[-] bastion@feddit.nl 38 points 2 months ago

Bernie is, and always has been, The Man. In the good sense.

[-] bastion@feddit.nl 35 points 2 months ago

This isn't exactly "can't live without," that would be HomeAssistant. But what I Immediately thought of?

Beyond All Reason

This is an RTS game in the spirit of Total Annihilation.

  • labor of love
  • fully 3d, including ability to rotate or raise/lower view
  • tens of thousands of units without hardware lag for reasonably modem hardware (3-4 years old)
  • all shots actively rendered, leading to:
  • realistic friendly fire
  • even air units can get hit by ballistic shots targeting land units (although odds are fairly slim)
  • redirect-unit-to-dodge micro is effective in some situations
  • meaningful terrain
  • radar will have blind spots based on line-of-sight
  • radar gives clear indicator of coverage during placement
  • two factions, almost 200 units each, with tier 1, 2, and 3 units. A third (currently playable with a setting change) faction is in the works.
  • crafty, non-cheating ai opponents
  • free server hosting (!)
  • active servers all times of day

The overall feel and balance of the game is great. The changes they make to balance are generally light and reasonable, and the game had a good community.

Fam and friends play together often.

[-] bastion@feddit.nl 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This game is absolutely fucking solid.

  • Excellent, balanced gameplay
  • AI that doesn't cheat (unless you count being incredibly fast at micromanaging)
  • choose your own music for menus, gameplay, action gameplay
  • scenarios for single player gameplay
  • lots of maps, for 2-16 players
  • active lobby
  • they host game servers for for for $0 (but seriously, please donate)
  • in-development features that can be enabled with a click and tested
  • ridiculous features, so you can do different game modes
  • still under active development and expansion
  • awesome community
  • physics-based gameplay - that means, shots are actively rendered. Beam weapons do damage while on. If something drives into it, it takes damage. If you hit your own guys, they die. If you put shields around one section of your base and not another, the plasma cannon rounds might just bounce off and hit your stuff anyways, if it comes from the right angle to do so.
  • radar has line-of-sight - i.e., hide behind a cliff face and advance, and place your own radars well.
  • rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock. That is - air, sea, and ground units, each with unique advantages - but also, amphibious units, hovercraft, long range vs short range, fast vs slow - deep strategic complexity.

Negatives:

  • some assholes exist, because humans
  • unintuitive menu system
  • unintuitive separation of main menu options and in-game options.
[-] bastion@feddit.nl 35 points 2 months ago

This is not his Achilles heel. His Achilles heel is doubt. Populism depends on belief, and is inherently unstable. He started doubting. His people stated doubting. He is now going down, and the ridicule he always dishes out now also lands for him.

The mockery of him has been constant from day one.

[-] bastion@feddit.nl 26 points 3 months ago

This is hilarious.

[-] bastion@feddit.nl 29 points 3 months ago

*training their ai using humans

[-] bastion@feddit.nl 35 points 3 months ago

You nailed it. It was emerging because the host died.

[-] bastion@feddit.nl 27 points 5 months ago

Yeah, kinda weird to see it on mildlyinfuriating.

[-] bastion@feddit.nl 27 points 5 months ago

That's insane.

[-] bastion@feddit.nl 25 points 6 months ago

I believe there's an absolute infinity.

[-] bastion@feddit.nl 25 points 7 months ago
  • It's not PHP
  • It's already implemented in browsers
[-] bastion@feddit.nl 33 points 1 year ago

A lot of people are saying Debian, because Debian.

Debian. I've literally run Debian stable with uptimes of over a year.

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