Perhaps unrelated but Lemmy.world seems to be having some major performance issues right now. Historically this kind of thing could really screw up federation. See https://status.lemmy.world/

Good ol’ Sriracha because of its versatility. It goes well with so many foods.

Fascism will surely be defeated by “slowing the nomination process”. Well, I guess it’s something. Sigh.

Some kind of insanely expensive medicine which saves lives so I can give it away. It’d be very rewarding and I don’t need anything else anyway.

Just a few years ago I watched the movie Bridge of Spies which, based on real events, dramatically portrayed the arbitrary Kafkaesque detention of American student Frederic Pryor by the evil Stasi and the unjust East German state. Well I guess we’re the baddies now.

The children yearn for the minesfactories.

Yeah again no arguments there. You’re looking at it from a particular point of view and I think you play a lot more fighting games than me.

But maybe balance isn’t everything to everyone, especially to casuals like me. IMO the classic Tekkens, especially 5, are still more fun than 7 or 8. I’ve played all of them quite a bit and I just can’t vibe with the modern ones. Perhaps at the highest levels people care more about being able to challenge any character with any character but that just doesn’t make a fighting game more fun for me. I prefer it not randomly changing, or having to keep spending money on it. Eh, grouchy old man nostalgic for a “better” time…

Yeah that’s valid. I can see why it’s interesting.

However I personally don’t think the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. People are still playing and enjoying 20 or even 30 year old competitive games. Are they perfectly balanced? No. Is that actually a problem in the vast majority of cases? Also no, imo. The meta can evolve for decades, and tournaments can set whatever arbitrary rules they deem make competition more interesting.

Keep this live service nonsense away from me. I stopped playing fighting games, and generally a lot of multiplayer games, because of it.

Edit: Needless clarification: This is purely my grouchy old man personal opinion and if people enjoy games where the gameplay gets constantly tweaked and tinkered with over time that’s fine. I never got used to it. And I’m quite nostalgic for multiplayer games which I only had to buy once to get all the content with my friends.

I wish game developers would stop with this live service bullshit already.

Make a game. Balance it. It’s good. Release it. Gamers buy it and enjoy it. This is how it used to be.

But I guess the appeal of potentially scoring a massive cashcow unicorn title is too hard to resist.

When a bar permits dickheads to stay and harass other people, we boycott the bar. There are plenty of better places to hang out.

The current Piefed instances unfortunately don’t seem to show what they federate with. I personally would not join an instance which federates with lemmy .ml anymore, for example. But yeah there sure are a lot of options popping up which is great.

“We are not monsters,” the officer told her, according to the statement. “We do what the government tells us.”

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised to see the Nuremberg defense being thrown around already.

Not necessarily a bad thing. There are multiple interoperable “threadiverse” platforms already. I like Lemmy currently but I’d happily switch to an alternative, and financially support them, if like the UX and the devs are less toxic.

That’s why I’m on infosec.pub. There should be a list somewhere of instances which defederate from those annoying instances so people can more easily pick a good home server.

I had forgotten about Misery Index. I think I saw them live many years ago, good show 🤘

Secret handshake

That’s probably just mail that lands in your spam folder without being entirely blocked. According to Microsoft and Google approximately 99% of incoming spam (of the ~160 billion spam emails sent per day) never even reaches their users mailboxes. I assume that’s roughly standard across email providers. I am concerned comparably sophisticated filtering may become necessary on the Fediverse eventually.

I’ve been using Fedi for a long time and from the very beginning I’ve been afraid of spam and bots ruining it, at least temporarily. Spam is still a problem with e-mail, and it’s been around for 40 years and they’ve developed very sophisticated anti-spam mitigations for it.

Total Annihilation

“Fuck you, I’ve got mine” seems to be the mantra of a shockingly large number of people.