Endymion_Mallorn

I’ll take the safe grand and not bother with gambling.

Thank you for confirming Endless Sky! I’m glad it runs well on both systems.

That’s a really wide question. I’ll give you my list of answers.

Here are my top three:

• Shattered Pixel Dungeon, a roguelike descended from Pixel Dungeon. It’s strayed quite far afield from the original PD, but I think most of the changes are good.

• Mindustry, a hybrid tower defense and systems-building game. I’ve heard it compared to a game called Factorio, but I’ve never played that, so you’ll have to take it with a grain of salt. Sorry.

• Forkyz, a crossword app, which is a fork (appropriately) of a game called Shortyz. It allows you to download daily crosswords from bunches of sources for free and play them at your leisure.

• Chip Defense, a tower defense game themed around computers. It’s really fun if you like computers and/or tower defense.

• Space Trader, a text-based game heavily inspired by Elite. Travel a galaxy, trade goods, blow people up, complete quests, buy a moon.

Here are some games on F-Droid that I’m not going to link, because i don’t know how they do on Android, but I love them on PC:

• Luanti, which used to be called Minetest. It’s an open-source voxel building game engine (like Minecraft). It’s very scriptable, and you can build a lot of stuff with a little knowledge and looking at examples.

• Battle for Wesnoth, a turn-based hex-grid strategy game with day/night mechanics and multiple campaigns, both included and downloadable. And it’s got multiplayer too!

• Endless Sky, a spaceflight game which borrows heavily from the Escape Velocity series. If you like the concept of Elite, you should check it out.

• OpenTTD, an open-source version of the classic Transport Tycoon Deluxe, but so much more.

It means Multi User Dungeon. It’s a networked multiplayer game, usually focused on dungeon-crawling as the name suggests. Early ones were based heavily on BD&D and AD&D, but others got more creative.

Because a MUD that isn’t part of a BBS feels wrong to me.

We need to get MUDs more popular again. But that would require getting Telnet popular again.

Yeah, nope. No matter what OS, no matter what specs, I’m going to keep my PC.

I just want to know that my wife is safe. That’s the only thing that would keep me here.

Two days.

There is no such thing as good or evil. There’s only the things that make us feel good and things that do not. For some people, the things that make them feel good are also things that make others feel good; but there’s a lot of people who only feel good by causing others to feel bad.

The only thing that matters is balancing what makes you feel better with the things that make the people you rely on feel better.

I mean, I did offer it as one of over a half-dozen reasons. And my opinion is just that you shouldn’t go halfway. If you’re going to pay a subscription, the artists and staff ought to get paid. Otherwise, go full pirate and if you want to support an artist, find a way to do so directly, without platforms or labels.

Discoverability is a difficult challenge in a pirate context, imo. Last.fm still exists, so do bandcamp and soundcloud. Pandora, Soma.FM, and both terrestrial and internet radio can still work if you find the right genre. The other options include going to your local library, and your local media store of choice.

Another one that works is finding out the songwriters, producers, and engineers on your favorite songs/albums and tracking down their discography. Often enough, you’ll find similar-sounding music by tracking the tech guys.

Fair enough. My whole life has basically been defined as “very niche” since about 2012. But then again, I basically only use music to shut out the world. And yes, I said use, not enjoy. It’s basically a source of predictable noise that acts as a filter to the more random noise around me so I don’t have more issues than usual. That’s why staying in-genre matters and Pandora helps - it matches based on the predictable traits.

I’ve honestly never understood people who feel the need to “replace” Spotify. I just download the music I like to my device and listen to it via VLC. If I want to discover new music in genres I like, I’ll go and listen either to a terrestrial radio station, Soma.FM, or Pandora (which has many of Spotify’s issues for me, but serves more as a platform for discovery of obscure music). The rare times I listen to music, I’m usually going somewhere on mass transit, or I’m on foot. And during those times, my phone is either fully turned off (so I’ll use an MP3 player), or it’s in Airplane Mode. Spotify has never made sense for my use-case.

1. Closed non-federated streaming platform; requires an Internet connection.
2. Requires a subscription for a lot of basic functionality.
3. Even though it requires a subscription, they barely pay artists - the only ongoing benefit to using a non-pirate setup.
4. The increasing amount of “Perfect Fit Content” & LLM-generated music in playlists to avoid said payments.
5. They provide a guaranteed platform to political podcasts.
6. Audio quality is not only dependent on the subscription, but even the top-tier is generally subpar and can vary based on how they throttle you that day.
7. As a platform for mass appeal, discoverability is, loosely speaking, crud.

Pick any of those you like.

That’s interesting - I wonder which of Trump’s animals had a gym membership they couldn’t get out of.

Also, “You wanna get nuts!? Let’s get nuts!”

Six feet above the covers!

HACK THE PLANET!

You broke your little ships.