Astrovenator

joined 1 year ago
[–] Astrovenator@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Barely a week in and we all get an awesome example of why decentralisation is a good thing

[–] Astrovenator@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

It's a valid point. We can't expect to be free of corporations and also expect people to maintain servers for free. Running a service costs someone somewhere, and running a massive service can't easily work relying on just donations. I'd be happy to pay a small monthly/yearly fee to a nonprofit to guarantee an independent server, rather than to be a product to be traded.

[–] Astrovenator@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think it's just that the whole concept of shooting/ gunplay really lends itself to the first person viewpoint. Another example is racing games or flight sims. Plus, aiming/ shooting is a great example of easy to pick up, hard to master skills in both games and real life. So I think it's just a natural use of the technology

[–] Astrovenator@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Good, I almost took an interest in my family last week

[–] Astrovenator@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Mastodon let's you do exactly this, I think lemme should too

[–] Astrovenator@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I too have landed on lemmy world. Seems nice here. I've noticed a lot of timing out over on lemmy.ml lately, seems they're getting dogpiled lol

[–] Astrovenator@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

For sure, we've been spoiled by by VC-funded slick polished apps for too long. If we want freedom from coporate control we gotta accept some jank.

[–] Astrovenator@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hi. I just got here too. The app is bad and it's a little quiet but it seems to be full of nice folk. It's got that feeling of starting fresh.

[–] Astrovenator@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I sank so so many hours into OW1 in the first two years... I barely touched OW2. Its a hollowed out, soulless imitation of the original. Fuck what Blizzard has become.

[–] Astrovenator@lemmy.world 85 points 1 year ago

Wow it really IS like Twitter!

[–] Astrovenator@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Joined! I'll post some of my mediocre art there for content

[–] Astrovenator@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same. What's kinda nice is that unlike reddit there aren't a hundred posts saying what you wanted to say already, so you don't feel like you are being drowned out

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