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Glad to see all these recommendations -- I hadn't heard of Ground Branch, I'll have to check it out. This post is reminding me of how great the original Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon games where.

Also, there is a forgotten entry from the original developer! There was a video game tie-in for The Sum of All Fears movie, and it was basically a reskin of the original Ghost Recon with indoor maps. I remember playing the demo back when it first came out. Looks like it's on Steam, and the critics agree: it's meh! But I want to play it anyway now. https://store.steampowered.com/app/19810/The_Sum_of_All_Fears/

Side note: does anyone know a legit way to get Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear? I swear it was on Steam or GOG at one point, but I can't find it now. Thankfully, I have it on a CD from when it first came out, but I wish I could recommend it to other people.

Your ID is stuck on one server, even if you can post messages on other servers. One server must be your "home" server. Unfortunately, this means that if you ever want to start using kbin all the time time instead of just posting messages to it, you'll have to register an account there. I don't think lemmy or kbin offer a way of migrating your account right now, so you would have to just start a new account on kbin.

What protects/ prevents some one from making a u/fomo_erotic on kbin? Anything?

Nothing prevents that from happening. However, your name is not just u/fomo_erotic, it's fomo_erotic@lemmy.ml. The "@lemmy.ml" part at the end is important, it's part of your full username. If you hover over my name, you'll see that it ends with @kbin.social.

This is the same as how email addresses work -- someone can be john_doe@gmail.com, and someone else can register john_doe@outlook.com, and the first John Doe doesn't really have any way of stopping that. John's contacts need to know that he has a Gmail address, not an Outlook address.

Lemmy hides the @lemmy.ml part at the end unless you hover over the username, and I wish it always showed the full thing, because hiding it makes it easier to impersonate people. That isn't really a big problem right now, though, since Lemmy is still too small to have a problem with impersonation accounts. But imagine if you got an email and it just said "from john_doe," no @gmail.com after it. Hopefully Lemmy changes that soon.

If I'm concerned about other people in the fedi being 'me' should I get fomo on those ids?

I don't think it's worth worrying about that. Plus, it won't even be possible to worry about it eventually. While there are only a few Lemmy-like sites right now, eventually, like email, there could be thousands.

(maybe just a different view of the same data?)

That's actually really good way of describing how the fediverse works. We are all looking at the same conversation, but reading it from different servers that are providing us with their own graphical interface for that conversation.

The reason you see ask_lemmy posts when you visit kbin is because kbin users can also see lemmy posts. Similarly, you can see kbin posts. Anyone with a Mastodon account can post and reply to both kbin and lemmy threads, too.

but I dont know where or how to interact or if I am already by being on lemmy.

The thread you're posting in right now is coming from kbin, but you are replying to it from your lemmy account. So I think you're already doing the thing you described, maybe without even realizing it.

I got into them a couple years ago, but have still only played pretty casually now and then against the CPU. I bought Street Fighter 6 this week and have been enjoying it.

Dead Cells and Neon White are two recent favorite for me. I played on PC, but I assume the PlayStation and Switch versions are the same.

Looks like they're both on sale for PlayStation right now, too.

Very cool! What kind of services does Fast Forward give you?

I'm asking because beehaw.org has mentioned that storage space is an issue for them. I saw a post where one of the admins said he was concerned that media-heavy communities (e.g. sharing gameplay clips) could be a problem for their instance. And the admins of lemmy.ml have just outright said "we're full."

Does fastly give you storage space?

Keychron Q8, which has an Alice layout. I like the layout; it feels pretty familiar since my two previous daily drivers were ortholinear. I switch between the Alice and ortholinear keyboards often, too.

I think I'm not crazy about the switches, though. I got it with Gateron G Pro Reds, which are linear, pre-lubed, and maybe just a little too light for my taste. It's my first and only keyboard with linear switches, and I bottom out too hard on each keystroke. It's a little uncomfortable on the fingertips after a while. I'm trying to adjust how much pressure I use when typing, which is a hard habit to change.

I've seen a few people mention fighting games on here (e.g. Street Fighter). I'd be interested in that. The number of gameplay clips people would be sharing make me think it ought to be its own instance, though.

Also:

• pens, fountain pens
• mechanical keyboards
• watches

Some communities have been created for those, but don't seem to have gained much popularity.

Related question: does Lemmy allow admins to specify how long to keep media from other instances? Does it get automatically deleted after some time?

The library system near me has a music streaming service with local artists' music: hum.slcpl.org. I've found some good albums through that.

It's using a propriety server application called musicat. My hope is that someday more libraries start doing the same thing using Funkwhale, a fediverse alternative.