Even though I’m not a furry, I’m like 90% sure I regularly “engage in anthropomorphic behavior”. I probably would have been more confident before I saw this, but now I’m wondering if I’ve been misunderstanding that word for as long as I can remember.

Why can’t anyone make a decent monster collecting/battling game? The closest one to being good that I’ve played is Cassette Beasts. It shouldn’t be this hard.

Monster taming games are kind of my niche (although I’m not particularly interested in playing Palworld). Yo-Kai Watch 3 is the best I’ve played. Ni No Kuni (the first one, I haven’t played the second) is also really good. Those are both big studio games.

Of the indie games I’ve played, Monster Sanctuary has the best gameplay. The game mechanics are well-designed, rewarding, and very respectful of your time. The main drawback is that the story is not engaging at all. (Also the art style is not super memorable.) The studio that made it has a new game in the works which will be called “Aethermancer” that looks better graphically, if they get a better writer that could be really great.

Nexomon Extinction is another good indie game which is on the exact opposite end of the spectrum. The actual gameplay is somewhat lackluster, but the dialogue and story are fantastic and make the game worthwhile.

You mention Cassette Beasts, that one is solidly in between the other two. The gameplay and the story/dialogue are both pretty good. I feel like it gets the most fanfare out of the three and I have milked a good bit out of the game, but I actually like the other two better in spite of their flaws. The aspects they excel in make them memorable games. Cassette Beasts felt fun enough to kill time and had some innovations, but just didn’t make a lasting impression on me.

Asking in the megathread because I don’t know the better place, sometime I’m logged into lemmy.ml and post to hexbear and lately it’s been a crapshoot whether my comments from that account actually appear on hexbear or not. For example, here is one that went through, here is one that got blocked. There were a couple comments (this was one as an example) that had been blocked for over a month, but checking now they seem to have made their way through now long after the threads have died.

Is this a federation issue or are the posts getting flagged?

He also falsely claimed about those who died that day that “most of them died from being too excited”.

Okay but this is just great journalism.

I generally love monster tamers/pokemon clones, but I played a bit of cyber sleuth for switch and it didn’t do it for me at all. I think it was mainly that the vast majority of the monster designs I came across were visually unappealing to me, and generally seemed to get worse the stronger the monsters were. The shitty base forms were somewhat endearing, but I just wasn’t vibing with most of what came after. Part of the fun is feeling attached to your stupid creatures.

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I’ve read about the general idea behind warrant canaries before, but I’ve never actually looked at one in action so I don’t know what an issue is supposed to look like.

In the sidebar of the /c/feedback community, there’s a link to the “Hexbear Warrant Canary”. I’ve never looked at this before, but I was curious so I clicked it, and I can’t get anything to load other than “Connection timed out Error code 522”. Does this indicate that the canary is dead, or is this a purely technical error?

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My personal opinion is that making everyone as uncomfortable as possible should start with you shitting your pants today and just walking around with it fermenting until Thanksgiving rolls around. I know I’d be uncomfortable if you walked into my thanksgiving like that.

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Even reading that, I’m still not 100% confident the op quote isn’t good satire and the rest is an act to get that quote off. Like this one-liner gets the point across better than basically any shit I’ve seen anywhere. Unbelievable that he just came up with that banger while seriously believing it.

I’ve heard good things about Evans, but I can’t vouch for that myself and the book is massive.

That is one of the worst math books out there and I will never understand the fanfare it gets. Rudin barely makes any effort to motivate concepts and totally obfuscates the proofwriting process in the name of elegance, while discussing a subject which is the most accessible entry point into serious math. The people who have enough experience to absorb all of the details are almost guaranteed to be at a point where they’ll get a lot more out of basically any topic that’s not kiddie analysis. It’s like showing kindergarteners how to add by first teaching them about monoids to lead into the natural numbers and people ooh and ahh over how this is the best exposition on adding numbers they’ve ever seen.

Don’t want to overstate that though.

The dianogas in Dark Forces. I went back and played the Anoat City level when I was like twenty and it’s so silly to say but I was still scared. Like the memories of being afraid got ingrained really deeply in my brain.

Edit: I just started watching a youtube playthrough of that level and my blood pressure is going through the roof.

Yeah, I think I can literally spend a good hour or two configuring firefox on a new install. I don’t doubt it’s an easy process to automate but I can go years without needing a new linux install so I don’t care enough to learn a better way, especially when I’m going to want to configure stuff that isn’t firefox on a new install as well.

I am shocked that the uncyclopedia still exists.

The article they had on there for the holocaust was, inexplicably, the most clever mathematics humor I’ve ever seen. I just checked and it looks like they’ve done a good bit of work in ruining that article, but I looked through the edit history and found a good version of it: link

For those who don’t have a math background, the author is inventing a mathematical concept called a “political field”, which he’s just using to refer to any specific topic in politics. In the real world a field is an algebraic gadget, but he’s added a couple gags to allude to politics, such as renaming the additive and multiplicative identities to “undecided elements”, which is pretty amusing when he’s calling left and right inverses “left-wing” and “right-wing” instead. He’s then giving his invention a topology so he can talk about “open” and “closed” issues. The main joke is that the holocaust is a political topic which invites comparisons from all other extreme tragedies (hence the analogy with the math concept of a colimit), which leads the loudest voices in politics to be eager to compare their pet issues (here other political fields) to the holocaust. The spiel about “the politicomathematicians Ralph Reed and Pat Robertson” spending years trying to construct a comparison from the holocaust to abelian torsion groups (“Ab-Torsion” suggesting abortion here) by talking about incompatibility with the axiom of choice is amazing, whether theorems are compatible with the axiom of choice is a real thing in mathematics but here he’s playing on the real-life idea of being pro-choice.

10/10 article in the original edit, I’m disappointed with the awful stuff that’s been added in since then to ruin it but actually somewhat surprised that the core of it is still somewhat intact. I’m really curious about the genesis of this article because I have no clue how the author could come up with this, it’s brilliant.

You did a really good job articulating this, fantastic comment.

I’ve seen this emoji a bunch but don’t know the origin.