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  • By the way, what makes an image turn .avif? Whether I upload .webp or .jpeg it turns to .avif when the upload finishes

  • Haven't poked my head into !games@lemmy.world in awhile. Impressed to see you are still going!

  • I do notice that it takes more effort though. Before online platforms figured out the whole engagement outrage pattern, I spent a lot of time playing video games, yes, but also reading books or making art.

    Then the online platforms started investing in trying to figure out how to engage you, and it is easier and easier to spend time online by default to the exclusion of other things and feel bad about it because your online time wasn't spent on something that made you feel good like it did in the past. It is surprisingly hard to resist the current big platforms are trying to push us down.

    People on the Threadiverse have taken at least a small step by disengaging from Reddit and going to an open-source, non-corporate-controlled engagement-maxing platform. But human negativity bias still makes it a lot easier to post outrage and comment outrage and get in fights. Hell, I am making this comment because of my own negativity bias and desire to expound on how much I hate what has been done to our attention spans! It's a lot easier to complain than to analyze why I enjoy something. And I think the engagement bait outrage has ruined my brain a bit to still sort of seek that out and scroll (but better Lemmy than Reddit). I've been trying to get off but change is hard. Sometimes I relapse and click an article I know will have negativity and anger, like this article I clicked on.

    I do really appreciate what you did by posting something to help instead of yet another "thing bad" even if I super agree with "thing bad", and I'm being part of the "thing bad" pattern right now.

    I do know of !takeyourtimeback@lemmy.world which might be able to help with the whole online engagement problem.

  • Huh. I don't see the ads, but then again I have some very old mobile adblocker app installed. I'm not sure what is so wrong with accepting cookies to see an embedded YouTube video, as far as I know this is how it works on most privacy-focused places that still leave YouTube links and embeds. Do you have any recommendations for a better site you would not consider cancer, or what to do about YouTube embeds and cookies that is more to your taste? I'd find both helpful, considering there is another Threadiverse gaming community who sources posts from gamingonlinux.

  • Automation and Factory Builder Games @lemmy.zip

    Turn recipes into huge cooking production lines in the new Snacktorio demo

    www.gamingonlinux.com /2026/02/turn-recipes-into-huge-cooking-production-lines-in-the-new-snacktorio-demo/
  • Fedigrow @lemmy.zip

  • Automation and Factory Builder Games @lemmy.zip

    Looking for mods!

  • no but seriously, do you want mod? introduced me to a ton of new games and i think i'm going to have to stop, and only come onto lemmy.zip when i played a game or have one to share with the class. as much as i'd like to help with fediverse engagement i think i owe it to myself to cut out things from the budget right now and be the financially responsible elevator i was always meant to be; and opening a window to being exposed to more products and wanting more things (even if organically through gaming-focused lemmy instead of reddit ads) isn't a helpful way to make an honest elevator out of me

  • this looks so cool, and is exactly why i've been avoiding using this alt account; i do not need to be tempted into buying another game :(

    genuinely considering yielding mod position here to you lol

  • Automation and Factory Builder Games @lemmy.zip

    The factory must grow

  • Had my eye on this one for a bit! I know the kurzgesagt people are at least somewhat involved, people who make cute little educational animations with birds.

  • Been using Cattails: Wildwood Story, a !lifesimulation@lemmy.world, as my relax-after-work game.

    Started The Farmer Was Replaced (if you like things like that, !automationgames@lemmy.zip), to try to ease me into coding again. There is a function to pet a flying piggy available to you right from the beginning of the game, and they tell you this. I feel shocked that only ~25% of players have that achievement when about ~75% have gotten the achievements you get for the very first actions you do in-game. Also, the sounds of you harvesting crops (or of them going into the piggy bank for items, not sure which) reminds me very much of the Minecraft item pickup sound.

  • Video Game Suggestions @lemmy.zip

    CRPG list I stole and condensed from Reddit

  • Seeing people do themed or challenge runs is always entertaining.

  • man I love personality quizzes

  • also it's adorable, i do not like shooters or the entire premise of the game but the cute rubber ducks were enough to tempt me

  • UpWork, Fiverr, TaskRabbit… there are many individual websites for this.

  • It is also something I also want to avoid as much as possible. I'd rather have the uncomfortable conversation with someone than ghost them and I have actually walked that walk before, having uncomfortable conversations I wanted to avoid in order to not ghost someone else. Just wanted to show empathy for people who do it and maybe provide an explanation to the rest of us wondering why others hurt us that way.

  • As a person who spent a lot of time feeling rejected and unsure of why people were happy to be my acquaintance but not my friend, never getting any explanation why I wasn't good enough (the answer was undiagnosed autism and the trouble with social skills that comes with that), ghosting with no explanation hurts me in my soul.

    I get why people do it though. How do you know if it's a person who was clueless to what their bad behavior and is desperate to have literally anyone tell them what they do wrong so they can change, or someone who will flip out and get violent or stalkery or super spiteful towards group members once ejected from the group? How do you know it will not spiral into some giant drama, especially if you were wrong or others disagree about if their behavior was objectionable? Conflict avoidance, whether for justified reasons or not, is very very common.

  • RPGMemes @ttrpg.network

    Power Word You're Not Invited To D&D Anymore

  • Automation and Factory Builder Games @lemmy.zip

    Allow programming automation games?

  • RPGMemes @ttrpg.network

    Why'd you become a lich?

  • Video Game Suggestions @lemmy.zip

    List of games where knowledge is progression

  • Tycoon Games @lemmy.world

    Subway Builder, a "hyperrealistic" transit simulation/tycoon game

    www.subwaybuilder.com
  • RPGMemes @ttrpg.network

    Dwarves

  • Patient Gamers @sh.itjust.works

    They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you?

  • Cozy Games @lemmy.world

    Animula Nook, an upcoming cozy life sim where you're a tiny person (think "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids") living on a desk

    store.steampowered.com /app/3767320/Animula_Nook/
  • Patient Gamers @sh.itjust.works

    Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?

  • Video Game Suggestions @lemmy.zip

    games that are fast to learn for relaxing after work

  • Automation and Factory Builder Games @lemmy.zip

    Star Birds, a game about helping birds thrive in space with automation, production processes inspired by real science, and resource management/gathering, on Steam

    store.steampowered.com /app/2719750/Star_Birds/