@Kaution hm that’s true! I tried Ready or Not at one point but unfortunately I don’t think the difficulty is tuned for singleplayer at all, and it seems like the other two are only designed for multiplayer. so I guess I’d love to see more singleplayer games with milsim elements – especially if they’re more stylized than the typical milsim

“there’s no innovation left to make in the FPS space”

“FPSes are so oversaturated”

nono listen. mainstream FPSes have been stagnant for 15 years but there are also so many concepts left to explore. just look at Hideous Destructor and Receiver 2. either of those games could easily become entire spinoff genres but instead they’re left in obscurity while everyone is off making ultra-fast-paced PvP shooters and AAA interactive movie shooters, and indie devs are all making slight variations on the same boomer shooter formula

so simulation elements like in HDest and Receiver 2 are a completely untapped niche, but also consider the possibilities for open-ended imsim-y shooters with dynamic ludonarratives instead of scripted stories. like imagine an atmospheric open world survival shooter, like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. but without all of the forced story and scripted sections. I don’t know if I could name a good FPS that’s come out in the past 10 years that lets you open-endedly explore an open world at all

or even just… how about more singleplayer extraction shooters? I don’t think I could name a single one besides HOLE and HOLE was incredible

there’s also an entire middle ground between milsim shooters and arcadey shooters that feels totally unexplored to me. how about a brutal, gritty cyberpunk shooter with milsim elements? where you have to frantically administer first aid on yourself after being injured?

or what about Rainbow Six Siege gadgets in a singleplayer tactical shooter?

there are so. many. concepts and mechanics to explore. I don’t understand how people aren’t seeing that

my new programming language has no variables. because this language is incapable of storing any state information in any form, it easily fixes several of the most pernicious problems in computer science:

• corrupted state is now impossible

• there is no need for semaphores when multithreading

• the problem of cache invalidation is solved because it’s no longer possible to cache anything

• garbage collection is trivial: if you see data, garbage collect it

• there is no need to distinguish between types of variables like “global” or “constant” and there isn’t even a need for complex concepts like namespaces or scoping

• other languages have complex, confusing type systems - but my language sidesteps this problem by having no variables to store those types in!

• entire classes of control structures are no longer needed. for example in this language a while loop’s condition must always evaluate to either true or false (after all, it can’t rely on any state information from elsewhere in the code) so it has been replaced with the forever loop - an inescapable infinite loop - which is obviously much cleaner and more elegant

• code in this language is extremely easy to reason about because every line of code stands alone - disconnected from any context around it

this approach might be unfamiliar and even mind-boggling to users of less enlightened languages, but once you understand the genius of its design you will realize how objectively superior it is and how wrong you have been for trying to use any other kind of language

and this is how I feel when I see people acting smug about functional programming

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• Wikipedia
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I should make a Fedi bot that chooses a random pic every day and turns it into an “ideal male body” meme

South park episode where charlie kirk is mentioned was apparently pulled.

I hate america

"“They couldn’t beat him in a debate, so they assassinated him, Isabella Maria DeLuca, a January 6 rioter who has been pardoned by Trump and a conservative activist, wrote on [twitter]."

@emberquill oh yikes I didn’t even see that. that is fucking gross

I don’t think Linux users understand that people use Windows because they want their operating system to Just Work, and tinkering on the Linux command line is:

• required in order to fix Linux when it breaks
• way beyond the technical skill of the vast majority of Windows users
• of the Windows users who are capable of it, most of them would not enjoy it, which is a problem because enjoying tinkering is what gets Linux users past the initial learning curve so that they can comfortably use it for day-to-day tasks without things suddenly exploding
• also tinkering takes time and energy that the average person is not going to have because they just want to check their bank balance or watch youtube videos after a shitty day at work

I find it funny how Winux (a Linux distro that looks uncannily similar to Windows 11) is advertising itself as

No hardware limitations, no absurd requirements.

when Linux has notoriously spotty hardware support and it has the absurd requirements of “every user must be very technical, very patient, very comfortable on the command line, and they must enjoy tinkering every time something breaks”

I definitely think Winux is a cool concept but like, I’m not going to install this on my mom’s computer and trust it to not explode in 2 months when the DE gets borked by an update or something