Another traveler of the wireways.
No reason really, and the video doesn’t suggest they’d be unable to. Its title is doing that regular clickbaity style of YouTube, but the content itself is interesting if you wondered what went into making these small games, and how some grew in size later in the NES’ existence as more was added to cartridges to enable more involved games.
In strict technical terms, yeah it’s okay, albeit with the shortcomings to be expected of a smaller development team. In terms of population and activity with this format, I think it may be at the top compared to alternatives as well.
There’s still others and other software options though for this format that people could try, which honestly may even be technically better, but lacking population/activity means they’re in an odd spot.
The first of these you’ll read about on here are likely Kbin/Mbin, possibly followed by PieFed or still-in-development Sublinks. Kbin/Mbin is definitely the runner-up in terms of federated Reddit-alternatives, as it was one of the few options available at the time people were leaving Reddit.
PieFed and Sublinks have emerged more recently with different priorities and approaches compared to Lemmy, but with the same desire to offer a federated option for people to deploy.
The last you may read about around here would be of stuff like Discuit, Lobste.rs, Raddle (and any other sites built with Postmill), Tildes, and the like, which are all most like Reddit in terms of their being stand-alone sites, unconnected to any others running the same underlying server software. However each of these, I think, may have lower population than the cumulative population of the Lemmy network of sites.
All that said, cutting to your last question: ultimately it heavily depends on the instance/site you settle into.
Lemmy isn’t a monolith, which is both its greatest strength and weakness compared to Reddit. You may be able to find a Lemmy instance/site that heavily blocks out politics and moderates lightly, but the irony of this is that it means it may have to be overly-policed to achieve that, and might appear less active in the process from heavy disconnection/defederation from any instances/sites that permit political posts/discussion.
Right now though, much of Lemmy is heavily political, and it’s arguably because of lax moderation to keep political posts/discussions to relevant communities, which is itself probably in part because of lacking moderation tools to enable lighter touches to redirect posts/discussions.
Nevertheless, it’s possibly the best option fitting the format available at the moment given the rest, but if Lemmy and federation doesn’t suit you you might check out Tildes or Discuit. Although be advised: Tildes remains invite only for now.
Links to all options/alternatives mentioned:
One last point, I swear, but if you do stick around and just want to chat about tv shows, movies, and music, I’d recommend visiting:
!moviesandtv@lemm.ee
!movies@lemm.ee
!music@lemmy.world
!casualconversation@lemm.ee
Honestly I think any general/casual discussion community would welcome posts about those subjects as well, which there are a number of across Lemmy sites to check out.
They mean it in the sense of new, hombrew NES games as I understand it, instead of new games that mimic the NES style
I think you’ll be in for a treat when you get to it!
That’s unfortunate, yet what a wicked legacy of aircraft to leave behind! The Dragonfly looks really cool and like it’d be a wild ride to fly!
Right? Also here’s how little I knew of it going in: I only knew the name of it and thought it might be an edgy show about some yakuza or something that was constantly going all out 😂
Er…I get this is a play off of the other post, but you could do that in a comment to it if you wanted instead.
As is this may as well be a duplicate post, so I’m locking it.
Thanks for looking this up! Also looking at the article’s date…This is from 7 years ago!
Also this link answers OP’s question:
“I don’t have anybody. My family is in Tennessee and I told them not to tell my son anything that’s going on,” said Fitzgerald.
Given that this isn’t a timely post at all, I don’t see much point to keeping this thread open.
But compare with GOG then. They sell games, you download them with no DRM so you own the download essentially.
This is the model digital media should take, frankly. Anything less may as well be misleading marketing, as far as I’m concerned.
You might cross-post to !entomology@mander.xyz as well, see what others there think it may be.
Thanks for this! I think I may have come across it at some point but never bookmarked it for whatever reason, corrected that now!
Surprised nobody’s mentioned Weightless ebooks or Smashwords yet. You didn’t mention region, so I can’t assure these will work for you, but worth checking out regardless to see if they may.
You might look at this intro guide from one of Lemmee’s admins, or this one from one of Lemmy World’s admins. They give decent overviews, and you can set aside the site-specific stuff where relevant, e.g. Lemmee’s image size limits.
I can’t recall the exact details, but I’ve read from some other communities talk of there being some federation slowdowns between lemmy world and other instances, so maybe this is related?
…In fact, this comment in reply to you may serve as an example of the delays, as I responded only a few minutes after yours.
It’s the site you’re on, so in your case: lemm.ee.
Instance in this situation is usually the same as website.
At a glance, Misskey and associated forks may appear to be Twitter-clones, but dig a little more and you’ll find they’re a lot more, for better and worse.
The interface is highly customizable, not just with some different colored themes nor a multi-column interface, but that you can stack page elements in columns and set up “antennae” or filters to surface posts including specified keywords and/or hashtags while excluding others via keywords/hashtags as well. There’s also what they call “channels” which I think are sort of like groups or dedicated topics apart from hashtags to post to and discuss whatever the channel topic is.
Oh, and because it seems *key wants to have a little of everything, there’s Pages, which is basically longform blog posting, and some versions include simple games. There’s also options for some other widgets I’ve not mentioned here. It’s genuinely pretty wild compared to the other federated microblogging services with how much flexibility it has and all that it has packed in.
I think the only other federated service I’ve found that’s comparable in flexibility may be Hubzilla, albeit I got the impression it’s less user friendly, but still, very customizable and a lot you could do with it.
What you did at the end can be a good approach tbh. Be curious and ask something about the post, or something in it that you’re not sure of or familiar with, or if the OP hasn’t added any body text or indications in the title and simply posted, what their opinion on it is, or if it’s like a show/story/site/product, what’s the premise or what’s up with it and what they like about it.
Also if you don’t want to focus it on the OP, in the absence of other comments, you can say as much like, “Do you (including anyone else reading) know/think [somethingsomething here]?”
Oh! They really made this from scratch! At first I thought this was going to be like a kit assembly/painting video (which are good too!), but this is more than that.
Cool!
Image description:
A cartoon sloth in the top panel looks at their to do list that has one item, “just vibe”.
In the bottom panel, the sloth is laid back with sunglasses on and a drink beside them, smiling contentedly.
This sloth knows what’s up
Pulling the background link here to save people some clicks: https://buttondown.email/ninelives/archive/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries/
With a few quotes to highlight the frustrating situation:
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