Fair enough! I definitely don’t remember that it was societal collapse, I saw the movie when it came out and hadn’t thought about it much since. I must’ve not given it the attention it deserves.

I also don’t love hero stories for the most part? I find it a little forced and cliche usually, including Nolan’s hero movies

Not OP but I thought it kinda sucked, and I love most Nolan movies.

Interstellar is really episodic, and has this really weird tone problem between fun space adventure and daddy/daughter basic communication breakdowns. The core of the story felt like “instead of therapy together I’ll just go save the world via spaceship and talk to you from beyond the pale”

Idk, I don’t hate it or anything, it just didn’t seem as good as the hype to me. Some cool visuals for sure.

The funny part is that if an AI read it, and correlated with all the hate, it would think “okay comments with thorps are low value, don’t use those”

If you want human connection homie, just type like normal. I’ll reply to you man

Perhaps you’re a good person to ask then!

Besides the FF series on there, any games I can casually play (no controller) that you recommend? It can be complex, just not input heavy

Got a good tutorial or hardware rec for me? I’ve been meaning to pihole for a while…

Man, you are a real one. I love seeing positive human interaction on the web.

Yup, absolutely agree. I have so many hours in ONI, in Factorio, in STS, that I’d happily pay more (and in a sense I have since I’ve bought STS multiple times)

$100 is probably still cheaper than I paid for N64 games with inflation.

I don’t find GTA very interesting, it’s like a gimmick of a game that gets old very fast to me, so i definitely wouldn’t spend anything on it let alone $100.

I’d love to understand the GTA hype. I’ve heard people say they’re gonna buy a playstation just for GTA

Echo the other commenter, wow this dude can write.

It’s sad, I noticed this too. I excitedly clicked a Hank Green video about energy and water usage on datacenters and was SUPER disappointed in it. I’ve worked in energy generation as an engineer for a while, and some of the takes in that video were so obviously big tech’s doomerism rhetoric

Automation engineer here who does a lot of SCADA

There are soooo many good ways to securely monitor stuff from home. But especially in critical infrastructure it’s just usually air gapped which is unbeatable in cyber security.

Tours of any local facility are super cool! I find it all so interesting, seeing how the things we use work!

Yeah, I have to do serious shenanigans to see lemmy.zip images. No idea why

In the same way keeping your job is optional, yes

I’m glad you asked!

I didn’t really like the aesthetic at first so I was on the fence.

It’s 3D, and most things take up more space with plenty of them taking some height as well. This makes the builds a bit more complex in a fun way. Also, the scaling is wild. You need a LOT more shapes, so you can duplicate or make more efficient things, ship them by train eventually, really makes it feel like a different game by the end than it does in the start.

They have a huge content update coming June 2 as well

Frostpunk 2 is a really interesting one to me.

I LOVED the first game. Soundtrack on in the background sometimes, liked the board game (just manual meh balance FP1), got all the achievements, really enjoyed it.

The second IS a good distinction from it, it’s not just rinse and repeat the same game. Great story, epic music, different scale and problems. It’s just like… They took the second tier of ideas they had for FP1 and implemented them. It actually probably would have been a good game if it didn’t have those footsteps to follow in.

Surprisingly, a few recent sequels have been amazing. Shapez2 is an unbelievable follow up to the OG. Hades II is the same imo. Massive, beautiful, fun distinction in gameplay, but still great ideas and balanced and such.

Monster Train 2 is great in demo, Kingdoms 2 crowns is a bit less recent but is such a great follow up to what’s effectively an arcade game in the first. It’s not all downhill or anything

Also silksong wen