Don’t worry, at least 2005 was only ten years ago.

…wait.

If this is the best thing you can do, then the second best thing is be active. We’re still content starved around here. If you think of something to post, post it. If you can’t post, try to comment. Especially on any post that has no comments. Doesn’t matter how banal your comment is. Nothing scares away potential new users more than seeing post after post with 0 comments in their feed, and nothing disheartens posters more than that “0 comments” under their post.

People are generally scared or reluctant to do things when nobody else is doing them. They don’t want to post in communities that don’t already have recent posts. They don’t want to comment on posts that have 0 comments. So whenever you can break that silence and be that first post or comment, try to do so.

60 years ago? Buddy, I have some bad news for you…

I’m probably not going to be doing much gaming on my laptop, if any. I could be persuaded to experiment if you have any other suggestions.

I used to use UbuntuStudio back when I was playing around with music recording and production ages ago because it ran the real-time kernel which was important for JACK I think. Last time though was just Mint.

My gaming PC is on Win 11 because it’s recent and I’m lazy and it’s convenient. My laptop runs Win 10 so it’ll be Linux I guess. Not really looking forward to finding a distro and reinstalling and whatnot but what can you do. It’s been a good few years since I last had a Linux box so I’m pretty rusty and not up to date on the recent best distros.

You’ll like it I think, I played it earlier this year and absolutely loved it. Great vibe, good story, beautiful pixel art and a great retro feel without the clunk of actual retro games 😄 Cool world building too.

Are we certain Witcher is the larger game in which Gwent resides and not the other way around?

Anyone up to date on the Iceshrimp .NET rewrite? It looks like it’s sort of up and running from the GitHub page, but they don’t run a flagship instance themselves. Is there any instance up and running it at the moment?

LW are hesitant to do major changes because if something goes wrong it disrupts the entire Lemmy ecosystem. It’s a direct negative consequence of them growing too big, but once they’re in this position I can understand their reservations. I too wish they’d implement upgrades faster but I have no reason to believe they will just refuse to implement an upgrade forever, that’s unreasonable to assume.

Lemmy.nz is what, about 100 MAU? And I know a Blåhaj admin is Australian but Fedi Observer has the server listed as based in Finland and hosted in Germany. Don’t know if that’s wrong though. Are their users also reporting delays?

Latching on to your Lovecraftian recommendations I’d like to put forth Skald: Against the Black Priory, which should presumably also run excellently on the Steam Deck. Keep an eye out for it during the sale, it’s a great tribute to retro CRPGs and has a wonderfully gloomy lovecraftian vibe.

Even so, .world will eventually enable parallel sending, and even in the meantime aussie.zone only boasts 375 MAUs. I empathize with their plight but it’s what, 0.6% of the Lemmy userbase? I don’t know that such a miniscule minority is worth bending over backwards for and creating further fragmentation.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for choosing instances other than .world when setting up new comms. They’re too big. But while we’re still at a point where content amount is the primary concern and we’re trying to achieve critical mass I also don’t know if endless fragmentation is well advised.

Okay this is a little off script since it’s not an open world game, but if you’re only looking for satisfying movement you should take a look at Neon White. Just be warned that the writing is… on the cringier side. But that doesn’t really matter in the end.

Hey now, equating MAGA to coronavirus is a gross injustice to coronavirus!

How dare people play with their dolls in the way they enjoy!?

Not really, though I can understand your point of view. I went into STALKER 2 fully aware that it wasn’t Anomaly, and I was able to enjoy it for what it is (despite needing to use console commands on three separate occasions to progress past hard-locking bugs). I finished it probably a month after release so don’t know its current state.

I was sufficiently engaged in the story and the presentation to definitely want to finish the game, and I enjoyed the new map and the blend of new and familiar locations. After spending so much time with the originals and the Anomaly map it was great to get a fix of more new content with the same vibe - some of the underground lab locations managed to hit classic STALKER vibes for me and kept me going to the end.

If I were to boot up some STALKER right now I might go for Anomaly over another run of S2 though, and that will probably continue to be the case until the DLC drops.

The absurd mix of some legitimate and appropriate choices, some completely unqualified recent releases that haven’t even had time to exert an influence and a winner that is completely bizarre and out of left field is absolutely something else.

Shenmue? Really?

If the American Experiment produces a President Trump, can we now conclusively say that it was a failure?

Funny how that works. Wonder if not mentioning it will help remedy that?

The fediverse, also known as the open social web that includes Mastodon, Meta’s Threads, Pixelfed, and other apps (…)

Mention Lemmy for once 😠