Yes, hence why I said I understand why it needs to remain opt-in. It still doesn't change the fact that it's a burdensome and inconvenient quirk.
Not that I have a better solution to propose either, mind. Feels like one of those things that just is what it is, an unfortunate downside of the federated design.
I always tend to push back on people saying "oh, the Fediverse is so complicated", but small quirks like this make me go "well okay they have a small point".
I understand why lemmy-federate.com probably has to remain an opt-in service, but man would it be so much smoother if it was just automatic.
The format of exclamation point in front like !community_name@instance.tld is the standardized instance-agnostic link format around here! It will let anyone open the community in their own home instance.
I mean, I agree with you in principle - domain names can matter. I remember people were similarly concerned about lemmy.zip back when it launched since .zip links on the internet can be... not so great.
In this case though I don't see it, I think indie-ver.se is a great name and super fitting.
I don't know if it's exactly what you're looking for (and it might have a little too much gameplay) but I just finished the Banner Saga (first part of the trilogy) and it at least offers what you're looking for in terms of choices mattering and branching storylines - especially going into game 2 and three apparently.
What mods did you go for? I should make another attempt to finish RDR2 at some point and diving into some more mods might inspire me to actually do so...
I think an exception is okay every now and then, I personally just like this community the most so I also broke the rules last year and talked about playing Blue Prince and E33 on release last year. Sometimes you can't actually wait to play a game, you know? I felt both of those merited it, especially Blue Prince as participating in the zeitgeist of that and being part of discovering the game at a point where the community hadn't even discovered all the secrets yet was amazing.
But yes, in general this is for the more patient kind of gaming.
Not the most patient of gaming, but I don't blame you as it looks drop dead gorgeous! I was also enticed when I saw it release but as always with the genre I have to hesitate a bit since I both such at and don't particularly enjoy platforming and will easily get frustrated and not enjoy it if there is too much difficult precision platforming.
Will be interested to hear your thoughts on it regardless, I did still wishlist it purely because of the art.
I finished the Banner Saga. I really wish I enjoyed the combat in it, as I'm sadly probably not going to find it in me to finish the trilogy. Which is a huge shame, because the rest of the game I really loved. Art was beautiful, music gorgeous, world building interesting and the story and characters were well written. I really do recommend the game, especially if you can grab it on sale. I love a game that doesn't shy away from tragedy, that allows characters to die and that lets your actions actually have consequences. The tone and style felt really distinctive and just... refreshing compared to a lot of recent RPGs I've played. It's slow, melancholic and somber. I really liked it for that.
Next up I'm probably tackling The Last Express, a game I picked up on sale a while ago and have been really keen to experience ever since randomly stumbling upon a video essay about it some months back and stopping the video about 15 minutes in with the realization that this is a game I need to experience.
The thirteen year gap between Alan Wake 1 and 2 really is felt. I still agree with you that the first game is not enjoyable mechanically, but the overall payoff of the Remedyverse is worth going through it. The story is good and has several memorable characters, and the enjoyment of Control and AW2 is much higher if you've played the entire back catalogue.
Alan Wake's American Nightmare is actually a mechanically much more satisfying game than AW1, if you can stand the low budget nature of it being an Xbox Live Marketplace game.
I'm still just spending most of what would otherwise be my gaming time on TALKER Expanded, and my backlog is huge. As tempting as it is and as cool as those mods look, I don't know that I can allow myself to replay games at this point in time 😅
Yes, hence why I said I understand why it needs to remain opt-in. It still doesn't change the fact that it's a burdensome and inconvenient quirk.
Not that I have a better solution to propose either, mind. Feels like one of those things that just is what it is, an unfortunate downside of the federated design.