ruckblack 2d ago • 100%
Groan
ruckblack 2d ago • 100%
Yeah fair points. I will say this implosion of the social media I used to use has pushed me towards doing other things than scrolling on my phone lol, and that is a positive thing.
ruckblack 2d ago • 100%
That's fair I suppose.
ruckblack 2d ago • 66%
I disagree, I just think some kind of engagement algorithm would be better. I haven't used bluesky or threads so I can't speak to them. I'm just saying that back in the day on twitter, I had no problem finding a bunch of very funny and clever posts, and posts were catered to me well. Through both me following people and I assume through the engagement algorithm. I've tried adding a bunch of hashtags, but I'm not finding a bunch of hilarious stuff to send to my friends like I did back then on twitter.
Bunch of spam too, because bots use the hashtags, so I'm often scrolling through a bunch of auto-posted stuff. Idk. Maybe I'm using it wrong. I just feel like your average person isn't going to go through all that crap so they'll cling to twitter until it dies.
And I've tried switching instances around, which is just confusing honestly, and didn't really help with finding lots of content that I want to see. I used mastodon more when I was able to mirror people I know are funny on twitter to my mastodon feed lol. I want to like it, I just find I'm never tempted to go on it. Can't figure it out.
ruckblack 2d ago • 75%
Or just use neither, like I've ended up doing.
ruckblack 3d ago • 88%
I've stopped recommending it. The discovery and trending post mechanisms are either garbage or non-existent, and it's really hard to get a feed that's remotely entertaining. Devs also seem ideologically opposed to adding any features like that. It'll just give normal people who aren't willing to deal with all this crap a bad taste in their mouth when it comes to the fediverse. I do recommend lemmy to people tho.
ruckblack 4d ago • 100%
That's fair lol. I can't understand people who still use it.
ruckblack 4d ago • 100%
Idk, I think my only favorite thing about the whole debacle is that almost literally everyone just ignored musk's whole name change thing, and still call it twitter and tweets. Because everyone recognizes what a fucking stupid name X is lmfao.
ruckblack 5d ago • 100%
I'd really like it if midwest.social would defed from hexbear. It's a nice instance, but the comment sections are often a disaster.
ruckblack 6d ago • 100%
I understand just fine, thank you. You're reading a religious connotation where there is none, and you can't seem to let that go. You're hung up on the etymology of the word lmfao.
Lmfao all these edits instead of responding directly. Cope harder, dude.
ruckblack 6d ago • 33%
Laughable that you'd call everyone confidently ignorant while you get downvoted into oblivion. Try some humility. Maybe this rant was misplaced, and you're wrong for going off with it. There was no religious connotation implied with the original post. You misread. Get over it.
ruckblack 6d ago • 100%
Probably not more expensive than the immense computing power they would need to support something like the method I mentioned. I'm quite sure they've done a cost analysis on this lol.
ruckblack 6d ago • 100%
I got drunk a lot and called it "getting into making cocktails"
ruckblack 6d ago • 100%
I need some of whatever he's smoking
ruckblack 6d ago • 100%
Lol. Oddly enough we had awesome movies before the MCU, and awesome movies will still be made after it's dead and gone. I refuse to believe that the movie industry would be much different at all without all the Marvel schlock. We don't need it. What hole to fill? A bunch of garbage, bloated content that almost nobody asked for being pumped out ad infinitem? Okay?
It was a huge phenomenon, and it's now dying, and I'm sure many of the people involved are now in the denial stage of grief over the project. Sebastian here is just coming off like someone with a huge vested interest in defending the schlock, because that's what he has.
The MCU had heart at the start of it and through much of its life, but all that heart is gone now and replaced with a bunch of money grubbing producers and executives with little creative talent, or interest, or a story to tell. It's time for the next inspiring project to come along, one made out of passion. That's the only hole that needs filling.
ruckblack 6d ago • 100%
For me, the 20 free minutes would be spent setting everything up for this stupid hobby of mine anyway lmfao
ruckblack 6d ago • 100%
That would require Microsoft to do something like running a 1:1 local render of everything the player is doing in their sim, for everyone playing the game, at all times. And then they'd have to stream that video feed to the player and somehow make sure the elsewhere-rendered terrain is synced up perfectly with the player's local game. Doesn't really seem reasonable.
Howdy, so while I'm able to block all posts from hexbear.net accounts, it seems there's no way for me to block all their comments on instances they're federated with. I'd rather not leave some of the communities that are still federated with them, but I would like to be able to block or hide all of their comments in the threads. Is there any way to do this yet? Or do I just need to move to an instance that's defederated from them?
I like dogs like I like toddlers. It's fun to hang out with other people's for a while, but ultimately they're annoying, loud, and make a mess. I feel like in the past 10 years or so, dog owners have become increasingly convinced that everyone thinks their slobbering, untrained mutt is god's gift to everyone, and expects everyone to love it unconditionally. Dogs in restaurants. Dogs in stores when you go shopping. "Oh it's so funny that your dog is jumping on me and getting it's dirty paws all over me while it tries to sniff my crotch." "Oh oops! Your dog ate my food off the counter, fucking again. Guess that's my fault because in this house nothing is safe from the coddled fucking dog." "Hey man can you watch the dog? It's really easy, not like it pisses all over the floor and knocks the trash over or anything. We have to leave the house for 2 hours and it has anxiety/depression/borderline personality disorder and he's a wittle special boy who needs constant attention." I'm just tired of it. Nobody gives a goddamn about your stupid dog. Stop bringing your animal to restaurants, it's disgusting and inconsiderate. It's not your child, it's a dog. Dog people have made me hate dogs.
I've always been interested in trying the game, but didn't know anyone who could DM. I became really interested in playing a few months ago, and decided, fuck it, I'll do it myself. I just ran Dragons of Stormwreck Isle last night with a few friends, all of us completely brand new to D&D. I hit one snag where a player was prying for more information about Varnoth's history. They rolled really well, and Varnoth isn't necessarily guarded about her past, but I had NOTHING more to give them. The module had no more history, and I don't know the world well, so just trying to make up some lore on my feet was really difficult. I tried to give more jargon, didn't sound great, and just ended up making her tell the player that there wasn't much more to say, and that she'd moved on from that time in her life. This stuck out to me as a failure on my part, but after the session, I told the player about how it looked from my end and they didn't seem to have noticed that I was fumbling. They just assumed I had everything out in front of me. So I guess the improv was decent enough, and least for my completely inexperienced players. Anyone have tips on what to do when a player wants more information that an NPC should know, but it isn't something you'd prepared for? I'll have to learn the rules a little better (the first encounter with the zombies featured 5 minutes of me leafing through the PHB because I ran into an important mechanic I didn't quite understand), and I should probably prep the story a little better too, but I'm beyond pleased at how successful the session was. Everyone had a great time and wants to keep playing. It was a ton of fun improvising and creating a fun goofy story together with my buds. Just very happy to have this new fun creative thing to do with my friends and want to share that joy. I'd really like to create my own stories eventually, but it does seem very daunting. Anyway, thanks so much for all of your help! Reading through posts in this community has been invaluable to learning how to play and DM.
Not posting from the app obviously since submissions aren't supported just yet, but the app is otherwise awesome so far!!! Really well done ljdawson, just wanted to make this post to say thank you. I signed up for sync ultra right away.
I don't think it's any secret that there's a bit of a stuffy vibe on Mastodon. Does anyone have recommendations for hashtags they follow that pull more lighthearted content into their feed?
Or have I missed the train on this? I know services like twitodon.com were available to find users on Mastodon that an account is following on Twitter. But it looks like with the API goofiness, those services are shut down. Is there any way to do this now?
I've had a model M for a couple years, and I was using the Orion 2 induction heater for maybe a year. I've always been disappointed with the Orion. Heating is too fast and uneven, and a torch has always been superior to it. BUT I just recently bought the omnivap along with the Wand, and good god. It's fantastic. Just as effective as a torch, I can just stick the vape in and let it heat up, it's such a huge upgrade. I've been using the Mighty from Storz and Bickel for years, but the Wand honestly might make the omnivap my new daily desktop vape. Highly recommend.
Basically, title. I'm trying to follow some of my favorite accounts on Twitter through mastodon since it would make transitioning much easier, but I can't find a Twitter mirror that actually displays any posts. Did I just miss the train on this?
Sorry if this is a dumb question, I can't seem to find the answer online. Is there any way for the users of an instance to see which communities have been blocked by the instance? I know we can see the instance blocklist, I'm interested in the community blocklist.
