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alertsleeper ,

All the time. I wouldn’t want a phone without it

alertsleeper ,

Google killing a product? No way

alertsleeper ,

killedbygoogle.com

alertsleeper ,

Ah got ya, I imagined there was a joke I there but it flew over my head lol. Good one though

alertsleeper ,

I’ll start by saying I haven’t played this, I just watched reviews online. But I see everybody agreeing in that the exploration is not actual exploration but a lot of clicking menus. And when someone complains about it, there’s always a bunch of people defending it because “it’s a bethesda game” or “the game is what it is and not what you expected it to be”. I don’t get this.

The game was overhyped, and the specific part about space exploration is (so far) a lie. Period.

alertsleeper ,

if I may ask, I see you say that the loading screens are fast for you so the way to travel is not bad in your opinion. Would you say you are OK with the exploration being menu based? (which seems to be the biggest complain so far)

alertsleeper ,

loading-screen-lover gamer, this is definitely a first.

Give me RDR2 seamless experience every day of the week

alertsleeper ,

specifically to the loading screens point, I guess it’s about expectations. Since this is such a huge game advertised as exploration-based people might find too many loading screens immersion-breaking.

I know I’m spoiled about this since Red Dead 2

alertsleeper ,

you don’t have to play a game to comment on it, especially when there’s so much material about it online because it is such a relevant title.

I would never comment on an indie game because of a tweet I read. But this is not that and there’s a lot of info about it.

alertsleeper ,

so if I don’t like the game I should just avoid commenting because it isn’t positive? I prefer to see everyone’s take thanks

alertsleeper ,

Thanks for the insight!

alertsleeper ,

no one escapes Stalin Putin

alertsleeper ,

honest question, what’s this “two-spirit” term? I can’t find a straight forward explanation on the web

alertsleeper ,

So, at risk of being reductive: it’s like non-binary, but in the way some North American indigenous cultures see it

In its first week, Immortals of Aveum had a peak count of just 751 players on Steam. (steamdb.info)

After 5 years in development and heavily pushing Unreal Engine 5 technologies, Immortals of Aveum was met with a whopping 751 player peak. For reference, Forspoken was considered a flop but still had over 12,000 players peak total. This may be the biggest flop of the year.

alertsleeper ,

If you go to metacritic right now, it’s mediocre on console (5.2 on ps5 & 5.3 on seriesX) and awful on PC (3.9). A lot of people complaining about poor performance on a 3070 and such. One of them recommends you wait for the 5090 to play this lol.

alertsleeper ,

I think you can, but with better marketing than this

alertsleeper ,

Anthem 2 is not looking good

alertsleeper ,

you really a pro, I’m looking for other jobs precisely because of 1 and 2, even though the rest are all great at my current job

alertsleeper ,

Has Firefox gotten the feature to group or stack tabs together? I used to use Firefox and that was the main reason I moved to a chromium based one (Currently Vivaldi). I just need that 90% of the time

alertsleeper ,

strangely wholesome, what’s the catch?

alertsleeper OP ,

that’s a great analogy

alertsleeper OP ,

Imma be honest here, I want exactly 0 celebrities. I mean, you could be LeBron James right now and I don’t really care, but celebrities for the sake of celebrities I don’t like, that’s just Twitter, the same simping and controversy as always.

As for the normies, I get your point

alertsleeper OP ,

They can share it… All the way over there

alertsleeper OP ,

I sadly don’t share the opinion that there’s room for both

alertsleeper OP ,

I respect that, however I don’t hate no one, I hate the content on Meta’s platforms. And I’d hate to see it make it’s way to this platform.

I’m not saying they should go away, I’m saying that content shouldn’t come here.

alertsleeper OP ,

Exactly!!!

alertsleeper OP ,

I agree that the users should have the final say, and that it’s all very tricky in terms of the politics of it

alertsleeper OP ,

I totally get your point and agree that this is still the niche inside the niche, and growth would be good, I just don’t joining Meta is a good growing strategy

alertsleeper OP ,

That’s the word, thanks

alertsleeper OP ,

I have put on that same hat already believe me

alertsleeper OP ,

that is totally understandable. But, my point here would be, how are you profitable to Meta if you are keeping your privacy? That makes no sense to them, for them you are only as valuable as the data they can extract from you and the ads they can show you. So I do believe their end goal is to take your privacy away

alertsleeper OP ,

I hear you! You and me both, I’ve always been more of a lurker on almost every social media. However here I feel more comfortable posting than anywhere else because I know people aren’t here just to troll, gain followers through controversy or self-promote, so it feels way better.

You’ll get comfortable soon enough

alertsleeper OP ,

I’m sure it will eventually, it might just take a little while to wash off the Reddit stink

alertsleeper OP , (edited )

Bots are necessary. But having moderation bots and other useful ones like the one for reminders is one thing, and another one is bots posting spam 100 times a day.

How to stop it? No idea

Edit: typo

alertsleeper ,

The potential problem is not us making a dent on Threads, I couldn’t care less if people want to use it. The potential problem is that they do the EEE (link1, link2) on the Fediverse. It’s not us trying to steal users from them, or preventing people from joining them, it’s about preventing them from becoming the standard way for people to access the Fediverse, thus giving them control over the protocol’s direction and giving them the possibility to, once they are the de facto standard, defederate and kill the rest of small communities.

That, and personally, I wouldn’t like Meta meddling with the protocol, simply because there is no beneficial outcome for them other than gaining control of it, which would be horrible.

alertsleeper ,

That was my first thought too, until I found this:

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Blog post explainer

Wikipedia page

alertsleeper ,

two things:

have you considered that if this happens, once the fediverse’s exposure grows it will be thanks to Meta’s entrance, then the people that join the fediverse will do so by Meta’s means (in this case, Threads. But they can make some more after)? Making them the standard way to access the protocol, gradually making other communities less and less relevant.

It makes the fediverse more interesting for people like me who can “live” here and access the content I want.

I’m not trying to be rude by any means, but honestly, if the content you enjoy is on their platforms, just go there and enjoy it. You can be both there and here.

alertsleeper ,

They don’t need to come here and try and take users

Exactly, they don’t need to, yet they plan to. What do you think their goal is?

alertsleeper ,

I don’t want Instagram content here! If I wanted Instagram-TikTok-type content I’d be there not here. I hope that crap stays away.

And yes, it’s Meta lol

alertsleeper ,

nobody is trying to run anything out of business, that’d be foolish. The goal is preventing them from ruining every other community once they inevitably gain control of it all

alertsleeper ,

A free, open-source, privacy-conscious, human-moderated platform with great usability and easily accessible sounds beautiful. Also, sounds decades away and probably utopic, given the amount of time and resources needed to make all that possible. And when you start focusing on just getting funding to keep growing, well, you end up being Meta.

I really really hope I’m proven wrong as soon as possible

alertsleeper ,

Honest question: What makes you think Meta will be putting that content there for you if they can’t profit from you?

alertsleeper ,

I really hope that’s the case, but honestly don’t think so

alertsleeper ,

Nothing is, other than the users themselves by not federating with them.

alertsleeper ,

I wouldn’t want to use an instance that shows me Meta content, even if that’s where the majority of content is, and I don’t think I’m alone in that.

I am here because I value quality over quantity.

alertsleeper ,

It’s a game. “Numbers go up yay!”

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