Speaking as Brit who is salty as hell at Brexit, I really enjoyed “Not Tonight”. It takes the Papers, Please mechanical framework and applies it to a new socio-economic context for some really effective satire. If you hadn’t mentioned it, then this is the one that I would have commented to add

Thanks for the recommendation about his Dev blogs — I didn’t know he had done these, and they look really cool; Papers, Please is one of my favourite games, so I’m always keen to peer behind the scenes

Here’s a link, if anyone else is interested. This might not be the specific post OP was talking about, but you’ll be able to find it from here if not

Thanks for the recommendation of Moida Mansion. I hadn’t heard of it before, but I loved Papers, Please so much that I’m already sold on trying it.

(The Papers, Please theme has been my alarm tune for the last few years. Rather impressively, I haven’t gotten sick of it yet — I suspect because every time I am woken to my haze of groggy misanthropy, it just makes me appreciate the song more, because it’s so thematically appropriate)

Marmite is really good for this. Some of the other go-to “umami bomb” condiments aren’t vegetarian, but Marmite works well for vegetarians

In that case, the finished product would be of pretty mediocre quality, in my case. That’s because most of my projects are things that I actively want to learn, and I tend to be overambitious when setting aims. Despite this though, even when I completely botch it up, I struggle to think of a time where I have regret my endeavour. I like the learning

No. The main reason I do projects is for the learning. Any useful items I produce as part of the process are just happy side effects.

Ooh, cool idea, I’ll try that!

If you like medieval marginalia, go play Pentiment. I played it with a friend who was a medievalist, and ze said that all of the weird marginalia were ones ze recognised from real manuscripts. Very cool

This reminded me of the edits of Disney princesses that make them look alternative that I often saw on Tumblr when I was a teen

I replayed Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines (2004) recently

I was just going through my inbox and seeing your reply reminded me of this project, and I’m blown away all over again. Like, ugh, it’s so cool it’s practically painful. I find it deeply and profoundly beautiful because of how elegantly you’ve synthesised something that contains both the natural world, and technology.

The grim world we live in means that many of us reflexively end up hating technology, because of how it is so often used to facilitate our oppression — even the devices we own don’t feel like our own. I find your post to be an essential reminder that it’s not actually the technology itself that we hate, but the way it’s used against us (and the people who are doing it). Some might find the way that I’m raving about this floating plant pot to be silly but this feels like a legitimately powerful symbol of what technology can be; it can empower us to make cool stuff, and rather than existing in opposition to nature, we can actually use it to glorify the natural world.

Seeing people make cool stuff like this always makes me feel inspired. I aspire to be someone who is always at least a little bit ridiculous, and this is exactly the vibe I love. Like, this is an objectively absurd thing that you’ve made here. I can’t fathom how long it must have taken to make this (and the various kinds of expertise), and even now it’s done, you’ve basically got a pointless ornament that requires more care than before. It’s fundamentally quite silly, but that’s why it’s so cool!

This reminds me of the surprisingly effective inflatable frog costume that was in the news recently during protests against ICE

I don’t use Arch, but I am eternally grateful for their excellent documentation.

I am also grateful to you for your comment, because this is a good idea

Having a development folder is such a good idea that I feel silly for not thinking of it sooner. Thanks for the idea.

Oh my God, this is so cool. It’s one of the coolest things I’ve seen this year. I love things like this that are both technically impressive and also beautiful. It’s unfortunate that it requires more effort from you to keep it watered, but the effort seems worth it by far (if you’re able to keep on top of it, that is)

In terms of who manufactures chips for RAM, Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron have a combined market share of 94%. I don’t know how big of a slice of the pie that Micron is, but it seems we’re down to two (and those two are also investing in AI — for as long as people are buying, anyway)

Ignorance isn’t bliss when you’re living in an objectively crazy world. At that point, you either internalise all the craziness and believe it’s in your head, or you look up and recognise that it’s the world that’s nuts. I’d prefer not to live in such a world, but given that I do, I might as well not be in denial about it.

Isn’t there only like, 2 other manufacturers of RAM?

One of the people who provides disability related support to me is Welsh and I can’t wait to show her this

Do you have a link? Because if you tell me you found it but don’t tell me where, then that may put you at risk of being in the same ring of hell as people who comment “nvm, solved it” to their tech forum posts.