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My thoughts on this is pretty much voiced by some of the others.

For instance, there was a tool that could be used to repost things from a reddit user page. I’ve warned (and the dev have added the warning to the repo itself) that the tool can cause one to be banned. Now the only way I can see that working without inciting a ban is if the tool was triggered by a command, and only took one link at a time. Assuming the mods already gave permission. Something like the wiki bot I’ve seen over on reddit that posted the overview of a wiki link. However, I would rather be able to trigger it with a !wiki or something to that effect.

The only exception I would take with this is with an automod that reminds users to include specific things in their posts…but I’m also meh about this. If people post without reading the sidebar, they’re probably not going to bother coming back and reading a comment. This issue would be better solved through other means (a reminder of the community rules in the New Post page, after choosing a community).

The bots 100% need to have the bot tag on. No bots impersonating as people, please.

That’s my 2¢ for now.

Aww, that’s sweet ☺️ ❤️ stay awesome, everyone 😉

I can’t help but love when subreddits do this in response to the threat of removing mods if they stay private. I remember there were some that were posting “sexy” pics of John Oliver. iPhone was limited to posting “sexy” pics of Tim Cook. Working with what they have in order to continue their protests. I like it😁

It has malicious compliance written all over it 🙃

This talk of tolerance reminds me of something I read^[1]: Tolerance is a peace treaty, not a moral obligation. With this line of thought, the intolerance of intolerance stops being a paradox and makes a whole heck of a lot of sense. Intolerance broke that peace treaty before it even entered into it, IMO.

If people felt they can’t really escape an essential product from a shitty company because of cost, or even convenience, I’d understand.

Honestly, it’s understandable. Personally, I find it poorly labelled and it’s wedged in between other options of nearly the same size.

Sure!

Go into your Settings, then scroll down until you see this section:

I’ve highlighted the option that you need to change to see your Subscribed communities’ posts. It’s the “Type” setting and you can switch it from “Local” to “Subscribed” there.

Hope that helps!

I don’t think I subbed to anything on those two instances, so I’m not affected at all. I only recently switched to subscribed on the front page too as default so if I missed anything from them, I haven’t noticed. Beehaw have grown large and active enough to make up most of my front page at this point.

I think out of all the federated subs I have, the active an interesting ones to me are coming out of programming.dev. I also sub to a few fediverse related ones, one of which actually posted about Beehaw’s decision to defederate from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.work. There were some takes that miss the point. There were also those who defended Beehaw’s decision too. It was interesting to see the interactions unfold.

The co-op modes are 3 vs 1 and 3 vs AI controlled boss. I only played the vs AI boss, and you all get separate boards until a specific event occurs. Then it merges and everyone gets to put their piece anywhere across the three boards. It only lasts for a little bit, and then the board splits again.

The PvP modes are called:

• Zone battle (incorporates their time-stopping mechanic)
• Score attack (standard Tetris, no interfering blocks for the player lagging behind)
• Classic Score attack (standard Tetris, but you don’t get hard drops or holds, and again, no interfering blocks)

One thing I found out is that if you want to play against the CPU, you can just load up a local match and add player’s twice on the same controller. The second “adding” will fill the rest with CPUs.

It’s available on both PC and Switch. However, from what I could find out, you need the Switch Online membership to play multiplayer online. But you haven’t mentioned an interest in that so it should fit your requirements really well.

It’s currently 50% off on both Steam and Nintendo eShop

Hope that helps!

What is your lifestyle like at the moment? Do you do a lot of sitting? Not a lot of movement, exercise, etc? Are you under a lot of stress or do you suffer from anxiety or panic attacks? Have the weather been particularly nasty where you are? (This is starting to sound like a start of an infomercial, sorry! 😅 )

I led a sedentary life style for a long time, especially during the pandemic. I was getting random aches and pains in my hip joints, in my legs, my arms. But since I’ve started practicing yoga (at home, only), and also started treatment for my anxiety disorder, they have been a rare occurrence.

I don’t know what your situation is like, but I really hope you can find some relief! I know how scary it can be to feel these pains and have no idea what’s wrong. I hope you can find the strength to keep away from that doom spiral though. The anxiety and the stress from that is more likely to make things worse. If you do want to try the yoga route, or interested in a youtube channel recommendation, I’ve found Yoga with Adriene incredibly helpful for me.

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Haha! Thanks for understanding 😄

I’ll probably take some flak for my answers, but here I go!

Undertale

Maybe I would’ve loved it if I had got to the game before the fandom madness got to me. But to be fair, it looks like it’s visually designed to tap into that 80’s nostalgia, which would’ve bore me anyway.

Destiny 2

I used to enjoy that game (and Destiny). Played it way more than I’d like to admit. But as my anxiety got worse, the more I abhorred the way they force you into matchmaking for PvE content, then give you all kinds of reasons why you have to do those PvE content where you’re forced to play with random players. Then there’s the changes Bungie had made that made the game more and more hostile to me on a mechanics level. Lately, it also feels like they’re treating Destiny 2 as a money-printing machine.

Diablo 4

Because Blizzard. I had a whole rant but I don’t want to make anyone uncomfortable. I simply will not give Blizzard any money moving forward.

The allegation section of the post is…wild. Good thing the dev had the presence of mind to record it. The audacity of the CEO to lie about what went on in the call…well, I guess I’m not surprised by that, but more surprised he got caught!

But I guess ultimately, how many people are going to hear about how easily Reddit’s CEO will lie through his teeth? How many will care? It’s kind of depressing to think about 😥

Nice! I subscribed.

So far I see the Test post and “Look at that accuracy!”

It seems like it takes a bit of time for new posts and changes to propagate through the network. It seems to require someone to actually access it from another instance first to get that going.

I know what you mean. Unfortunately for me, I’m the type to check back frequently. I’m doing it right now with Beehaw, LOL.

Discord also sucks for archival reasons. I know they’ve rolled out the forum feature, but it’s all walled garden. People can’t drop by and lurk. Search is not fun. Not to mention Discord also tucks away older posts so if there’s a lot of threads, have fun trying to find the beginning of the campaign! You can’t change how they sort, either. It’s one of those things where they’re good for some things, but I really wish they would stay specialized rather than trying to be everything.

I’m with you there. I think there’s value in specialized instances.

The internet used to be small, but expansive. It became big, but concentrated.

— @[email protected] - source

Before Facebook and Twitter and Reddit became the gen-pop’s definition of “the Internet,” there were a lot of forums and chat rooms for specific interests, or specific groups of interests. The problem was that you’d need an account with each one of those forums and chat servers.

Federation allows us to go back to small communities, expansive network, but with the added advantage of only really needing one account for all of it.

Personally, I would be interested in setting up a play-by-post, or an RP (freeform, with dice, etc) instance. At least, test and see how the format could work within something like Lemmy. Probably not well! But you never know.

The lack of plugin support might be a hurdle…or an opportunity. I suppose one could make a dice-rolling bot for Lemmy 🤔

My motivation for something like this is mostly that the more people with federated accounts, the easier it will be for people to participate and not have to worry about yet another account creation process. In fact, for something this specialize, I could run lemmy as a blogging platform. The setup is made so that moderators of communities can create posts but anyone can comment on them. That way, GMs would be the mods of their own campaign communities and responsible for starting new threads as needed.

It’s not a fully fleshed out idea. In fact, it’s something I cobbled together just now. So I haven’t considered the pros and cons and other obvious hurdles.

I’m glad I could help!

Running co-op can be rather tricky, especially if the table is used to the traditional GM + players setup. It’s a different paradigm. Perhaps one way to ease people into it is to have a hands-off GM that encourages the players to come up with things. Another thing is to really leverage those oracle tables in the book. If no one at the table can come up with anything, but have questions, then Ask the Oracle or roll off of the Action/Theme table.

I also have a few Gamemaster Apprentice decks. This is the base deck. There’s an online version as well! They look complicated but it does come with instructions on how to use them. This could be a way of breaking past any creative block or disagreements.

Not sure if your group tried this already when y’all set out to run a co-op game, but a session zero where everyone talks about how they envision a co-op game runs like (among other meta-discussions) could help get everyone on the same page about how to move the story forward. Might help to codify some of it if your players are more comfortable with clear-cut boundaries and restrictions?

I hope you don’t feel like I’m pressuring you into trying co-op again with all these solutions I’m posting. It’s just stuff I’ve thought about due to my interest in running one myself! But if your group does plan on running one again, I hope you find success 😁

Edit: one more thing! I’ve seen it suggested that co-op games should be of a smaller group size, no more than 3-4. 3 is the optimal, IIRC. It’s easier to come to an agreement when the group is smaller.

FFG made their Genesys dice app free a while ago, IIRC. It’s not nearly as satisfying as rolling the physical dice, but it’s an option! Unfortunately, their Star Wars one is still a paid app. There’s one other app, on Android, that also included Star Wars dice, simply called Dice. There’s also RPG Sessions, which is a whole toolset, and integrated with Discord if you want to play online.

As for Ironsworn co-op, one of the actual plays I watched had it so that the player speaking at the moment decided on what happens in the world. Kind of a round-robin GM’ing situation. Another idea would be to get everyone’s vote, or encourage them to speak up if they have a different idea and vote on that. I used to participate in forum RP, or as I like to call it, “collaborative writing,” so both approaches I’m familiar with. IIRC (it’s been a few years since I’ve been in a forum RP), we would write OOC notes if we want to make our intentions clearer, or have questions and thoughts we want input on.

But IIRC, the whole thing around PbtA game is that you’re having a conversation with the players at the table…unless that’s from another system 😅 regardless, I think it could be a helpful way of approaching a co-op TTRPG!

I’m planning on two solo campaigns, one with EDGE Studio (originally Fantasy Flight Games) Star Wars RPG. A mix of both Edge of the Empire, Age of Rebellion, and Force and Destiny further down the road. But I plan on running it during the Old Republic era. I quite enjoy playing the SWRPG/Genesys system. I know the narrative dice is hard to get behind for some people but I prefer it. It feels a bit more transparent what you’ll get, plus it’s fun to roll a lot of dice so there’s that tactile aspect to it too 😁

The second campaign is with Ironsworn: Starforged. I actually want to use this solo game as a basis for my web serial that I want to write in the near future. The system is built with solo play in mind, but it can be played co-op or guided by a GM. IIRC, the original basis of the system was PbtA, heavily modified. Ironsworn was what introduced me to the concept of playing a TTRPG solo! Which was awesome, considering my previous experiences playing a TTRPG with a group keep falling apart for one reason or another…

I also want to try City Without Numbers, the cyberpunk variant of World Without Numbers and Stars Without Numbers. I backed it on Kickstarter and sorta waiting for a slightly more complete version before I dive in. Again, it’s something I plan on running solo as well…

I am considering a play-by-post game, likely with the Ironsworn: Starforged system. Largely because of the nature of PbtA games, which tends to give and encourage more agency to players. Plus the support for running it co-op means ideally, no one is relied on as the GM, constantly having to respond to a player’s inquiry or action before anyone else can move forward.