All four remaining players are very happy!

Over a million actually by now, and they got above 15 mil total.

Of course, but good luck getting those 5% of users that actually produce nearly 100% of the content to move over if their business model cannot work. And once those move, you know where all the people following them move.

Exactly. The design, the sign-up process, the colors, the formatting, it’s all very pre-Musk-Twitter.

Even the icon is reminiscent!

It’s as smooth a transition as you can make it, so no wonder people do it effortlessly.

Meanwhile in camp Mastodon: “Please pick a server” -> tab closed already

Because the mastodon evangelists are horrible.

Yeah that’s another thing, Mastodon is kinda nice, except for its userbase. :P

Because people I want to follow are on Bluesky?

(I mean, duh? Did you really need people to state that?!)

Porn doesn’t wreck your mind if you’re a sensible person?

What are we talking about here? Easily impressionable people with no frame of reference? They’re susceptible to everything. Well-adjusted people with prior information? They’re susceptible to neither.

This is… a bit unexpected.

Big positive things I’m seeing:

• Most of the PvP reworks.
• DRK getting physical defense and healing on C&S. I dislike the further homogenization, but as a stopgap solution this is perfect.
• Invuln timing is a godsend.
• Esuna being instant cast, although this is foreboding about how FRU will work…

Weird/negative things I’m seeing:

• Why would they remove GNB-identity. This was the thing we’re known for, and it’s not like it hurts anybody but ourselves since we’re invulnerable.
• Dragoon was already more or less the easiest and least hectic melee DPS to play, even more so than Viper. I mean sure, as a result this doesn’t truly change much, but it also feels so unnecessary.
• Healers get mostly shafted and forgotten, as per usual.

It sounds like they actually control quite a lot.

Turns out, when you do something clearly not okay and then actively go and taunt the people who could sue you for it with it, they might just, you know, do that. Since you actually went and asked them about it.

Same, and honestly, that’s enough for now. It already cuts out a giant portion of the footprint and I got so many other things to worry about, I can work on finding replacement cheese that isn’t a joke later.

Usually this indicates that the drainage cycle is repeated again and again as the wash is still “too wet”.

Could have all kinds of reasons, check the drain sieve in particular, mine had this silver “sheen” clogging everything that was packed and hardened bits of plastic and fibre mushed together.

Yeah it’s the same when people say this about FFXIV, which does have an extensive money-shop for extra mounts/animations/skins/etc.

They’re pricey as hell, but at the same time the only thing you ever might feel pressured into getting are:

• Fantasia (character do-overs) after enough years because you feel like you’ve seen enough of this face and want another one and want to finally become a cat-girl like everybody else is! The game does however give you two for free, and we’re soon getting a third one, at least temporarily.
• Character boosts if your friends are being assholes and berate you for not skipping the story (seen it happen) and it starts to get to you, instead of what 99% of the community does which is the exact opposite and encouraging everyone to take their time however many many months that might be. 😅

Truly interesting stuff in there.

Did not expect as much QoL, and in particular the set-feature sounds cool. Bit annoying that there’s no automated transition but eh, single-time process.

Someone owned a patent for minigames on the loading screen which is why we did not get thise after Broken Sword. At least that expired, so now for example we got Mario Party Jamboree doing it again.

I would agree, but I’m still frantically thinking whether I actually agree and whether I should be expressing that publicly!

Awww, it’s trying its best!

Fully agreed! And while we’re at it, get rid of Power Pivot!

Probably, yes? Printed paper is quite cheap, compared to sticker material. Negligible as the per-square-meter cost of both is, and how many more stickers you get out of one.

Obviously the former. In fact, it’s 1440p/165Hz right now, and I have 0 intent to increase resolution further since modern unoptimized games already struggle with this.

Pretty obviously false, and I’d genuinely question the social and intellectual capabilities of anybody who truly believes this - originally sarcastic - phrase.