Let them eat rainbow cake!
Kempeth
joined 1 year ago
I mean Targs are basically cat software running on wild boar hardware.
Is reddit justified to bump up it's pricing? Well, they can do whatever they want. In the end it's our fault for entrusting our online lives to monolithic companies.
Reddit will most likely survive. People are inherently lazy and the official app is good enough.
I've took this as an opportunity to give the federated social sphere a chance because there were going to be a lot of folks doing the same and the chance to get something stable going was never going to better. In the beginning it was rough but I'm close to getting much of my entertainment needs fulfilled by the fediverse. I might really make this my new home and just go back to reddit for specific niches.
My hope is that the next time reddit pisses of the community, the fediverse will be in an even better place and more will decide to switch and stick with it.
Keep it general to start with. If the instance grows to critical mass then new slices will appear automatically.
But too many slices early on will just dillute the effort people put in.
Firefly itself is a lot of fun. It really captures the vibe of the series well but absolutely works for non-fans as well. Turns are reasonably speedy but with a full set of players it does take 2 hours or possibly more on some scenarios. Gameplay is simple: you can do two things on your turn out of 4 possible options: get a job, fly around, work a job, shop for equipment and hire crew. The tension comes from the dangers of space (reavers, alliance patrols, navigation hazards) and from the more lucrative jobs requiring some risk taking in the form "misbehave cards" where you usually get 2 possible dice checks to choose from and an "ace in the hole" that might allow you to bypass the challenge if you have the right equipment or skills. So the more people and equipment you bring the better are your chances. But that all eats into your profit.
I have no experience with the expansions. I originally missed the window to purchase them (also some didn't even make it into German). But they are all very well rated on BGG.
I was gonna back it for sure but now a friend already has. I still might though because we really like the game and I wanted the expansions for a while now.
If you're ok with missing out on the anniversary edition, then this should obviously flush some basegames into the second hand market.
Don't get me wrong. I'd be highly surprised if there weren't at least some American fighting in Ukraine on a more than just "personal capacity" but with the fixation the Republicans have with tying Biden to Ukraine it's highly likely that any sizeable involvment would have been been discovered and made public by now.
If you think the Russian Army is fighting the combined western might right now, then I have disappointing news for you.
This is something that happens on reddit too. If you follow a sub that it active but not hugely so their posts will get absolutely buried in the massive flood of bigger subs.
This isn't really something that can be "solved". If you follow one sub that gets 1 post every hour and 10 subs that each get 1 post every 6 minutes. This means that for every 1 post in the small sub you get 100 posts from other subs. That's four pages on reddit to go through to find 1 (!) post.
Say you want the last 5 posts from your tiny sub. Those are going to be spread somewhere through 20 pages. The only way for the software to bring them closer together would be to omit (large) parts of the other content streams. This would mean THAT content gets burried instead.
The solution is to recognize /r/lamaswearingpinkhatstothebeach simply isn't going to post often enough to show up next to /r/aww and browse them directly.
One possibility would be to auto group streams of similar productivity together so you'd have a "frantic" main feed, a "busy" main feed, a "composed" main feed, a "chill" main feed etc. however many are needed. But you'd still have to deliberately browse each individually.
I also removed reddit from my home screen to give the Fediverse a genuine shot. Most places are pretty barren - but there is effort more or less all around trying to produce content.
Memes are pretty active but focused almost exclusively on reddit blackout and the capacity to engage over memes isn't big. World News isn't bad. And board games is spooling up as well. This however has been the most active slice I've visited so far; still mostly about the reddit blackout but there are other questions too. Aww is running and even NSFW slices are starting to get a trickle of original content.
Because companies don't want money. They don't want a lot of money. They want ALL the money. If another company has a feature that people like and use, then this company wants that money as well. So they either buy that other company or copy and push the feature in the hopes of converting users.
This is why YouTube has these asinine shorts shoved into your layout. They know YT users don't want them. This is why you can't disable them. They know that another company makes money with shorts and they want it - so YOU are gonna use them goddammit.
A third party YouTube app doesn't have to show these shorts so YT wouldn't be able to pressure their users into consuming that format.
It's completely baffeling to me how an advanced country like the US can still be stuck with such an obsolete system.
Damn. That was this weekend? We thought about going as well but lost sight of it.
Yeah, um, that was a creep.
But it reminds me of a story from my father where the geography teacher mistakenly put the sex ed slides into the projector. When your script says Netherlands but the projector shows something ... slightly different.