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Really neat simulation game that I come back to every few weeks. It’s steadily been improving since release (early access would have been a better fit, if you ask me though). Fun art style and the dev is chill to talk with on their discord. The game runs well on steam deck, but the controls had some rough edges last time I tried. Anyway, can recommend it with one caveat: this plays more like a simulation game than a city builder. The ‘goal’ is to keep expanding without triggering economic collapse.

Yes. It’s mnemonic and composable whereas your key chord isn’t. It’s fine if you don’t care for it. Each to their own. I’m just explaining the appeal of modal editing

Just in case you’re not trolling, here’s a simple example: yi) means yank inside )-parentheses. It copies the contents of round brackets. Core commands like these are relatively easy to remember

Just like organicmaps, it’s great for offline hiking trail maps. Search is terrible compared to gmaps though, unfortunately, which is understandable. Good, context-sensitive search is hard, and Google has decades of experience in refining (and ruining) it. But whenever I’m in doubt about mobile data coverage I reach for organicmaps comaps

The interface is modal editing, which, yes, takes some getting used to. The payoff is that you get a kind of programming language for text editing. Rather than memorizing ctrl+shift+alt-style keybinds, you decompose stuff into chainable actions.

Have you ever played a video game, be it with kbd+mouse or gamepad, and realize you’re doing a bunch of stuff without actually consciously thinking about what buttons you’re pressing? That’s what working in editors like Vim or (my fav) Helix feels like.

What exactly is a ‘European accent’?

Could also be a bad AI upscale. My iphone does it with text that’s far away

Maybe if it has sails. Otherwise you’re exposed each time you need to refuel at a port. But ferrying about between uninhabited islands for resources and sleeping on the boat sounds like a decent plan.

Well… If I knew how to sail, that is. Or tie proper knots.

It’s also assuming that the zombies can’t swim or walk on the seabed, which they usually can’t

I’ve been using Vivaldi (chromium-based) for about three years now. It’s customizable and has been generally solid. Also has a couple of unique tab management features. Doesn’t have builtin ad blocking afaik. But for that I use adguard desktop and route all my traffic through it, which filters out ads regardless of which browser I’m in. On iOS I can recommend Orion by kagi. It’s the only other webkit browser besides Safari, runs light, and has decent builtin ad blocking

It’s ‘collabroate’ when the oblique complement of the verb is masculine. It’s ‘collabriate’ when the complement is feminine.

This may be the first attestation of object gender agreement in English

There’s a game where I could use some sort of meta progression (because I suck): Noita.

I’ve never made it deeper than the first three levels. I probably never will. So much cool shit down there that I’ll never see

Just a damn shame, really. For all the criticisms of the Harry Potter books over the years, I still hold dear to my heart the memories of reading them, watching the adaptions, and listening to the Jim Dale audiobooks. But those memories are irrevocably tarnished knowing who the author turned out to be. What young adult me saw as a progressive subtext now reads a whole lot more conservative and conformist.

Huh… TIL other countries do Sinterklaas as well. Miklavž… That’s Slovenian, going by the wikipedia page?

Here in Flanders and to the north in the Netherlands we actually get told this story. Sinterklaas, who visits on the eve of the 5th (NL) or during the night (BE) is our OG Santa Claus.

For kids Sinterklaas is the main event, whereas Christmas is when you get given… socks. Last few years the focus seems to have shifted more to Christmas though.

Glad we got rid of ‘Zwartepiet’ though (Sinterklaas’s helpers). Think ‘elves’ except human-size, not-elf and with blackface.

I grew up attending international schools. Seeing my Dutch classmate dressed as zwartepiet getting called to the principal’s office is a core memory.

Temporarily embarrassed millionaire energy here.

We understand their perspective alright. The concept of a millionaire or billionaire is simply disgusting because it is clear they use the power their wealth offers them to get out of paying their fair share while simultaneously needlessly exploiting us even further and in some cases meddling in politics or media so as to delude us into thinking: this is normal or – in your case – won’t someone empathize with the billionaire?

Yes

SPA websites that go out of their way to make opening a link in a new tab difficult to impossible can well and truly go fuck themselves

Excited for this one! It’s been on my wishlist since at least a year

Haha same. First thought was: Have they actually ruined it even more?

How does a person film this and remain so calm? Do you just make peace with the fact that the next shell could be for you and that’s that?

What a cruel fucking nightmare