Subscript5676 @ Subscript5676 @lemmy.ca

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And the cat wasn’t programmed to automatically follow the LOCATION header. SMH.

I haven’t played Silksong, but if the previous game, Hollow Knight, is anything to go by, it is very much Souls-like, which is what you’ve went through: if you lose to the boss, you get whizzed back to your last checkpoint, and all enemies, excluding special enemies, along the way get revived.

Again, if the last game is anything to go by, there should be various checkpoints all around, but you have to look around as much as you can with the current movement methods available to you. You’ll probably want to look for the closest possible checkpoint, and learn each enemy’s patterns to either avoid them, or defeat them without taking damage. Bosses are essentially just much bulkier enemies and have more moves in their moveset.

Souls-like games boil down to learning enemy movesets, finding ways to survive, and improving your timings to improve your survivability, while chipping away at your enemies until they die, and maybe along the way you’ll die a lot of times. It’s definitely not everyone’s cup of tea, but this sort of game gives many strong satisfaction.

• Fixed volume jumping to 100% upon removing 3.5mm headphones

THANK YOU!

Hope exists, but I find it hard to convince myself that there’s enough of us to move the needle, in that we’re simply not the majority. There’s a lot of us, and it feels great being in these spaces and chatting about and sharing what we could and should do. But the moment I walk out of my door and start talking to other people, I see many who either don’t care, or is unabashedly cathartic, or cares more about just themselves, or is even happily going about with their lives doing exactly the things that are destroying us, including their own future.

Children are always how we continue to have hope for the future huh. It’s unfortunate that many of my peers in my generation (early adult to adult), especially the well-educated ones, have sort of given up on having children, either thinking that they’re too loud, too disruptive to their lives (either in lifestyle or finance-wise), or just don’t want to bring new lives into this “dying” world. Some of them are teachers themselves, and it’s depressing just hearing their stories on how kids are living their lives these days. There are those who are born into unfortunate families, parents who don’t know better and don’t really do much bringing their kids up, and then there are those who look at the state of society and don’t find much hope, plunging them into depression or making them feel so pressured that they develop behavioural issues. Teenagers are rebellious yes, but many of the issues of the world aren’t something that you can fight back or change with just your will. I wish we as a society would pay more attention to them, and actually look at them, if not just to know how we’re doing as their predecessors. There’s a lot we can learn from them.

I typically scoff at those hyped up world-ending scenarios cause they’re just in it for the TV, but climate change and WW3 are different. WW3, maybe not so much; the threat has always been there, and we live with that, doing things in hopes that we can keep the balance of the world largely in place. There’s definitely an increased likelihood of it happening with the US essentially saying “fuck you” to everybody, as the current world order is definitely unipolar and there’s been a lot (if not too much) reliance on the US being the rather benevolent power keeping peace around most parts of the world (let’s not get started on the shitty things the US has done in the last 40 years, but the reality is that many parts of the world has had relative peace for around that long). Climate change though, that’s absolutely no joke, and many climate scientists and experts have seen sounding the alarm for decades. You won’t see bombs in the sky. You might still be able to keep adapting to ever hotter, colder, or crazier weather patterns, but we can only adapt so much before we hit a brick wall with engineering and economics. We’re still actively making this only planet we have less habitable for ourselves and our future generations. Food production has consistently been going down, and the wars aren’t helping us move food around better, making everything expensive everywhere.

I’ve said more depressing things, and maybe most may think that that’s where I end, and that my answer is that there is no hope, or that whatever hope there is is meaningless. Maybe it’ll surprise some that I don’t think so at all. It’s exactly because I understand the situation that we are in and how dire it is that I think we should continue to do what we can. When it comes down to it, you either do something, or you don’t and you wait and die in regret (anyone who tries to say that they’ll try to enjoy their lives as much as they can before they die so that they have no regrets, you’re absolutely dying with regrets; unless you’re one selfish bastard, you are absolutely going to die with regrets). I would much rather be doing something to change our reality and even challenge fate itself than to just let it do its thing. At the very least, I will die knowing that I’ve did what I can, and that my only regret is that it wasn’t enough to change things.

Several recent generations, especially in the US, have decided to essentially label being smart as an unpopular trait, and ridiculed people who put effort into schoolwork as “tryhards”, discouraging knowledge acquisition and allowing kids to just say “Ah, this is good enough and I don’t have to try hard”. Saying “I don’t understand math” was, essentially, a fashion statement. So of course we have almost whole generations that lack the ability to think critically and realize that they’ve been trapped mentally to be cows for milking. Doesn’t help that Western culture is rather hedonistic, where prioritizing one’s own indulgences triumphs over the well-being of others, and that sort of culture gets spread everywhere. Give them the illusion of freedom, and they’ll let you do whatever you want. Sorry I didn’t mince my words there.

As much as I’d hope to see things change for the better, I don’t really see it happening without some really depressing episodes given the direction that the world is heading towards. There are small glimmers of hope here and there, but none of them are in a position to really move that needle where it needs to go. I try to be positive and do I can, but I can’t shake the vision where we’re heading towards some of the most turbulent times we’ve seen since WW2 and the Cold War. Sorry for bringing up some really dark visions, but they’re all rather well tied together to me.

Exactly. We can kind of see this in Japan too: trains and buses do reach out to rural areas. There definitely has been a reduction in frequency and train services to some villages there, but living in rural Japan doesn’t necessitate a car immediately: you only need one of you need to get out of town frequently at irregular times, or move large objects frequently. Getting food is still pretty easy even without a car: you could either bike or take a motorcycle, and in some cases, you don’t even need it cause houses are all pretty close together despite being rural.

Sometimes, I think North Americans are slightly insane. They want to live completely on their own land with nobody around, but still want all the benefits of being in society, and demands people to give them that at low prices. You can’t have the damn cake and eat it too.

The linked Hackernews comment thread is so cathartic and car-braindead. Ugh… I need to wash my brain.

Public transport doesn’t work unless you’re China/Japan, cause we have bureaucracy, safety issues, blah blah blah blah blah

as if those don’t exist in China and Japan (edit: heck, these places have even more bureaucracy and concern over safety (particularly Japan!))

Can’t get to mah grocery store or that good grocery store “close by”

That’s what you get when you have wide af stroads

Public transit sucks even in London outside of touristy areas

Ahem, nobody ever said it’s good

Public transit sucks in Germany

Ahem, just look at how Deutchebahn has been operating

Most people can’t bike!

Not everyone has to!

If strawmen were part of our population, they would be the most abused group of people on Hackernews. Just more reason to never visit that site for my sanity.

Shit doesn’t work cause we’ve made it, or some people with a vested interest against alternative modes of transport have made it, hard for public transit to work nicely. And whoever the fuck thinks that it’s either public transport or private transport and nothing in between can go hide in their cave. There will always be both, and it’s only a matter of how much of both.

Edit: Edited the quoted section to properly separate my retorts from the comments

How can we expect kids to mature and learn responsibly and citical thinking if we remove challenging material?

Well that’s the fucking point: these skills are in their way of controlling minds or at least keep them dumb enough so that they don’t question their circumstances, particularly those created by those who decided to ban those books. Knowledge is power, and so if you can remove knowledge…

I remember that at one point, someone wrote this when books started becoming more accessible:

Books are RUINING OUR CHILDREN!

Just controlling parents wanting to dictate their children’s way of life since time immemorial. It’s an eternal battle.

Being a fiction shouldn’t degrade an argument IMO. There are so many ways people can write a story, many of which are nonsensical and has no message and that is their point. But they picked this one. Heck, humans have continued to tell stories, sometimes for entertainment, but sometimes they want to say something, and humans are conditioned to remember interesting things better. Regardless of whether there was a message, and whether the message was intentional, people can still create their own takeaways. What’s important is that last point: that people see something that they can take away, whether it’s an actual message, or maybe the journey itself is what they takeaway as their message.

We are creatures of stories. Stories have changed and will continue to change human history. We see this before our eyes all the time. There are stories meant for good, and there are those meant for bad. And it is why humans learned the concept of “buying” a story. And the “value” of a story is in the eyes of the beholder, influenced by all their past experiences and biases. But I shall digress there.

“Improving workplace culture” is just an excuse for “I’m too lazy to learn more ways or adopt new ways to get to know other people and will just stick to what I know from school, where we’re all forced to be with and see each other.”

I was thinking of male chickens when I read that and thought I’d check it out, but this was absolutely NSFW. Lucky for me though, I’m off work at the moment.

Is that “the” supposed to fit between “police” and “opposition”? I’m still confused by this terrible headline.

Thanks for the reply and suggestion! It’s sort of unfortunate that we don’t have Canadian options, esp given that Canada has once been active in the textile industry, and that many of us (at least, it seems to me) love our great outdoors.

But yeah, thanks for pointing out the potential need to just get additional stuff like insoles to support my feet. Sounds like it’s gonna be a bit of a hunt, and part of it is cause I’m not even sure what exactly do my feet need.

UN says that Canada has an immigration system that can be abused for modern slavery not too long ago. It hasn’t been updated

Conservatives say that the law favours immigrants.

…

Make your pick?

I can’t find the webpage now, but about a month or so before our last election, there was a webpage where they iirc gathered signatories from people who wanted housing prices to lower, and a good portion of them were retired.

I think we could start with just encouraging people to provide reasons when downvoting posts, by just showing a small box for comment for example. If we see improvements on engagement and that it ends up encouraging good conversations, then we’re all good. Otherwise, we can then get feedback on how people feel about that addition, or just observe from anonymized data, eg “How often does someone make a comment after downvoting?”

I think going straight to harder requirements might backfire in this particular case; I can see a lot of people to just stop downvoting things because they’re too lazy to provide a reason.

For what seems like controversial posts, I seriously hope people would at least state why they downvoted something instead of just downvoting and leaving. If it’s straight up bad, we all know why, but this seems to invite debate more than just stating a bad take (for the record, I don’t think this is bad).

I actually use Rakuten to get e-books cause I live in a rather small space. Rakuten also rather clearly labels their books for whether they’re DRM-ed or not, and has a bunch of non-DRM-ed books. This is a win for me.

Not directly related, but it reminded me of an article I read a while ago so I tried digging it up:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/apr/24/undercover-far-right-hope-not-hate-harry-shukman

The article’s about the far-right, and how it’s essentially being championed in the shadows by a very organized entity. This isn’t written as fiction; it’s part of a documentary.