Great recommendation. There's something special about doggedly tearing down those massive hulks of metal piece-by-piece and executing your plan of how to crack the thing wide open.
Hearing the soundtrack again recently after I beat the game a while ago instantly brought back all those feelings I had from my time with the game. It was almost overwhelming, but in the best way.
If I'm not careful, an entire afternoon will disappear before I notice if I fire up Trackmania. It's just so good at getting me in to a flow state of just really dialing in my gameplay.
Journey is just One Of Those Games. I like to replay it once a year, usually on some quiet December evening when I can really just shut out the world and focus on a front-to-back play-through.
As any good legal question goes, I imagine the answer is one of the many shades of "It depends."
Ultimately it's going to come down to how accommodating Reddit wants to be if rightsholders lawyers come around demanding an explanation for why Reddit facilitates the piracy of their works. Generally a platform doesn't have liability for infringing content posted on it as long as they are responsive to requests to take it down.
I wouldn't consider myself a power user on ebook servers by any means, but I spun up Kavita a few weeks back and it definitely handles everything I need it to so far. Feels better to use than calibre IMO too.
Exactly. Reddit needing to force communities back open is the point. This protest is forcing Reddit to follow through on burning the bridge rather than just getting back to business as usual for free.
I'm making use of a self-hosted Nextcloud instance for this purpose actually. While I wouldn't necessarily recommend it just for the purposes of RSS, it's a nice addition to the platform for someone who happens to be running an instance for other reasons already. Most of the web-based RSS reader solutions I've come across relied on advertising or other premium membership models to support the service, so an alternative would have to be pretty damn compelling for me to transition away from Nextcloud and start subjecting myself to ads again.
Sea of Stars is jumping straight to the top of my To Play list once that drops. I've heard great things about Chained Echoes too. I should make some time for it.
The good news is that by the nature of federation, the only factor that's really going to matter is which software you're more comfortable with. If you decide on kbin, you can still federate with all of the Lemmy instances out there and vice versa. And it's not limited to just those two services either. You can follow Mastodon users or any other ActivityPub-enabled service too.
So even if there's a clear winner between Lemmy or kbin public instances, as long as the projects are getting updated and one gives you an experience that gels with how you like to use it then go wild.
I've had the discography of Distant Dream on heavy rotation lately. A fantastic choice if you're in the mood for some instrumental progressive post-metal. Helps me focus on whatever I'm working on.
I agree. Even if Reddit booted out spez tomorrow and canceled the whole API plan I wouldn't believe their sincerity. The problem is no longer just that the API price is insulting and that they want to hamstring 3rd party apps, it's that Reddit as a company believes it doesn't have to respect the users that are solely responsible for generating the value of their website. Its why the Apollo dev has stated that even a complete course reversal on Reddit's part wouldn't bring Apollo back at this point; Reddit has proven that they are not a reliable business partner.
It's honestly exciting being at the start of what feels like a new social media wave.
It really is. Giving up Twitter for Mastodon was easy for me because I never used Twitter, but Reddit has been a staple of my life for over ten years now. It feels a lot more real this time around. Thankfully a federated link aggregator like /kbin suits my preferences much more than a microblog like Mastodon does, and I'm excited that this will still let me peruse that microblog content when it suits me.