“Reddit signs historic billion-dollar deal with Reddit for access to their own data set”

Yeah that made it feel better once I knew that too. It just needs to be made optional I think, in the sense that there should be a “give me a random server with good ping and stats” kind of thing maybe.

This is absolutely a thing. I barely got onto Lemmy in the first place because having to choose a server is such a barrier to entry. Having to pick a community when you don’t even know what the service is like yet is a major turn off for some people, myself included.

“Nuh uh!” said the Microsoft representative contacted.

Nice to see an official sounding term for it honestly. It’s a scourge these days.

Taking off the belt on your jeans.

I’m going to give you the unpopular answer: it’s not going to get better. I almost beat this game, and really enjoyed a lot of it, but without spoiling there will come a point where you have to do a lot of things in a specific and high stakes order across multiple planets. I tried it a bunch of times and found it so frustrating to have to redo it over and over again that I eventually just threw in the towel and moved on.

It sounds like you’re enjoying it even less than I did, so I would guess this point in the game I’m alluding to will frustrate you even more as well.

I’ll be honest, I think they’re both really ugly. 🤷

So I haven’t played this game, but I think what you’re feeling makes sense.

I think for many players, myself included, they aren’t looking to have their teeth kicked in. They also aren’t looking for a walk in the park, though. Unfortunately, many games’ handicap systems (handicap meaning a mechanism that gives the player an added advantage) make it very all or nothing. It’s either super difficult, or braindead easy. I’m not saying that no one enjoys playing a game that is basically on rails and un-failable, some definitely do, but I think it’s reasonable to say many players want to be met at their edge.

The problem as a designer is everyone has a different edge, and the edge won’t even be the same for different activities when it’s the same player playing. You might get frustrated by a boss, but absolutely love meticulously exploring an environment, or thinking through a challenging logic puzzle. Others are the reverse.

I don’t really have a point to this comment, but I’m a game designer and find this stuff really interesting. It’s a very hard problem to solve but I think what you’re feeling is completely understandable. If I were you I would feel a little robbed, too!

Apple is horrible to work with as a dev. Some friends and I released an indie mobile game a while back and the approval process was full of such petty stuff that we had to explain to them why it was fine again and again. They suck.

Not gonna say it cured me, but it helped me a lot to minimize the damage. As soon as that little bit of skin starts to bug me and I get the urge to pick I can just clip it off instead.

My weird thing is I always carry fingernail clippers. I started doing it because I have a bad habit of picking at my cuticles, and it helps to keep my nails trimmed. I’ve learned that it’s a weirdly useful tool, though. It can cut things in a pinch, but no one sees it as something dangerous needing to be confiscated for example.

That far right one is almost self awarewolves level

All I’m learning from this thread is that no one can tell any consistent signs.

If you’re in a place they ship to, check out these guys. Oolong specialist tea shop in Seattle that has some of the best quality tea I’ve ever had. It’s a really small operation, too, with people who really love what they do: https://floatingleaves.com/

I think it is a bit of an unclear wording personally. “Made with”, despite technically meaning what you’re saying, is often colloquially used to mean “fully created by”. I don’t mind the AI tag, but I do see the photographers point about it implying wholesale generation instead of touchups.

How does this one still work? Does it do it in a different way than the old apps did?

Glad I’m not the only one who couldn’t figure that out lmao

Oooooh got it! That’s cool actually I had no idea. I imagine she’s pretty mutually exclusive with some of the others.

I’ll be honest, I don’t even remember who Minthara is, so I definitely didn’t get her either.