Oh that’s true, I did forget about that one.

Red.

Simply say “oh, its a full moon tonight?” Then look at them with your now piercingly red eyes and state “I must leave, immediately.”

Get out of any social situation and you can get your friends to think you’re hiding some big secret. Win win.

Looks glorious.

That’s pretty good for a first attempt, most people’s first games are barely functional, if at all, so I’d consider this a win.

This isn’t a ‘great’ suggestion (and if you got a home server you’re probably aware already), but there’s a ton of cheap PCs right now that aren’t Windows 11 compatible but are still relatively new.

Might not be a bad deal to pick up an mid-tier business PC like an Optiplex or HP or whatever and ‘upgrade’ it with the GPU? As long as the power supply supports it, that is.

I’m looking at one for a family member and its $125 for a pretty decent PC, more so once its running Linux.

You mean ‘ram’ it?

Looks good

Yeah here’s an example from yesterday:

This is posted to /c/[email protected] and /c/[email protected], marked by this stacking icon thing.

You can see the comments from both communities if you visit either post in either community.

My aim was to take an existing Mastodon post and basically repost it somewhere else here on Lemmy, but then have the discussion attached.

For example, John Mastodon makes a post about XYZ, then I crosspost it to the Open Source community, and if you open that post you can see the Mastodon comments and such, and commenting here on Lemmy would add to that conversation.

Ok this ‘appears’ to work. Each community is viewable as a group in Mastodon, so you can tag it as you post and this creates a PieFed/Lemmy post onto PieFed’s testing community.

Now to figure out the final step, how to crosslink posts.

Oh most definitely, here’s this post on Mastodon:

Still unsure of how to do the reverse though.

Somehow it got crossed in notes but the name of a planet (Alda) got named that instead of the protagonist (Alda). The protagonist was the daughter of the emperor so we said eh, maybe he named the planet after her, which seemed endearing.

On said planet, it got into the visual design that most of the trees were pine trees. This is an alien planet so that shouldn’t be the case - But we kept it and said they planted pine for good lumber but it got out of hand and now that have massive pine forests.

Those were actually versions of you from parallel universes, each saving you in the manner that the prophecies foretold.

Good job Gordon, pressing right click and all, I can see your M.I.T. education really pays off.

Well I can’t answer the other parts, but for games: The games industry has been going through a massive upheaval from ~2022-2025 has seen a staggering number of layoffs, games being canceled, and studios being shuttered. We’d be seeing a lot more games right now if they hadn’t been axed over the years.

In the indie game dev side, its sort of* an indiepocalypse where battling for a smidgen of spotlight on Steam is brutal - and even financial “success” doesn’t mean you’ll have enough to follow up with another game. Also because of the above publishers aren’t funding many AA games so its hard to get those going to.

*Its a little different for niches and certain genres so this is a generalization.

I’m assuming your age but I think its normal when people hit early adulthood to start drifting a direction and possibly start losing contact. At least for a few people, not everyone.

That being said, there’s a lot of unnatural disconnect lately due to stress and such and I think people tend to ‘replace’ them with parasocial or low effort social media relationships instead. Basically if you’re overwhelmed you can get some socializing in on Facebook or Instagram or the Ask Lemmy section of the fediverse and it feels like communicating but its actually leaves you wanting more but with less energy than before.

There’s also a possibility they’re dealing with something they haven’t been able (or wanting) to talk about.

The things that have worked for me are low bar meetups. That is, not a lot of time or effort to join. Like hey I’m jumping on XYZ game tonight, who’s down. Or there’s a new coffee shop near your house, want to check it out, etc.

Just take those exact characters, give them different hair colors, match the personality to the hair color, boom you got a slice of life show that has a strong first season but then fades in quality and takes a weird turn in season 2+3 before a mediocre season 4 that fans try to justify but everyone really hates.

More than I’d care to admit.

Chairs. You can sit on the ground or on a mat by a low table, as many people have done for centuries.

Without much velocity/pressure from the barrel, the pellets are only getting propelled from the primer alone. This short would throw the pellets in a wide area but it would likely be Nerf gun ranges.

Its more about the velocity. A barrel is needed to ‘shoot’ a shell. If you took a shotgun shell and hit a hammer onto the primer to set it off, well it would be a mess of pellets, but it wouldn’t fire with lethal velocity.