[-] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Disappointing but expected.

[-] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago

There's no cut off. Some people are just judgy (and often hypocritical).

I'm the same age as you and I've been gaming my whole life. My father had all the Ataris, (2600, 400, 800, XT, etc...). He and I built my first 386 together. My uncles had the Intellivision. Cousins with the ColecoVision. My father's almost 70 and he's still an avid Destiny 2 player.

I will admit tho, it's harder to find women, our age, who are either into or at least open to gaming as an adult hobby. I'm not saying they don't exist but having been divorced and remarried I can say there's a gender gap there. I was lucky enough to find someone open minded. She never complained about my weekly game nights to keep in touch with my friends and she's even opened up over the last few years and has become a bit of a gamer herself.

So... there is no cut off. It's not immature or childish, and it's certainly more of an art form than 3/4 of the garbage those same people will spend their free time on (reality tv, tiktock, endlessly scrolling the void of facebook).

[-] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.one 25 points 1 year ago

Yeah the sad part is that, really, the best we can hope for is a post mortem. Rescue is almost impossible in this situation.

[-] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

Seriously, once the shields are down why aren't they just dematerializing parts of the enemy ship?

[-] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

In practice, I agree with you. The transporter scans, disintegrates, and reconstructs the thing being transported. But when the thing being transported is reconstructed at a subatomic level it is effectively identical.

I can imagine the society we see in startrek having already worked through the moral and philosophical implications. I would have loved to see that addressed in an episode tho.

[-] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.one 17 points 1 year ago

I always thought the least believable part of transporters was that they worked without a pad on both ends.

[-] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

I've been using nearlyfreespeech.net for (looks) 14 years now. Their business aligns with my ideals and I've always been happy with their service.

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submitted 1 year ago by SeeJayEmm@lemmy.one to c/meta@lemmy.one

I was under the impression that, due to the nature of ActivityPub, that Lemmy and Kbin are interoperable. I've been trying all day to sub to something a fedia.io. I can see it on the list of federated instances here but the search always comes up "no result".

I'm able to subscribe to other communities at other Lemmy instances (with some patience).

Is there a difference syntax I should be using?

Thanks

[-] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.one 17 points 1 year ago

Same here. If they'd have just framed it differently and put the onus of paying for api access on the users (at a modest fee), almost none of the backlash would have happened.

Then I'd still be oblivious.

I prefer the world the way it was before all the consolidation. I like the ideals of the fediverse and want it to succeed.

[-] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's pros and cons to both centralization and decentralization. I like the idea and the goal of decentralization and federation but you run into issues like this, that are counter-intuitive and will be a road block to broader acceptance. Especially with smaller communities.

I think having the option to aggregate those communities into one view could bridge that gap. Have it be optional. Heck, even allow users/servers to block specific communities if they want.

I like the idea of Lemmy but I don't like the idea of having to subscribe to 7,10,15 different versions of a topic of interest spread across 25 different servers. Let me sub to "Technology" and have a toggle to display "all Technology communities across federated servers".

[-] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago

I know it's all about "engagement" but I feel like this is still driving traffic to the site. Which is kinda the opposite of leaving it.

[-] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah. I clicked the link and I was presented with a "you must login or signup" to interact with it because it's on a different server.

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