Quite. That's why I used to use Pro, however. And ultra as a regular subscription is... a bit out of my price range. I've heard that there's an ad free only tier priced lower, but I couldn't find it in the app, so... shrug

I'll probably come back to it eventually after post-launch flux ends and such, but we'll see.

Yeah, it just doesn't really exist yet. I'm not sure a really well-moderated community for news content can exist yet on Lemmy, due to the culture that's slowly springing up, but if it did it'd have to be on a dedicated instance, I expect - one with a very, very dedicated set of moderators with relatively strict rules regarding what is sufficiently-well-sourced content, and all other communities on the instance being held up to the same bar in their specific niches in order to encourage that kind of posting culture.

Honestly, I don't think Reddit ever achieved a really good result either - the news subreddits were all dumpster fires to varying degrees - but Lemmy's immaturity worsens the issue here, I think. It's pretty appallingly obvious. I'd look elsewhere for news opinion aggregation, for the time being.

Is Passport ID really sufficient? Might be better to just ask for a verified picture of the entire passport, gotta make sure they are who they say they are!

Huh. I've wanted to try picking up COBOL for a while out of sheer curiosity. Guess now I've got an opportunity.

Honestly? Metroid Prime 4. Dread tided me over regarding 2D Metroid for a while, and I've been really excited for a new Prime entry since announcement.

I'm so glad to see this community exists! I had pretty much resigned myself to waiting a long time before a new OSR forum would take shape after leaving Reddit, but looks like that won't be necessary. Thank you for creating this!

Delta Green. I love the concept so much, and have wanted to run a monster-of-the-week campaign for years, but the tabletop group I'm in mostly have a fantasy bent.

That does look pretty cyberpunk, actually, haha. The architecture in the scene at the one-minute mark especially.

Also, it's interesting (and mildly terrifying) how there are a few things in this advertisement that you can actually do now... though most of them were not brought to you by AT&T.

Not that Zelda was really known for having super strong stories that are more than just "save the princess/kingdom from the big evil guy"

I kinda agree, because Zelda has always been gameplay-first, really, but I feel like (at least from LttP onward) most Zelda games had stories that were at least distinct from each other, if not exactly masterpieces. Like, Link's Awakening has the island thing plus Wind Fish. Ocarina has Ganondorf 1.0. Majora's Mask... is an experience. Wind Waker has its ocean aesthetic + sister, Tetra, and Cooler Ganondorf. TP has the Twili, Skyward is kind of its own thing entirely, and Link Between Worlds has Lorule. Pretty much all the Zelda games I can think of have an interesting twist on the basic plot structure... except TotK, which feels a bit like an amalgam of BotW and Ocarina on that front with some new items involved.

That's not to say it's bad - it works well for TotK, stylistically, and I think you're right on the mark in saying it was "whelming" - but I don't really think I want it to stay for future Zelda games, tbh. Though I don't really know how they'll merge a different plot style with open world, if they continue with the BotW style.

This guide is incredible. I would've dodged so many pitfalls with binary IO if I had had something like this on hand when I first started programming, haha.

I'm personally kind of hoping that the existence of smaller instances and multiple same-niche communities on Lemmy provides a way to avoid that phenomenon. Like, it'll probably happen to communities on the Big Instances, I imagine, but on the more limited ones... maybe not?

A "picturephone," I think? AT&T developed and tried to sell a couple models in the 60s and 70s. I vaguely remember reading about a brief period where they tried to popularize them through paid public-access rooms. I don't know what model that is, though.