luna

@luna@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Remember that the reason that there is no public transport or non-car options is because of the auto industry lobby. They have actively worked to eliminate rail and other means of public transit throughout North America and in every other country where they have a presence (e.g. Germany). The US used to have trains crisscrossing the entire nation. One of the few truly cross-country commuter lines that Amtrak still has is, fittingly, called the Empire Builder. Horrors of colonialism and imperialism aside, it's a fitting name because trains really did build the US. They supplanted and replaced the Pony Express for delivering mail (and thus communication, something that older empires couldn't manage) among so many other things, like freight and even livestock--and, of course, people.

Where'd they go? How come there are so few left? Ask GM, Ford, and so on.

That's when I pop open the developer console and write some code to automate clicking them all out of spite

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A modern version of Stars! (the ! is part of the title). It's an early / mid-90s (as in it worked on Windows 3.1!) 4x scifi strategy game, one of the early ones. Huge tech tree for its day, something like six-eight different research fields (propulsion, biology, energy, etc.) and 26 (!) levels in each with techs that depend on different levels in each research field. Different species had their own unique traits, techs, ships, playstyles, you could build your own with literally dozens of minor traits, customizable tolerances for planetary traits like radiation, gravity, temperature, custom breeding rate, productivity, .... Unlimited completely custom ship and starbase designer where you could put any part in any slot where it fits and the game would just let you. No limits on the number of ships you could have (take that, Masters of Orion!) Came with a manual an inch and a half thick, supported many different kinds of multiplayer (including play by email... again, 1995!) and so many other cool things. Sadly, the company that owned it was passed around a bit and then the parent company went out of business, so it's abandonware and no one is likely to do anything with it.

Also a modern version of the old Might and Magic games (3-5 in the series, especially 4-5, usually known as World of Xeen) with some elements of the old (1-5) Wizardry games. Did I mention I'm old? I'm old. I know someone who's working on something like that, but I hear she's harried by capitalism and has ADHD besides and hasn't made a lot of progress. I really should bug her to keep at it... (spoiler: she is me)

If you were a better hunter, they wouldn't pity you and provide you food to eat.

Came here to say the same thing. It's gotta be satire. Almost everything is spelled correctly, just a lot of "bone apple tea"s, some of which don't even make sense. Additionally, look at how neat the writing is! This is not typically the mark of someone who has problems with language.

Can we please stop respecting these corporations' desires to rebrand themselves? It's Twitter, not X. It's Facebook, not Meta. It's Google, not Alphabet. They're not people. They don't deserve the respect of having their chosen names respected.

Get separate speakers (which you should anyway because TV speaker quality is 💩) and use a computer monitor. They're available in larger sizes than you'd expect (e.g. Newegg has one at 55") and then you just plug in an HDMI cable and you're good to go.

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You are not the only one! Absolutely no appeal for me, either, and I do not at all understand what people like about it. You want to do what? With your MOUTH? Are you crazy?

Sorry to hear about the mono, hope you've recovered!

Right, doesn't have to be anything fancy, just something to handle the audio since the monitor won't be able to.

Thanks! So sick of reading screenshots of text people can just link to.

If you have separate speakers, use a large computer monitor instead. I'm planning on making the move myself once I have my apartment in order. The only thing I care about is HDMI in and computer monitors (which are available in larger sizes than you'd think) do just that without any of the faffing about with "smart" features.

Being from a part of the us where it is easy to be lgbtq

For now. You don't have rights; you have temporary privileges. They're not rights if they can be taken away.

This is the only correct way to respond to stalebot. The only correct way to respond to a stupid rule is by trolling it.