Endymion_Mallorn @ Endymion_Mallorn @kbin.melroy.org

Just a nerd who migrated from kbin(dot)social.

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It's a really fun game - and if you want a more typical action-RPG vibe, you should also seek out the Genesis Shadowrun game. The games are very different, but both are true to the Shadowrun experience.

Let's be honest, it's also everything CP2077 wanted to be.

I tried to avoid translations in my list. But anything by Aeon Genesis is also great, so is Mother 3 with the Tomato Ring. The SMT translations are a high point too.

Having only touched it once, Emerald Rogue is a genuine roguelike in Pokemon Emerald, though I don't know if it works on a flashcart on real hardware.

Hands down my favorite lately is Shadowrun (SNES) - the addition of SNES Mouse support. It makes the game so, so much better. That's been huge for me, since the game is a point-and-click adventure. It's such a quality-of-life improvement. If the mouse existed and was common when Shadowrun was written, I have to hope that they would have thought to allow it.

Also, obviously there's a huge community of SMW hacks, and pretty much anything well-reviewed on SMW Central, I'm liable to enjoy.

In line with yours, there's Pokemon UItra Violet, a great hack of Fire Red for GBA. Also Pokemon Naranja, another Fire Red hack that's based on the Orange Archipelago.

No such thing as a free beer, no more than there's a free lunch.

Does the EFF call it Free?

She didn't look bad either.

Yes, we know. Goods that are made in America by Americans are expensive. And if they mean that they're going to be affected by the import tariffs, then I'll be just as happy not to buy as much from Costco, just the same as I'll be doing at Wal-Mart, Target, or any other stores that refuse to support quality American businesses in favor of cheap foreign stuff.

I say they should take it back. I've never met a blonde who looked bad in black.

Unironically, I'd have bought the Shiva one as a display piece. Then again, I would probably buy merch of any FF8 GF, even Boko. I like FF8.

Most social media has a leftward bias. Avoiding politics in any form of social media now is like trying to avoid plankton in ocean water - you might be able to do it, but you'll need a really tight filter.

Hasn't been my experience, but I'm mostly in a sphere of scientists, creatives, and memes. A couple art museums post some great stuff too.

I don't remember MSN Messenger being able to handle IRC chats. If it had, I wouldn't have needed an IRC client. But Threads won't drown out other voices, they'll just add voices to the conversation. There's content on Threads that's worth following, and I don't think it's valuable to lose that because of a few engagement farms that you can either personally block or defederate.

Somewhat selfishly, I'd suggest she try Mbin instead. It allows her to interact with both the microblog side of the fediverse (including bridges) and the thread side, from the same interface.

Threads is a great example of a company acknowledging that the open web exists and bringing content people want to places where they want to be. I'd like to be able to interact with everyone through one or two accounts, not have to maintain a Meta account, an Mbin account, a Google account, and all the rest.

You may not like it, but I believe the open web is about things like Threads being federated - individual platforms interacting freely, no matter who built them.

As someone who's mostly in a similar place to you, I think the only option currently is to try dual-booting (or getting a second machine just for Linux stuff). I'd suggest starting with Linux Mint as the version to use. It looks and feels a lot like Windows, minus a few exceptions that you can probably get around. I think you'll need to keep Windows 10 around for a while longer, as well. The biggest things to note: Capital letters matter in Linux, and the Run dialog defaults to Alt+F2 (I know it's weird in comparison, but you'll either get used to it or reassign it)

I don't know if you have the WSL set up on your PC, I know that I don't. But that's a good place to start trying it out if you have it. Either that, or in a virtual machine (VMWare or something like it). Then, slowly shift over to Linux as much as you can. You should be able to run Windows 10 in a virtual environment under Linux (this sharply reduces the security risks that you mentioned).

You do not need to use Firefox on Linux, no more than you need to use Edge on Windows. Brave, Vivaldi, even Chrome, are available from most repositories (aka app stores). Just search on the website flathub,org (in Mint, you can install Flatpak apps through the main installer, or the command line, your choice), Chances are there's a Linux version of the browser you use available somehow (I say this as a Pale Moon user). The only exception to this is Safari, but there are WebKit browsers available.

Oh neat. I've been aware of this for a while and I'm glad in an academic sense that it exists. I guess I would need more people that I care about who are on Bluesky.

Now if only there were instances willing to actually host anything worth watching.

Most people would pick the "stay out" option.