I had a bad breakup at the end of last year. My mental state got better after it, but just completely crashed in March. I didn’t feel I could do anything, which is also why this is the first thing I’ve posted in months. I started this a couple months ago to see if I could draw anything, just putting the worst of it down. I never could finish more than bits and pieces until now.

Oh yeah. Don’t go into these expecting Citizen Cane. They’re a vehicle for jokes.

I enjoyed both Bon Cop/Bad Cop and its sequel. First one is about a Quebec and Ontario cop working a murder over a state line, second one involves the US a bit. And Menteur (you can find it as Compulsive Liar if searching in English), where a guy who lies constantly wakes up one morning and everything he’s lied about is true. It’s got a sequel with one of the characters that comes out this week, I think.

If you’re okay with crying, Spiritfarer is great.

It looks great!

I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, but this feels like they’re actively trying to make all of these personal experiences of others feel like their own original thoughts. That community was allegedly made to be a mirror of the Reddit community, same with !furry_memes@pawb.social . There’s zero reason to be hiding the original link if there’s good intentions, and they should be putting it in themselves.

Yeah, but it’s starting to feel like there’s more downsides. They’ve put out so much DLC that they’re literally offering a monthly subscription service to get access to all the DLC. The new DLC costs $25 (base game costs $40), and comes with a game-breaking patch that couldn’t have been shipped without knowing there were glaring issues, and a disclosure that AI was used to make some of the assets. It’s getting harder to feel that you’re seen as a playerbase instead of a cash cow.

Like every major release, they redid some management elements, so people are unhappy about that. But the big thing was that 4.0 was a patch intended to address performance with how pops were handled, so the mid-late game was playable at a good speed. Instead the update made performance issues worse, and apparently even with a bunch of hotfixes performance is still bad, and there’s a lot of issues caused by the patch other than performance.

I mean, I get that, but why? I didn’t ask out of an intent to name and shame, I just don’t have any clue why someone would go to these lengths to make a couple new communities and astroturf them here. Lemmy doesn’t have advertising, or any other kind of incentive to promote a community other than it being active. It’s not every post from those communities they picked either, just ones that, at a glance, have passed a certain threshold of upvotes. So why would they be doing this? If you wanted to copy over a community entirely from Reddit, lemmit.online is a thing still. This took some work, and given the bursts of posts they’re probably doing it manually.

It turns out that it’s actually kind of well-intentioned. Granted, they asked a bunch of other subreddits as well, but they just look like someone excited about growing the fediverse. The only real issue I had was using a non-bot account for self-posts, since it made it seem like they were passing off all these experiences as their own. A note in the sidebar that these are intended to be Reddit backups and that posts are copied over probably would go a long way to preventing the confusion in the future.

And thanks to @ThefuzzyFurryComrade@pawb.social for looking this up and putting in the work.

Blue Period is mine. I can’t quite name why, but it just resonates with me every time. I’d love a second season, but the anime nearly caught up to the manga when it was released.

The images that are hosted on quokk.au for the old community don’t appear to be available. Getting a 404 for all of those. Images posted from other instances are fine, but all images hosted on the new site seem to be broken. I know there’s federation issues with the new community, but the migration appears to have broken about half the posts in the original community.

Monster Train 2. The first scratched the itch I had when I had run out of steam with Slay the Spire, and the second has built on top of the first with some new card classes, giving you different abilities for your engine, and five new races with new mechanics for each. It’s fantastic, and really feels like everything you’d want out of a sequel. And as a nice bonus, it’s not too hard on the Deck’s battery.

I got informed there’s a follow-up.

I know you’re looking for people currently living there, but I left not long after Trump got elected the first time (coincidence, not cause), and I feel like it’s helped me be a bit more objective about it.

I’ve seen my dad go from a die-hard conservative who makes a couple edgy jokes to someone who isn’t even trying to hide his support for Trump. At best, he says that Trump’s statements are overblown, at worst he supports them wholeheartedly. It didn’t improve under Biden’s term, and his behavior was one of the big reasons I feared a Trump victory in 2024. He felt no need to hide what he had before (that is, if he had it then. It could have grown over time as well). There was no reform coming for him, just deeper entrenchment.

On the other hand, my sister and Mom represent some of another segment of the US. Neither one follows politics because they’re just busy. When they do have time to relax, the last thing they want to do is catch up on things they’ve missed. Unless my sister has something blasted across her social media feeds, she doesn’t know about it. My mom just doesn’t really watch anything at all, mostly because she’s dealing with her own stuff.

I got to see the US change drastically when Trump got elected, with issues that affected literally everyone, and it turned out that part of my family ignored it, and the part that did know about it supported it. I know my immediate family isn’t a representative sample of the entire US (hell, they’re not even representative of my entire family), but seeing is believing. I never would have thought that people could be like this, but if this can happen to people I know, it’s not that hard to see it happening to others.

So, yeah. Even assuming Trump peacefully leaves power in 2029 (I’ve got no hopes of removal from impeachment), that’s four years of destroying good will, soft power, government services, and legal protections, and this is happening just after we had a president who, at best, could stabilize the country a bit before building back some of what was torn down in the four years prior. This time, the administration is moving faster and with more purpose in some of these areas, too. Assuming it takes twice the amount of time to completely rebuild all that the Trump administrations have removed, that’s still 20 years down the road to be at par with where we were 8 years ago. Foreign countries don’t trust the US to not elect a lunatic. It can be a normal country, some day, but not until I’m old, and not without a lot of internal changes I don’t see happening yet.

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If you enjoy games like Outer Wilds or Return of the Obra Dinn, where you basically can only play it through once to figure out the secrets, it feels like this is going to be something you’d love. The downside is the roguelite element can be really punishing and make you feel like you’ve wasted a day, especially if you’ve found the secrets in those rooms. The good news is that there’s been at least a couple times where I found out items were puzzles days after I saw them, so it might not entirely be a waste.

I think this is a reference to commissions done for someone who requests exclusively blonde women shopping for wonder bread, or alternatively destroying forests with chainsaws or filling up SUVs with gas. They even have a Know Your Meme page.

There’s definitely people who unwittingly spread misinformation, but the rule wasn’t for people who just post once or twice, but people who have posted misinformation and been warned previously multiple times. That’s not a mistake at that point, that’s a pattern of behavior.

Since Legault took power in 2018, I’ve come to remember him for:

• Thinking the been on face coverings and religious symbols hasn’t gone far enough
• Blaming nurses, not employers, for patients’ issues rising from the nurses’ strike
• Bill 96, which has let them require all businesses have French signage (replaced at their own cost), prohibition of already-existing English government resources, and limits the number of students in English speaking schools
• Limiting funding to English-speaking universities in Montreal
• Limiting immigration in an attempt to make sure that a limited amount of non-French speakers move in
• Forming a committee literally named “The Committee of Sages” in order to determine protections and rights for trans people, which also has no trans people, or any LGBTQ+ people
• Advocating for removal of an anti-Palestinian protest camped out on a university’s grounds

And now for fucking with strike protections. When the one good thing I can think to say is “He didn’t fuck up the COVID response,” that’s a pretty bad track record.

I’m not familiar with the backrooms. Is she going to die because she’s getting the rock out and is unaware, or is she just stuck there for eternity?