Today’s game is some more OneShot. I binged this game all day today, and honestly i was a little sad at the end. It did a really good job of making me feel connected to the characters, and on a meta level it did its job well.

I was so attached I played through it to get all the achievements. That’s 3 whole playthroughs. One for the First Playthrough, the second for NG+, and the final in Memory Mode too get the last few.

Spoiler

I’m convinced that in a meta way, this game is about us (the player) giving a sort of humanity too the games we play, such as this one. I kind of saw Niko “taming” the World Machine (the process of basically letting a robot in more grow beyond their programming and gain free will) as a sort of reflection of us doing the same. When we start to view these characters as human (the first step in the process) do they break free from their programming and become alive.

And beyond that, in a way, the first playthrough was the player “Taming” Niko. By the end of it we’d sort of developed a bond and connection to him and almost saw him as human. By Solstice this allows him to metaphorically think beyond the capacity of the loops

Of course, this doesn’t work to people without attachment to the game, but that’s at least how I looked at it without any deeper insight.

And after doing a memory mode playthrough, I kind of find this even more reinforced as it’s a “recording” of Niko, not the real thing. Maybe it’s just me, but knowing the real Niko isn’t there made the whole thing feel soulless. This recording isn’t tamed, it basically has no free will and in lore is just destined to repeat the same actions over and over.

The artwork for NG+ was gorgeous too. I’ve honestly considered using it as my wallpaper. The only thing stopping me is a lack of 16:9, so for now I extracted the wallpapers from the built in “PC” and upscaled it instead for use

All of this, kind of points to me being in love with this game if you couldn’t tell. I just can’t bring myself to believe it’s over, and I can’t delete it. It’s hard to believe this game inspired such affection from me. Only a little bit ago I knew little to nothing about it, and now I’d say this game has earned a spot on my top games of all time.

ich tippe auf:

"wir müssen alle den gürtel enger schnallen"

"ihr gehört an die front"

"mimimi, unsere arme wirtschaft"

"die ausländer!"

"das stadtbild!"

"die arbeitslosen!"

"die linken!"

"autos sollten brumm machen"

und ansonsten eine kaskade an unverschämtheiten gegenüber arbeitnehmern (die ja eigentlich ihre arbeit geben), rassistischen entgleisungen und angriffen auf umwelt- oder klimaschutzmaßnahmen.

Paste this into Bash:

get_screen_time() {
since=${1:-today}
until_opt=${2:+--until "$2"}

journalctl --output json -u systemd-logind --since "$since" $until_opt | \
jq -r 'select(.MESSAGE_ID and .__REALTIME_TIMESTAMP) |
if (.MESSAGE | test("Lid opened|Starting systemd-logind|Operation .suspend. finished")) then
  .__REALTIME_TIMESTAMP + " start"
elif (.MESSAGE | test("Lid closed|Stopping systemd-logind|system will suspend")) then
  .__REALTIME_TIMESTAMP + " stop"
else
  empty
end' | \
awk -v current_time=$(date +%s%6N) '
{
    if ($2 == "start") {
        last_start = $1
    } else if ($2 == "stop" && last_start != 0) {
        total += ($1 - last_start) / 1000000
        last_start = 0
    }
}
END {
    if (last_start != 0) {
        total += (current_time - last_start) / 1000000
    }
    seconds = int(total)
    hours = int(seconds/3600)
    minutes = int((seconds%3600)/60)
    printf "%02d:%02d", hours, minutes
}'
}
PS1='$(get_screen_time) '$PS1

Now you have screen time for today in your prompt:

00:21 user@asus:~/Documents$ 
00:21 user@asus:~/Documents$ cd ../Pictures/
00:21 user@asus:~/Pictures$

Cool?

It's easy to understand the sentiment behind the story, but it's simply so implausible it veers into 'impossible.'

A leaked Justice Department memo directs federal prosecutors to press “domestic terrorism” charges against individuals who record immigration operations.

Hintergrund | t-online: Ex-Rechtsextremist schlägt Alarm - "Der halbe Jahrgang sieht aus wie die Hitlerjugend"

Er war selbst einer der bekanntesten Neonazis in Deutschland. Mittlerweile macht Philip Schlaffer Präventionsarbeit mit Jugendlichen an Schulen – der Ex-Nazi schlägt Alarm.

Philip Schlaffer erlangte fragwürdige Prominenz, als er im Sommer 2006 mit einem Baseballschläger bewaffnet auf Demonstranten vor seinem rechtsextremen Szeneladen losging. Er war damals Anführer der rechtsextremen Kameradschaft "Werwolf" und betrieb den zugehörigen "Werwolfshop". Nur Polizisten, die mit geladener Pistole dazwischengingen, konnten ihn aufhalten... (weiter)

Info: Ich habe eben einen Beitrag mit dem Link schon einmal weitergesagt, denke aber das das in seiner Eindringlichkeit weiter getragen werden muss. Also stelle ich es noch einmal ein, damit es auch andere und auch Lemmy erreicht.

#Hintergrund #Deutschland #Rechtsextremismus #Rechtsradikalismus #Gesellschaft #NieWieder #Antifa #PhilipSchlaffer #t-online #2025-12-27 @deutschland

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/technology/p/1608391/the-rime-of-the-ancient-maintainer

Every culture produces heroes that reflect its deepest anxieties. The Greeks, terrified of both mortality and immortality, gave us Achilles. The Victorians, haunted by social mobility, gave us the self-made industrialist. And Silicon Valley, drunk on exponential curves and both terrified and entranced by endless funding rounds, has given us the Hero Developer: a figure who ships features at midnight, who “moves fast and breaks things,” who transforms whiteboard scribbles into billion-dollar unicorns through sheer caffeinated will.

Adamtots

Artist: Paulandcookie | pixiv | twitter | artstation | danbooru

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Ongeveer een derde van de Oekraïense hoofdstad Kyiv zit zonder verwarming na Russische aanvallen. De Russische agressie neemt zo niet af in aanloop naar de ontmoeting tussen de Oekraïense president Volodymyr Zelensky en zijn Amerikaanse ambtgenoot Donald Trump op zondag.