doctortran

@doctortran@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How does someone know what the main community is, whatever the platform? Looking at the number of subscribers and active members.

  I don’t disagree but this is also kind of sad. We’re just recreating the same issue on Reddit of “definitive” subreddits controlled by whichever moderators were there first, and once a mass of people settles there, it becomes virtually impossible for smaller alternatives to grow.

  You’re also basically just telling people to go to whichever community happens to be on Lemmy.world. Which means centralization on one instance, which is the opposite of how this place was sold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Moreover, they’re going to want an emulator that can be managed alongside the rest of the museum software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s like saying what’s the point of the air and space museum if they’re not actually flying the planes.

  They’re not going to use the original hardware and put wear on them. That’s a standard part of archiving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just for the record, this is exactly what any museum would do, because they’re not going to actually run any of the older hardware. Because that hardware is part of their collection, and it behoves them not to put wear on them.

  Also because emulators can be managed remotely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All the Disney+ films and TV shows that have been deleted from the service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the vaulting was significantly less painful than this.

  Many of these movies and shows were released as Disney plus exclusives in the last 4 years.

  Meaning, there are no physical copies anywhere, and there is nowhere but the high seas to find this content now.

  As a kid, I never gave a shit about the vault, because it’s not like they came to your house and took the VHS away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened with active users on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The notion of “summer reddit” went hand in hand with the “moms basement” sayings, and even “touch grass” in a way:

  Namely all of them ignore the simple fact we all have the internet in our pockets and can be chronically online and actually out in the world doing things at the same time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened with active users on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does removing them from the site also mean cutting their user count from Active Users though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROMhacking.net shuts down after 20 years; database has been moved to the Internet Archive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  after some further research, it became apparent that Discord staff could save a significant amount of money by changing S3 providers. The new bucket was set up, but when the time came to make the change NC refused to do it, even though he was not the one footing the bill.

  There’s a conspicuous absence of explain why they wouldn’t do it. What were their actual concerns? Did they not voice them or are they just being withheld?

  NC refused to join the Discord to talk about solutions in real-time.

  Why was this a requirement?

  Did we vent in private? Sure.

  And what did you say?

  Did we dox or threaten? Fucking hell, no! And frankly I’m LIVID at even the suggestion that we did.

  Well something clearly happened if he’s family was brought into it, so if you’re going to skimp on the details, I’m not sure how I’m supposed to believe that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROMhacking.net shuts down after 20 years; database has been moved to the Internet Archive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s a romhacking site, it wont have the actual ROMs, just the patches. It never would have survived 20 years if it had been hosting ROMs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We’re all feeling sequel fatigue – but Hollywood’s giving us Shrek 5⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some will argue that sequel or franchise fatigue is not really a thing, in that it is immediately disproved when a hit like Bad Boys: Ride or Die comes along. But it’s hard not to feel fatigued when original films are just croutons in a Hollywood buzzword salad: made entirely of sequels and prequels and existing IPs and brands and reboots and remakes.

  So basically the evidence suggests it isn’t a actually a thing, but you’re going to continue to imply it is?

  The whole article just reeks of projection. The writer feels something, and insists the rest of the world feels it too, to spite the evidence to the contrary.