Intellectually I know it’s fine. I know there’s plenty of time to complete the game. I just can’t stand a ticking clock counting down, constantly. It makes me anxious and completely ruins my enjoyment of the game. I also have this problem with Stardew Valley where I constantly feel like there’s not enough time and I’m being pulled in several directions at once and I can’t focus on anything. It’s a nightmare.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe develop a beloved indie game.

God forbid the peasants enjoy anything remotely resembling a leisurely life

Someone wants to lay people off without the headline “Grand Theft Auto Dev Lays Off 200 Employees”

Just fyi, if you do end up making a discussion post in the agora, you should back up claims you make (about posts that are allowed to stay up on the instances, or conversations with their mods/admins, etc) with screen shots. If I were you, I would also talk to one of the agora mods about whether you should make 1 discussion post, or 2 (1 for each instance you want to defederate from). I’m not sure how they’d want to handle it, but I’m pretty sure it would need 2 vote posts so they may want you to split it.

That sounds familiar, thanks

c/main is for instance news and general discussion, while c/agora is for discussion of instance rules and voting

edit: I should explain how the agora works. Any regular user can make a [discussion] post for proposing changes to the rules. Those are open for a week, then the mods of the community make a [vote] posts in which sh.itjust.works users can vote to accept or not accept the rule. That’s also open for a week iirc.

They don’t host illegal (in Canada) content, so the admins haven’t pre-emptively blocked them. There hasn’t been a discussion and vote in c/agora where the users decide to block them, so that hasn’t been done either. There was discussion of it for Hexbear when they first federated with us, but they blocked us after a bit and it was dropped or something, I can’t recall exactly. If it really bothers you, make a discussion post in c/agora.

I was going to say this sounds like thermal runaway waiting to happen, but apparently it’s been running for 10 years so clearly he knows what he’s doing

You can probably buy it from a key reseller. That’s what I did when I wanted to replay Prey 2006, it was like $3 iirc. Really, though, if you can’t buy it from the rights holders just pirate it.

I don’t think anyone blames the story or the narrative director, I’m just leery about starting up the hype train again.

It is sort-of in the next update. Users can “block” instances, what this means IIRC is that they will not see posts or communities from the blocked instance, however they will still see the blocked instances users posts on communities on other instances, as well as their comments on posts on other instances. This feature should work to block the spam you’re talking about. We haven’t upgraded to that new version on sh.itjust.works yet because it introduced a bug in the federation system that hasn’t been fixed yet.

See the posts column in this screenshot for context:

That testimonial community at the top is the only spamming one as far as I can immediately tell. Every user is able to easily block that community with two clicks. I’m personally not inclined to defederate from an instance without multiple communities/whole instances dedicated to spamming, tons of bots, rampant and/or admin-sanctioned bigotry, rampant trolling, illegal content (that the admins already defederate automatically on their own), or something causing an existential crisis within lemmy (like threads). I don’t think lemmy.staphup.nl qualifies on spamming. If I were admin of that instance, I’d definitely ban the testimonial community though.

https://sh.itjust.works/c/agora

It’s the voting community of this instance. Users (or admins) post discussions on rule/policy changes like your post here, they’re discussed for a while, then an admin posts a vote thread for sh.itjust.works users to vote whether we should accept the change. Your post should go there.