ProdigalFrog

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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

If by old you mean mlmym, we do host it and offer it in our sidebar for those who prefer it: https://old.slrpnk.net/

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don't sell yourselves short, your instance has a lot going for it due to your efforts!

  • Active admins who regularly participate and are easily reached if issues come up
  • Regularly update to newer versions of Lemmy
  • Appealing instance theme
  • excellent server up-time
  • Sought out Lemmy-federate to make it easier for new communities

All that takes time and effort to maintain, and a surprising amount of smaller instances can lack that. So cheers for all that you do, appreciate it man :)

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 months ago

And Microsoft.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I'd recommend taking a look at this online anonymity guide we put together for our monthly meta post over at slrpnk.net.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

I created !pixelart@retrolemmy.com a few days ago. It started with 55 default sub's from Lemmy-federate bots, but now already has 200 subs, and users participating with their own art!

Quite pleased with the community response, and grateful to retrolemmy.com for hosting it. They were the perfect instance for that community, and seem to run a tight ship :)

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You can play the game here on Archive.org, or you can download a copy from that page and play it in DOSBox Staging.

Here's all the physical documentation you'll need, such as the short story, how to play manual, and an in-world map (you'll have to draw your own, but it'll give you a rough idea of the land. If you find map making tedious, you could use a map someone else made).

Lastly, you'll need this interactive copy protection wheel when it prompts you for a combination in game, right before entering a simulation.

Good luck! :D

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Infocom.

It's an old text adventure from the 80's with a particularly cool and oddly relevant concept: You take the role of an AI that's been meticulously raised in a simulation to truly become a general intelligence. The reason this project was undertaken was to eventually send you, the AI, into other simulations based in the near future to test the outcomes of various political policies of the new republican government, record your interactions, and report back to the engineers who created you.

The game's designer said that he created the game in response to the despair he felt from Ronald Reagan being elected.

I haven't gotten super far in it, but it has an incredibly well written short story in the manual that details all the events leading up to the start of the game, and so far the game itself is unlike anything else I've ever played.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Many brands incorporate either plastic fibers or a polypropylene based glue in their paper bags, so be sure to look up each brand, even if it looks like paper.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

Something to bear in mind: most teabags are made with plastic, and release thousands upon thousands of microplastics that you then ingest.

As it's becoming more clear how dangerous microplastic ingestion is, I would recommend opting for loose leaf tea with a strainer whenever possible. You can use up your existing tea by ripping open the bags and pouring the contents in a strainer.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago

There isn't for me. Does it go away if you click the CC button at the bottom right?

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Is it truly the guy who can take on the trump empire?

No single person takes on anything. The only reason why it seems that way is because the history books generally point to a particular person as being responsible for some big change in society, but people like that are only able to exist because there's hundreds of thousands of people who's names you'll never know put in the work to make it possible for people like Bernie, or MLK, or whomever to be the face those movements.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Anarchists during the Spanish Civil War implemented one of the few positive revolutionary societies, but it was quashed after about a year due to the Soviets betraying them and Franco eventually destroying what was left.

That revolutionary attempt seemed like it could've had long term success without the pitfalls of Marxist attempts had it survived, but it took about 30 years of slowly educating the populace on those ideas, creating alternative ferrier schools, and building up successful unions to prime them for that outcome, and the failure of the Russian revolution and it's decent into authoritarian bureaucracy was relatively fresh on their minds.

I suspect in our current world, prefiguration is likely the best course of action, which attempts to slowly build up the society we want to live in within the skeleton of our existing one, and to then remain standing as the skeleton around it crumbles. Which would indicate that building up unions, worker owned coops, community mutual aid (ex, food not bombs, community gardens) is crucial to pushing society in the right direction.

 

I would've watched the shit out of this if it had been a real spinoff.

 

Hopefully this is allowed, I thought this was some particularlly well done cover art from the early era of PC gaming. It's quite misleading as to what genre the game itself is though; a form of Battle Chess, of all things!

It also had a pretty sweet soundtrack, for those interested.

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