When Spotify announced its largest-ever round of layoffs in December, CEO Daniel Ek hailed a new age of efficiency at the streaming giant. But four months on, it seems he and his executives weren’t prepared for how tough filling in for 1,500 axed workers would be....
Daniel Ek founded the company. He got to where he’s at by having lots of money. He got that money to found Spotify by being hired into other companies which were acquired. You’re describing “Executive Vice Presidents” that were promoted from within.
I played Battle Bay for over a year… in 2019. It’s been a while. It was the game that drove me to get an Android tablet. Would have been interesting on PC....
It’s becoming more and more apparent that the next generation is different than Boomers and GenXers. And our methods of evangelism and outreach may not be actually reaching Millennials and Gen Z....
In September teams form and develop new visual novel games for “Spooktober”. The games are submitted by midnight October 1, and freely available for at least one month while the judging occurs. That means hundreds of new free games for us on Itch.io this month!...
Haven’t played this one in years, thought it was cancelled but it’s still running! “Blue Manchu sold Card Hunters to new developers The Knights of Unity!”? This is according to fictional in-game GM “Gary”. There’s a tiny bit of voice acting. Card Hunter just turned 10 years old. It is a meta-“tabletop RPG” on...
So, I just played Unciv before and never bought the actual series. Figured I’d mention them since I see a sale is on right now. Apparently people have a lot of opinions on which is better....
Life in Adventure is a simplified text-based RPG on Android. You’ve got a portrait, hit-points, sanity, 6 stats. You’ve got gold, a small inventory, also one armor and one weapon slot which add to your “combat power”....
Slacker is a 1990 American independent comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by Richard Linklater, who also appears in the film. Slacker was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991....
At about 15:15 the guy with the conspiracy theories brought up the greenhouse effect, and said it was coming in a few decades and not 100 years like they were saying.
Dwarf Fortress is easily recommended as a cheap game! It’s not cheap on Steam, but free from Bay12Games. Spend the money on Steam if you’d like an easy way to support KitFox and Bay12, or use their Patreon. Back in my day, we sent PayPal and got ASCII art in reply!...
Today, like the past few days, we have had some downtime. Apparently some script kids are enjoying themselves by targeting our server (and others). Sorry for the inconvenience....
Yeah I don’t blame Chinese people for their government’s actions. It’s like hating Americans for what Trump says. Simply invite real Chinese people to post on Lemmy and give their honest opinions on GreatFire, and stop hurting their feelings.
I’m pretty neutral on the topic of AI generated content but this is an extremely hot topic for many creators right now, would it be possible to create a filter system to disable AI-Generated Content? For starters it could be manually flagged or communities could be fully flagged?
I was thinking the moderators are going to have to flag posts as AI-generated , I’m not trusting the people posting them to do it. But 100% agree with what you were saying, there should be a way for users and moderators to mark a post as “containing AI-generated content”, similar to NSFW; and then a way for us to filter “AI” like we would NSFW.
It’s written in RenPy, and it’s cheap, so it’s a Cheap Game! This is a light visual novel that you can complete in under 2 hours. There’s two endings, and not many choices to make, but they are big ones!...
Haven and Hearth is a multiplayer online survival RPG. It’s hard to classify, the experience totally depends on the players you encounter. You might have a great 6 months building a village, roleplaying, feasting with friends, sailing the world, and then be brutally murdered while out on a routine trip to market....
Arcanists 2
Descended from the classic “Worms” multiplayer artillery game. Personally, I’ve only got vague memories of playing shareware Scorched Earth....
Male birth control breakthrough safely switches off fit sperm for a while (newatlas.com)
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised by how much laying off 1,500 employees negatively affected the streaming giant’s operations (fortune.com)
When Spotify announced its largest-ever round of layoffs in December, CEO Daniel Ek hailed a new age of efficiency at the streaming giant. But four months on, it seems he and his executives weren’t prepared for how tough filling in for 1,500 axed workers would be....
Battle Bay (lemm.ee)
I played Battle Bay for over a year… in 2019. It’s been a while. It was the game that drove me to get an Android tablet. Would have been interesting on PC....
TIL there is an auto-expand media setting!!
When did this happen?! It makes me so happy!...
RavenDawn Online
Well, here’s a game I haven’t even tried yet, but several people I know are going to test out the launch: [ravendawn.online/en](Ravendawn Online)...
How do we best reach the next generation with the gospel?
It’s becoming more and more apparent that the next generation is different than Boomers and GenXers. And our methods of evangelism and outreach may not be actually reaching Millennials and Gen Z....
Spooktober 5th Annual Visual Novel Jam (itch.io)
In September teams form and develop new visual novel games for “Spooktober”. The games are submitted by midnight October 1, and freely available for at least one month while the judging occurs. That means hundreds of new free games for us on Itch.io this month!...
Card Hunter
Haven’t played this one in years, thought it was cancelled but it’s still running! “Blue Manchu sold Card Hunters to new developers The Knights of Unity!”? This is according to fictional in-game GM “Gary”. There’s a tiny bit of voice acting. Card Hunter just turned 10 years old. It is a meta-“tabletop RPG” on...
Civ V on GoG and Civ VI on Steam
So, I just played Unciv before and never bought the actual series. Figured I’d mention them since I see a sale is on right now. Apparently people have a lot of opinions on which is better....
Life in Adventure
Life in Adventure is a simplified text-based RPG on Android. You’ve got a portrait, hit-points, sanity, 6 stats. You’ve got gold, a small inventory, also one armor and one weapon slot which add to your “combat power”....
Jason Alexander Plays Metroid: Prime on Gamecube (imgtr.ee)
Source: Nintendo booth at the 2003 People’s Choice Awards Backstage Creations Talent Retreat (Photo by L. Cohen)
Kind Words (youtu.be)
~£3.99 on steam
Slacker (1991 480p) (yewtu.be)
Slacker is a 1990 American independent comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by Richard Linklater, who also appears in the film. Slacker was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991....
Use old.lemm.ee
lemmy.world added the old reddit style into its instance. I think it would be great to have that here also....
Mitch McConnell escorted away from cameras after freezing during a news conference (www.nbcnews.com)
Has the appearance of a transient ischemic attack. But apparently “he’s fine”
Elon Musk and company take @x handle from its original user. He got zero dollars for it. (mashable.com)
Dwarf Fortress (lemm.ee)
Dwarf Fortress is easily recommended as a cheap game! It’s not cheap on Steam, but free from Bay12Games. Spend the money on Steam if you’d like an easy way to support KitFox and Bay12, or use their Patreon. Back in my day, we sent PayPal and got ASCII art in reply!...
Lemmy.world update: Downtime today / Cloudflare
Today, like the past few days, we have had some downtime. Apparently some script kids are enjoying themselves by targeting our server (and others). Sorry for the inconvenience....
Since Lemmy is still in it's social infancy, it may be a good idea to handle AI generated content appropriately
I’m pretty neutral on the topic of AI generated content but this is an extremely hot topic for many creators right now, would it be possible to create a filter system to disable AI-Generated Content? For starters it could be manually flagged or communities could be fully flagged?
No-good Noelle (lemm.ee)
It’s written in RenPy, and it’s cheap, so it’s a Cheap Game! This is a light visual novel that you can complete in under 2 hours. There’s two endings, and not many choices to make, but they are big ones!...
Haven and Hearth (lemm.ee)
Haven and Hearth is a multiplayer online survival RPG. It’s hard to classify, the experience totally depends on the players you encounter. You might have a great 6 months building a village, roleplaying, feasting with friends, sailing the world, and then be brutally murdered while out on a routine trip to market....
We urgently need new moderators! [META]
Hello there! I hope you're doing well. We are in need of new moderators, and would love it if you helped us out here!...