If you’re interested in playing corporation-based, slightly occult, TTRPG, there is Corp Borg that fits the bill.

https://heltung-storytelling.itch.io/corp-borg

Corp Borg is an award-nominated (NDU, The Indie Groundbreakers), rules-light, office-crawl OSR tabletop RPG. While inspired heavily by MÖRK BORG aesthetics and gameplay, it’s a standalone game - all you need to play is this book.

The world of Corp Borg is bleak, bloody, and brutal, exactly like corporations are. They rule the world of Corp Borg, as they do in real life, but are a bit more obvious about summoning demons, making blood sacrifices, and performing occult rituals.

Good that it’s decentralized and people can just move on to another provider, since this one is doing this, haha, right?

In case anyone is interrested in this, I highly recommend the book Mind Illuminated.

It’s what sold me on the whole meditation idea even through I was mostly sceptical, by clearly explaining it, and givng reasonable arguments about why it works. It also has a pretty good guide in general, with clear steps to follow and pay attention to.

I’ve been told by a lot of people that meditation is good and you should do it, with vague reasons why, and this book explained it to me clearly enough to finally get me to give it a try.

For me, the best proof that magic does indeed work in a sense, is the Pulitzer prize photo of the burning monk from Tibet, and in general the self-immolating budhists.

It’s a proof that once you get your subconsious under reins, you can affect your life to an extreme degree. Budhists learn to do it through sheer training and willpower, western magic does it through rituals, belief and symbols, but I think the goal (and the mechanism that makes it work) is the same.

Of course, it means that it’s limited just to things you can reasonably affect, so no i.e cursing people.

But, if a ritual nudges your subconscious to i.e. make you study more instead of procrastrinating and you thus pass the test, it did work after all. It’s just not as flashy as people expect.

This is my theory about how it works, and at least for me it makes sense. Plus, it’s fun!

I cant’t remember the name and I’ve tried googling, but there was a game that looked and played exactly like Rimworld, but in medoeval setting. It might be what you are looking for, of someone else can find it :D

I’m guessing you want fantasy/history, but since you didn’t specify it, if cyberpunk is something ypu’re interrested in, I highly recommend https://store.steampowered.com/app/2001070/Heart_of_the_Machine/.

It’s a unique game. Not exactly 4x, but kind of choose your own adventure / rpg / 4x game, where you play a newly awekened sentient android/AI in a dystopic city, that is left alone by corporation because they want to see what you do.

There’s extremely branching story that works across timelines/playthrough, you have a lot of options from “fuck humans uplift animals” through “i’m your god”, " I house the homeles", to “this is my city now” or “VR torment nexus”, with numerous civilization destrpying dooms you’re trying to solve along the way.

It’s pretty cool, and I don’t think I’ve seen anything like it.

While it doesn’t have dynasties or span ages, it does work with time travel where you affect your new/other timelines, which are new playthroughs.

So, it’s probably not the fantasy kingdom management sim you’re looking for, but just in case you don’t mind cyberpunk and a smaller scale, I highly recommend this. It’s my top 4x hybrid I’ve played so far.

I don’t want people from Reddit here.

The fact that half of Twatter moved to Bluesky instead of Mastodon is a blessing.

ActivityPub is by design a data harvesting goldmine, the fact that it flies under the radar is the only saving grace.

Worrying about unpaid rent after suicide is peak capitalism.

You can do a task pretty well if you nudge the AI, have it write an exact explanation about every part of the architecture, code and data flow it’s working with and throw relevant files into context, and correct anything that’s wrong before you send it to do the task. You still have to review, but I didn’t have to correct much in my experience.

But that burns like 20$ of tokens per task, at current prices that are way below the costs AI companies are paying.

While it does help me, especially with parts of the codebase I’m not familliar with, it’s not sustainable, and it’s actively and very quickly robbing me of my skills and knowledge. It’s really a bad idea to use it, in two years time you’ll be royally fucked once they raise prices to recover the trillions they are loosing right now.

So, however tempting, I simply don’t use it. I won’t throw away years of college and experience just to do a task a little bit faster today.

… Unless–

Battlefield has parts that run on Godot.

I don’t see EA on the donors page.

This. I switched to GW2 from FFXIV and WoW and the difference is great. Just the fact that you have like 15 years of content that’s actually still relevant, no subscription and I can just drop it for another 5 years and get back without missing anything I can slowly experience and catch up on is great. Also, they actually do interesting stuff with i.e movement and exploration that I haven’t seen anywhere else.

Returned to WoW to play a new expansion with friends, and it sucks. I missed two weeks of launch and I’m so behind on gear there’s a chance I won’t be able to keep up with my guild’s progression unless I farm almost nonstop, which after chilling in GW I don’t really want to do, so I’ll probably just drop it.

And if you want something more classic, there’s GW1 Reforged now.

I don’t think that"s the reason for the absird lobbying, which is why it’s getting through.

Governments aren’t that competent to get this through at scale, but corporations can and have a very good reasob to do so.

I believe that it’s a lot more probable that the reason is profit - social networks have a problem with bots. Advertisers don’t want to pay if 90% of impressions are bots, and you can’t really solve that problem easily.

Age verification by ID solves this, and if they even can lobby hard enough to outsource the costs to mandatory OS level veryfication, so they just call one OS api, it’s even better.

I really hope there’ll be an option to disable / block this when I’m not a California resident, and an option that allows faking the result per-app and response (so I can i.e give randomized results most of the time, with an option to switch to “random 18+” when I actually need it).

I also really hope that most distros will block California users from using it, or rather say that they can’t.

Yes, they should in fact just state that Californian users are not allowed to use it.

Would it be possible to add a layer on top that shows you when an app requests it, and shows you a checkbox about what you want it to report? Or just block the call as not supported.

Faking it to be child (or just random with each request) until you need a higher number could mess up with advertisers and in general fingerprinting.

I mean, it does spread awareness about it harmful effects and how to recognize them.

I’d say thats a good to tshirt to have.

You should probably add /s to that, hah.

It’s a for profit ad company making a “privacy first browser”.

Thinking for literaly a second about that sentence should tell you all you need to know.

I remember seeing an amazingly visualised website that was showing a result of an experiment that made people talk with strangers, and it had mostly positive result for most participants, even if they felt uncomfortable or scared at the beginning, and it had gopd results even if people with differenting opinions about i.e politics talked. Unfortunately I can’t seem to find it again.

I don’t know if it was part of the same research, but there was also a part where they had people talk to strangers on a bus ride, and it also went well in most cases.

Sp, talking to strangers is mostly recommended and should be mostly positive, at least statiatically speaking.