I really could not get into SNW. The almost Marvel-satire-level of constant asides and quips takes me out of it. It wants to be a gorgeous, serious show, a wannabe campy homage, and a modern Marvel action-funny, and eat its cake, too.
Contrast to DS9/TNG, where the show is campy but not self-aware, SNW oscillates between winking at the audience and tearjerker storyline in too small of an interval, consistently.
I was checking out the new season of Fargo, which made me want to rewatch the 1996 movie and I got to thinking, the Coen Brothers have a fantastic filmography. They have way more hits than misses and they make some of the most interesting movies out there. No Country for Old Men is probably one of my favorites of all time. So...
David Fincher is pretty rock solid. The Social Network is his best movie; all of his murder thrillers are equally good. Alien3 is his worst and hardly counts because it was a clean up job, and still isn’t a bad movie.
I use a seedbox to run qBittorrent with Jackett, and have a bunch of sources on there. I know there are other methods, but that works for me and I’m comfortable with it....
BOTW is incredible. Probably my favorite game in terms of design.
However, its dungeons aren’t just weak, they’re barely skirting the definition of dungeon. They’re by far the weakest part of the game. Its story is solid but I think the execution of the story and performances are also weak.
Majora has a gameplay loop that is completely one with its story. Very few games manage to have the core loop truly be informed by their story, which is sublime when it happens.
And it also hits traditional Zelda tropes, such has dungeons with legitimate puzzles that you have to think about.
BOTW would be THE GOAT game if its weak points weren’t so weak compared to the rest of the franchise. They were sacrifices to its new gameplay paradigm. But they really didn’t have to be sacrificed.
Majora, especially if you played it when you were like 12, caused you to feel real anxiety constantly. The dread was always marching your way.
BOTW is simply the opposite. Total freedom and creativity means there is no urgency or anxious story beats propelling you to some catharsis.
I am mostly posting this article because MMORPGs are one of my favorite genres, despite my lack of time to play them these days. But overall I have been pretty disappointed with the direction the genre has taken. Moving more towards solo-play, story-heavy, and small-scale theme-park style content.
The fascinating thing about PeerTube right now is that the frontend experience actually seems to be best on other services. This is primarily because discoverability between instances is fairly poor due to both federation mechanics and due to the nature of bootstrapping social. Because Lemmy and Mastodon feature their own human...
I am of the belief we do not need PeerTube at all.
We need a custom Lemmy instance that has video upload baked in, as well as a method of monetizing it for the server/“creator” (who is in a structural sense the moderator of the community to which it was uploaded).
Lemmy is simply better at distributing the information. PeerTube is a red herring and P2P video sucks. We need to make it easy for a server operator to have a mechanism for paying for the bandwidth (take payments and contain distribution to paying users, and account for bandwidth when distributing operating income after costs).
Like I said, I think they should wield their expertise towards making alt implementations of Mastodon and Lemmy that support multiple ways of video—paywall or otherwise—because the primary problem with video is always distribution and engagement. Miming YouTube more directly will always fail. It has for two decades now.
The more rare, obscure, or just a guilty pleasure, the better. Maybe you grew up with it, maybe it’s just the nostalgia talking, any reason is fine....
Fear doesn’t work, we’ve known this for decades. If we know what positive steps are being taken, then we can support those or perhaps build on them if you’re able....
maintain the current interest rates for another decade (aka no more cheap US dollars)
These are the fundamental changes required, that will cause everything else to play out and the market to stop sabotaging itself. Actual incentives will emerge, and those incentives would align with saving the Earth from our destruction of it.
Short of these steps, you won’t stop: most pollution, most overconsumption, most agri-pollution, and most malinvestment.
Your thesis relies on the premise that it’s possible to elect an incorruptible politician or series of politicians to occupy the power seat required to do a particular thing. But buying politicians will always and forever be the game; so rather than put the scale there for someone to play favorites, it has to be preferable to remove the scale so the temptation cannot be revisited.
If the government gets to pick a winner of an industry, whether it’s on paper a “little guy” or a corporation, then even if for the first few years this is working, you cannot ensure that the next guy won’t use the same tool to pick a different winner.
“In early April 2024, online play and other functionality that uses online communication will end for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U software,” Nintendo said on its Support website....
Easily this. It’s almost functionally a rhythm game with the way the soundtrack effectively pulse drags you through levels, and then smash cuts to a droning track for a “comedown” after the high of each completion.
With all the talk about expensive clients, how to fund the developers and big instances not managing to keep up with the influx of users, I’d like to tell you about my work on Communick and what I am proposing as an alternative model for a sustainable growth of the Fediverse....
The paradox is that it must solve money first. The original intended usecase is not only the best, but it is a prerequisite to higher order use cases.
Think of the money supply layers, “M0, M1, M2” and so on, and what they mean.
Smart contracts are an “M1-M2+” problem solver. But M0 still isn’t solved.
In other words, having stock markets or NFT housing chain of title will always fail if the money usecase upon which it stands is still fallible. Ethereum put the cart before the horse. Bitcoin or Bitcoin Cash, “dumb” M0 solutions, have to be widely useful for the rest to work.
The onboard flow is bar none the best in the Fediverse. UI is great too.
I think the UX, especially the tab choices and arrangement, are sub par. In particular, I would rethink some of the tab drill down. Subscriptions on the left when the default state is to not be logged in, is weird. I think I would hide that entirely until a user is logged in, or find a better way to default to or drill into your subscriptions after logging in.
I get the impression that we’re headed for the same issues that pop up when we put all our eggs in one basket with Reddit/FB/whatever. People flock to the largest instance, and someday that instance could go down due to cost or the host losing interest....
I think the current model under more mature circumstances is actually the ideal. You want sysadmins to experience the full cost-benefit analysis of running servers. They are functionally countries and should have the risks associated with running a country. A market-driven benevolent dictator/benevolent committee, where the server operators are highly motivated to be good actors, as is currently the case, is the ultimate freedom-security situation.
The risk of a server being able to “vanish” as it were is an essential risk for both community users and community managers to bear.
I landed here after RIF stopped working on my device and followed RIF link. This will be my new place to find content and see aggregation. Here it is to the end of reddit that starts today! 🍻
For example: for a particular use case , I want to go a step beyond ActivityPub, and allow a user who created an account on another server to perform full authentication on my server, effectively become a proxied registered account, granting privileges of a natively registered account....
Production Begins For ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 3, ‘Section 31’ Movie Starts In January (trekmovie.com)
Plex starts narcing on its own users' anime and X-rated habits with an opt-out service, and it's going terribly (www.pcgamer.com)
[DISCUSSION] What director(s) do you think have the best filmography?
I was checking out the new season of Fargo, which made me want to rewatch the 1996 movie and I got to thinking, the Coen Brothers have a fantastic filmography. They have way more hits than misses and they make some of the most interesting movies out there. No Country for Old Men is probably one of my favorites of all time. So...
[DISCUSSION] [SPOILERS] - THE MARVELS - Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani - Dir. by Nia DaCosta (media.wdwnt.com)
RELEASE DATE...
Einhänder (1997 PS1) - Shudder (youtu.be)
Music that plays during one of the early boss fights....
Have 4K TV show torrents entirely disappeared from public trackers?
I use a seedbox to run qBittorrent with Jackett, and have a bunch of sources on there. I know there are other methods, but that works for me and I’m comfortable with it....
What are the Top 3 Games that you have played in your lifetime?
For me, its probably Halo 3, Call of duty Black Ops 2 and GTA V
Vague Patch Notes: Default MMORPG genre features change over time, and that’s OK (massivelyop.com)
I am mostly posting this article because MMORPGs are one of my favorite genres, despite my lack of time to play them these days. But overall I have been pretty disappointed with the direction the genre has taken. Moving more towards solo-play, story-heavy, and small-scale theme-park style content.
The Best PeerTube Frontends are Mastodon and Lemmy
The fascinating thing about PeerTube right now is that the frontend experience actually seems to be best on other services. This is primarily because discoverability between instances is fairly poor due to both federation mechanics and due to the nature of bootstrapping social. Because Lemmy and Mastodon feature their own human...
What Game Boy game do you love that you never hear anyone talk about?
The more rare, obscure, or just a guilty pleasure, the better. Maybe you grew up with it, maybe it’s just the nostalgia talking, any reason is fine....
What positive steps are being taken towards stalling climate change?
Fear doesn’t work, we’ve known this for decades. If we know what positive steps are being taken, then we can support those or perhaps build on them if you’re able....
Nintendo is shutting down online play on 3DS and Wii U in April 2024 | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
“In early April 2024, online play and other functionality that uses online communication will end for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U software,” Nintendo said on its Support website....
A message to new users
Hello World!...
Unremoval of Piracy Communities @ lemmy.world
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/6018317...
F-Zero99: A guide to the Blue Falcon as a main
This guide will be mostly about the Blue Falcon, but some tips might apply to your favorite ship....
Rare Finds - Spaghettiman (2016)
This low budget superhero satire is a self-aware but serious twist on the genre....
[Rewatch] The Rescuers Down Under - low key top ten animated film ever.
Rewatched this for the first time since I was 5 or 6....
What was the best video game music of all time?
For my money it’s a tie between Eurydice’s song from Hades, any of the tracks from VVVVVV and Still Alive. But what do you think?
Game Boy and Nintendo 64 - August 2023 Game Updates - Nintendo Switch Online (www.youtube.com)
Pokémon Trading Card Game (Game Boy)...
Best Opening Scene of a Movie
What is the best opening scene/ sequence of any movie? And why is it the animated Lion King?
PSA: Communick is a privacy-focused provider of fediverse instances, pledging to donate 20% of its profits to FOSS projects
With all the talk about expensive clients, how to fund the developers and big instances not managing to keep up with the influx of users, I’d like to tell you about my work on Communick and what I am proposing as an alternative model for a sustainable growth of the Fediverse....
What do you think would be an actually good use of blockchain/smart contracts? What kind of problems (big or small) is it a good tool for?
Hello!...
Every one always talks about how piracy caused a loss in sales but no one will ever talk about the positive aspects of Piracy apart from the pirate community. (www.pcgamer.com)
[Self Promo] I've just made Avelon (a native iOS app for Lemmy) available for download! (lemm.ee)
Hi there fellow Apple enthusiasts!...
Uploading Images (github.com)
Hi Lemmy team...
Is Your Privacy Safe? The Hidden Dangers of Fediverse (blog.bloonface.com)
Wouldn't the fediverse work better if it was like a drive array rather than independent communities on independent servers?
I get the impression that we’re headed for the same issues that pop up when we put all our eggs in one basket with Reddit/FB/whatever. People flock to the largest instance, and someday that instance could go down due to cost or the host losing interest....
Welcome RIF users
I landed here after RIF stopped working on my device and followed RIF link. This will be my new place to find content and see aggregation. Here it is to the end of reddit that starts today! 🍻
Can I perform user authentication for users of federated instances, “registering” them as users in my instance’s database?
For example: for a particular use case , I want to go a step beyond ActivityPub, and allow a user who created an account on another server to perform full authentication on my server, effectively become a proxied registered account, granting privileges of a natively registered account....
4 days before reddit's 3rd party app shutdown, Lemmy daily active users has skyrocketed 1400% this month (lemmy.world)
From 3000 daily active users on June 1, 2023 to 47500 on June 26, 2023....