It’s not technically what you mean, but during the first Doctor Strange film he gets injured and teleports himself to a Hospital. I seem to recall he gives a diagnosis of himself to Christine Palmer while he is in his spirit form, since his body is dying.

I bought one but didn’t have a data plan. Jumping from WiFi to WiFi still felt like magic. It was a laptop that fit in my pants.

I agree 100%.

Honestly it can start small, just be somewhere where harmless friendly interactions can happen. Walking around, at the store, just doing mundane things.

Then more social at bars, or schools, or even churches if that’s their vibe.

So the community (users) can move, but I just realized that when an instance shuts down the community (posts) limps on, preventing the community (posts) from actually dying and the community (users) from moving on.

For instance, if you asked me, a lemmy.world user about [email protected] I would see, https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

But if you ask a sh.itjust.works user they see, https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected]

And lemmy.ml users see, https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]

We all see different versions of the same community (posts).

I think https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4619 would fix this.

Re Concentration I’m not concerned that it is as of yet a problem. However I do think it is also a larger problem for Mastodon and other user-centric platforms than it is to Lemmy and other community-cetric platforms.

If a Mastodon user wants to leave their server there are migration pains. If your server makes a controversial change, you may have to migrate. As a follower if something goes wrong I have to remember that I was following Ada & Bob, but maybe Bob now goes by Bobby.

However as a Lemmy user I can just abandon my server and be done with it. If my server makes a controversial change, I can just leave. As a community follower can watch as Star Trek Memes becomes Risa, or Risa becomes Ten Forward. The names changed completely but it’s easy to find my community again.

I agree but that is what Twitter seems to have done and for some reason it’s still around. Dying, but still around.

It’s also a (US) election year, which tends to just be crazier than normal. It’s possible Reddit is tweaking things, but it’s also possible that election years bring out the worst in people. I definitely noticed a change back in 2016, less in 2020 but also COVID made everything weird.

There is also the obvious exodus of users in the past year. I’m not saying it’s a lot in terms of numbers, and I’m sure they were replaced, but I suspect some shift in demographics.

Also Twitter. Twitter had a huge rage problem before Muskrat took over, but now it is soooooo much worse. For some reason people don’t leave and then I’m sure carry over that rage to other sites.

It’s a game I wanted to enjoy, and I had some amount of fun, but ultimately it just fell flat.

The Ori games were so much better while following the same basic gameplay, but Hollow Knight gets all the extra attention. I do think Hollow Knight is bad, it’s just a game that is ok, and by the next game will be enjoyable after they iron everything out.

The other possibility I assume is that there is something Souls-like about the game that I don’t get. I’ve only played DS3 and I found it boring quickly. I understood what the game wanted me to do, but I wasn’t having fun doing it. Maybe some folks do, but not for me.

Hollow Knight.

I played for probably a dozen hours or so, beat a few bosses and then just hit a boss I couldn’t beat. (Don’t recall which.) I would get to the boss and die almost immediately. Then I’d be sent back to a far away checkpoint. I’d slog back to the boss, and die. Repeat again.

I’ve played plenty of games like this. I get at some level that’s the point. The problem is that I wasn’t enjoying the game. I wasn’t making progress. Just repeating the same over and over again.

I’ve played and loved similar games. Super Meat Boy & Celeste? Excellent. Ori and the Blind Forest/Will of the Wisps? Top games.

By all accounts I feel like I should like Hollow Knight… but I just don’t feel they got it right.

Lol I’m the opposite. I won’t allow KOTOR slander. Don’t give a fuck about Mass Effect, you can trash it.

KOTOR had a great story and I was finally in the Star Wars universe, just flying around and exploring the universe.

I do admit the early part of the game is a bit slow, but once I was jumping from planet to planet it was awesome.

(Come to think of it I found Mass Effect equally boring when I started it. If it had been Star Wars I probably would have stuck with it, but since it wasn’t I just found it boring.)

Lots of things are illegal in China, I’m confident many (all?) do have this level of cultural awareness. The great firewall is good, but not perfect.

Because his name is “Володимир Зеленський”, but neither you nor I know how to pronounce that so it is converted to “Volodymyr Zelenskyy” or a slight variation since there isn’t a direct translation or there are multiple translations.

Different news outlets have different rules, so some articles spell it differently.

An airplane engine.

I’m on an airplane.

What the family did to Di is disgusting but it can not be invalidated by anyone. This isn’t a zero sum game.

If the royal family does something good, you applaud them. If they do something bad, you shame them (or hold them accountable legally depending on the issue.)

I’m not asking for a high bar here. If Princess Catherine has a cancer diagnosis, I wish her a speedy recovery and her family well. If your family member has a cancer diagnosis, I wish them a speedy recovery and your family well.

If some crazy pharma bro has a cancer diagnosis, I wish them a speedy recovery and their family well. I do hope they learn from their experience but my original statement stands.

will the rich show the same concern towards the regular or poor folk?

Princess Diana did for those with HIV/AIDS. I don’t mean to say Princess Catherine can be compared to Princess Diana, but they are both Princesses of Wales.

I 100% agree with reforming the medical system, but I don’t think being antagonist against Kate Middleton is helpful.

Human being is still a human being.

A cancer diagnosis is still a terrible thing.

I’m amazed and so glad to read this. This is basically my exact strategy.

I watch the newer episodes (I’ll have seen them enough eventually) and I turn my screen nearly off (almost no backlight plus a filter).

I switch up the shows sometime, but if I need sleep it’s Futurama.

Oh I feel your pain.

I was in a video rental store, saw “Mario is Missing”, and like you assumed it was a sequel to “Super Mario World”.

Got home to play it and was just flabbergasted. I don’t think I played for more than an hour before complaining to my parents. Luckily they’re nice people and they had more errands to run that day. So back out we go, back to the video store we end up, time for me to pick a new game to rent.

Oh, “Mario’s Time Machine”, now that’s a Mario sequel guaranteed to be fun.

Mario and I were not on good terms for a long while after that.

(For those not in the know, “Mario is Missing” in an educational Mario game about geography, think Carmen Sandeigo but not fun. “Mario’s Time Machine” is basically the same game, but time.)

It’s bulletproof not soupproof.