Notices by Alonealastalovedalongthe (alonealastalovedalongthe@toot.cafe), page 13

@tulsi

I honestly haven't really played the vanilla game, frackin universe just feels like it makes it so much better/deeper.

@nolan

Pi-hole is a genius name

@celesteh

They are probably just summoning a demon

@theoutrider
@staticsafe

Yah the minecraft aesthetic became a thing, but the aesthetic is just a consequence of conceptualizing the universe as being made of large blocks. There is absolutely nothing special about it besides maybe the creeper.

@theoutrider @staticsafe

It can be done so much better. Like conceptualizing everything as blocks makes a whole lot of structures so much more feasible. You could have a world building system that laid down geologic layers and then mixed them up and faulted them, and then sprinkled in valuable resources at certain layers. Then you could put in index fossils to indicate those layers and then you would actually have a mining game.

@theoutrider
@staticsafe

I suppose once you get a good engine you might as well mod that engine for your minecraft-like instead of creating your own game from the ground up too.

Still minecraft is a terrible game in a lot of ways, the combat being one glaring example.

It confuses me why the genre of block-based procedurally generated survival games isn't bigger. There is like minecraft, starbound, terraria and minetest and..?

Minecraft and starbound are both mechanically terrible games too, and yet the idea of atomizing a procedurally generated world into blocks is so powerful that they still manage to succeed.

There is sooooo much left to explore in this genre.

@sambeaven

........do you live in nightvale?

@puresick

I like when they animate the picture of the dude running from a tiger and he just runs away leaving the tiger frozen in the dust.

@Canageek

Wot

It's crazy that the fourier transform in conceptualizing all periodic waves as sums of sine waves is essentially alchemy. You can create any pitched sound you desire by using only the universal element of the sine wave.

Besides enabling a ton of modern technologies the fourier transform is just plain BEAUTIFUL

@Violet

Yah I guess that is a good default so people can report anonymously, but I think admins should stress that if you want to actually talk to an instance admin and provide context for why a post/user upset you then you need to dm the admin. The post I read this advice on recommended went on to say how anonymous reports can be abused much more easily than a dm to an instance admin since it is unclear who is doing the reporting (or whether they are human).

@Violet

Cool thanks for clearing that up for me!

@njoseph

Yah the writing is on the wall for maseive corporate social networks, but a whole lot of smart people just aren't seeing it yet.