CombatWombat

I’ve been playing Grounded, which was one of the games included with my ps+ subscription. The game is “Honey I Shrunk the Kids” the game, and is surprisingly fun considering how obviously targeted at children it is. Orb weavers and Wolf Spiders are very scary when you are a 1 cm tall child. The crafting tree is very fun, and it also has a surprisingly good underwater experience.

I didn’t have high expectations for upper class career dot com, but saying journalism jobs at WaPo have long been considered “stable” requires you to have ignored 100% of news about journalism jobs for the past thirty years.

I was trusting this same mutual understanding that sometimes you say things you don’t really mean to guide people to understand that I did not mean what I said literally. All movie tropes, like romance tropes and hacking shenanigans, rely on this same contract.

Most dishonest about? The existence of superpowers, probably. People can’t fly in real life, or summon hammers, or shoot webs from their wrists.

Mastodon got collections, which are like bluesky starter packs.

Loops got big for a second, which is a TikTok lookalike, though I’m not sure they’ve been gaining users as fast as they were when the US acquisition was taking place.

Piefed’s around now for browsing the threadiverse. Folks like me like it better, but the Lemmy fans are holding out for v1.0 to be even better.

Wanderer seems to be doing stuff maybe now? I poked around the demo instance and it has real promise but there isn’t an instance near me so I don’t have a lot of insight.

Funkwhale and Bookwyrm are out there. Bookwyrm’s solid as ever, but I’m not sure there’s really much happening for Funkwhale at this point.

The big “end-to-end encrypted dms” seems like it’s still just around the corner. Seems the implementation is limited to some new platform called emissary? I’ve kinda lost track a bit, I’m not sure if it’s really happening.

I think that’s all the developments that I can think of off the top of my head.

I watch soccer, mostly. Some hockey and basketball too.

The peak of software was handing bundles of 3.5” floppies with shareware on it to your buddies, so probably closer to 1993 than 2013.

Realistically, with half-finished games on launch and mandatory day one patches, this won’t be a meaningful shift in how much you actually “own” your games, but dropping this 2 days after they deleted 550 movies that folks had bought and paid for and ostensibly “owned” from the ecosystem is a real bad look.

There’s a federated version of r/place at fedi.place fwiw

Australia’s official flag is ho-hum, but you already have an incredible flag you could use instead

For me, once’t in an oakie vernacular would be a contraction of once and it:

I’d grab a beer once’t finished.

but of course that’s just me and I left the Central Valley a long time ago and am not a professional linguist, I’m just telling you about my perception of the vernacular from where I grew up.

If I were to affect an oakie, I would produce “onest” to mean something like “singular” or “unique”, or possibly “solitary” or “lonely”. I would mean it as a superlative of the ordinal “one” and it would be pronounced slightly differently.

It’s an archaic version of whence.

This is very funny for me. The phrase “floppy jalopy” to mean flimsy still gets a lot of play in the region, and so I’d heard the word many, many times before I read it. It wasn’t until I read the Grapes of Wrath that I found out it referred to a car.

It’s for grammatical reasons. It’s the same “t” as whenst. From whenst you came ~= from oncet you came

Not sure about other languages, but Russians are more likely to give their name as FIO, familia imya and then ochestvo (family name, given name, and then patronymic), especially in official settings. I’m given to understand the practice was even more common in Soviet and Tsarist Russia.

And if you’ll forgive me for being a little sassy, tautologically, all languages present names from first to last.

Nice try David Foster Wallace

I mean, this happens pretty trivially with noun phrases in Spanish and English because Spanish is postpositive and English is prepositive.

You can definitely lock down signup. I’m not sure if you can prevent users from making publicly-visible posts, though — I think they would have to remember to make posts followers-only.