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Cake day: December 9th, 2023

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  • I am not here on lemmy/the fediverse just because it is an alternative to reddit, I am here because I intend to contribute as much as possible to destroying reddit by being here and contributing.

    It makes me sad seeing the blanket cynicism people have towards the potential of social media as if we tried everything and social media is just inherently toxic when all we have tried is for-profit social media run by massive corporations full of sociopathic ultra rightwing upper management that demand endless growth.

    Reddit has to go, it is far too centralized a replacement for forum/message boards, but the good news is every meaningful contribution we make here on Lemmy/the fediverse pushes the knife deeper into reddit’s chest :)

    Reddit can only win at forming an unavoidable corporate silo we are compelled to endure if it projects an inevitability to it, we are here to destroy that inevitability.






  • The control scheme in Total Annihilation where you can que up lots of commands for units has largely been ignored by RTS game makers except in Supreme Commander and Spring/Recoil engine games such as Beyond All Reason and Zero-K. I think it is a perfect example of why the RTS genre in many respects died after hyperfocusing on making Starcraft-likes resulting in the stagnation of innovation in a genre that progressively catered more and more only to a very narrow range of brains/players who enjoyed simplistic explicit rock-paper-scissors unit relationships and endless fiddly micro.