Rebel Galaxy is an exploration/open world-ish space game with weird controllers but a pretty fun gameplay. You get to fine-tune different classes of ships with a variety of weapons, shields, engines, etc. while completing missions to earn money and earn reputation with different factions.

It’s basically Sid Meier’s Pirates, but in space and with a modern look. I found it highly entertaining.

If you answer “yes”, you just might be repeating the whisper of a demon."

So, wait… people who have a competing world view from yours are listening to demons? Now who’s naive? xD

the articles from The Verge seem to be very favorable towards the protestors

Because that’s what’s driving traffic for them right now. Let’s not forget that The Verge is also a soulless corporate entity. Peters has been doing a good job at covering the issues, but he wouldn’t be allowed to be as thorough if the topic and angle wasn’t a good driver of traffic.

I want to speak with Spez’s manager!

Seems like we found turtle’s ball licker’s Kbin account!

The Steam version does say it has local co-op, although I’ve never tried it.

Fantastic game. I got 2/3s into my first campaign and then my laptop got fried, along with my save. It’s such a cool game, and I love the fact that you can try the most absurd shit to complete tasks on it, and it will either succeed or fail spectacularly xD

Too bad they don’t seem to be federating. Just tried signing up to that specific community from Kbin, but it doesn’t show the content. Oh well, gonna keep my eye on it, regardless.

There are admins who are listed as mods in some subreddits, even if they probably don’t do any moderation these days. Spez is a mod of r/HighQualityGifs, for example.

Snowboarding hasn’t been mentioned yet.

Anyone who wants to do it somewhat seriously has their own pair of boots, from a reputable brand. Renting, or buying used boots is for rookies.

Also, there’s the high-end boards from brands like Burton, Jones and Capita, which will actively try to kill anyone who doesn’t know how to ride well.

Think of it as the people in Lemmy being Outlook users, and the people on Kbin being Gmail users. They’re just different flavors of the same thing (Reddit-like link aggregators, in this case).

And, as you already know, as a user of one you can interact with the other, and vice versa.

Honestly, as a kid, the first time I beat the Elite Four in the original Pokemon Blue. I felt like I could accomplish anything, at that moment xD

This was my first thought, too. That game is so incredible, and the suicide mission is such a wonderful way to bring it all together.

Just a note for OP, June is the sixth month, and you wrote 7 in the title xD

As far as what I’m reading, I’m starting ‘Noble Roots’, by Drew Hayes, one of my favorite authors. The book is part of an RPG-lit series that it’s really fun and interesting. I’m not quite sure of where it’s going, but I’m enjoying the ride so far. The first book is called ‘NPCs’.

Great series!

As a Mexican, I am very disturbed by this question. It’s not stupid (that doesn’t exist in this community), it’s just disturbing xD

No, a tamale is not a noodle. Noodles don’t have fillings, are longer, and thinner. It’s like asking if ravioli is a noodle.

m/AskKbin is entertaining, and there’s obviously m/news. I’ve also subscribed to m/fediverse, to keep up with news specific to that.

And if I’m allowed a little self-promotion, check out m/snowboarding, if you’ve ever been curious about strapping a piece of wood to your feet and flinging yourself down a mountain xD

From the top. I don’t even have to look at a mirror. Just line up the collar and eyeball it. No particular reason why I do it that way, though. I guess it just felt more natural.

Yup. Agree with everything OP said. Been saying it since last week. The 48-hour blackout wasn’t going to kill Reddit. Hell, if all 8,000 subreddits had gone with indefinite blackouts, it likely wouldn’t have killed Reddit either. The fallout from Reddit’s decisions, and their response to the community, is going to take months, and probably even years, to really be visible.

I’ve been on Reddit for more than 10 years. I started using Reddit regularly after Digg went to shit. I’ve seen the drama, controversies, and protests that previously have taken place on Reddit. But what’s been going on the last couple of weeks, I haven’t seen before. As I mentioned in another comment, this is the first time I’ve seen a concerted effort to find alternatives, not just for a few undesirables (i.e. Voat), but for the community as a whole.

Yeah, the communities here are not going to be nearly as active as they were on Reddit, but people want communities, and just having a friendly place to gather will be enough to slowly attract others.

I don’t remember seeing a single person objecting.

Depends on where you look, I suppose.

We did a poll in r/snowboarding (a subreddit that it’s in its off-season, and currently just frequented by our most “loyal” users) about whether to continue the blackout, and after two days of voting, it was literally a 50-50 split, and the majority of the comments were against the blackout. On the week before the blackout, the vast majority of support was there for the 48 hour blackout. If we’d done that same poll in February, I have a feeling that the majority would have voted to not continue the blackout. In that sense, I don’t think spaz is too far off the mark.

What the lying piece of corporate crap is ignoring is the fact that alternatives have grown considerably, traffic has gone down, and entire mod teams are quitting in protest. Reddit is going to be around for many many years, but this is the first time that I see a true push to create something different, not just for a few undesirables (i.e. Voat), but for the larger community in general.