Having a blast playing #X4Foundations. I haven’t played a game quite like it. Comparisons to #EliteDangerous doesn’t paint a complete picture; it more like a cross of ED with a bit of #Stellaris. Last night I was completing a mission while one of my other AI-controller ships completed another unrelated mission! All while my mining ship was making me passive income. I am thrilled.
Yeah, X4 is probably the best out of all of the X-series games so far. But they've pretty much all been awesome that way. The series certainly has its own unique gaming style, for sure.
There aren't many games where you can legitimately play it as an arcade spaceship shooter, and just as legitimately play it as a 4X economics/war strategy game and never even leave the map screen for 50 hours at a time whilst conquering whole quadrants of the galaxy.
Or you can make a warband and pretty much go Mount and Blade (In SPAAAAAAAACE!). Likewise, going pure pacifist and just doing space-trucker stuff is also a perfectly legit playstyle too, as is turning it into a corporate management sim, etc, etc, etc...
Really fantastically simulated and open-ended series of games.
We've also got a fediverse community for X4 over on Kbin.social now too (although it's still young). It's over at https://Kbin.social/m/X4Foundations if you're interested.
The enforcement of copyright law is really simple.
If you were a kid who used Napster in the early 2000s to download the latest album by The Offspring or Destiny's Child, because you couldn't afford the CD, then you need to go to court! And potentially face criminal sanctions or punitive damages to the RIAA for each song you download, because you're an evil pirate! You wouldn't steal a car! Creators must be paid!
If you created educational videos on YouTube in the 2010s, and featured a video or audio clip, then even if it's fair use, and even if it's used to make a legitimate point, you're getting demonetised. That's assuming your videos don't disappear or get shadow banned or your account isn't shut entirely. Oh, and good luck finding your way through YouTube's convoluted DMCA process! All creators are equal in deserving pay, but some are more equal than others!
And if you're a corporation with a market capitalisation of US$1.5 trillion (Google/Alphabet) or US$2.3 billion (Microsoft), then you can freely use everyone's intellectual property to train your generative AI bots. Suddenly creators don't deserve to be paid a cent.
Apparently, an individual downloading a single file is like stealing a car. But a trillion-dollar corporation stealing every car is just good business.
@ajsadauskas I never used Napster. I found out Google’s own YouTube was giving me free music. While searching for why my hard drive space was being used up so quickly ( remember pre-terabyte drives… pre-Gb?) In my Windows system cache folders were massive files. Always after I had listened to YouTube. Google was basically storing every song I listened to on my own hard drive. Google was just lazy. Even MySpace had a js routine called cache-buster. Thanks Google.
29 Crook O'Lune ECR Lorac
The strength of the Lancashire books is the sense of place and the way that they treat the landscape. Gilbert Woolfall has inherited his uncle's fell land house. Then there's a fire that destroys the study and kills the housekeeper. Throw in some sheep rustling and there's a lot to try and sort out. It's not just purely picturesque, there are issues of trying to get started in farming in the fells and the fate of the elderly in a rural environment. #books@bookstodon
So Google is now preventing people from removing location data from photos taken with Pixel phones.
Remember when Google's corporate motto was "don't be evil?"
Obviously, accurate location data on photos is more useful to a data mining operation like Google.
From Google: "Important: You can only update or remove estimated locations. If the location of a photo or video was automatically added by your camera, you can't edit or remove the location."
@ajsadauskas@technology@pluralistic Google claims a religious exemption that trumps your privacy concerns: "The data from your camera is sacred to us and our business model, and we, via our operating systems and applications, strictly forbid you from profaning that data."
What a fucking BOOK holy heck.
I’ll need to find a hard copy of it so I can devour it again and again, and inevitably lend it out and lose it forever. But it’ll be WORTH IT.
Up there with Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs for beautiful stories that split and twist like braided rivers before spilling back into the ocean.
Might have a new top five book ay
I love that I'm seeing more and more posts to Lemmy from Mastodon.
This one feature finally ties Lemmy in with the rest of the fediverse by providing the lacking feature: making top level posts. Lemmy (along with friendica!) will lead the way in making "groups" and forums in the fediverse, accessible from any platform you choose. @fediverse
@neilhimself this picture of sky is amazing! We are so little in this universe, but we can gaze at stars. This photo spreads a sense of peace and greatness, and love. I'm grateful for this picture. ⭐🪐
@OldGermanicGuy@linguistics
Auf Helgoländisch sieht das ein bisschen anders aus; z.B. altfriesisch 'bām' und 'strām' wurden zu 'Booam' und 'Strooam'. Ich weiß aber nicht, wie 'ooa' auf Helgoländisch ausgesprochen wird, wie /ɔ:ə/, /ɔ:/ oder etwas anders? Ich verstehe, dass das Nordfriesische sich aus dem Altostfriesischen entwickelte: könnte 'ā' im Altostfriesischen wie 'ō' im Altsächsischen ausgesprochen worden sein?
(#Halunder).
@simonwilliamson
tja, und ich suche jemanden der Halunder spricht. Mir fehlt Übung und die Sprach CD nützt mir nichts ohne das passende Buch was selbst gebraucht vergriffen ist und nicht in der Bibliothek verfügbar. So verstehe ich nicht mal ein Drittel. Mit dem üblichen Platt habe ich keine Probleme, aber Halunder ist wirklich speziell. @linguistics
Originally from #Kentucky. #Queer. Hate noise pollution. Big fan of old #stories well-told. Fell in love with #fish first, then #plants, then #insects. My love-hate relationship with #sports goes in 5-year cycles.
@academicsunite
Da #IchBinHanna zu ihrem 1. Geburtstag derzeit wieder etwas mehr im Gespräch ist, melde ich mich auch nochmal dazu: #IchWarHanna, aber die Zeit als #IchBinHanna hat Spuren hinterlassen. Thread 🧵 dazu, was #IchBinHanna mit einem machen kann:
Ich hatte Glück: nur 4 Verträge, keine Kurzzeitverträge, 6,5 Jahre Vollzeit. Da haben es viele schlimmer getroffen.
Trotzdem war da immer diese nagende Unsicherheit, was nach Vertragsende passiert. Kriege ich einen Job? 1/x
@historiavocis@academicsunite Hi Christiane, lese deine Vorstellung jetzt erst. #IchbinHanna.s Lebensumstände machen mich immer wieder aufs Neue wütend. Wie geht es dir mittlerweile? Ich sende dir einen Packen Energie.