is a win and something individuals can do.

Additionally, those are things you can do now. You don’t need to wait for some law to be passed to fix things. You can make the move now. (While still advocating for laws to fix things.)

I also use Debian Testing with GNOME and it works perfectly fine.

Think of Ubuntu as a supported version of Debian Testing.

If you’re going to build on top of something, it’s helpful to build on top of something that is supported and tested.

(FWIW I also run Debian Testing.)

The free “bartender accidentally poured a mistake” beer.

I mean it’s not a carbon copy of Dragon Quest Builders 2, but it’s made by the same team/company and has obvious overlap. They definitely took DQB2 as a starting point and made it Pokemon themed.

We’re on Minecraft 26.

You can install Debian on your Chromebook like you would any app, which I feel makes it a bit less controlling since you have access to a complete Debian install and all the benefits that provides.

Windows also has WSL, which gives you Ubuntu, although that process isn’t quite as user friendly.

Hamilton B. Urglar

And there’s a million buns I haven’t stole, but just you wait, just you waaaaait.

Is Tic-Tac-Toe a good game? I know people who played it a lot at one time. Does it hold up?

If you had fun playing it, it was a good game.

Fruit Ninja? Doodle Jump? Angry Birds?

Games take a simple concept, possibly copied from elsewhere, possibly a mash up of others, possibly original ideas, and of it’s fun, it’s good.

Now was the hype over Flappy Bird strange and over the top? Probably. But remember fidget spinners? Yo-yos? Sometimes trends/fads happen.

FWIW, he won’t be on any ballots this November.

When I first played Skyrim it was the “complete” edition with all the DLC. The game starts fun enough, I complete the intro, wander around a bit and find an interesting quest that takes me to a big city.

Immediately two vampires attack me. I know now this is the start of a plot hook for one of the DLCs, but it was so confusing. Suddenly I was forced to do a whole vampire side plot because every time I ignored it more vampires showed up.

I hope DLCs have improved since then because it was a terrible introduction to the game.

Exactly. This is Sony declaring victory in the console wars. You could argue “But Nintendo”, but Nintendo was never playing the same game as Sony & Microsoft. You want to play Nintendo games, you buy a Nintendo. You want to play Sony games, Sony says you have to buy a Sony PlayStation.

I’m not a fan, but it could work.

stop selling the item until the incorrect price is corrected

Not a lawyer but couldn’t they just refuse to sell it to you? We all know it would be bullshit but couldn’t a company say “Oh that minimum wage clerk made a mistake, but don’t blame them, just an honest mistake.”

Or is the law, if it’s on the shelf, it must be honored?

That’s difficult to quantify, but not that hard.

Modern consoles are just like modern computers.

Lots of complicated things are abstracted away or covered by something else. For example if you developed a game using an existing engine you probably can just check a box and like magic it just works.

If you built your own engine, you probably only tested it against dev kits and real console hardware. It’ll probably mostly just work but might have some unexpected bugs. These too are probably also abstracted away in a lot of cases, which means it either just works or doesn’t take a lot of work to make work.

I imagine Sony’s logic is that it isn’t worth the effort. They probably don’t see the return on investment they want.

They probably look at someone like Nintendo who never port their games and often sell them for full price, it’s kinda shitty for consumers but Nintendo makes bank (and to be fair they usually do make great games). Plus it looks like Microsoft is walking away from consoles so Sony has less to compete with.

Sorta. It’s developed by the team that made Dragon Quest Builders, which leans more towards Minecraft/Terraria, or maybe Harvest Moon/Stardew Valley.

It’s hard to tell, but it should be like Animal Crossing, but with more complex building.

You’re right that putting people in bubbles is probably one way some of these things get worse. If all you see is toxic, toxic is the norm, now you’re always toxic.

Maybe they can tricked.

Although really what we’re talking about is the algorithm that currently exists being focused on highlighting terrible people doing terrible things. Can we turn that same algorithm around and use it for good?

Interesting article and I think it really highlights how toxic some parts of the Internet are. My only issue is the conclusion,

A social media ban for under-16s might prevent young boys seeing endless content that treats women with contempt and hate. Boys at this age are very susceptible to the cool and funny framing of what is, in reality, relentless misogyny. A ban might not fix the problem, but it would help. If society can’t stop it, it can show it disapproves.

Emphasis mine. Having grown up in a different era I can confirm that boys of a wide variety of ages, including much older “boys”, can also be scumbags. Even if we had the perfect technology to ban under-16s from social media, once they hit 16 they’d still be exposed to it, still become terrible people, and the author of this article, although a but older, would still see it. I don’t know if that really is a better world, just a slightly delayed one.

I don’t know the solution, but I remember reading once that some online game would put all the reported and abusive players into a special category where they would be forced to play only with each other. Maybe we can do that in this case.

Whoops, I said Congress, but meant the US House of Representatives (since that is what AOC is).

The Senate has an even 100, so plus another 8 on their side.

Weirdly the law.

The federal government may have some level of legal jurisdiction. If the power company stops running the coal plant, in potential violation, they may incur fines or worse. In your example it could be argued as criminal/willful negligence.

Since the federal government is a powerful entity, the power companies have decided it is cheaper to just follow the potentially legal directive until the matter is settled on court. In fact their argument is that they have to charge their customers twice, so the cost for them is actually fairly minimal because they’re just directly passing the cost on.

I don’t know the specifics of the language being used here, but as an example let’s say the law is, “In cases of emergency, the federal government may require power companies to keep their plants open.” A reasonable law. Except “emergency” isn’t defined. So we go to the courts to determine what is reasonable, which takes long time.

Just for numbers sake, “Accommodation and food services” (which would include bartenders) is the third largest US workforce at ~8%.

Congress The US House of Representatives has 435 members, so at least 35 or so should have a background in bartending or similar work if we really are having a representative government.

Sounds like we need more AOCs.