!Pleasantpolitics@slrpnk.net might interest you. It’s an experimental community that employs a really interesting bot that scans users all across the lemmyverse, and prevents the most toxic people from participating. It seems to work fairly well, so far.

The old 2003 game ‘Vietcong’ is still, IMHO, the most realistic depiction of jungle combat conditions in the Vietnam war (at least, in a singleplayer game). It can oftentimes be a janky, overly hard game, but there’s still nothing else quite like it all these years later.

The jungle is dense for that period, the AI is surprisingly tactically aware (at least from memory. They would ambush you, flank the player, and I think even run away if they were losing an engagement), there’s deadly, well camouflaged traps everywhere, making slowly walking the safest way to move around, the fights are short and deadly, and most impressive of all, it licensed a lot of famous 60’s songs from that era.

It can be a difficult game to get running on modern windows, but there might be some community patches for that. It would probably run better under Linux with wine.

If you’re looking for a hardcore singleplayer experience to explore that conflict from a historical context, I’d recommend giving it a shot.

Apparently the games that did use that technique, like idtech games and splinter cell, generally all had small environments that were within the limitations of the hardware, where as halo 2 had massive environments that stressed it too far with the lighting active.

The video details how all of Halo 2’s assets were made with stencil shadows in mind after the bungie devs saw it in Doom 3. However, the OG Xbox ended up not having the processing power to do those critical, deep shadows, so they returned to the flat lighting of the first Halo, which resulted in a much less stylized game. The video creator shows how the game was meant to be experienced by showing all of the different character models in one of the few places in the game that retained a small section of dynamic shadows, which really drives his point home of how much better it would’ve looked overall.

Also @ampersandrew@lemmy.world

Have you tried any other video playing application to see if the problem persists?

Heyo, would you be interested in co-modding the Buy It For Life community with me? It’s a low-activity community, would be a good option for getting your feet wet with modding! :D

That’s quite strange. Your post is not showing up from the lemmy.world instance for me as well, but it does show up from our instance. As far as I can see in the modlogs over there, you haven’t been banned from that community or lemmy.world, and your post wasn’t removed either.

I tried posting to a Lemmy.world community just now to test it, and it showed up on the ‘new’ view there after about 50 seconds, so federation appears to be working.

Could you try posting another article in that world news community to see if the issue persists?

Thought this would be about Oolite, the open-source remake of the space trading game Elite.

Interesting little things, these oolites.

I like that idea! I’ve been procrastinating with filling out the buy it for life wiki as well, but I’ll try to get around to this as well when I’m able.

Absolutely love to see that industry finally unionize. Unions in general really seem to be having a renaissance, and I am so here for it.

The community is rightfully distrustful and dismissive toward a technology that is mostly used for scams and grifting.

The Folding Ideas video on crypto has yet to be adequately refuted.

If someone was earnestly looking for a way to privately transact, the best option I’ve seen is GNU taler, which doesn’t require any crypto or blockchains to accomplish its goal extremely well, it just needs wider adoption.

LBRY also uses a crypto back end, and LBRY coin (their crypto) is what odysee used before being bought out by Arweave. I wouldn’t recommend either, personally.

They make a strong case that smaller and less physically capable people, or those with disabilities like nerve damage and other ailments that make it difficult to hold a longer rifle for long periods, or nearly impossible to safely shoot a pistol, are able to perform significantly better with an SBR or stocked pistol.

Thank you both for continuing to improve piefed, massively appreciate your efforts!

Please be aware, Odysee was recently purchased by a Crypto company that also acquired an NFT company.

For more info, see my comment here: https://slrpnk.net/comment/9749921

I would not recommend investing any time or money into the platform, as it will inevitably crash and burn as the owners walk away flush with cash while everyone else is left holding the bag.

Peertube is not ideal, but it is currently the only alternative that isn’t tied to a shady crypto scheme.

Interesting. This one came up with that search, which even then seems a little too deluxe compared to what I had in mind, but it’s not too far off. The price on those are insane, all the things considered, especially since the actually good batteries cost an extra 5k over the base price.

I think part of the high cost may be due to these manufacturers targeting companies, not private individuals, but I can see how it would be difficult to compete with subsidies and slave wages regardless.

Personally I’d support subsidizing it, but I doubt that’ll happen.

The bullet was captured in a photo midflight.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/politics/video/doug-mills-trump-rally-photo-src-digvid

I understand why you’d suspect this was a false flag, but it really seems like it wasn’t.

For those interested in an alternative, and especially if you are a programmer, the Ladybird browser appears to be the most promising independent browser that could someday take Firefox’s crown.

I’m surprised there’s not at least one US based company making a small, ultra barebones EV thing like this yet. Something that could replace a lot of side-by-sides and ATVs on farms like this thing can, while also being able to get groceries. Surely there’s enough off the shelf parts to wrangle something up? Only major custom part would be the frame. If it was under 10k (ideally 5 or 6, I figure), I feel like they would sell like hotcakes.

Something like a Microlina, but even more basic, and maybe a little more utility-vehicle shaped, like a Kei truck.

The amount of power they can generate on a car is truly impressive. And as poVoq says, those old cars are generally lighter, which helps with range.

A downside of most older cars, unfortunately, is safety is pretty massively compromised. The T2 and T3 Volkswagons are significantly better than some other vans from that era, but they are woefully inadequate in a head on offset crash compared to modern vehicles. Since they do not have crumple zones, any high-speed crash is almost certainly a death sentence.

Warning, car safety tangent incoming:

Vans and trucks in particular (in the US, at least) were way behind sedans/wagons when it came to safety features like airbags, collapsible steering wheels, reinforced doors, etc. I personally wouldn’t recommend any US brand made before 2004, since the 90’s federal safety mandates didn’t apply to them. You can see the massive difference between this 2001 f150 and a 2004 f150 here. Even after that period, avoid all Dodge vehicles like the plague, just terrible in crashes.

For cars, wouldn’t recommend any US or Japanese passenger cars made before 1994-ish. 1996 was when most major safety features became federally mandated. Though even after that period, how well a vehicle crashes is highly dependent on the specific model. A Ford Taurus from 1996 was quite excellent for that era, while a different model Ford from that same year could be a death trap.

I would make an exception for that 1994 cutoff date with certain European vehicles, such as Volvo, Mercedes, BMW, and Saab, as they took crash safety much more seriously even back in the 80’s, and tended to do quite well. Still not as good as a good modern car, but probably still fairly survivable.