As a CS dude who uses Linux and is around way too many people who seem like they genuinely are in need of some therapy on a daily basis, this entirely checks out, tbh.

I’m now mildly worried for my own mental state

Yeah, same boat here. Was a longtime Sync Pro user back on reddit, and saw LJ as a dev worth supporting, but I’m not entirely on board with the changes on the privacy end. Maybe if that stuff changes I’ll go back.

Up until the API debacle, that was my solution too. Now even that doesn’t work. It’s so bizarrely hard to look something up on the internet now.

Holy shit, I had no idea there was an Alundra rando now! That’s fantastic news. I’ll hafta do a few runs. It’ll be nice to have a new way to experience the game after so long. Thanks!

Sway and dmenu when in a keyboard productivity sorta mood, KDE otherwise.

Alundra. It’s basically the PS1’s own Zelda title, with a bit of Terranigma DNA mixed in. I played it as a kid and remember being blown away by the plot, and unlike a lot of other games I played back then, this one mostly held up when I replayed it as an adult.

Very much this. The atmosphere here doesn’t feel any different than it did back on reddit, for better or worse. I feel like there was a time when reddit was less pessimistic, but there’s been at least a little of that vibe for a long time.

… most of them, embarrassingly. I buy games when they’re on steep sale, but rarely actually gst to the end of them (Hollow Knight was the last one I completed, as I recall).

Well, that will set a lovely precedent for other “free” democracies… the people are angry at you? Just take their voice! What could go wrong…

Is Passport ID really sufficient? Might be better to just ask for a verified picture of the entire passport, gotta make sure they are who they say they are!

It feels like the hype for this game already died a year or two ago… let alone lasting five more years. There’s nothing wrong with ensuring quality by having longer development cycles, but a nearly twenty year gap? They dropped the ball hard on maintaining momentum. Even worse, that means they’ll be courting additional delays due to the usual hiccup of entering a new console generation and potentially having to tinker with the game engine mid-development…

Huh. I’ve wanted to try picking up COBOL for a while out of sheer curiosity. Guess now I’ve got an opportunity.

… well, that’s going to be incredibly confusing.

I… don’t think I’ve ever read about the ball being dropped this hard on anything before. This is incredible.

For the most part it hasn’t been too confusing for me. I’m new to modern federated social media, but not new to the idea of federation due to experience with the IRC model. I really enjoy the idea of instances and having your own sort of smaller space while being able to contribute to larger spaces still… though there’s definitely still some user experience hurdles that need overcome on that front.

Delta Green. I love the concept so much, and have wanted to run a monster-of-the-week campaign for years, but the tabletop group I’m in mostly have a fantasy bent.

I think there’s a distinction to be made between game mechanics and game content here. I think a brutalist content style is… usually a bad fit for tabletop, but I think there’s some worth to the idea of lower cognitive load on the mechanical end. Kind of calls systems like Fate Core and Cairn to mind on that front; straightforward, generative core mechanics, but actual games can range from pretty stock fantasy material to absolute gonzo dreamscape depending on the game and table in question.

That being said… mechanical crunch and wacky, complicated mechanics can be really enjoyable as well. I think that’s pretty much a “tastes vary between people and time” kinda thing, there.

I’m personally kind of hoping that the existence of smaller instances and multiple same-niche communities on Lemmy provides a way to avoid that phenomenon. Like, it’ll probably happen to communities on the Big Instances, I imagine, but on the more limited ones… maybe not?

I have to regularly use HP, Brother, and Epson wireless printers with my laptop, and they’ve all worked via CUPS with no tinkering that I can recall. In one of the cases (the Epson WF-3720) the available settings and indicators were very limited, but beyond that no issues.

I’m assuming that they just didn’t think about the implications and that it was a case of “should’ve vetted that one more time before posting,” but yeah. Yikes.