Holy crap…this is great news. I can’t wait.

If I were to become wealthy enough to have this luxury, I would probably goof off and video game the first month. I say this because it’s what I used to do when I was in school and had summers off.

After the boredom kicks in, my brain usually shifts to more creative endeavors. I imagine I’d do some of the projects I used to love. Calligraphy, creating my own language, photography, astrophotography, light gardening, travel to see museums, hiking, visit parks, read, wood working and carving, small projects around the house. Oh wouldn’t it be grand!

Oh my, does he need a lot less UV than a typical beardie? I’ve heard that these guys are hard to properly keep because of their sensitivity. I have a leatherback, but her needs are more typical.

Dang, now I want brownies too. hahaha! Awesome work.

mouth open…looks like he’s got that gecko attitude!

I intend to stay here on beehaw. It will take me a while to get over the habituated behaviors I had with reddit, but the quality of the posts over here is high. I don’t feel like voices are getting drowned out over here. So reddit won’t miss me. Over time, I won’t miss reddit. All good things must end.

Now time to enjoy watching how new communities and the software driving Lemmy develop.

That’s my thought too. Even before this, I felt like I was reading automated posts and chat bot responses on reddit. It seems like a zombie forum where most of the “people” weren’t really real, it was just recycled content, laugh tracks, and being force fed content posted by reddit itself (versus users) scraped from other places.

Y’all have done a wonderful job. I’m in this for the long haul. I’ve donated once and will again. I think I’ll set up a recurring one this time.

I work in tech in a financial aid office. We regularly get slammed with last minute changes from the govt with little details on how they need to be implemented. So we deal with high volume, high detail (because money is involved as is auditing), and high intensity/speed. It’s an ugly mix. I feel like y’all could be in a similar boat. All I can offer is hang in there. Keep putting one foot in front of the other. We support you and I bet you’ll discover some crazy talent in these communities that has the intellect, time and energy to help out.

Interesting times to say the least.

Thanks @Kushan@beehaw.org. That is indeed where I saw it. I forgot the link in my post.

Interesting. The comments are now lagging well below normal. Here’s a screenshot from the blackout tracker. The red arrow shows how reddit is still spamming lots of new posts, but comments are much lower than usual. Normally, at the peak times, comments are at or even above the number of posts. Not today though.

It looks like the activity is flattening now. I guess the stale content is starting to have an effect.

LOL!

I feel the same on BG3. I shelved it for now. I played through the same parts of Act 1 as a Bard and as a Sorcerer. The lack of controller support and the tiny UI made it annoying. The game seems to have a quality plot. I was intrigued. But I see no reason to persist with playing the same area over and over again, fighting the UI and controller when the real deal is close to being released. Yeah, I could remap my controller to work better, but why. Once the game is out, I’ll be using their controller layout, so I’d have to relearn it all. Nah, I’ll just wait.

I’ve been curious as to what the end user experience on reddit might look like today and tomorrow. The blackout tracker seems to show fairly typical activity though. https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/ That perplexes me.

Maybe people are still checking reddit like usual, but many posts are hours old in the private subreddits that they may subscribe to? I know a percentage of subreddits didn’t go dark, but those wouldn’t be big enough to cause engagement to stay at the usual levels. Anyone hazard a guess as to what’s up?

Oh…thank you guys for keeping up with all the chaos from us new folks slamming your servers!

How well is Fallout 3 playing for you? Did you have to set up a custom controller layout? I ask because it’s been a while since I checked, but in the past fallout 3 wasn’t a verified game. It’s a favorite for me though, so I’d love to hear that it plays well on the deck.

I haven’t installed windows. I guess I’ve gotten lazy. In the past I would have done that, but nowadays, I don’t want to deal with finding drivers etc. So I decided I’ll just wait until a game is ready to run on the deck natively or I’ll just play what’s available and not sweat that I’m missing out on something. There are very few games that I feel like I have to play. P5, BOTW, Witcher 3 and the like).

I just started Yakuza Like a Dragon. Holy crapballs, this game is good! I’m only 4 hours into it but damn, the story, dialog; it’s great. I’m on steam deck. It’s verified on deck and runs like a champ.

I relate. First person games are more likely to cause it for me, but there have even been a few third person that do it. Stray was horrible for me, I got stuck within 20 minutes! Interestingly enough, BOTW and TOTK do not cause me any problems despite being action based (though they are third person). I guess how they handle the camera and other video issues it’s the reason? I’ve played nearly 70 hours in TOTK and over 150 in BOTW and never felt green in the least.

Otherwise, I try to stick to turn based games and third person for the most part. Turn based games reduce the frequency that I have to spin the camera around to get my bearings. I’m lucky that I prefer rpgs, so there’s a good collection of third person turn based games to choose from. Persona 5 for example. No issues at all.

Oh yeah. Witcher 3…it’s been a minute since I played that. I don’t know how well I’d be using the deck for it though since I find the device a bit big for my hands. Reaching all the controls is a challenge for me. But I do have it on steam. It would be totally worthy to fire it up on my deck and see.

I’ve been pondering getting this. I must be one of 10 people who have never played a Diablo game. Do you think 4 is approachable for newbs to the franchise?