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i think ive paid gabe newell more from the proceeds of my games than i've paid the government, but gabe doesn't pave my roads or fund my schools or feed the kids in my community

probably a few overdue conversations to be had about maybe paying less gabes before we pay less taxes or something

I have no idea how this plays but what a delightful take on the roguelike, oh my goodness

I saw the opener, went "Aww, how quaint", and proceeded to howl in laughter at the rest

The vast majority of archival material is not stuff you can just walk in and browse yourself, digital preservation adds extra questions to it all, as much as I wish we lived in a world where a big portal of All The Old Games was allowed to exist y'all need to stop claiming it's only preservation

Moooooom the gamers are mixing up archival and unrestricted public access again

This Hacker Conference Installed a Literal Antivirus Monitoring System At New Zealand's Kawaiicon cybersecurity convention, organizers hacked together a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived.

KawaiiCon and 39c3 last year installed air quality monitoring, for example: www.wired.com/story/this-h...
And the Revision demoparty policy is a good common sense baseline to work from: 2025.revision-party.net/about/covid19/
A lot depends on the venue alas and that's always harder to work on!

You probably can’t personally stop the war in Iran today. Is there something you can do for your neighbors hiding from ice? For a trans person in Kansas? Any local aid orgs or rapid response networks? Phone banks? Anyone already doing good shit that just needs a hand?

I strongly encourage people feeling too much of The Doom to emotionally regulate themselves, very deliberately, if you start dipping into the despair. Being overwhelmed can quickly turn into learned helplessness and we absolutely need people to do what they can to positively impact what they can

Boy this anti-borders anarchist (me) sure has FEELINGS about the constant deployment of "rogue state" and "terrorist state" and "failed state" rhetoric

The only thing it feels worthwhile for me to say right now is pay attention to whether your feelings & the information you’re absorbing are paralyzing you or prompting you to meaningful action, whatever that is. Paralysis helps no one but the enemy.

Even if you're not aiming for multiplatform btw, the from-scratch setup is just miserable so unless you have a very good reason such as sizecoding or curiosity, use a library that solved it for you

Probably the SDL

At this point I'm not sure anti-war protests would achieve much, and other anti-war options should not be discussed on public social media. If like me you're a coward, then go do work helping feed people around you and/or supporting immigrants in practical ways. That's a good default, never wasted

I don't believe in revolution, I believe in spending as much of my time and energy as I can doing tiny things that make the world a bit more like how I want it to be. If everyone does that... well I'm a nerd so the easiest comparison I can reach for is Demon Souls' world tendency, you get the drift

Aaaanyway regular reminder that organizing is the antidote to despair and that making a positive difference in the lives of people around you will keep you going
(If someone still has that video by a VERY fruity tiktoker lecturing about that from a car, ft "You can do it angry", I've lost the link)

"Iran-related hostilities" sure is a phrase

I'm gonna wait until I've seen the whole thing before reading a spoilers-packed piece, thanks for the link

Sweden. Sweden please. I know you've got a hangup or two about eugenics but could we NOT with the "chemical castration for sexual offenders against children" debate

Thing is, programmers are human (shocked audience gasp) and we can be influenced too. So IMO anyone who works there is still enabling bad shit, and is putting themselves in a position to be dragged into working on worse shit via local consensus.
What you need is a hard no

And this is what I mean about coders leaning liberal-ish, right? Many of us will be disgusted by openly working on weapons of war. It's just a smart hiring strategy to preserve enough plausible deniability that you retain access to a larger hiring pool (though still with shaky ethics)

This is less mean than I'd be (because they still work with FUCKING PALANTIR) but yes, co-signed, you do not give people cookies for not actively enabling fascists. Especially in the light of this morning's newly opened war front.

Boy I really wish we still had a feminist games crit sphere because SOMEONE with good gender studies tooling really needs to look at Silksong (and, IMO, hold it accountable for some fuckery, unless it goes somewhere with it eventually)

I've been chewing for years on the sheer rate of neurowonks in the anti-covid circles and I wonder if that's part of it? I'd assume we're often Very Bad at that kind of offloading, depending on the kind of trauma we have of course

One of the misinformation talking points from centrists on Covid is that Covid activists and anti-vaxxers are the same.

I want you to think of any other rights movement where the centrist position has been “ugh, these people on the far ends are both so noisy, they’re the same.”

Is it all of them?

YouTube video by MyleneFarmerVEVO Mylène Farmer - Que mon cœur lâche (Clip officiel)

French megapopstar Mylène Farmer rose to fame in no small part on slickly produced music videos, Que Mon Cœur Lâche is by far the one that stuck with me the most m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc-v...

That's why I'm a mask bloc nerd. All I need to know is: it's bad, it's still circulating actively, public health and related orgs have failed is, masks prevent transmission. So I will do my best to help people get masks. Nice and simple.

It's dishonest to claim we know FOR SURE that it's 5-8%.
It's ALSO dishonest to claim we know FOR SURE that it's 25%.
Can you see how this makes advocacy and factual communication A BIT DIFFICULT especially as DIY burned-out advocates cut off from our communities by this bullshit

But also we just *do not know*. And not in a wishy-washy "Oh whatever is even true" sophistry way! In a "look, if your long covid stats are based on recognized covid tests, and you stop testing for covid, then you don't have reliable long covid stats" way.
French calls it breaking the thermometer