Mirodir

joined 2 years ago
[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 years ago (4 children)

no where near Reddit yet on niche subjects

I'm always saddened by how not-active some of those subjects are. For example: Even many large games struggle to have dedicated, active communities on Lemmy (assuming I'm not terrible at finding them, which is sadly also possible). Even some of the largest games have only completely dead communities here. A huge draw of Reddit for me was to be able to talk about the games I play with other people who do too. And mostly, the games I'd love to talk about aren't in the top 10 most played games list.

Now I could try to (re)vitalize those communities I would love to see around, and I have done so shortly after the exodus (on my previous account that died with the instance it was on). However, there's only so much talking into the void I can do until it gets boring.

I also feel like that might be a big issue for people coming over. After I manage to explain to my friends how federation works, they ask me to help them find the [topic of their interest] community, and all I can show them is a community with 10 threads, all over 3 months old and with 0 comments. Sadly it shouldn't surprise anyone they're not sticking around after that.

[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago

From everything I've seen, they'll hear it, take it as an excuse to claim you weren't complying, bust down your door based on that and shoot your understandably agitated dogs.

Good luck.

[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

Ah yeah. I can see how anyone could understand it that way.

And same.

[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wait, that's what I meant by "clipped".

Now I'm curious in what other way my comment could be taken.

[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 2 years ago

I was curious too and checked the article but skimming it, instead of a total, I found this:

A new analysis from MUSO, a U.K.-based anti-piracy analyst [...]

With the study being done by a clearly biased person/group and that large omission, I think it's fair to assume that the % of total web traffic going to pirates might not have gone up all that much, maybe it even went down.

[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Why did they clip the XKCD joke to the point where it makes no sense anymore?

[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Suddenly you have a 26+ character password that you don’t forget and doesn’t compromise you across other services because each is different.

It depends on what is compromised and how the attacker operates. If the attacker has your plaintext password instead of just a (hopefully salted) hash AND targets you individually instead of just having your password in a giant list of login-info to automatically try on other services then it's trivially easy to guess that e.g. your Spotify password is yogurt.

[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago

If you're looking for a "small cozy magic anime" it might not be the right show for you. It continues being highly episodic. Sometimes the episodes are wholesome and would fit the "cozy" adjective very well, but other times, as you saw, they are quite the opposite. There's one episode in the later half that sticks out as especially brutal to me. There's also one that I remember as insanely funny and unique though.

If that's a dealbreaker to you, mabe dropping it is best. Personally I enjoyed never quite knowing what was going to happen from week to week while I was watching it while it aired, but I see why it wouldn't be for everyone. It requires the viewer to be in the right mindset and probably felt better with a week inbetween the episodes to reset between the separate adventures.

[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago

Looking at the reviews on Steam, I don't think the setting was anywhere close to the largest problem.

[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

In Roguelikes and Roguelike-adjenct games there are also a few games that get close. (I'd even argue some totally eclipse SV/Terraria in that regard, but that depends on your definition.) Some, but not all, of them are even completely free and open source.

Off the top of my head, a few examples would include Dwarf Fortress, UnReal World and Nethack. Maybe some Space Station 13 servers if you count that too.

[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago

Also you can just give advantage if it's such an obviously threatening situation.

That should easily make up for the lost + in Charisma modifier.

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