It’s kind of refreshing to have self defense as an option when games of this genre usually rely on feeling defenseless to instill terror.
Sorry, I didn’t get it from the description. What would you say is the genre of this game? Doesn’t sound like walking simulator
I understand. But with how downvotes are sometimes, but often IMO, used - a vote on agree/disagree, in a way that feature becomes “I don’t want to see opinions of people that disagree with me”. It does make it exotic
So the chances that it will be developed and tested is rather low, chances that there will be enough social support for having it is rather low
The problem with that is then instead of having 15 downvotes and two comments with a bunch of upvotes you will end up with 15 (probably less but just to portray my point) comments all saying more or less the same. And since (IIRC) Lemmy does not have notifications one could enable on other comments, you would be discussing the same thing in 15 separate threads because your interlocutors won’t see your responses in the other threads
I mean - without downvotes we have no way of signalling “I don’t agree with this take, this and that comment voice my opinions”
But we don’t have a mechanic for “I’ve seen this and didn’t clap”, other than a downvote
people downvote instead of shouting back. OK fine. Except, for whatever reason, I personally don’t feel this overwhelming need to stamp aggressively on other people’s “wrong” opinions
So for you downvoting is aggressive but shouting back is not?
IMO the truth is mostly pretty simple: it means “Muh! Me no like!”. Which is completely uninteresting as well as (I argue) toxic
Apart from votes meaning not being set in stone, I think they do serve a very important role. You can’t realistically be having 5/10/50 simultaneous threads, especially if the points are the same. Someone upvoting can be a signal “I agree with that take”, without essentially spamming the discussion with such comments. Someone downvoting can mean “I don’t agree”. Someone downvoting one comment and upvoting a response is essentialy taking part in discussion - “I don’t agree with you, that other person is right”. Without muddying the exchange. It’s a mechanic to have a social discussion without it looking like a chat during hype-train.
When we gather IRL and there is, let’s say, 50 of us, we will be using claps, murmurs, whistling, maybe short shouts. But for sure it would be impossible to discuss a thing if everyone in the room would form as little as one sentence. That’s what votes sometimes are - room temperature of the audience
having the visibility of my content pushed down
I might be wrong, but I think most use “New” sort, and I just checked, the default algo on .world is “Active”. So downvotes won’t push posts down
telling me with the downvote button that my contribution is worthless
The definition of downvote is not set in stone, a lot of people define and use it differently. For some it’s “I don’t agree”, for some “it’s wrong but I’m not going to report” and for some… I have suspicion that for some it’s “I’ve seen the title, I’m not interested”. The fact that people don’t agree with you does not mean they see your point as worthless. They just don’t agree. And I suspect, most often people would just downvote and move on, the cross between those who downvote and comment will be much smaller. And actually the fact that they commented means that they decided it’s worthwhile to spend time on disagreeing with you
It would solve the problem of seeing your posts downvoted. As for comments, are you sure the ones you want to hide are from those that downvoted you?
Going to Beehiv or Blahaj-whatsit is not a solution, because the communities I’m interested in are not there
As long as the instances are not defederated, you can interact with the communities from other instances. And AFAIK on instances that have downvotes disabled, the vote numbers will also be only from upvotes - I mean, those not only hide the downvote button, but also don’t federate in the downvote actions
I’m too noob to understand it all but the way I see it, the core is not about using Some instead of iter::slice but what is inside.
I understand this all is in context of Intel Software Guard Extensions about which I know nothing at all, and “UserRef states that userspace may always write to backing memory at any time, and that even &mut UserRef<T> is not exclusive”. So it seems that the design of UserRef is basically against Rust principles (“userspace may always write to backing memory”). So when the iterator is just a wrapper over slice::Iter, the code in next() relies on Rust’s principles which don’t align with how UserRef is supposed to behave. The proposal is to walk over ptr “manually” and return it (cast to UserRef) instead of constructing new UserRef from what slice::Iter would return in that next().map(|e| UserRef::from_ptr(e)).
But does
+pub struct Iter<'a, T: 'a + UserSafe> {
+ ptr: *const T,
really mean that one can happily cast that ptr to UserRef?
What is PhantomData and how/why using it makes any difference, when it’s not being changed during iteration?
Is the UserRefdesign sound or was only a workaround some problem?
building within certain (spatial?) limitations
Cliff Empire might interest you but I don’t remember if it had livability mechanic
solving problems or something
First Frostpunk
within certain (spatial?) limitations (…) a bit more focus on individual buildings and livability
Surviving Mars?
Not a city builder, but maybe Oxygen not Included would be your match?
AFAIK it’s mostly similar to Linux. But maybe you’re looking for this?
Somehow I’ve completely stopped using video formats. I feel those take more time to even get to the point and then one never knows of there’s some value after the point
Thanks 🙂 I added all 3 to my RSS, I’ll see how they flow
Haven’t heard of selfh.st before. Looks nice
There’s a lot more to what destroyed hanging out in the pub than scheduling
For sure but even if you switch out computer games to board games, that is still not the same. People moved, a lot of games need space and hauling the box, etc
In school we used to have breaks, we were hanging out just because of that. Now most often we don’t even work together anymore. Unless one has a job that forces them to come to the office or is one of that ~1% of the workforce that prefers to, and can have a chat at the water stand, I think for many people the reality is that if not for online games, they wouldn’t hang out with anyone anymore
You know where there term “AAA” comes from, right?
Games used to be a niche - made by gamers for gamers. Now it’s gotten more mainstream so we have more industry around it. Good games aren’t gone, just don’t get advertised, same as everything else that is worthwhile
As for social aspects of the games, I don’t agree with your take. We don’t have time to be hanging out in pubs every weekend anymore. Hopping in VC to do some “base building” requires less scheduling
With how microblog media works I think those packs should have been tags, not accounts
Oh, a bit like inheritance in pure C? Where as long as inheriting struct puts the parent struct as first field, you can pass it to functions that use parent struct because the memory layout rules ensure that this part of memory will be exactly the same in both?