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Cake day: May 13th, 2025

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  • Same reason as many other responses here, I came here because of the Reddit API situation. The Reddit app was garbage at the time (likely still is) and losing 3rd party apps with all of their features was frustrating. The API pricing scheme was obviously set high to push out most other applications.

    What really pushed me over the edge was the way that Steve Huffman acted towards the Apollo dev (Christian Selig). The Reddit CEO lied about Apollo “blackmailing” them. Luckily Christian had recorded their conversation and could prove what was actually said, even then Steve doubled down.

    https://www.reveddit.com/v/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/

    In the fediverse I started on Lemmy.ml, but then I saw how the Admins treated those with opposing views. I switched to Lemmy.world and stuck with it for a while. Then PieFed came out with all of its additional features. I quickly switched over and felt much more comfortable donating to their development costs.


  • The Lazarus facilities in Star Citizen have a constant irradiated electromagnetic storm around them. If you fly too deep (past the facility), your ship will be disabled and you’ll crash. You can take a tram deeper into the storm and you’ll start to receive radiation damage. So you’ll either want a special protective suit, or take refuge inside of facility buildings every now and then.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OzfPaUWYpY

    On this particular planet, your ship can also get hit by stray bolts of lightning (a rare occurence) while flying around any storm . It will shut your ship down for a short time.

    On some parts of planets, the weather is cold enough to freeze you (if you’re not wearing the right protection).

    Some planets are very hot and will kill you if you stay too long outside without protection.

    There’s an underground prison on a hot moon that you can escape from. If you don’t get to a vehicle in time, you’ll die from the heat (or lack of oxygen).


  • I actually had the opposite experience.

    It was the perfect device for going through university for me. I mostly used it for note taking and homework with OneNote. For something like proving my work with matrices I could just copy the last matrix, paste it, then replace the one column/row that I was working on and repeat. In that case, work that took other students an hour or more would only take me a few minutes.

    Additionally, since it wasn’t just a tablet, I could run whatever software I needed on it for completing projects.

    Of course a somewhat recent update from Windows bricked the device, and I haven’t gotten around to switching it over to Linux (like I have with my other devices). It does look like there’s a great group helping to support that transition though: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface









  • Why not? It’s not like the game/company is going away whether they ultimately win or lose in this legal battle.

    This is a legal battle between the co-founders and Krafton. The co-founders were heavily involved with the first Subnautica, but for this second (third) game they were mostly just providing the overall direction for the game.

    The way I see it, buying the game before September helps to take more money away from Krafton and give it to Unknown Worlds.


  • The company working on the game (Unknown Worlds) was bought by Krafton (famous for PUBG) with a contract where Krafton would give $250 million if Unknown Worlds hit certain sales targets by the end of 2025.

    Subnautica 2 was supposed to release as early access in 2025. Krafton had run the numbers and estimates were putting Unknown Worlds around receiving almost all of the bonus payout that Krafton had promised. The CEO had buyers remorse and consulted with his lawyers who told him that there wasn’t much they could do. The CEO then consulted with ChatGPT and came up with a plan to kick out the leadership of Unknown Worlds (the co-founders) and delay the release of Subnautica 2.

    The plan was to push the narrative that Unknown Worlds was forcing the game to be released as early access before it was really ready for that. Also the leadership of Unknown Worlds would be blamed for not being involved enough in the game and for refusing to delay the game’s release to a more reasonable date.

    It worked for a bit, the playerbase was split on Discord. Many took sides one way or another with some players seeing through these actions as being related to the $250 million payout.

    The courts recently ruled to restore the former Unknown Worlds’ CEO to his position and to extend the contract’s deadline by 9 months (September 15, 2026). Krafton had an internal goal to release the game by May of 2026 and Unknown Worlds is sticking with that schedule. Krafton is no longer listed as the publisher of Subnautica 2 on Steam. The overall court case is still ongoing.






  • Thanks I’ll try pinging them here in this thread… we’ll see how well this works.

    @makertube@mastodon.social

    Thanks for setting up this PeerTube instance! I just had a quick question (I’m not sure how this appears on mastodon for you):

    Looking through the rules:

    No videos containing violence, sexually explicit content, death or abuse in whatever form. For clarification, does this mean I couldn’t upload videos that I recorded while playing various games because it has a form of death/violence in it?

    I’m thinking along the lines of popular games like No Man’s Sky, Clair Obscur, Baldur’s Gate 3, etc.

    I get that hosting videos comes with a lot of risk, I wouldn’t want to try to take on hosting video content like this myself. I’m just trying to figure out how strict the rule on “violence” would be. Is this intended to ban any sort of gore, or would it apply even to something like stop motion/LEGO videos?


  • Looking through the rules:

    • No videos containing violence, sexually explicit content, death or abuse in whatever form.

    For clarification, does this mean I couldn’t upload videos that I recorded while playing various games because it has a form of death/violence in it?

    I’m thinking along the lines of popular games like No Man’s Sky, Clair Obscur, Baldur’s Gate 3, etc.

    I get that hosting videos comes with a lot of risk, I wouldn’t want to try to take on hosting video content like this myself. I’m just trying to figure out how strict the rule on “violence” would be. Is this intended to ban any sort of gore, or would it apply even to something like stop motion/LEGO videos?


    Edit: typo