I won’t be using this account anymore as I do not believe the administration of my instance is operating in good faith.
I think the right way to go is fine a good local computer store with knowledgeable people and get their help parting out and assembling it. You get some repair coverage and benefits like that, they do the bulk of the work, and you can put your own options in on anything you’re knowledgeable about. It’s what I’ve done and it’s well worth it for the small extra cost.
These are millenial shooters dangit, boomers were too old for doom. Gen X at most.
More seriously though I just replayed the OG doom and it still slaps, nice to see some folks are trying to recapture that. I should check these out.
I don’t understand why anyone is naïve enough to still preorder from companies like Bethesda.
Mostly I don’t understand pre-ordering games at all (patient gamers represent) but from Bethesda? You’re basically paying to get kicked in the shins. Surely we all know this by now.
There are several other options for sorting comments, you don’t have to keep it chronological…
The site grew something like twenryfold in the span of two days… Honestly I’m impressed at how mild the ridiculousness has been
In my day we used emojis made of ASCII punctuation mark and we were happy. You kids today don’t know how good you have it.
“double lidding” sounds like something that shouldn’t be discussed in front of the kids
That sounds like one of those things where you forget about it, then years later realize how fucked up it was.
“and then the workers and employers lived happily ever after”
There are still a lot more people on twitter.
This kind of feature creep was also common in the web2.0 days. Lots of forum plugins were basically “you can have a facebook profile and feed page and a twitter feed, but they’re all wish.com equivalents because they’re locally hosted and can only be seen by the other people on this forum”. These features were generally quite popular too, heck I installed a few on my own forum. Besides money and things, I think it’s enticing to want to make your site into a “one stop” site. Throw in the fact that these are all capitalist hegemons trying to become the next ring to rule them all, and I think you’ve got your answer.
Same reason people have multiple accounts on other sites. You don’t always want your comments on local news to intersect your comments in a professional community or your comments on a game site. Storing them on other instances is another small layer of security.
Being able to host a local instance seems like a really interesting approach to owning your own user data. Also a way to have a “blog” site like the relatively new profile posts on reddit.
There are some good reasons to do it. You can basically recreate the classic forum experience. Say you want to make an all purposes Blades in the Dark community. You could just make /c/bladesinthedark in your favourite instance, but you could also make mybladesinthedark.org/c/generaldiscussion, /c/characterart, /c/gamestories, /c/playbypost, even /c/offtopic, and restrict the creation of new communities to mods, or to admins with an @mybladesinthedark.org account, or something like that. Maybe mybladesinthedark.org is owned by the company that publishes bitd, allowing them to create a series of “official” communities linked under the lemmy network but still locally managed.
IMO this is a pretty powerful tool, and while I don’t think it should be the standard, it definitely does ad d cool value that competitors lack.
I’m still sorting that out, thus far I have just assumed that there will be cat videos. It’s basically one of the safest assumptions of the internet.
I’ve only been here for about an hour, but I’ve found two different patientgamers instances… jury’s still out on which one I like better.
I’m sure there will be a huge downtick, but there’s also people like me who heard about Lemmy because of Reddit but this is totally something I’d support. Now that I know it’s here, I have a source for my cat videos and obscure video game recommendations, I don’t really need the activity and tumult of Reddit. I’m sure there are dozens like me. Dozens.
Glad another Marxist said it. The problem isn’t that capitalism was always the wrong choice, it’s that we’re clinging to it long beyond its best before date.