(whoops I wrote all this without noticing I'm in the NS mag specifically, sorry! real answer: MORE TOTK!!)
I finally started Control on PC recently and I've really been enjoying it. The combat is fairly generic third person shooter with 'abilities' on top, but the lore and story stuff is really cool. I have a big weakness for the so-called 'objects of power' thing, I was a big fan of The Lost Room (TV; 2006 miniseries) and Warehouse 13 (TV; 2009-2014) for that reason, and I really enjoyed the old SCPs before it got too "off-the-rails" so this all has fir right in to my interests. I was really excited to discover that Alan Wake and Quantum Break are evidently a part of the universe, which I suppose makes a lot of sense.
When I'm not making progress in Control, though, it's more Tears of the Kingdom for sure. There are still more shrines to get and after 180 hours I finally just figured out that I can get some help finding where caves are, so there's more to do!
Dead Cells is such an amazing game! I keep going back to it once in a while and get re-hooked.
I hope you enjoy BotW, it's really fantastic. Don't forget to stop sometimes when you're in a field and just take it in for a moment - the breeze blows the grass all around and maybe a bit of music plays or you hear birds chirping.. it's very unexpectedly relaxing.
It was such a breath of fresh air to have a major release like this drop and have it actually be tested and playable and fun from day 1. It actually kind of made me excited for new games again for a bit.
All this talk of defederation and blocklists makes me generally uneasy. I understand how it's easy to fall into. Nobody wants political extremists and criminals and bad actors and stuff on their instance, so it makes sense you might want to ban trollfactory dot xyz, nazihq dot us, and/or uncompromisingmarxist dot boats, or whatever.
But I think the stupidest shit I saw on reddit were the subreddits that would ban you for even posting on an ideologically competing subreddit, with no consideration for the message you'd written. This is worse than that because it's the opposite, and includes even reading the content.
Imagine if when you went to post on /r/RestaurantOwners, and its AutoMod had the power to then immediately ban you from even looking at /r/antiwork and /r/WorkReform. Imagine posting to /r/conservative to correct someone's error only to get permanently banned from viewing any "leftist" subs ever again. This is the vibe I get from this and as much as I want to avoid creating nodules of extremism and hatred, I want less to have people grabbing my head, taping my mouth, and averting my eyes from things they don't like when they don't even know what my thinking is.
I feel like widespread trigger happy banlists are the death of small instances, too. Maybe one small instance doesn't catch some newly registered asshole for a day or two but it's too late. The 16-hour a day lifestyle moderator on a massive instance who has gangstalking delusions over nebulous "trolls" has already blacklisted all 150 of your users permanently and listed your domain for defederation as officially owned by the Nazi party in a massive register shared by the top 100 largest instances. The number of times I've heard this story with small Mastodon instances is more than I care for.
“There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well”
What an asshole. His IPO is gonna be terrible, and he'll only be remembered as a transitive verb every time someone gets a big head and spezzes their company to death.
Good morning! :) Today I want to focus mainly on reviewing the pull requests you've submitted. There are many great things there that will help improve the kbin experience. That's amazing, thank you! I'm also in the final stages of sorting out the infrastructure-related formalities. Soon, the situation with the website's...
I've been in a position similarly unenviable to yours. It's exciting but stressful. Even if it all feels incredibly high-priority, don't burn out; it's a marathon not a sprint!
I've been picking through issues and working on fixes locally to try and get you bundled-up PRs that use the systems and conventions you've already established, instead of just taping discontinuous new on top of everything. However, despite being a grumpy old PHP and JS veteran, I'm somehow a relative newbie to Symfony and Stimulus, so I hope I'm not doing more harm than good lol.
I have been joking to a couple of friends today who were also redditors that I've been feeling withdrawals from reddit throughout the day. Like I knew I was addicted, I just never thought I was going to have to face the consequences of withdrawals!...
I removed Relay from my home screen when I realized at some point while just zoning out I had just unlocked my phone and tapped it open without really thinking about it consciously. It was that much of an idle habit. I looked down and saw the pics pinned message about going dark and was like, uhh??
I'm impressed you did the deletion. I really wanted to but I don't think I actually make myself do it. They're forgotten little whispers of my mind, going back 12 years.
Currently, each thread has the "Activity" link that shows publicly everyone that upvoted/favorite a thread. This is counter norm to many coming from Reddit and newer folks that expected otherwise. I think hiding the list should be high priority in next feature update(removal?) to encourage frictionless upvoting behavior....
I'm still a little new with all this but from my understanding of the underlying federated protocol, this isn't really easily possible. It might be possible to remove the listing from the kbin and/or lemmy interfaces, but that would be visual-only: I think it will always be technically possible for another piece of software privy to the federated network to inspect these things about a post. Due to this, I think it would be better to show them and have it be known that this information is public than to hide them just on kbin and have it be a nasty surprise for users that the information is still relatively trivially accessible on another front-end or tool.
I think the safest course of action would be to have a separate account for interacting with information you do not want associated with your primary identity, as I suspect a "fix" for this issue that conceals voters is a long time out and on an ActivityPub protocol level, not a kbin level.
Maybe someone should post this link every day for the foreseeable future because I think it’s gonna be a sleepless week for the Fediverse, but a great one as well....
please add a note to your donations to suggest he make an opencollective (or similar) so we can get some recurring money starting to flow his way. i have been in this position, of suddenly being a very in-demand person, and it can be pretty rough.
I just saw an email from Buy Me a Coffee. Not just one. I went in, and I'm truly shocked. Thank you all for the support; I would like to thank each and every one of you individually someday. Honestly, I don't know what to say. The account balance is $350, which will definitely allow me to develop kbin faster or at least not...
I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?...
I really want to like this but the fact that two separate Nintendo communities (for example) can exist on two separate instances is a non-starter for most users and very nearly for me. Is there not a mechanism of some kind to join them so anyone joining their instance's Nintendo community gets plugged in with every instance's Nintendo posts? This will truly confuse most new people coming in from Reddit where communities had single canonical names.
I'm just wrapping up my rather thorough playthrough of Tears of the Kingdom and have quite enjoyed it. Maybe coning up on about 200 hours now. I'm not getting every Korok. Fuck that.
I don't know what to focus on next... I just came out of finishing CrossCode on my Deck before TotK dropped, and loved it.
Maybe it's time to slap on the Quest 2 and go for Firmament.
Also known for Stellaris and Age of Wonders, two of my favorite 4X games of all time that have wrought absolute destruction to my schedules over years by virtue of their addictiveness and long play-times.
I'm really excited for this as a big Star Trek nerd and grand strategy/4X fan.
What are you all playing this week?
I'm still working my way through Tears of the Kingdom
Beehaw defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works (beehaw.org)
Interesting bit of news for the threadiverse. All three of these are fairly large lemmy instances
Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout “will pass” (www.theverge.com)
“There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well”
/kbin - a few quick announcements
Good morning! :) Today I want to focus mainly on reviewing the pull requests you've submitted. There are many great things there that will help improve the kbin experience. That's amazing, thank you! I'm also in the final stages of sorting out the infrastructure-related formalities. Soon, the situation with the website's...
OC Any other former redditors feeling grief?
I have been joking to a couple of friends today who were also redditors that I've been feeling withdrawals from reddit throughout the day. Like I knew I was addicted, I just never thought I was going to have to face the consequences of withdrawals!...
A low quality meme for a high quality community
Recommend to have the "Upvote" or Favorites list be hidden.
Currently, each thread has the "Activity" link that shows publicly everyone that upvoted/favorite a thread. This is counter norm to many coming from Reddit and newer folks that expected otherwise. I think hiding the list should be high priority in next feature update(removal?) to encourage frictionless upvoting behavior....
Home: 'Front Page' vs 'All'?
Hi there, still adapting to all this, hoping I can get some clarification....
Yikes! Reddit turning off mobile access to reddit.
I never knew
that my stepdad...
Ernest seems thirsty (www.buymeacoffee.com)
Maybe someone should post this link every day for the foreseeable future because I think it’s gonna be a sleepless week for the Fediverse, but a great one as well....
Subreddits you are going to miss?
I'm going to miss AITA. Even if someone makes it a community, it will take a long time to populate.
Thank you so much for your support! 😍
I just saw an email from Buy Me a Coffee. Not just one. I went in, and I'm truly shocked. Thank you all for the support; I would like to thank each and every one of you individually someday. Honestly, I don't know what to say. The account balance is $350, which will definitely allow me to develop kbin faster or at least not...
for the Reddit refugees, do you also feel a bit heartbroken?
For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.
For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience?
I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?...
What has everyone been playing lately?
What's everyone on /m/gaming playing lately?...
Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA (techcrunch.com)
Star Trek: Infinite - Paradox Interactive (www.paradoxinteractive.com)
Paradox Interactive is a world leading PC games publisher known for games such as Cities: Skylines, Europa Universalis and Crusader Kings.
Remembering Alan Turing, the gay British war hero who died after being persecuted by his country (www.thepinknews.com)
Alan Turing was a gay war hero and mathematician who broke the Enigma code at Bletchley Park in WWII, but his story ended in tragedy.