Just finished Saints Row: The Third and am playing Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood to finish the Ezio storyline.

After that, probably something newish, idk. Maybe i’ll finally finish RDR2 or play BG3.

Or Tetris. Some games are timeless.

Oh, is Nexon? That’ll be a nope from me…

Come on now, that’s just unreasonable, there screen isn’t nearly big enough. I’d really like something for my old Ti-84 though, it has a much bigger display.

Figure out the film roll thing and you’ll see what I’m talking about.

Then you need to keep going. Look for things to do outside of the normal gameplay. There’s more to the game than what’s initially presented.

Yup, but they need to support Linux better. I’m glad that Heroic exists and apparently they’re now taking a cut of GOG purchases made through their launcher, but there’s still a lot missing from what Galaxy does.

“In Cities: Skylines II in particular, we are well aware that lately we have not met the players’ expectations in this area; this will not stay the case.”

Huh, the forum bans and whatnot kinda signaled the opposite, that they don’t intend to fix anything. I guess this makes it all better then…

Yeah, if my org told me I need to layoff people, I’d respond with my resignation. I know my org can afford to keep people, so the only reason would be to pad numbers for some kind of bonus or other. I’m secure enough financially that I’m not so desperate for a job that I’ll fire good people to keep it.

That said, I’ll fire people who don’t work out.

You can think what you like, but the scientific literature says otherwise.

Diseases get less severe over time because, it turns out, the more deadly ones have a lower chance of spreading vs less deadly ones. Virus strains that inhibit the host less have a longer time in contact with potential new hosts spread faster than the ones that have severe, early-onset symptoms. So without human intervention, viruses trend toward being less severe.

Long COVID is a separate thing, any I’m honestly not that knowledgeable on it. I personally think we need a better understanding of what’s going on because I’m not convinced COVID actually caused all of those cases, and maybe not even a majority. I think doctors have just been throwing the label at it when there’s not a ready explanation and the patient had COVID recently. Vaccines do seem effective at reducing the chances of that diagnosis though, which makes sense since they’re designed to reduce the severity of the disease.

Cool, so that means I can uninstall their spyware nonsense and just use the VR bits I want? Oh, it’s not that kind of “open”? Then no thanks, and screw you Zuck.

I don’t think we ever could’ve wiped out COVID once it left Wuhan, that’s just not the way these vaccines work. In most cases you’ll still get the disease and be a carrier (and thus spread it), but you’ll spread it more slowly because your symptoms are much less severe. It’s a harm reduction strategy, not an eradication strategy.

That said, they absolutely should’ve been made widely available because of the harm reduction nature of the vaccines.

Here’s an article about how COVID will likely never be eradicated from 2020. The issue isn’t our response (which was woefully insufficient), but the actual way the virus family works. It’s not like smallpox or polio, it’s more like the various viruses that make up the “common cold.” The more likely scenario is for it to mutate into something like the common cold that’s less deadly but quite infectious.

I’m honestly okay with patents for vaccines, but if they take government money, they should be obligated to license those patents very openly. The more money they accept, the less restrictive the patents ought to be.

Patents should be able protecting first mover advantage and nothing more. Once they’ve established themselves, third parties should be empowered to compete on price and availability.

And trademark is way better imo than copyright. Trademark is all about protecting against fraud, copyright is about protecting against access to content.

I’m totally happy with the trademark law we have, but I’d like to see copyright and patent law severely modified and their durations dramatically shortened (like 15 years for copyright, 5-7 for patents).

Perhaps it can be automated then?

Basically:

1. once/week, compile list of communities with no activity for >1 month
2. ping all mods of that community that haven’t been pinged recently (say, once/month)
3. if a mod responds, mark the mod as active
4. ping admins with a report about communities with unresponsive mods and no activity for at least 3 months
5. admins would manually review that list and remove mods/communities as necessary

I’m sure some passionate individual could easily write such a bot. But soliciting feedback from the community in the Agora would be the right starting point to determine the rules, and then the follow-up would be a script or something to make admins’ jobs enforcing that suck less.

Yeah, a set of guidelines would be good. And perhaps some rules for moderation that could result in removal of mod privileges by the admin.

But yeah, discussion here is key. I’m sure a lot of people have opinions here, and many have experience with moderation on other platforms.

Maybe bring this up on the !agora@sh.itjust.works as a discussion to get more feedback.

And yeah, I agree. I needed to message the mods of a community once, and I decided to dig a bit. Only one has any kind of activity within the past few months, so I reached out to the only one with activity and didn’t get a response (granted, my request didn’t need one).

So I agree it’s a real problem. We also need to have a mechanism to identify under-modded communities and encourage finding new mods.

What’s the insect equivalent of a furry? Swarmies?

Yup. BG3 was good because it was good, not because it was long. Likewise for The Witcher 3. There are also plenty of bad long games. Make good games, length doesn’t matter.

Still finishing up Saints Row: The Third, then I’ll probably go play some Zachtronics games (currently TIS-100).