So what I mean is that, to me, a real gallery type site would allow you to do things like filter down by tags and explore specific types of posts by an artist that catches your attention, with combinations of filters, etc. (This would obviously depend on how they used tagging as well.) pixelfed is also built around adding pictures as posts.

There are third party clients that can present information different ways, but the actual website is how you’d generally expose people to your content (especially because it’s not something massively popular like instagram). It also, while good at what it is, just doesn’t provide the kind of control over structure and organization that I personally would prefer to share my pictures with, which is why I haven’t managed to bring myself to add my pictures in bulk there.

But like I said, it’s good at what it is and may fit his needs better than mine, so it’s worth a good look.

There’s busy and there’s “checkout lines literally to the back of the store”

https://pixelfed.org/

Might be worth checking out Pixelfed. It’s more a replacement for Instagram than DeviantArt, and isn’t really structured like a gallery, so may not suit your needs. But I’m going to mention it anyways, simply because I don’t know exactly what you’re looking for and it is an open source, federated, reasonable way to show your work.

I said you should. It’s that catastrophically dangerous, and it isn’t a mistake.

People absolutely will be stalked and attacked as a direct result of this insane horseshit if it is not shut down.

It is unconditionally not acceptable.

Fuck that. It absolutely is not a norm to have anyone with an internet connection watch you drink, and is an obscene safety risk. Making a camera publicly accessible should automatically revoke your liquor license and permanently bar the owner from ever being able to apply for one again.

Ask questions. Evidence trumps all. Oh and I guess be nice.

But at that point it’s effectively antithetical to anything religion is. Like the actual teachings of Jesus in the Bible are mostly good to live by. But because 90% of Christians (or other religions/pick a sect) never actually read the Bible, the actual religion in practice is a lot of preachers spreading their own shit or whatever the hierarchy says. And the core concept is to ignore reality and blindly trust the impossible.

That’s fucking insane.

I honestly don’t know how. Any non Nintendo 3D game it’s instantly super obvious. And any game at all it’s obvious if you just try to navigate a menu with it.

They make the $10 Chinese junk alternates look amazing by comparison.

This really shouldn’t be mind blowing. It’s pretty obvious that proper planning can absolutely result in utilizing dev time effectively. There are loads of underlying technologies you’re using and you don’t have to have the next project fully planned to improve your systems and get prepared for it.

And how much money do you think you’re saving by firing people and hiring a new team 6 months later? Recruitment costs money. Hiring costs money. Onboarding takes a lot of man hours from your whole team, which costs money. And you lose all the institutional knowledge and familiarity, so you lose efficiency, which costs money.

Especially when it doesn’t even work lol.

I’m not just talking about the drift. The actual intended product is ludicrously imprecise out of the box.

It changed gaming. The steam deck probably doesn’t happen without the switch. It clearly demonstrated the market for a handheld that manages large scale 3D games with complex mechanics.

But the joycons suck at more than connectivity. Straight out of the box those joysticks are fucking terrible, and they degrade hard and fast.

It honestly doesn’t matter to me.

Even if it’s an absolute certainty that there’s no possible way they can do harm, I’m unconditionally not willing to install anything on my personal device that isn’t for my personal use.

I’m always skeptical of anything LLM, but this looks like an interesting use case on the surface.

Fuck everything about blocking the hardware and hardware mods, but if it’s true that he was packaging games with it, you don’t even get to any of that, because they’re probably going to get every dime he has for “selling” their games.

My point is that the “early access preorder” really just means the sale date is 3 days earlier than you’re claiming or whatever.

So if you buy it you get it before if you buy it?

That system is an even dumber one (and not unique to this game).

The difference is that they can boil the frog gradually.

Traditional media tries to move people, absolutely. But a newspaper has to address the crazies and try to convert people into crazies in the same paper. If they’re too extreme, more moderate people can see that right away, and it’s easier to minimize engagement with it.

With social media, you personalize the content surfaced. You start by making it seem mostly sane, with an out there idea here or there. Then, as they start to engage with the slightly mild stuff, you move the “mostly sane” in that direction, and the “mild” moves a couple extra steps. Now, you’re part of a movement. Everyone around you is changing their beliefs, and the new ones aren’t that far off from your previous beliefs, so why not follow?

6 months later, you were always pretty left/right-leaning (cognitive dissonance, baybee!!!). But it looks like the consensus is finally shifting your way. It’s just a small step further right/left, and everyone around you is making it too. The world is changing for a better, so let’s be that change.

Having an expansion for an MMO be in early access seems super weird.

I understand the communication that it’s still not as polished as it will be once the community beats it up a little, but the nature of an MMO is to kind of pressure a certain type of player to instantly race through that content. Once it’s available, it “counts”, right? They’re not rolling back outcomes or anything? It’s live?