Auster
@Auster@thebrainbin.org
I still prefer *bin over Lemmy for the UI and the domain-blocking feature, even with Lemmy having post-hiding features. 🙂
- Comment on Setting up a DOS/Win98 system for gaming 2 days ago:
I see. If using either options then, emulator or VM, also maybe look at ways of auto-mounting optical media's ISO images. Saves some of the trouble, as games from that time often require the media to be mounted while playing.
And if the disks you talk about are diskettes, you'll probably need an adapter to back up the files or disk image. Else, if it's an optical media, have yet to see a reader not capable of dumping the disc.
- Comment on Setting up a DOS/Win98 system for gaming 2 days ago:
Personally, I think VMs would be more portable, but by a very small distance. At most how the machine is started and some compatibilities change.
And about the games listed, some of those have source ports for newer systems, so I ask, does your friend want to run through an old system, or simply play those older games? If the latter, then maybe a VM or emulator wouldn't be needed.
- Comment on Community Discoverability Inconsistencies 2 days ago:
Not very familiar with PieFed, but from my experience on Mbin and Lemmy, communities only exist for another instance if either someone already follows it, someone click on a ! link to a community and follows it, the link of a post from a given community is searched in the instance's search field, someone comments or up/downvotes on a post, or, microblogging/Mbin-specific, someone boosts a post and is followed by someone from another instance. However, neither are fail-proof from what I tested, and from the little I used PieFed, it seems a bit more bureaucratic to find external stuff, which added to being the newer of the thread-type site engines, might make it a bit slower to find stuff initially.
Though, on this last part, similar to what I observe in Mbin, propagation is exponential, so at some point having to manually track stuff should become just a memory.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Heard an expression for storytelling once in Portuguese once that kinda translates to "street fight" - when the story writer doesn't know how to proceed so he throws whatever. Kinda like deus ex machina trope, but more chaotic. Shippuden, the further it went, the more it gave me that impression. And I'm not watching/reading Boruto, the movie from right after Shippuden was already bad enough.
- Comment on The Wikipedia page for the fediverse describes a den of iniquity 6 days ago:
I see. Sorry for jumping the gun.
- Comment on The Wikipedia page for the fediverse describes a den of iniquity 6 days ago:
The problem of reporting specific cases is that it could become cancel culture all over again. First option, I think, would be to try to correct issues in the article. Then, if they denied, then start suspecting of tue site itself. And if already suspecting, it adds up to its untrustworthiness.
- Comment on The Wikipedia page for the fediverse describes a den of iniquity 6 days ago:
Skimmed through the article and something picked my attention, the numbers given in the "325000 posts analyzed". The way its given, it makes seem like big numbers, but if you calculate what is the percentage of the numbers given, it's less than 1%. Can't check the linked source, but it seems like a classical "lying with statistics".
And besides, text seems written in a way to give the impression site moderation for smaller sites is too stupid to block bad actors, and that only the paternalism of bigger sites can solve this implied issue.
- Comment on What first emulation handheld would you recommend? 1 week ago:
Dunno how it is through Retroarch, but what I used was a separated program, Lime3DS ("Azahar" now? Got the APK in the short window it was named that)
- Comment on What first emulation handheld would you recommend? 1 week ago:
If not, only other system I'm familiar with for emulation is the PS Vita, but given being from the same generation as the 3DS, the most it can run is Saturn, PS1 and some PC games through source ports (and heavy graphical downgrades when needed).
- Comment on What first emulation handheld would you recommend? 1 week ago:
Would phones count? I have a Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro, and it's surprisingly powerful for its release year. Can even tackle some PS2 games through AetherSX2. Also works with 3DS emulation, at least from what I tested of Bravely Second.
- Comment on I'm a bit hooked on old anime. 1 week ago:
Will be looking at those 👀
Thanks!
- Comment on I'm a bit hooked on old anime. 1 week ago:
Went back to anime recently, and they feel like they're all becoming the same thing, least checking random ones through Crunchyroll for some months now. Art style is becoming pretty same-y even for older, still running shows, story setting and pacing also seem to be more uninventive than ever, and in action animes, thunder or similar-looking effects sound like always have the same audio track playing. I wonder if those series are already using AI as I remember seeing being proposed in a news a while back.
- Comment on Can anybody anywhere in the world 🌍 create a website like lemmy and Mastodon with possibility of creating multiple instances and feed it into the fediverse so that it gets shared into both lemmy and? 1 week ago:
Old post, but in case it's still useful, Mbin's been working great as a bridge for propagating posts between services from my experience. Lemmy can fetch posts from thread-based instances pretty well, but on other things, Mbin feels the gap, like having from what I can notice an easier time tracking Peertube, its boosts allow propagating pretty much any posts to microblogging platforms, and being able to follow users, their posts (either from threads or microblogs) get tracked automatically, no need to look for the post's link on the search field.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
But about story, if going by what I saw the devs sharing, humour is very promising. =D
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
Got to when Kapi is introduce. Up to that point, as a Brazilian? A bit cringe. Can't say much more about the story as I didn't play further. On gameplay, at least on that tutorial segment, it plays fantastic.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
Been playing Silksong as quickly as possible while still being enjoyable, as I'd rather avoid spoilers and quite a few of the people I follow are posting content on it.
But once it's done, planning to go back to Final Fantasy XII and Girl from Arkanya.
- Comment on Scary games. . ? 2 weeks ago:
For more psychological horrors, maybe the first Devil May Cry? Early PS2 game, and is a recycled Resident Evil project so part of the ambience remains. Later games are more toned down on horror though.
Dreaming Sarah, I found to be good, but its horror is more on the bizarre.
Limbo, been considering playing for a while now, and from what I've seen, jump scares seem minimal. Same for the creator's other game, Inside.
- Comment on Mirror Instance for Interactable Archiving 2 weeks ago:
Kbin.Social (rip) and Lemm.ee (rip #2) posts still appear on Lemmy.World. Also pondercat (rip #3) was a bot-only instance (in its case, for tracking RSS feeds). So all in all, I think it's fairly possible, with only minor (?) issues being in the way, like mirroring external content that would be loaded seemlessly (e.g. Imgur on Lemmy and Peertube on Mastodon) and storage and processing power for tracking the instances.
- Comment on Unified Fediverse App - a browser solution? 3 weeks ago:
On the first point, propagation happens passively too. For example, if someone follows me on Mastodon, this reply will be pulled to his/her feed as a microblogging post, and will be discoverable on any feeds my account later appears. I remember also testing around between Lemmy and Mbin how liking/upvoting works, and doing that on Lemmy while the Mbin account followed it also showed posts previously not on my Mbin instance.
Similarly, Mbin (and dunno about Lemmy but I'd imagine it's the same) pulls Peertube channels as magazines/communities, and iirc Peertube channels can also be followed as users on microblogging platforms, and in both cases their video uploads automatically appear on the respective text feeds.
And about the second point, I agree, but that's also why I suggest recommending major platforms. For example, Lemmy.World and Mastodon.Social are likely to have far more publications being posted on or propagated to than Mbin or PieFed instances, since the former two are around for much longer, and not actively trying to be toxic (at least from what I can observe).
- Comment on Unified Fediverse App - a browser solution? 3 weeks ago:
Personally, I think it would only work out if the programmer tries to reconstruct posts from different formats in a format that works out for each. Otherwise it becomes what it already is, a glorified browser with multiple profiles enabled, and with over-preference for a type of engine.
My opinion is, take note of the major platforms for each engine and/or experience, and recommend them based on your friends' tastes.
The rest, centralization, would be replaced by what I call propagation (iirc people call it "to federated"?), which people directly and indirectly do, like boosting posts (Mbin / microblogging stuff) and commenting so people following the user see the original post too, following people and following Peertube channels on Peertube and the "threadiverse" so one's account is a bridge for propagation, up/downvoting, etc. And as this web of social medias grows, tendency is that it keeps growing exponentially until either it takes over like email, or stagnates.
This logic, I think, is similar to recommending Linux Mint or immutable distros to Linux novices, the "safe bet" for them before they get used to the technical side or while Linux wouldn't (past tense) become accessible.
- Comment on Mass migration to Piefed for various history and meme subs! 3 weeks ago:
Unsure what had happened in another post and poked in my instance's main(?)/meta(?) community (!askthebrainbin), but after a short back and forth, and seeing the behavior repeat here as well, I think the owner's assumption is correct, the first of each pair of community links here is actually a hyperlink manually created, while the seconds are proper sharable communities.
- Comment on I have this corner in my basement 3 weeks ago:
First thing I'd think to do in such a corner is also a thin and tall cabinet/chest/other storage unit. Unsure if brooms would be good there as they may carry dirt/dust around and seem to be close to a few storage places as well as the sink itself.
- Comment on Most Effective way to search the Threadiverse? 3 weeks ago:
I'd try finding a community to where I'd like to post a given article, and look for its posts in the OG instance as well as in instances I have accounts on for other engines (the 3 major thread-oriented ones I know about are Lemmy, Mbin and PieFed). Other than that, of retarded/delayed results but still something I'd recommend, is to follow people in other instances (Mbin / microblogging / Peertube thing), and interact with everything the user finds so posts can propagate across instances, so at least in future searches, others, or even yourself, may find/refind posts more easily.
- Comment on Best Co-Op Games? 4 weeks ago:
The Neo Geo Metal Slug games were extremely fun to play side by side with a friend. Just note Metal Slug 2 has lag problems due to the engine used, but it was later ported to MS3's engine as Metal Slug X.
Also, most versions of the games on PC come with the ROMs, if you'd rather use your own emulator.
Another set of games we also enjoyed a lot were the River City Girls games. Just had to use health cheats on the SNES game repurposed because it was getting too hard for the time we had. "<.<
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
About tinkering, if you'd be interested at some point in the future, maybe also test something like a more general Linux system with either Kodi or RetroPie? Also maybe, if you have the money, to throw in a Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 as the hardware? Think it'd give a nice console-like device.
- Comment on How do I discover the Pixelfed content that is out there when so many big instances block exploration? 4 weeks ago:
Maybe have an account on a service that allows boosts, and follow it with your Pixelfed account? When you boost a post, it should get synchronized with every instance that follows your account (least that's what I do between Mbin, Lemmy, Mastodon and Peertube).
- Comment on What are your favourite and go-to gaming websites? 5 weeks ago:
As I like to source my own ROMs, those 4 tend to be my primary places to look:
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https://www.gog.com/forum/general/roms_obtainable_on_gog_compendium/page1
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https://itch.io/games/ (can filter by platform-specific tags for the homebrew ROMs)
Also other places, but most way smaller and mainly found through the 4 above.
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- Comment on It's a simple thing, but one good way to make games memorable is for the developers to leave you words of encouragement in the pack-in material. 5 weeks ago:
Something pretty simple but that I think works very well, at the end credits, at the very end, when there's something in the lines of "...and a special thanks, To You".
- Comment on Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So 1 month ago:
Another point, if protecting children online is indeed a legitimate argument, and not an scapegoat to make passing the law easier, shouldn't be the parents to decide what the children see online?
- Comment on Ubisoft: Microtransactions make games more fun 2 months ago:
Remember when you could play to customize characters? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
And regarding taking less time to progress, borrowing from South Park's "freemium" explanation, maybe making the gameplay loop a bit more than just barely fun would avoid the player's need for the game to hurry up? And if it involves gambling, it's a whole other can of worms.
Sounds like gaslighting to investors that start hearing about the subject.