[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Disappointing but expected.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

There's no cut off. Some people are just judgy (and often hypocritical).

I'm the same age as you and I've been gaming my whole life. My father had all the Ataris, (2600, 400, 800, XT, etc...). He and I built my first 386 together. My uncles had the Intellivision. Cousins with the ColecoVision. My father's almost 70 and he's still an avid Destiny 2 player.

I will admit tho, it's harder to find women, our age, who are either into or at least open to gaming as an adult hobby. I'm not saying they don't exist but having been divorced and remarried I can say there's a gender gap there. I was lucky enough to find someone open minded. She never complained about my weekly game nights to keep in touch with my friends and she's even opened up over the last few years and has become a bit of a gamer herself.

So... there is no cut off. It's not immature or childish, and it's certainly more of an art form than 3/4 of the garbage those same people will spend their free time on (reality tv, tiktock, endlessly scrolling the void of facebook).

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Yeah the sad part is that, really, the best we can hope for is a post mortem. Rescue is almost impossible in this situation.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

The fact that everyone treats Golem-Picard as True-Picard felt to me like confirmation that, in the ST universe, what makes you you is your mind. Memories, thought patterns, etc... I know it was tv-show hand wavery but the fact that no one mourned the death of their friend, or really ever once questioned the validity of the golem taking his place bothered me a little.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Seriously, once the shields are down why aren't they just dematerializing parts of the enemy ship?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I wonder if there's a technical manual out there that tries to explain it. It seems like energy manipulation is something startrek tech excells at.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

In practice, I agree with you. The transporter scans, disintegrates, and reconstructs the thing being transported. But when the thing being transported is reconstructed at a subatomic level it is effectively identical.

I can imagine the society we see in startrek having already worked through the moral and philosophical implications. I would have loved to see that addressed in an episode tho.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

I always thought the least believable part of transporters was that they worked without a pad on both ends.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I've been using nearlyfreespeech.net for (looks) 14 years now. Their business aligns with my ideals and I've always been happy with their service.

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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I was under the impression that, due to the nature of ActivityPub, that Lemmy and Kbin are interoperable. I've been trying all day to sub to something a fedia.io. I can see it on the list of federated instances here but the search always comes up "no result".

I'm able to subscribe to other communities at other Lemmy instances (with some patience).

Is there a difference syntax I should be using?

Thanks

[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago

Same here. If they'd have just framed it differently and put the onus of paying for api access on the users (at a modest fee), almost none of the backlash would have happened.

Then I'd still be oblivious.

I prefer the world the way it was before all the consolidation. I like the ideals of the fediverse and want it to succeed.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Relay user here. I love Relay. Dbrady is the best. And I have no problem supporting him at $3 a month, but f* reddit after all this. I'm not giving them a penny.

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