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As a general rule, they only defederated from abusive instances (spam, etc).

The article references a clip from that channel that was uploaded in 2019 and taken down via a DMCA claim in 2022.

They shut down their personal instance, so the specific inbox it is trying to reach hasn't existed for a year and a half.

5 sub-series, each 3-4 books. They are pretty short, so they go fast.

Series 3 is a sequel to 1, series 4 is a less-direct sequel to 2. Series 5 acts as an ending for 1/3 and epilogue for 2/4. I believe she is currently writing series 6, which will follow one of the main characters from 5. It's all written chronologically though.

I have mostly used Reddit and Lemmy threads. I search for something like great magic systems or well-thought-out sci-fi and then grab some of the stronger recommendations.

Currently reading the Revelation Space books. They tickle the same itch as Expanse and Bobiverse, though the shifting cast from book to book keeps me less emotionally attached than the former. The influences on Bobiverse are strong.

Series 2 and 4 of Robin Hobb's main universe follow female leads who absolutely fit this. Liveship Traders and Rain Wild Chronicles.

They can technically be read stand-alone, but I'd highly recommend reading the whole universe in order. It's pretty quick.

Nah. They are detecting the collision in order to push the player, so the engine is doing the work already. They could easily add an on_collision_player event in the NPC controller that fires at that point to handle NPC reaction.

The age of the engine impacts things like loading screens, poor use of modern hardware, etc. The 2004-era NPC handling is simply a reluctance to do any more than the bare minimum.

This is suspiciously similar to the premise of The Little Red Car by Bernice Orawski. Great book.

Sounds handy. I just checked off the spreadsheet as I went.

The argument is that ethnic Chinese aren't likely to mock their leader on the basis of being ethnically Chinese. Therefore, the origin of it is extremely unlikely to be based on race.

It sounds like a link can be a file path and clicking the link just opens the file. If that's the case, this is effectively the same risk as filesystem shortcuts.

An amazing opening to a wonderful album.