Not only are image posts less accessible, they're much lower effort. This community was much better when it was just structured jokes as text posts. Now it's getting posts with the less than pointless "rule" crap and it's slowly becoming yet another s#%$post community and losing what made it special.

ASAP's Fables

With the show being one of my favorites, I'm happy to say that I'm really enjoying the novels as well. That said, it keeps bugging me when the term "thrust gravity" is always used to describe something that's explicitly Newton's 3rd law - ie, not gravity. I'm probably not understanding something, but it bugs me to see a series that makes a point to be at least reasonably scientific to use a term that seems so wrong.

Side note: How come the third law missed out on natural feeling shorthand? 1st - inertia. 2nd - f=ma. 3rd - ???. Feels like something got overlooked there.

Or, even better, give multiple sorting options.

The next Bandcamp Friday is coming up and I like to look for new and interesting bands. Would love to hear about lemming artists, or even some favorites I've probably never heard of.

To add to the discussion, here are a few of my favs:

• Sincere Engineer Found them on a random fluke and they quickly became a new favorite. Garage band style with just a great sound. A bit moody, but still high energy with really satisfying lyrics. They've got a new album that I plan to pick up myself.

• Gunship Fairly well known, I think, but I picked up Unicorn shortly after it was released and listen to it front to back regularly. One of the few synthwave albums I actually enjoy. The ripping sax solos on pretty much every track certainly help.

• aivi & surasshu A married duo that is probably most well known for their work on Steven Universe (that's how I found out about them). Their most recent album Meanwhile is such a wonderful mix of digital and acoustic. Very soothing melodies without lyrics. It always puts me in a pleasant mood.

Thursday-Sunday?
Friday-Monday?
Saturday-Tuesday?

I feel like it's pretty common in fiction these days, Game of Thrones being probably the most popular example with character viewpoint changing chapter-by-chapter and gradually weaving the different threads of plot into one connected whole. It's used in movies and television constantly, too.

The oldest I'm personally aware of is Dune, more-so in Dune Messiah, which I've read for the first time recently. I presume Herbert wasn't the first, though, and have been wondering how old the technique really is. Anyone have any insight (or even good guesses) on where it started?

Noticed I got caught in a wave of bans by the mod of apologiafreenews@lemmy.world after downvoting their obvious distraction propaganda. They got pissy in the comments because their first post got heavily downvoted. So they deleted that post, banned everyone that downvoted, then posted it again to game the system. Classy. I wonder how lemmy.world admins feel about mods abusing their authority like this.

Original post: https://lemmy.world/post/45785126
New post: https://lemmy.world/post/45804062
Completely normal comment in between: https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/e8b1e023-d087-4121-941d-f2010ed1a7af.png
Ban (for 2 downvotes): https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/279c070d-936c-41c4-86ba-f767d59fca08.png

*Also, still can't block communities we've been banned from on the community page. What a joke.

I'm not sure if it's a growth issue, or if I'm just getting tired of it personally, but the spamming of identical URLs over multiple instances is getting out of hand. Even worse when I block one post for whatever reason, only to have to repeat the task upteen number of times because one or more users (usually one) "helpfully" post the link in every tangentially related community.

Instead of that, it'd be better to have the front page (all/local/subscribed) automatically group any post of an identical URL into a single "post". In essence, each new post of that URL would create a separate discussion thread to the given community, and each thread could be listed under the "main" post similar to how crossposts currently are instead of cluttering up the front page.

Just searched up info on dried ghasts and the dotwiki is listed above the fandom site. I don't think I've seen that before.

So I'm slowly learning how to us yt-dlp and I'm trying to set up a default command to check a number of channels for new videos. Currently I have it set to download the first 10 new vids of each channel, and to skip anything past a certain date, but it takes a while to get to the date information I guess, which adds unnecessary time and checks, especially for channels that don't have any vids that are new enough.

What I'd like it to do is skip the rest of the channel if it encounters a video that was published outside the given date range, but I'm not finding anything so far. Does this functionality exist? Or am I just out of luck?

My current command looks like this:

yt-dlp -t sleep -I1-10 --dateafter 20251031 --sponsorblock-remove sponsor --format "bestvideo*[filesize<3G]+bestaudio/best" --concurrent-fragments 25 --force-write-archive -o '%(uploader)s-%(upload_date)s-%(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s' --download-archive "archive.md" --batch-file "subscriptions.md"

I get and agree that more progressive candidates are a good thing, but how much unilateral power does the mayor of one city really have, even if it's NYC? Why is everyone, up to the top of the US government, chiming in on it?

I generally look forward to these little demo fests. While it's never exactly been a flood of mind blowing games, I usually find a handful of upcoming games that stand out and show some promise. This time around, though, I'm left dispirited by all the slop flooding the lists. Generated slop. Asset-flip slop. The few games that aren't I only find after wading through pages upon pages of rubbish, and then it's a crapshoot on if it seems worth downloading. I eventually gave up and don't have much interest in trying again.

I've long been a fan and supporter of the indie scene, understanding that the diamonds that make it worth it take effort to find. But if this is what we have to look forward to, I'm concerned how it'll fare as the requisite effort to sift through the dregs grows exponentially. Eventually it's just too much.

The addition of copper tools in the next update (which I'm assuming will be somewhere between stone and iron) has me wondering what the benefit is to creating tools that fit on the lower end of the already existing tier list of materials. Like, I'm glad to see copper get some actual usable recipes, but stone to iron isn't exactly a long lasting gap even with the modern ore distributions, so the use case for these new tools is fairly non-existent.

Unless...

If copper tools (and the other materials) had perks that improved gameplay in meaningful ways, there'd be a reason to keep those old tools outside of the 5 minutes it takes to get the next material (another use-case of the new shelves being added, as well). I'm not clever enough to come up with what each material should get, but I'm sure there are good ideas out there. At the very least, it would give some possibility of new materials that are more than just "mines faster/hits harder than [material we added last update]."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35826959

$6:

Game Name	Steam Link
Achilles: Legends Untold	https://store.steampowered.com/app/1314000/Achilles_Legends_Untold/
Salt and Sacrifice	https://store.steampowered.com/app/1437400/Salt_and_Sacrifice/
ELDERBORN	https://store.steampowered.com/app/727850/ELDERBORN/

$10: All above, plus:

Game Name	Steam Link
Steelrising	https://store.steampowered.com/app/1283400/Steelrising/
Asterigos: Curse of the Stars	https://store.steampowered.com/app/1731070/Asterigos_Curse_of_the_Stars/

$16: All above, plus:

Game Name	Steam Link
Enotria: The Last Song	https://store.steampowered.com/app/2102450/Enotria_The_Last_Song/
Flintlock: Deluxe Edition	https://store.steampowered.com/app/1832040/Flintlock_The_Siege_of_Dawn/

I've only heard of I think two of these before, but never played them. What does this comm think of the pack? Worth it?

I downvoted maybe 3 posts for being "unwise", but I guess that's not allowed. Looked up the mod and they banned a wave of people, all for "...". Good stuff.

This "banned for using the functions of the website" shit is really getting out of hand. Unless it's unequivocal support for every post, you're out. It's ridiculous out here.

Also! We still can't block communities we've been banned from? Wtf?