I feel like more people using smaller instances is a good thing, as it helps them become one of those desirable instances, and helps keep the Admins of those small instances motivated to maintain their instance (since they see their efforts being rewarded).

I do get that a bigger instance provides a smoother experience out of the box, but with Lemmy Federate and Lemmyverse search, I feel like it’s easier to overcome a small instance limitation on lemmy compared to a small mastodon instance.

That’s just my two cents though.

Thief: The Dark Project.

It’s everything I could ever want.

• Excellent story perfectly meshed with the gameplay.
• A strange high-technology medieval world.
• Incredible level design combined with realistic roughly drawn maps, forcing you to take in your surroundings and build your own map.
• Variety of gameplay, ranging from infiltrating a rich baron’s mansion to rob them blind, to delving into ancient crypts filled with odd creatures and an alien culture for some adventurous tomb raiding, to some of the most terrifying pants filling survival horror I’ve yet encountered.

It is, in my opinion, perfection.

A postal bank that uses GNU Taler would be pretty legit.

You’re right, though I was first introduced to the story from the guy telling it at a TED talk. I phrased it poorly.

Wait! I found it! It was the same guy from the TED talk, but on a different podcast!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nS3-dQen-YM

relevant part at 4:20

also @neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I managed to find what I was thinking of, but it concludes with a totally different line about them than I remembered. I think @neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com is right, and the “where does that end?” quote might be from a segment in a Robert Evans podcast.

All I can think of is a TED talk I saw where the speaker had given some presentation to a bunch of billionaires and had some q&a, and one of them who had built a bunker for themselves asked him how they could prevent their security team from turning on them in the bunker.

The TED talk guy responded “Be kind to them?”

And the Billionaire said “But where does that end?”

I’ll try to find it so I can link it.

EDIT: Found it!

A co-op campaign I’d be down for, but I can’t say I’m excited for this. I’m just not feeling the vibe.

Country Self-Defederation

As a huge fan of the original, but disappointed with the sequels, I’m cautiously optimistic!

In my experience, there’s only been a handful of mods and an equally small number of instances where I feel that is likely to happen, but for the most part it seems most mods have a pretty light touch. I’ve only had one negative experience with a mod, personally, and I post quite a bit.

Hopefully they’ll still be made for people without access to high speed internet.

It makes sense that VHS production ceased, since DVD’s are better in every metric, cheaper to produce, and eventually became the bigger market after players got so cheap. I would’ve thought blurays would continue that trend, but if these sales statistics are anything to go by, it’s possible DVD could outlive Bluray as a viable market. I assume DVD’s occupy a sweet spot between good enough quality and affordability.

I assume there will still be less prominent brands making them, just as there are still DVD players being made.

I mean, there’s the elites from John Carpenter’s They Live, who

I hope Rojava makes it out okay and things don’t get fucky.

There’s multiple paths in the game that open up slightly different content. There’s a critical point when you can choose to take Sophia with you, or to go it alone with either thinking (harder puzzles) or fighting.

The balloon is shortly before the submarine on that path (I believe it’s the sophia path)

It’s not a welrod, that would require a totally different motion to chamber another round, which is more awkward and slower than what’s seen in the video.

He likely had a browning action pistol with a silencer attached, but didn’t test it well enough to iron out the jamming issue. That would explain the unfired bullets being found, as he likely ejected some accidentally while racking the slide.

It warms my heart to know that damn parrot is burned into someone else’s memory too

The wealth disparity is the same, but the populace and circumstances are a bit different:

1. There was not a literal fascist propaganda news network brainwashing half the voter base (Fox news)
2. There wasn’t a significant population which believed any ol conspiracy tossed at them
3. His political opponents didn’t have a cult, comprised of anti-intellectuals
4. We didn’t have an enemy state attempting to influence our elections (at least, not nearly on the same level)
5. Had a serious left-leaning populist political opponent in Huey Long (before his assassination) preaching his Share the Wealth progam.

I don’t disagree that it was a hard fight for the working class to even get that much, even without those externalities

I’ve gotten an extremely similar comment on a couple posts I’ve made here on lemmy, in a video community no less.

Personally I just said something’s like “welp, sorry that’s not your preferred format.” and then just move on.

With how infrequent posts like that are, they don’t effect me at all, but It’d probably suck more if I was consistently getting negative comments like that,