Coelacanth

@Coelacanth@feddit.nu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind*⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If this is the best thing you can do, then the second best thing is be active. We’re still content starved around here. If you think of something to post, post it. If you can’t post, try to comment. Especially on any post that has no comments. Doesn’t matter how banal your comment is. Nothing scares away potential new users more than seeing post after post with 0 comments in their feed, and nothing disheartens posters more than that “0 comments” under their post.

  People are generally scared or reluctant to do things when nobody else is doing them. They don’t want to post in communities that don’t already have recent posts. They don’t want to comment on posts that have 0 comments. So whenever you can break that silence and be that first post or comment, try to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m probably not going to be doing much gaming on my laptop, if any. I could be persuaded to experiment if you have any other suggestions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to use UbuntuStudio back when I was playing around with music recording and production ages ago because it ran the real-time kernel which was important for JACK I think. Last time though was just Mint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  My gaming PC is on Win 11 because it’s recent and I’m lazy and it’s convenient. My laptop runs Win 10 so it’ll be Linux I guess. Not really looking forward to finding a distro and reinstalling and whatnot but what can you do. It’s been a good few years since I last had a Linux box so I’m pretty rusty and not up to date on the recent best distros.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #9⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll like it I think, I played it earlier this year and absolutely loved it. Great vibe, good story, beautiful pixel art and a great retro feel without the clunk of actual retro games 😄 Cool world building too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we certain Witcher is the larger game in which Gwent resides and not the other way around?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone up to date on the Iceshrimp .NET rewrite? It looks like it’s sort of up and running from the GitHub page, but they don’t run a flagship instance themselves. Is there any instance up and running it at the moment?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most people in the workforce today have never had to answer the question "Smoking or nonsmoking?"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Nicotine has deep claws, that’s for sure. I wasn’t even a particularly heavy smoker and I still get a craving sometimes even coming up on ten years since I quit. Hell, I have the occasional dream about smoking still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An LLM would probably run the USA better⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Watching the US implode under the combined pressure of greed, corruption, incomprehensible idiocy and incompetence would almost be amusing if its global importance didn’t threaten to pull the rest of us down with it like a boat anchor chain tangled around the ankles of a drowning man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  LW are hesitant to do major changes because if something goes wrong it disrupts the entire Lemmy ecosystem. It’s a direct negative consequence of them growing too big, but once they’re in this position I can understand their reservations. I too wish they’d implement upgrades faster but I have no reason to believe they will just refuse to implement an upgrade forever, that’s unreasonable to assume.

  Lemmy.nz is what, about 100 MAU? And I know a Blåhaj admin is Australian but Fedi Observer has the server listed as based in Finland and hosted in Germany. Don’t know if that’s wrong though. Are their users also reporting delays?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #9⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Latching on to your Lovecraftian recommendations I’d like to put forth Skald: Against the Black Priory, which should presumably also run excellently on the Steam Deck. Keep an eye out for it during the sale, it’s a great tribute to retro CRPGs and has a wonderfully gloomy lovecraftian vibe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Even so, .world will eventually enable parallel sending, and even in the meantime aussie.zone only boasts 375 MAUs. I don’t know that such a miniscule minority is worth bending over backwards for and creating further fragmentation.

  Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for choosing instances other than .world when setting up new comms. They’re too big. But while we’re still at a point where content amount is the primary concern and we’re trying to achieve critical mass I also don’t know if endless fragmentation is well advised.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What open-world games on Steam have satisfying movement, like Arkham Knight or Spider-Man?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay this is a little off script since it’s not an open world game, but if you’re only looking for satisfying movement you should take a look at Neon White. Just be warned that the writing is… on the cringier side. But that doesn’t really matter in the end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else quit S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 to play Anomaly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really, though I can understand your point of view. I went into STALKER 2 fully aware that it wasn’t Anomaly, and I was able to enjoy it for what it is (despite needing to use console commands on three separate occasions to progress past hard-locking bugs). I finished it probably a month after release so don’t know its current state.

  I was sufficiently engaged in the story and the presentation to definitely want to finish the game, and I enjoyed the new map and the blend of new and familiar locations. After spending so much time with the originals and the Anomaly map it was great to get a fix of more new content with the same vibe - some of the underground lab locations managed to hit classic STALKER vibes for me and kept me going to the end.

  If I were to boot up some STALKER right now I might go for Anomaly over another run of S2 though, and that will probably continue to be the case until the DLC drops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny how that works. Wonder if not mentioning it will help remedy that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The fediverse, also known as the open social web that includes Mastodon, Meta’s Threads, Pixelfed, and other apps (…)

  Mention Lemmy for once 😠

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic: The Gathering devs unban cards as ‘an experiment’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I enjoyed the early mythos of M:tG, but I already started losing interest when they went all Marvel with their whole Gatewatch thing.

  Even though individual sets (like LOTR) have been well made and successful, the whole Universes Beyond thing just further dilutes the identity of Magic too much for me. I’m sick of endless exploitation of existing IPs from all over the entertainment business. I understand why they do it from a financial perspective, but it doesn’t appeal to me at all.

  Add to that the endless garbage of Secret Lair drops like goddamn Spider-Man and SpongeBob and I think MTG just isn’t for me anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dansup promises Loops federation beta 'later this week'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. For stuff like Mastodon and Loops I really want “For You”, not a simple chronological feed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dansup promises Loops federation beta 'later this week'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know this is a contentious topic around here but what’s the news of Loops’ recommendation algorithm? Does it have one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic: The Gathering devs unban cards as ‘an experiment’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve almost completely stopped keeping up with M:TG these days. I used to be into it but it just feels like it’s completely jumped the shark these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The NGage Has A New Boxed Game For The First Time In 20 Years⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That era of Nokia was just the best ever. I used to have a Nokia E70 phone, and it’s still probably my favourite phone I’ve ever had. That full physical qwerty keyboard was so good to type on, even compared to smartphones of today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Embracer studio Eidos-Montreal has laid off 75 employees⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m playing Mankind Divided right now and loving it, already bracing for the heartbreak of the unresolved cliffhanger I know is coming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #8⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t load for me in Voyager either but it works in browser so there there alright. What the hell

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #8⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  GIF inclusion

  On that note, the GIFs don’t seem to load for me. Tried three different apps (Summit, Thunder, Sync).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With the current state of the news, April's fools aren't fun anymore because they can't be distinguished as easily as before⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  People trying to make others look foolish with mean spirited jokes and outright lies and then pointing and laughing at them has never been fun.

  But maybe that’s me being autistic that I don’t get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elianscript! A fun artistic way to softly encrypt your handwriting.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Voynich manuscript is such a fascinating thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Video Game Industry Failed Monolith Productions.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been trying to get through NOLF this year (never played it before) and it definitely feels janky and clunky. Some pretty awful stealth too. It doesn’t really feel like they’ve aged all that well. Maybe the sequel is better, who knows.

  I gave up after a couple of hours as I just wasn’t having fun at all, I realised I was only playing because it’s a classic and I wanted to be able to say I had played it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I discover the Pixelfed content that is out there when so many big instances block exploration?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s kind of a trend on the Fediverse to be honest. Mastodon has the same problem with their chronological-only feed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Baldurs Gate 3's voice acting so great that it ruined other games for me?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I played BG3 straight after Cyberpunk and that really stood out to me as well. The immersion and emotional impact of voiced protagonist lines really got me invested in Cyberpunk in a way I missed in BG3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The basics of the Fediverse. Facebook, Twitter, Tiktok, Reddit, ... vs the Fediverse. What do you think?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mastodon users can subscribe to Lemmy communities I think, but it doesn’t really work very well. The Mastodon feed isn’t really made to support threaded content so all the Lemmy comments will fill and mess up your feed.