It rarely works out, but it’d be great if some of the fired staff tried going independent. A couple of my favorite groups managed it after they were fired in similar circumstances.

The initial appeal for me was that I enjoyed harvest moon, except for how the old tech made the experience of playing it suck so bad, I couldn’t replay it. It was annoying doing any of the basic tasks like switching tools iirc. so there was a huge opening in the market for a new harvest moon that wasn’t annoying to play. And where you were allowed to be gay.

So the initial buzz came from that, imo. the people who wanted a new harvest moon game were like ‘wow, finally!’ and then word of mouth did its thing. these days, nostalgia for it specifically drives people back to play, along with extensive modding and occasional free updates keeping things fresh.

i think other people can explain better why the harvest moon formula itself is so appealing, but i just think it’s interesting how an indie game can get so popular by just being like "what if i made this big corporation game people want a new entry from, but fixed the stuff in it that sucks?’

I guess he canonically dies in a videogame, which is a reason they might not bring him back

Ever think about how many children’s lives this guy could save if he was capable of figuring out he was wrong and telling people? A lot of people wouldn’t follow him, but some would.

https://www.specialolympics.org/stories/impact/why-the-r-word-is-the-r-slur

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/11/what-has-jk-rowling-said-about-transgender-people-trans-views-tweets/

I’m not sure you should run your own social media if you become a famous celebrity.

They know it’s trump’s fault but they voted for him so they have to say biden was just as bad for the economy to justify their decision to themselves. That’s my theory.

In March, she and Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s three liberal justices in holding that Elon Musk’s nebulous cost-cutting initiative DOGE could not unilaterally freeze $2 billion in congressionally approved aid for work that had already been completed.

“She is evil, chosen solely because she checked identity politics boxes,” Cernovich wrote. “Another DEI hire. It always ends badly.”

Notably, Roberts was not accused of being a turncoat—just Coney Barrett.

Hmmmm wonder why. Man, she did her job and got roe v wade overturned, and they’ll still outright call her “evil.”

There’s a limit to how carefully you can word things to protect its meaning from people determined to read it in bad faith. I have it too - the desire to be long winded to preemptively protect myself from misunderstanding. But there’s a risk that we’ll turn everything we say into long blocks of soft useless mush. There’s no precision precise enough to be safe.

We have to, I think, decide to write for people willing to reach for us when we hold out a hand. There are enough willing to try that any general misunderstandings can be clarified with conversations other people can read if they want to understand. If enough of us are willing to do this for each other, it might be possible to build spaces where people who slap that outheld hand away don’t have to dictate conversation. And maybe we can both be less wordy.

Thank you! The wall in my brain keeping me from doing it is a bit smaller now

That sounds pretty cool, actually, that it.s protected against me breaking it. I’ve always got that worry

Is this something that’s relatively fool proof to do? I’m very good at imagining disasters. That’s the big mental block I got when I thought about dual booting before.

I’m somewhat open to the idea, but the thought of messing up and not having any computer other than my phone until i figure it out is tough to get over.

I can’t afford a new computer right now and tariffs meaning higher prices means I can’t anticipate affording one in the near future. My plan is to see where everything’s at when they stop doing updates. Unfortunately.

Feels like they’re still figuring out how they want to do this, themselves. Every now and then i’ve been visiting the art themed pixelfed to follow people with mbin, and the explore page is sometimes there and sometimes not.

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In her court motion demanding immediate access to her client, Khanbabai said Ozturk had been held without access to her medications, one of which was for asthma attacks, CNN affiliate WCVB reported.

I hope she lives and they aren’t murdering her with medical neglect

I guess it depends if they get subscribers, but locking this article just seems foolish in this case. People will just go elsewhere to read it.

Even if you only care about the economy, it’s so stupid. All that money won’t circulate because people can’t spend what they don’t have. so businesses get less, they have to let people go, and now they can’t spend. giving money to poor people is great for the economy, because it instantly recirculates and doesn’t sit in an account. it’s not even ‘giving,’ in this case, either. people pay into it for a purpose.

But they don’t care about the economy, and of course they don’t care about the human cost. They care about ‘fraud,’ as in, how to commit it and enrich themselves through theft of the money people pay for services.