I wish I could return to a time when video games didn't feel like chores. Looking at most of the games on my computer, and they are all live-service games which take up too much of my time.
I need to quit starting games that don’t have a defined beginning, middle, and end.
Maybe I will take August off from video games which are ongoing services.
Speaking of Steam, for folks that engage with the community items, badges and trading cards, I wanted to ask, how many Steam Trading Cards do you think is the right amount for a game to have? I'd love to know your thoughts about it! 🎴
We won't have Townseek cards and community items for a while until we clear Steam's sales requirements to do so, but this has been something in the back of my mind as I collect and make badges from them. 🤔 #gaming#steam#steamdeck
On Mastodon, Lemmy communities show up similarly to how a regular Mastodon user does, and can be searched and tagged similarly. So in this case, OP tagged this community specifically rather than any others with the same name.
I believe if you try and tag multiple it only posts to the first community mentioned in your toot, but don’t quote me on that one!
A short thread about books, me, and a micro-book review. To start with, in a world of “a-holics.” I am, among other addictions, a page-a-holic. Therefore, I read (predominantly) short books. Once I start, it’s difficult (as in, makes me incredibly agitated and impossible to live with) for me to put a book down until it is done. This is not a nerdy sort of bragging, it’s more a confession, of sorts, as to why today, instead of doing the things, I read a book. 1/ #bookstodon
Not sure how long it was going before the fire department arrived, but it was maybe ten minutes between when I heard the sirens and the fire was under control.
@manisha@computingnature@academicchatter@academicsunite ah well this didn’t happen in a day. there was some example Matlab code that had been made available previously. glad it’s gotten a more formal grounding/distribution framework though now.
I'm planning on setting up a #rasberrypi music streamer. I'll be throwing headless #plexamp to play my music library and I'll probably use #moodeaudio as the base image to get me bluetooth, airplay and a few other bits. Does anyone know how I can integrate podcasts into the platform? I was thinking of setting up an #audiobookshelf server and clients on my mobile devices but I'm not sure how to stream a podcast to the pi so that it keeps track of my position across all my devices.
The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources
A few minutes ago I learned of a marvellous project to create the Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources (DMNES). This is under development, although a lot now exists, but a blog is available, and is itself a rather wonderful thing:
The dictionary aims to contain all given (fore, Christian) names...
I'm transferring some earlier materials from twitter to this platform. Here's Linda Zagzebski's amazing story at last year's Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy (virtue epistemology). It highlights the intimate body/mind connection. When she was in Dublin several weeks before the workshop, she went to the Chester Beatty Museum that has a huge collection of Asian manuscripts and paintings. The rest of this thread is a slightly edited quote from her comment of a paper on Xunzi and Aristotle. 1/
"Through meditation he was able to slow his heart rate to almost nothing and stop his breathing so that he would have complete control of his hand since even a heartbeat could cause his hand to move imperceptibly. In that state he was close to clinically dead. The docent held up a magnifying glass with 40x magnification so that we could take turns looking at it. I cannot read Chinese characters, but I could see that they were there. The docent said people have examined it under a microscope, 4/
"and the characters are perfect. There are no mistakes. After carving it, Chen Zhongsen filled in the carved characters with ink, which means he had to do the whole thing a second time. He has also carved the Tao Te Ching and other major works in their entirety on small stones. He has written two Tang dynasty poems on a single strand of his wife’s hair. In my opinion, Chen Zhongsen is one of the wonders of the world, but he is human and he does in a superlative degree what all of us can do... 5/
That’s allright. I sometimes eat at McDonals, even though it’s shit. Most days I cook at home though.
I’ll never visit Reddit again (I’d sooner go to 4chan), because RIF was reddit for me, but reddit is still there and it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. It’s allright to go there some times, if that’s what you want. We’re not here to guilttrip you. The decision is entirely your own.