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  • quid_pro_joe@infosec.pubtoGames@lemmy.world•Space battle games for casual player?English
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    2 months ago

    Try out Star Conflict https://store.steampowered.com/app/212070/Star_Conflict/

    It has the following gameplay types that you can switch to and play as long as you like:

    • PvE missions where you and other humans (team or randos) battle AI
    • PvP missions where its you and your team up against anther human team
    • Free Space missions that you can complete solo or in teams
    • Free Space exploring where you can jump system-to-system and explore without any objectives

    The game studio, Gaijin, is Russian-based and has a tank game War Thunder (infamous for real-world military leaks) and a vehicular combat game called Crossout, though I’ve never played them.

    Anyway Star Conflict is free-to-play, pay-to-win (PvP), but if you play the PvE and open space parts you don’t need to invest any money to have fun. You can stick to the lower ship tiers for casual gaming, and switch between fighting styles and ship roles easily. You can pilot blazing-fast interceptors, balanced mid-size fighters, heavy-hitting frigates, or super-slow but massive destroyers, and customize each one with a huge selection of weapon types, shields, and auxillary syatems. The underlying fighting principle is kinda like rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock, so an interceptor can easily solo a destroyer, a destroyer can take out a group of frigates, frigates outpower fighters, fighters hunt interceptors, etc. And the same goes for weapons and shields too, with thermal, EM, and kinetic types and their shield counterparts. If you venture into a space region infested with pirates who use kinetic weapons and thermal shields, then equip your ship with weapons of the opposite type of their shields to maximize damage, and equip shields of the same type as their weapons to minimize damage.

    Anyway go try it out and let me know what you think!

  • quid_pro_joe@infosec.pubtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is your favorite version of FTL in science fiction?
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    2 months ago

    Not only was it incredibly difficult (required sacrificing actual human minds for the calculations) and insanely dangerous (like that one tech who was at the wrong place and time of an FTL anomaly and every particle in their body vanished from all points in space/time), but the actual gain over lightspeed was only like 1% (the FTL ship was traveling at 101% light speed, chasing a LightHugger traveling at 99% light speed).

    I hope Revelation Space gets made into a show one day, with spin-off movies (Diamond Dogs for example) and webisodes (daily life of an Ultra).

  • quid_pro_joe@infosec.pubtoFunny: Home of the Haha@lemmy.world•Just makes sense
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    3 months ago

    Exactly! I generate a frack-ton of excel reports at work, and I output them in the format Subject-Report-2025-09-01.

    And on another note, when you’re traveling through the time Continuum, do you ask the nearest person for the day and month first? Nope, it’s always “what year is it?!” because you’re probably being chased by futuristic terrorists or super soldiers…

  • quid_pro_joe@infosec.pubtoPrivacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Best Routers for Privacy?
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    3 months ago

    It did work out - and just in the nick of time! My main router, a Cudy, was glitching badly; I took it apart yesterday and found a bulging capacitor about to burst. So I flashed my old Linksys with the latest OpenWrt - it was so effortless that I wasn’t sure I configured it properly! Even though it’s an older WiFi 5 model, speedtests show no measurable drop in performance. Interestingly, packet latency is half of the Cudy’s, so it feels much snappier and responsive. It honestly feels like an upgrade lol. I love the app store it has too, very useful. Thank you very much for the recommendation!

  • quid_pro_joe@infosec.pubtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers NexusEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Maybe that will happen in those giant urban nightmares they call cities. I moved out of the decaying concrete jungle (Escape From L.A.!) and have been living in small towns for the past decade. Here, live music is made every night, spilling out onto the boardwalk and carried by the wind to brighten and invigorate minds old and new. Real music is an art that will survive the AI apocalypse, and perhaps be the last echo of our civilization, spreading out into the cosmos long after we’re gone, and exchanting distant (alien) minds.

  • quid_pro_joe@infosec.pubtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is the number of Lemmy users increasing?
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    4 months ago

    If there’s one thing I’ve learned in life, it’s that technology is not point. It’s just a tool, like a magnifying glass. Stop focusing on the tech, you’re going to waste what little time you have here on Earth. People are the point. Relationships are the point. Feeling emotions and expressing them is the point.

    I have worked in IT almost my entire life. I watched computers shrink from refrigerator size to watch size. I witnessed the birth of the internet, and watched it grow, increasing in size and complexity until it seemed to connect everything. I could have been a programmer, or database architect, or systems administrator. But no, I chose to stay in tech support because that is how I connect with other people. Some of the best conversations I’ve ever had were when I was working under someone’s desk. I’ve seen ten thousand people in person struggle with tech problems that you and I would find trivial to solve. Are you saying that all those people, all those farmers, doctors, teachers, public defenders, artists, and parents deserve to be banished to the Phantom Zone because they can’t edit a PDF? Get the fuck outta here with that shallow thinking, and re-evaluate your life, and what is truly meaningful in it. May this conversation be the seed that helps you grow to your full and wonderful potential.

    All my love, Biped # 117 Billion +1

  • quid_pro_joe@infosec.pubtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is the number of Lemmy users increasing?
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    4 months ago

    Good question! I say yes, because a functioning society is formed from the combined knowledge, skills, and efforts of it’s unique and diverse constituents, each of whom have strengths and weaknesses. However, if one does not have technical aptitude, then they should not be in a position that decides or controls technology - there are plenty of other non-techy jobs they could do, like farming or fishing.