Is the resident Lemmy population becoming too easy to troll?

Hello lemmings are you all left wing because you are CIA and racist? Also if you go outside you will not hate car

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratothoa_oestroides

Geographically given where I am, it’s probably this one

Seems like a similar species is common where I am.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratothoa_oestroides

In no particular order, here are some games I’ve enjoyed most in the past decade or so (and found most interesting to shill to my friends):

• The Roottrees are Dead (online sleuthing game, with a cool but slightly campy story, wears its Obra Dinn influence on its sleeve a bit too obviously for some people)
• Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic (Cities Skylines for people who understand economics are more than just dollar signs and tweets, it’s more like Factorio than SimCity)
• Hacknet (Learn basic command line stuff in a game about hacking)
• Duskers (atmospherically amazing game about controlling distant drones in hostile environments. Genuinely chilling)
• Chants of Senaar (language deciphering game)
• Outer Wilds (le le le dae hidden gem for a reason)
• Dyson Sphere Project (more Factorio)
• Satisfactory (you guessed it, more Factorio, but very different environment than most of these games)
• Factorio
• Shapez (minimalistic Factorio, with a less minimalistic sequel)
• Nomifactory (Minecraft modpack that was formerly known as Omnifactory. It’s more Factorio.)
• Curse of the Golden Idol (finally a good retro adventure mystery thing)
• Return of the Obra Dinn (immaculate game.)
• CHR$143 (Zachlike-ish)
• Kerbal Space Program (my next obsession)
• INFRA (one of my favorite games of all time, I’ve written about this extensively, a sort of urbex walking simulator with incredible atmosphere, deep deep lore, amazing world building, and light puzzles, that goes on for about 40 more hours than you expect it to)
• Hexcells Trilogy (puzzles)
• Hexologic (similar puzzles)
• Baba Is You (puzzles that make you think you’re an idiot)
• NaissancE (I don’t know how to describe this, I think it’s free)
• Manifold Garden (you dreamed about this game when you were 8 years old, decades before it existed)
• The Big Con (be gay do crime 90s)
• Death Stranding (this game is so boring, I played it for 200 hours and got every achievement, I love it, it sucks)
• The Forgotten City (this started its life as a Skyrim mod and still has that baggage)
• Mostly Intense Monster Defense (PvZ homage)
• The Witcher (1) (CRPG with a cool world. Needs a few mods to cut down on tedium. Pretty different from its sequels but it has a special place in my heart)
• Binary Domain (absolute schlock, but from a previous era of gaming. Not necessarily a good game, but cool to see from a historical perspective.)
• Cultist Simulator (needs an eternity of patience but I promise there is something in there)
• SLUDGE LIFE (SLUDGE LIFE)
• What Remains of Edith Finch (I fucking love walking simulators with good writing and cool art)
• Promesa (obscure walking simulator, it’s barely a game, I love it)
• CUCCCHI (check above description, same guy. Artistic showcase of a painter called Enzo Cuccchi. I’m not a modern art guy, but seeing these works contorted into worlds to walk through… a unique and interesting experience. Soundtrack is someone’s once-lost old experimental tracks and it absolutely slaps)
• Please Touch the Artwork 1 and 2 (one of them is free, funded by the Belgian public art fund. Weird and cool)
• Betrayal at Club Low (part of a series of games by Cosmo D, this one is different from the previous few. The first, Off Peak, is free, but it’s also the least polished. Astonishingly excellent music, there’s some cool lore in this series. The art style is a bit out there but this guy’s stuff is gold)
• Engare and Tandis (mathematical patterns puzzlers, I promise they’re so cool)
• What the Golf? (An actually good mobile game. I mostly played it with a controller on my TV lol)
• Cities Skylines (my beloved)

And then they give a passionate interview about how the original Jeg Spiser Pis short film from 1993 informed their entire creative journey, before immediately going on to direct Mario Movie Minecraft 3 starring Dwayne the Rock Johnson as Sheep and Tilda Swinton as Cat Bowser 64 ft. Ariana Grande burger

I have watched a fair few nigh incoherent French movies with a plot that is simultaneously either the most complex or most banal story ever written (that doesn’t get resolved at the end). You could find me at the one specialty cinema in Beirut every other weekend before it completely collapsed financially in 2020 back when our economy did the funni

I get that a lot of this is turning people off but this is shockingly accurate of a lot of mid arthouse stuff. It’s like trash TV but for movie tryhards. I love it. For the French ones, I almost feel like the experience is worsened by my grasp of the language.

Since then I’ve all but stopped watching movies and even series and have moved to games full time. There’s so much more genuinely fun weird interesting shit.

Horrifying. Thanks for the link, although to be honest I probably could have googled “fish tongue parasite isopod” at some point in the past decade+.

Interesting that the Wikipedia page has photos that wouldn’t have rang the bell for me, the one I remember was exactly like the one in the post.

Edit: the article describes a habitat that is pretty far from me, this was in Lebanon in the eastern Mediterranean over a decade ago. Could be a similar species.

A foundational memory for me was a fish dissection in middle school in which we respectfully sliced the innards of one of these bad boys only to find this exact parasite inside. All the other groups just had a fish to dissect, but we also took a supercurricular lab detour to dissect that other thing too, as my classmates from other groups gathered around with real curiosity.

Frankly haven’t thought much of it in years. Would be cool to know what this is actually called.

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It had Kobo integration. I’m sure there’s alternatives, but it was nice to bookmark long form things on the computer to read on a flight later for example.

I know Lemmy is mostly populated by computer touchers (I’m one of them) but Pep Guardiola is probably one of the most recognizable human beings on planet earth

“But if they say an illegal sentence like “child murder is bad” then we deport them too.”

Know a few people who emigrated to Germany. They aren’t thrilled. One of my friends was basically snubbed by all of his coworkers for months until one of them told him on the side that people suspect they’d get in trouble if it turns out he’s a “Syrian Islamic Extremist” down the line. My guy isn’t Syrian or Muslim. His name is Joe. Not even Youssef. Joe. جو. Fucks sake

“Doctors in Racism” is the way he described the people of Germany. Which is incredible because we’re from Lebanon and “Doctors in Racism” should be our rightful title. Geopolitical events are happening as we speak and people are talking about US stuff and changes in the US since it is so influential on what happens here, and I’ve heard someone say something about “that slave Obama”. This fucking week. Come on now.

FWIW Germany looks like a nice option for me, but I can’t say I’ve been convinced that the good will fully outweigh the bad. If I’m going to be a second class citizen I might as well go to the US and get a shot at making a bit more money.

Hm. Interesting how negatively coded this scene is when I hear people talk about their own “that one dream public bathroom”.

I distinctively remember mine having knee-high cloudy water, but it was very dark. My innate “understanding” in the dream is that the water is some kind of natural feature, not sewage. I don’t remember the sinks, tissues, cleanliness or of the bowls, or anything, just the incredibly weird layout and flooding, and the weird lack of privacy due to the doors and walls of the stalls being higher to accommodate the water.

US style stalls where you can conveniently park your XXXL truck under the divider aren’t a thing here.

I have friends who have actually emigrated to the US who have been begging me to go, telling me I’d love it. Cultural melting pot and all. My English is pretty good and I have a lot of cultural exposure to US things. It’s strange, but even as the US has done stuff I very strongly disagree with, I still have some admiration for a lot of American things. That’s soft power baby!

These repeated calls to move have dried up very suddenly in the past year and some of them have left.

I’m from Lebanon where we’re taught from day one to leave the proverbial crab bucket and go figure out a living somewhere where life is (theoretically) better.

The most realistic big international city with decent pay I can move to is actually Dubai. And I go there a lot for business - just like the US, there’s some good and some bad. There’s a lot of (valid) complaining about such places in communities like Lemmy but frankly Dubai just is the melting pot world city that is accessible in my part of the world. Many of my friends have been rejected for immigration because of financial reasons (or for being from the wrong religious community…), ending years-long processes to move westward. As if it’s their fault their bank savings lost more than 99% of their value in 2020-2021. Compared to those who moved to the Gulf who basically got a work visa in their email after getting the job and flew out the week after. Do you know how hard it is to even briefly visit another country with a passport as weak as ours?

But honestly moving anywhere feels like an impossibly immense decision. My friends in the Gulf are less enthusiastic, they don’t say I’ll love it, they say I’ll be paid enough to afford moving somewhere I’ll love after five years. Sometimes I feel like it’s inevitable that I move there. But that’s how I felt about the US in like 2015. So who knows.

When I was a kid this is what American cities looked like in movies. A completely different world than the one I lived in. It’s almost comforting to see again.

I feel like cities in general are shown less as glamorous places to be now.

Driving leisurely through a nice lush valley? God what a marvel of engineering this crumbling manual 1994 Kia shitbox is. Driving is so calming. Radio off, windows down, I want to hear the birds and the terrible engine. I don’t even care that second gear doesn’t bite anymore. This is nice.

Driving in start stop traffic? God I hate how we’ve defaced our planet, our home, just to enrich these blood sucking oil companies. The Ottomans and the French built railroads and streetcars here during our servitude. And what did we do with that silver lining? Tore it all out to sell more cars and petrol. For shame. All of these people’s lives are measurably worse from wasting their lives on the road.

Driving at a normal speed in a normal area with people driving around me at normal speed, pedestrians, street lights, traffic cops, nobody is crashing, I’m not crashing, I’m barely even thinking about doing it? bro what tHE FUCK WHAT

Boy have I got news for you.

Look up the Zizians.

(Ok they’re only a tangential offshoot of people who maybe really like the Basilisk thought experiment and mostly don’t believe it. But hey. It’s underway!)

I can’t place why, but the thought of used enterprise SSDs still sketches me out more than HDDs. Maybe it’s just that I only ever think of RAID in terms of hard drives, paired with a decade+ of hearing about SSD reliability issues, which are very different from the more familiar problems HDDs can have.

The power and noise difference makes it more appealing to me, moreso than the speed, personally. Maybe when consumer bottom-barrel SSDs get a little better I could be convinced into RAIDing a bunch of them and hoping one cold spare is enough.

EDIT: I can acquire new ~200$ 4TB Orico branded drives where I am relatively easily. Hm.

Ah, I’ve never looked into what hardware is actually available at the consumer level. That is a lot of money to move a video signal from one place to another.

FWIW I just looked at the AliExpress-tier options and they are much cheaper, but I don’t know about latency situation even if they do hit advertised bandwidth.

I didn’t even know HDMI cables went up to 15m for the copper version.

Again, I just mean literally running Ethernet cables into standard conduits, terminating them, and sticking a HDMI over Ethernet box on either side. In order not to modify the conduits. I don’t know what the bandwidth is for that kind of solution. I’m not presenting it as the only and best option.

Your solution is cool. My own conduits are surrounded on four sides by concrete, so pulling connectors through is something that I only have to do very very rarely. And more often than not I find myself having to change one thing to wireless or use something that can make use of multiplexing just so I can free up a bit of space in there to do something else.

My own network is still an absolutely atrocious 200kB/s DSL through decaying, water-damaged copper lines. And those aren’t going through conduits, those have had concrete poured right over them. Over the 2x1mm thick flat two-strand “cable” that was obsolete when the building was built decades ago. RJ11. Plastic sheath that disintegrates into asbestos or some shit when exposed to sunlight. I’m not describing an ideal data transmission environment here.