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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I bet a lot of folks have just quietly given up or moved to lemmy or mbin because they’ve gotten frustrated with all the issues.

I made an alt two months ago when Kbin would never connect. I have barely been back since, so it is now my main. I hoped Kbin would come out if its slump but... that seems unlikely at this point. I'm actually quite happy on Lemmy, especially after the v0.19 upgrade allows blocking of an entire instance. I personally virtually never see any spam (maybe one comment per month) and while connection issues do occur, they are like a handful per week rather than handful per hour (it varies a lot though, sometimes it does get bad for a day or two and then weeks go by without a hitch).

I avoided the initial hurdle of making a Lemmy account for so long and, while it was super annoying, in retrospect it wasn't that bad, compared to all the other problems here and still having to go through all that, eventually.

If anyone is thinking about switching: don't worry unduly about it, just make an account and see if you like it, but you can always keep your Kbin active too, assuming Kbin remains alive.

Also, you may need to try out a few places before you find one that fits you best. But that reduces your anxiety bc you know more and don't need to worry about having to do it again in a worst-case scenario.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably b/c if they can't monetize your data, then they choose to profit from you in other ways. :-(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

por queue no los dos? :-P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Too many people treat drinking like it's some kind of contest imho - like, if you don't enjoy the flavor, then why drink it, and if you do, then why ... ah... quaff it?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Do I really want to know what "quaff" is?

he quaffed pint after pint of good, good juice.

No, methinks I doth prefer mine earlier ignorance. :-P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you! It was https://youtu.be/hsxukOPEdgg?si=bHZrY9n2qSygpBPf, especially starting about 6-7 minutes in but really the whole episode talks about the topic of the OP. The sandwiches comment is at ~7:45. Enjoy!:-)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Who doesn't enjoy our annual, third of a year long Christmas-gasm!?

No don't answer that, I know what you mean:-P.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Northeastern USA is extremely cold compared to temperate Europe.

Though that is nothing compared to north midwestern states, brrr... did you know that at some point, the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales converge? :-P

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Always has been.:-)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yes, yes, yes, and yes. Even the CEO has acknowledged this. They serve you what makes THEM the most profits, not what YOU wanted, ever.

For years now, the only way to find something technical related was to add "Reddit" to the search. But then Reddit imploded as well, chasing profits over the needs of its customers.

And Twitter/X likewise is now chasing profits over the needs of its customers, causing many to flee.

As too is happening in so many other places, such as Stack overflow, and most of Hollywood itself was on strike for months, bc they have been chasing profits over the needs of its customers.

Managers think they know better than customers what you want, or at least what you are willing to put up with.

And now they are pushing AI to the rescue, to put even above the SEO results, but soon they'll have to think about actually monetizing those answers, and the cycle will repeat at the level of SEO'd AI answers.

DuckDuckGo works, for now. Maybe one day there will be a hostile takeover and it won't anymore.

Btw this phenomenon is called https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification of the internet - yes that's the official term afaik!!:-)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Similarly, Mac OSX is POSIX compliant and therefore more truly UNIX than Linux is, fight me. :-P

 

I have mentioned before how extremely impressed I am with pages such as the Japanese SDE guide that has not one but several "Meta" lists, including an environmental characters and equipment summary that lists excellent characters across sensible roles such as general DPS, attribute-specific attacker, support, and even "tank".

The individual character pages are also astonishingly good, imho - e.g. Sesta's that, aside from translation difficulties, offer great support to newer players. Explanations as to the major things to look out for (in multiple forms, some for beginners and more advanced advice separated out for veterans of the game), exact party line-ups that can work well, exact listings of several pieces of suggested equipment, including thoughts requiring deep knowledge of very fine-grain technical artifacts of the game that would otherwise require direct testing (e.g. in her case, that Enhance Normal Attack grasta does not work, which is not mentioned on the global wiki at the time of this writing), etc.

Like for a veteran player who left the game for a year and returned, such a person could stare at one of the character pages on the global wiki for an hour to get even deeper knowledge as to how they work, and then still be left guessing what other characters exist that could work well alongside them, but these pages get you a significant fraction of the way there, very quickly (which is what most people want from a guiding resource? well, at least casual players do).

But that much is obvious: what I am wanting to mention further today is that there is so much more to the Seesaa wiki than even all of that! That wiki btw is where the global wiki gets the Superboss ranking list, but even so I had no idea that also the specific enemy boss pages are also so helpful! Such as the one for Land Avatar & Crab Bonze. The global wiki version has some weaknesses and moves each turn so I am not claiming that it is empty or useless or anything like that, but in comparison the Seesaa wiki's has just so much more! e.g., the distinction between a merely "large" physical resistance debuff vs. one that is fully ONE HUNDRED PERCENT, renewed each & every turn - and that written in red lettering to really draw attention to that fact, so that you really know what you are up against. Then, scrolling down, I see strategy, an entire long description of multiple parties that would work, turn-by-turn descriptions for them, alternate approaches for those bored with the easy way and want to mix it up a bit, and even direct links to videos to watch some of those in action.

I think most non-Japanese-reading people do not know about all that is available on that site b/c of the rather large difficulties in interpreting the translation. e.g. you cannot just type "Eva" or "Yipha" into the search box and find who you are looking for, and often the names differ in spelling. A particularly troublesome example is that the wind-based Yipha is sometimes called Efa, and other times Eva, which can be confusing! However, even with those significant barriers to understanding and using the site, these days I still find myself visiting the Seesaa wiki as my first stop oftentimes to look up information.

The same writer akashic_lin apparently also made the superboss ranking list (or at least made the last edit, but I am unable to see prior to that for whatever reason). All of that enormous body of work (you can see their contribution logs by clicking their username) must have taken a GREAT DEAL OF EFFORT!! And I, at least, want to say that I appreciate it. I do not know if more than a handful of people will read this, and even then how many will make it to the end here:-), but I did want to offer that regardless, just in case someone was interested in hearing it:-). (yet sorry not sorry, I will not crosspost this to Reddit, b/c it would instantly be drowned out by accusations that I "hate the global wiki" or some such nonsense, as my own contributions log should be well more than enough to dispel any notion of but... you know how Reddit works:-)

akashic_lin, I wish to extend to you my public thanks for your extraordinary efforts on behalf of the players of Another Eden.

 

I LOVE (note the present tense:-) Chrono Trigger. Chrono Cross is... not quite what I was hoping for in a sequel (it was not bad, it simply did not scratch that itch). I knew that Another Eden also would not be the same, yet it did seem the closest thing to it in spirit.

Thus when I started this game I decided that I wanted to be a completionist and grind my way through everything in it. So I went forward super slowly - I'm now >2.5 years in and I have not even started Main Story part 3 yet:-) - and like I got enough materials to upgrade every weapon and armor in the entire game, finishing out one dungeon entirely before moving on to the next, which I felt was true JRPG style even if it runs counter to how modern games are played. I even completed Otherlands before moving on to get grastas (mostly - I did take a bit of a break by overlapping them some). As you can see, that process took awhile to complete! Like, I did not move forward past PGAD until I had gotten all of the non-repeatable grastas from it, and same for AGAD, and so on.

So now it is very personally satisfying that I completed the final enemy kill achievement for content that existed when I first started. Every alarmed monster, every small mouse/gecko, every mob/horror/boss etc. I am considering Superbosses as a separate line of thinking although I am pretty sure that I accomplished that too - even without grastas I was able to tackle those, then with mere T2s I took on some more, then with T3s but no P/P or ores some more, and so on. I prioritized less the ones that were harder to access, like if it takes a minute to physically walk over to it, then it can wait!:-P Shout-out to the Power Creep chars that made that fairly painless: most often I completed them on the 1st, 2nd, or maybe 3rd try as a result, even as under-equipped as I was - like AS Tsubame cheesed all of the present & ancient Garulea demons that do not resist (or null or absorb) earth blunt, and ES Tsukiha 1TAF'd all the rest even without the opportunity to get into her more powerful form. Later I even managed to pull a modern DPS in Alma, but most often for the likes of e.g. Kudang or the emperor reborn from the first mythos she cannot even get into her Trance state yet before AS Clarte killed it already, no need even for AF, and AS Milsha completely (or mostly?) negated all of their damage plus Clarte innately has Hold Ground so... it was all super easy once I had pulled those gacha chars and decided to give the fight a try. Therefore I thought about going back to and re-doing those earlier ones with purely free characters, but there is always so much to do and that also is not a high priority - maybe one day!

In the meantime, the best part is that there is still so much content left to do!! By taking it slow like this, e.g. doing Otherlands and fishing and such, I still have much of the new content that has and continues to keep being added - like now that I have finished GoT2 I can complete the second Mythos that I was able to start but was not able to go beyond chapter 6 until finishing most of GoT2. And the the rest of harpooning awaits me, plus all of the cool new stuff (boating and sidekick gear and reforging and whatnot) presented along with Main Story part 3 - which by the time I start there may be a second wave of new content even:-) - and also I still have yet to visit (even once) the ADs for Purgatory, Iscariot, Sapient Complex: Midnight, Sea of Ice, Toto Theater World, Omegapolis (that one I need to finish all the non-repeatable grasta sets from Underworld first before I bother unlocking), and the latest one Warped Cochlea. The latter I think I will bump up to the top of the list b/c I am currently farming Nona so it fits.

I have definitely taken an unusual route through the game compared to most people it seems, but I am okay with that and I am enjoying what it has to offer. :-)

Edit: maybe you too would like to share your unique perspective on this game, to help get this community started? We do not have a post every day - and that is okay:-) - so we shall have to collectively figure out what we would like for it to be. Right now the small numbers offers both unique challenges as well as opportunities that would not have been possible at all with Reddit - like if 20k members were to post their personal stories it would have become quickly overwhelmed, plus multiple memes every single day, and the veritable TSUNAMI of questions (most of which could be solved by a 5-second lookup on the wiki) and bragging and salt - there would simply be multiple hundreds of posts (quite possibly over a thousand, no joke) every single day, but this place is different. The Kbin interface is buggy, the Federiverse is confusing, but we at least are here, so what shall we decide to do with it? :-D

 

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The picture only shows Rinde Sunfish, which is the rarest of all, as previously I finished all the horrors, Silver Carp, Rolling Turtle, etc. and yet this straggler still took months all on its own:-).

As a newer player when I began this long road (which ultimately took TWO AND A HALF YEARS for me to complete!), it was really fun to chart my development in the game as I learned better team-building skills. e.g. the only water chars I had at first were like 3-star Cyrus and 4-star Nikeh iirc, so it was really useful to learn that Violet in an earth zone could 1-shot the lake horrors better than trying to exploit weakness using pathetic DPS characters. And then as I got AS Tsubame and m!NS Felmina I developed new 1TnoAF approaches even for the upper set of lake lords, b/c when you need to do something hundreds of times (like in order to get 150 Silver Carp I got 320 Sky Serpents along the way), it is good to keep it as simple as possible, like only one button press and someone to make skills cost 0 mp. Especially since I lacked grastas for like 2/3rds-3/4ths of that journey (as I put all my green keys towards finishing Otherlands).

I enjoyed the ride, but wow I am sure glad it is over too... (that way, I can start in on doing the same for harpooning - groan!).

 

https://beebom.com/reddit-alternatives/

No Squabbles.io, Tildes, or Discuit, but somehow digs deep enough to find Saidit.net, Hive, Quora (IRK!?), 4Chan (spit-take: yes, you read that correctly), Imgur, Slashdot, and 9Gag (hey, I did not write this, alright?:-P), and # 15 is Digg!

You said you wanted to know if Kbin was mentioned in the media though, so here it is:-D.

 

@inasaba shared an article asking us to question why we use social media at all, and what the mindless scrolling is REALLY doing to us

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

A lot of the most foundational stuff for this game is lacking on the English wiki, b/c people feel less inclined to make it again when it already exists elsewhere (I know I do at least).

And aside from the Altema tier list that has an English translation on the wiki (Altema list), a lot of people do not seem to know about the other resources that exists. For instance Altema has a ton of maps that are super helpful - one recent example is that unmarked quest in Dust City where the blacksmith asks you to return marked display items, and the map to find that is on altema, recently added to the Loot section of the Mysterious Vortex page.

Another REALLY useful website is the anothereden.game-info.wiki, that contributes a bunch of great content to the English wiki like the Superbosses ranking. Props to the people who helped make that a reality - like on the English side that's almost all Bluezero's work, but also whoever made it on anothereden.game-info.wiki deserves the lion's share of the credit to begin with.:-)

There are also several newer pages on anothereden.game-info.wiki that I wanted to help make people aware of as well, but first note that these by definition contain spoilers b/c they are on the JP server whereas for us here on Global certain characters may not have been released yet:

  1. SDE list - in the past this has fallen horribly out of date, but lately this page seems to be kept updated. It lists at the top all of my favorite Meta characters, both those that I have and those that I do not, but which I would like to aim for in the very near future.:-D Best of all, unlike Altema there is actually an explanation as to why the characters were selected, and sometimes they suggest things such as "pairings" e.g. ES Miyu + Orleya. Eva is noticeably missing - but nothing is perfect and anyway it's an interesting list.

  2. On the very same page further down there's a 2nd list aimed more at beginners and people who don't want to do AF pianoing or reading complex skill sets or swapping out parties, so here characters such as Pizzica (named Pichica there) and Flammelapis come more to the foreground.

  3. Perhaps best of all, at the top is a link to role-specific Meta chars - e.g. the "general purpose tank" section predictably has AS Radias & AS Soira, though ignores Iphi's non-tanking defensive support.

  4. And then at the bottom of that page is an endgame-weapon-and-armor guide, which doesn't seem as comprehensive as the one linked from the wiki but occasionally is updated more quickly.

Each list has its own aims & goals, like the wiki tier list as it says is more of a guide than a specific list, and shows mono-themed teams as examples but then leaves things like collecting together multi-hitters or general-purpose utility roles that span across zones as an exercise for the reader; whereas Altema showcases more general-purpose utility but then does not explain why e.g. both Pizzica & AS Mistrare are labelled with the current top score of 99 even though both are singers and you would be unlikely to want to have both in a party at the same time. Therefore I'm enamored of these new lists at anothereden.game-info.wiki, b/c it seems to be trying to fill the gaps in the existing resources, and while we all know that the real solution to this game is simply "get Eva = be happy":-D, just in case someone wants to know more, these seem like excellent lists to at least point people in the right direction to read on their own?

 

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