I admit I’m sharing this because I’m hyped to see the London Conference represented. Finally I’ll be able to rectify the historical injustice of losing half of Limburg to the Dutch.

It’s nice that they don’t shy away from overhauling existing systems completely (instead of tacking on new systems).

I don’t see why it wouldn’t fit here. There’s significant overlap between anarchism and solarpunk. Maybe there’s some other leftwing instance where this community would also fit (or maybe better), but that doesn’t matter that much due to the federated character. All this regardless of what my stance on voting is btw.

Many people have purposefully moved away from Big Tech platforms, often because they cause them harm. Who are you to judge their defederation - which is a core feature of the Fediverse btw - as laughable? Every instance is free to decide their own policies, that’s the whole point.

I have similar issues running Gnome on AMD.

Vic3 is a great sandbox right now, but still feels a bit empty. With the warfare patch and some more specific flavors packs, it’ll be top-notch I think.

This won’t do, they don’t have a pun or funny reference in their URL!

It’s main purpose is to make some die-hards angry, I think.

I’m very happy with the game at its base, especially the economic simulation. Excellent starting point for stuff like this!

I’m also not that put off by the warfare system. It was never the main focus of the series and I’m happy they’re at least testing out new formats. It’s also the best one to try them out I think. I expect great improvements in the next few years of updates.

I think ‘doomer’ is too vague a term.

I could plausibly be categorized as a doomer, I think we’re already too far along the path towards catastrophe and the forces against us are too big to stop it in time. But I don’t give up and keep acting, because every act of resistance still matters (and will always matter). It’s pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will; to say it with a Gramscian saying.

Are those still playable? Loved those, great vibe!

No of course not everyone or every organisation has the means for that. But those that have should, and others should fan out over different instances: local or regional ones, or thematic ones, instead of congregating on the same three instances because it’s ‘the main one’.

Seems like the right approach to start their own server, instead of making accounts on some of the flagship instances, which only perpetuates the centralisation dogma.

Played Dredge on the Steam Deck, which was a nice, relaxing experience.

Besides that I’ve been playing Blood: Fresh Supply on my beefy gaming pc. Great fun, much glee when blowing up hordes of cultists.

John Mastadon* smh

Three years completely on Linux, because I botched my dual boot and decided to try without the Windows partition and… never had to install it again! Happy user!

Been playing Assassin’s Creed Odessey lately. It’s fun and big, but I think, ultimately, Origins was a better game. There was a lot more cultural diversity present and they changed some mechanics for the worse imho. But it’s kinda cool how smooth it runs on my Linux machine!

Not sure if it’s entirely solarpunk, but Timberborn has some nice vibes!

I haven’t played that one yet, but the Steam sales start today so maybe I’ll pick it up!

+ 1 for Cloudpunk. I’m also very curious to its more extensive sequel Nivalis!