Megaman. Legends.
While I would love for them to finally release 3, I think a soft reboot could work really well. Having a hard time putting it into words, but I feel like they could crib ideas from more modern third person shooters and dungeon crawlers.
Wouldn’t necessarily be what I would want from a Legends return, but I think they could make some money from it.
Sorry, but the original is hotter. That base got me acting unwise. I mean, can you imagine the noises it must make rotating? 🥵
At least that one has a simple solution: delete your saved card.
One unfortunate thing to bear in mind is that school shooting and gun violence stats are pumped up somewhat by gun suicides by people on school grounds.
Even with that in mind, this whole thing is absolutely disgusting and absurd.
Not sure that qualifies as “outrage”. It reads more like disgust to me.
It’s not even pretending to be based off an idea the creator had, as it says it’s inspired by a tweet at the bottom.
Major kudos for sourcing your inspiration, but that makes this feel even more like a “will arrange images for tips” deal.
The term Ante in the game is used instead of “round” or “level”. It’s a measure of how far you’ve gotten. Each “ante” is made up of three “stakes”, point totals you need to beat in a set number of hands played and cards discarded.
There’s no aspect of choosing how much you risk, of “ante-ing up”, or how much you stake. You either beat the points goal (called “chips”) or you lose. There’s no playing of your hand against other hands, bluffing about how good your hand may be to convince others to fold, etc. It’s just you against the score goal. If you beat it faster than the amount of hands you’re given to work with you get extra rewards.
The game has no elements where you stake chips for rewards or anything like that. It borrows basic elements of scoring mechanics from poker, and uses a lot of poker terms for other purposes, but the closest part to gambling is the ability to buy random card packs between rounds (to customize your deck instead of just having the standard 52 card deck).
In between rounds you have access to buy various things to add further modifiers to your scoring, and to adjust the composition of your deck in order to make getting specific combinations more likely.
You can learn most of this in about 5 minutes with the demo, or by taking some time to watch someone else play on youtube.
And people pretend that only American ratings systems pull this kind of bullshit.
My grandfather would regularly mess up managing his diabetes nearly every Christmas we spent with him and end up in a diabetic rage. I honestly couldn’t recount any single one of his diabetic rages because they’ve all kind of congealed together in my head over time.
Three parts that stand out though:
Those may have been all the same incident, but I remember the rages happening on more than one Christmas.
It’s hard to square that shit with all the good memories I had with him. I’ve learned over the years that he was a shit father before he had grandkids too. But he was (excepting the diabetic rages) a good grandfather to me and my cousins.
Life can be weird like that.
Ok, so now you’re looking at Lemmy plus Pictrs (I think that’s the image hosting software most instances use on the backend, but I might have the name wrong).
If you also want video support loke Facebook, that’s an additional load on the server for whatever you use. Probably piped?
Maybe all of that together is still lighter weight than Friendica. I’d be surprised but it’s possible.
So far we both seem to be going off of gut feelings and anecdotes, so if you (or anyone) has harder numbers that would be neat.
Then there’s the workload of the modifications to the code, especially what would be needed to manage potentially nuanced visibility settings for each piece of uploaded content. That would mean that you wouldn’t only need to mess with Lemmy, but how each of the other services work as well.
And then how do you manage federation while ensuring the visibility settings are kept?
By the time you would have a proof of concept that had the basic features down, it would be significantly diverged from Lemmy anyway.
You mention LemmyBB in your other response. I wasn’t aware of it before, but an “old school” forum is significantly more similar in function to Reddit/Lemmy than Facebook is. It’s just Reddit/Lemmy without nested comment replies, so everything is a top level comment (or displayed as one) in chronological order. Plus upvote/downvotes wouldn’t need to be displayed.
None of this makes what you’re suggesting impossible, but you’ve got many additional layers of complexity right out of the gate compared to just using what already exists for the job at a resource efficiency hit.
Would it truly not just be simpler to work on improving Friendica’s efficiency rather than rebuilding the wheel using layer upon layer of leaky abstractions and approximations?
Lemmy is easier to host specifically for the reasons that it wouldn’t make a good Facebook alternative. Hosting what is mainly text content and links is pretty lightweight.
There’s no benefit to trying to be clever with this by manipulating something not fit to task when there is already an existing solution.
Just use one of the Fediverse Facebook alternatives if you want a Fediverse version of Facebook.
“Cranking your hog” could be used as euphemism for male masturbation, but the “joke” is that it’s probably the most ridiculous way you could refer to jerking off.
It also could be used to mean cranking the throttle on a motorcycle.
So THE PACK (the “wolf” pack) is kind of a mix of taking the piss out of: edgy/hardcore biker t-shirts/culture, ridiculously over the top support groups, occasional “wife bad” boomer humor, and the fact that a lot of “strong male” branded stuff is just a hair away from being extremely homoerotic. They’re also legitimately just a fun group of general positive supportive posters.
I DON’T MIND DOING THE DISHES BUT I’D RATHER BE CRANKIN MY HOG WITH MY BROS
Can anyone provide any more context besides a github that only has a multi-page code of conduct as the readme?
I thought homeassistant rolled out voice control features around the end of last year/start of this one.
My daughter isn’t even two yet, but I’m definitely trying to plan a balance with this. It’s a huge part of how I learned, and I don’t think I would have learned nearly as much or as well otherwise.
At the same time though, I can’t help but feel like ads and the internet are far more insidious than they were when I first went online in 2000.
Malware is much more sneaky. There’s more spare resources for it to use without impacting performance. Ads have likewise had plenty of time to develop/advance/get worse.
Thankfully, ad blocking, anti-malware, and recovery tools have also advanced.
I think for the early days I’ll have her on an isolated, locked down, pre-protected device for learning the basics of using a computer (mouse, files, the type of stuff they used to teach in elementary school).
Then slowly take off the training wheels.
According to the itch.io owner on bluesky, a forum was created on itch.io for discussion of Funko Fusion (a licensed Funko game that just released on the Switch, per Funko’s twitter).
Funko uses a third party (Brand Shield) for IP protection and issuing DCMA requests, as most big companies do to help shield from bad PR.
Brand Shield uses an AI based system that flagged the forum as infringing. Instead of contacting itch.io directly through proper channels for DMCA claims with the site itself, they contacted itch.io’s DNS registrar iwantmyname. These are people that connect “itch.io” to the IP address of the server, so you can get to it easily online.
iwantmyname forwarded the complaint to itch’s hosting service, who forwarded it to the owner.
The itch.io owner took down the forum/page that was flagged as soon as they recieved notice about it, as they say it’s not worth trying to fight this sort of thing when it’s just a basic DCMA flagging. They informed their hosting service, who confirmed the page was taken down and itch.io was in the clear. They also informed iwantmyname, who did not respond at all, and instead stopped pointing “itch.io” at the itch.io IP, taking the site down.
itch.io’s owner starts posting on bluesky and x about the event, and within about half a day the registrar reinstates the site.
Someone (so far unidentified but clearly associated with Funko) contacts the itch.io owner’s mother and makes some threatening comments to her about statements on her son’s social media accounts, scaring her into texting him a “please call me” type text. He screenshots this and posts it to twitter.
Funko makes an “apology” post on twitter that distinctly lacks any actual apology, shifts all the blame to the third party IP protection company, and states that the flagged page was impersonating an official development page for their game. But they’re “happy” the issue is resolved.
Funko publicly stating the page that was flagged was impersonating an official page is a pretty serious claim, especially along with the very obvious scare tactics of contacting the itch.io owner’s mother. Make no mistake, those are both big fucking threats.
Fwb doesn’t have romantic elements. The “benefits” is sex, not any other relationship stuff. The friendship doesn’t even have to be a particularly good one.
I find that intentionally trying to hide things just makes this occurence 10x as likely.
Just password protect it and leave it where it’s convenient. I would hope that you aren’t in a situation where getting robbed is likely.
There’s a difference between tempering, and making sure the artillery is aimed at the most valuable targets.
We need this energy to stay pointed at the 1%, and to not get mixed up in the weeds. The last time we had energy like this was Occupy Wall Street, and the momentum was killed by attempting to expand the scope from the initial target of the 1%.
About time. One hell of a wrap up.