Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
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the gaming industry in France is on strike. they’ve released a bundle on itch to support striking developers! ten bucks gets you 57 items. Def worth talking a look.
they are currently at 130% funded!
@hexa@chaos.social @alemann@chaos.social I mean, this is basically a case of "malicious upstream", and probably should be treated as such
@winfriedtilanus This is true, but when I have seen people speak about 'knowledge loss', it was usually not so much about the technical aspect of it, and more about the 'providing institutional services' part, basically the business/supplier side of things. That's the part that FOSS doesn't do!
gaming, spicy opinion
I feel like the 'management game' genre is severely held back by the capitalist assumptions that people make, like always centering around 'money' or 'material resources' as the metrics to optimize for.
You could get such more dynamic gameplay if you focused on (balancing) complex and realistic needs of people instead of just optimizing for 'number go up'.
Imagine a management game where you build up and maintain a variety of public city infrastructure (like street furniture and public toilets), having to account for the varying and sometimes conflicting needs of different demographics, with 'budget' only playing a marginal role.
Wouldn't that be way more interesting than yet another 'build a shop with shelves' tycoon game?
Also, what's up with PlayWay seemingly publishing anything with a pulse?
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Fucking spat my tea, how did the postman whip out his phone to immediately play the bagpipes as soon as he saw a scottish destination on a parcel to go 😭
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I MOVED IN!!! LET'S FUCKING GOOO
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Well? It is back!!
Thanks to @internetarchive indexing it back in 2000 I was able to extract the interface and point it to the DB Navigator API
gaming
Also, I wish such games would experiment with novel research systems more! Surely more interesting things are possible than "provide resources, wait, ta-da, scientific discovery"?
What is it with so many of the first-person simulation games feeling terrible to control?
@elilla Some do! And arguably all the Stardew Valley-inspired mechanisms of "save at the end of each day" are implementations of savepoints too
gaming, frustration
I have an annoying conundrum when playing base-builder-style games.
When playing in sandbox mode, I enjoy the building flexibility, but it all starts feeling meaningless because there is no failure condition at all.
When playing in 'challenge' mode, I enjoy that there is a challenge to meet, but I get frustrated by my building plans being interrupted by stuff like "being just barely short on resources/funds".
I wish more games had something inbetween the two, that provides purpose to the building, but also makes it low-friction.
@jacksonchen666 @schratze Ah, those are integrated into dishwasher tablets here
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IDK it's just really neat to me that something that started out seeming like a chore I had to do for other people ended up benefiting *me* so much. Even informing the rest of my work.
I think things work like this more often than we think.
@jacksonchen666 @schratze What is the 'something important' here?
I genuinely do not understand how one can build such a broken system and remain in business, and it's all the more baffling considering how *old* MapQuest is and how they used to be a major provider of map data for mapping and navigation software!
(Their data in the US is a little better, but not by much)
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I worry that when we say "nothing can be objective" some people take it to mean "it's not worth trying to be objective"
Taking the best objective stance you can is massively useful. It forces you to not just think about what you are thinking and seeing but what other people may think and see. And to look for, in the intersection of all of those perspectives, what is really *there.*
It's because nothing can ever be perfectly objective that's it's all the more important to make this effort.
Also it feels like they got their satellite imagery from a dollar store; there are visible seams between every 'tile', clearly no stitching having been done, and there's horrible JPEG compression everywhere, as if they saved it in like 50% quality
I thought I'd seen a lot of awful and broken websites, and then I learned about MapQuest
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racism, cultural appropriation, news
so a russian designer brand company "yaka" decided to create a line of clothing inspired by Kyrgyz patterns, ornaments and art, and then proceeded to add a COPYRIGHT CLAIM on said patterns, ornaments, and art, and threaten anybody who might "copy" said designs with legal action.
the brand hasn't yet responded to the backlash, but brand owner, Anna Obydenova locked up her social media accounts.
https://kz.kursiv.media/2025-02-14/lfst-rbik-yaka-kyrgyzstan/
so fucking done with white russians.
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
