Because Nintendo is a vexatious litigant that weaponizes the legal system in an attempt to bankrupt their opponents.

Instance blocking in Connect for Lemmy also hides all comments from all people in the blocked instance. It doesn’t make them disappear like blocking a user does, but the comment appears with the body text replaced by a button that allows you to optionally unhide the message (like how Discord used to hide messages from blocked users).

Defederation should literally be a last resort option IMO. Otherwise you end up like Beehaw: isolated on an island away from like 90% of the Fediverse. Great for moderation but terrible for discoverability and growth.

Lemmy is pretty much the Linux version of Reddit, and as someone who has used Linux before, it is up to the end user to do all the legwork with Linux as opposed to something like Windows which is pretty much plug and play. Lemmy does best when it gives as many options to its users as possible, including preferring local user instance blocking as compared to defederating.

As an example, I like anime. Let’s say hypothetically that you don’t like anime and that I have an account on your instance. And let’s say you hate anime, actually. You want your instance to defederate from ani.social (and any other instance that hosts anime content) because you hate anime, but I don’t because I like the memes and discussions from there. How do you resolve this? Now think about what happens with an instance that hosts content that is of a different political ideology than you. Its really the same problem. By calling for defederation you effectively say that your opinions and viewpoints are the only correct ones, and that everyone else on your instance of choice needs to align to your viewpoint. In this case, this is why it would be better for you, the user with the problem with those instances, to locally block that content.

I can understand if a particular instance is so full of spam bots or people that attack the instance with illegal post content, such as posting CSAM anywhere and everywhere, but in those cases it would be up to the instance admins, and a responsible admin will make a post explaining whats going on and in some cases even ask for the community to give input on it.

I mean, I am not fond of the head admins running Lemmy.ml, but you should just do what I do and block the instance. Don’t know what you use to browse Lemmy but I use Connect for Lemmy on Android and it supports instance blocking.

No reason to prevent other people on your instance from interacting with instances they want to. Not everyones ideologies have to match your own, and different people want to see different content.

I take it you’ve never interacted with the head admins there? I had the displeasure once and they aren’t really open to conversation. Once they have decided on something, then they won’t actually accept any sort of discussion, you’ll just be talking to a brick wall.

Nothing is stopping someone from scraping data off of Lemmy. It has probably already been happening.

We built a data set of 45 million comments on news articles on the Huffington Post website between January 2013 and February 2015.

I am no expert but I feel like this is a really bad data set choice for this study.

Lemmy has pretty lousy security in general, so really nobody should be storing any data on their Lemmy account that is important. Password, username, and any personally identifying information should never be shared across multiple sites or with other users, but this is just cybersecurity 100.

Don’t criticize Linux

It will be interesting for sure, but let’s not fool ourselves into believing that NPCs with AI behaviours will be better in all cases like modern game players seem to with open world game design.

Not every game needs an open world, and in some cases open world game design can end up doing more harm than good. This will be something that developers should look at on a game by game basis, and not a default plugin that everyone uses for every NPC in their game.

Nintendo used to make powerful hardware that was actually competitive too. I wish they’d go back to that. So many third parties dropped most Nintendo support because they keep making decisions that severely limit third party developers. N64 lacked CDs, Gamecube had tiny CDs, Wii was literally just the Gamecube in a different shell and therefore underpowered, WiiU was underpowered, Switch is underpowered.

Nintendo literally changed their entire business strategy because they want to repeat the sales of the Wii.

Imagine how much better TotK could have been if it had an actually powerful console. Korok Forest would get more than 15 fps.

Not really. They’re nearly as similar as 1080p and 720p, really. 1080i is a vertical resolution 1.5 times bigger than 720p, just like 1080p.

The only difference actually is that 720p is a progressive scan inage, not an interlaced image. This means the field is constructed top down row by row. Once the field is constructed, it is displayed as a single field.

An interlaced image constructs two fields separately in short succession, with one field having only odd rows and the other having only even rows. They’re displayed on screen fast enough so that the image appears complete, but an interlaced image can have a noticeable “jitter” effect because every other vertical row on screen is updated slightly later than the others. Depending on the display, it can also have decreased brightness or a flashing like effect because the time inbetween both fields being displayed can be visible to the human eye.

The Dreamcast library can feel underwhelming because of how shortlived the console was. Most Dreamcast games didn’t get to fully realize the console’s power because it didn’t last long enough for the potential to be fully realized. EA was afraid of piracy so didnt even try to develop for it, and the Dreamcast launched too close to the Saturn for most people. However, it was the fastest selling console in the US at the time. But then like, a year and a half later the PS2 launched and killed any chance the Dreamcast had.

Dreamcast had a lot of good games. Notably, Sonic Adventure, Soul Calibur, Shenmue, Grandia 2, and Record of Lodoss War. But what I think makes the library good is how experimental all the games on it were. Games like Illbleed. Its hard to find “duplicate” games on the Dreamcast, unless you look at like, the Resident Evil port and Dino Crisis port.

For a console that realistically only existed for about 18 months, it did quite well. Had the Dreamcast not launched so close to the Saturn, had SEGA supported the Saturn in the US more, had the PS2 not come along to kick it down, and had EA not dropped it instantly, then I definitely think the console would have done well.

WiiU was underpowered when it launched. Even if someone had utilized it 100%, it still would have been behind compared to the Xbox360 and PS3. 720p only when the Xbox and PS2 were already supporting 720p and 1080i was also a bad choice.

WiiU was just a bunch of bad choices combined in a single product. Bad hardware choices, bad marketing, bad name, requiring the massive gamepad for console setup, etc.

GameCube was good, but I say the SEGA Dreamcast definitely takes the Underrated and Underutilized Console award.

The key flaw was it using mini disks. Not only did this kneecap storage capacity for developers, but it also made it difficult to pirate games, which is ironically a big part of its failure.

Bobby going to Bungie is only an uncomfirmed rumor.

However, I will never forgive Bungie.

• They did Marty and Joe dirty, Marty by trying to rescind his company shares and Joe for the way Jason Jones treated him in Destiny 1s developement

• They absolutely ruined Destiny 1 and 2, though 2 far more than 1

• They deleted content that I paid for without my permission, removing my ability to choose to access it (this is when I stopped playing Destiny altogether)

• They’re tarnishing Marathon’s good name by making it a PvEvP extraction looter shooter

• “We want you to throw money at the screen” famous quote (they really thought it was a good idea to say that)

If Bobby does become CEO there, I would not be surprised. But I actually dont think its possible for Bungie to get any lower.

There is a market for everything. But people would probably figure out that none of the posts are real so nobody would use it anymore. Unless you made it into a game where you roleplay as a forum admin, somewhat akin to HyperSpace Outlaw.

Of that one problematic community, there are like 6 users. Just block the users and the community. Very easy.

Why should we punish people that decided to create an account on that instance just because of the like 6 people posting content you don’t like by removing the other user’s right to access this instance via their account on that instance?

Have they added the multiplayer mode from that fork to master yet?

Just because you don’t like the content doesn’t mean you have to instantly defederate. I am getting really tired of this increasing trend of wanting to immediately defederate just because some users don’t like or agree with the content. I don’t like that content either, but it is so easy for me as an individual user to block content I don’t like to see.

Unless the users on that instance are maliciously posting illegal content in droves onto other instances or something, there is no reason defederation should be considered. Defederation is a last resort option, not a first response to something you don’t like or agree with.