Notices by bailey//rockruff⚪ (ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz), page 171

some bridges were burned, some new ones were made. honestly i think this is overall a positive thing since now there's a chance something good could come of it.

there's also a chance it could suffer from similar problems that brought the current community to the position its been in for the last couple days. who knows.

i guess the important thing is to consistently learn and adapt when things go wrong

this whole ordeal is quite exhausting and there are a lot of folks who are rolling their eyes, wishing this would all go away and everything could go back to normal, etc

unfortunately this is how change works. things come to a boiling point and tensions explode into vitriol which eventually pushes people into making snap decisions that for better or for worse, force them to walk a different path

overall it seems like a solid collectathon with decent pacing, a lot of room for exploring areas as you feel like it, and a large world that (although not hugely diverse/interesting to look at) achieved ime a sense that i would never be able to explore it all, without areas feeling like they were all the same. practically got lost in the first level but never stopped having something to do

story and originality are lacking otherwise

there was also a bit of camera weirdness that made looking around feel tedious on top of some elements not fitting on the screen when playing in ultrawide, but i mean, most folks aren't playing in ultrawide, even if that is something most games should account for these days

- music gets repetitive/generic at certain points
- story isn't hugely interesting, feels like it was an afterthought, not to mention the lack of character interactions between the good and bad? did i skip a cutscene or two by accident?
- the dialogue is annoying and slow and idk how they made text and the menus look so bad but they did
- game definitely has a tiered feel to it where it was developed in chunks/layers for a kickstarter, rather than smoothly fleshed out like other games

i played a couple hours of yooka-laylee yesterday and i have a few preliminary opinions:
+ sounds are fantastic
+ music is pretty dang good at points
+ looks a lot more polished than i was expecting. still looks like a unity game, but a lot nicer looking than most
+ a strangely self-aware yet enjoyable sense of humour
+ gameplay mechanics are pretty damn solid
+ the sort of open world play they've got going on suits the collectathon genre well

good morning folks

oh btw someone did have a spare key so this is no longer relevant

it's speep time

g'night folks!

@codl bark!!!

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@monorail
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2) why are you bleeding

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i mean, yeah, the whole "trending" thing isn't a big enough deal to make a fuss over or straight up leave mastodon and set up a fork, but that's not the issue here

the issue is that if this is how disagreements will be handled in future, much more serious problems will end in the same way, and the platform (as well as a lot of the users) will suffer for it

i'd support both a fork and staying here on mastodon in the sense that i've made a lot of cool friends here, and it's a little early to switch to something else entirely once again, but it'd be nice to help another platform grow and see how it compares alongside it

tbh i'm not sure if a new social network would have as much momentum since mastodon isn't nearly as bad as twitter to warrant remaking accounts and such