KahunaDaKine

joined 1 year ago

If they're not making a profit as it is charging rich rubberneckers 250K a trip and cutting corners on their builds, I can't imagine they'll ever be able to do it.

It's a bit niche, but I like Japanese mahjong (not the tile matching thing, the actual game) and have gotten hours out of an app called Kemono Mahjong. Cheap, onetime purchase w/no micro transactions and you can play against adjustable AI offline or online with others. It has plenty of guidance for new players.

[–] KahunaDaKine@startrek.website 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We're learning that lesson in spades now with all the shriekers and Bible thumpers trying to stack school boards, ban books and curriculums.

[–] KahunaDaKine@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Never played it, but a few people in the CCG crowd at my high school did for a bit. I remember it being a little too complicated for me at the time and just stuck to MTG or Netrunner.

That's great and all, but presupposes that whoever’s on the other end of that panic button will actually respond and do so effectively or in time. Uvalde and Parkland both had cops make it on site in a reasonable amount of time, but they were basically useless in both cases.

[–] KahunaDaKine@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I can see the ads on Fox or OANN now.

"MAGA Mush! Quality gruel for quality patriots! Available at your local Cabela's now!"

At least I'm assuming they haven't canceled Cabela's like Bass Pro yet.

[–] KahunaDaKine@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's funny, I used to be on BestofRedditorUpdates where almost any "good" story that got reposted was subject to arguments about whether it actually happened or if the OP made it up. Now with ChatGPT it can all be made up. /s

If they actually do wind up forcibly reopening the dark subs and replacing the mods, good luck having to police "Lemmy" or "Tildes" spam on top of all the usual bot nonsense and trolling that goes on. Metal and Motorhead subs are about to get nuked as collateral damage.

[–] KahunaDaKine@startrek.website 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

They wouldn't let me onto Beehaw with the answer I gave to their question, so I joined the first instance I could find that looked interesting. Now I kind of feel awkward making any new communities that aren't Star Trek related lol.

Seems like it's just a human thing to be tempted to do when you're far from home and don't think there will be consequences to your actions. There's graffiti from ancient Greeks and Romans in Egypt and Viking runes carved into the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

I'm no fonder of his smug, libertarian prepper ass than you are, but personally the best way to make him feel the consequences of his actions is to leave that baggage where it is to rot and just concentrate on making Lemmy and any other alternatives you may be on the kind of community that Reddit used to be and people valued.

I doubt it. It's not a blanket "buy everything" policy; we do have some standards we abide by like significance and value to the collection, the level of interest the community would have in something, how much it's been covered beforehand by reviewers or the media in general, etc.

Even if by some chance we actually did bring something like that into the collection, the policy allows for materials to be challenged by patrons. One probably wouldn't be enough to get something removed, but I imagine something like that kind of manifesto wouldn't stop at just one challenge.

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