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Bishma, (edited ) in What game do you play to just chill?
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Oxygen Not Included. - !oxygennotincluded

Just started a new colony yesterday because an update was released with new tools and content. The colony I was playing up until that point was almost 3000 cycles old.

DashboTreeFrog,

It’s on sale on Steam in my region, I’ve heard a lot of good things before so gonna check it out!

Bishma,
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Nice.

ONI’s one of those games with a lot of layers of game mechanics. Expect your first few colonies to go bad while you get a handle on things.

I’m lurking in the lemmy.world community I linked to above, and I’ll be happy to help you out there if you get stuck on something.

Here’s your first tip: Geyzers and Vents are one of the main sources of renewable resources in the game. They all have to be “tamed” in some way before you can collect their goodies. They also all have the same Achilles Heel that will keep them from erupting while you’re building around them; if there’s a natural tile 2 rows from the bottom and 2 rows from left it will always think its over-pressure and eruptions will be suppressed.

Untamed natural gas geyzer

can, in Forgive me, but…

Some communities can have the same name but different moderation styles or focuses.

agressivelyPassive, in To people who had pneumothorax surgery, How are you doing now?

Why is your thorax so leaky in the first place? I thought pneumothorax only happens after relatively severe injuries.

Voltage,

I have no idea. I was diagnosed with primary spontaneous pneumothorax

agressivelyPassive,

I’m not a doctor at all, so I’ll assume, you have a tiny-caliber sniper following you.

Crackhappy,
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I have a number of small scars from my surgery for this and when people would ask me how I got my scars id whisper “Snipers man, snipers”

A_Random_Idiot, in Is society becoming more fake ?

Yes.

Because 20 years of social media have programed people to behave in very fake, upvote/like/positive attention dopamine reward center overdriving manners of actions to maximize attention and reward.

LeUgh, in To people who had pneumothorax surgery, How are you doing now?

I’m not sure what VATS involves but after my 2nd one they removed a bit of the top of my collapsed lung. After everything healed, I it didn’t feel any different than before. So no pain or any restrictions even when doing pretty involved sports.

Nihility,
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Same thing they did to me for my first one. Took out roughly a quarter of my left lung and did a pleurodesis cause it was a really bad hole from what I understand.

nottheengineer, in Is there a way to find a local server with reliable uptime?

lemmy.sdf.org is rock solid. I have an account there for when feddit.de has issues.

laverabe,

lol, it’s actually down right now. web.archive.org/web/…/lemmy.sdf.org.html

Says it’s been down for a week

AceSLS,

They updated to 19.0-rc5 some days ago. Might have been accidentally and now it messed up their database or something, idk

Before that I didn’t have a single moment where I couldn’t browse Lemmy via their instance

laverabe,

how do you find out where they are geographically located? I see they’re in the US from the fediverse.observer list but it doesn’t explain what state they’re in. The server could still be 3000 miles away depending on what state it is.

Shadow,
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Does that matter?

Latency between the coasts is like 50ms. You’re probably not going to notice that.

realharo, (edited ) in I want to study psychology but won't AI make it redundant in a couple of years?

It’s definitely possible, but such an AI would probably be good enough to take over every other field too. So it’s not like you can avoid it by choosing something else anyway.

And the disruption would be large enough that governments will have to react in some way.

aodhsishaj, in Is there a way to find a local server with reliable uptime?
laverabe,

long term I’d like to, but it requires some investment in dedicated hardware, and I’m guessing getting a domain is not free typically either. How much does it cost to setup and operate a basic server month to month?

slazer2au,

You can get a raspberry pi 4 or greater to run Lemmy and use this site to calculate the power cost

picockpit.com/…/how-much-does-power-usage-cost-fo…

If I ran one at home power would be €8 a year to run the pi 24/7 with a fan. Then however much you pay a year for a domain.

!selfhosted will have a tonne more resources for hosting your instance plus how to secure it.

solrize,

You can use a small VPS for a low traffic instance. $5/month would get you started. Domain is around $10/year depending.

dumples, in I want to study psychology but won't AI make it redundant in a couple of years?
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At the end of the day AI (no just the LLM we call AI now) are really good at doing boring machine work. These tasks are repetitive, simple and routine. This includes all the LLM which can summarize boring text and generate more boring text. It can't generate anything new but just output and rearrange.

What there will be always need for are human work. This includes creativity, emotions and human interaction. A machine can't replace that at all. Psychology and therapy are all emotions and human interactions so it might be the most safe career choice. Same with something like haircutting or other career that involve human wisdom and personal skills.

Boring jobs like sending and receiving emails might be replaced. The reason businesses are so scared is that the majority of people in an office just do that

penquin, in What game do you play to just chill?

Genshin impact on PC is a masterpiece. The colors on my 4k monitor are just out of this world. I don’t even do hard missions, I just go around the wild collect foods and stuff. So relaxing.

davidgro,

And even more casual than that is their latest game, Honkai: Star Rail. The combat is turn based, so you can just look away and come back later as you wish and don’t need gamer reflexes at all*

I love it.

(* There’s one minor exception - an Ultimate move can be launched after your turn, but before the enemy’s turn or between two enemies’ turns, which does require some speed. It’s not usually important though.)

penquin,

They have another game? Damn, I’ll need to check it out. Thanks for bringing it up.

TheMinions,

What would you define as a hard mission?

penquin,

Man, those “into the frey” fights where you have 45 seconds to defeat 69474783748 creatures are so stressful. Also, those big ass monsters are very hard to beat. That’s stressful. That’s why I just go around the wild to collect foods and stuff. Lol

davidgro,

They could be low level. I certainly remember when a Ruin Guard was a big scary monster that could kill my whole party.

And later when I was playing pretty seriously I still stayed out of Abyss Floor 12 because it wasn’t worth the effort (literally - I never got enough stars to get a reward from it even when I technically defeated it)

penquin,

There are challenges where you have like 45 seconds to defeat a bunch of creatures to just open a chest. I hate those

dansity, in What game do you play to just chill?

OpenTTD

msage,

Hey, this is a classic.

Just turn off vehicle breakdowns, as they can cause huge congestions everywhere. And that’s very stressful.

I love trains

SHamblingSHapes, in I want to study psychology but won't AI make it redundant in a couple of years?

They already do have AI therapy assistants. CBT type therapy is particularly easy to turn into an app. There are half a dozen in the Google Play store now. They’re a nice reminder at times, but no substitute for human conversation.

Once we do have AIs capable of conversation indistinguishable from real human, then therapy is not the only job that will be disrupted. Therapy will be no more or less safe a career path than so many other things.

Second, humans will still need to program, train, and monitor the therapy AIs. The obvious candidates to fill the role at first are experienced therapists with a bit of tech savvy. Until they optimize to the point where the job can be done by warm bodies paid minimum wage, probably “contractors” so liability can be compartmentalized. Then we’re back to the point above where everyone in any career is fucked anyway, might as well do what you’re good at and what you enjoy for a decade or two.

Addition, in I want to study psychology but won't AI make it redundant in a couple of years?

Here’s a case study for you: An eating disorder hotline got rid of the humans in favor of an AI chatbot. Lasted less than a week before it was giving horrible advice.

theguardian.com/…/eating-disorder-hotline-union-a…

Psychology will be controlled by humans, probably forever.

Nunya, in What game do you play to just chill?

You should check out Stardew Valley. Super chill game that evolves at your own pace.

Don’t like to fish on the game? Don’t fish.

Don’t like to go in the mines and fight stuff? Don’t go in the caves.

Play on a PC and want to spend hours just modding the hell out of the game? Go for it.

solivine,
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Stardew valley is way too stressful to me, I have to make the most of each day and if I’m not I’m wasting it

nieceandtows,

I couldn’t get into it. Felt very stressful to me. Like I had to do something productive every day before night. It’s probably more my fault than the game’s fault though.

slazer2au,

The game is like that for the first game month. When you get to summer you tend to relax a bit more so after your tool upgrades.

Quetzalcutlass,

I 100% agree. There’s just so much to do and too much of your day is spent as a time tax maintaining what you already have. There are several unlocks to reduce this, but they come far too late in a playthrough in my opinion.

I find a time control/clock-stopping on demand mod almost mandatory for me to be able to play without stressing, especially when playing with expansion mods that more than double the amount of content in the game.

PandaPikachu,

I love these types of games, and I’ve tried to get into it multiple times… But everything feels like it’s on such a strict timer. I just want to chill and farm/explore/talk to people without worrying if I spent too much time enjoying myself doing any one particular thing. If it had some kind of sandbox mode or if you could slow down the time, I’d give it another go.

Pr0v3n,

You should defs try My Time At Sandrock then, with friends or the story alone. Absolutely great for exactly what you want, without the overbearing timer having really any effect on gameplay.

DashboTreeFrog,

I get like this in any sort of “real time passes” games, with some exceptions. If you have a limited amount of time to do a limited amount of things in game, my mind starts min/maxing what I should be doing every moment in game. In Outer Wilds the passage of time matters less cause you always start back at zero, what you gain each run is just knowledge, you don’t lose out and fall behind on any resources, points or whatever cause you didn’t do certain things that day.

kratoz29,
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You mentioned things you might not like to do, I wonder what you like to do in Stardew Valley (my knowledge on that game is very little).

kugel7c, in What game do you play to just chill?
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Apart from trackmania which was already named it’s certainly slay the spire. I often do both TTD and the daily in sts. If I didn’t always end up trying to go for sub 35min points it’d actually be relaxing probably.

DrSleepless,

I put a playlist on in the background and play Slay the Spire for a couple runs a day.

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