hitagi (ani.social)

The Great Train Robbery (Edwin S. Porter)

Any of Satoshi Kon’s works (Paranoia Agent, Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, etc). IMO, he’s one of the few animation directors who really takes advantage of everything animation has to offer.

This Lemmy instance is much harder to maintain due to the fact that I can’t tell what images get uploaded here, which means anyone can use this as a free image host for illegal shit, and the fact that there’s no user list that I can easily see. Moderation tools are nonexistent on here.

0.19.4 provides a way to see uploaded images (although not the best) but this version was only recently released so I can see where the frustration is coming from especially since the CSAM attacks happened nearly a year ago. At the time, I had to make a copy of pictrs, view everything on a file manager, and manually remove those images. People can still upload images without anyone seeing it however.

It also eats up storage like crazy due to the fact that it rapidly caches images from scraped URLs and the few remaining instances that we still federate with.

This was fixed in 0.19.3 (released 7 months ago) where you can disable image “caching”. This has solved storage costs for us together with pictrs’ image processing.

plug in an expensive AI image checker to scan for illegal imagery

It’s unfortunate that we need this. Not everybody has the resources to run fedisafety nor does everyone live in USA where they can use Cloudflare’s CSAM scanner. I think a good way to deal with the issue is to have images that are not public, not be stored (or have no private images at all). This way images can be easily reported.

Overall, I understand the frustration and to some degree I also feel the same but I also limit my expectations considering the nature of the project.

Qwant isn’t available in a lot of countries though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant

I have a few professors who have wikipedia pages if that counts.

Are server costs just generally cheaper/easier in colonial countries to run or is it purely a money and time thing?

They are cheaper. Locations outside US/EU and very few countries in Asia are sometimes called “exotic” and can be a bit expensive. Lemmy also has this issue where servers that are distant from each other lag behind.

Good work-life balance.

Political campaign ads. Not a product so it might be different. I remember watching one that took advantage of homeless people and it made my stomach hurt.

Nobody mentioned Tridactyl yet so… Tridactyl. It’s the best vim keybindings extension for Firefox I’ve tried.

I remember the first time I completed RimWorld. Kept all three OG colonists alive. Two of them got married. The husband was an old farmer, had dementia, bad back, and was eventually bedridden for a long time. His wife was a doctor and she’d visit the hospital everyday to check up on him. The third colonist, Oneesan, became a Countess and was so full of herself that she never worked. She spent her entire day meditating in her throne room.

Also shoutout to Tracker, a recruited waster, who did some of the craziest shit like single handedly stopping a siege with a sniper rifle, and breaking up a fight between us, mechanoids, and pirates with a rocket launcher.

RimWorld. It’s so fun watching your colonists at work, peacefully farming, and suddenly one of them gets hit by a chunk of steel followed by a hundred bear raid.

Very relaxing.

StarCraft II. It’s on Battle.Net though so you’ll have to download it through Lutris.

The first campaign is free and there’s a coop mode for casual players. Entirely free except for cosmetics, some coop commanders, and the other campaign episodes. It’s easy to pick up IMO but VERY HARD to master. Graphics still hold up better than a lot of games despite being 13 years old. Despite its age, I believe it’s the peak of the RTS genre. There’s are a lot of community-made mods/maps that you can play for free. You can even play a remake of the WarCraft III campaign there.

Other RTS games that I like:

• Age of Empires II (Steam). Graphics look decent enough for the remastered version on Steam. Complex economy system and slow rock-paper-scissors combat. Very slow-paced.
• StarCraft Broodwar (Battle.Net). Remastered graphics also look decent enough. Unit pathing might still have annoying quirks like the original. Slightly slower-paced than StarCraft II.
• Northgard (Steam). Beautiful game with a unique event-type economy system. Slower-paced than StarCraft II with some colony-building elements.

Not really an RTS game but I’ve been putting so many hours into RimWorld (Steam, native) this year. At its core, it’s a colony-building game but it does have some RTS elements to it (economy, combat, and unit management). Lots of mods available.

YouTube. Content-wise, there isn’t a better platform for videos. Except maybe Vimeo for indie films.

They’re all bot accounts.

I have a lot of abstract paintings in my room. They’re not mine though. They’re a collection of my parents who have nowhere else to hang them.

Usually just browse the web on my phone or answer messages and emails.

That would be us - https://ani.social !

Google’s localization is much better than any search engines I’ve tried.

I watched it pretty recently and even watched it twice in a single day. I still think it’s a great film in terms of narrative and cinematography. The dialogue and editing (especially the baptism sequence) were also very effective.

I wouldn’t trust any claim that “X movie is the greatest of all time” however. Movies are highly subjective and I wouldn’t trust IMDb’s top list to decide what movies are great. Most of their top movies are from Hollywood.

If you didn’t like The Godfather, then that’s actually okay. I know other people who didn’t like it.

edit: By the way, if you’re looking for another good Marlon Brando movie, check out Queimada. I think a lot of people here on Lemmy might like this film.

It might be pretty expensive to host something like that. Video encoding can get really expensive. I enjoyed RPAN’s brief stay though.