ElectroVagrant
@ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world
Another traveler of the wireways.
- Comment on is there a community for asking specific questions such as “is this user a troll”, “why do people act this way,” “what should I do”, etc.? 4 hours ago:
I don’t think so. The largest ask communities, according to their own descriptions, say they’re for more open-ended questions, for AskLemmy@lemmy.ml seems to be more lax about it (and it seems like maybe AskLemmy@lemmy.world has kinda relaxed on it too).
There’s the newer !ask@lemm.ee that doesn’t have the open-ended part to their description, so might be a good fit.
- Comment on Meet Neptune, a TikTok alternative where creators can hide likes and follower counts | TechCrunch 3 days ago:
Personally not much into short form video, but thought I’d keep people in the loop on new entrants to the field. From the sounds of it this is still very early in development given the various missing features mentioned at the end.
- Meet Neptune, a TikTok alternative where creators can hide likes and follower counts | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com ↗Submitted 3 days ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 8 comments
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 1 week ago:
Ubisoft cannot complain when gamers “pirate” their games then.
If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t theft and all that.
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 2 weeks ago:
Remember: $80 from the big companies is only the starting price given the various editions and other monetization schemes they may push.
Also the scale and technical demands of their games, and thus their cost, have in large part been pushed by them, despite their attempts to turn it around and say it’s all organic consumer demand.
- Comment on Even the most successful indie directors can’t make a living. why? 2 weeks ago:
Under this scheme, the equity investor floated cash flow to make the movie. They would recoup their $5 million investment, plus a 20 percent premium — so, $6 million goes to the investor. The sales agent would also take a 10 percent fee from the sale; that’s $700,000. From the $7 million sale, that leaves $300,000 to split between the investor and the filmmakers.
I get why the investor is getting that split at the end that I’ve emphasized, but put in these terms it reads as such a clear dick move, and this is supposed to be a rosy scenario. Like they recoup their investment with an additional million on top, and they want a cut of what little’s left to the creatives? As if they need another $150k when they’re out there floating millions for productions. 😒
One can only imagine how much worse the real terms are if this is anything close to okay terms for indie productions.
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- Comment on Clonk: Terraria 15 Years Before Terraria [8:45] 3 weeks ago:
Like others in the comments of the video, I’m surprised I hadn’t heard of it earlier when it was still new. Then again, it may be even better to learn of it now so I can be excited by it being new to me and motivated to share stuff about it.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on I have a bunch of questions: Whats the best way to get this platform's feed to compete with reddit? 4 weeks ago:
No, sorry. To put it in your terms Lemmy would be a “platform” like how you describe Mastodon/Pixelfed.
The reason I suggested mentioning feddit.org instead is because it’s what you’re using and where someone else could sign up and join easily.
Mentioning Lemmy (or Mastodon/Pixelfed) doesn’t tell people any site to sign up on, just what tech they’re built with.
- Comment on I have a bunch of questions: Whats the best way to get this platform's feed to compete with reddit? 4 weeks ago:
Focus on making posts you want to discuss or would want to see in communities that interest you and you want to see active.
While I’d argue it’s better to shake off the platform thinking, the simple way to put it would be that you simply refer to the site you’re using, feddit.org, when mentioning it to others. The umbrella term for these connected sites is either fediverse or the open social web, whichever you prefer. Each site like this connects with one another, but given formatting differences (Pixelfed is more image-focused, Mastodon is microblogging), posts shared between them try to display in ways fitting one another’s format which can sometimes look rough.
You may see content from these other sites when browsing the main feed/front page set to All, which displays content from elsewhere that others on your site (feddit.org) have subscribed to.
- Comment on Is anyone else getting failures to generate reports when reporting the constant spam from "Nicole, the Fediverse Girl" which originates from a different, new instance every time? 4 weeks ago:
May want to cross-post this to !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml.
- Comment on Every morning when I read the latest news 5 weeks ago:
Pretty sure it may be Ex Machina.
- Comment on Two Point Museum just launched as Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam 5 weeks ago:
Unfortunately this has Denuvo to restrict your use of your purchase. Was hoping after their first title getting criticized for this they may have changed course on that, but appears not.
Would recommend waiting till that’s removed, maybe in a GOG release.
- Comment on PSA: Some of y'all are overly afraid of scorpions 1 month ago:
OP is scorpions
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- Comment on The clever feature that makes cheap heaters safe - and why they're actually dangerous 2 months ago:
Always enjoy Technology Connections videos!
- Comment on Excellent explanation of the mid air collision in DC 2 months 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] 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago to workreform@lemmy.world | 0 comments
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- Comment on Freejam studio closing with Robocraft and Robocraft 2 shutting down 2 months 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? 4 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? 4 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? 4 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? 4 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? 4 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? 4 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.
