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Hey, y’all! Just another random, loudmouthed, opinionated, Southern-fried nerdy American living abroad.

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Flipboard stops tweeting, launches new podcast about decentralized social apps ( techcrunch.com )

Social magazine app Flipboard had already committed to joining the "fediverse" -- the decentralized social web, which includes apps like Mastodon. Now, it’s doubling down on those ambitions with an announcement that it will stop tweeting while also launching a new podcast devoted to exploring the topic of decentralized social...

Association of Internet Researchers Moving to Mastodon ( aoir.org )

In October 2022, Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter. Almost a year later and we have witnessed the gutting of the content moderation department, a huge increase in hate speech, and in real terms the end to API-based researcher access to data. Twitter (or ‘X’) isn’t just unfriendly but actually unsafe for many...

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These all sounds like really good changes. I’m excited about them finally revamping search, because a lot of folks never really adopted using hashtags.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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I think part of the problem is that moderation tools, in general, on the threadiverse are extremely weak. It’s easy to share across platforms and instances on kbin and lemmy, but it seems to be a nightmare to moderate across platforms and instances, in a way that it isn’t on other Fediverse sites. I can’t tell if it’s by design or by oversight, but it’s going to only become a bigger problem in the future if it isn’t sorted soon. Beehaw’s issues with moderation seem like the canary in the coal mine.

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Looking at all the spam on the science community proves you wrong. It’s on lemmy, and the mods smack down all the spam quickly…On Lemmy. But people looking at it on kbin see constant posts of spam and advertising, making the community completely unusable, because the lemmy admins can’t moderate the page on kbin once it’s federated into the kbin server. Likewise, mods on lemmy and kbin might lock comments on a post that’s getting toxic, but that lock doesn’t carry over to kbin, and they can’t do anything about it. That’s the issue I’m talking about.

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Yes, but the problem is it doesn’t federate. A lemmy mod can remove spam on their lemmy community, but there’s no one to remove the spam once it federates to be on a kbin server. That’s why the science community seen on kbin is swarming with spam - the mods on lemmy remove it, but there’s no one to remove it on kbin until Ernest removes it, because communities default to him as the moderator of the kbin magazine version, and no way for lemmy mods to make someone on kbin a moderator for it.

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A big problem a lot of mods had on Reddit, and why they basically needed 3rd party apps - was that moderation tools weren’t up to snuff. So I don’t quite understand why getting good, robust moderation tools isn’t a top priority for the lemmy devs.

Game developers flee Unity after exorbitant price plan announced, but not everyone can get out ( boingboing.net )

Unity isn't a game engine. It's a malware-pushing advertising network which merged with a game engine to acquire a delivery channel and now wears its skin. This is fine for the bigger devs and publishers structured around platform relationships, but for everyone else? Gamemaker, Godot, Unreal, Defold… pick a flavor, they're...

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Ahh, thanks. I’m not in that group so I can’t get to it easily from kbin, so feel free to post it there!

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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Yup, the @ sign does it.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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Oh, that’s good to know.

I like kbin, but ur still really rough around the edges.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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This is definitely a time when it’s important to capitalize the first letters in the name of proper nouns.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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And I’m really sick of people complaining about seeing posts on topics they personally aren’t interested in, instead of just scrolling by.

Looks like neither of us has gotten what they want today.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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I have serious questions for anyone who gives a game, any game, a completely perfect score, especially one that is known to have some technical issues.

stopthatgirl7 OP , (edited )
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Then block me. The block button is not hard to get to. Then you will never, ever have to scroll by anything I post again.

The power to control what YOU see is in YOUR hands!

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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You as well. Goodbye!

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It looks like they’ve made a LOT of fixes to some of the base mechanics, so hopefully that’ll make the game closer to what it was envisioned to be. It might make the game feel fresh for a replay.

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Do you think that’s because a lot of the planets are procedurally generated? I’ve seen people saying that since they’re generated, not hand crafted, they feel really same-y after a while, and there’s never anything interesting to find to start you on a quest you could easily miss, like you could find in other Bethesda games by exploring.

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It feels a lot like scores have been artificially inflated for a long time. Like you said, games that can barely run will get a 5, or a 4 at the lowest. It’s like half the possible scores have been lopped off, so there’s no real way to tell what a score actually means. A 7 should be a perfectly serviceable game, but it’s treated like you’ve called a game complete trash for anything below a 8.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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Thank you!

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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Just block me, bro. It won’t hurt my feelings. Curate your feed as you need to.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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Feel free to block me, too. If you don’t like what I post, you won’t need to see it.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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I post things that I think can get people talking and spark conversations along with things I think are interesting. I posted this, for example, because of the way it was talking about how gamers can get tribal and make it so you can’t seriously talk about a game when that happens because of how some folks lose their shit when you try.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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There’s literally no one angry in these comments except the folks complaining about this being posted. Everyone else is talking about the game.

But you have a nice day.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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So basically, there’s a lot to explore, but nothing to find.

stopthatgirl7 ,
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Doing a rerun of the Mass Effect trilogy, and just started ME3. Mass Effect is my comfort game, I swear.

stopthatgirl7 ,
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I’ve played Andromeda - quite a lot, actually, because before I started PC gaming, and after my PS3 broke, the only way to get my Mass Effect fix was to play Andromeda.

I think Andromeda got a bad rap. Or rather, people were a lot harder on it than it deserved, because the game was rough and, more importantly, Ryder wasn’t Shepard. Ryder is a very different character and folks wanted Shepard in a different skin. They wanted Paragon and Renegade when BioWare went with a more Inquisition feel to developing how Ryder can react. Add to that how the beginning act was easily the least polished section of the game at launch, and so people just dragged it. And once The Gamers as a collective decide a game is only fit to be made fun of, that’s it.

Now, Andromeda wasn’t perfect at all. The facial animations are not the best, and I still have no idea why they thought Ryder’s running animation was ok. I also really think the writing needed at least another two rounds of editing. But. The game play is really solid, easily the best of any Mass Effect game, and there was something there in the story (it just needed some rewriting). BioWare also made the mistake of putting in more for the sake of more - Inquisition was too big, and they decided to try to make Andromeda bigger, and there’s a lot of filler quests that shouldn’t be there.

I actually really enjoyed playing Andromeda, for all I got really irritated by a lot of the things I mentioned here - and I got irritated because I could see how close they were to something really, really special, and how they needed more time to get there, but didn’t have because of the mess they made of early development. There were enough things and decisions that I really wanted to see how they played out down the line, and I’m sad I probably won’t get to.

The best way to enjoy Andromeda is to go in thinking of it as less of a “Mass Effect” game, and more as a game set in the Mass Effect universe, if that makes sense.

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I wonder if Bioware will try an Andromeda 2 down the line, I think that universe deserves another shot.

Sadly, with the closure of BioWare Montreal and them deciding to go back to the Milky Way for 5, I don’t think we will. Which is a really shame, because I still think Andromeda 2 could have really been special, because the Montreal devs said they learned a lot from Andromeda and had big plans for 2 and improving things.

A lot of people also compared Andromeda to the entire ME trilogy, which really wasn’t fair to it.

BioWare had a good idea with trying to do something new, but sadly, often times True Fans don’t want something new; they want the exact same thing. They couldn’t - or wouldn’t - let Andromeda be Andromeda.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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Yeah, I saw it coming and did not regret that death. I earned it, but it was completely worth it.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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Most games should be so lucky.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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The 100% Objective Review

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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I mean, it’s pretty obvious from context, given who you were talking to, that sassing them was not gonna go well for you.

It was totally worth that TPK, tho.

stopthatgirl7 OP , (edited )
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I honestly don’t know which is stupider, console wars or iPhone vs Android. Like. Use whatever you like to get your dopamine rush.

I especially can’t wrap my brain around being so loyal to your console that you’d try to get someone fired for playing a game on the other console. If you are at that point, you need to go outside for serious. Go for a nice hike in the woods or something.

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I did; wth did I type lol

And let’s not start the phone wars, please.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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And I truly do not get it. I was a PlayStation person before I got a PC, and I never understood it even then. Why are you getting mad at more people getting to play good games?

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They’re fixing the eating thing! https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/09/13/starfield-announces-nvidia-dlss-support-food-eating-button-future-city-maps/

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