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[Question] Are you cooking something other than turkey for Thanksgiving?
  • "Cooking" (i.e. reheating) a city ham (i.e. fully cooked , Easter-style ham) sous vide this year. Just me and the partner this year,so a turkey doesn't make sense, especially since I'm usually underwhelmed with turkey anyway.

  • From Big Macs to Baftas: the incredible story behind the hit video game Vampire Survivors
  • When I started playing VS, I was struck by how much the chest opening animation FELT like a slot machine - it was weird to encounter what normally feels like a predatory experience and have it NOT be trying to take your money.

    I'm torn on whether it'd be good for more games to do this (mimic gambling without the predatory pricing associated with it) - on the one hand, it would provide alternatives to actual predatory games, like Gacha games, that won't leave people poor, but on the other hand it also normalizes the concept as a legitimate gaming mechanic. This not only opens the door for more publishers to utilize the mechanic maliciously, but I also worry about what it might do to our brains to be constantly exposed to slot machine equivalents (moreso than they already are with gaming).

  • How do I unhide posts?
  • As of right now, the button is just a toggle that will turn on the feature to hide read posts in your feed, but won't restore hidden posts (as you found). If you want to see your hidden posts, you can go to your profile (center button on the bottom buttons) and you can unhide a given post from the post itself.

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    What can I build/put in my backyard that isn't just lame plants
  • Since you've already got one tree, sink a 4x4 post in concrete (or just bury it if you want less permanence and like to live dangerously) to use for securing the other end of a hammock (with one end wrapped around the tree).

    The post can serve double duty too - you could use it as a tetherball post (better to use a metal fence post in that case though? Or do they make dedicated tetherball posts), for either you or dogs.

  • Thanks for making a native android version!
  • Not sure if this is different depending on the backing browser, but my experience with this is that it works great to open the link, but when you hit the back button to go back to Voyager, you get kicked out to your home page instead of back to the thread you were in.

    This might not be caused by opening a page in the same browser as the PWA (could be due to issues with the back button that I think we're fixed in the latest build? Or was that about the native apps? Can't remember) but I've been assuming that's part of the issue 🤷‍♂️

  • After many weekends and sleepless nights later, here's the first gameplay trailer for my personal project
  • With Survivors-like games, auto-fire becomes a necessity as the screen fills with enemies and you have multiple weapons or abilities. How do you plan to balance this theme of the genre with the need to activate abilities manually?

  • "Castlevania: Nocturne" - New Animated Series from Netflix Premieres in September
  • Cautiously excited for this. I enjoyed Castlevania quite a bit, but thought the ending was a little half-baked. I'm curious to see if the IP is improved or struggles without Warren Ellis as a show runner. I've assumed he was the driving force behind a lot of what made the last one great, but the reason he got dropped (sexual coercion allegations) could also explain some of the weirder sections of the show, so might be nice to get some fresh blood.

  • Show previously hidden posts (marked as read)
  • If you go to your profile (middle button on the bottom), there's an option to view hidden posts there. Don't think there's an option to filter by community though, which can be tough if you're looking for a hidden post from a day or two ago.

  • Advocates say new Florida standards require slavery to be taught as 'beneficial'
  • The Florida Department of Education says the new standards don’t teach that slavery was beneficial.

    However, one of the benchmarks (SS.68.AA.2.3) states students will be taught, “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

    Anyone able to think of a good argument for explicitly requiring this? I'm having trouble thinking of why you'd call this out in the standards unless, you know, you are a fan of slavery...

  • ‘If you don’t take off your clothes, we will kill you’: Kuki women paraded naked in Manipur, India
  • The Florida Department of Education says the new standards don’t teach that slavery was beneficial.

    However, one of the benchmarks (SS.68.AA.2.3) states students will be taught, “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

    Anyone able to think of a good argument for explicitly requiring this? I'm having trouble thinking of why you'd call this out in the standards unless, you know, you are a fan of slavery...

    Edit: This was supposed to go here, womp womp

  • Weekly "What are you playing" Thread || Week of July 9th
  • I played a decent amount of Odyssey (didn't get close to finishing it) but bounced off Origins pretty quick. What mechanics did they change in Odyssey that you miss? Might be worth going back to play it if I know what's different!

  • Threads is All The Worst Parts of Twitter And Instagram in One Very Bad App
  • Does she hold any investment in BlueSky?

    Imo, it's way more likely she got her information about BS from the website/a press release/a contact at BS and like you said, didn't bother to get a contrasting opinion from anyone associated with Mastodon (probably because it's a lot harder to get ahold of someone from a distributed project like Mastodon).

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