tuckerm

@tuckerm@supermeter.social

Here to talk about fighting games, self hosting web apps, and easy weeknight recipes.

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My blog: https://tuckerm.us

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tuckerm,

Ground is almost 100% dirt. Drinking groundwater is just asking for trouble.

tuckerm,

Seeing Bea Arthur's name reminds me of this clip that someone might enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzYrKrYbaSo

tuckerm,

Man: Origins was good. But don't forget about Man: Legends and Man: Raving Rabbids.

tuckerm,

Occasionally I'll search for "workin on my night" just to make sure that "cheese" is the first autocomplete result, not "moves." It still is.

tuckerm,

Similar story for me, too. I'm not in the game industry, but Morrowind is the game that made me realize how great a game could be. It got me really into gaming, which made me want to be a game developer. I ended up not becoming a game developer, but that's what got me on the path of learning to code, so it certainly affected my life.

I remember waking up early on Saturday mornings so that I could play Morrowind for a bit before my parents woke up. A friend and I would take turns playing as our different characters after school. Before that I had played Sonic the Hedgehog, Wolfenstein, and Duke Nukem -- and those were fun -- but Morrowind put you inside of a story, a really good story, that took place in a world that felt completely real.

While it's too bad to see that The Elder Scrolls 6 likely won't deliver that same kind of experience, I'm sure games like Baldur's Gate 3 are filling that role for kids today. There are still people making inspirational virtual worlds, and players are still being changed by them.

tuckerm,

Thank you! I appreciate the offer to help out financially. There's no need for donations right now, but I'll think about creating a way to donate if more users join.

Also, nice to know why people have joined. I'll add some fighting game-specific features in the future (the aforementioned bot), but this can definitely be a general-purpose small server for anyone that wants to use it that way.

tuckerm,

Oh, that's a really cool idea. I'll check that out just for my own nix education, although I'm a little leery about doing something so custom for my first nix setup, especially if services.nextcloud has a lot in it. Thanks for the info, though! That's really good to know about. I'll probably end up running NixOS in a docker container. The server is an Orange Pi 5, which doesn't have a stable NixOS image available for it, unfortunately.

tuckerm,

Thanks, that makes sense. When I saw the error about how self and config weren't being passed in, I assumed those must be values that NixOS gives you, not the plain package manager.

I saw a blog post a while ago that said you can basically get all the benefits of NixOS just by using the package manager. Sounds like that's not so true, although the package manager is definitely very cool by itself.

tuckerm,

I see, thanks. I hadn't realized the difference between installing one package vs. configuring the system. (And in the case of creating a server setup, that would be configuring the system.) Well, that's good to know.

tuckerm,

Sounds like that's my best bet. My goal here was to stop using docker and use nix instead, but at least this would allow me to still use NixOS for the configuration and mostly ignore the fact that it's actually running in docker. I used the stones to destroy the stones kind of thing.

tuckerm, (edited )

That is absolutely a fair point: Jesus, as Christians believe in him, did not exist, even if there was a religious teacher named Jesus (or Yeshu, whatever) who was alive at that time.

But, there's a part B for that point, and I think it's an important one: there is no "book version" of Jesus. The Bible isn't one book, it's a collection of many separate writings, written over many years by many different people, and they didn't even agree on what they were writing about. Christians like to think of the Bible as one consistent work, and it isn't. (The scholarly term for that is "univocality" -- the Bible is not univocal.) So it's not even possible to point to a Jesus figure as described in the Bible, since there is not a singular, consistent Jesus described in the Bible.

The general consensus among historians is that there probably was a real Jesus. Not the walk-on-water Jesus, but some kind of Jewish religious leader, and he was executed. Which means that some of the books of the New Testament describe a real-ish version of him, especially the earlier books. Then, as the messiah narrative starts to take off, the later books in the New Testament get increasingly magical and describe a very unrealistic version of him.

The Wikipedia page about historically-accurate Jesus is a good starting point for info about "real Jesus." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jesus

I also recommend looking for podcasts and YouTube videos featuring Bart Ehrman.

What I'm saying here does not at all contradict your comment, I just think it's a good idea if we atheists are always very keen on the fact that the Bible doesn't consistently describe much of anything. That does mean, though, that some parts of the Bible may describe something historically accurate, and that gives no credibility to the more magical parts of the Bible. Seems like the consensus in this thread is to throw away the whole idea of Jesus, and that doesn't match what real historians believe.

tuckerm,

If he can manage to resurrect himself, he can manage to be born before his birthday. It checks out.

tuckerm,

Preach 👏 it 👏 louder 👏

(But like, for real, though.) I certainly don't feel bad for Reddit when the CEO says he intends to use that forum's users to train AIs, and then every comment turns into some "please upvote me" catchphrasey nonsense. Hopefully, whoever buys training data from them receives nothing of value.

tuckerm,

My last phone before getting a smart phone as a Motorola Razr, and man that one was so satisfying.

tuckerm,

It does look cool! I'm worried about that too, though. I would only be buying it for the "snap it shut" action, and it's more expensive than any other phone I've owned. The original Razr was premium for it's time, but that was when "premium phone" meant $300.

tuckerm,

Every time I hear about this problem, I get that one part from the song Love Shack stuck in my head.

🎵 Your what?!?!
TEEEEEEEEEEES-LAAA!
...rusted

Love shack,
Baby love shack 🎵

tuckerm,

Always sucks to have more tech layoffs.

The article mentions they're "decreasing their investment" in Firefox Relay, which is a service for creating burner email addresses that get forwarded to your real email address. It's honestly the best spam-prevention method I've ever used. If Mozilla decides to axe that project, I hope the Thunderbird team can somehow pick it up. Seems like it could be an opportunity for some recurring income for them.

tuckerm,

I don't think I've ever seen them ask for donations as visibly as Wikipedia does. Sometimes there's a small banner at the top of their website with a donate button. Currently, if you go to https://mozilla.org and scroll all the way down, there's a "Donate" link in their footer.

Seems like they're always kind of subtle about asking for donations -- I wonder if they think that if they pushed for donations harder, it would just make more people use Chrome. (On the other hand, there is no real alternative to Wikipedia, so they can do the big banner once a year.)

tuckerm,

I'm not sure what kind of disagreement went on behind the scenes, but just as someone who enjoyed the game, this seems fine to me. Five years of post-release content is better than what you usually get, especially considering that they were all good updates and none were hasty cash grabs. The base game by itself was endlessly replayable, then they kept adding variety. It's not like people aren't going to get their money's worth, now that this game with near-infinite replayability isn't getting even more new content.

The article mentions the studio is a co-op; I was not aware of that before. From the studio's Wikipedia article:

Motion Twin is run as an anarcho-syndicalist workers cooperative with equal salary and decision-making power between its members.

WELL DAMN I already loved the game, now I love it all over again.

tuckerm,

This live action colossal titan looks worse than the anime.

tuckerm,

Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and I replayed a couple levels as recently as a few weeks ago. It has been a great game the whole time.

tuckerm,

This wasn't my very first game, but was definitely an early one I played. I beat the remake recently and it was exactly the way I remembered it.

tuckerm,

23andMe was always a product with a very small upside and absolutely massive downside. Best case scenario, it's a neat little thing to learn about yourself. Worst case scenario, it's a massive opportunity for discrimination and blackmail.

Completely unrelated: for some reason, on kbin, the thumbnail for this article is the thumbnail for this youtube video, and that is a cooler thing than 23andMe by far.

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