NailBunny

I think Dwarf Fortress's Steam release, for all its issues, has made it a lot more accessible to a casual audience, especially in the wake of the great success of games like Rimworld. That said, it's still quite an undertaking to pick up and learn. Cataclysm has definitely always been a hard sell to others, though. Usually, their interest wanes as soon as they look up a screenshot. On the rare occasions that I've convinced someone to boot it up, they've just walked into the sight range of a mi-go or something and immediately died and lost interest. There's so much to talk about when it comes to both of them, but no one to talk about them with :(

Deadly Premonition. It has a cast of very charming and surprisingly well written characters alongside a fascinating mindfuck of a story that is very much unlike anything else I've ever experienced. Heavily inspired by David Lynch's Twin Peaks and the closest I've seen another piece of media come to recapturing its dreamy, surreal vibes. Has a cult following despite being an absolutely shit game by all reasonable metrics. The combat is atrocious, it's unfathomably buggy, you're forced to drive between locations in a janky ass car, and the driving is like pulling teeth. It's really quite an unpleasant game to play for many reasons, and that's if you even get the game to run; the PC port is basically unplayable and requires a fuckton of fiddling on newer systems. Despite all that, it's an experience I remember very fondly. Just don't know if I'll be booting it up for another run in the next decade.

Lossy means that data is lost on encoding, so the original quality of the recording will be compromised in some fashion.

FLAC is superior to WAV because it's still lossless but compressed so the files take up less space.

A lot of really good advice. Thank you immensely for this post! 🖤

I'd still hug Monokuma, even if he is a bit sassy

That's one of the more embarrassing things I've seen an adult write on the internet

By left-leaning they mean leaning 2° left of total fascism

I really don't fucking understand why some people post shit in a public space and act so taken aback when people don't agree. Like, why the hell are you even posting this shit if you don't want to open it up to discourse? Just talk to yourself in a mirror if you're so terrified of someone thinking you're a complete dullard.

What age do I have to hit before I become so bitter and joyless?

Sure one might change their behaviors when traveling accordingly, but I think people would be generally understanding if an American tried to tip in the UK, and I would hope a waitress in America would understand why someone from the UK might not tip. With federation that cultural overlap is even more understandable because it's not like I'm getting on a plane and traveling across the ocean, I'm just clicking a link that was already on my All on Hexbear. We're also a lot larger/more active of an instance with almost quadruple the active monthly users of lemm.ee, and Hexbear has been around for about 3 years. A lot of the "brigading" people see is just the result of there being many active bears + this stuff showing up on our feeds + it being directly about us. When you consider all of these things, does it make a bit more sense why we might show up like a swarm of locusts throwing around our own inside jokes?

I'm pleasantly surprised by your response, honestly. I understand the temptation to make such arguments, and I'd be lying if I told you that astroturfing and shit like that didn't happen, but hard leftists like us are small in number in American spaces and that level of bullshittery generally requires some alignment with corporate interests to find the resources. We're just a bunch of regular people from many different corners who are really passionate about our opinions for a variety of reasons. Hope I wasn't too aggro with my comment, and hope the rest of your day is a nice one

Whenever leftists post outside of their home instance it inevitably breaks down into a rehashed version of "This is America, why can't you speak American?"