MyopicTopic

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[–] MyopicTopic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Coffee's been around for hundreds of years. You think there's really going to be an about face on it after all this time?

[–] MyopicTopic@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think anyone has a problem with bottle episodes. It's the bottle episodes specifically starring Vic Fontaine which stretches the premise thin to incredulity that I think people--or at least I--have an issue with. Do another Ferengi or Klingon thing if need be. But attaching such sentiment to a character that the show really really wants you to like doesn't work for me. Again, he's a love him or hate him character. At least Ezri's episodes, while shoehorned, made sense for why they needed to be there if they had to have her as a replacement at all. Vic was just an insert the writers specficially wanted for no good reason.

[–] MyopicTopic@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Most people here are ignoring the main reason: the writers were just a bunch of baseball loving rat pack fans who took their love of those things maybe a little too far. In the case of baseball, we only had Take Me Out to Holosuite to deal with (which is a great episode--provided you like baseball, I suppose). In the case of the rat pack, we inexplicably got Vic Fontaine who you either love or hate. I wouldn't hate Vic Fontaine so much myself if they didn't force him to basically take up the space that Quark's Bar was supposed to be, and for him to be an integral part of the show so late in the series. And yes, the musical numbers take up too much time, if you ask me.

[–] MyopicTopic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Absolutely the biggest issue for Lemmy (and any other federated threadlike site). This whole reddit "implosion" business (though it really is doing just fine still) has done wonders for user growth, but it's gonna take at least another few hundred thousand+ people on here before there's enough random distribution to make smaller niche hobby communities viable.

[–] MyopicTopic@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

It's definitely not old reddit. But absolutely hate the new reddit crowd. So much low effort bullshit that's making this place feel like /r/funny.

I do agree not enough of the niche stuff I'm into has built up though. Personally enjoy local/regional and hobby stuff. So far, regional communities are big enough to have much discussion or content, and the hobby stuff I'm into hasn't really moved over much other than the various tech stuff which is something, at least.

The issue is it takes a lot of users to hit a point where enough niche communities can exist. Until then it's just gonna be this lame tryhard shit with people trying to force lemmy memes about beans or some dude who can't poop.

[–] MyopicTopic@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably none, if you're fine with KeePass. Personally I don't want to use anything that's hosted on someone else's server. It's a bit more inconvenient to use the local files of KeePass only, but I'd rather feel a bit safer with that, even if by all account BitWarden/Proton Pass would be fine.

[–] MyopicTopic@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

It's made on the same engine as Skyrim and Fallout 4 so for all intents and purposes this is going to be like any other Bethesda game. So, if people want Fallout 4 in space with procedural worlds and companions then I guess it'll be what they're looking for. But my belief is it's going to feel like a last gen game with a sheen of current gen on top.

[–] MyopicTopic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

384 blocked for beehaw, Jesus Christ. Trying to like build its own world over there?

[–] MyopicTopic@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

What a weird trailer. The British humor of Fable is just a fun extra on top of the core gameplay, not the defining feature... Not really sure what this trailer is conveying exactly, showing off a single character and some kind of Richard Ayoade theme park experience, but I guess we'll see.

[–] MyopicTopic@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What provider are you using to host? I've got a hostgator shared plan for a personal site but wasn't sure if I'd specifically need a VPS to do it.

[–] MyopicTopic@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a web hosting service. The plan I have is the baby plan shared hosting on this link.

But from looking more myself, not sure if this would work. I think I'd need a VPS to actually install and build Lemmy on.

[–] MyopicTopic@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Man, I been waiting for this for years. I thought with the way Mastodon grew it'd eventually grow into a wider growth among the fediverse but it seems to happen in fits and starts. Glad to see people are federating too and not all dumping into just the mainline instance.

Next I'd like to see major names move off YouTube and Twitch onto decentralized platforms but that's gonna take much more to get there, unfortunately.

 

Curious, since I know I can block communities of instances. Is instance-wide blocking only available to admins of instances?

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