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What are you playing this weekend? (2023.07.21) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Making my way through FF16. According to the PS5 dashboard completion percentage I'm at about 70% complete right now. So I might be able to finish over the weekend, but having a six-year-old at home might make that harder to accomplish.

Either way, I'm really enjoying it despite it being absolutely archaic in terms of its actual game design. It's really carried by its presentation, soundtrack, and decent story. They've arguably stripped away too much of what typically defines a Final Fantasy game here, but I'm still having a great time by just choosing to appreciate what it does do well.

[WINNER: OPTION B] Choose Voyager's icon! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It's B all day. Close the polls because it ain't even close.

The Bridgelands by Chris Bradley in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Daaamn. The lighting and thick atmosphere in this picture are sublime. I want to go there.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They absolutely did. So much more room for air/sound to flow through those speakers in CRTs. That's why most people resort to sound bars at a minimum to get halfway decent sound for today's flat panel televisions. You just can't fit powerful speakers into them.

What android client do you use? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've tried them all, and as of right now Connect feels the most polished and feature rich. So that's my recommendation.

Soon 80000 active per day. Help by inviting friends to lemmy :) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Another hot tip: don't refer to people as "normies."

Why do i "fear" nostalgic,old,familiar things? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nostalgia is really interesting in that it's inherently bittersweet. It's nice because it grounds us in a shared timeline and focuses on mostly positive aspects of some past point in time, but it's also sad because it means thinking back fondly on a time that will never be again.

So maybe it's the bitter half of that bittersweet feeling that you're subconsciously averse to? Either that or maybe your past/childhood was mostly negative or even traumatic? I'm no psychologist, so really I don't know what I'm talking about.

Dead Malls - A place for photos, videos, and discussions related to dead or dying malls. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An empire that we lived in and got to experience when it was thriving. That's why dead malls in particular have a distinctly bittersweet feeling to them. Those of us who frequented malls in the 80's and 90's can vividly remember when they were filled with people, commerce, and social activity. They were such lively social spaces back then, so seeing them slowly succumb to the ravages of time and fade into irrelevancy is both sad and fascinating.

Dead Malls - A place for photos, videos, and discussions related to dead or dying malls. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Nah. It's morbidly interesting IMO.

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Arcade Sticks/Fightsticks - Discuss and share media related to the most niche and expensive gaming controllers around (lemmy.world)
 

Do you like paying hundreds of dollars for a huge controller that you only use for a small handful of gaming genres? You do? Then this is the community for you!

Arcade Sticks/Fightsticks Community (Lemmy.World)

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After subscribing, feel free to drop a pic of your arcade stick(s), custom artwork, mods, etc. Customization is half the fun with arcade sticks, so show them off.

Anyone else still rocking the 351V? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yep. Still have my black one with AmberElec installed. I love everything about it other than the display's somewhat muted colors and mediocre battery life.

Me browsing Lemmy instead of Reddit in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We're so fucking cool, aren't we?

Biomedical CEO believes it’ll soon be possible for same-sex couples to share biological children in c/[email protected]
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PSA - Arcade Sticks are great for genres other than fighting games (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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One of the reasons I chose to name this community Arcade Sticks rather than Fightsticks is because these controllers are great for more than just fighting games. Any game that has roots in arcades or otherwise features arcade-inspired gameplay can benefit from the precision and snappiness of a nice arcade stick (including modern leverless variants).

Personally, I tend to use mine a lot when playing bullet hell shmups on my PC. Pictured in this post is my beloved Qanba Q4RAF, which is IMO the best stick that Qanba ever put out. Hell, I'd argue it's the best commercially released stick ever, but that's probably worthy of another thread sometime in the near-future...

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Progression of my ol' reliable TE2 stick over the years (lemmy.world)
 

Figured I'd kick things off in this new community with a picture showing how my Madcatz TE2 (PS4) stick has evolved over the years.

I got the Guilty Gear Xrd version when it released many years ago, and it's still what I'm using today to play GG: Strive, Street Fighter 6, and all other PS4/PS4 fighting games.

It feels fitting to post this now, as it will likely be retired/replaced in the next month or so when my first leverless stick arrives (the 2023 Snack Box Micro). I'll be sure to post a picture of that as well once I get it customized with some new artwork.

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Thumbnail previews and subscriber counts differ when connecting to a community from a separate Lemmy instance (lemmy.world)
 

Another Lemmy newbie question here.

I have subscribed to a small handful of Communities that live outside of Lemmy.world, and that worked easily enough. But I notice that when accessing them here rather than on their own servers they aren't quite in sync. Posts are in a different order or delayed when viewing them from Lemmy.world through my subscriptions, thumbnail images don't load, and the subscriber count in the sidebar is often much lower here than when viewing the Community on its host instance.

Is this intended behavior, a known issue with Lemmy, or something on my end?

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Is there any way to search for communities across all Lemmy instances? (lemmy.world)
 

This is my first day in the Fediverse, and I'm building out my sub list in Lemmy right now. I noticed that searching for Communities only looks within the instance that I'm logged into. Is there any easy way to search across all available Lemmy servers for Communities?

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