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I don’t know wtf “real communism” is, all I know is that the communism I advocate for is not that of Lenin, Stalin, or Mao

Its the same design but with 2020 aesthetics instead of 2005 aesthetics

MYST, and if you enjoyed that, Riven and Myst 3

I almost always prefer a quirky game that does its own thing to a bland game with mass market appeal. Most AAA studios, especially as game budgets have exploded, are afraid to experiment with their gameplay or do anything new. Nintendo is probably the largest exception to this rule, but it comes with the caveat that they generally don’t release new entries unless they come up with something new, which is sad for, like, Star Fox and F-Zero fans. But ultimately the more a game costs the less room there is for the sort of risk that makes for the truly special games

VVVVVV

ascii nethack is beautiful

I can’t really recommend this because its more or less a dead multiplayer beta that’s not even legitimately available anymore but Shattered Horizons was a microgravity first person shooter that was really cool. So, uh, if there are any indie devs in this chat, uh, please steal this dead idea!

Some of them are. IMO the best are Way of Life, Holy Fury, Conclave, and Old Gods. If you want to play some who isn’t a Christian King, such as a Christian merchant or pagan/hindu/muslim king, you’ll need to get the expansion for that. Respectively, those are The Republic, The Old Gods or Holy Fury (either will unlock Pagans), Rajas of India, and Sword of Islam. That being said, if you like playing a Christian, Sons of Abraham is worth picking up. Finally, if you’re the type of person who really likes optimizing these sort of games, then you’ll probably want Legacy of Rome, which adds retinues, customizable standing armies that let a skilled player solve the combat system to punch way above their weight

honestly i think having been in on the ground floor makes things easier. its way easier to learn the changes to mechanics you already understand than it is to learn mechanics that were designed to be, in almost all cases for Stellaris, more complicated than the original, already complicated mechanics.

3/4 but i can see why you went with universe sandbox; paring it down to 5 words was tough

Fight on both screens simultaneously

Explore a toybox solar system

Push logic like blocks

Die while climbing a mountain

The thing with wikis (actual wikis, i mean) is that anyone can edit them (in principle, at least), and there’s plethora of wiki sites out there, and its easy to host your own (well, as easy as hosting your own kbin instance). So federation feels much more purely an organizational change; the only change it offers to the user is the possibility of integration with other fediverse apps. And wikis aren’t social media sites, so I’m not sure what the appeal of that is. Do i… see it in my feed when someone edits the “Del in cylindrical and spherical coordinates” page? Is browsing the wiki from within kbin actually more useful than opening it in a new tab?

Distributed ownership of a wiki is definitely a good idea, but i don’t see the benefit of it being federated.

Reddit wikis are more about having a static page for information associated with a community than being a wiki proper. For example, music subs that maintain a “hall of fame” in a wiki page, or subreddit rules, or FAQs, etc. Not at all the type of stuff that would go on a fan wiki or wikipedia. This use case is valuable, although there are other solutions to the problem, e.g., sticky posts.

I’m not sure that would need to be federated. Maybe just to lemmy and other platforms with a similar model. But also, that should be up to the other instances, not us. If Mastodon figures out how to show a kbin “wiki” to their users in a way that is useful and makes sense, then why not let them do it?

The problem is that the user is necessarily confronted with the technical design of the fediverse from the moment they create an account. “Do I join lemmy.ml or lemmy.world or mastodon.social or kbin.social” can only really be answered by explaining how the fediverse works, because the simple answer is “it doesn’t really matter but it also sort of does”, which is profoundly unhelpful

yeah, i guess i can see that. personally i never really grokked goodreads but honestly I feel that way about most social media platforms so its definitely a me issue

I’m curious, what would a federated IMDB add to the experience for you?

it only serves to bias us and disort reality.

Ehh, i mean it definitely does do that, but political discussion is also important to guide action. We can see plenty of political action that gets nowhere and does nothing, because the people instigating it do not have a solid theory of how political change is accomplished. Political discussions are how that understanding emerges.

That being said the internet, especially platforms like mastodon that encourage short posts, is rarely the best place for productive political discussion.

There is a powerful network effect to overcome here, and I don’t think “being federated” is enough to overcome it for most people. Reddit and tumblr and discord offered us “what if all your forums/blogs/chatrooms were in one place” which is massively convenient, and why people flocked to those platforms. Thats a transformative user experience. being federated is transformative, but the change to the user experience – beyond a larger barrier to entry – is minimal. The point of mastodon is that its functionally equivalent to twitter without being centralized. But there are no decentralized places left on the internet, beyond those holdouts who are either very attached to their old technology or want to maintain their unilateral control over their platform, and who are unlikely to federate.