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artillect

@artillect@kbin.social

I like turning things into other things
he/him | California, USA

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I can't remember what it's called, but there's a bot on reddit that replies to comments with links to posts if they get linked someplace else. Having a bot like that would be great for here (and other communities)! In lieu of that, I think having people reply to comments saying "I posted this on /m/bestof" with a link to their post (but a bit lengthier, maybe with a set format?) would work as well

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The album Spendor and Misery by Clipping is awesome, it's an industrial hip-hop sci-fi concept album about a colony ship (I think?). The Breach and Wake Up are my favorites from it. Their EP The Deep is also pretty good, it's about an underwater society made up of the descendants of people who were pushed off of slave ships rising up to take the surface world back.

On the complete opposite end of the spectrum, there's Janelle Monae's Dirty Computer (although the sci-fi themes are a bit less out in the open). Her other albums take some inspiration from sci-fi as well

Edit: Oh, and how could I forget Knights of Cydonia by Muse

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Probably Minecraft, Skyrim, or another game with good mod support from the community. I'd never get bored

What was the subreddit that represented to you the best example of downspiral of quality? To me it was /r/dataisbeautiful

At first it was all about presenting data in an original looking way. In the end it was about pushing political ideas in your throat using a plain bar graph. It was not about sharing something interesting you found but about taking advantage of a captive audience.

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/r/mapporn is another one that has gone down the spiral, it has a lot of the same problems as /r/dataisbeautiful.

I think the one that frustrated me the most was /r/data_irl, where about half the people in there take the sub's name literally for some reason and think it's for actual data in real life, and not a data version of /r/me_irl

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Half life is another one of those series like Portal that I feel like everyone is required to play at some point

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Hades, which is also made by Supergiant, is also fantastic. It's a great intro to the roguelite genre. I've also heard that their first game, Bastion, is great too, but I haven't played it

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Oh god I cannot imagine playing it in VR, it's already scary enough on a normal screen

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Reddit allowed you to see the exact number of upvotes and downvotes until 2014, and it had a similar effect to how it is over here. It feels great to have them back!

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