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Coming up with gameplay mechanics that aren't centered on fighting or smashing or conquering is a challenge, because conflict is Central to so many games and stories.

And this is not to say that there is something inherently wrong with conflict, or inherently noble about stories that don't involved conflict.

A good argument has been made that this non-violent stuff will get you killed, after all. ( https://www.dukeupress.edu/this-nonviolent-stuff-ll-get-you-killed ) And to avoid conflict in the face of oppression is to be complicit in that oppression.

But there are so many games about conflict, and so few about cooperation, so it was important for me that we centered that in our first big video game.

(It's out now and on sale for the holidays. https://itch.io/s/177232/holiday-sale)

This Nonviolent Stuff′ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

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AI6YR Ben 3d ago

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @dlakelan LOL this all leads to AI-enabled robots that can catch, kill, and clean humans and automatically prepare them for dinner.

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JA Westenberg 3d ago

We have "growth hackers" but no "stability hackers." "Disruptors" but no "preservers." Our entire vocabulary is oriented toward the new. We have no language for the equally difficult work of keeping existing things from falling apart.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-rime-of-the-ancient-maintainer/

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nixCraft 🐧3d ago

💯 justified outrage about AI slop. Source https://bsky.app/profile/robpike.io/post/3matwg6w3ic2s

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Be very mindful about the content you consume online.

You might think you are above its negative influence on your mood and thoughts, but you aren't. Nobody is.

The content you consume influences the way you think over time. Even if you are on a platform to fight the opposition, what the algorithm is feeding you there will have an influence on yourself over time.

Be careful what you feed to your brain.

#DeleteX #DeleteFacebook #DeleteTikTok

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Johannes Ernst 3d ago

Not just to respond to the Trump tariffs: if one wanted to get to digital sovereignty, the repeal of anti-circumvention laws is practically required, or the network effects likely will turn out to be insurmountable.

/cc @pluralistic @alexandrageese

https://www.wired.com/story/us-trade-dominance-will-begin-to-crack/

US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack

Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too.

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Coach Pāṇini ®3d ago

Just saying.

https://newrepublic.com/article/204051/firewood-banks-heating-bill-winter

Firewood Banks Aren’t Inspiring. They’re a Sign of Collapse.

Rural communities are banding together to chop firewood so that people in need can heat their homes. This shouldn’t be necessary.

The New Republic

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Ruby 4.0 introduces Ruby Box for code isolation, the ZJIT compiler for better performance, and enhancements to Ractor's parallel execution. This version requires Rust 1.85+ for ZJIT and Visual Studio 2015+ for Windows users.
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/12/ruby-4-0-released-with-ruby-box-isolation-zjit-compiler-ractor-improvements-and-more/

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mhoye Dec 18

To spell this out clearly, the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced yet has been bought with money that doesn't exist to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced to go in datacenters that haven't been built powered by infrastructure that may never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist while economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".

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