Finally got a phoenix palm taken out of our courtyard. Was ridiculous, crazy how they sneak up on you.

Next stop outdoor Hue lighting

Which criminals though.

Wage thieves? Polluters? Tax evaders? Or just the poor ones?

It’s the question.

Lately I’ve been thinking about how you’d design a racing sim that rewards and gamifies clean racing but the basic answer is that you’d have to set it in world so different from our autoracing history and technology that you’d lose 75% of your player base who are mostly interested in real cars (the same way FIFA games appeal to people who want the real players, and don’t actually care about the game design of football).

On PS5 there’s platform native ‘Accolades’ where you can rate the people you’ve played with, but Bruce I never play the kinds of games that they’re designed for I have no idea if they’re used or how they even work. The point being though even Sony were trying to approach this topic at an OS/ecosystem level.

That would be huge

I went to check my lemmy on my browser and it was just jacked full of meme pages amd subreddit clones that I’d blocked on my mobile client

Just donate if you want to support your server.

Awards are special actions reserved for people who pay, that don’t improve the platform anyway. It’s enshittification.

He’s a great developer and a shitty producer. When he’s in charge of his own projects there’s nobody holding him accountable and it just spirals into madness and then halfway through when all the hard and fun work of really designing the game is complete, and all that’s left is the boring business of production and finishing the damn thing, he just ADHDs off into the distance chasing the next cool idea/design challenge

Somehow he’s able to keep funding that arrangement, so it hasn’t changed.

The winner of the cube game got to be the “god” of Peters next game which was an MMO-like thing. Only after he won his prize the studio kind of forgot about it and just moved on so he never really won anything

There’s a really good piece about it but I don’t recommend reading it, it’s just frustrating and predictablely shitty behaviour

No not yet, there’s no synchronous multiplayer on Switch

Wonderful app, thank you for your work.

On this subject, my personal definition for millennial is someone in the age bracket where they had to teach themselves how to use windows as a kid

I don’t think it’s in its final form.

It’s obvious that brands and influencers were offered the chance to be pre-verified and, while I haven’t seen direct evidence myself, the word is that they could get some kind of FB/insta promotional discounts by being there to post on day 0 with a witty canned line about how great it was to be on threads

So when the app opened to the masses, they don’t have to follow anybody or wait for their friends before it had “value”. They open it up and there are a bunch of brands and “personalites” making it looking like it’s already alive and the place to be

The other stuff will probably come later… although there’s the chance that they’re going after tiktoks model of “we know what you want”

Rotating gifs all over every homepage

No because I didn’t choose this public forum for its privacy or security

Notepad++ , nano if that counts lol

I joined because a company who ran a creative product I used ended up using it as their primary comms channel. So a scene and community formed there, because it was the only way to stay up to date.

I ended up following quite a few people from that community, and I never use the algorithm feed - all I see is posts about games, art, music etc made by the community and it’s where I share or promote my own games and other work.

I never see any other twitter garbage or drama in the course of average use. I have seen the shit thats out there, and as fucking abysmal as it is, it’s no better or worse than default/popular reddit, which I equally avoid.

Connect also seems the most rif-like, so it’s a clear win for me

Yes, that’s how I know it has legs.

From usenet to reddit, the internet spaces that began by attracting a critical mass of internet/tech experts and enthusiasts are always the ones that end up going the distance.

You don’t want to rush this place going mainstream, I promise. Enjoy it while it lasts.

I remember Armagetron always getting fired up at LANs when I was at uni, 2005ish

Growth for growths sake.

Not just at a platform level but at a community level too. Around 6 or 7 years ago I started to really notice people talking about growing their subreddits, making changes and tools designed to increase the subscriber count.

For what? There’s nothing to gain.

The main subreddit I modded finally became impossible to moderate for quality when, despite our lack of “growth strategy”, the influx of new users became too much for the communitys culture to persist and it slowly turned into a lowest-common-denominator topic-flavoured meme ghetto. And from the outside I saw many of my favourite subreddits fall to the same scenario.

So I would say, we should avoid or rethink the idea of growing lemmy for its own sake. Eternal September will come eventually, lets not rush it

Growth for growths sake doesn’t help anybody