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  1. Comment on Sports entertainment makes me angry in ~talk

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    Thank you for the satire tag. For a minute I was thinking, “What is with all these grossly negative posts lately?” and then I realised that was (probably) your point. 😅

    Thank you for the satire tag. For a minute I was thinking, “What is with all these grossly negative posts lately?” and then I realised that was (probably) your point. 😅

    4 votes

  2. Comment on Microsoft’s Xbox to cut 3,200 jobs, divest five studios in major overhaul (gifted link) in ~games

  3. Comment on Vatican declares Society of St. Pius X in schism, excommunicates bishops in ~humanities

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    this is an excellent summary of exactly the issue. thank you

    this is an excellent summary of exactly the issue. thank you

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Erling Haaland's second-half double helped Norway stun five-time winners Brazil and book their place in the quarter-finals of the 2026 World Cup in ~sports.football

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    Before the game he hugged the kids the players walk out with, and Vini too. 🥲 He comes across as a genuinely nice person. That being said he is scary on the field!!

    Before the game he hugged the kids the players walk out with, and Vini too. 🥲 He comes across as a genuinely nice person. That being said he is scary on the field!!

    4 votes

  5. Comment on Smush in ~games

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    i like it! i got 285 👀

    i like it! i got 285 👀

    3 votes

  6. Comment on Vatican declares Society of St. Pius X in schism, excommunicates bishops in ~humanities

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    Thank you exactly for this. It is so exhausting.

    Thank you exactly for this. It is so exhausting.

    5 votes

  7. Comment on bubbles.town: Tildes but exclusively for blogs in ~tech

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    I was surprised to see my blog is already listed there. I haven’t noticed any uptick in traffic, but I also am not very militant about checking traffic either. I’ll check this out. Thanks!

    I was surprised to see my blog is already listed there. I haven’t noticed any uptick in traffic, but I also am not very militant about checking traffic either.

    I’ll check this out. Thanks!

    6 votes

  8. Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative

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    I love effective, well-considered consequence-heavy time travel narratives! The source I’m working with is anything but. 😅 In this particular context, time travel is used once, and merely as a...

    I love effective, well-considered consequence-heavy time travel narratives! The source I’m working with is anything but. 😅

    In this particular context, time travel is used once, and merely as a justification for knowing the Big Bad’s vague plans (which could have been an email discovered in almost any other way), but then oops! Time travel can’t be used again for arbitrary unobtanium reasons which directly contradict and are contradicted by the rest of the text.

    Meanwhile, the Choices made by the PC (who has both the mechanism of time-travel and the unobtainium necessary to operate it) may result in extremely terrible consequences: such as the death of his entire family and everyone he’s ever known. Gee, if only there was some way to render meaningless that poor choice…

    (I’ve been actively angry about this for five years.)

  9. Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative

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    I was working on a “why did you introduce time-travel to this world if you were never going o do anything with it” fan-fiction while waiting for family to arrive; now that they’re here, i’ve hit a...

    I was working on a “why did you introduce time-travel to this world if you were never going o do anything with it” fan-fiction while waiting for family to arrive; now that they’re here, i’ve hit a bit of a wall. while i’m not technically between bigger projects, i think a shuffle is in the cards and i’ll probably put down the big project i was working on to revive one of the shelved ones. we’ll see!

    3 votes

  10. Comment on What do you think the top three most used apps on your phone for the past week are? in ~tech

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    I thought it would be Safari, Whatsapp, Signal. It’s actually Safari, NetNewsWire, and Discord. It seems I talk to my friends more than I responded to clients or family. 😬 It’s also telling bc I...

    I thought it would be Safari, Whatsapp, Signal.

    It’s actually Safari, NetNewsWire, and Discord.

    It seems I talk to my friends more than I responded to clients or family. 😬

    It’s also telling bc I would have thought I “barely” check my RSS feeds compared to mastodon, but my default fediverse app didn’t even crack the top five (possibly due to time lost to Wallflower? 😉)

    4 votes

  11. Comment on Wallflower.app -- A "Literary" (read: calm) Mastodon and BlueSky web app in ~tech

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    I would love the option to have followed hashtags in confluence! (GREAT name, btw!!)

    I would love the option to have followed hashtags in confluence! (GREAT name, btw!!)

  12. Comment on ‘Backrooms’ sends Hollywood running to Reddit for new ideas in ~movies

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    I was hopeful someone would mention this. A shame, it was fun.

    I was hopeful someone would mention this. A shame, it was fun.

    1 vote

  13. Comment on Wallflower.app -- A "Literary" (read: calm) Mastodon and BlueSky web app in ~tech

  15. Comment on Are there any games that had their development abandoned that you followed where you wish that continued/completed development? in ~games

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    Not sure if this fits the spirit though I think it fits the letter of the topic, but I would have really liked to have played the version of Dragon Age Dread Wolf that was more or less set up by...

    Not sure if this fits the spirit though I think it fits the letter of the topic, but I would have really liked to have played the version of Dragon Age Dread Wolf that was more or less set up by the end of DA:I Tresspasser, and not what we got.

    1 vote

  16. Comment on What are your gaming idiosyncracies? in ~games

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    Me with that silver ball you can just jump out of the way before it careens off the path up by Gurrang’s house.

    Me with that silver ball you can just jump out of the way before it careens off the path up by Gurrang’s house.

  17. Comment on Wallflower.app -- A "Literary" (read: calm) Mastodon and BlueSky web app in ~tech

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    Thank you for such a quick fix! I’ll keep an eye out for anything unexpected. I have to say, I moved to the fediverse exactly to embrace a slower internet. This that you’ve made just furthers that...

    Thank you for such a quick fix! I’ll keep an eye out for anything unexpected.

    I have to say, I moved to the fediverse exactly to embrace a slower internet. This that you’ve made just furthers that concept into what feels natural and “right,” very much in the “why wasn’t it already like this?” sense. So i really appreciate, and will continue to use.

    Would it be alright for me to share the link to the web app with my fediverse feed? I wasn’t sure if this was meant as something small or just-for-tildes. 🙌

    3 votes

  18. Comment on Wallflower.app -- A "Literary" (read: calm) Mastodon and BlueSky web app in ~tech

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    A couple unexpected things now that I’ve used it a bit (and have been loving it every moment) There seems to be some unexpected behaviour with images on text-filtered posts. The text appears as it...

    A couple unexpected things now that I’ve used it a bit (and have been loving it every moment)

    There seems to be some unexpected behaviour with images on text-filtered posts. The text appears as it should (filter — $filterName show anyway?) but the associated image appears regardless. Ideally the image would be either hidden or at least blurred until click. https://imgur.com/a/pikaIQz

    On iPad the third column is automatically whatever group / list i have, and there’s no way to change/close this. Had I my druthers, i’d like to be able to assign that third column a hashtag that i follow, or at least close it.

    I absolutely adore the inclusion of alt text without having to click. The font choices are peak. Everything else so far is great!!

    2 votes

  19. Comment on Wallflower.app -- A "Literary" (read: calm) Mastodon and BlueSky web app in ~tech

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    I love this. Absolutely beautiful and perfect. I will hold out for an iOS release for the devices, but on the browser it looks and feels incredible. (I so enjoy the heart and boost symbols...

    I love this. Absolutely beautiful and perfect. I will hold out for an iOS release for the devices, but on the browser it looks and feels incredible. (I so enjoy the heart and boost symbols replaced by text. it feels extra slow, extra intentional.) Thank you for sharing! Can’t wait to see more!!

    2 votes

  20. Comment on Breadmaker update: one year in! in ~food

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    Ha! You may be surprised to know we 🇧🇷 use the comma for the decimals, g/kg in general, but! all our recipes here use cups (xícaras), teaspoons (colher de chá), and tablespoons (colher de sopa,...

    Ha! You may be surprised to know we 🇧🇷 use the comma for the decimals, g/kg in general, but! all our recipes here use cups (xícaras), teaspoons (colher de chá), and tablespoons (colher de sopa, literally soup spoon)!

    …though we also use mL now and again for liquids, usually water.

    1 vote