Same problem, OP. I used to get em from reddit, now almost exclusively Lemmy.

Humans are also inherently cooperative for survival, and it has been argued by some credible historians that our current forms of antagonistic society is an abberation from the norm.

Catalonia during the Spanish revolution is a pretty solid example. It showed no signs not working until they were forced to stop due to Franco winning the war. Wikipedia entry for more info.

I don’t think humans would be naturally self centered if they lived in an environment that actually encouraged sharing and cooperation instead of actively encouraging and rewarding psychopathy and selfishness.

There were likely people who thought it impossible that wolves would someday become domesticated, and eventually be our best buds, due to their ‘unchangeable’ nature.

We are all products of our environment.

One scam calling out another. In addition to odysee, Arweave (Forward Research) bought an NFT company, which is the reddest of red flags.

In addition, the crypto that odysee used to use before being bought out is now completely worthless (but I’m sure the creators of it made bank), and Arweave will be no different.

Unfortunately, the map counts the entire metropolitan area around the city as part of the city, instead of using the city boundaries itself.

Interestingly, CityNerd had the opposite problem when he did a video on city crime statistics.

It does make the broad global overview far less useful, but inspecting each individual city to see what areas are walkable and bikeable is still pretty cool, and could be helpful if deciding on a place to move to.

Unfortunately Torment is not multiplayer :(

Few enough people use it i doubt they’ll do that.

I was going to suggest otherwise, but after checking the viewing stats on r/linuxhardware, out of 193k unique views in July, 7,300 were from old.reddit, which accounts for 2.8%, and that kinda blows my mind. Just a couple years ago the numbers were much higher.

The views on that sub have increased a lot over the last year, but engagement is the same or lower, so I heavily suspect a lot of the views there are just bots inflating the numbers.

That makes me think of how people react to Clarisse from Fahrenheit 451. Clarisse’s interest in nature instead of mundane entertainment causes people around her (except the protagonist) to become uncomfortable, and she is forced to go to a therapist because she deviates from the norm.

Cheers for sharing this, have to agree its superb.

I know 90% of titles that end in a question usually can be answered with a No, but in this case, it’s yes! :D

I agree that Bethesda’s RPG writing is amateur at best, and I can’t dispute that there can be some good points in Dishonored. But at least for me, a mark of bad writing is that I find myself unable to care about the outcome for any of the characters in a story, and in Dishonored, I personally didn’t care much about any of the character’s struggles or personalities, as they were all pretty one-note. I can’t recall a single character’s name from Dishonored except for Corvo, since I found it novel to hear Stephen Russell as a main character again (big Thief fan, which incidentally I would point to as a game with excellent writing).

There was one instance in the main base/hub of dishonored 1, where there’s a short excerpt of a story about a whaler in a book, I think in the room where Emily was supposed to chill out in. I thought the writing of that little short story was so compelling, I sat back in my chair after I finished it and thought “Why isn’t this game about that?”, because I felt it highlighted how boilerplate the actual game’s story was in comparison. So in that way you’re right, the micro-writing, the world building, the atmosphere, is all top notch. I just wish the characters and plot were able to match it, as then it would be a masterpiece.

I should mention that I’m pretty difficult to impress with writing in video games, as I don’t think most of them can compare to the quality of writing available in books except for a handful of examples such as Thief, Gemini Rue, Mafia, and the original Deus Ex.

I wouldn’t say the writing for dishonored is terribly strong. The first game has a pretty bog standard plot, and the set up for the second was quite contrived. The gameplay and world are their strengths.

Currently the best way is with Lemmyverse

He posted this update a few months ago, it seems to be progressing well!

Woah, that unlocked a memory of how my parents said giving sweets to our dog would give him worms. Wonder how that pervaded so widely.

That description of your process reminds me of this video on consciousness, and how the creator describes how he has no inner monolog, or even conscious thought of some of his actions, and instead it’s like a black box that he can query. Is your experience similar to that?

There’s a number of excellent documentaries over at !documentaries@slrpnk.net and !documentaries@lemmy.world.

I’d recommend Connections by James Burke, which there should be a link to on the .world community.

Unfortunately didn’t apply to the creator of Ren & Stimpy.