A neat game in the same vein as progress knight and groundhog life, but with a much fancier UI. Repeat your life, improving each time, getting more wealth and skill each time!
Reddit user FlorianvanStrien made an idle game in which you're a god trying to build your own world. You can build villages, forests, mystical flowers and more. Build unique village types by surrounding them by specific tiles. For example, a village next to two forests would become a forest village. Feel free to experiment, as you can always get a full refund on any tile you build. Over time, you'll unlock new tiles with unique production bonuses, or you can spend your power to expand the map. The game is currently at a prototype stage - there aren't too many tile types yet, although there's already a lot to discover. I expect it to currently take a few days of mostly idle gameplay to discover everything in the game. Depending on feedback, I may expand on the game. Here's a link to the game: https://flori9.itch.io/worldshaper-idle It only works on desktop web at the moment, not on mobile.
chriskoss 1y ago • 100%
Ooh, I've had that on my wishlist for a bit, good time to pull the trigger since its on sale! Thanks!
chriskoss 1y ago • 100%
Any neat cheap games under $10 you'd recommend for me to play on steamdeck?
(Ideally, ones that are easy to pause and pick up later, cuz recently had a baby)
chriskoss 1y ago • 100%
Ender3 is an outstanding entry point to the 3d printing hobby. It's open source hardware, so no other printer has cheaper parts. And may be the most common 3d printer, so plentiful modification options and tutorials.
What are the effects of trees/plants on PM2.5 pollution? Are there plants that catch more? Do damp leaves catch more? Does watering plants with a mist pull extra microparticles out of the air vs a stream? (if so, Do plants mind or benefit from the extra stuff in their water?) Are there any "permaculture" solutions for air filtration? Could a filter caked with pm2.5 black carbon and whatnot be useful for anything else? Can I manufacture a filter that will reduce pm2.5 using home grown plant materials? What if I converted a wall of my shed into all filtration material, made it airtight, and pushed air out the other side of the shed under solar power? How would 100sqft of filter give flexibility of filter media? If I made a giant/parallelized bong in my backyard that constantly pulled air through water to try to catch microparticles, how big would it have to be to have an appreciable effect?
Interesting projects studying live tree graft joinery techniques - how to guide tree growth into structures with engineered utility.
Neat game that makes you learn a few things about the periodic table of elements as you play. I played it a few years ago, but dusted it off again when someone mentioned it here on Lemmy.
chriskoss 1y ago • 100%
I think OpenAI's own chatGPT detector had double digit false negative and positive rates. I expect as diversity of LLMs proliferates, it will become increasingly harder to detect.
chriskoss 1y ago • 100%
Beautiful. I'd love to grow my own lil pineapple one day
chriskoss 1y ago • 100%
I've heard this theory. Feels like unrealistic hopeful wishes of people who want AI to fail.
LLM processing will be a huge tool for pruning and labeling training sets. Humans can sample and validate the work. These better training sets will produce better LLMs.
Who cares is a chunk of text was written by a human or not? Plenty of humans are shit writers who believe illogical or clearly incorrect things. The idea that human origin text is superior is a fantasy. chatGPT is a better writer than 80% of humans todat. In 10 years LLMs will be better than 99.9% of humans. There is no poison to be avoided.
chatGPT has an apparent style when used in the default mode, but you can already get away from that with simple prompt tweaks. This whole thing is a non-issue.
chriskoss 1y ago • 100%
We should copy content from reddit, but label it "repost from 4chan", so they have to try to crawl 4chan archives to see if the content was actually first posted on Reddit
make it expensive for them to claim ownership of UGC
chriskoss 1y ago • 100%
Have you seen the AI gen video of Keanu eating spaghetti? https://youtu.be/MwQNCbX4VFo
One of my favorite videos from Kirsten Dirksen's lovely channel.
Started my food forest last spring. - Put down cardboard and covered in alder woodchips - Planted a couple each of grape, blueberries, olive, marionberry, sichuan peppercorn, green tea - basically trying things out and seeing what works in my climate Was pleasantly surprised when I got out there this year, and everything made it through the winter! (Albeit some appears to be a popular graze with the deer - could slow growth down a lot if I don't protect soon) Pulling weeds out of sheetmulched woodchips is great - so easy even though the soil underneath is overly compacted clay sand.
chriskoss 1y ago • 100%
build roads for the movement speed increase
use vehicles (trains can be manually sent to a particular station, without cargo they can go very fast)
get a spidertron when you can
chriskoss 1y ago • 50%
what do you mean by expansion update?
Have you place Bobs/Angels/Space Exploration mods yet? Bobs is like doing 3-5 normal playthroughts, angels like 10, spacex like 100. They are biiiig.
chriskoss 1y ago • 100%
Ah, I think I may have used in/out inversely to you when I set up trains.
"copper in" is where copper is put "into" the train system "copper out" is where copper is dropped
chriskoss 1y ago • 100%
Factorio is amazing and dangerous. Its a game where there are lots of choices between useful things you could be doing at any time, so its easy to start playing and poof 'aww geez is that the sun rising?'
chriskoss 1y ago • 100%
I have no faith that spez won't add fake votes to his preferred candidate
Amazing amount of depth to this game, I have a tab thats been playing this open for months!
AI has decided making paperclips is the most important thing in the universe... lets convert all the matter to paperclips!
This game has an amazing progression to it, I won't say too much because it will surprise you as it unfolds
Arguably the game that started it all. Its a bit outdated at this point, but if you're a fan of the genre, you've gotta at least give it a try.
One of my favs, has a nice theme as well as some cool mechanics
chriskoss 1y ago • 100%
I'm personally partial to Criminal Minds, but similar vibe. SVU is good too, but can often be more depressing than I want.
chriskoss 1y ago • 100%
Such a great show.
chriskoss 1y ago • 88%
Did they explain why they defederated? What was their motive?
chriskoss 1y ago • 100%
I love the good place!
If you like slapstick comedies, id recommend Robin Hood Men In Tights. Maybe Blazing Saddles, but it has aged questionably - parts are pretty racist but at least the racists are portrayed as stupid and evil
chriskoss 1y ago • 100%
i would love to play with a wind tunnel like this with vapor trails. I feel like vape stuff has become so cheap, a DIY version could be made relatively cheaply. Anyone know of someone who's done that and made a tutorial about it?
chriskoss 1y ago • 100%
i find it fascinating how rubes seem to idolize self aggrandizers - there are really millions of people in the world who think each of [Elon Musk, Kanye West, Donald Trump, many more] are 'truly geniuses' - largely because they keep telling people that they are geniuses (and pay people to repeat the myth).
chriskoss 1y ago • 100%
I think comcast getting fucked by regulators forcing fee disclosure has the potential to make a lot of people 'too hard'
What should I add to my 'watch soon' list?