Th4tGuyII

@Th4tGuyII@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To a certain extent it splits the audience, but that's the intention behind federation - to allow communities split across instances to talk to one another.

  The main reasons for doing this are:

  1. It keeps server costs down. Bigger servers require bigger money, and the people running these servers are relying on donations, they're not billionaires that can just keep expanding forever.

  2. It prevents all our eggs being in one basket - if a server goes down, only the community on that server goes. All the other communities can continue, and may even have cached content from the downed server.

  3. It prevents the same power imbalance thar Reddit have. If a host starts acting malicious, the community can move to a different instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What moment from a video game made you cry?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I almost forgot about this - I was surprised how quickly I got attached to BT in such a short time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people say good morning (or something like that) on chat after a night?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As others have said, I think that comes down to how people view online conversations.

  I personally view them as an extension of in-person conversations, so a lot of the same mannerisms carry over for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What moment from a video game made you cry?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm not really a crier when it comes to games, but what brought me close most recently was when I was doing a run of the entire Metro trilogy for the first time.

  Spoiler ahead for Metro Exodus

  If you're doing the good ending run of Metro Exodus, then you spend most of the game beating the odds and being able to save everyone...

  So watching Colonel Miller, someone you become fairly attached to throughout the series, succumb to radiation poisoning while you drive out of Novosibirsk, knowing that there was absolutely nothing I as the player could do but watch was heart-wrenching.

  He'd completed the mission, but he just couldn't make it home - it's such a bittersweet ending, but including his speech at the end, it's a good one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people say good morning (or something like that) on chat after a night?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you're talking within the same day, I would consider it fine to continue talking.

  ...But if you're talking overnight or longer, I feel like you need a greeting of some kind to acknowledge that the time has passed. I wouldn't call it rude not to, but it's an extra pleasantry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Forever chemicals’ found in drinking water sources across England⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm surprised that literally anybody is surprised by the headline that a chemical that is incredibly stable and long-lived (the very reason for using them), and widely used in many different industries and even in home products has ended up everywhere.
  With enough time to spread about, this was always going to be the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Forever chemicals’ found in drinking water sources across England⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm surprised that literally anybody is surprised by the headline that a chemical that is incredibly stable and long-lived (the very reason for using them), and widely used in many different industries and even in home products has ended up everywhere.
  With enough time to spread about, this was always going to be the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Of the tens of thousands of lies told, I wish this one was true...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Who could've known he'd end up doing the exact opposite of what he said and desperately tried to cling to power, even going so far as to try to coup the government