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  • For me personally it’s a bit like… the creation of memories. And the synthesis of what I like to call “ambient feelings” – like vibes or atmospheres people, places or situations give off. A lot of layered emotions, a lot superpositions, where something or someone is multiple things at the same time. “Chimeras”, which are blends of people I know for example.

    Then the details slip away from me and I can’t even talk to anyone about the experience.

    That’s normal. I swear that my dreams are really detailed sometimes, but the memories become muddy the more I think about them.

    Is it really a window to the subconscious for you?

    Yes. I take my dreams very serious. They are weird and hard to describe, sometimes they are cruel in a way. I consider myself a pretty reflected person, but from time to time my dreams show me stuff I don’t want to admit to myself.

    That said, I love dreaming. Reality is rigid and boring. I like to imagine we live and absorb impressions only so our brains can dream. Which is bullshit :D but I enjoy the thought.









  • An improvement of 5-10 fps doesn’t seem like a lot, but it’s like buying a newer gen graphics card, at least for some games. Or what you would achieve with a medium to substantial overclock. In this case it’s just the OS though. Just the software.

    You care so much about glorifying linux everything else falls away.

    What else? Nitpicking at the use of words in news articles?

    What I’m personally more skeptic about is the actual numbers. We don’t have benchmarks. We just have this one table that shows fps, and no 1% and 0.1%s.



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    Fuck Windows XP

    I think it’s allowed to hate anti-customer practices and have good memories of an actually somewhat user-friendly OS that just worked for many people in many other regards.

    I hate Windows. I will always fondly remember XP and Win 7. Windows 7 should’ve been the last Windows.

    So I am not mad at you. You shall be forgiven, and I am even going to turn the other cheek and give you an upvote. It’s what Windows XP would’ve wanted me to do, too, I am sure of it.


  • I think before we discuss this we we should get our definitions clear? Someone workings as freelance logo designer is different from someone working as an employed illustrator, is different from a “free” artist painting in their atelier etc. A website or UX/UI is different from a picture you hang on your wall; a movie poster might be somewhere in between and is still pop culture unless it’s idk some indie movie?

    Sometimes “art” or broadly being-creative becomes a commodity which can be sold, too (my wording here is not exact but you get my point). Art courses, cross-stitching, sewing, like, hobby stuff. Modding games can be seen as a new kind of prosumer culture indutry, externalizing costs while reaping the benefits of a more valuable product, indirectly by creating a fanbase/ecosystem or directly by claiming rights on UGC. It’s also used to find new talent.

    “Art” is just an umbrella term for different kinds of work, and different kinds of products. There’s different distribution channels, different degrees of independence and a range of ways on how it interacts with the market.

    Metaphysical nonsense.

    There’s a certain spark in human craft I won’t deny, but I agree that a Marxist, or generally a more “cold”, view on “art” is usually the way to go. Ultimately humans instruct their LLMs and Diffusion models to create slop, and they will do it and have always done it without them.

    Art≠Art





  • On A0 stance dancing is not as important I would say – it becomes the go-to when hitting higher ascensions, and if you want to beat the heart. I won A20 with all kinds of decks, even very off Meta (had a deck once that was like 5 wheel kicks and 6 Just Lucky’s lol)

    Focus on card removes and damage, keep your deck small, remove defends early. Make it a challenge to beat enemies in the least amount of turns (with a bit of luck you can beat most fights in act 1 in turn 1 or turn 2 – if you’re very lucky even bosses at times!)

    Often you just need 1 Mental Fortress or Talk to the Hand to block effectively!

    Watcher is a pretty cool character because you usually just need 1 of everything to get very far.

    • Damage: 1 Blasphemy, or 1 Indignation, or 1 Crush Joints; combined with 1 or more Flurries, or 1 Tantrum, or 1 Sands of Time; even Brilliance does 12 dmg for 1 energy, which is a lot and can be A good pick in act 1 even if you don’t go for a Mantra build
    • AoE: 1 Conclude, or 1 Consecrate edit: or 1 Bowling Bash (is not AoE but still counts here I would say)
    • Card Draw: 1 Rushdown, or 1 Inner Peace, or 1 Empty Mind
    • Block: 1 Mental Fortress, or 1 Talk To The Hand for Mid and Late Game; 1 Decieve Reality, or 1 Wallop for early and mid
    • Momentum: 1 Omniscience, or 1 Scrawl, or 1 Vault
    • Scaling: 1 Fasting, or 1 Alpha, or 1 Lesson Learned, or 1 Meditate-Establishment combo


  • Clonk Endevour is not my favorite game, but I played it a lot with friends when I was younger. You can play with 2 or even more people, with just a monitor and a keyboard! Also it’s so old it should run on any potato.

    edit: real answer is Slay The Spire

    edit2: ah shit now all of a sudden all the good indie games I played pop up in my head. Project Kat I enjoyed. Synthetik was awesome. Caves of Qud hasn’t been mentioned yet (didn’t play it much though).



  • I hope they leave that experience the main focus.

    Hmmm, so in the short Devlog on YouTube they ask “what do you wanna see in Subnautica 2?”, and the top comment says

    A personal wish of mine is to have proximity chat in multiplayer, with options such as radios to communicate from a distance

    So the players want Multiplayer, but they also want the whole game to be the same “intimate” experience as Subnautica 1 – I was really worried about that because a big part of Subnautica 1 I feel like was this absolutely overwhelming loneliness/solitude. I never got this specific feeling in Below Zero.