When Reddit killed Apollo, I no longer had the means to use Reddit— I’d rather not have Reddit than use the Reddit app.

Unlike so many people here, I have nothing against centralized social media, and I actively miss it— I miss having a large user base to talk with, I GREATLY miss all the specialize niche communities I followed. But it’s not good if I can’t access them.

Yes, the centralized nature of Reddit means that one person can fuck up the entire community… but decentralization means I have no one to talk to about the things I want to.

Anyway. I’m here hoping that enough people will eventually join that I can have MY Reddit back. I’m frustrated that the place is so tankie infested though, and fear that’s greatly holding it back.

Chasing the dream

Majora’s Mask has been so thoroughly broken by speedrunners that watching a run of it is nearly a completely different game than the one you would play. That said, you should absolutely play it, it’s consistently rated as one of the best, if not THE best Zelda game of all time.

I was a bit better at it when I was younger, but time has beaten me enough that’s it’s really hard now, even with my wife and kid.

Just googled New Haven pizza… looks like typical mall fare? Thin crust pizza is okay sometimes, I guess, but I’d hardly call it the best pizza around.

TIL a new word! Awesome!

This is actually a more interesting statement than one might think at first.

When we describe the habits of various species of animals, it’s my understanding that once a description is obtained, you can look at more or less any particular member of that species and see pretty much the same behavior. Monogamy trends included.

Not so with humans. You can find an average, describe trends, but pick any specific individual human and they’re almost certainly not going to behave as that description.

Some humans pair bond for life and beyond, never seeking other companionship after one partner dies. Others sleep around constantly with dozens of partners in a lifetime. And everything in between.

This, but also pixel art is an art form in its own right. It started with technical limitations, but exploring the limits of those limitations has created something uniquely and independently appealing for its own sake. Good pixel art just looks better than a lot of 3d stuff. And these days you can chose whether or not to stick to all the original limitations or not, giving more creative freedom and flexibility.

People use imprecise language to describe their surroundings, news at 11. :)

Yeah, not actually fat, but the person probably thinks of “fat” as a cute word to describe the floof.

My phases:

Longing, anticipation, comfort, giddiness, glee, ecstatic joy

It’s not clear from the photo… looks like it could be lighting on a skin wrinkle to me.

A base-neutral system for naming numbering systems (by jan Miseli) is my favorite solution for this problem.

I keep following it, it keeps looking awesome, it keeps not being done. :(

Enshittification does not mean making things suck in general. It specifically means the business model of making a good product for users, then making the product bad for users and good for advertisers or data purchasers or retailers or whatever, and then when you have a captured market, making it worse for everyone to squeeze more money faster.

Microsoft is not doing this. They might be sucking, and making a worse product, but it’s not following the enshittification playbook.

Yeah, that’s definitely an older generation problem.

Mind your tenses. Will die, not have died.

A boy and his blob. They made a modern sequel which lost a main gameplay component— puzzling out the puns for the various abilities, or at least making a hand written lookup chart. Just telling you that a punch jellybean makes a hole isn’t quite the same.

I’ve never had a honeydew that wasn’t delicious. Granted that I’ve been out of the states a few years now… is this like the red delicious apple where it used to be good, but farmers have bred the deliciousness out of them to look better aesthetically?

No, dogs know what a dog is, and also what a not-dog is. They clearly make distinctions, behave differently towards different things, and so on. They are neither as dumb as some people think, nor as smart as other people think.

Cats too, by the way, despite some claims to the contrary out there. Neither dogs nor cats act with the same behaviors they use with others of their species as they do with others of other species.

Man, I was a Potter fan for years. But the reviews and analysis that I’ve seen of this game mark it as casually and unrepentantly antisemitic… not as a side thing, but core to the main plot and central to what you do in the game. I don’t think I can handle that.