Welcome back, Sethbling here

Sad, random mutations due to a limited gene pool have left the majority of the CPU population without their natural spiny deterrent. Soon, CPUs will be unable to survive in the wild as their lack of a defense mechanism makes them easy targets for predators and their populations will begin to dwindle.

My CPU is bald

I am having lots of fun with Palworld, but through GamePass because I can’t bring myself to buy it. It didn’t sit right with me that the PC GamePass version of the game is lacking features that the Steam version has. This limits me to only playing with my one Xbox friend, but I don’t feel like buying yet another early access game.

What’s up with the cheese wedge and the makeup? Is that also TikTok?

Man, I could really go for going home and playing some Minecraft right now.

I’m curious considering it’s currently at 96% positive, what about the reviews drove you away? For me, the game captured the feeling of playing Pokemon for the first time (Heart Gold) again. It was similar enough on a basic level to draw me in, but all the fundamentals and mechanics are totally different and bring a wave of fresh air to the stale Pokemon formula.

If you’ve played Pokemon on the DS and didn’t like it, this game probably won’t be your kind of thing. If you did though, Cassette Beasts has a lot going for it. It has creative monster designs, a cast of unique side characters with their own story quests, a very memorable soundtrack (including my most played song of 2023), a not-overwhelmingly-massive open world with plenty to do, and just a smidge of analog horror.

I have ~30 hours in it iirc.

It’s not great! 2023 games that I have really enjoyed this past year have been Tears of the Kingdom, Cassette Beasts, and Hi-Fi Rush.

I only ever see it on Google’s own websites (who woulda guessed) e.g. Google Earth

Don’t forget this report is for 2022, not 2023. The grant for 2023 might be closer to the 2021 level since they’re back in patron tier. I can only speculate on what their interests in Cycles is, but maybe they use Blender for making ads and such.

I’m sure their open source contributions aren’t out of charity though. They’re getting a return on their investment somehow, even if only in the things they use the projects for. I think the open source work would be a better comparison for their ActivityPub integration either way though.

There is an assumption that any changes or additions Threads may make to their implementation of ActivityPub beyond the official spec will break compatibility with other instances. It won’t though, that’s the point I was trying to make above.

Any additions they may want to make can absolutly be added on top of the existing official spec without breaking compatibility. Lemmy has downvotes but can still read comments and posts by Mastodon users. Mastodon users can post to Lemmy communities. You can see Pixelfed pictures on Kbin. Kbin posts can be read on Misskey. Misskey posts are visible on Mastodon.

All of these services have features that don’t exist elsewhere, built outside of the existing spec, but the core content is all interoperable. Anything Threads may want to add can be done without destroying spec compatibility. Sure, they could still make a change that intentionally breaks compatibility, but why would they? Theres nothing in it for them. No one who’s here is going to leave just because the Threads users are gone. The Threads users are already absent and we’re all still here.

Limited means the instance has done something not quite to the level of total defederation, but still limits the presence of Threads users. For example, making it so you can only see a Threads user if you actively search for and follow them, removing all Threads content from the global feed by default, preventing Threads users from following your users, etc.

“Fedipact” means that the admin of that instance has signed on to the informal agreement of the same name between instances that pledged to defederate from Threads preemptively.

Their 2023 report isn’t out yet, but “corporate patron” tier members contribute at least €240K/year, which is a not-insignificant amount of Blender’s total €2,170,250 in income for 2022 (page 96). According to the same report, they also contribute development work to the Cycles renderer (page 95).

I don’t think so. There are tons of ActivityPub implementations out there already that don’t even support all parts of the official spec (Lemmy can’t display attached images, for example). There are also implementations that have tacked on additional functionality beyond the official spec (again, Lemmy’s downvotes).

It’s a very flexible protocol that allows developers to pick and choose what features they want to implement in their services.

It was just the first thing that came to mind, but I know they also contribute to / fund the Blender Foundation.

I still really enjoy Beat Saber, I think it continues to improve

If you mean lemmy.world, Lemmy doesn’t display microblog posts unless they’re posted to a community, which is a confusing process. Threads isn’t fully federating right now anyway though. Even if you’re on Mastodon, you’ll only be a able to see posts from specific Threads accounts who have had federation enabled, which is mostly just a few engineers iirc.

There are lots of people on there I would like to follow, but they wont be joining the fediverse and I don’t want to make a Threads account myself either.

Why did it stop at 14h?

I thought it said Gex 😔