Was going to provide the Steam link to the Reverie game for the curious, and then I saw on its page
Notice: planetarian ~the reverie of a little planet~ is no longer available on the Steam store.
Interesting that the prequel is coming to Steam but the main game was taken off (link still works though).
Might play the prequel, premise sounds fun, but absolutely skipping the main game. I am allergic to (post-)apocalyptic settings and that's what the main game is set in.
I like the quotes. But I don't hate it the other way either.
I can tell you are trying to put effort into this community and I really appreciate it :)
Want to play https://arimia.itch.io/clown-girl-teaches-how-to-make-vns. Does it count as edutainment if it is about creating something of the very medium you are consuming?
Kind of surprised this is the take. Algorithms in general, just sorting by highest to lowest or whatever common problem that needs to be solved, aren't bad. "Algorithm" has become a dirty word mostly because of the stuff pushing short-form content over long-form content, outrage that generates engagement over something you would enjoy that doesn't enrage you enough to make you type fifty paragraphs and keep coming back to fight in the comments, etc. So I agree with the literal statement that algorithms aren't always bad.
But as for what you meant, I'm super surprised at all the people who want an algorithm to feed them content and aren't satisfied. I looked for the stuff I was interested in, subscribed, and am happy. When I run out of content I either log off and do something else or go seek out stuff I'm kind of interested in. In my most charitable possible assumption, people who want algorithms are probably a lot less suspectible to getting pulled in by outrage and scrolling all day, and just want to be able to discover cool stuff fast, and the algorithms somehow worked to show them the cool stuff. In my experience I had to strictly stick to my Home feed with just stuff I subscribed to on Reddit to not see outrage porn, could never poke my head into Popular or anything without seeing some outrage sub like r/noahgettheboat or /iamatotalpieceofshit. And then they started forcibly sorting my Home feed by Controversial… yep. Stopped regularly browsing there really fast.
I am just really wary of asking for algorithms back because I really don't want the Fediverse to become another place catered towards outrage porn for max engagement. I really want users to have options if this is implemented, so as not to force this algorithm on users like myself who like the "chronological order of stuff you purposely followed only" algorithm. And for that option to not be taken away from me in an effort to "drive growth!" and all that.
I don't want to refuse others a good thing just because it's not for me, but I also have been burned by social media algorithms that were once nice chronological, and later became catered towards outrage and showing you content you never signed up to see without having an option to switch back to chronological and opt out of having RandomInfluencerYouDontFollow in your feed. Looking at you, Instagram. I signed up with my elementary school classmates, liked chronological feed, liked having Explore just be friends of friends… I still only follow people I know in real life but now Explore is a bunch of controversial memes, people selling stuff, and influencers who want me to form a parasocial relationship with them. This is also what my regular feed, which used to just show me chronological order posts only from people I follow, turns to once I scroll past maybe 7 posts my friends made. Have not fully deleted but also haven't touched the app in months now.
I guess the real solution is giving people options and not taking them away because you decided to go public and need maximum eye-on-advertisement time. Hopefully Lemmy stays open source and different instances stay popular, so in case someone does try to take it public we can all flee to different servers and keep talking.
I love living my daily life braless without any back pain :D
Pleased that [email protected] has attracted posters who aren't me in its first few days of existence! Thanks to it I played some automation games again. Mindustry may not be for me… I'll give it an honest shot but I just hit the tower defense tutorial and am feeling a bit leery. I'm not a "violence in video games is bad" type so not sure why I am getting like this.
Waiting for the day the Fediverse gets more users. I mod 3 communities now and I am letting it go because small platform, someone has to provide content, and although I am fully capable of posting without being a mod the things I'd like to post about don't always have preexisting communities (or have a dead one, so precedent to recreate—the "hey that's too specific, just post in a big general community" hurdle tends to be presented less often when the community already existed on the Fediverse). But in a normal situation this feels too powermoddy.
Oh! When I said mirror, I didn't mean "host them on Lemmy," I was thinking you simply link an existing mirror, or pop one in a Drive or Dropbox or something and link it there.
I mod [email protected] and would not be the most pleased with otome traffic getting absorbed into here, to be honest, at the very least crossposting otome posts over to me when they get made here would be nice. I do, however, have some otome patches I should probably post at some point, so thanks for the reminder. And I do understand that since otome often happens to be done as a visual novel, some people will just post it right to VisualNovels and not read the related communities in your sidebar or anything directing them to the right place. I do not fault you for other people not reading everything. (For what it is worth, VisualNovels is also linked in the OtomeGames sidebar.)
And no problem! I like helping people when I can.
The Kickstarter at least has visuals.
I have extremely skewed priorities and want to know if and when bunnies appear. (I also mod [email protected])
I've come off seeing a lot of people express dissent in a rather acidic manner, so I just appreciate that you have stated an opposing view in a way that is informative, and a lot less "anyone who disagrees is [bad thing]", "I will say that anyone who approves of [thing I don't] masturbates to it as a way to be hurtful and insulting", "you disagree? I will position you as overly emotional and myself as the realist by saying 'Cope'", etc.
You've made me curious about various programming languages' efficiency, specifically in how choice of language might affect resource consumption. Not just CPU cycles but carbon and electricity. And I'm actually going to look into it instead of feeling put off enough by vitriol that I just wash my hands of the entire disagreement and walk away. +1, this is how you disagree online.
Yes, I may be venting my feelings about seeing too many people being mean online.
Me too! BlueSky is where I'm sourcing most of my posts from nowadays ;)
Have been meaning to check this one out. Quite a lot of trans representation, points for that as a random cis lady who just likes to see other queer folk get representation too.
I think part of the issue is that it would be nice to contribute but I'm not always super aware of smaller games that could fit the community.