I’m a fan of my current instance, lemmy.sdf.org

sdf.org goes all the way back to the '80s as a public access unix server and it’s all run by a non-profit club.

Regulatory capture is a hell of a drug

Need For Speed Underground 2. Just the right vibes and level of customization to keep me playing through the entire campaign without getting bored

Good luck with that! I’m excited to see the fireworks as their brand-new mod teams use their brand-new mod tools right as they go public. Should be quite a show.

Between SNES, Genesis and GBA, there’s an enourmous wealth of RPG and adventure games out there

Proton is Wine with a bundle of extra libraries included for compatibility. It’s basically an opinionated gaming-focused distribution of Wine for games.

I realize you may know this but I’m just adding it here for anyone who may be confused and see the two as in-competition with each other.

Don’t sleep on Gekokujo. Warring-states era Japan has a very different meta from the base game due to the firearms and lack of shields

If you like text-based adventure games, check out ifdb.org for a massive store of free and abandoned text-based games. You can play in-browser or on any OS with a native client, Linux and Android included

I’d argue that it can help or hurt to decentralize, depending on how it’s handled. If most sites are caching/backing up data that’s found elsewhere, that’s both good for resilience and for preservation, but if the data in question is centralized by its home server, then instead of backing up one site we’re stuck backing up a thousand, not to mention the potential issues with discovery

Also of note is RWKV, the only purely RNN structured LLM. I’m keeping an eye on that one because of the theoretically infinite context length

And currently PaLM 2

Most (60%) of Reddit users either use 3rd party apps (~30%) or old reddit (~30%)

To be clear, what they’ve got right now with sharded persistance and asset streaming is extremely novel on a technical level, but there’s no real substance to it yet as a game, just an impressive engine with an absurdly large scale and a tech demo running on it.

If they ever actually stop fiddling and make the damn game it’ll be impressive, I’m sure, but so will the earthshattering cost and scale of waste getting there. Then 2 years later someone else will put out something 90% as impressive for 1/100th the cost.