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- Comment on Unexpectedly wholesome exchange after a poor performance from me in Rematch 1 week ago:
To be fair, I’ve seen a lot less sarcastic “Good job” messages recently. Everyone fucks up at some point usually, plus the desync issues that cause “mistakes” that are absolutely not the player’s fault, and people seem to be recognising that.
- Comment on Unexpectedly wholesome exchange after a poor performance from me in Rematch 1 week ago:
I agree. Luckily I’m immune to online abuse in games. I’ve been on Xbox Live since the beginning, so my mother has obviously seen a lot of action.
- Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on Standard Rematch game 1 week ago:
At least they’ve fixed the flying players while constantly juggling.
- Comment on Standard Rematch game 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t fix it, it’s how you avoid letting get that close to you.
Can’t avoid bugs that randomly occur through normal gameplay unfortunately.
You’re very lucky not to have encountered any. There’s countless videos and reports of them online, and Sloclap have promised to address them.
- Comment on Standard Rematch game 2 weeks ago:
If this hasn’t remotely been your experience, how do you know rainbow flicking fixes it?
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Sable is free on Epic until tomorrow 2 weeks ago:
Xbox version. Buggy as hell.
- Comment on Sable is free on Epic until tomorrow 2 weeks ago:
This fucking game. I wanted to love it so much, but so many game-killing bugs wrecked it for me.
The style, the atmosphere, the lore, the whole chilled out vibe, everything just appealed.
Then bug after bug, some which hard-locked save games just ruined it for me.
The developer appears to have disappeared off the face of the earth, and we got one or two patches immediately after launch that fixed some performance issues, but there was so much more to fix.
I’d love to play a polished version of this.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- Comment on Voyager moved the default instance to lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, and that’s fair enough. I hope it does get revisited.
- Comment on Voyager moved the default instance to lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago:
Haha don’t put it on me, I’m merely a consumer!
You’ve already suggested feddit.uk, why not use that for UK Voyager installs? Anything that isn’t an instance that they can’t actually use would be good.
- Comment on Voyager moved the default instance to lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago:
Speculatively, but it would assume prior research, which many people simply won’t do. If a de-facto app (say Voyager on iOS) offers a default option that’s unavailable for a selection of its potential users, it’s another hurdle within onboarding that is already the biggest barrier to entry. If we want to grow as a platform (more users equals more content), putting up a default wall saying “your kind aren’t welcome” to entire countries seems obtuse.
Yes, those potential new UK users can get around it by picking another instance, but the question is how many will give up if they can’t get over the first hurdle.
The suggestion of changing the default instance by region, where those instances prohibit specific regions seems logical enough to me.
- Comment on Voyager moved the default instance to lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago:
It’s not actually complying with UK law, it’s removing it from the equation so it doesn’t have to. I don’t begrudge the decision though, it will have been a difficult choice to make. That said, it’s a sledgehammer approach to self-censorship, as a response to an inability to comply.
Like I say, I don’t have an issue with Lemmy.zip being unavailable in the UK. But I do think it is potentially damaging for Fediverse uptake to promote a default instance that is unavailable to such a large number of users.
For comparison purposes, the UK easily has the second highest number of Reddit users by country. It is a remarkable decision to isolate that potential market by default.
- Comment on Voyager moved the default instance to lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago:
Yep, a region check that sets an alternative default for countries that are blocked by the default server makes way more sense than the default being inaccessible for them.
- Comment on Voyager moved the default instance to lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure that the answer to a government’s regulation of the Internet should be an individual’s blocking of access for an entire country. Seems like 2 sides of the same coin to me.
- Comment on Voyager moved the default instance to lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I don’t blame you either. But I do think the default server should be more inclusive than less, particularly at the potential starting point of a user’s introduction to the fediverse.
- Comment on Voyager moved the default instance to lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago:
Realistically that is never going to happen. The biggest issue the fediverse has is onboarding. People just looking to try out a reddit alternative aren’t going to bother emailing their fucking MP just because the default settings of an app won’t let them sign up. They’ll just give up and go elsewhere.
If we want to encourage growth, adding additional barriers isn’t the way to do it.
- Comment on Voyager moved the default instance to lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Voyager moved the default instance to lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago:
Bit shit for UK users though since lemmy.zip is blocked for them. Not exactly going to encourage new users from here.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Not creepy. The only issue might be a clash of what you want, if it became a serious relationship, ie she may want to marry if she hasn’t before, and you may be averse to it having been divorced. Or she may want children, which you may not if you’ve already got adult kids etc.
- Submitted 1 month ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on BAFTA Crowns Shenmue "The Most Influential Video Game Of All Time" In Surprise Result | Time Extension 3 months ago:
Wasn’t the entire game of Dragon’s Lair based on Quick Time Events? That predates Shenmue by like 15 years.
- Comment on English is a strange language. 5 months ago:
Haha I’m just being dismissive, but greater minds than mine have made the same point.
I read something a while back about Ludwig Wittgenstein (in a YouTube comment of all places). He basically said “It turns out that Philosophy, my entire life’s work, is just a language game and, in the end just like a game, it can be fun and challenging, but ultimately meaningless.” Everyone disagreed then immediately went back to playing their own games, trying to prove him wrong by proving him right.
- Comment on English is a strange language. 5 months ago:
I used to be really interested in paradoxes, but I decided in my old age that they’re all just bloody annoying and pointless. 99% of paradoxes are just linguistics. All these philosophers who spent their lives debating them are infuriating bastards. “Oh you’ve come up with another unsolvable word puzzle have you? Well that’s language for you - an abstraction developed by the fallible. Congratulations mate, great use of everyone’s time.”
