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That's awesome, congratulations to you too!
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It's our first wedding anniversary today and we agreed no pranks so we could relax and enjoy it. Not that either of us are the pranking type anyway really, but better to agree it out loud 😄
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I remember posting this question just after the Reddit exodus so went back to look at my stats from back then. According to the post I'd been on Lemmy for 12 days and had subscribed to:
- 121 Lemmy communities
- 42 Kbin magazines
- 163 total
That was just on this account though, and I have two accounts with fairly different feeds. So let's say I was probably on a total of around 180-200 then across both accounts, and have been adding them at a slow but steady rate
That gives us a scientifically sound estimate of my current total subscriptions: a lot.
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Heartbreaking, every time 😢
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Lol I didn't even see that, fair enough 😄
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Came prepared to downvote this for being common sense, but judging by the comments it actually is surprisingly unpopular! Well played.
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I can only speak for how it shows up on Mastodon, but over there any hashtags we try and add here just show up as plain text and don't show in the actual tag feed, so it does nothing for discoverability.
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Actually will, cheers for the recommendation!
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Ooh what are you on with atm? I'm embroiled in a minimalist city builder thing and just got to the part where I need to learn to animate things, which I have been full-on dreading.
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I could've written this comment word for word. It really does make things a lot easier to just be direct, being able to do this is one of the very few outright advantages of our non-standard brains imo!
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UK answer: city 100% no question.
Being able to actually get places and do things and have people to do those things with, I don't even know how a small town could ever compare. Grew up in one, currently living in another one, both crap.
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Somehow genuinely had no idea Gojira were French so, TIL!
Also wtf South Africa.
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Gotta actually link things if you want people to find them, my friend! 😉
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For the Mastodon users among us, obligatory plug https://streetpass.social
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Thank you for experiencing this so the rest of us don't have to.
TeaHands
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!nowhereelsetoshare@sh.itjust.works is for exactly this!
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Interesting! Tbf there is very little going on in our small town, a cult might spice things up a bit.
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If you're the first person from your instance to subscribe to that community, you'll only see new posts. If there is a particular post or comment you want to reply to, though, you can grab the URL and put it into your instance's search box to sort of force it to federate across.
Got this through our letterbox yesterday. What sort of supernatural powers do we think they're talking? I did always quite fancy the power of invisibility when I was younger although nowadays I'd probably pick teleportation. Not sure where "supernatural power" ends and "superhero power" begins, though 🤔 Maybe this is more like the ability to be slightly see-through and float 6 inches off the ground. Which I guess is still cool in its own way.
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Rock and stone, my friend ⛏
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I'm still using the v1 headset but have to admit this would probably tip me over into upgrading.
I feel like most Saturday TV from my childhood wouldn't hold up, but in my mind at least Gladiators was the exception! Really hope they don't ruin it. (17:50, BBC1 for the unaware)
Wanted to post more socks this month but between illness, lemm.ee breaking (hai this is [@thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee](https://lemm.ee/u/thegiddystitcher) alt account), my hard drive breaking, and general holiday nonsense I have failed to do so. So here's a collage of a load of them instead! The ones in the top left were my first ever ones, I'd got overconfident and committed to making his n' hers pairs so when I hated the first lot there were still two more socks to go. It put me off trying socks again for SO LONG 😂 Will update later with the pattern links for anyone interested but right now I need food!
We're a 12-owner league split into 6 "rivalries" that play twice per year. Husbands and wives trying to be the one claiming glory for their household, lifelong friendships at risk of being ruined forever, it's a lot of fun. And especially because the final week of regular season is, you guessed it, rivalry week. We have two teams vying for the final playoff spot this week. One of them is brand new to the league this year, invited by his childhood friend who now is gleefully looking forward to the chance to break his heart in his first year. Adding to the drama is that earlier in the season our playoff hopeful traded away Rachaad White to his rival....for Rhamondre Stevenson. Ouch. The other relevant matchup this week is between two work colleagues, the one in with a playoff chance being the boss of the other. The underling has had an absolutely trash season that was over before it started, but one of his only victories was against his boss in the first rivalry week and he seems determined to repeat that win. Now, can you guess who has his annual performance review coming up at work on Monday? This weekend should be a good one! She says, from her high and mighty guaranteed spot in playoffs.  What's going down in your league?
Now that 0.19 is in testing on a couple of servers we're faced with the reality that Liftoff is probably not going to be functional for much longer. So I'm curious what everyone's got planned. Personally I've got my eye on [!raccoonforlemmy@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/raccoonforlemmy) which is currently under development but looks like it might be the closest to my ideal. Developer describes it thusly: > I liked the feature richness of Liftoff (e.g. the possibility to explore all the communities of an external instance), the multi-community feature of Summit and the polished UI of Thunder and I wished I could have them all in the same app. It's currently very promising, but also very buggy so I'm hopeful it might be in a more usable state by the time 0.19 starts majorly rolling out. We shall see. The dev put out a call for testers a couple days ago but I'm sure more wouldn't hurt if anyone wants to give it a whirl. I've tried most of the main Android options by this point, **Summit** gets the most use just because of multi-communities (great for sports and other happening-right-now events) but I'm really not a fan of its interface. **Boost** looks nice and simple, but I find a lot of the features to be just straight-up broken. **Sync** and **Eternity** both put me off with their looks even though they look totally different to each other! **Connect** would probably be my second choice so far, but I'd still need to keep Summit around for the multi-communities which is a bit annoying. That's about the extent of my investigations at this point. Would love to hear which you've tried and what you like / dislike from the point of view of a Liftoff user. Let's get some recommendations ironed out before everything breaks and this group is overrun with people asking why 😅
Could be outstanding, could be something you've already completed. I like to break my goals down into a sort of ladder with the eventual goal at the top, but smaller achievements on the way. So to that end my bucket list includes such gems as: - Go out for a meal alone - Buy a fancy ice lolly without feeling guilty about it - Climb up the nearby hill without stopping for a break - Reach out to for a catchup - Finish reading the whole Discworld book series (I never did read the last one, iykyk)
Haven't been feeling well this week so I took the opportunity to log into the game for the first time in years. Maybe Past Me knew when she logged out that it was going to be for a while, because she made sure I was in a lovely spot for the sunrise when I came back! Happy to see Laurelin server is still going strong, I've been pottering around it on and off for 12 years now and still never even made it to Moria due to spending all my time farming, smoking pipe-weed on the roof of my hobbit house, and back in the day playing quite a lot of creep and RP-selling dyes in Bree when I should've been levelling instead 😅 That's my Christmas break game sorted, anyway. Do they still do the Yule festival?
Went down with a mysterious cough on Tuesday night. Seemed like just a bad cold Wednesday, got worse and added dizziness to the mix Thursday, now today the dizziness is gone (hooray) but whatever I've got has changed tack and is trying out severe nausea on me instead (booo). Was supposed to be out tomorrow with a friend I've not seen since August. Not impressed. So while I spend the next few days swooning around the house complaining about it like an actual child, I'd love to hear some happy things to focus on instead! Weekend plans, amusing anecdotes, promises to avenge me should I not make it through, jokes at my expense, all equally welcome. For the love of god just distract me 😭
gamemaker.io
Plus switching from the subscription model to a one-time fee for commercial PC-only license. Nice. I enjoyed this part of the announcement: > We have seen other platforms making awkward moves with their pricing and terms, so we thought, what if we did the opposite I wonder who they could possibly be referencing 🤔
First pub, two drinks, £10.70. Ouch, we thought. But that must just be what it costs round there nowadays. Second pub, literally round the corner. Same two drinks came to £6 something. I'm trying to be normal today and do my actual job instead of falling into a hyperfixated rabbithole of how pubs work and how they can possibly be so different despite being in essentially the same location and about the same size. But I can't get it out of my mind! Both of them had dogs in, so it can't be that. The more expensive one _was_ much more brightly lit, so maybe pub-grade lightbulbs are very expensive? 🤔 Any subject-matter experts hanging about who can put me out of my misery?
You may or may not have heard of [the gross Android 14 bug](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/google-promises-a-rescue-patch-for-android-14s-ransomware-bug/) currently affecting people with multiple user accounts on their phone. I'm in this picture, hi, this is me. When I heard about the bug, I stopped using the second profile and everything seemed to be fine. A narrow escape, right?! Alas, no. This morning I saw something vaguely amusing, and thought "my friends at UKCasual will chortle quietly at this". Tried to take a photo...camera crashed. And again. And that's apparently it! I now have no access to storage on my phone and am left hoping Google come up with a fix asap. Not even going to tell you what the amusing photo was, so ner. How's your day going? 😩
The two pound coins are especially manky, if that affects your suggestions at all.
Not that I'm admitting this is a degenerate meal, but it seems to be looked down on by everyone I know and haven't convinced to try it yet. - Basic plain pasta shells, cooked normally - Drain water - Add like half a block at least of chopped-up basic cheddar and stir it while it melts - Stuff into six (this is the appropriate amount, trust me) Yorkshires - Throw the pan away due to burnt cheese Easy peasy, lemon....cheezy? I await your judgement. *whoever replies with a penis joke first, loses
kenney.itch.io
Usually coats $19.95. I slept for most of this offer apparently but it's still available for nine and a half hours as of time of posting! You can claim it with your Itch account then download it later. As the man himself says, "Get all my game assets in a single bundle, great for learning new engines 👀"
peakedinhighskool.com
For anyone else who used to rely on /u/peakedinhighskool and his fabulous charts, YSK they're all available on his website with no Reddit required. Also, week 2 chart just went up! Enjoy.
I'm off on holiday tomorrow and will have basically no internet for over a week. So naturally I'm downloading all the media I can think of, just in case of downtime. Thought it might be fun to solicit some musical suggestions from you lot to help expand my mind. So here we are. What's your ultimate all-time #1 album? My tastes are pretty eclectic\* so feel free to suggest basically anything, and maybe I'll update after holiday and judge what I thought of them all. Or maybe not, you know, that sounds like potentially quite a lot of effort. Cheers in advance! \* *mostly on the alternative / rock side of things but also love various kinds of dance sub-genre on occasion and of course the genre-that-isn't-a-genre-at-all, Eurovision*
Forgot my hands don't really work first thing, and the bottle of laundry juice was brand new and heavy. Luckily I've got two loads to go on and managed to scrape this lot off the bench with my hand into a spare one of those cup things. But urgh, the kitchen floor is all a bit Ghostbusters 2. Smells nice, like, it's got that going for it.
I guess whoever is up earliest on a Thursday gets to make it, and isn't being up really early cause enough for complaint in itself? Hmm, this is far too deep philosophy for so early in the morning. Anyway. My main complaint this week is that our new neighbours have got a new tiny puppy. It's a little bulldog type thing I believe, but absolutely tiny so even the couple of glimpses I've had of it running around the back garden it's been mostly hidden in the grass. The complain is not the existence of a new tiny neighbour, it's that I can't think of a not-socially awkward way of meeting it. I demand to meet the puppy! Anyway how's your Thursday? Get it all off your chest before the weekend, that's the healthy way.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1915905 OP posted their unpopular opinion that game devs shouldn't be using their development time on making games accessible for people with disabilities. But check out the top comments, which have turned into basically a handy checklist of all the simple accessibility features we can easily add to our games! Thanks, OP 😄 > Sorry in advance
Since Lemmy is a terrible influence, I’ve been convinced to give RSS another go as a means to get at the ~~news that interests me~~ interesting stuff that I’d otherwise miss. It’s actually working surprisingly well, so I thought I’d share some gamedev-specific resources that I’ve subscribed to so far. My current approach for the feed is to subscribe to basically anything that looks interesting, then prune it later if it turns out to be no good or be too spammy. So I’d very much appreciate suggestions of blogs, magazines, video channels, podcasts, whatever is RSS-able! --- **READING MATERIAL** *Magazines* - [MCV / Develop Magazine](https://mcvuk.com) - News, interviews etc from around the UK gaming industry - [Game Developer (née Gamasutra)](https://www.gamedeveloper.com) - Lots of interesting news and articles among the nonsense here but I can’t find a way to sub to only certain categories, so may be too spammy. We’ll see. **Blogs** - [LOSTGARDEN](https://lostgarden.home.blog/) - Self-described as “a rare treasure trove of readable, thoughtful essays on game design theory, art and the business of design” and it’s not wrong - [Keith Burgun Games](http://keithburgun.net) - Basically a personal blog that includes devlog updates, general musings on gamedev, and a podcast - [Blobs in Games](https://simblob.blogspot.com) - Technical articles that mostly go over my head but are interesting to read through anyway to see what sort of thing actual smart people get up to - [Brandon Cole](http://brandoncole.net/) - Game reviews and other articles from the perspective of a blind gamer who works as an accessibility consultant. Really interesting read, and audio versions of posts are included. --- **WATCHING & LISTENING** **Podcasts** I don’t really *do* podcasts but would like to get into them more, so any recommendations for this section very welcome! - [The Clockwork Game Design Podcast / Strategy Can Be Fun](http://keithburgun.net/podcast) - By Keith Burgun who I mentioned above already, a combo of discussions and interviews around game design - [Building The Game](https://buildingthegamepodcast.com/) - “the ins and outs and ups and downs of being game designers in a documentary style” - [Deep Listens](https://deeplistens.libsyn.com) - Subbed to this because it described itself as taking deeper dives into what makes games great, but haven’t listened yet so we’ll see - [The Game Dev Advice Podcast](https://www.gamedevadvice.com) - Basically what it says on the tin **Videos** Did you know [you can still subscribe to YouTube channels via RSS](https://www.ghacks.net/2022/08/01/how-to-subscribe-to-youtube-rss-feeds-without-third-party-services/)? This should help with the problem of YT trying to decide what we actually want to see, versus what we’ve literally told it we want to see. So far I’ve RSS-followed: - [GDC](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0JB7TSe49lg56u6qH8y_MQ) - An excellent resource that you all no doubt already know about - [Going Indie](https://www.youtube.com/@GoingIndie) - Video essay type content on the business side of games, from a guy who started his own indie studio - [Ask Gamedev](https://www.youtube.com/@AskGamedev) - Despite the name this is more of a showcase channel for indie / solo games, but it’s fun for a bit of occasional inspiration - [Grant Abbitt](https://www.youtube.com/@grabbitt) - Actually a 3d modelling channel focusing on Blender but the way he explains things has been invaluable for me and my game Plus a couple of devlog channels by members of this community that I’d like to make sure I don’t miss: - [QueenOfSquiggles](https://www.youtube.com/@queenofsquiggles) - Making a magical farming sim inspired by Slime Rancher (shoutout [@QueenOfSquiggles@lemmy.one](https://lemmy.one/u/QueenOfSquiggles) ) - [JulianH](https://www.youtube.com/@Julian_H) - Making a story-based game about the very far future, with some definite Outer Wilds vibes (shoutout [@julianh@lemm.ee](https://lemm.ee/u/julianh) ) If any of you reading this have your own devlog channel, please share, I’d love to check it out too! — For anyone thinking of joining the RSS revolution, I’m trying out [Inoreader](https://www.inoreader.com) which I’d seen recommended a fair bit around Lemmy. Not too sold on it yet, but the free plan is a decent enough start. > interesting stuff that I’d otherwise miss