republicans have the right to be furious about things that aren’t happening, it’s in the Constitution

look, those boots aren’t gonna lick themselves

I already didn’t watch his show, but now, I’m still not going to watch it

holy shit am I tired of ‘free speech absolutists’ showing up to defend Nazis and literally nobody else

the bread knife is also really good for slicing tomatoes

hth

Seems about right.

Thing is, I actually like OW2’s core gameplay more than OW1. I can’t say it’s necessarily better than OW1 would have been if they hadn’t abandoned it for years to (fail to) build OW2’s PVE, but so it goes.

But I reinstalled just to see if I’d want to try with the new Invasion content, and here’s the thing:

I played about 5 rounds of QP. They were all horribly mismatched in terms of skill level, and I enjoyed 0 of them. So the idea of grinding through a new battle pass, although liking the RoboAna mythic skin, was a nonstarter even before talking about how crowded a launch season this is. Like even if I wanted to, I don’t have time for this battle pass.

And then the new PvE content? I mean maybe it’s good, but nothing about any of the PvE they’ve released in the past would support that. It’s been consistently mediocre IMO, so I dunno why I’d suddenly want to pay for the privilege.

I’m annoyed that I have about 2000 coins I’m never going to use (love that I can’t use them to buy the invasion bundle just to screw around with the new stuff), but I think it’s time to give up and move on.

yep - came here to see Larian praise, stepped in the usual conservative dog shit

oh well

You also most likely don’t get paid more for being more productive.

Seriously.

Someone pull out the productivity growth vs wage growth chart, let’s point out why no worker should give the tiniest shit.

Appeal to authority isn’t a fallacy if it’s a relevant authority, though. The US federal courts are a pretty dang relevant authority on US federal crimes.

yes, this is cowabunga with me, fellow youths

cannot believe how many people are confused that the use blocks aren’t showing use in that location, just size in relation to the size of the country

I assume it’s in reference to this: https://lemmy.one/post/137234

where lemmy.world is enforcing on-topic posts in their lemmy.world community, which was originally intended to be just about the instance itself rather than a catchall r/all style thing

I certainly agree it’s less than ideal, although I think a large part of that has to do with Lemmy not being fully mature as a software yet. In some future where development has progressed and some features ~ the ability to move instances as a user without creating a new account, for example ~ are available I think this would be easier to smooth out. The whole situation with one instance de-federating the other but not vice versa is also rather confusing (ultimately comprehensible, but still weird) and probably could use some more thought.

That said I don’t think this is otherwise a fundamentally different occurrence than if the same thing happened in the future with two other relatively large communities. It’s a little flashier and (maybe, dependent on how the Fediverse develops) more central because of the newness, but otherwise… yeah. I think the Fediverse just needs to have the culture and tools to handle this kind of split, otherwise its design philosophy just doesn’t work.

Lastly I would argue that this does not indicate fragility quite as much as you might suppose. The beehaw team could also have decided they didn’t have the resources to handle membership in the Fediverse and withdrawn entirely. This is a little more bend than break, from that perspective - from my section of the Fediverse I can currently still fully interact with beehaw.

Is it fragility or malleability, though? This platform readily diverges by design, and if that’s a problem for the health of the Fediverse, then it’s a fundamental problem with the design.

I don’t know whether or not this was the right decision for beehaw, although I certainly sympathize with them having staffing and mod tool issues. Modding any forum is a thankless and tiring job, and I’m sure in it’s super early state Lemmy doesn’t exactly have a mature suite of tools to work with.

I am very interested in the community reaction here though. There seems to be a shared assumption that instance creation in the Fediverse means an open exchange of users and content (outside of bad actor or extreme instances), and most instances should only be distributing technical burden and otherwise be almost just an aesthetic in the larger Fediverse.

This despite the user philosophy in the Fediverse being ‘go where you want, interact with who your want’, and federation tools meaning that philosophy applies to instances as well. And if you want meaningful differences between communities and instances, this has to be so - there has to be a strong ability to self-regulate, up to and including the ability to defederate from incompatible instances.

I think it’ll be very interesting to see how the Fediverse develops. A wider Fediverse composed of sets of federated instances which aren’t federated with other sets is possible. A largely open Fediverse with limited walled off instances is also possible. I know right now the latter is probably preferred to encourage growth, but in the long run? (these are not the only conceivable arrangements either, but this post is long enough already)

Also:

Dave’s not here, man

Wait, I’m having one of those things: a headache with pictures.

An idea?