TypicalHog

I just made up a new post format I believe could be useful. [WDYP] X

A post where people ask others why they still play a certain game X. This could help people gain ideas and new perspectives on the game they used to play but stopped because they got bored/lost interest in it or got dragged into another game that offered a more exciting reason to play it instead. OP can add reasons why they may still play the game or they could ask what makes others still come back to it.

I'll start. Why do you still play MINECRAFT? What are your goals within the game? What drives you to spend your time in this game's world? How do you play it?

What makes me return to Minecraft every once in a while is a small server that is very close to vanilla Minecraft (semi-anarchy) and if you die you get banned for 24h (semi-hardcore). You can play here similar to how you would play in your own single-player world but with the added threat of someone stumbling upon your base, as well as you potentially finding someone else's base. The server has a small player-run economy. I can log into this server and just mindlessly mine for diamonds when I'm tired and need some brain time off or fly around the map hunting for bases or player-left artifacts, building automatic farms, or simply cutting trees to sell to others. I don't play it every day, but this server always makes me boot Minecraft and stop by every couple of weeks or so.

If you play Minecraft, what makes you keep coming back to it?

A while ago I've noticed Discord using 8-10% of my CPU every time I open Task Manager. This doesn't really sound weird... Until you realize this is when my Discord client is NOT running (AKA after I fully exit out of it so it's not even present in the tray area on the right side of the taskbar). From what I can tell, it's using about 400MB of memory, no disk or network and about 8% of CPU (I have 6 cores/12 threads and that 8-10% seems to be distributed among all of them). It's possible it uses disk and network in short bursts after a long period of inactivity, but I havent spotted it doing that so far). If I were to kill Discord.exe in the task manager - it would go away and not come back until I restarted my computer. At first, I didn't think much of it - I thought maybe it's doing some background update or something, but it is constant, it doesn't go away unless I kill it. When I run Discord - another Discord entry appears in the task manager - the suspicious one seems unaffected. Both entries take me to the same file when I click "Open file location". The file seems normal and signed by Discord. What is going on here? Do you guys also have this going on or is it just me? I'm getting some really sus vibes ngl. I suspect a discord bug/unoptimized code, 3rd party malware or Discord itself secretly doing some malicious thing.

UPDATE: Multiple clean reinstalls haven't helped.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/22957810

Ok, so, I crossposted the documentary “Four Horsemen 2012” to [email protected] and it got removed for not being “a solarpunk themed documentary” - all good, it was my mistake I didn’t check it’s a community for documentaries with a specific there/topic.

Then, I wake up to the message from the SAME PERSON ([email protected]) removing the same documentary from [email protected] which I assume is a GENERAL PURPOSE instance for documentaries about all topics. Their reason was: “I’m going to remove this documentary out of solidarity for Ukraine” even tho the documentary had NOTHING to do with Ukraine and doesn’t even mention it ONCE! I’m super confused. The rules for this community don’t even say anything about certain documentaries being allowed or not. What is happening? Ideological censorship?