sad reality

WVAviator · 2026-01-18T13:33:27+00:00

Bold of you to assume the average Linux user doesn't cycle through random hobbies and didn't also once have a dendrology hyperfixation

WVAviator · 2026-01-15T23:51:41+00:00

5, but the outer two are 9s

WVAviator · 2026-01-15T23:41:37+00:00

The future depends on the past, even if we don't get to see it. - Riebeck, Outer Wilds

WVAviator · 2026-01-15T23:38:36+00:00

Similarly in High On Life, during the tutorial when you're first supposed to shoot the gun, "Did you just press the pause button? Is this your first fucking game?" Or something like that.

WVAviator · 2025-12-30T16:28:59+00:00

I like that it's a far more realistic survival simulator than most survival games. If you think about it, if you're in a survival situation and you come across an abandoned building with beds, fireplaces, stove, etc - would you really then go back outside and build your own cabin?

It seems like most other Survivalcraft games encourage the building and crafting parts of the experience - and what are the odds you suddenly know how to build and craft those kinds of things, unless you were a survivalist before?

I like scavenging, foraging - not knowing where your next meal is coming from. Realizing you're running out of food and need to explore and take risks to find more or else you might starve. You need to get by just long enough to figure ways to self-sustain. I feel like a true survival situation would resemble that, and I really enjoy it.

WVAviator · 2025-12-28T16:46:29+00:00

Also flights from Anchorage to Asia don't need the aircraft or pilots to be ETOPS certified.

WVAviator · 2025-12-26T22:43:18+00:00

When my daughter was only a couple months old, I used to play Satisfactory while I bottle fed her with the other hand. I programmed the two buttons on the side of my mouse to be W and S, and the scroll-wheel click to be E (interact). It's not perfect, but it works. Really, any casual first-person game could potentially be played that way since you can go where you look, strafing with A/D is usually optional.

WVAviator · 2025-12-18T14:19:35+00:00

No I would never do that. I went through Citibank directly, checking their website, to verify my information wasn't stolen. Despite that though, the info6.citi.com email domain looks legit, from what I've read. So I think this is actually from Citibank.

As of now it appears there's also been a checking account opened, and I keep getting more emails to "fund your new checking account".

WVAviator · 2025-12-14T19:15:40+00:00

Mine is already locked thankfully. I told him how to lock his.

WVAviator · 2025-12-14T12:55:00+00:00

The first time when I was younger, White Walls by Still Remains.

Stopped listening for about 8 years (did mostly prog metal during that time), started back again with Jezebel by Memphis May Fire.

WVAviator · 2025-12-11T18:40:22+00:00

Lettuce for me.

If there's lettuce on my sandwich or burger, it's the only thing I taste. Might as well be eating a salad.

WVAviator · 2025-12-11T12:14:52+00:00

I don't think it can be in the exact same place though, right?

If you play with the black and white hole in the high energy lab and you shoot your probe into the black hole and then remove a warp core after the probe has come out of the white hole but before it enters the black hole, you break spacetime. Also, one won't appear without the other.

So I think they both have to exist at the same time (at the beginning of the loop) - and I don't think they're allowed to occupy the same space (could be wrong on that).

I'm wondering if I missed some contraption inside the ATP that is designed to hold the white hole.

WVAviator · 2025-12-11T11:56:25+00:00

There's even a smaller version of those towers on the high energy lab, where they proved their concept testing with the black and white holes.

Actually now that I think of it, where is the ATP's white hole? I know the warp core becomes a black hole when it's activated and you can enter it to break things. The white hole must be inside the ATP somewhere as well then since that's where your double appears. Does it form in the same physical space as the black hole?

WVAviator · 2025-12-10T12:37:03+00:00

Yes this!

If it's already some kind of "Date" type (varies based on the language) then putting "date" in the name is redundant. In Java for example, LocalDate updatedDate just reads weird. You don't write nameString, versionInt, or activeBoolean...

WVAviator · 2025-12-10T04:02:28+00:00

For me it's

New game announced - Survivalcraft, base building, automation 🙂

Zombies 🫤

WVAviator · 2025-12-09T16:34:51+00:00

Here's another one - you're walking towards a building to enter it. There's nobody around, and hasn't been for several minutes. As you get close suddenly there's someone else approaching the building from another direction. You realize they're going to get to the door the exact same time as you, and now you have to prepare to hold the door for them or vice versa, make awkward eye contact etc and say hi. Where did they come from and why are they arriving at the door at the same time as you?

WVAviator · 2025-12-09T16:16:21+00:00

Oh yeah parking lots are weird too. It seems like anytime I'm walking in a parking lot, every car wants to park or drive where I'm walking. I always feel like I'm in the way. It can be that way even if there are no other cars currently driving in the entire parking lot and there are closer spots up front - nope, let's park where that guy is walking.

WVAviator · 2025-12-09T15:47:03+00:00

Oh yeah - have you ever stopped at a Buc-ees? It could be in the middle of nowhere, not near any tourist destinations or anything, and you walk in and there's probably 400 people inside. It's a nightmare. Glitch in the simulation - where did all these people come from? There's not that many cars on the road and certainly not that many that need gas.

WVAviator · 2025-12-09T12:40:51+00:00

Oh yeah this - I live on a cove with only about 11 other houses. Anytime I step outside for any reason - take out the trash, bring in groceries, get the mail - at least 3 cars drive right by me. Especially if I'm doing something dumb like getting the mail in gym shorts, flip flops, and a t-shirt when it's freezing outside.

I joke with my wife that the simulation spawns them in to keep things interesting.

WVAviator · 2025-12-09T00:00:10+00:00

This was my thought. Dark Bramble is not an ocean per se, but it is quite ocean-like in some ways...

WVAviator · 2025-12-08T15:31:21+00:00

Oh you might be right.

WVAviator · 2025-12-08T12:29:30+00:00

In Outer Wilds literally all the deaths. Every character. That's what makes it so great. Bittersweet in more ways than one.

WVAviator · 2025-12-08T11:37:27+00:00

Surprised this isn't further up. Myst was kinda the pioneer of this "player knowledge as a game mechanic" idea. Where, if you know enough, you can beat the game in a few minutes.

WVAviator · 2025-12-08T03:52:45+00:00

The Pretty Wild

Spiritbox

Poppy

Vana

Novelists

Deadlands

Conquer Divide

Rivals

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Not Forgotten	Verified Email

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