lime!

you have to drink it at the gate to show that it’s safe

it’s weird that. it’s obviously possible to have a flat-shaded skeuomorph, just look at basically all of windows 95, but for some reason we connect them to this particular graphical style. files and folders are both part of the old classic “desktop metaphor”, so they basically have to be skeuomorphs. but like, the application icons are basically just mosaic tiles of the normal icons.

a proper skeuomorph would indicate what the program is for. krita and whatever map software that is are both good, if a little flat. but the libreoffice suite just being squares with a letter on them? have them be like, a spreadsheet for calc, a stack of cards for impress, and a printed page for write.

remember all the icons for windows 95 network utilities that have people in them? those are also (attempts at) skeumorphs because they’re trying to communicate what the program does.

a skeuomorph (from greek, “tool/container-shape”) is something that retains the characteristics of another thing that it is based on, even though those characteristics are no longer useful. think lamps shaped like candles, or the floppy disk save icon, or media player programs with volume knobs.

skeuomorphic UX is a good way to get users comfortable with a system by using designs they are already familiar with, and the original iphone used this to great effect.

This is a good example of skeuomorphic UI:

all to say, I’m not entirely sure these icons are skeuomorphs. they’re just glossy.

i used to do IT for a company that isolates and sells antibodies. the amount of money you can charge for what is basically a single drop of liquid is truly staggering.

also, they had freezers that went down to -90C for long-term storage, which was really cool.

it looks sort of like a continuation of the beaker browser project. basically, a peer to peer browser that also serves content you have made to others using the browser. it’s a cute idea.

furries in denial?!?

100%

this reads like a teenager wrote it

it’s the result of a paper on the social hierarchies of captive wolves, which was retracted when it turned out that they work completely differently in the wild. bragging about being an alpha is basically asserting that you would be a top in prison.

The Incredible Machine! the original Rube Goldberg game. me and my friends played the shit out of it in the 90s. a few years ago i decided to give it a google and i found out that not only were there an expansion i hadn’t heard of, there were five other games in the series.

i don’t know about “cross” :P it’s a bit-for-bit reimplementation of Elite 2. i loved that game as a kid and pioneer is a great version of it.

it’s more than that Kola, it’s large.

me and three friends have been spending on average 80 hours each on a space age game together since the expansion released, and we’re currently in the process of getting the third planet (out of five) to produce evenly without getting stuck.

each planet has basically it’s own tech tree, and you need to re-learn how to build a factory every time because the conditions are so different.

where we are now, the only resource is “scrap”. building a factory here involves basically running the entire process to build something in reverse, disassembling broken machine parts to extract the components, sorting them, and reusing them in new things. we’re completely swamped in blue circuits, batteries and low density structures, which isn’t much help when you need pipes.

don’t know why nobody stated this but space age is basically five times larger than the base game. they’ve announced that even though the game is coming to switch, space age is not since it has much higher requirements.

it’s not a dlc, it’s a proper expansion.

i can chime in with some actual experience!

my current problems with KDE are

• the greeter only accepts my password on the secondary monitor
• the compositor shuts down whenever something uses the GPU even though the setting is off
• my primary desktop randomly shunts itself to the right, plopping on top of the desktop on the secondary display and leaving a big black void on half my primary until plasmashell is restarted
• my panels keep collapsing their content down to the width of a single pixel until i resize them
• Wayland just crashloops and is completely unusable (no, i don’t have an nvidia card)
• i still can’t get the acrylic transparency to work :(

and what’s fun about this is, the issues are so intermittent and random that i never know what i’m going to get on a given day!

oh did Klaus retire?

is this the beef and brick smoothie?

that’s a shame. i’m not going to force it on you if you don’t enjoy the experience, but i will say that there are no mechanical progress gates at all in Outer Wilds, no intended order to do things in, and multiple interleaving threads to pull on. if you get stuck in one place, going to another may let you learn how to proceed. if it feels like you’re missing something, you probably are, and going somewhere else may help you find it.

it’s been my game of the year five years running, if that means anything. the dlc only cemented that position even more.

It’s the 2022 expansion for Outer Wilds, which released in 2019. Just as much a masterpiece as the first entry. if you know nothing, you owe it to yourself to play them.

don’t use balenaetcher, it’s a terrible piece of software. use unetbootin or usbimager.

does Echoes of the Eye count?

brave also used it to scam people by taking tips for creators who weren’t on the platform. if the creator never signed up, they kept that money.

and they had an adblocker that replaced ads with their own, making the browser money instead of the site.

they have actively contributed to making the web worse. saying “at least they’re doing something” is like praising the hard work and entrepreneurial spirit of a mugger.