VRchat is similar to second life in terms of what it provides to the player, and is very popular with VR users. Second life is still around but it looks like puke and has an impenetrable culture.

Yeah VR is a good thing to point at as a message for “this is where we are heading and it will make the problem worse” but the current problems stem from the broad internet (the big apps) taking away real socialization time without giving much in return, and also cultural identity problems that are vast and complex.

The fact that it’s Chinese really isn’t even a blip on the radar imo. The censorship sucks and a lot of US platforms do it too ( I mean shit look at YouTubes content rules).

Their content algorithm being really good at showing you what your brain craves in an endless stream is the real big problem. It’s creating such strange micro cultures. Live streams of people slowly filling balloons with food coloring and water, on a bunch of white printer paper. Teasing the water. Like an hour before it pops. 1,200,000 views. It feels insidious in such a weird way.

Have fun! it really does fix such a ridiculous amount of annoyances. I agree that making private co-op and running the server itself on another computer are the two things i want most from it, both of those may be possible with little work but AKI has to be very careful to avoid any ire from BSG

Outer Wilds would 100% be on my list but i played it close to release, so more than 365 days lol

Its actually really easy to set up.

-install the bsg launcher, update, install the base game

use this, following its instructions >

https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/672-spt-aki-installer/

IF there is a version mismatch with live, which happens, this is a really easy patcher that downgrades https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/204-aki-patcher/

thats it, really easy. As for the mods and changes ive listed, here

KMC server value tool. read instructions, you have to run it first to make it work right. This is the main tool for tweaking the games settings, and there are a lot of options. Be sure to make your own profile and save and load it, its a bit of a weird set up. Here are my current settings.

https://pixelfed.social/p/BDBoris/593146651199822769

If a tab isnt shown then i probably havent changed anything in it.

https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/379-kmc-server-value-modifier-svm/

Amands graphics, unfucks the game visually. defog, makes it less grey. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/813-amands-s-graphics/

More checkmarks. gives you way more on the fly info about what items you need, what they barter for, etc. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1159-morecheckmarks/

SAIN, AI rework. Has two dependencies, be sure to get them. This is my prefered AI option, there are others but this one makes the most sense with the least problems imo. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1062-sain-2-0-solarint-s-ai-modifications-full-ai-combat-system-replacement/

Amands hitmarkers. nice to have, not necessary at all, but i like it for the immediate feedback. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/798-amands-s-hitmarker/

Visceral dismemberment. Really over the top and gross but fun. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1092-visceral-dismemberment/

ammo stats in description. shows you what the actual fuck ammo is without sitting on eft monster or wiki. color coded too. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/284-ammo-stats-in-description/

gunsmith, not technically up to date with SPT but it works anyway. https://hub.sp-tarkov.com/files/file/1022-gunsmith/?highlight=gunsmith

I freed myself from these chains years ago now, It was definitely worth it. understandable if you are locked in for work though.

This is a big one for me, I currently have NVIDIA gpus on all my machines, (i am going to avoid them in the future, the corporate price gouging is unacceptable) but at the moment that makes switching to linux for my gaming pc quite a bit more obnoxious.

there are real actions Biden can take today

Well let’s look at the two you just said.

1:elimate via 1965 higher education act. Mechanistically, this would be done via executive order, then the court challenges, and rules on whether or not the action itself or the 1965 act is constitutional. And what do you know! We are in luck! Because that’s literally what just fucking happened with the 10k cancellation last year. And it turns out our supreme court is full of shit bags, so it got squashed.

2: stack the court, or, excuse me, “expand to 13”. This is blatantly and laughably unconstitutional. The amount of justices is explicitly set Article III, Section 1, by congress. Judiciary Act of 1789 set it to 6. Passed by congress. Judiciary Act of 1801 set it to 5. Congress. 1807 to 7. Congress. 1869 set to 9. Congress. Jackson tried and got overturned. FDR tried, via congressional bill and didn’t get the votes. Now tell me where in that timeline do you see the authority to do this without congressional approval? So what you are asking for is a literal goddamn executive coup, a blatant authoritarian power grab for the executive, what we just narrowly avoided with Trump. Any support online you see for this movement, that even dares to cite a legal explanation for why Biden could do this, is made by liars and grifters who thinks they can sneakily interpret the constitution with some backdoor logic to ignore all judicial precedent. They are just rebranding sovereign citizen logic, straight up.

if he can do that, they could figure something out

Learn how the government works. Please. An executive order was what Biden did previously, in attempting to cancel a smaller amount of debt for less people. It was rejected by the supreme court. There is no next step, there is no other way that isn’t an explicitly authoritarian unconstitutional Andrew Jackson style attack on the supreme court. Biden would have an approval rating of 10% within a week, whether or not anyone on Lemmy thinks it’s a good idea.

if the supreme court accept it, then it’s cancelled

They clearly, obviously, blatantly will not accept it. They shut him down on cancelling a smaller amount. They won’t just allow him to cancel a larger amount. All sending it to them does is create more precedent limiting the power of the executive, there is no reason to do that. There’s zero upside.

They literally fucking can’t. They tried within a more limited scope and the supreme court slapped it down, there is a zero percent chance they could cancel a more broad selection. Dogshit meme

This is literally worse than the lowest Facebook garbage. Why does this even have a single up vote?

ice sheets form as snow builds up, with each year’s snowfall preserved as a single, visible layer. There are measurable chemical differences in snow formed at different temperatures, so ice cores provide a record of polar temperature going back around 250,000 years for Greenland and 800,000 years for Antarctica.

Yearly banding is also found in fossilised corals and lake sediment deposits, and each band has a specific chemistry that reflects the temperature when it formed. Growth rings in tree trunks can be wider or thinner depending on the climate at the time of growth, so fossilised trees can reveal the length of growing seasons. And fossilised or frozen pollen grains allow scientists to determine what plants were growing in the past, which can give us a good idea of the climate at the time.

Marine sediment cores provide temperature records spanning millions of years. They contain the fossilised shells of tiny marine creatures that preserve a chemical record of the sea temperature when they lived.

-the guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/mar/07/past-climate-temperature-proxies