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lemmy.world mods be like: 👀
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I've tried Gemini, and honestly being that we are in the fine year of 2025 already, it actually feels like a regression from Gopher, to the point I've described it in other Gemini discussions as "taking Gopher and formatting it as a brutalist buttplug". The fact that, unlike Gopher, or HTML, or whatever else, there is no way to iterate the protocol, only makes it even worse.
Personally if I had to do a "smaller web" thing I'd simply pick up on the work that someone else already has done that is proven to work. Archive of Our Own has a pretty decent document parser that takes only a "safe subset" of HTML and CSS that allows at least the historical styling inherited from the printing press, basic accessibility and machine readability elements like quoteblocks, cites, timestamps and inline diffs, and at least recognizes enough CSS to allow to describe naturaly occurring phenomena such as color, shape or size of text. So, enough for rather decent document styling.
Sure, it's not 100% there but from what I've tested for my work, it's about 10 years closer to a decent web semi-replacement than Gemini and Gopher will ever be.
Give in! Renounce your spare time!
First a world that's larger and more connected but not open world (open world is a meme that needs to die). Something like Monster Hunter Stories 2 (MHS2) 's connected map.
Have Pokémono use actions to interact with the overworld depending on their level and moveset, such as flying, swimming, digging, or say using vines to latch to a tree the other side of a chasm to cross over. So something like MHS2's overworld actions.
Have an engine that allows for a decent combat flow with turns or something like ATB, with better indicators for actions and statuses, and with a proper HUD to log turn events. So something like MHS2's battle engine.
Have a plot that, like, at least pretends your character is pivotal somehow for the adventure rather than playing a spot that any nobody can fill. So something like MHS2's plot.
Drop the attempt at hi-fi / realistic rendering of Pokémon and instead turn to models that are simple, kinda toy-ish and easily recognizable by focusing on what makes each Pokémon distinctive. Not to mention more varied efficient so you can actually have a Pokémon with claws use those claws and be watchable at above 15 fps. So something like MHS2's models.
Overall, basically just do MHS2 but with Pokémon. There's a reason my official statement before PLA came out was that MHS2 was the best Pokémon game for the Switch (play as a Trainer, collect and train 6 mons, deal with elemental powers and stuff, complete a champion challenge, etc).
Mario's brother, a good plumber (takes the shit out).
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You mean switch to Jabber, right?
Hermione being r makes sense.
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They did, yes.
I'm assuming the next video to be released will be of the Proton CEO and Trump on on some fetish.
Whaaaat? This has to go through reporting to count?
Maaaan, pirating things is so complex these days. I long for the days of napster and emule.
It's an older hyperdocument protocol, in some ways the predecessor of the web. You could have a Gopher client that would give you a listing and a search to access a number of resources,