Wimopy

@Wimopy@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not OP, but I’ll answer from my own perspective. Note that Discord terminology can be a bit weird, since a server is just a unique shared group space, but hopefully makes sense.

  So you can:

  • Have private chats with one or multiple individuals.
  • Start audio or video calls through those chats, and screen share/stream in them.
  • I’ll also mention the ability to send not just text, but images, videos, embedded GIFs, files, so on.
  • in servers you get the same thing, broken into text and voice channels (the latter allowing the full range of audio, video, and screen share).
  • in servers each user can be given roles to determine which channels they can see and use, or edit, among various other permissions.
  • Pinned messages, @ mentions for roles.
  • Though I don’t use it much anymore, the option to effectively subscribe to a channel on another server to have messages from there propagate over (e.g.: a uni club server announces an event and you see it on another server in an events channel)
  • also servers don’t have any upper limits on members, at least not one I’ve ever seen hit
  • Bot integration via API.
  • oh, also it all works on desktop or mobile (because it’s mostly just a web app, but still)

  And key thing is: all very easy to get started with, whether you’re just wanting to join a server, or start an entire community.

  Big deal for my uses currently is voice chat and screen share in one place, while still being able to organise stuff into separate channels, pin messages in them, etc.

  I think right now if I had to replace it, assuming I could get the people I interact with off (which is either 20 or 1500 people, depending on how much I’d want to carry with me), it’d have to be a mix of Matrix/Stoat and probably Steam’s built-in features. Maybe a classic forum. That is, if I wanted to have all the features I use. I could do with less, but it’s frustrating.

  I think the alternatives will get there eventually, self-hosted even, but self-hosting also has a hardware cost.

  That said, I really don’t know why software stuff was ever moved on discord. My uses are gaming and university community-related.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reform UK politicians should be barred from speaking on campus, say 35% of students⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like they asked about specific parties being banned. 16% even said Labour…

  Without seeing the full survey it’s hard to gauge, but seems like it might’ve been odd phrasing.

  Disregarding that, I think I agree with the majority here. Reform are, sadly, a legitimate political party in the UK, who even have seats in Parliament. I don’t feel we should be targeting individual political parties with freedom of speech restrictions, at least not on a national level. Students and staff getting their universities to bar them would be fine. Perhaps an odd distinction, but I think it’s an important one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'More DLC = More FPS' — Monster Hunter Wilds Players Ask Capcom for Answers After Theory Suggests a Backend DLC Check Is Tanking Performance - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately it seems very much a mixed bag. For some the more recent patches did a lot, for others they broke things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'More DLC = More FPS' — Monster Hunter Wilds Players Ask Capcom for Answers After Theory Suggests a Backend DLC Check Is Tanking Performance - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  (Sadly on Windows) The same happened to me. Decent performance around release, later updates messed it all up. That said I think the latest update did make it run better than ever on my machine, but obviously YMMV.

  I do think they’re working on it, they just seem to be lost? It should be a big deal for Capcom if Monster Hunter loses popularity due to performance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zack Polanski open to Labour pact — but only if Starmer goes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking at the original article in The Independent, it’s pretty clear he is not at all aiming for a pact with Labour. Only when “pressed” about one did he say explicitly he would consider it but never with current Labour-right… Which as you say is re-stating his stance of wanting to replace, not ally with Labour. It’s a diplomatic “no, we only ally with more like-minded people”.

  The title from The Canary feels like it overstates the case, but it is still what Polanski said in the end. It does also more strongly push the idea that Labour going back to the left would be better for them than stating it with the original caveats, so I assume that’s deliberate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bosses can reject applicants who support rival football team to existing staff, judge says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. As another commenter says, in Glasgow the football team might just matter, and considering how things go: fair enough.

  But this specific case was actually not about who the candidate supported, that’s just what the judge brought up as an example. I’d say it wasn’t even about not drinking, that’s what the candidate alleged. But the ruling seems like it would apply to all of those cases as precedent anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bosses can reject applicants who support rival football team to existing staff, judge says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  By law, yes. But that’s the trick: you say you didn’t hire someone because you think they wouldn’t fit the team. In reality, it’s because of their religion or ethnicity or gender. Officially though, you say it’s because they wouldn’t join in for drinks on Friday. “I just didn’t vibe with them”.

  Of course this has caveats. It’ll only be possible between two equally qualified candidates, but that can be subjective as well.

  Also this specific candidate was not hired because the employer said they didn’t vibe with them. The football team is an example used by the judge. The not drinking and being introverted was used by the candidate. It’s a weak case. I don’t think the candidate had much to stand on, but the judge’s ruling is way too generic is what my point is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bosses can reject applicants who support rival football team to existing staff, judge says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For football teams? Sure, maybe.

  But that’s not the main point in the case, is it? To me this decision seems like it says you could decide not to hire someone because they don’t drink (since that’s basically what was being argued). Couldn’t that then be used to legally discriminate against, say, Muslims? Or people more committed to family than work?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petition to tell MasterCard, Visa, and activist groups to stop censoring legal fictional content⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like this should be an official EU petition like Stop Killing Games as well. Have lawmakers actually tell payment processors that they have no right to deny legal transactions (not just fictional content, but any legal transaction).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game design question : how to make a "trapped" player character?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems like it fits more of a management/strategy type vibe to me.

  Maybe you hear news of the 10 greatest knights of the realm coming to save you. But you don’t know what they’re great at and you only have a limited amount of instructions to give them.

  You could have the first knight leave hints by telling him to leave marks in specific places. But he might be the best at combat and would be best sent against some of the other monsters guarding the path. You just don’t have the information.

  But honestly, I’m not sure if that makes a player feel trapped. They have power to change things. Maybe you steadily take away that power? I’m just not sure how.

  Very interesting question though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to find a game I remember...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Unlikely to be it since it’s nowhere near from the last 10 years, but CITY 2000 seems like it could be similar at least artistically?

  I think the best I can recommend is looking through Steam, searching for “London” and the mystery genre. I didn’t quite catch anything there that fit at a glance, but maybe you will. Similarly could be done on GOG, since it sounds like it could potentially be an older game? Or itch, but maybe the best way to search for that would be by googling london missing friend mystery site:itch.io.

  I’m assuming a modern setting, with no supernatural elements and the mystery genre, so that’s the best I could do. It’s going to be very hard to find something without some details being fixed. Point and click? Photos or isometric? Is the player character visible? Do they have any identifying details? Does the pub have a name? Anything like that could do a lot.

  You say you watched someone play it on youtube then you might be able to search your youtube viewing history?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Winter Sale Featured Deep Discounts - any recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have any sources for this? I tried to look into it, but I can’t find them making any political statements and they seem to be mostly centred in Cyprus, so how much do they actually support Russia besides being (originally?) Russian and thus at risk if speaking out against Putin?