southsamurai

This is why I’ll never buy anything Nintendo again. They’ve made too much of a habit of fucking over people.

Tangent!

I used to prefer being DPS. And then I played the first game that made healers and tanks fun for me. Shaiya. Wasn’t the best game overall. Kinda bad, and a ripoff of some parts of WoW. But it was fun to heal in, and very fun to tank in. You really could change the entire gameplay based on how you tanked, and how you healed.

Then I moved over to battle/war of the immortals. Again, flawed games, but tanking and healing were fun. Healing more than tanking in those two, but still more fun than DPS.

When I switched over to Neverwinter as my main gaming focus, the way they had the classes be able to handle tanking and/or healing was the most fun I’d ever had playing in PUGs. I could pop onto my haste cleric, keep everyone alive while also boosting them and put out play damage solo. Paladin? Same idea, only the team wouldn’t get hit much if at all. The fighter class was essentially pure tank, and good at it, but not as much fun as paladin for me.

I had more fun playing supports, heals and tanks than I ever did on DPS. It didn’t hurt that, on the games I played, I was great at tanking and healing. Enough so that my guilds/alliances would plan events around my schedule, even when the people were on the other side of the planet. Even on Shaiya, which was totally pay to win, I could out heal and out tank players that dumped tons of cash into it.

I miss it sometimes, but I’d have to rebuild my gaming PC to be able to play neverwinter now, because no way am I starting completely over on the ps5 with a controller that makes it much harder to play those classes. And none of the console based MMOs really entice me currently.

Well, just glancing at it, it isn’t discord. It doesn’t connect to discord servers at all.

What it does is replicate discord, in a way that allows users to still make use of things that discord users are already into. Bots in particular.

So discord won’t have access to anything that goes on at all, unless you’re using something that also connects to discord.

Pop-ups and fake notifications would have more to do with the client you’re using than the back-end would, so if you use a client that does those things, I wouldn’t bet on that changing.

The caveat: I’m no dev of any kind, so I can’t say anything about the actual code, I’m basing this on their own description. I linked the page to my cousin that sometimes will give a quick scan for hinky shit for me, but there’s no telling if or when he’ll do so nd get back to me.

Damn. I finally got around to reading the article. That’s a hell of a story.

I can believe either main possibility though. It’s possible the dude just has a type, and a lot of really strange coincidence in his life. Unlikely that so many perfect coincidences exist, but not totally impossible (I’ve seen some weird shit in my fifty years).

It’s also totally believable that someone would create alternate identities for any number of reasons, some of which aren’t necessarily bad, though the degree to which it went is out of line if that’s the case. But I kinda doubt it was done fully benignly if that’s what the truth is.

And, I guess there’s always the possibility of a mix of those, with one or more of the three dubious people being real, and the rest fake.

But dude nuking everything online is super suspicious.

Go scroll through the C/ for a bit, check the titles of posts, the kind of posts made.

This post is pretty far off topic for the C/, and is about a streamer, not gaming and games directly. Since C/ rules are set against streaming links entirely, that’s another layer of this post being off topic.

It is tangentially gaming related, but I would say that it doesn’t belong on this C/, and needs a down vote here, if not actually removed.

There’s plenty of apps that do it already. I don’t have a list any more, but I’d bet that as comments pile up, one will form lol.

It would be nice for lemmy itself to have options like that, particularly for web only users.

Me? I mainly use sync and connect. Sync has the best dual column layout of the few apps that have the option, but connect is a better lemmy app overall. I use tablets for 99% of this kind of activity. Did with reddit and do with lemmy, and the multi column feed is just better for that. Phone, it’s connect.

Tiny tina’s wonderlands, Baldur’s gate enhanced edition, and soulcaliber.

Swap between them here and there, and I’m happy.

Not that anyone wants them, but I’ve had the same policy about my books. They got “leaked” by a friend that put them in his soulseek folder. Doesn’t bother me at all

Jfc, people are stupid

My gen-x ass plays games with my millennial wife and gen-z kid. Sometimes, my mom plays too, so add a technical baby boomer to the mix. Technical because she came in at the tail end of it; they’re sometimes called generation Jones or some other weird shit.

Hell, My grandmother tried playing some games with the kids of the family back in the original Nintendo days. Didn’t quite have the patience for Mario and such, but she put in some effort just to understand. My grandfather wrecked us at duck hunt though. Only game he would play, but the guy was a competitive shooter, and his skill translated to the game well.

Having fun with people you love is just goodness. Board games, video games, card games, ttrpgames, whatever it is, try and be open to things, and you’ll have fun together.

That was my first thought too

It’s an old story.

I used to be heavy into martial arts. I’m a big guy, ex power lifter, and with a good sized belly (though the exact size has fluctuated over the years).

I was working a job where I had the freedom to set up a kind of personal dojo in the side yard while working nights. Neighbor was a smartass after seeing me work out a bit, made sumo jokes to a guy doing cutting practice. Explained the difference between sumo and what I was doing.

The guy was slow, and asked if that was like the samurai.

I said yeah, because I was doing Japanese jujutsu, iaido and general kenjutsu. You know, samurai shit.

He cracks a joke that I must be the fattest samurai in the south. Which, at the time, I was maybe 18-20% body fat, so not even close compared to a couple of guys I took classes with. I had been cutting weight pretty good for months, despite still having that bulgy belly you get when you power lift. Looked fatter than I was tbh.

Anyway, trying to keep this to the short version.

I told the story to friends, and discovered I had a new nickname, as friends do. It got shortened to southern samurai, and after I started using that as a gaming handle, it got shortened to southsamurai by character limits.

They were casting spells

Lmao

Out of all the possible targets for raging enough to threaten death, people making games are the target? Jfc

Yeah, legit, I’ve messed around with this kind of thing before, and I wouldn’t attempt to run lemmy myself. Major pain in the ass.

I mean, android is fine I guess, but it’s being pushed to be less and less able to be separated from Google. I think for a lot of people interested in self hosting, there’s a low amount of interest in it because of that.

If you’re using an app, both connect and sync for lemmy have instance filtering.

The caveat is that it’s filtering, which is in-app only. But it works quite well in both.

It isn’t the subject matter. It’s the aggressive and intentional disruption that’s coordinated to disrupt other instances. They don’t just make shitty communities and post shitty things, they then start shit in other instances’ communities. That’s why they need defederation, not their political views or post subjects.

It’s pretty decent too!

Some on the old functionality isn’t there yet, like tabbed browsing of subs/communities. And it lacks some core lemmy stuff like blocking. It does, however, cover everything you need for basic scrolling and enjoying. Infinity was never my top reddit app, but it was still great. I think, if development of this version keeps up pace, it’s going to become very popular.