Also, information hygiene here is terrible. No mods seem to care.

I think a combo of better moderation and a larger and more diverse user base is what Lemmy needs to succeed. The former is hard to achieve because you have to straddle the line between too lax and too strict, and everyone’s going to have a different idea where that line is. I get the feeling people just copy-pasted all the popular subreddits without enforcing the rules that gave each sub its identity. Askreddit was about open-ended questions meant to elicit discussion or shared experiences. Nostupidquestions was about seeking information. Showerthoughts was about quick realizations or observations. Mildlyinteresting was about odd little coincidences or anomalies you run into going about your day. But here on Lemmy there’s no quality control so they’re all filled with varying degrees of ragebait.

Growing the user base is even harder because the “politics is everything” folks repel any normal human being who just wants to talk about Pokemon.

TIL severe retinal scarring is “user error”

I mean Linux folks on Lemmy generally can be pretty toxic too. I get downvoted for saying I’d love to use Linux but my blindness prevents me from doing so. If someone said they’d love Linux if not for its users I’d probably agree.

It’s a sort of pendulum effect. Lemmy as a whole is very Linux-focused, almost militantly so (see my other Linux-related posts and comments). So people who feel otherwise form their own knot of extremists, alienating people who don’t feel strongly either way.

Honestly I don’t think so. I want the fediverse to grow, but the vibe here can be exhausting sometimes. Whenever I say I can’t use Linux because I’m blind I get a bunch of downvotes. Whenever I say I’d love to talk about cats or vintage computers without someone bringing up Trumpa-Lumpa in the comments I get shouted down as well. I can’t imagine Joe Social Media User wanting to be around people like that. I could say a ton more but I’ve rehashed it elsewhere.

And that’s not getting into the (comparatively) high friction nature of first choosing an instance to sign up to. Heck, I didn’t understand how the fediverse worked for a while, and I’m in IT. The world is full of people who don’t have that background that will find the very concept impenetrable.

I’ll second Tunic. It’s RTFM the game.

yeah well !worldbuilding@lemmy.world needs more content.

I feel like this would be a good prompt over in !worldbuilding@lemmy.world.

Data is the plural past participle of the Latin verb do, dare, dedi, datum meaning to give. The singular is datum meaning that which is given. So data means things that are given. Not sure that will help but I gotta use those 3 years of high school Latin somewhere.

I think in order to use desktop Linux you have to be comfortable making your computer a hobby. I’ve tried many distros across 16+ years and I couldn’t go for more than a few days without some part of the OS breaking, some app not working properly, or some functionality simply not being available. Depending on your career and lifestyle, some or all of these are solvable if you’re willing to put in the effort.

Sometimes I’m willing to put in that effort, but increasingly I just want my computer to be a tool that gets out of the way. I think militant Linux users regard that extra effort as a positive in and of itself, or are willing to put up with it for ideological reasons, and thumbs up to them for that, but they can’t grok the fact Linux simply doesn’t work for some people. If you need THE MS Office or Adobe, and many many people do, Linux isn’t going to work. If you need accessibility, as I do, Linux isn’t going to work.

I think the original meaning of “The customer is always right” fits here. If someone says they need something that Linux can’t provide, and especially if they’ve tried what Linux offers and found it unfit for their needs, they need to be taken at face value instead of being gainsaid at every turn.

If you’ve found that Linux meets your needs, hats off to you. I’m even a bit jealous, but until my needs align with what Linux can provide I can’t switch. I’ll keep trying Linux here and there just as I have the last 16 years, but I’m not holding out hope that accessibility will improve, and won’t be able to switch until it does.

Behold the cringe that is The Lonely Galaxy. It’s my worldbuilding and conlanging project. Conlanging is by its nature a hobby that you can only do for its own sake, as there’s no way to get nonlangers interested in your work without being talented at some other art like drawing or writing.

knowing absolutely nothing about this topic and assuming the statement is legit, I assume the reason why is because you want incoming light to hit the surface at a lower angle to create more shadows and make the topography stand out more.

Haven’t come close to finishing the game but I use the keep bones on death modifier and it makes the game more fun. My one complaint so far is that they could have made some of the modifiers into trinkets so using them feels less like cheating.

I love Tunic but it’s probably not what OP is looking for. If “Minecraft with a goal” is what you want I’ll recommend Terraria. It’s dirt cheap for the amount of content you get.

I’m a 'Murican. When they had that royal wedding back in 2012 or whenever and everyone was going crazy I was like didn’t we fight a war so we wouldn’t have to care about this?

I’ve been around general monarchists, as in people who support monarchy as a form of government, and always wanted to ask this question. The best answer I can think of myself is that democracy is not a guarantee against bad leadership.

Heresy! *BLAM!*

Constructed languages. I rarely see this sentiment expressed even though it was voiced by the very guy who popularized it as a pastime. It’s such a lonely and melancholy hobby. The whole point of a language is to communicate, but we spend our time making languages that will never be used to communicate.

And it’s not like art or music or cooking, where it produces a product that people who aren’t artists or musicians or chefs can enjoy. You pretty much have to know linguistics to appreciate anything other than how the language sounds (phonology and phonetactics) or how it’s written, assuming the creator bothered to make a writing system, which many don’t. So my siblings who were into Irish dancing or marching band got all the attention because people “got” what they were doing and could enjoy it without devoting considerable time to understanding the underlying mechanics of it all, while I toiled away in obscurity digging up scholarly articles on proto indo-european verb conjugations and Austronesian morphosyntactic alignment.

“But early_riser,” I hear you cry, “Lots of people want to learn Klingon or Na’vi or Sindarin. You just have to write stories about your languages and their world that people can enjoy.” But I suck at writing, and it’s not as fun as making languages.

If anyone knows of an option on PC/Linux, let me know.

I use timed firewall rules for my entire network. Really only works if the internet is required, but works across everything. I couple that with screen time on my iPhone so I’m not tempted to get around the firewall by using the cellular network.

I use a Unifi Dream Machine Pro as my router/firewall.

I’m not sure where you are in life, but I think at least some of the “games suck now” (or in this case “trailers suck now”) vibe comes from our lives changing as we get older, and not just the games themselves.

When I play Ocarina of Time, it takes me back to that time in my life when I first played it, when I was in middle school and the heaviest thing on my mind was what I was going to eat for breakfast the next morning. Except for maybe Tunic^[1] modern games, even good ones, don’t evoke those emotions, and as a much older person dealing with the struggles of adulthood I can’t imagine coming back to these newer games in ten years to relive my current situation. For example, Minecraft was released after I was done with college. I was part of the early older player base that existed in Alpha and Beta, I don’t have the nostalgia for the game that a lot of zoomers probably do.

As for game announcements and the hype train, for me at least that’s also a victim of aging. When I was a kid games were a scarce luxury in the sense that I couldn’t just thoughtlessly click a button and play the game aftera ten minute download. I had to save up my allowance and and ask my parents to take me to Funco Land or Toys Я Us, and that’s assuming my mom didn’t decide I had enough games already.

I vividly remember hearing that Nintendo was releasing a Mario fighting game (which turned out to be Smash Bros). I looked forward to the release because there was a real chance I wouldn’t be able to get the game because I didn’t have the money or my parents said no, so that made it feel like something special and helped feed the hype train.

I do think games are measurably worse in some ways now though. You don’t own your games anymore, AAA budgets are skyrocketing while quality is cratering. They’re riddled with microtransactions, and purely single player experiences are rare in the AAA space. A lot of that can be mitigated by focusing on indie games though.

Oh the 2006 Sony E3 presentation! So many great memes came out of that one. Giant Enemy Crab!