Alright then, dear trusted canopener: We have a mission to perform at the other end.

Reddit is unusable without 3rd party apps. I used Joey for as long as it worked, and Lemmy seemed to be among the platforms frequently mentioned as an alternate. When Joey no longer worked, I deleted my reddit account and moved here permanently.

For content that lowers the quality of the fediverse. Misinformation, reposts, bad faith actors, etc.

NB: I have no reasonable argument for why this would be therapeutic, I just think it’d be an interesting read.

Write something fictional about what scares you, but from the point of view of the scary thing.

Scared of spiders? A story about a spider just doing it’s usual before suddenly stumbling upon a godzillesque creature of deafening screams that attacks the protagonist with a shoe.

Scared of rejection? Write a story about someone doing the rejecting, and how conflicting it feels.

Scared of water? A story about a crab who’s sick of hoomans crashing through his ceiling when he’s trying to chill in peace.

Lack of a skidmark

Merman!

As a mod, I usually have some restraint regarding bans, but blatant violations such as CP or spam are basically just down to awareness and reaction.

I mod a few popular communities, and I haven’t seen CP yet. It’s mostly the occasional spam and people who are still incapable of self regulating.

By going to a tankie community on a tankie instance and air your opinion on the Soviet Union or church name China (ducking autocorrect) while citing sources

Shub-Niggurath’s Pit in Quake

Showerthought: What’s the step between a C and the C# one octave higher? A Baker’s Octave.

I’ll show myself out…

They’re very much 64bit, as they’re avoiding unity all together. The standard framework of actors and scenes don’t really work for a game at that scale, so they decided to roll their own, and they’re calling it the Brutal Framework “because it’s quite brutal to work with”.

So far the result is really impressive looking, and since there aren’t many layers of abstraction to work via, the performance is pretty impressive too.

In case you did not already know, I post any updates and shareworthy content here: !kittenspaceagency@sh.itjust.works

Yeah, KSP2 was botched on so many levels, primarily by Take2.

Looking forward to seeing what comes out of KSA, though. With many of the old devs and modders of KSP1 on board it looks like they have a good start.

They move in ellipses on earth as well, but it’s cut short by hitting the ground. Also, air resistance affects the trajectory so that anything thrown/shot will eventually return.

Source: Thousands of hours in KSP

Just got home from holiday a couple of days ago, and while the plan was to open up my laptop and continue my Kerbal Space Program game, it’s simply too hot here these days to enjoy anything for fun. So I mostly just do “nothing” while playing chess.

Looking forward to colder temperatures next week.

Not often, but it happens sometimes, usually early before getting out of bed.

I travel a lot as part of my job, I’ve been to 27 countries, and lived long-term in three of them.

When out and about, upon waking up from my alarm I sometimes have to orient myself and remember where I am and why.

I’d mostly keep quiet, but try to position myself in a way that would likely net a significant inheritance at some point.

Other than that, it doesn’t really change much: My genetic origin may be different than what I thought, but my parents never changed.

The generally don’t containerize things because I’m too old and crusty, but segregating over several users is basically how it’s been done for ages, and while it may not be particularly useful in your case, I consider it a reasonable best practice that costs you nothing.

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. I fart in your general direction!

Depends on where. I never do where I live. Not just beggars, but most charities that engage me on the streets as well. I just need to get through my day, and the money I have is already reserved for something, and anyone who knows me knows that the least enticing way to get me to do anything is to show up out of the blue and ask for something, or ask for something when I’m just moving through to some destination or purpose.

EDIT: My GF reminded me of a major exception to the above: There’s this magazine often sold by people down on their luck. I usually buy it, even if I don’t always read it, because the ones selling it are usually in the beginning stages of (hopefully) turning their life around. People fresh out of rehab, etc. They’re making an effort, and I’ll happily support them doing so.

I do support some charities, but none of the ones I support bothered me with expectations of social etiquette when I’ve got shit to do and places to be. I’ve finally reached the point in my life where I don’t give two shits about coming off as rude or unfriendly.

When I’m somewhere foreign I’m a bit more nice/giving, though. For starters, I don’t know much about local circumstances to know which hardships and lack of support anyone I meet face. Secondly, I am usually carrying some local jimjam currency I won’t need once I leave. A prime examle of this is when I saw a beggar in Mobile, AL last year, and I walked past someone with that “default” sign of being a veteran et.al. I was leaving the next day and didn’t really need whatever local currency I had in my pocket, so I gave him 40$. If he truly needed it (which I assume he did), then I hope it took a load off his shoulders for a while. If he didn’t then it wasn’t that big of a loss to me.

What’s your favorite dinosaur?