ElectroVagrant
@ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world
Another traveler of the wireways.
- Comment on The clever feature that makes cheap heaters safe - and why they're actually dangerous 2 weeks ago:
Always enjoy Technology Connections videos!
- Comment on Excellent explanation of the mid air collision in DC 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for the share! Appreciate it cutting right to the substance and emphasis that it’s strictly speculation on their part on the details of what happened.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If using the default web interface: if you click your username, then settings and scroll down there should be a setting option for this.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Worlds Part II Update Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Highly abbreviated summary:
New story mission chain.
Further additions to biome assets, new star system type with different styles of terrain generation.
Many QOL updates.
It’s nice and sort of funny to see that they’ve restored water to some planets’ moons. Wild to think it’s been maybe around 8(?!) years since that was abruptly removed. Always get some mixed vibes from No Man’s Sky updates due to this awkward back and forth between removing and restoring parts.
- Comment on What my front page looks like with no-politics content filter on 3 weeks ago:
[…] there was just a little more non-political content to help dilute it due to the larger user-base.
There was/is a lot more and that’s one of the various reasons the different Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed sites haven’t swayed people over yet. There’s far more people around here replying to posts like this and news posts, as well as creating news/politics/“dry” posts or find-anywhere-fare like memes/shitposts than much else.
It’s why recently I’ve tried posting more than media news links to a few of the different entertainment communities. Around here you really have to post/comment on what you want to see more than on the big corporate sites.
- 100 Slaps: The Breaking News The Games Industry Ignored in 2024 [50:36] | People Make Gameswww.youtube.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to workreform@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Freejam studio closing with Robocraft and Robocraft 2 shutting down 5 weeks ago:
Then they were able to take that game away from me and replace it with something I liked far less. This is inevitable for any live service game; if not replacing the game you liked with something else, then its removal altogether so that no one can play it anymore in any form. It sucks.
This is a good, concise way to describe one of the subtler problems with these types of game. At least with some of them, if they’re sold without DRM, you can keep the version you like, but more often than not, those are few and far between.
- Comment on Is this Mastodon? 2 months ago:
Yes and no. Mastodon instances can show Lemmy community posts in a clunky looking way, as they treat communities like a group account which boosts every post.
If someone one Mastodon is familiar with Lemmy, they can technically also follow individual people to ensure their feed looks a little less awkward. However, given the default limited character count of many Mastodon instances, it’s still going to display as the title and link to the Lemmy post at best, if I remember right.
On the other hand, Mastodon people can post to Lemmy communities and reply to comments in threads here, but it also tends to come out rough, especially if they’re unaware of the formatting differences. If you’ve ever seen a really long title that abruptly cuts off mid-sentence, there’s a good chance that was someone posting from a Mastodon account, unaware that it’s better to make a brief opening sentence as title, then an empty line followed by body text, to best fit the formatting here.
Similarly if you see someone replying to a comment starting with an @ mention to the person they’re directly replying to, chances are it may be someone from Mastodon, as replies there include @ mentions by default. Also due to federation weirdness, I’m honestly not sure if they have to keep that mention or not for it to work properly, think I’ve seen it work without, but it’s honestly easier to make an account on a Lemmy instance to participate than deal with awkward federation issues that come up between it and Mastodon.
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 2 months ago:
Mainly games built for replaying, so arcade puzzlers like Super Hexagon/Tetris Effect/Mixolumia/Equaline/etc, roguelikes such as FTL/BrogueCE/etc, or strangesims like Powder Toy or Vilmonic. Although even with those it’s more occasional, like when I’m uncertain of what I’m wanting to do.
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 2 months ago:
That’s a fun mix, Gemini Rue was a pleasant surprise to see!
You might also enjoy Primordia given that.
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 2 months ago:
obligatory but entirely sincere addition for those looking for palate cleansing games: Outer Wilds
and for those after a variety of others, in particularly no order, that may or may not come up as much:
- The Powder Toy
- Heaven’s Vault
- Vilmonic
- Intraquartz
- Interior Worlds
- Mixolumia
- Thousand Threads
- Mu Cartographer
- Hypnagogia: Boundless Dreams
- Jazzpunk
- Crossniq+
- BrogueCE
- Heart&Slash
- Umurangi Generation w/ Macro
- NeonXSZ
- Paradise Killer
But this is all from a flipside of a flipside, so each is as likely to appeal as repel, quick slide to catch clicks and clunks
- Comment on How does Xbox backward-compatibility works? 2 months ago:
No, since there is only the PowerPC bits on the disc, there is no way to play the game on a newer x86 cpu without downloading the x86 bits
Something worth adding here, if you happen to know, would be if the games still work after download & install while offline. Microsoft’s been rather inconsistent with this over the years (which is part of why Xbox One fell behind PS4 at launch).
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 2 months ago:
There have been a few titles that I think reach that potential, but most of them are quite old now.
Don’t leave us hanging! Quality endures the ages, well, mostly.
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 2 months ago:
maybe CDPR (hopefully the cp2077 release was just a fluke but we’ll see).
Cyberpunk 2077 was Witcher 1 repeat tbh, people forgot Witcher 1 was a mess at launch since they patched it up a bunch and some other stuff to try to make amends
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 2 months ago:
Saw where you mentioned being into fighting games, action games, & shmups, so I wonder which games you find yourself bouncing off of more.
Along with reasons other have mentioned that are similar to my own (many games demanding a lot of time, better finding what games really click with me, etc.), I’ve also been put off by other details (hyper-monetization, big budget photorealistic & cinematic styles, etc.). Personally it’s less being into very few games, and more being into more specific kinds of game design and creative style, which are sometimes harder to find.
Like not being into drawn out progression systems immediately narrows one’s options pretty significantly, especially among many recent games.
- Comment on you can say segs on the internet 3 months ago:
fwiw this is poking more fun at the other person that said this in reply to you, which is why I spelled it yours (and another person’s) way
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 months ago:
Hey speaking of, while !games@lemmy.world is a great example, if you’re not finding similar communities for your interest, feel free to post over in !general@lemmy.world for what Zombiepirate’s describing.
Hobby without a community around here? Just not really sure if an existing community is open to non-news posts? General’s got ya covered.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 months ago:
Going against the post’s spirit, but…If you’re not finding a community for your interests (or only finding abandoned/inactive ones), and don’t want to create one (or try to get existing ones going), you’re welcome over in !general@lemmy.world. Post about whatever, find likeminded folks, then if ya think there’s enough of ya, you can make a separate community without it being one person posting into a void.
Also there’s !justpost@lemmy.world. Similar vibes.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 months ago:
Their other comment elaborates on this more:
Until the link /c/books shows any user, with only one click, the aggregate of all “books” communities in a single place, without subscribing or even logging in. Then lemmy will stagnate because it is failing to live up to its promise of federated decentralization
They want a link like /c/books to work like multireddits did on reddit to collect together books-related communities for improved browsing and discovery.
- Comment on you can say segs on the internet 3 months ago:
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- Comment on U.S. Copyright Office rejects DMCA exemption to support game preservation 3 months ago:
When preserving culture is criminal, or punishable, ya might want to reevaluate your laws
In the meantime, people are gonna do it anyway 'cause why ask permission to back up and preserve your own stuff? And when the law finally catches up, some will be grateful to those that did so despite the earlier wrongful laws that tried to discourage them.
- Comment on tall, dark & handsome 4 months ago:
Walnut a.k.a. Nutcracker
- Comment on Unicycling, Hulahooping, playing the Ukelele and playing the Kazoo at the same time. Absolute madlad. 4 months ago:
Unilulalezooing is truly an art.
- Comment on How can I unmod a user? 4 months ago:
If the option isn’t appearing, it likely means the user created the community. In that case you could try DMing them and sorting out the matter if they’re still active or, in the event they’re not, contacting the admins and I think they may be able to handle it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
There’s also some of their business strategy, e.g. Super Mario 3D Stars limited release, low production runs of Amiibo, and so forth.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
There’s this for corporations across the board:
- Submitted 4 months ago to workreform@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Something sticky has invaded my life 4 months ago:
But isopropyl alcohol and enough elbow grease will get it off, if it’s just a coating on plastic.
Do beware, however, that you may want to dilute the alcohol to some degree, or simply use a lower concentration form of it. Too strong and it may eat at the underlying plastic just as much as the coating and ruin it.
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are you getting a cut from kagi for writing that instead of search? gimme the deets on that deal if so! 😛
