[–] 14 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Imho. Project Zomboid is THE ultimate zombie-game. The atmosphere is perfect.

You're being introduced to the game with "There was no hope of survival. This is how you died." Because you likely ARE going to die.

You become overconfident and then get bit by a group of four undead who suddenly come at you from behind in a bathroom. Or you get trapped in a skyscraper by a horde that came running when the house-alarm went off. Or you die because the piece of shit car you are driving just won't start anymore stranding you, exhausted and wounded, in front of the ever advancing horde. Or you fall from a roof. Or you cut yourself when jumping through a window. Or you just looted a watch and it had an alarm set that goes off right when you try to sneak by some zombies.

A single Zombie is seldom a threat (though it still can be) but their numbers are just too damn high and they never stop following you, while you become hungry, tired and exhausted. Then the water stops working and the power goes out and suddenly you have to survive by scavanging until you are able to set up a safe base where you can collect rainwater and start agriculture... or maybe you become a nomad, always one step ahead of the Zeds and scrounging for the little food left from before the apocalypse that hasn't rotted away yet...

It is the perfect "The Walking Dead"-experience in single- as well as multiplayer.

Project Zomboid is one of my favorite games and it is the zombie-survival-game that all the other games in that genre are measured against.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago (6 children)

    People are giving you uninformed answers, but to be fair, you just could have searched it yourself.

    The stores haven't even opened yet. The first are expected to open by the end of 2027.

    The plan says they get the real estate from the city for free or very cheap. Also subsidies for groceries in the "core basket".

    The City, through NYCEDC, will provide the foundation and deliver grocery-ready sites, cover rent and property taxes, fund initial buildout, and establish a single public brand for all N.Y.C. Groceries locations. The City will also set clear requirements for affordability, job quality, transparency, and performance.

    To support this effort, the City has committed $70 million in capital funding for store construction and fit-out.

    So the answer is city subsidies, payed for with tax dollars.

    Where those dollars will be coming from within the city budget has not yet been announced, but seeing as they have time until end of 2027, there's likely going to be a lot of budget-shuffling and negotiations until a budget-position is going to be revealed.

    Might be in the NYC budget already, but I don't see reporting on it, nor do I have the time to go over that.

    In my opinion it's a relatively good and easy way of redistributing money from top to bottom. You know, like schools, libraries, public pools (or free universities in better countries). Because it directly addresses a need of the poorest New Yorkers without just handing them money and implements a "food as a human right" response to corpos profiting off of societies need for groceries.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    I have been blocking .ml for a couple of days now after having been argued with in bad faith, having words put into my mouth and basically having been declared one of "Hitlers Helpers" for just talking about my lived experience with the GDR and being a social democrat instead of a communist.

    Lemmy in its entirety has become so much more pleasant and the amount of posts and comments that go "voting makes no sense at all" that I see has plummeted to basically nothing. It's very refreshing.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago

    As long as you can write a compiler that is able to translate your code into ... well, in the end machine-code, then you can write code in that language. In principle there's nothing special about alphabetical languages when it comes to coding, every last one will be compiled or interpreted into machine-code that isn't a language at all. But I think there are some fundamental differences that would make writing the code entirely different from how we write alphabetical code. I mean... do Kanji and Hanzi HAVE capitalization? And I imagine changing strings would be hella different. There are lots of differences that would result in more differences in coding, but that too is imho no reason why it shouldn't work... in the end it's going to be machine code and when you can write such esoteric programming languages as Brainfuck, Lolcode, Piet and Shakespeare...

    Edit: Oh there is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_languages#Based_on_non-English_languages it includes Chinese and Japanese programming languages.

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  • submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by to c/rpg@ttrpg.network
     

    A Night in Tobrien is a short film set in the world of The Dark Eye. This German pen-and-paper role-playing game, first released in 1984, is home to epic tales featuring dragons, demons, and armies. Ours, however, is different—it takes place in an inn.

    This german shortfilm (with english subtitles) was produced by a close personal friend. It is fully a hobby-project by a bunch of geeks who wanted to show Ulisses (the german equivalent of WotC) that there is a hunger for good quality movies set in the fictional world of Aventuria. It was completely privately written, funded and produced by them in Germany and Switzerland.

    It is a little overacted in some places (because (edit: most of*) the actors are theater people and LARPers, not tv or movie actors), but for such a tiny production it turned out remarkably well imho.

    *the actor of the bard is indeed an actor that had a lead role in a german public television series

    submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by to c/dailygames@lemmy.zip
     

    🐕 Animal #1014 🐶
    I figured it out in 6 guesses!
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    🔥 5 | Avg. Guesses: 4.2

    https://metazooa.com/
    #metazooa

    Oh damn that clade!

    Edit: And I should really make a trainwreck-account, this did not connect to my previous wins on my smartphone, so i had to redo it on my phone to change my stats to 5 wins, 4.2 average guesses here.

    Spoiler!!!Look at this shit! I literally guessed every other Bovidae bevore finding the right one.

    I hate clades like that.

    P.S.: Going for deer instead of human first seems generally a good idea, but now I think going for cattle first might be even better. The Euchantoglires tree is easy and quick to navigate but Laurasiatheria is bigger, harder to navigate and inside that Artiodactyla is bigger and harder and in that Pecora is bigger and harder than Cetacea, but Bovidae (as seen) has a lot of options, so going for cattle first gives me a deep tree, leaving me with the most exclusion criterions, leaves me with easier to navigate trees if it doesn't hit and brings me directly into a hard tree if it does, without messing around with easier trees first. For the same reasons I'm going with blackbird if it stops at Amniota and lobster if it stops at Bilateria.

    submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by to c/askacanadian@lemmy.ca
     

    Dear Canadians,

    my friend group has been talking about this on and off, and frankly I'm sick of talking about Canadians and would rather talk to Canadians.

    It's my best estimation that Canadians would welcome closer cooperation, less reliance on the US and strong ties with the EU.

    But for Federalists like me, the "ever closer union" the EU is supposed to be, should continue to improve (european institutions are far from perfect) but ultimatly become a single entity, basically a Federal Republic of Europe. And this is what, I believe, Canadians would balk at and I would not want a new EU member if they are resistant to this goal.

    But there are, of course, exceptional benefits to being part of it and of becoming a single European Republic. I would not be a federalist if I did not believe that all member states would very much benefit from being just one of many federal states in this imagined European Republic. I just don't think that Canadians are actually ready for this.

    Am I wrong about that? My friends think that if I can see how much we would benefit, why wouldn't you? Would you give up the Canadian Dollar, some sovereignity and the ultimate say about what happens to Canada to have an equal, representative and fair place at the table of a transpolar political entity. I mean... the canadian population is half that of Germany, Canada would be in fifth place in terms of voting power in that Union.

    Personally I think it's a nice talking point to shock USians and it's a nice point to make a warm and fuzzy atmosphere in the room when Canada and the EU hammer out agreements to benefit both of us (middle powers etc.), but I do not think it's in any way realistic. What do you think?

    Love from a German 🇪🇺❤️🇨🇦

    Edit:

    Wow, this got a lot of responses and I'm sorry I cannot respond to all of you. So let me just say this:

    I feel honored by you all taking the time to respond and I'm picking up that there is a deep well of mutual affection and respect between the EU and Canada, which is lovely.

    Having read all of your comments, I remain convinced that full formal membership would not really be the right relationship for both sides. But there is definitely a strong, mutual wish for very close cooperation based on common values and respect as partners. I think both Canada and the EU are really fed up with being treated as imperial vassal states by the US and can help each other strengthen our positions as middle-powers through various cooperation agreements while keeping canadian sovereignty intact.

    Thank you all so very much for sharing your thoughts on this. ❤️

     

    Verstehen statt Verurteilen
    Umgang mit Klimawandelskepsis im persönlichen Umfeld

    Was sind die Gründe für die Ablehnung von wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen, und wie sollte man damit umgehen?

    Bereits 1898 skizzierte der schwedische Forscher Svante Arrhenius die theoretische Möglichkeit, dass die Menschheit die globale Temperatur durch den Ausstoß von CO2 erhöhen könnte. Seit den 1950er Jahren beschäftigt sich eine Vielzahl an Forscher/innen aus den verschiedensten Fachdisziplinen mit dem menschlichen Einfluss auf das Klima, und spätestens seit Ende der 1970er Jahre ist ein signifikanter Einfluss eindeutig nachgewiesen. Dennoch glauben im Jahre 2025 über 20% der deutschen Bevölkerung nicht daran, dass menschliche Aktivitäten die Hauptursache der globalen Erwärmung sind. Gemeinsam werden wir persönliche Hintergründe der Wissenschaftsablehnung und einen konstruktiven Umgang damit näher betrachten.

     

    German Original

    Regen im Dunkeln
    das Laternenlicht schimmert
    Sterne aus Wasser

    English Translation

    Rain in the dark
    The lantern light shimmers
    Stars made of water


    A friend of mine was vacationing in Japan and she send me this image, complaining about the weather during her vacation. So I made up this Haiku and sent it back to cheer her up and not long after she sent me a photo where she was running through the warm rain, laughing and looking at all the city lights.

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