Thankfully nowadays, there are good to great alternatives to the Adobe equivalent. Often times they’re free to use.

I watched the last two episodes of Silo season 2. It’s one of my favorite TV shows to date. I highly recommend it if you’re looking for a new show to get into.

I might continue watching Star Trek in chronological order again. I left off in season 2 of Star Trek: Enterprise. It’s a gigantic undertaking but I feel it’s worth it for several reasons. The biggest is my love of speculative science, the optimistic perspective of the human race, the conflict resolutions that are used throughout, and storytelling.

Can you provide a bit of info on it? What is it for and how does it stand out among the other apps or programs?

Can you provide a bit of info on it? What is it for and how does it stand out among the other apps or programs?

I recently learned about an app called Snappy Driver Installer Origin. It’s a minimal FOSS program that checks our PC for the drivers it has, needs installed, or updated and goes about it quickly. It’s also portable so it’s great if you want it on a install thumb drive.

There are so many apps out there that try to get you to buy or pay a subscription for this feature and others, so it’s been a breath of fresh air for me to have learned about and use it.

For no reason at all? No, no, no. For all of the right reasons? Oh, for sure.

Here are 10 songs I’ve been listening to for the past week or so.

ATTLAS - Ryat

The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So

The Faint - Evil Voices

DJ-Mar-T - Gentleman (Club Mix)

AFI - Fall Children

Machine Girl - Athoth A Go!! Go!!

Rudimental, 1991, PNAU, AR/CO - The Feeling

Venjent - Belong

Kasablanca - Higher Resolution

Pendulum - Propane Nightmares [Celldweller remix]

Perhaps you’re right. But have you considered what those who play those games get out of it for themselves?

I’m curious to learn more as I believe people hit the downvote too soon, before knowing why.

How would you define an indie game, and what indie games have you played before? What kinds of video games do you enjoy to play?

That isn’t what I was making a point of. I was doing my best to convey that it’s a more complex analysis than, ‘The new games I see, seem so soulless or bland. So that must mean they didn’t have a creative vision when creating their video game(s).’

I have an interest and in a way, a hobby of learning about the video game industry, with a strong emphasis on what developer teams and individuals do to make these games. The short answer as to why these games don’t hit their creative mark(s) is often the following:

• Because there wasn’t a strong understanding as to what the game was going to be about or function like, from the beginning or continually.

• Management didn’t do a good job or weren’t able to maintain development in the right direction or for the right things needed for the project. (The number of times I’ve read or heard about people or teams working on a character, level, game feature, etc, and then leaders/management decides to put something else in or cut it entirely… is staggering. We’re talking days, weeks, or months spent, then it’s removed or changed.)

• Misjugement(s) of what and how much each ‘resource’ (time, people, expertise, money) would be needed to complete each milestone, stage, and final polish of the video game.

• Game feature creep - The more you have on your list of things you want in the game, the more ‘resources’ you will need to complete it. When you don’t have enough of any or all of the ‘resources,’ you have to start cutting things from the final video game form.

That being said, there are more reasons why video games come out janky, half baked or lacking creative vision. Just remember, there is always two sides to a story.

This is just false. There are many games that have good/great creative vision that come out. It’s just that like ‘never before,’ there is a tsunami of video games that come out every month. Finding these video games with good/great creative vision is tremendously hard unless you have a filter system in place. (And even then…) Are they all video games that we would likely pay for, no. There are a lot of half baked games that come out. I’m talking about video games from a single first time video game developer, 10 person dev team companies, 100 person dev team companies, all the way to 1000+ person video game projects made by AAA publishers/developers. And of course everything in between. Making a video game is easier to do nowadays, for sure. But to make a video game that captures all of the “creative vision” you speak of… very difficult to do so.

Some of the best video games to come out this decade have come from video game developers who were solo or small teams.

Untitled Goose Game

Inscryption

Vampire Survivors

DAVE THE DIVER

Factorio

I haven’t torrented in many years. But I wanted to give a shoutout to all of the seeders that come back online, so I we could finish. There were many movies I had qued. Most were fine and finished up in three days or less, some started then stopped before they even reached the 15% mark, and several would make it to 98% then stop. Thankfully, there were some people out there who finally came back online and seeded enough for me to finish the dls. I made sure to seed enough peers to where there would be 10 seeders before I would consider removing it.

And a huge fucking thank you to whoever the hell came back online to let me get some obscure TV show called The Legend Of Mick Dodge. I started to dl when there were only 2 seeders. Then it soon became 0 seeders. I held out because I wasn’t able to find a trusted torrent for the show. So I ended up sitting on that for a bit over a month. Then one morning, I checked my list and found to my surprise that both season 1 and season 2 were complete. I was shocked when I found out that there were now 7 seeders including me. And because of the annoying wait I had to endure, I made sure to seed the MFer for 2+ months before transferring it.

((Turns out, the TV show is on archive.org https://archive.org/details/the-legend-of-mick-dodge/))

I started in on the documentary called Aliens Expanded It goes in depth about all the things that happened and didn’t happen while making the movie Aliens. It’s nearly 4 hours long, so I’ve been watching it in large chunks. I’m an hour and a half in and I’m enjoying it.

I Don’t Like Your Color of People (meme video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zT1XTFn5FQ

Check out The Boat That Rocked. It’s based on true events from the 1960s.

I did a bit of reading and writing for a short story idea I have. Other than that, learning about things via Youtube, and playing video games.

Is that… Is that a Homeworld mothership?

Lossless compression Even after reading how it works, it still seems like magic to me.

In no particular order as to why I left Reddit to join Lemmy:

• Reddit became a chore just to see good content. (This is even after the fact of filtering out unrelated or unwanted subreddits in my feed.)
• The comment sections on Reddit became worse and worse with more joke/meme comments than actually related comments, low effort comments, bot spam, and the burial of your comment for no one to see, (or care to reply to,) if you were to comment on a post or comment more than 24 hours after it’s original posting. (Most of the time it felt like you had maybe 8 hours before it seemed to be a waste to comment.) Why would anyone stick around to comment or reply if nearly no one is going to engage?
• (Like many others have mentioned in the comments,) if you mentioned or talked about anything that wasn’t considered good, you were often blasted with downvotes and/or comments.
• How often you saw rinse and repeat content, questions, and sometimes comments. (I’ll admit. I took part in the rinse and repeat content ‘sharing’ and I wish I hadn’t done it for so long. The karma whoring was real for me.)
• Concerns (then later the reality check,) about how much Reddit is an echo chamber.
• /u/Spez showing us who he really is.
• Not liking the direction Reddit was heading. Writing on the wall when they fired Victoria Taylor
• The API fiasco.
• Movement towards IPO.

Lemmy doesn’t have any of these problems that I’ve experienced. Lemmy feels very much like a grass roots movement and I like that. I wish the communities that I am a part of had more active users, but that will more likely come with time.