Venia Silente
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If they don’t migrate to a wiki running on a Minecraft CPU virtual VPS, I riot.
Federation for wikis doesn’t make sense, IMO. For wikis that are intended to serve as authoritative resources, you actually want to require editors to be local accounts because if they’re remote, you can never end trolling / vandalism edits. Also, local accounts give more accountability for editorial control since, among other things, editing locally means editing the toolset (eg.: parser modifications, buttons, smileys, custom emojis, whatever) of the local instance.
In (low) scifi at least, you’re looking for “uplifted dog”. That should give your reader the general vibes of what’s needed. Think basically Marvel’s Rocket (Raccoon).
At that Lapras size and with that artstyle, I get a very happy Monster Hunter Stories vibe.
2DHD style à-la-Octopath is where it’s at. Would have helped much the general vibe of the regions that has a lush world but where you are still free to “fill in the blanks” the way you want.
Besides, 3D is too much for a small indie developer like Gamefreak.
They’ve posted some explanations before, as have done other people who follow the same pattern. Basically it’s to make it easier for people who are migrating into the feddi/lemmyverse to post stuff on the instance they land on, without having to deal with some of the quids of federation so abruptly.
AFAIK, the people who tend to create communities with that pattern (people, not bots) are more than happy to give them away to more responsible people since that’s kind of the point.
Disclaimer: I’ve thought of doing the same for helping discoverability of the stuff I moved here from reddit for.
And I still wish there were an “open protocol” so that I could use the steam overlay to chat with a buddy playing elden ring on her xbox while I play trepang2 on my PC.
There are open chat protocols, like XMPP. The issue is corporations either don’t use them, or use them to enshittificate (that’s what happened to XMPP, even. As for open GUI protocols, which is needed for the second part of your message, same issue: there’s open protocols and open toolkits all over the place, but the corps that produce consoles and games won’t use them (or, when they do, they’ll still lock them behind an “ecosystem”).
tl;dr: choose better (more open) games, and you can have p much all the chat you want.
It’s simple: don’t do 4K. It’s absolutely unneeded.
I’ve never seen any big media content that actually benefits from more than 720p. Among other things, for watching comfortably on laptops. Heck, for most communication / reaction videos, 540p / 480p is more than enough (in those cases the audio is actually more important than the visuals).
It’s not anywhere as crazy as it seems. The Vatican already airs mass in Esperanto, for example, and has done so for quite a long time. Just installing a docker image with Masto in one of their VPSes and setting up and auth connected to some other central services they also already have is perfectly within the reaches of such a small indie dev.
