That infection that started yesterday has spread so qui…

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good

Music does not “require” physical effort or social interaction. The same goes for books, movies and tv. Would you dismiss those, too?

Video games are an art medium, with exceptions to every one of your points.

Motion control games require tons of physical effort.

Multiplayer games literally cannot be played without other people.

There are games for couples, friends, parties, and quiet alone time.

It’s an entire art medium, one which INCLUDES entire other art mediums like writing, music, acting, and more.

Your opinion is based on an incredible narrow interpretion of what video games are and can be. Or perhaps you haven’t checked in on gaming in around two decades.

Either way it’s resulting in absolutely horrendous advice.

Only a tiny number of the games I play and have played, are ones I would hold off on until I’m over 30 and married. Some people find their spouses because of gaming.

A LOT of games I played had their biggest impact around my 20s.

!soulseek@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Sounds like you might like https://github.com/Nezreka/SoulSync

It can automate grabbing your streaming platform playlists as files from soulseek.

!soulseek@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Does already having read it count, or do I need to re-read it?

AH SHIT!! CONTAINEMENT BREACH, CONTAINMENT BREACH!! QUARANTINE LEMMY BEFORE THE REST OF THE FEDIVER…

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Thefuck?

Games are a hobby. If they give you pleasure and joy, then there is no “better” thing to be doing.

How much of your time at 18 should be spent on hobbies is a different matter, but to dismiss games as an unsuitable form of leisure at that age is insane.

The games people play growing up and as young adults can be formative and massively influential.

They tell stories, frustrate, entertain, let you form social bonds, and even enlighten you in ways no other form of media can by allowing you interactively explore the thoughts of other people.

Plus, I’m not even 30, I am already noticing a decline in my performance in terms of precision and reaction time when it comes to the competitive genre.

Extremely.

But he was also narcissistic enough to basically drop hints the whole time, even as he actively hides. While he knows he needs to stay hidden, he yearns for everyone to know that he is Kira, and to worship him for what he is doing.

He wants to openly taunt his detractors while never giving them actual evidence, but that’s stupid as fuck.

He nailed the lie to start, but fucked himself because of his arrogance and ego.

“Cut through the enchanted woods, they said”

Seconded!

Used?

As in adopt from a shelter?

Probably massive overkill for OP particular, but if you wanna listen across several devices, the best option.

Teef

The dreamworks Puss in Boots voice actor is the actual Zorro live action actor.

They made Puss in Boots a parody of Zorro, as an elaborate joke.

It’s already funny, and gets even funnier as you realize it’s the actual Zorro actor playing a cat, doing a parody, of himself, as Zorro.

This meme too is a new level of funny, when you realize both charachters are the same actor.

This better not become a trend.

That’s not what I’m saying.

Obviously not everyone needs to code. Once I write a bot, it could potentially be used by anyone.

Only a small percentage of mods need to also be developers. But since that group isn’t big enough yet, the solution is growth.

Not asking the platform devs to do even more. They too, are volunteers.

I’m not against any of that.

What I disagree with is that this is a priority. It’s a nice-to-have.

Once mod actions are supported, and an API exists, any imaginable automation can be implemented by anyone with the impetus to do so.

As such, the priority of further integration drops drastically and platform developer attention can and should move elsewhere.

Mod tools are best created by the people who use them. Even better when they are created for the needs of a specific community. As such, more advanced features should be deferred until later.

Once communities grow large enough that there are a significant number of moderator-developers around, it might be worth creating a generic bot that can be configured as needed. (As has happened with reddit, discord, etc.)

Asking for these tools before then, is inefficient, because the people who ideally should be working on them, haven’t shown up yet, and the platform developers time is better spent on other things.

Indeed.

My core point is that when it comes to moderation, I would prioritize actual mod actions (such as a mod being able to mark posts nsfw instead of deleting them outright) and API support for those actions, over built-in automod features.

Once you have an API, anyone with the skills can implement whatever automation they need.

After that, I would priotize a bunch of other things, too, before ever coming back around to built-in automod features.

If everything is a priority, nothing is a priority.

By now I’ve written four bots using the lemmy API.

Any one of your ideas is doable in a weekend if I ever feel the need for a modding bot. But I haven’t. Several communities and instances already have them.

Honestly that’s how it should be. Modding can have such diverse needs depending on community that just implementing every possible eventuality into lemmy itself, is a huge ask.

Any large community on discord, reddit and other platforms, make extensive use of automod bots. Because using the API, you can write bots that do whatever you can think of.

Modding is volunteer work, but it is work.

If you need tools, find them. If they don’t exist, create them. If you don’t have the skills or time, then don’t volunteer.

Asking some volunteers to do more than they already are because you think they are letting down another set of volunteers just risks burning out a different set of volunteers.