♲ @charmciii@twitter.com: You mean to tell me this ain’t all the same people??
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Sep-2021 15:25:11 EDT 
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Good try, but these are four pictures of Margot Robbie. Almost fooled me with the other made up names. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Sep-2021 14:55:14 EDT
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♲ @CharmaineSChua@twitter.com: These photos of a new Amazon warehouse in Tijuana, Mexico have been going viral as the "This is capitalism" picture of the year. But there's a lot more going on here than the picture can tell you. Let's trace the Amazon supply chain! A thread:👇 1/
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Sep-2021 18:20:06 EDT
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♲ @TradingVices@twitter.com: @panafrikam
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 06-Sep-2021 21:15:10 EDT
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Gamers are something else entirely: "Tired of games including gore in the rating and add Zero gore. Hard pass for me. Expected to see deep wounds and heads rolling."
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Sunday, 05-Sep-2021 04:08:44 EDT
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Mini #videogame review: Yoku's Island Express (2008) by Villa Gorilla is a super cute adventure-pinball mashup. Many actual pinball mechanics are presents, flipper/bumper/ramp/sinkhole/drop target/inlane/drain allow to progress through the world or arranged in a mini-table with simple objectives.
The game provides several hours of good fun to finish it and is free on the Epic Game store until August 9th.
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 04-Sep-2021 00:39:56 EDT
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I personally have had mixed experience with roguelike games. On one hand, I really dislike the original Rogueunder its various recent implementations. One feature in particular that bugs me is not knowing what the random potions found in dungeons do. Some heal, some do damage, and it drastically changes the way you should use them, but without any hint, it's pure luck and I don't enjoy being at the mercy of a hidden dice roll. It doesn't make a success gratifying because I had absolutely no personal part in it. Conversely, I can't learn anything from a failure because it was just random so it's just punishing for no reasons.
The last roguelike game I have enjoyed isEnter the Gungeon(2016). It's way more motor skill-based than Rogue which is another hurdle for me, but it proved achievable. Each failed run would still help unlocking items for subsequent runs so it still felt like progress. Compare to Dead Cells (2018) which I ended up dropping because the motor skill threshold was too high with failed runs contributing absolutely nothing to the success of future runs. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 03-Sep-2021 22:30:05 EDT
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Oh boy, where to start? There are *so many* video games about space I'm going to ask you to be more precise.
Off the top of my head, if you safely want to:
- Build stuff in space: Starbase (Early Access), Astroneer (2016), Space Engineers (2019). All are geared towards cooperative and creative multiplayer.
- Shoot pirates and aliens, smuggle contraband, upgrade ship: Rogue Galaxy (2005), Galaxy on Fire 2 (2012), Freelancer (2003).
- Be immersed in a real spacefaring simulation: X4: Foundations (2018), Elite Dangerous (2014)
- Wander between wondrous and weird worlds: No Man's Sky (2016)
My main problem with EVE Online is that it isn't very forgiving. The main takeaway from the tutorial is "Don't fly what you can't afford to replace". Now, this also makes the game extremely interesting to play, with a whole player-to-player economy depending on aggregate demand for any of the myriad of merchandise that can be produced, sold and consumed for various endeavors. Ultimately, it still is about building armies of expensive ships and fight other players, and it makes me extremely nervous.
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 03-Sep-2021 22:17:28 EDT
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@Ragnarork Thank you for the tip, however I got stressed by pirate attacks while mining asteroids in safe space, so my stress threshold is extremely low. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 03-Sep-2021 17:48:28 EDT
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Thank you for the tip, however I got stressed by pirate attacks while mining asteroids in safe space, so my stress threshold is extremely low. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 03-Sep-2021 17:20:05 EDT
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#EVEOnline is an awesome game but way too stressful for me to play; so I really enjoy second-hand accounts of significant events and the preponderance of human factors in how they unfold over pure gameplay/technical factors.
#videogames♲ @Ragnarork@twitter.com: 🧵 Here we go. A summary of the last big war in EVE Online, World War Bee 2. Disclaimer: this is just my understanding of the war. It spans a whole year, the amount of information is enormous, so I’ll stick to big milestones and events.
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 03-Sep-2021 12:37:11 EDT
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I received an actual piece of mail confirming my IRS Online Services account had been accessed and while it is anxiety-inducing to receive any mail from the IRS (the US federal tax agency), this was a nice surprise as this kind of mail is important for less tech-literate people. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 03-Sep-2021 11:25:08 EDT
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This study is great to challenge simplistic notions of the early Native American culture, but the lead researcher still couldn't prevent themselves from mentioning "magic" when it came to describing the technological knowledge they had. ♲ @Rainmaker1973@twitter.com: New evidence supports idea that America's first civilization was made up of 'sophisticated' engineers. Early Indigenous people were highly skilled engineers capable of building massive earthen structures in a matter of months—possibly even weeks [more: https://buff.ly/3DGdOIc]
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Brad Koehn ☑️ (bkoehn@diaspora.koehn.com)'s status on Friday, 03-Sep-2021 06:59:19 EDT 
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Sep-2021 14:53:26 EDT
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I'm spreading duck rillettes on European-style brioche, this is peak "Frenchman in the US for too long" for me. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Sep-2021 14:41:33 EDT
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#Twitter doesn't allow folks to expand a conversation or a photo post without being logged in anymore, for me it signals the start of the slow slide into irrelevancy as #Instagram took before, when successful platforms because of their openness close public access points. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 30-Aug-2021 16:30:16 EDT
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As a sort of a silver lining to an otherwise blight, grifters of all sorts still exist because we as humans still can trust each other, and it's a nice thing to remember once in a while. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 30-Aug-2021 15:03:01 EDT
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Thankfully it isn't about rescuing, more like vaguely protecting them from COVID which is a little less personal and hopeless than what I believe you describe, but it's still weird to feel that for them even as I am still angry about their abuse. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 30-Aug-2021 13:31:05 EDT
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I can't seem to be able to stop caring for someone who abused my goodwill several times. I care way less than before of course, but I just can't stop caring completely. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Aug-2021 16:42:10 EDT
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PHP literally stands for “PHP Hypertext Pre-processor” so I have no idea what you’re talking about 😅 -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Aug-2021 07:51:31 EDT
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After 15 years of using #PHP, I finally have a formal complaint with the language: I have been butting into the absence of parametric polymorphism in several projects but only recently have I finally learned the name of what I have been missing. Code duplication it is then.
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