mnemonicmonkeys

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mnemonicmonkeys,

as it will lead to profit making the calls eventually.

Unfortunately it’s not even this. A company can be perfectly profitable and still be sued by shareholders for not making them money. This is because the leeches shareholders only want to see short-term growth at any cost so they can dump the stock 2 quarters later at a profit

mnemonicmonkeys,

I think most companies shouldn’t try to expand indefinitely. You can be perfectly profitable without growing. Unfortunately, public shareholders don’t actually care about company profits, only growth, becaue that’s what makes the shareholders rich

mnemonicmonkeys,

Honestly, I think trying to disable public stock trading altogether is the real solution. You can have a healthy, profitable company without constant growth, but shareholders want growth even if that means the health and profitability of the company suffers as a result

HornofBalance, to games
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Horn of Balance - an indie 2D zelda-like

I'm developing 'Horn of Balance', a 2D zelda-like featuring 12 non-linear dungeons, 2 interconnected worlds and a TON of secrets.

Right now, the project is live on Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hornofbalance/horn-of-balance) and we've almost hit the funding goal with just 24 hours left!

There's also a free demo on Steam (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2738140/Horn_of_Balance/) and Itch.

I'm happy to answer any questions you might have!

@games

mnemonicmonkeys,

Uh huh. That’s what Palworld said.

And Nintendo still hasn’t filed a lawsuit against them, despite years of development time, millions of copues downloaded, and millions made in profit

mnemonicmonkeys,

They don’t need to if the assets are just similar instead of straight-up copies

mnemonicmonkeys,

Now post it on Facebook or Reddit

mnemonicmonkeys,

while Lemmy participation has fallen off noticeably and continues to decline.

Fediverse Observer says otherwise: lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats

Active users have been steady since the Reddit migration, posts and comments per day each dipped but bounced back and currently growing.

mnemonicmonkeys,

Someone else mentioned Revolt.chat higher in the thread and it seems to be a promising FOSS replacement for Discord. It’s looking to fix some of Matrix’s issues like not having voice channels (voice calls on Matrix aren’t the same)

mnemonicmonkeys,

The Discord server I spend the most time on is constantly looking for alternatives in case something better pops up or we need a backup.

mnemonicmonkeys,

MAUs peaked months ago and are trending down now.

Completely false claim if you look at the source in my previous comment. And no, I’m not looking at it wrong. MAU have been going up every month this year.

If you disagree with my assessment, then actually explain how it’s wrong. Don’t just claim I’m wrong without elaborating.

mnemonicmonkeys, (edited )

Are you only looking at the last 6 months or something? Zoom out to take into account the entire migration from reddit (since that is the topic of this thread). The MAUs peaked last year and the overall trend since has been downward since.

Yes, I’m only looking at the last 6 months, because everyone already knew that the Reddit migration was a freak event. There was going to be a big influx of users followed by many of the new users leaving as things stabilize. Because of that, you have to filter out the Reddit migration and following 2-3 months to get a proper view on the trend of Lemmy’s userbase numbers. And from that data it’s slowly trending upwards, which is a good position to be in.

Whether they are slightly up over a few recent months is not actually relevant to anything I said, nor does it disprove the claiim that Lemmy is dying.

It is objective fact that it has declined and your own data proves it. The overall trend is downward.

By the logic you’re running off of, I can look at Lemmy’s entire history and conclude that it’s trending upwards because the MAU started out at 0 and it’s currently around 113k. You have to put an appropriate range on data or you end up with nonsense conclusions.

You ate trying to cherypick statistics here to push a narrative that anyone can clearly see is false if they just compare the height of Lemmy during the migration when it was the supposed “reddit killer” vs what it is today. It is objective fact that it has declined and your own data proves it. The overall trend is downward.

If you actually look at the numbers in my source, the peak MAU after the Reddit migration was 115k, while it’s grown back to 113k as of last month. That’s less than a 2% difference, with consistent growth over the past 6 months. Not only that, comments have gone up a lot in comparison to MAU, meaning that those users are also growing more active. These are the objectively factual statistics that you’re harping on about, and they point to Lemmy being a in good spot growth-wise.

You are essentially the equivalent of a climate change denier, pretending there is no temperature increase by zooming right in on the most recent data instead of looking at the bigger and more relevant picture.

And here is the unprovoked ad-hominem attack. Dude, you’re the one who tossed out a false claim with no data to back it up, and took it personally when someone asked you to back up your claims with a source and a decent argument.

But since you’ve already brought out the mud-slinging, I’ll bring my own: you’re behaving like the gamers that claim a single-player game is dead and therefore bad simply because the active playerbase has dropped after two months. Grow up.

mnemonicmonkeys,

The Lemmy data proves this - a minority of people may react in the heat of the moment but over time they will migrate back to the platform that everyone else is using.

Except it doesn’t. Whole sole people dropped off after 2-3 months, most of the active users stayed here.

Whether or not Lemmy has had a slight uptick in growth over the last couple of months was never the point I was making

You were claiming the Lemmy was dying and hemorrhaging users. That’s what I responded to, because the data shows otherwise.

If you make 3 claims in a thread and I refute claim #2, my response isn’t invalidated just because I didn’t address your other 2 points.

if you’d actually bothered to read my original comment or used your brain

Again, you’re over-relying on ad-hominem attacks. If you’re going to be like this you may as well go back to Reddut

mnemonicmonkeys,

Lol, ok. Keep telling yourself that

mnemonicmonkeys,

Dude, you really need to go touch some grass

mnemonicmonkeys,

They tell all of their users that they must have a legitimate physical copy of Pokemon Firered, which is what PokeMMO was hacked from

mnemonicmonkeys,

Kotaku hasn’t been known for journalistic integrity for years. I’m honestly surprised and disappointed it took this long for their views to tank

There is one uncleared level remaining in Super Mario Maker, with 18 days to go before the servers shut down (www.issmmbeatenyet.com)

UPDATE: Ahoyoo has confirmed that Trimming the Herbs was uploaded with TAS tools, meaning that The Last Dance was the final legitimate level all along! Congrats to kazeihinn on the Last First Clear! The journey continues in Super Mario Maker 2…...

mnemonicmonkeys,

Piracy is ethical

mnemonicmonkeys,

I do the same with Pop! OS. Does anyone know when KDE 6 will roll out there?

mnemonicmonkeys,

Are you sneaking it into the theater in your pockets?

mnemonicmonkeys,

I never liked Gavin, but I never pegged him as a racist. Not sure if I should feel vindicated

mnemonicmonkeys,

You’re missing that the Yuzu repository was not DMCA’d. The Yuzu team took down their own repository, most likely as part of the settlement

Epic Games reportedly hit by 189GB hack, including login and payment info (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

The report comes from Cyber Daily, who also broke the news of last year’s confirmed hack attack on Insomniac Games. The site claims that new ransomware group Mogilevich are the culprits, as per the screencap of a darkweb posting above, and that the hackers are now trying to get Epic or another party to pay up for the return of...

mnemonicmonkeys,

At least that’s how it’s supposed to be. You’re really not supposed to store card info yourself.

Don’t forget that we’re talking about a company that took 3 years to add a shopping cart to their store

mnemonicmonkeys,

*loses

Also, I feel the same

How Do You Deal With Thumb Stick Drift? (lemmy.world)

So I like to use Xbox controllers (doesn’t matter if it’s first- or third-party) because I like the layout, it’s just comfortable to me. However I’ve noticed that on all my controllers in the past few years, the left thumb stick will start to “give out” over the course of a couple months. For instance I’ll be...

mnemonicmonkeys,

I like my Gulikit Kong Pro controller. It has an xbox-style layout when you swap around the face buttons and has hall effect sensors

What game do you recommend someone who likes the mechanics but not the setting of Baldur's Gate 3?

I saw people going on about how great BG3 is on this site, so I thought I’d check out a let’s play to see what all the fuss was about. I immediately fell in love with the graphics and the mechanics, such as the classes, races, spells, dice etc, but I disliked the emphasis on gore/horror in the game, and I know I wouldn’t...

mnemonicmonkeys,

To be pedantic, PF1 is lightly modified 3.5E. 2nd Edition is rather different

mnemonicmonkeys, (edited )

With the grammar in your comment, I don’t think you should be the one throwing shade.

mnemonicmonkeys,

Lol, yeah. Been having trouble with my phone’s keyboard for years now

mnemonicmonkeys,

Defending someone for behaving like a toxic Redditor

As compared to the person that decides to just randomly talk shit about a country despite the conversation having nothing to do with that? Or compared to the person getting made at the user pointing out their hypocrisy?

Being an ass on forums should never be tolerated, let alone excused. I was pointing out hypocrisy.

You’re the one getting mad about that. If I’m being an ass, then you’re being a bigger one.

You don’t know their native language, situation nor do you know their cognitive condition at the time.

So it’s fine to be an ass on a forum so long as you have Covid? Or did you mean it’s only okay if you’re going off topic to take random pot-shots at western nations?

mnemonicmonkeys,

You go off topic to throw shade, yet pointing out your hypocrisy makes me the jerk? Sure, buddy.

Also, being sick doesn’t magically give you a pass. Same with being drunk, high, etc.

mnemonicmonkeys,

drunk or high to COVID, is apples and oranges and ya know it bud.

You’re right. People are way more lucid when they have Covid, so they have less of an excuse

mnemonicmonkeys,

Except it’s still not available on mobile

mnemonicmonkeys,

They can barely make AAA A these days though

FTFY

mnemonicmonkeys,

And don’t put Enigma DRM in them

mnemonicmonkeys,

They’re finally giving a score below 7 lol

mnemonicmonkeys,

TBF, she did go on a tirad against players when the game was getting ciriticized. I found it weird that she took the criticism of the game’s writing so personally despite her not being one of the writers.

Keep in mind that I’m not excusing the death theats. That shit isn’t okay. I’m just pointing out why she may have been targeted for harassment.

mnemonicmonkeys,

They are as disposable as you want them to be. I personally try to take good care of my pals

mnemonicmonkeys,

I hope the devs add a way to release the pals withou the butcher knife. My box is starting to fill up and I need space

mnemonicmonkeys,

I don’t think anyone’s fed up with Hollow Knight

Yet. Silk Song has been delayed so long I’m betting it’ll be like Duke Nukem Forever and piss off the entire fanbase

mnemonicmonkeys,

Don’t forget collecting user data for ads and selling to other companies

mnemonicmonkeys,

They’re similar because they’re based on the same real-world animals. And they’re no more similar to Pokemon than the examples of Pokemon ripping off designs from Dragon Quest

mnemonicmonkeys,

that doesnt make it taste bad.

No, that’s just the preservatives

mnemonicmonkeys,

From what I hear, that’s par for the course with most Japan-focussed websites

mnemonicmonkeys,

Tbf, they’ve hit gold with this release. They’re probably flooded with cash now and will likely get much more if they keep working on it

mnemonicmonkeys,

Looks like Steam Machines might make a comeback

mnemonicmonkeys,

Apparently the GamePass version is like 4 updates behind the Steam version. According the the developer this is because of Microsoft’s certification process taking multiple weeks

mnemonicmonkeys,

Also Pokémon Arceus was still empty and boring

mnemonicmonkeys,

Not even remotely the same level of empty. In Palworld there’s 10-100x times the density of creatures and resources. Plus Palworld just looks better than Pokemon Arceus and also doesn’t resort to fog to hide things popping into existence

mnemonicmonkeys,

Ok? Then go play Ark and leave the rest of us alone

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