Silently hoists the Jolly Roger…

Woot Kbin Gang! Holds the best parties by far. You get lemmings and mastodons all rocking out as Reddit burns. This occasionally gets messy (mastodons get pregnant, lemmings get flat), but damn is it fun.

Being able to follow other users makes a huge difference to content discovery - there’s a lot of immediate content you’re missing out on if you’re only on Lemmy, and Mastodon users miss out on most of the long form content and discussions.

It’s always wise to satisfy the requests of time squirrels. Keeps them away from one’s nuts.

Damn, this is so good I had to translate the lyrics:

The red trail leads into the forest
White snow

The red trail leads into the forest
White snow

Somewhere there, my fiance got lost
He met the devil even though he was baptized
The red trail leads into the forest
White snow

We were walking with him for about a month
He was completely white

Like a mysterious face in the sky
The moon was white

She wove a periwinkle into his wreath
And he asked whom I loved

Oh, we walked with him for a month
He was completely white

He hugged me so tight
Although I didn’t want to
He hugged me so tight
Although I didn’t want to

Those hugs are like the claws of a beast
And was it my fault
Who hugged me in spite of that
What I didn’t want

The red trail leads into the forest
White snow

The red trail leads into the forest
White snow

Somewhere there, my fiance got lost
He met the devil even though he was baptized
The red trail leads into the forest
White snow
White snow

Infected Mushroom

Zircon

Eskimo

No worries & thanks for the suggestion.

Pretty much, although these days a lot of folks find it more convenient to have the rules in .pdf for easy access. There’s hundreds available. Here’s a listing I had posted last night on the @13thFloor magazine I run over here on kbin - happy to crosspost if you feel it fits.

Oh boy, have I got some treats in store for you…

Question - is it just video games, or are you looking for tabletop RPGs too?

Hmm - still linking to the image, although your edit text is showing. You might try removing the image.

This shit is awesome - thanks for introducing me to their music. It looks like only the image is coming through via federation, so here’s the youtube link to the video.

You can block domains on kbin, but it’s somewhat bugged right now. It appears that blocking domains can cause posting errors if you’re creating threads or pictures, including making comments invisible on threads when you’re logged in.

To access kbin’s domain view, go to kbin.social/d/[your domain here] . You’ll have an option to subscribe to or block the instance. Example:

https://kbin.social/d/beehaw.org

“When the committee held an initial hearing on broadband permitting streamlining, including a draft of the American Broadband Deployment Act, no state or local government was invited to testify.”

If you’d like to make your feelings known on this omission and the bill in general, here are the members of that committee - clicking on a rep will give you their contact information.

I buy games based on the following tier scale:

Gameplay > Performance > Price > Expected time playing > Graphics

I agree with your point in the post, especially after playing Darktide, which chucked performance out the window for fog and lighting effects. It doesn’t matter how pretty your game is if it’s rendering at 3fps.

In my humble experience, bullshitters are the easiest people to take advantage of, because they believe they have to be open to your bullshit for you to be receptive to theirs. Skillfully used, this can be utilized into taking points of their bullshit to strengthen the stench of yours.

What’s really impressive is when you watch two seasoned bullshitters go toe to toe. Their smiles get bigger and bigger as things get more intense (threat display behavior), and the volume increases while the tone deepens as both try to appear to be “serious guys”. Eventually there’s a backslapping of the loser and a crushing handshake, along with plans to meet that will never be followed through on.

It’s very similar to how internet troll minds work. They’re literally the easiest people in the world to reverse troll, as they’re so desperate for attention that they’ll jump on any opportunity to gain yours.

EDIT: Aww - that’s cute, one of my trolls showed up to downvote me and prove my point. What’s wrong @some_guy, feeling lonely today snookums?

Agreed again. If I wanted folks IRL to know what I post, I’d be on Facebook. Reddit’s value to posters was its anonymity. Without it, there’s no reason to use it over its centralized competitors in the social media space.

I totally hear you there and agree with you re: the business choices Spez made. Reddit lost a 20 year contributor when I walked away, and even if they rolled back all the changes, I won’t be returning.

I was more looking at applying your suggestions to a fresh publishing model, as your ideas intrigued me (having run a publishing forum in the days of the early internet). I want to have a space on the internet where content creators can keep ownership of their content and get adequately paid for publishing - I think properly run, it could become a vital hub for our cultural legacy (as Reddit was, albeit clumsily and destructively). The incoming revenue is the biggest challenge, which is why I focused on that element.

Some users will pay if you have a paywall, but only if you already have a substantial amount of content they want to access. This works for a search engine crawling pre-existing content, but not so well for a forum style site like Reddit, where most of the content creation is driven by engagement with other content. If you reduce the engagement rate (aka through a paywall), you’re actually reducing your incoming content in the long run (something we’re seeing on Reddit after the blackout).

I don’t know what the ultimate solution here is, but I really do like your payout concept with Monero. If I did build another publishing attempt, it’s something I’d try to implement if I could get the incoming revenue to support it.

This reduces the minuscule interest I had in replaying Paladins to a negative number. Smite’s been nothing but frustrating garbage, but I thought that with a bit of polish and a lot more character development, Paladins had promise when it came out. Starting a labor dispute to begin a practice that will degrade the overall quality of the game means it’s not worth my hard disk space to install their products - it’s clear things are only going to get worse for Hi-Rez titles from here.

Excellent points. That being said, Reddit will never pay contributors. They have never had interest in quality of the content on the platform, only it’s engagement rate - the years of publishing subs like jailbait and The_Donald speak to that. Engagement, now that they’ve got a critical mass of users and 20 years worth of content, can be maintained with bots, sockpuppet accounts, and reposts (all of which have become the course du jour for the front page and /r/all since the API revolt began)… at least until they go IPO, after which it’s not their problem anymore.

The biggest problem with online publishing is that without that critical mass of readership, it’s very difficult to become profitable enough to pay your contributors. Reddit’s never gotten to this point, even with millions of users. It’s my hope that with contributors moving off of Reddit, we’ll see new publishing models appear that utilize some of the excellent ideas you’ve outlined above. I particularly like the suggestion of using Monero as a currency to ensure anonymity.

Tying voting to currency is an interesting idea, but I think that voting should be free, as my experience running forums is that only about 10% of your viewers will care enough to vote, and maybe 10% of those choose to post actual content. Putting a paywall in front of voting will kill engagement. However, limiting the number of free votes an account gets per day, then allowing people to buy more votes with currency, and earn currency for posting content could work very well if run correctly. The trick is balancing the actual profit you make off of the contribution with the need to pay your contributors, and here it becomes a question of determining the proper margins and payouts.

The other problem is that the only real revenue source outside of the users of the site is going to be Google Adwords or a similar platform (unless you go for ancillary streams of revenue, like attaching an e-commerce store to the site). If you charge for access to the content, you’re killing your engagement. I haven’t used Adwords for awhile now, but when I did the payouts were absolutely abysmal (like less than a penny per click). They were so bad that it wasn’t even worth dedicating the visual real estate to put up the ads.

Ultimately, this is the same challenge traditional publishing has had for a long time. It’s generally unprofitable unless you have a runaway hit or ancillary streams of revenue (like syndication deals with other media types) - most of the actual content almost never makes money, which is why so much of our traditional media is paid for by advertising and subsequently controlled by corporate interests.

Goddamn it. I knew my Tardis was malfunctioning after that last crash into the #BBC. Apologies everyone - gotta flush the quantum improbability matrix again before I untangle the timelines. By the way, if anyone happens to spot a thylacine with a spiked collar roaming around London, please let me know. He answers to the name of Cryptodile Dundee and likes kangaroo niblets.

No more Githankypanky?