Jamie

It's nice not feeling like there's an algorithm looming over me. I'd browse a sub more than usual one or two times, Reddit blows up my feed with that sub. Sometimes I wouldn't see anything from some other subs unless I made a point to go visit them.

Yeah, but there's at least a facade of game in there somewhere. Like how the 2K NBA games are slot machines with inconvenient basketball minigames attached.

paramedic

Imagine a paramedic that just says whatever happens to someone is God's will and it's against their religion to intervene in that. So they just watch people die.

From what I read, it also requires Secure Boot to be enabled. I played the game for 90 minutes before reading about the anti-cheat change, fortunately I didn't hit 2 hours and took a refund.

I loaded up Reddit and did my part. For those who still have Reddit accounts, upvote the original to keep it at the top

Someone could probably make money by just making a platform where you show people ads, and there's a leaderboard ranking for how many ads you watch.

I'm using it now, it seems to be working really well. One thing I would probably suggest is adding the ability to list community names not to add. For example, on my personal instance I wasn't really wanting "Piracy" communities, since they could federate infringing data to my instance. But piracy communities are fairly big, so I need to go back and prune them out.

I haven't tried anything like it, but I'd be somewhat interested in hearing how that turns out. Lemmy does a fair bit of DB reads/writes, and I don't think the throughput of the average SD card is up to the task if you subscribe to a lot of things or get a number of users.

But I'm totally open to being wrong.

To get better, two things: read more, and write more. The more you read, the more you’ll absorb of how others write and the more ideas you’ll get. The more you write, the more practice you get.

“Just write, finish things, and then start writing the next thing…Just write. Assume that you have one million words inside of you and they’re all rubbish. You need to get them all out.” - Neil Gaiman

I like to write from time to time, as for whether it's something you should pick up, I think that's a question better answered by you. Does the idea of writing sound like a fun one to you? Do you have anything you're interested in that you might enjoy writing stories about?

Despite the sort of stigma against fanfiction, in reality, writing fanfiction about a world or character you're passionate about is a great way to get started. Fanfiction reduces the burden on the writer greatly by providing a large amount of the creative building blocks needed to write a good story. You don't have to build up a world, the main characters' personalities and motivations are already established in the main canon for you. If you opt to share that story with an audience, they're probably going to already be familiar with all of those basics as well.

That isn't to say that writing something that will truly captivate people is easy, even in a fanfiction sense. Your challenges in writing an original work differ from that of fanfiction, but the latter is a place where a bunch of fledgling writers get their feet wet into the hobby... which in turn leads to the stigma behind it, since many of those are self-insert fantasies, rather than appealing stories about characters people know and love.

Coup's over anyway. Wagner did a little trolling, and turned around to go home.

"Twelve injuries have already been reported with Zuru’s full-sized Robo Alive Junior Baby Shark Sing & Swim Bath Toys — after children sat or fell on the now-recalled products. Nine of these cases required stitches or medical attention, according to a Thursday release from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. "

Ouch.