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gmr_leon, 10 months ago to random

I can understand why some folks are still on corporate social media. Corporate social media is, at this point, essentially a set of broadcast advertising networks with the opportunity to yell at the broadcasts & adverts.

There's a certain satisfaction to that, especially when your friends & the like are there to rag on the businesses & BS broadcasts (bad takes & so forth). However, some depend on that structure to eke by as best they can.

The fediverse isn't built for that kind of activity.

gmr_leon, 10 months ago to gaming

What are some of your favorite modding friendly free & open source games?

#AskGames #AskFedi #Gaming #FOSSGames #FOSSGaming

gmr_leon, 10 months ago to fediverse

It's a small bummer to see that Lemmy/Kbin appear to be replicating some of the same organizational issues as Mastodon regarding large portions of the population on a few servers.

It's not surprising though, as despite having more time to prepare for such an eventuality (in Lemmy's case), many in these spaces aren't prepared to guide so many folks looking to move & the servers often aren't available to accommodate a more spread out distribution right away.

#Fediverse #Lemmy #Kbin

asolitarybear, 10 months ago to VideoGames

Glad to see more game journalists talk about game preservation more:

"GameSpot - You Don't Own Your Games Any More"

:youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF_JIDDaojQ

#RetroGames #VideoGames

gmr_leon, 10 months ago to random

me: "why am I having trouble with this"

also me, with no depth perception: walking straight off a cliff into the bottomless void

me: "oh. right."

grumpygamer, 10 months ago to random

I'm very conditioned from years of playing WoW to like "!" and "?" for quest icons above NPCs. Is there a better way? I haven't seen one, but that might be my WoW bias. I could go "old school" and not show anything and expect players to figure it out, but that seems cruel (I know I'd hate it).

jplebreton, 10 months ago to random

https://www.osnews.com/story/136370/new-play-store-policy-will-publish-developers-phone-numbers-in-app-listings/
2027. every dev's bedroom is hard wired with an airhorn that any irate customer can sound at any time for any reason. the platforms themselves are hosted from orbital data centers administered by robots, completely uncontactable, owned by trillionaires.

llamasoft_ox, 10 months ago to random

I like to use notepad++ as a second memory, particularly now I am getting to be old and shit. I have a bunch of tabs open on there, with stuff like notes about the current bit of code, Welsh vocab that I add to as I do my lessons, notes on how to use the sequencer I designed a while ago but have done a zillion things since so when I do come back to actually using it to make some music I'll need those notes, sort of thing. Random shit I need from time to time.

gmr_leon, 10 months ago to gaming

A business sim game but you don't run or manage a business, you spend most of the time trying to make the case for different businesses so they can even get the resources do anything at all. Once you succeed the other part of the game is handling resource allocation so you can avoid having to go pitch your businesses' projects again.

There is no win state btw, it's really a white collar survival game.
#Gaming #VideoGames #BadGameIdeas

gmr_leon, 10 months ago to gaming

A game company called Odnetni/Nintendont that basically copies Nintendo but makes their work legally distinct enough to skate by and releases across all platforms would make bank tbh.

#Gaming #VideoGames #BadBizIdeas #Nintendo

gmr_leon, 10 months ago to random

They say read the manual all the time and fail to mention that often the manual was written by engineers who can only communicate among each other

Gaming hot takes?

Any weird/controversial opinions? I’ll start. Before the remake, the best version of Resident Evil 4 was the Wii version. The Wiimote controls old Resi’s tank controls better than any other controller at the time. The PC version had a bunch of little bugs and detractors that the Wii version just doesn’t have....

gmr_leon, 10 months ago to random

One of my favorite software features when dealing with feeds, social or RSS, has to be filters.

They eliminate/reduce what I consider to be noise, and at other times simply keep me from getting annoyed & into arguments on social platforms. There's no downsides from my end.

Of course, there's plenty from marketers' ends but they don't have a right to anyone's attention.

gmr_leon, 10 months ago to gaming

In a better world governments never would have allowed Activision Blizzard, Microsoft, or Sony to become such massive businesses tbh.

#Gaming #VideoGames #FTC #ActivisionBlizzardMicrosoft

gmr_leon, 10 months ago to retrogaming

Something I've been unclear on: for the open source versions of titles like Doom or Descent or...Quake, I think, do they technically want you to own/have a copy for the assets, or...?

#AskGames #AskFedi #RetroGaming #Gaming #VideoGames

gmr_leon, 10 months ago to random

...I should probably upgrade my PC, or at least install a Linux distro alongside the Windows install.

Windows now takes way longer to boot from for me, which isn't usually a problem as I tend to put my PC in sleep mode, but on the odd occasion that the power goes out, I'm reminded of this. Or is this a similar case even on more modern configs (i.e. SSDs, more recent processors, etc.)?

#AskFedi

gmr_leon, 10 months ago to gaming

I think it's probably a good idea if you're interested in game or software development to try to create stuff alongside established games/software, e.g. mods or tools, to learn some basic skills and to learn how annoying it can be to try to keep up with someone else's workflow, so you'll get motivated to make your own stuff.

Speaking from some brief experience making mods & levels for games that were/are actively updated.
#Gaming #VideoGames #Development

gmr_leon, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

I could have swore I bookmarked or favorited a thread from a few weeks ago warning of the potential issues #Lemmy has from a technical perspective, but now I can't find it & I'm bummed because it was really good & with recent events seems to have unfortunately held true.

Recent events being: a couple instances being compromised & screwed with due to a vulnerability.

gmr_leon, 10 months ago to random

Discord, Zulip, XMPP, IRC, or Matrix and why?

Bonus, besides Session & Nostr (blockchain/crypto crowd BS), what else in this space might you suggest?

#AskFedi

gmr_leon, 11 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

When using Mastodon on a computer via browser, do you use the advanced web interface or the...I guess default view?

If you use another way, feel free to reply & mention how!

#AskFedi

mt, 11 months ago to random

I could use some help. I am working on making an open source animatronic app so you can make your own waldo or print a version of one of mine and program your own animatronic. I am using pico w's for input controllers because they are easy to get but I'm struggling with a good starter microcontroller for the output. Ideally it would have audio and a way to control a few servos plus wifi. A pi 4 would make sense but you can't just get them easy...

gmr_leon, 11 months ago to random

the problem with exploring is rapid familiarization, which alters your standards for the unfamiliar, making it increasingly difficult to find spaces to explore that feel sufficiently unfamiliar.

your sense of the unfamiliar & unusual departing from others' so much that you almost need new words to indicate what you're really looking for. Different, weird, unusual just become inadequate.

gmr_leon, 11 months ago to random

Link rot but with connected virtual worlds could be really cool if, in place of the link going nowhere, there was a built-in dead space to roam around of abandoned ideas, maybe some old texts discussing the original ideas behind linking virtual spaces.

Tbh this could also be a fun idea for the regular Internet. Each browser having a unique dead-end page to poke around, maybe learn about Internet history & architecture.

seachanger, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

the best thing masto can do right now, imo, is to prioritize features & support for organizing communities.This is why facebook has society in its jaws, people are able to easily create, find, and post in any number of communities they overlap with.

if mastodon or an adjacent fediverse platform can better facilitate self-organizing communities, they will win all the spoils and then some