Not really though I get how the game seems like it might be like that, in fact what I like about Farm Together 1 and 2 is that they are very focused on the actual moment to moment process of a running an arcadey farm. It is almost like a realtime boardgame or simple economy simulator, which makes the core gameplay loop immediately salient to anybody. You can pick up a controller, jump in and start helping out on the farm, it is a very simple, relaxed and rewarding gameplay loop and it makes the perfect co-op game because of it. There aren’t long cutscenes and lots of stuff and context you have to explain, it is a pick up and play experience.

It isn’t a shallow game either, while the game by no means “hard” in the sense that there aren’t really fail states, figuring out how to create an economy with your farm is a really interesting challenge and the wide variety of unlocks encourage and reward strategizing. The graphics are deceptive, there is a genuine engine building game at the heart of Farm Together 2.

Will you die already Ubisoft!??!?!

I don’t wish for game developers at Ubisoft to lose their jobs, I want them to be employed somewhere that doesn’t torpedo the end product of their talent.

Farm Together 2 is AWESOME

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2418520/Farm_Together_2/

The graphics are nice but don’t make the game stand out which is a minor shame since this is by far my favorite “build a farm” type game.

Splitscreen co-op and multiplayer is a blast and the game flow is very chill but rewarding.

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Yes and my point is that the architecture that is most conducive to countering that tendency in physical acoustics suggests the opposite conclusion people come to about echo chambers in abstracted metaphorical application to communities and systems of people in conversation.

I genuinely think it muddles discussion around human topics when the phrase “echo chamber” is used as the association people make is so backwards it hurts more than it helps.

Singing them! It is only natural, they are full of notes.

Sound dissipates and loses energy as it travels through air, so for an echo to occur and you to hear it, you need to be a relatively short distance away from a wall.

It is not that act of reflecting off a surface that induces an echo with energy, the echo is a transformation.

The same dissipation of energy occurs no matter what because of air friction, what sound deadening structures such as acoustic foam do is increase that friction per unit of space.

The background effect of sound slowly losing energy simply from being conveyed through the air represents a minimum sound deadening capacity in terms of space not a maximum.

open spaces don’t echo because there’s nothing to bounce off of.

You are precisely wrong here, echoes require open space to proliferate.

Plus, if you shrank down to the size where you could fit inside one of the bubbles of acoustic foam, it may very well be echoey in there.

Isn’t the reason you are invoking a contortion of scale to shift our focus to inside one of these smaller bubbles/cells motivated by a desire to induce a sense of some small degree of open space around us? In a sense, aren’t you arguably still invoking the idea that space is what allows echoes rather than density and enclosure?

But a canyon won’t echo regular speaking voices like a cathedral does

…because a Cathedral echoes more than a Canyon does! Which is my point! When people apply the metaphor of the echo chamber they almost always use it in precisely the incorrect mapping and speak of mitigating the “echo chamber effect” by creating large, enclosed spaces with huge unbroken internal voids where even whispers cascade all the way across the volume in a cacophony.

Conversely when people speak of systems of communication that are most like open celled or closed celled acoustic foam with many smaller spaces separated by manifold barriers and divisions, they are likely to refer to it as being prone to the “echo chamber effect” and I think it seriously hurts rational thinking on the subject.

I have never seen someone criticize a human communication system with the structure of a Cathedral as an “echo chamber” while gesturing to the structure of a Canyon as superior in that it lets echoes proliferate but doesn’t concentrate them. Rather, it seems to be used almost without exception to argue in favor of making systems MORE like a Cathedral and less like acoustic deadening foam in structure.

I agree though sometimes stairwells come out of nowhere and surprise with crazy good echoes, doesn’t beat the accessibility of a shower however and people tend to look at you weird if you hang out in a random stairwell.

Clearly I am singing.

Look I want kids to grow up and be able to pursue any passion they want, but we have to ask serious real world questions here about Austerity and I am starting to think we should entirely cut MBA programs and in general business education.

I know that sounds extreme, but we have to focus on training kids on skills that will actually be productive, useful and lead to new breakthroughs. We clearly need to fund the hard stuff like art, music and theater or we are going to collapse as a society and continue to fall behind more competitive nations because we got distracted by fluff and empty ideologies masquerading as knowledge, MBAs being exhibit A.

Luanti

https://www.luanti.org/en/

VoxeLibre a game on the Luanti engine

https://content.luanti.org/packages/wuzzy/mineclone2/

Vintage Story

https://www.vintagestory.at/

I would have also kept playing Luanti/VoxeLibre and Vintage Story.

Conceptually what does this offer that the fediverse/threadiverse/lemmy/piefed doesn’t?

What then does it say about the actual value of this company and others like it?

If you want a hypercurated/focused reddit experience just join metafilter.

https://www.metafilter.com/

Somehow I don’t get the feeling the owners of Digg are going to be happy with the level of income Metafilter brings in to its owners however…

“We kind of opted for … let’s just keep building this plane as we fly it,” explained Digg CEO Justin Mezzell. “That means that it’s going to be very lightweight, and we’re just going to be aggressively shipping every week and just giving them new features as we go,” he added.

camera slowly pans and zooms out to the Fediverse where mint condition airplanes can be seen everywhere with the word FREE on them

Ok, what content stream in what medium when viewed in a bulk popularity view like that isn’t 90% memes or equivalent?

I agree, I think something that has been lost in conversation about progressive politics and leftism more broadly (in US-centric circles at least) is that as much as people on the left disagree about absolutely everything, in general (with plenty of exceptions) politically left movements and cultural spaces tend to be far better at identifying common values and truths that are universal and holding individuals and communities to those values and truths.

Whereas on the right the endless stumping about valuing freedom of speech turns out to mostly be a mirage when it comes to innocent, vulnerable people being physically murdered on camera by the state, on the left institutions and individuals are much more often held to a standard of values and called out if they fail to reach it.

When people enter a space where progressive and left voices haven’t been systematically silenced and it is a new experience for them, they often react negatively and feel rebuked. I know some of my first encounters when I was younger with actually left spaces initially made me bristle with how willing they were to say no to things that weren’t healthy, to challenge oppressive structures even if they were so normalized they were invisible to me… it can be an uncomfortable process but ultimately more often than not leftist spaces actually try to do it and it that is a good thing.

I entirely agree with people having agency to decide when politics comes up on their feed and when it doesn’t, but the idea that we are all just being a bit too negative and obsessed with the news and we should cheer up is honestly insulting in 2026 given, you know gestures at everything. Everything is political, if you have the capacity to complain about being subject to “too much politics” be thankful for your capacity to experience that state of choice.

Also, and this is on a personal note, talking about politics doesn’t make me depressed, it helps me feel less depressed and anxious because I know other people feel similarly and the more educated I am about what is happening the less scared and confused I feel.

The last of the old cargo cult is finally converting to the new one.

Good now maybe indie developers can actually do something interesting with VR and begin the process of rehabilitating the destroyed perception it has gotten with the public.

Yeah to be clear I played GTA 1, 2, Vice City, San Andreas and GTA 5, I have enjoyed the series immensely and it does have great biting satire of US politics, but it doesn’t have a coherent ideology, the critique is rather one of pointing out how hypocritical US society is… which is hilarious and great but the bigger and bigger the business success of the GTA series has become the more and more that has morphed into the series being edgey without being actually political in a subversive way.

GTA 5 had some great moments, there is some awesome storytelling in the GTA series, its just I don’t think structurally it is concerned with being political, rather it is concerned with character portraits that encapsulate the hypocrisy, struggle and ego of US culture and the more mainstream that becomes the closer and closer it gets to “edgey without being political”.

Why would they be doing it otherwise?