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Agent_Karyo

@ Agent_Karyo @piefed.world

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  • I'm New! What's "Attitude?" Can I separate upvotes and downvotes? And other questions.

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  • Where you see discussions about Art Spiegelman, I see celebration for the russian takeover of Lugansk oblast (and that's the tip of the iceberg, I've seen them calling for death of users by an ice pick; a reference to Trotsky's assassination).

    The head Lemmy dev's complete intolerance for criticism of russia/china and open support for the full scale Russian invasion is widely documented.

    You can ignore it if you want (it may not be important for you), but a lot of people are not OK with genocidal, pro-imperialism, authoritarian communists.

    The Spiegelman comment honestly gives me reason to believe you are acting in bad faith.

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  • fits the definition of “authoritarian.”

    Then why do they ban any criticism of russia and china and support their genocidal imperialist policies?

  • Flotsam, an exploration city-builder where you scavenge the oceans and explore the flooded remnants of the old world with your floating colony, released on Steam.

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  • I've played this for about ~4 hours. It's a fun experience. It does have some flaws, but the foundation is great.

  • I'm New! What's "Attitude?" Can I separate upvotes and downvotes? And other questions.

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  • There are tons of reasons to downvote someone. I rarely do it myself, so I am not the best person to ask why, I just know that people do. Just off the top of my head though: process rather than content, or style over substance (e.g. if a cussword were used and someone did not like to see that, hence downvoting even something that they would otherwise agree with) are two examples.

    I agree with your general logic, but this was specific example. The "meanwhileongrad" is specifically aimed at documenting and ridiculing far left extremism (support for russian genocidal imperialism, knowingly lying that Cuba/NK is a democracy, claiming any opposition to the current regime in Venezuela is a CIA operation).

    Now THIS would be a strong argument. Can you send me a link to read more about this?

    Shared this earlier:

    https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lemmy.ml

    There is no reason for DB0 to give this endorsement. They could have simply said nothing (ML has multiple other endorsements, albeit ones with easily provable lies).

  • Whiskerwood looks like an adorable game of cat and mouse, but in reality it's a brutal city builder where my grossly incompetent governance never goes unpunished for long

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  • Sounds like it needs a bit more refinement.

    To be fair, mid-game TimberBorn was not as intuitive as it is today in the early builds.

  • I'm New! What's "Attitude?" Can I separate upvotes and downvotes? And other questions.

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  • failure to defederate from lemmy.ml? Failure to actively speak out against them (which they have I believe) hard enough or long or often enough

    Even not openly endorsing them would be a start. The DB0 admin was also caught downvoting criticism of tankies (in the link you brought up).

    For example, it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that a post like " Calling out Russian propaganda on .ml is a total site ban under "rule 1 bigotry" according to dessalines, head .ml admin, main Lemmy dev" would be downvoted by the DB0 admin

    Even in the DB0 thread that you cited, there are multiple ML users who aggressively deny prosecution of Uighurs by the CCP and openly support the russian genocidal imperialism goals.

    Why is it unreasonable to make conclusions about this? I am genuinely curious.

  • I'm New! What's "Attitude?" Can I separate upvotes and downvotes? And other questions.

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  • You're welcome to assume I am lying.

    I don't believe in polemical rhetoric using "free speech" or "censorship" motifs. I don't find such rhetoric convincing and it is often used for ostentatious aims and fails the basis logic test.

    Considering how tankies aggressively censor any critique of russia and china, it seems strange to bring up opposition to censorship as a defence of DB0's embrace of red fascism.

    Tankies openly call for the interment, torture of Ukrainians and celebrate the russian invasion. DB0 openly condones such behaviour; this is their endorsement of lemmy.ml (literal endorsement, not my words):

    pirate covedevelops lemmy frontendslemmy developmentexpert sysadmins

    Your claim about a conspiracy theory is incorrect. The URL I provided clearly outlines that muad_dibber, the grad admin, is Dessalines.

  • I'm New! What's "Attitude?" Can I separate upvotes and downvotes? And other questions.

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  • I generally agree with you, but two minor points:

    lemmy.dbzer0.com

    They are tankie adjacent and generally work on enabling tankie / red fash propaganda and polemics under the cover of "tankies are also fellow socialists".

    Lemmygrad.ml and lemmy.ml (the latter also run by the developers of the Lemmy software)

    Lemmygrad is also run by Dessalines, the lead developer of Lemmy.

    "Muad'Dibber", the Lemmygrad admin is a Dessalines alt.

  • Team Fortress 2 Classic is now Team Fortress 2 Classified, has been delayed to January 30: 'it wouldn't be an authentic TF2 experience without a bit of Valve time'

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  • Team Fortress 2 Classified is a pretty good name for their project.

    Really looking forward to this and the UT2004 revival!

  • I'm New! What's "Attitude?" Can I separate upvotes and downvotes? And other questions.

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  • Just sharing another perspective;

    I specifically have been moving from Lemmy to Piefed because I have issues with the tankie Lemmy devs.

    Some people appreciate that the main Piefed instance blocks authoritarian far-left instances.

  • federation issues with lemmy.world

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  • Did not know it was possible to retrieve a remote post!

    Not the best option from a UX perspective, but better than nothing.

    Cheers!

  • Fan community announces it will revive Unreal Tournament 2004 with Epic's blessing: 'We're doing this for free because we're fans of the game and we like a challenge'

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  • If there is a UT2004 revival (say at least couple of hundred CCUs after the launch initial peak), I think there will be a "downstream" effect on mods.

    Between the UT2004 revival and TF2 Classic, it looks I will be able to get back into FPS gaming (I do not like modern FPS releases).

  • Planetbase 2 - Dev Update 03 [Overview of new buildings and updated mechanics for older buildings]

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  • I think there is still a market for a "mid-core" type experience and honestly the core structure of Planetbase is very polished.

    Even 10 years later, the game still has ~300 CCUs (so likely about 2K+ MAUs assuming an average session is 3-4 hours), a decent achievement for what is arguably a niche indie game:

    https://steamdb.info/app/403190/charts/#3y

  • Tag Cloud UI is difficult to use.

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  • A full list below the cloud would be great!

  • WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron

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  • Tbh I preferred their website more, gave me the option to read it at my own pace, and focus on the parts I care most about, not fiddle with forward and rewind on YT, and having to pause to look at the charts in more detail and peace from the cosntant commentary track.

    That's exactly why I prefer written articles, they are more concise and quicker to process. That being said, when I do watch GN videos I do find their sarcastic style to be entertaining.

  • Fan community announces it will revive Unreal Tournament 2004 with Epic's blessing: 'We're doing this for free because we're fans of the game and we like a challenge'

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  • Oh man, this is such good news.

    UT99 is fine. I played it so much in the early 2000s, would put on Offspring albums while playing with bots; we had dialup and I couldn't play with EU, let alone US. But UT2004 is IMO much better and allows for different styles of play.

    I just hope the community will be big enough. A lot of the retro FPS games servers are dominated by people who have been playing for 20+ years and its difficult to get into them (even if you played the games a lot back in the day).

  • Developer of New Postal Game Shuts Down Studio After Game Was Announced, Then Canceled Over Gen AI Allegations

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  • Agreed, this is pretty annoying for me personally.

    I don't even mind ML generated art in certain contexts if there is disclosure.

    I honestly couldn't tell that from the video that the art is ML gen based and I feel like I have a relatively well developed sense for both LLM output and ML gen'd images.

  • WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron

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  • How did you guess? :)

  • WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron

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  • FWIW, I do subscribe/scheduled donate to media sources (news/tech) and some YT content (not GN, because of the aforementioned preference for text, I only watch some of their videos).

    Should GN move to PeerTube, I would consider a scheduled donation subscription purely to help kickstart the ecosystem.

    I strongly believe that subscriptions/scheduled donation are the best way forward for media. Simple focus on sources that one uses regularly (more than once a week).