vulture_god

joined 8 months ago

I've heard of Boom Aerospace from the US, which is a little further along in their development process, although they are only super sonic.

[–] vulture_god@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 days ago

There's been a plan floated where there's a Palestinian "state", but actually UAE or another Gulf State runs it. My guess is that this news is along these lines - Saudi Arabian leaders don't give a shit about Palestine (look at the Abraham accords).

Same for me, running for a few months and all my steam games work great. I had to install some extra software to run my Logitech mouse and get the scroll wheel to be more sensitive. Otherwise though it's been a great experience so far.

Although I'm an IT professional, I really don't want extra work when I'm sitting down to game. So POP! has been great overall for my use case, with the bonus of Linux for any coding projects I tackle otherwise.

[–] vulture_god@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It Takes Two! I played it with my partner and really enjoyed the story and very imaginative game play.

[–] vulture_god@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Same - I used this tool which worked great for that workflow:

http://www.traynier.com/software/steammover

[–] vulture_god@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

That's actually a real strategy by Russia. Since they have so few deep water ports for their Navy, if temperatures rise then they have new options in their far north territories.

[–] vulture_god@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Good call. I gave up halfway through S3 of umbrella academy. It was just weird and goofy, the tone didn't match S1 at all.

[–] vulture_god@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just watched this pretty good, long essay about exactly this:

https://youtu.be/lAB2U46N06Q

[–] vulture_god@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh damn, I forgot that part about "Earth being the control". That's hilarious!

My favorite one of them is Excession. I found the relationships / culture between the ship AI's so interesting and frankly, better written than many human relationships in the series overall.

[–] vulture_god@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

Thanks for writing about the Godzilla movie. I had heard some buzz but didn't know about the depth to it's concept. I'll have to check it out!

[–] vulture_god@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Have you ever read the Culture novels, by Iain M. Banks? They explore a somewhat similar idea to "intelligence agencies of ~~fascist~~ post scarcity interstellar empires".

I can't remember if the contacted civilizations are ever socialist, although there's definitely a more feudal one and the overall themes may be interesting to you nonetheless.

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