Its technically doable, but it wouldn’t be easy. The problem isn’t in making federated user authentication or servers, its just making a game that is flexable enough with powerful enough modding tools to be worth using compared to just making a game from scratch. Thats why, if you think about all the games in the genre, they all have significant limitations to what can be made in them (at least with any amount of polish).

As a simplified example, lets say you want the default mechanics set of your game to be a first person shooter. This means you use 3D graphics, optimized for higher-detail enviroments and include features that would be most useful for that, such as a simple optimized 3D physics system, and tools for making detailed 3D levels.

In this new game, someone wants to make a 2D platformer. What additional tools will they need? A way to lock physics to two dimensions, or possibly even a new physics system entirely, A way to manipulate the camera separate from what the game started with, an orthographic camera, possibly a new lighting system, possibly different optimization techniques, the ability for the modder to replace the player controller and change it’s mechanics entirely, and the tools to use all these to make new levels.

By that point, you’re half way to making a new game engine, and the modder is 90% of the way to just making a standalone game.

If he blames you for his grooming of you, he’s not sorry. He might feel guilty (or might not), but if he’s refusing to accept blame, it doesn’t matter; He doesn’t feel sorry and doesn’t want to change his behavior.

Some people are just evil people who will have no issue with hurting others, and based on what you’re describing, it sounds like he’s part of that group.

I expect its mostly just because its unpleasant and taboo. People don’t want to write nor watch that.

That said, they do show up occasionally in more adult-oriented movies. The Shining is an example that immediately comes to mind.

I went down this rabbit hole about a year ago, and didn’t have much luck. In the end, the best results I was able to get were from Steam’s Big Picture Mode on a Windows device, mostly launching Firefox (might have been Chrome?) with different launch arguments to immitate a smart TV.

Most available software either doesn’t support Linux well, doesn’t support streaming services and outside software, or doesn’t support non-kb&m input methods. You can get two, but never all three. You could try SteamOS, now that its out, but unfortunately my hopes wouldn’t be high for it to have all the apps you needs functioning.

It sounds like you’re talking about communities versus user. In the same way Reddit had u/xxxx for users, and r/xxxx for subreddits, its u/xxxx for users and c/xxxx for communities (our subreddit equivalent.)

I know at least one person like that. They won’t outright avoid prop planes, and they know its illogical, but the idea of flying on one still makes them nervous.

I’m assumimg you have a store key.

You could post to one of the relevant communities for game giveaaways, such as !freegames@feddit.uk or !Randomactsofgaming@lemm.ee

Standard practice is to pretty much just say what game you’re offering, and the dm the key to a random respondent after a day or two.

Lemmy was originally founded by political extremists who wantted a space for their politics (tankies.) Its since grown past that, but that inflence is still present in many ways, most prominently in the influences of .ml. On top of this, politics is something inflammatory (and thus engaging) that affects everyone. Because its both engaging and broad-appeal, its going to be something everyone talks about. On the other hand, many niches, aside from being niche are often less inherently engaging (IE talking about a finished TV show). This makes it very hard to get the critical mass needed for a community to snowball into relevance. This means that (effectively) all you’re left with is the political communities and a couple niches that are broad appeal enough and have active enough users to be stable.

Yes, its ableist. Excluding, insulting or discriminating against people for disability is basically the definition, reguardless of what they claim. Saying they’re not ableist doesn’t change it, any more than saying something like, “I’m not racist, but…”

I’ve never seen it described or practiced anything like that. If anything, I’ve seen it having almost the opposite reputation.

Edit: Ironicly had to look up some stats on sexuality for something unrelated, and the general consensus seems to be that Catholics have sex sooner and more often than even more non-religious people.

Yes. Sometimes I get random unrelated stuff instead of 404s.

If I remember right, Fan Fiction is a sort-of copyright grey area. The characters are owned by the original company, but the remaining working is owned by the fan. Neither side has full ownership, and technically, publishing or sharing it (without both side’s permission) is copyright infringement.

Now, for use of existing intellectual property, the rules are the same. The difference is that anything generated by AI isn’t made by anyone, and thus can’t be owned. As such any IP owned by the company is owned by them, but anything unique from the AI is public domain.

Excluding email, nope. Seeing as no one else in my friend group uses Federated services, and they’re all still too small to cover most niches, there isn’t really anything for me.

Bears are predators evolved to hunt large game, primarily with brute force (unlike something like a big cat, which relies much more on ambushes).

Gorrilas, as tough as they are, survive through intelligence. This means avoiding tough fights, and when absolutely needed, fighting as a troop rather than individualy.

So bear. But…

Does the Gorilla get time to prepare?

The one advantage gorillas have is their intelligence. If both animals are given training, or tools, then I could see the gorilla potentially winning - mostly because a bear will struggle to get any use out of either, whereas a gorilla could be trained to fight much more effectively and possibly even make/use weapons.

Sorry for pulling you back to an old thread, but you wouldn’t happen to have any other ideas, would you? Since before, I’ve tried everything you suggested and switched VPN. Its an A53, so it really shouldn’t be having trouble with memory or such.

I also found this older Reddit thread which describes basically the same thing, but all the comments are removed, if that helps: https://old.reddit.com/r/nordvpn/comments/t8t1hf/connectivity_issues_with_new_phone_android/

Isolated as in only used by a specific region or culture. So in Weibo’s case, only in China with little connection to other countries. Another example would be 2Go, which was quite popular in Africa for years, but unlikely be to be known from anyone outside the region.

Stuff like Weibo are what I was refering to when I was saying more isolated platforms. A lot of regions have their own smaller social media platforms dominated by one or two cultures. As for Instagram and Facebook, those two are largely world-wide but often (again, massive generalization) less ubiquitous compared to social media in the west.

Social media in general (as we think of it) is much more popular in western nations. Thats not to say those outside the west don’t use social media, but it tends to be much more dominated by group-chats (IE WhatsApp, Telegram) and by more isolated platforms or sections of platforms. Of the social media platforms we’ll be familiar with, it tends to be mostly just the most popular and established ones like Instagram, Facebook, and now Tiktok, rather than something still relatively niche and nerdy like Reddit (nonetheless Lemmy).

All that said, again, this is a massive oversimplification talking broadly about trends. We’re talking about thousands of different cultures in entirely different countries and enviroments.

The main thing is post more. Lack of content is the main reason people don’t use Lemmy more, and the only way to fix this is to share/produce more.

Its a bit of an unpopular opinion, but I think even (transparent, community-relevant) bots are a good idea at this point, given that 99% of interests have little to no activity currently. For example, if we had bots that post game update changelogs to their relevant communities, it would at least provide a baseline amount of content and make it easier to discuss for fans of those games.

So you’re asking how to encourage them to avoid you? Mostly, as you implied, you don’t want to suprise them. When you’re in the area, try and stay in the open, and if you can, make a bit of noise like whistling or that. They’ll naturally want to stay away where possible.