Beer is fairly well solved enough by now that, if you have a good nose and a brew calculator site, you can guess your way to 80% accuracy for any given beer at a first try, and by the time I've iterated much further than that, I've arrived at something more interesting anyway.

If you're a company that sells beer, your business model is more based on people's lack of interest in that creative work than it is around protecting any "secret recipe".

I hear that. I work from home and I've yet to make friends in a new country. It would be downright monastic if not for my family, instead it's more of an insane asylum vibe.

I'm not even convinced happiness and fulfillment are the right thing to be actively seeking in life. If you have purpose, these things will come in time. If you chase them as your purpose, you will never truly have either.

Perhaps more, but places like Mozambique don't get much play in the news cycle.

It's nukes, so of course - every time anyone makes a move it's stressful. That said, China is doubling its stockpile this decade and then calling foul just because the US is aware of it and discussing how it affects their position.

Regarding American willingness to strike first: The only US administration who has talked about using nukes in a casual way is Trump's. As to accusations of genocidal tendencies, neither nation has a clean record.

It's 2024, this is genuinely a sane opinion now.

Envy. I need to get a carboy and dive back in. I miss having heaps of cyser lying around.

"The U.S. is peddling the China nuclear threat narrative, finding excuses to seek strategic advantage," a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said.

Later, same article

The U.S. has consistently pointed to China's expansive and growing nuclear weaponry. An annual report by the Pentagon last October said China had more than 500 operational nuclear warheads in its arsenal, and will probably have over 1,000 warheads by 2030.

What is China's serious concern, exactly? That the US is consistent about its appraisal, or that they're reacting cogently to it?

There's definitely going to be a market for it.

I didn't know spiders got that big in Canada

On the contrary, I think the games industry is struggling with it. Larger developers keep increasing their budgets, and the need for return on investment is making them too risk averse to create anything worth much of a damn. Meanwhile low or no-budget (kick-started) indie titles are making several times their investment while doing really commendable creative work. The profit incentive is self-destructive in art.

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That's... Better than what you said before, but it pains me that people think that's the full depth of artistic endeavor, to have given people fodder for small talk.

Art is a kind of conversation, but it's not small talk. If you've been following that conversation and you bring a new perspective to it that changes how everyone thinks and shapes the conversation from that point onwards, that is what you might call "artistic success".

On the other hand if all you're doing is trying to make money...

Please note that Lemmy isn't active enough for this much cross posting to be a benefit. Some is okay, but that was a lot.

I do plan on checking out the demo.

Nobody knows. People have been making art for several thousands of years and nobody has ever known whether it was any good unless it made a lot of money! Thank goodness we've cleared that up, now I'm going to go try and will myself to have an aneurysm

You mean commercially, or artistically?

It's speaking to where people are at - take that as you will.

You're talking about how the tenor of the dialogue has changed, I take it? It has. It's a social media dynamic IMO, and I lay a lot of blame at the feet of corporate social media. Part of why I'm here instead of reddit.

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