had an ‘oh shit what did they do’ moment about the game since i own it on steam, but then i realized the game company is participating in the anti-xbox boycott and is fine

https://www.polygon.com/news/554879/bds-palestine-israel-xbox-microsoft-boycott-candy-crush-minecraft-call-of-duty

they know microsoft is huge and difficult to escape using for some people, so the boycott is targeting specifically microsoft videogames and related services, is my understanding of it

I guess he canonically dies in a videogame, which is a reason they might not bring him back

yeah thinking about my times on beaches, they tended to be areas lots of people hang out on. even when i visited the lakes, it was a spot with a bunch of homes along it.

But O’Brien said they don’t want their story to scare people away from the beaches. He has been going to beaches in that area his entire life and has only encountered quicksand twice.

I have never encountered quicksand in my life

I’ve seen a couple people play this. Is it one of those games that got way bigger way faster than the devs expected?

https://www.specialolympics.org/stories/impact/why-the-r-word-is-the-r-slur

This makes sense! I do think if someone is carrying enough love for Withers’ tits that they think they can keep a community active for a while on their own, they should go for it, though.

The traditional art community was just one person posting most of the time for ages. They aren’t doing that anymore, but that one person got it established enough that it still gets regular activity. Even if it hadn’t worked that way, there’s still a cool archive of artists I can go back through.

Ask your community members, maybe?

I lean towards “go for it! block away” but I come from a different internet culture than reddit so could never mod anywhere similar. You might get better advice from someone who’s spent more time in these spaces.

To me, It seems like chronic downvotes from nonmembers could mess up your comm’s discovery. And is mildly annoying. Not terrible, but I don’t think they need to be evil to get a community block. If you do it too much, your community might stagnate and people might start a new one. Oh well! Good luck to the new guys, imo. You might end up on PTB and get harassed. Always a risk as a mod, unfortunately.

Put “frequent exclusive downvotes from non-members gets a block to increase likelihood of community discovery by people interested in this content” on your profile. I mean, if you talk with your community members and they agree it’s an issue.

There’s a limit to how carefully you can word things to protect its meaning from people determined to read it in bad faith. I have it too - the desire to be long winded to preemptively protect myself from misunderstanding. But there’s a risk that we’ll turn everything we say into long blocks of soft useless mush. There’s no precision precise enough to be safe.

We have to, I think, decide to write for people willing to reach for us when we hold out a hand. There are enough willing to try that any general misunderstandings can be clarified with conversations other people can read if they want to understand. If enough of us are willing to do this for each other, it might be possible to build spaces where people who slap that outheld hand away don’t have to dictate conversation. And maybe we can both be less wordy.

Thank you! The wall in my brain keeping me from doing it is a bit smaller now

That sounds pretty cool, actually, that it.s protected against me breaking it. I’ve always got that worry

Is this something that’s relatively fool proof to do? I’m very good at imagining disasters. That’s the big mental block I got when I thought about dual booting before.

I’m somewhat open to the idea, but the thought of messing up and not having any computer other than my phone until i figure it out is tough to get over.

I can’t afford a new computer right now and tariffs meaning higher prices means I can’t anticipate affording one in the near future. My plan is to see where everything’s at when they stop doing updates. Unfortunately.

Feels like they’re still figuring out how they want to do this, themselves. Every now and then i’ve been visiting the art themed pixelfed to follow people with mbin, and the explore page is sometimes there and sometimes not.

Looking forward to it further down the road in development. I do wonder why these dollhouse sims are so rare, since they’re so popular.

How big is that? It’s cool!

I’ve heard of it before and considered playing it, but I have a tough time committing to play a game with sexual violence as a theme. It’s nothing against the game, which looks interesting. If anyone knows of a good let’s play for the series, I’d love to experience it in some way, even if it’s a dulled experience.

Immediately recognizable likeness. Great job!

They’re pretty strict about depictions of violence against minors, right?