I've played enough SC that I'm a bit over trying to actually play PTUs, but I wouldn't mind putting in good hours doing just focus testing and filling out bug reports. Unfortunately, to even be considered for Evocati, you have to be one of the most active players out there and I don't think I would want to subject myself to playing that much buggy SC.
JeffCraig
joined 2 years ago
Lmao nice!
I don't know the exact time, but I'm sure for a lot of us it was on Aug 29, 2013 when the Hangar Module launched.
You're giving me memberberries now about rocking around in the Greycat and checking out all our V1 ships. Getting into a Constellation for the first time was amazing :D
It's been a lot of fun following the games development. I just hope we get to a state of better playability sooner than later so I can enjoy my game-time better. The last few years I've felt less and less inclined to jump in each patch.
There's another gaming and tech specific instance (lemmy.zip), and I think it's better if all the gaming communities have their own instances. I don't see the scaling issues getting better any time soon with .ml or .world, but at the same time we'll get the most exposure here. It isn't ideal.
Hopefully the most recent update will solve the load issue (switching to htp requests), but we'll see.
Isn't a lot of Beehaws complaints the lack of moderation on other instances, not specifically their own?
If they're struggling with managing their own content, they certainly shouldn't have to worry about content from other instances. Any instance that hasn't managed to sort out their own moderation should be defederated until they figure it out.
Every individual community inside each instance should have its own set of moderators or it should not exist.
Yeah this is a good point.
It took me months to actually start using Lemmy and Mastodon. I would consider myself a tech savvy person and it still took a while getting used too. I think there need to be better tutorials linked on the sign-up pages that help people understand the basic concepts. That would help drive true user acquisition.
Reddit leadership clearly no longer aligns with what it's core users want.
That doesn't mean there won't be new users that like whatever changes come, but the shifts they are making go against the original purpose of the site. That means people looking for that core experience will eventually look elsewhere.
We just need to let Reddit go. It was always going to go this way. Like all things run by corporations, it all goes to shit for the almighty profits.
Same.
My goal is to make the full switch here eventually, but it takes time to find all the correct communities that can fully replace what is on Reddit.
To be honest, Reddit was always one of those semi-addiction sites for me, where I would just go to waste time. I'd like to reduce that overall, so I'm going to focus more on contributing to specific communities.
The definition of social media:
Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks.
The term is more broad that what you are thinking of. Reddit is honestly closer to what a social media site is, since it's a true form of sharing information. Facebook and Twitter are just echo chambers of people shouting into a void.
Karma is a great method of driving interaction, but like you've highlighted, it can result in a lot of unwanted behaviors.
Other social media is a good example of what to be avoided. People are driven to gather more followers and their content devolves into the lowest common denominator rapidly.
I wouldn't mind some form of recognition for people that contribute good content to communities, but I don't know exactly what that would look like.
As far as karma goes, we have a technological limitation in the fediverse, where your karma would be limited to the instance your user account is registered on. They could figure out how to make it work, but I'm just not sure it's worth the effort. We have a lot of other things to focus on atm.
The beauty of the fediverse is that the last panel can't happen.
We control our own instances. There's no world where admins wouldn't defederate from any Facebook attempt to barge in.
Maybe a few larger instances sell out, but users hold the power here now. If an admin betrays our trust, we'll just make a new instance.
This is an older video, but has some good points.
To the first point about developers making safe games for profits, I have to say I'm impressed with how far Unreal Engine has progressed in the last few years. It's much easier to make a professional looking indie game using UE5 than ever before, and I really hope we see a resurgence in good games based on fun concepts in the near future. As much as I hated Fortnite, the massive influx of cash really helped drive UE development forward.
And as far as the overstimulation stuff goes... I've been busier than I used to be recently, so the game time I do have now does seem a lot more fun. I'm not "chasing the dragon" with games anymore, because I barely have time to play the games that I want to play. And I find it easier to walk away from grindy games because I enjoy doing other shit with my life.
My #1 piece of advice for gamers is to just start working out for 30 minutes every other day. Not only does it improve your physical state, but getting up and forcing yourself to do something else that isn't based on your brains reward center, even for a short while, makes coming back to your game that much better.
I thought they had an effect on EM/IM detection ranges (ie: stealth gameplay), but after looking around it seems those mechanics have been broken since 3.11?
I knew that component stats were all normalized a while back but I had no idea that affected IR + EM emission data.
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