It's astounding that Prigozhin was so naive as to think that he could attempt a coup against Putin, and then simply retire in exile to Belarus. Everybody knew something like this would happen, except Prigozhin himself apparently. People have suffered 'unfortunate accidents' at the hands of Putin for far less.

I haven't played Myst since the 90s! Such a great game.

As long as you download it now, then you can keep the game as long as you're a member of PS+. So if you even think you might play it in the future, download it now. Once it rotates off the subscription, then it won't be available for download anymore (but people who already downloaded it can keep it).

MS should have allowed them an exception to leave the split screen coop mode out of the Series S version (how many people will even use that feature?)

Even if they manage to get it working, this game will now come out later on Xbox, even though it's not a timed exclusive. So in effect MS is just handing Sony a free timed exclusive for no good reason, because they stubbornly insist on complete feature parity between XSX and XSS.

As we get further and further into this console generation, this is going to happen more and more due to the XSS's lower horsepower. Microsoft needs to reevaluate their policy for feature parity.

Definitely need to check this one out. Larson in general is such a great author (at least to me) because he tells the personal stories of people involved in history that a really make it interesting.

If you haven't read it, I'd also recommend "In the Garden of Beasts", also by Larson. It's about the American Ambassador to Germany and his family living through the rise of Nazi Germany and how surreal the entire thing is.

That's good advice, thank you! That's what I guess I'll do for now until the kinks get worked out of the Fediverse.

I guess I'm just frustrated because people have constantly told me to join a small instance and not overload the big ones. But then when you join a small instance, it gets botted exactly because it's small and the admins don't have the resources. So now I am back to square one! I don't have loyalty to any particular instance, I just want to see everything from everybody, and it feels like it shouldn't be this difficult. Sorry for venting.

I have an account with Rammy that I had created specifically because I wanted to be able to interact with both Beehaw and Lemmy.World. It is so hard to find an instance that lets me interact with both, because Beehaw keeps defederating things. Does anyone have any advice on an instance I can join which federates with both Beehaw and Lemmy.world, and isn't going to get on Beehaw's defederating list in a week?

The fact that it's a wireless controller is what I really don't understand. Why would you want to risk interference, battery issues, etc?

I respect the decision for what you guys want to make Beehaw. If this decision isn't for me, is there some instance out there that federates with everything? I just want to see every post from the whole Fediverse. Is there any instance that provides that?

The development of this game makes construction of a nuclear power plant look timely and cheap.

Pence is a religious zealot, and I think he believes God is calling him to run, so he doesn't care what the polls or common sense seem to say. He believes that somehow God's plan will work out. We'll see how that goes for him...

What's sad is that back in the old days of Reddit, Reddiquette was actually a thing and people followed that rule more. In recent years, though, it feels like Reddiquette is completely dead.

Post any kind of dissenting opinion and you'll get downvoted into absolute oblivion. And I'm not just speaking about politics. You can write a well thought out comment in any sub that goes against the grain, and the culture is just totally to downvote for disagreement. I think my most downvoted comment of all time on Reddit was on r/juicing when I questioned whether carrot juice was actually effective for depression lol.

Still better than Reddit

Can anyone tell me what the "196" community is? If I sort my feed by All, it gives me a ton of memes from there but I can't tell what it is.

Yeah, the niche subreddits are what I really hate to leave behind. I could care less about leaving r/politics, r/AskReddit, etc. But I'll miss r/EtrianOdyssey (niche video game series).

But we'll just have to create these communities on Lemmy. I'm in it for the long haul.

I love the Mystery Dungeon games. Most people know about the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon ones, but there are also Etrian Mystery Dungeon I & II, Shiren the Wanderer titles, Taloon's Great Adventure, Chocobo Mystery Dungeon, and more!

I like them because they are pretty casual games you can pick up and put down easily, but if you want to get deeper into the strategy, you can. We didn't get these games in the West until the Nintendo DS era, but they started with the SNES in Japan.

Ad hominem is, I think, the most prevalent and harmful fallacy on the whole internet and society at large. In fact, not to make everything about the Reddit situation, but we saw u/spez recently employ it by evading questions and trying to impugn developers.

And of course, in the political space, we see it all the time to try and dismiss any pro-worker arguments. In the United States, labeling someone as a socialist has been used as a Q.E.D. in itself for decades. I hope that's changing.

Ah ok cool, thank you!

Same:

www.reddit.com/u/patchymoose

Yeah, I didn't understand that either. Its not like video games are some sort of resource that lives may depend on, like r/ukraine which is more understandable. Oh God we wouldn't want to miss a Nintendo Direct or something, would we? 🙄

Disturbingly, there is really no way to know who actually owns a private company like Reddit. Once it goes public, then the owners will be the shareholders (and in reality, the owners are the major shareholders who have a controlling stake).

The only clue to the current ownership is whatever management wishes to disclose. Spez wrote a blog post in 2021 indicating that they issued $250M in "series E funding" to existing and new investors.

If there are any finance bros around here, they may be able to dig up some sort of disclosures from bond auctions to try and see who bought it.

The only confirmed investor I know about is Tencent. They invested in 2019. Its possible they were also some of the "existing investors" Spez referred to in 2021.

Bottom line: nobody knows who owns Reddit. But apparently the owners think this guy Spez is a good fit to run their company, somehow.

Are we blocked from seeing NSFW communities on Beehaw? (Not an issue, I would create an alt for that anyway. Just curious)

So I've started to get familiar with some of the other instances that show up in my "all" feed. Lemmy.ml, lemmy.world are the main two. But what is blahaj.zone? I see that one quite a bit but no one has ever talked about it.

Even if it weren't nonprofit, it would be better run as a worker cooperative where the employees of Reddit made the decisions. Instead, its the capricious whims of Mr. u/spez

Me too. Honestly, Microsoft seems to be in a pretty distant third place in the console wars, so the antitrust concerns don't make a lot of sense to me. Even if Microsoft did make CoD Xbox exclusive, I don't think that would be that big of a deal for Sony and Nintendo, as they have countless other draws.

Additionally, I too think Blizzard is a shit company and there's nowhere to go but up under new ownership.

I use it too for the rewards. I had the exact same thought as you--at least they pay me for collecting data.

"every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end"

Closing Time by Semisonic

I'm not even joking when I say that this app, despite being in alpha, is a more pleasant experience than the official Reddit app.

• Jerboa has not begged me to turn on notifications
• Jerboa has not yelled at me for taking a screenshot or begged me to send it as a link to the site instead
• Jerboa has not warned me that I am "low on coins"
• Jerboa has not tried to make me create an NFT avatar
• Jerboa contains more formatting options in comments than the Reddit app (!)
• Jerboa is smart enough to autopopulate the link title when I highlight text to be converted to a link. Reddit app still lacks this feature (!)

Awesome. The Linux community should be among the vanguard of this whole effort given our philosophy.

Honestly I've only been on Lemmy for a few days and I don't anticipate going back to Reddit. I'll probably use Reddit for IT help queries periodically but that's it. I like Lemmy quite a bit more.

Can I join if I'm on Beehaw? I guess I was able to post this comment, so apparently so. Pretty cool. I like the Fediverse.

I really like the policy of no downvotes. Honestly, even on Reddit I think downvoting had long ceased to serve any useful purpose, and turned into a harmful tool. Anything that truly is bad content can just be reported instead.

My brother bought me A Plague Tale: Requiem for my birthday, but I have only just now gotten a chance to play it now that I graduated and have some free time.

I absolutely love this game. I loved the first one too. I could just wander around medieval France for hours without even playing the campaign. The setting is so well-crafted.

And I just learned that the developers, Asobo Studio, also were the ones behind Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. Absolute studs.

People have called it a "delivery simulator" as an insult to it, but honestly to me that sounds pretty freaking sweet when I need to relax after a long day.

Heck yeah, Wii U gang!!

Wow, I honestly didn't even know it was still around! Maybe I'll poke my head back in. I used to play Eve back when SA had a big presence on there. It has been over a decade.

Wow, that's an incredible feature.

As an aside, do you know if they actually get paid more if you watch those types of ads? How do they know that you watched it?

There is one channel in particular that I watch, and I just get tired of hearing about Nord VPN on every single video. I've heard the pitch. I don't need a VPN.

My pet peeve is when people take time during their video to put in an ad that is part of the video itself, so it's not skippable like traditional Youtube ads. You have to use the seeker to fast forward past the ad.

I have YT premium (we get it with our cell phone plan), so I'm even paying these people for the videos, yet am still being served ads. I wish YouTube would institute a policy against it.

Wikipedia is another example. One of the most heavily visited websites, operated as a nonprofit. Obviously they don't only rely on donations from visitors, as they have a whole foundation. But they are a great example IMO.

Oh no worries at all, I wanted to make sure I wasn't confusing myself. Thanks!