When I was a kid I’d play Fable The Lost Chapters as a regular villager. I’d buy a house, get married, equip a stick (because you had to equip a weapon) and just walk around interacting with the other villagers.

Eventually I’d get bored though, so I’d out-of-rp murder my wife, then “discover” the body and go on a rampage through Oakvale.

It sounds so much worse written down.

I just checked them out on Spotify and their discography is hilariously messed up

I wasn’t but you make it really tempting. I also love how I’ve been on many a different server, and each one has been completely unique in design. It really mastered the balance between a survival exploration game and creative sandbox.

Yeah, the last decade went really quick for me. I know everyone says that but it’s true. Things that make me feel old are how GTA V made fun of hipsters and New Girl made fun of millennials. That era is gone man.

Even Bowie’s Blackstar is 7 years old and that feels like last year.

I like a lot of what I consider ‘classic’ metal, which I hope is not offensive. Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Dio, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin. I like a lot of nu metal too, I hope that doesn’t get me banned.

I’d like to try more, I think it’s just the extreme varieties I can’t really get into.

I do not usually listen to David Guetta, but Titanium was everywhere the summer of 2011. I heard it in college, on the street, in the car, and at house parties. Actually, mostly house parties.

To this day I can taste cheap vodka, amaretto and jagermeister when I hear that song.

I loved them, I miss them dearly, but no, I don’t think they’ll come back.

A lot has changed and the internet is not the same, for better and for worse. For one, it’s just a lot bigger. You’d think that’d make it easier, but it seems to make it harder. There’s too much noise for the communities to stand out, so what usually happens is one or two get huge and the others dwindle and die. Even just look at Lemmy, through no fault of your own, Beehaw is becoming one of the largest instances and it requires active work to spread the weight across the rest of the federation. People gravitate I guess.

Plus, because it’s so much bigger, there’s less of an identity in the spaces that do survive. Post in any reddit thread, then go to another. Chances are nobody’ll be the same (except for a few superusers) so there’s no real sense of belonging or community that the old forums had. Back then you trolled your friends, not strangers.

Thanks for sharing this, I love it. What a mystery though, I’m struggling to find anything else about them too.

Money For Nothing has one of the best intros of all time. Facts

Kids have always had wild career dreams, it’s not new it’s just a different medium. It’s fine. I’m not sure it’s a conscious decision to escape the grind though. I grew up with kids who wanted to be movie stars or athletes. Why? Because they idolised movie stars and athletes and want to be like them. It’s what they’re exposed to the most. Now kids are exposed to influencers the most, so they wanna be one too.

I wanted to be a train driver 🚂

If a community exists solely to hate on others, even as a joke, eventually it won’t be a joke.

Maybe I just don’t get the appeal though.

You just reminded me of 3D Pets which might be the first game I ever played on PC…

https://oldgamesdownload.com/3d-pets-pc-pup/

I can distinctly remember the janky animations of the dog running after a ball. And the dog and cat coming out of an egg. It was weird.

Sorry if this was answered elsewhere, but does that mean Beehaw automatically federates with new instances and only the explicit Blocklist can’t? I was toying with the idea of maintaining my own single user instance for stability but don’t want to run the risk of being excluded if it goes private in the future.

Out of frame someone has their foot gently placed on the bottom step. Proper safe.

I subscribe to communities that I’ve a specific interest in but mostly browse by all. There are times I might want to post to a specific place so being subscribed makes that easier, and as Lemmy fills up I think I’m more likely to start using subscribed instead of all. Right now new communities are being created frequently and there’s also not enough posts happening on my subscribed communities to make it worth while yet, but it will soon enough.

I think subscriptions works best when you keep it small. Like you say, if you subscribe to everything then it’s no different to all, except you miss some potentially interesting new communities.

One of the things I like about Beehaw is that it doesn’t try to be a new Reddit, it has a core philosophy the admin team all support, and as long as you make decisions based on that core philosophy, you can’t go far wrong.

Sure, some decisions might drive people away. But if they disagree with the core philosophy, is that a bad thing? Quality over quantity - servers can be scaled up and down as the number of people (and donations) fluctuate.

As long as Beehaw remains a place you can be proud of, I wouldn’t worry about anything else.

Congratulations, good luck! Remember not to swear at your bosses

Some really good points I hadn’t considered there.

I think it’s important that the medical professionals do not use such terminology and instead try to be as neutral as possible, e.g. “coping with” or “receiving treatment for”. If a patient wants to say they’re fighting cancer, that’s up to the patient. For some it might help them feel like they have a bit of control over a situation where they’re powerless, for others it might make it worse.

A common theme here is being able to spend more time with partners, I never considered how much time you’re forced to spend apart when you work 100% office based. That’s definitely a huge upside to WFH.