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Yeah, I don’t like that one bit tbh.

Getting upset because of the transitive property from a single mod’s user handle on anarchist.nexus is not db0 “systematically sending death threats”, though. Extraordinary accusations require extraordinary evidence.

I didn’t know about the silent bans/modlog circumvention in Piefed. That’s like, really really bad.

Yeah that sounds like moving alright, hah. Hope things settle down and quieten for you soon.

Perchance was indeed filtered out, as was “goofed” and “🥺👉👈”.

I would hardly call you a deranged lunatic. In fact, I would probably call you “feminist sex history expert”, because that’s what I’ve tagged you as hahaha (possibly unnecessary clarification: it’s a compliment).

As for the Tesseract mess, while I do of course agree that doxxing, death threats and hounding in the DMs is bad and should never happen to anyone, I feel like at this point I can’t take these accusations from him at face value. He has already argued in bad faith before and come up short on receipts.

And yeah I agree that the biggest tragedy is that there is a place for a curated experience like what he was trying to create. It was just gone about in such a bad faith way, maliciously implemented and had a block list made by someone with deranged and probably outright homo- and transphobic views on what’s acceptable.

And also, hijacking other people’s PC’s to DDOS db0 on the way out is like, an actual crime in quite a few places.

I thought it was a little quiet around here lately! I hope the move is going well!

Like the other commenter said: while being empathetic as a default mindset is generally good, there comes a point where you need to look at the body of evidence.

Yes, nobody should be getting death threats. But - much like the supposed “toxicity” of some subs he blocked such as the apparently horrible WholesomeYuri - there comes a point where he is required to show some receipts. Because several of his accusers do have them.

Also: purposefully DDOSing a server as some kind of petty revenge is just disgraceful.

It’s not disgraceful. It’s criminal, at least in a substantial amount of places. It’s not a petty lashing out, he did a crime here. Let’s call it what it is.

Ah right, I forgot that. VPNs work though, don’t they?

I think Lemmy.zip has a policy to stay federated with as much of the Fediverse as they can, so that might be an option.

In general I tend to recommend smaller, either interest-specifc or local, language-specific instances first, though, as using those lets you actually utilise the /Local feed the way it’s intended.

I have never played Factorio but I can already tell this is going to be great after the intro.

This is wild, wtf are they doin’ over there.

That is an incredible trajectory for a game, what the actual fuck?

Waking up to a world cup day without Cabo Verde in it anymore.

It’s weird that the only other real-time adventure game I know of (The Last Express) also came out in 97. Must have been something in the water around that time.

This game looks fascinating, and absolutely bizarre. I can’t say I have a strong desire to play it, but I would watch a playthrough of it.

And if you still want more there is also Chrono Ark.

Only like… a million of them? I could throw you some suggestions but narrowing it down to a few genres would probably help.

Titanium Court is probably the best game released so far this year, my frontrunner for GOTY and one of the best (or at least most interesting) games I’ve ever played. Don’t look up anything about it, just play it blind. Trust me.

Withering Rooms is a wonderful and unique action/horror roguelike made by a single person with some wonderful world building, story and and art direction. Lots of different build variety too.

Death Howl is a really cool grid-based strategy/deckbuilder. Really beautiful pixel art, too.

This is just some of what I’ve played recently, any of that strike your fancy? I can probably come up with more if you give me more to work with.

Yeah it’s a very funny game, despite also being serious a lot of the time. It’s an impressive balancing act in the writing.

The music is by a band called Sea Power, which Robert Kurvitz managed to convince make the OST! Some absolute bangers on that soundtrack, every time those horns hit when you step out of the Whirling…

It’s a wonderful game. It might appear depressing at times, but ultimately I think it’s a game about hope. Take your time with it, and don’t be afraid to be weird. This isn’t a game that punishes you for picking wacky dialogue options very often. And don’t be afraid to fail checks either, failure is a recurring theme of the game and it’s designed with a fail-forward philosophy. Some of my favourite moments actually come from failed checks.

Yeah I also prefer those. Tove Jansson was such a great writer.

And also I know that show! Well, “vaguely remember” is probably more correct. I used to watch it as a kid, but I haven’t since then. I wonder what I’d think about it nowadays.