Loops by Pixelfed • Public beta (hopefully) launching in 10 hours
  • _NetNomad _NetNomad 12h ago 100%

    i'm really interested to see where this goes. i feel like a lot of the dorks (i say affectionately as a dork) who use the fediverse and people who do this kinda shortform video are two circles that don't touch, so this could very well die on the vine- no pun intended- or it could give the fedi the jolt it needs to enter the mainstream

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  • Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?
  • _NetNomad _NetNomad 13h ago 100%

    i totally get that, although being able to resub to all the same categories beats starting from scratch entirely somewhere else. my experience at fedia.io has been great so far

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  • Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?
  • _NetNomad _NetNomad 2d ago 100%

    hell i went one step further and abandoned lemmy entirely for mbin

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  • What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever?
  • _NetNomad _NetNomad 4d ago 100%

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_atheism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuism

    Neither are perfect because Christian Athiests includes people who are "culturally Christian" as that can include clergy as an authority and rituals, and Jesuism would include splinter religious groups and is very easily confused with the Catholic Jesuit order. hopefully it's a starting point though!

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  • Analogue’s 4K Nintendo 64 clone slips to Q1 2025, priced at $250
  • _NetNomad _NetNomad 4d ago 75%

    you're getting downvoted but you're not wrong. N64 emulation has been as good as it'll get for a long while (remember, we were playing N64 games flawlessly on the Wii, which itself is now retro to many!), and compared to older consoles with quirky bespoke hardware, the benefits of hardware emulation like FPGAs over software emulation are diminished for the N64 to begin with. if you do want to go the FPGA route, Taki Udon's MiSTeR Pi is cheaper than this and can load any number of cores instead of just the N64. ultimately you're paying a premium for an experience that's either as good as or worse than a plethora of cheaper options

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  • What are your favorite Pokémon attacks?
  • _NetNomad _NetNomad 6d ago 100%

    the first Pokemon game i owned was XD on the GameCube, and like any good kid i overtrained my starter and ignored the rest of my team. i evolved Eevee into Flareon and Fire Blast quickly became my favorite move, killing anything and everything in just one shot. it only has 5 PP, though, so things started getting tough once trainers had six Pokemon. i eventually reached the Ground-type boss and never did get farther than that lmao. but my soft spot for Fire Blast still remains!

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  • Die Mayrhofner slaps
  • _NetNomad _NetNomad 2w ago 100%

    Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong!

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  • Forums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information [Aftermath]
  • _NetNomad _NetNomad 2w ago 100%

    this might not be too far off, i know flarum is planning to include activitypub in their 2.0 release and nodebb already has it working in test

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  • Croc: Legend of the Gobbos HD Remaster Brings Back Classic Tank Controls
  • _NetNomad _NetNomad 2w ago 100%

    amen! especially this new wave of 3D platformers- it'd be nice to at least have the option of a classic control scheme over forcing every game to be a twin stick game

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  • Why I ditched Twitter for Bluesky - and hope you will, too!
  • _NetNomad _NetNomad 2w ago 94%

    The one drawback to Bluesky’s block feature is that a user’s block lists aren’t private. Through third party apps, you can find lists of everyone anyone’s blocked. That probably won’t bother most people, but it’s a potential issue for those who worry that public block lists could be used perniciously by persistent stalkers or harassers.

    The only missing function is the ability to lock your account or go private as you can on Twitter, which would let you hide your account from non-followers while still posting to folks who already follow you.

    But Bluesky has gotten considerable criticism at key points over the last year and a half for failures in handling anti-Black racism in particular. Rudy Fraser wrote extensively about some of these issues along with a deep dive into his goals and challenges as the creator of the now legendary Blacksky feed in a great post a year ago.

    Every time someone recommends me Bluesky, I learn something else about it that makes me never want to make an account. Any one of these three quotes should be a dealbreaker on their own

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  • Lemmy users what are some things translators do that absolutely infuriate you ?
  • _NetNomad _NetNomad 2w ago 100%

    it always takes me right out of whatever i'm watching when a character says the same word twice and it's translated into two different words. like when "matte! matte!" becomes "wait! stop!" it's a stupid thing to care about and i'm sure translators have their reasons- very easy for me, an idiot who can barely speak one language, to criticize- but it always shatters my immersion

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  • What is this, the dark ages?!
  • _NetNomad _NetNomad 2w ago 100%

    these were standard issue before synthehol was regularly available on starships. can't have too many people asking about the abnormal kidney failure rate in starfleet or they'll start poking around and find our Saurian brandy stash

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  • Announcement
  • _NetNomad _NetNomad 2w ago 100%

    i'm confused, the first panel says Nintendo will be launching new games for the greatest console of all time but the second panel doesn't have a picture of the Tiger Electronics R-Zone? what gives?

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  • Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?
  • _NetNomad _NetNomad 3w ago 100%

    i think pops up in early computer rpgs like ultima a lot because the original Dungeons and Dragons was full of that kind of anachronistic stuff. TSR probably didn't intentionally make it post-apocalypse though. they were just cramming whatever they thought was cool at the moment into their game, which is why you're just as likely to find a downed spaceship as a dinosaur in Blackmoore. the post-apocalypse angle probably game to be when early crpgs wanted to ape that but wanted give it a proper story justification

    i've also heard people say that the silmarillion has scifi elements, but i'm not sure how much of that is what tolkien intended versus what people read into it. i've also heard that the trope originates from medieval people coming across ruins of ancient roman architecture, but no examples were given- although it's funny to think we have robots in The Legend of Zelda because aquaducts

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  • I lack any faith of the heart
  • _NetNomad _NetNomad 3w ago 100%

    more like faith of the FART amirite crewmen

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  • Was the creation of the universe politically motivated or was it done for other reasons?
  • _NetNomad _NetNomad 3w ago 100%

    not for political reasons so much as commerce reasons. you see, the universe was created by Big Universe to sell more universe

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  • To Dream the Impossible Dream
  • _NetNomad _NetNomad 4w ago 100%

    AND WHEN THE NIGHT IS OVER, LIKE A BAT OUT OF HELL, I'LL BE GAWN, GAWN, GAWN...

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  • What is your favorite retro console?
  • _NetNomad _NetNomad 4w ago 100%

    it never came to be, but that was actually in the works!

    https://segaretro.org/VMU_MP3_Player

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