Souls games.

I really want to like them too, but they seemingly aren’t compatible with how I play games. I need to be able to put a game down for a couple of weeks and not feel like I’m back at square one because the specific muscle memory for that game has gone.

Just kinda kills the fun when the game is effectively telling me to get good, when I don’t actually have the amount of free time IRL necessary to do that.

I found out about them about a year ago thanks to Lemmy, funnily

I was wondering why one of the Aussie instances was called quokk.au

The two main “hard left” instances have been defederated from LW too (hex and grad)

LML is ostensibly a general instance with a strong left wing slant. So I’m assuming those are the users you’re referring to. Every time I’ve personally seen a LML user step over the line for a given community’s rules, they have been banned for it.

Predominantly though, those users are capable of understanding rules and following them.

That’s literally all anyone needs to do.

It’s not really about political views. It’s simply about not being an asshole.

The solution is to behave with civility online and you don’t get banned. No one needs to break instance rules.

If someone is incapable of doing that, why should they get to participate?

The fact that they happen to predominantly come with right wing view points is, frankly, secondary. It’s literally the bare minimum amount of effort in life to simply not be a nuisance.

Wow is uncyclopedia still a thing?!

I genuinely don’t think I’ve even thought about it in over 15 years

I was struggling to think of something I truly hate

I was coming up with a lot of bad tracks, sure, but they don’t really inspire hatered

This one however, viscerally upsetting from the first bar

It does actually seem like it’s only the US for now

Unless I’ve misunderstood your comment

BBC article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2vgkn7w10o

Damn here I was thinking Her was still a few years off

There was the odd diamond in the rough, but I agree it has been getting increasingly worse.

Weirdly enough I was staying subscribed because if I quit I’d lose my current price for good. Makes no difference now

They are losing business, because revenue goes down.

They will negotiate the prices they pay publishers for a set of keys to use in humble choice to mean they get their 15% cut of the revenue. If a publisher sets the price too high, they’ll go elsewhere until they can get their margin.

If they lose ~25% of their subscribers over a ~40% price hike, they will be right back where they started in terms of profit—which is a place where they would consider hiking the price and losing customers.

That’s about a 40% increase in the amount I have been paying for years without fail, partially at the threat of if I cancel, I lose my grandfathered pricing.

And frankly the quality of the bundles has been dropping for a while.

I guess I finally cancel then. What a silly way to lose business

Edit: and cancelled, happy there was a text box for me to tell them why I’m gone. 8 years of paying monthly apparently

At this point we’re all assuming Warframe is an intelligence honeypot, right?

It’s bafflingly hilarious how effective it is at that

Edit: War Thunder not Warframe 🤦‍♂️

User volume and diversity is probably the main thing right now.

We just need more people posing shit, the fact that one or two users can dominate my feed if they choose to is not ideal. (Though often I appreciate the content anyway)

The diversity aspect is around how we have a lot of people in a small handful of demographics on here. It’s getting better every day, but the thing that made Reddit great before they ruined it was everything you could think of had a community of people posing stuff about it, doesn’t matter how niche.

One leads to the other though, more users naturally will mean increasingly diverse interests in our userbase.

It’s about time Reddit fucked something else up anyway, it’s been a few months

The right wing instances are just defederated from this larger federated group because the people on them were unable to follow the rules of other instances. Repeatedly, they would throw tantrums and create loads of dupe accounts to spam shit when people downvoted their shitty views or their accounts got banned. If they were capable of behaving with civility and following the rules, they’d still be here.

No idea how active that corner of the Lemmyverse is these days, but they have repeatedly chosen to behave in a way that leaves instance administrators with little choice other than defederation.

Order corn

Oooh thanks I’ll have a read of this

Not all of us, some of us don’t have tiny miniatures and have to make do with a tilt shift lens!

(I sadly have neither… but one day…)

Oh yes, more of this.

I think having a healthy population is key for defense too, so I’d say NHS spending is also defense spending and should get a slice of that pie

Spending hours to commute to be around people you don’t choose isn’t necessarily a particularly social experience

… You know field hockey is a thing?