The Voyager Elite Force games are pretty excellent if you enjoy FPS games, and the TOS point and click games, 25th anniversary and its sequel are extremely well made too.

Matrix is the closest replacement, and XMPP can replicate some functionality too.

If your main value is small government, have you looked into classical anarchism?

I slightly prefer Joe’s brand of humor, and I think he’s doing well on his own, but the two had great chemistry, and complemented each others style.

Should be watchable on YouTube, I think I posted a link to it over on !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee

EDIT: I did! Here’s the link

The information I’ve seen regarding deep discharge life-cycle for sodium ion is that the latest tech is actually extremely good, at least according to this. I don’t see how the lower voltage is a problem, since for grid situations you’ll have step-up transformers anyway, and the batteries can just be hooked up in series to increase the voltage.

They use abundant materials, will be much cheaper than lithium ion, don’t need to be actively cooled, and massively lessen the risk of rupture and fires.

The low density per unit of weight isn’t relevant for grid storage, so they seem pretty ideal.

Sodium batteries require very little rare earths in comparison to lithium batteries.

Sodium electric batteries, like the type that CATL developed? Or do you mean hot molten salt thermal batteries? Because I think the other poster is referring to the first kind.

Curious how much that still applies, being a decade old now.

The linearity was a bonus for me, but it was sorta openish, at least in the sense you could visit Lucas burtone on the way to/from missions to get little side quests to steal new faster cars.

After the last two games and the remake, I’m not hopeful. The new devs never got what made the original special, despite its flaws.

Ah, that’s unfortunate. As an alternative, I have seen some online games name their bots with a random name generator that’s designed to sound somewhat real, like AnnoyingPidgen or WrecklessRaptor. If the voting account naming system was more like that, it would be easier to notice voting patterns/manipulation while still being anonymous.

Regarding the voting account having no name, does that mean it will be a random string of letters and numbers? I get that it will still be possible to discover vote manipulation or mass downvoting with that, but I suspect it would be more difficult to detect initially or without some deeper analysis, since it’s harder to recognize or remember a random string compared to a human made username.

What I saw over there was a large portion of his community pleading with him to delegate administrative tasks to the community, as it became increasingly clear the website was becoming too much for a single guy to manage (he was the only moderator of like 30+ communities that were full to bursting with spam, as well as the sole site admin). He never approved the many applications to help moderate, and said he was extremely slow to trust others, so never appointed a second admin, and instead just continued to silently work on the codebase as the site became unusable from spam.

I think his extreme distrust and desire to do everything himself combined with his medical issues led to extreme burnout, and ultimately its downfall.

Ah, the clickbait thumbnail. I was confused since you said the headline was a question.

Was that comment intended for a different post?

I made sure to mention that in the post body text, especially as Matt annoyingly often makes videos about pie in the sky tech. I just thought it was neat that, in concept at least, this technology could become something we see in the world in 20 or 30 years.

The Eternity Dev has returned, and released a new update for it. Last I checked the update hasn’t released on f-droid due to the build failing, but it is available on aurora or play store.

Star Wars Galaxies and Ultima Online had open world housing as well, I believe.

There should be a tl:DW in the comments here.