Possible to subscribe to lemmy.world communities?
I do a lot of digital art. I draw sometimes, but my motorskills leave a lot to be desired (I draw with my wrist, not my arm, and I have shaky hands); so if I'm doing anything more than sketching, I need to draw in Procreate so I can keep retrying each line until it looks how I want.
Because of this, I usually stick to vector art, which is much cleaner regardless of motor skills. I lucked out and bought Illustrator when it was CS6 and not Creative Cloud, so I'm still using that and will likely continue to use it forever (I hate consumer SaaS with a passion).
That would be an extremely short sighted move (which has obviously never stopped major corporations before).
One of the major problems from the last writers strike was that no WGA member (which often included show runners) could be on site for filming or make script adjustments. This means that frequently actors need to do their own rewrites which are often of questionable quality, and they don't like to do (since it's essentially being a scab). I think producers can also do rewrites, but I'm not sure they'd be much better at it.
One of the primary reasons Quantum of Solace was such a rough movie is Daniel Craig was doing rewrites himself in the evenings since it was filmed during the strike.
The obvious solution would be to do everything in their power to follow the script to the letter but oftentimes it can't be avoided. Some lines might not land the way they read on paper, and some sets cannot accommodate action the way it was initially scripted. All of these would require script rework.
All this to say that as long as the WGA strike is going, almost anything being filmed will be of notably lower quality.
As I pointed out at the start, this may not be enough of an incentive for studio heads to relent and pay their writers a living wage; but it'll certainly hurt the bottom line soon enough.
I saw a thread about this article on Twitter recently, and I thought it was an interesting take that Hollywood can't actually afford to wait out the strike since they are all on a quarterly deadline (profit wise). If they run out of content, their earnings will dip and it would only take a few months to look really bad for the CEOs.
Here's the thread in question if you want to read it yourself
Do votes from non-federated instances affect the score of the post on your instance? For some reason I was under the impression that only votes from your federated instances would affect your feed (and that every instance essentially had a different upvote count for each post).
I'm not exactly an expert writer, so please take this with a huge grain of salt, but I think the "no info-dump" rule applies more in the "show, don't tell" sense more than in the "all action, no dialogue" sense.
Having said that, 14 pages of all talking sounds like a lot if there's nothing happening. If the plot is still progressing, dialogue can still be quite engaging (see Community's "Cooperative Polygraphy" for a great example of an all-dialogue episode that is engaging and keeps the plot moving).
Without reading the whole book, it's hard for Internet strangers to give good advice on this, so all I can suggest you stay objective and really look at if your 14-page conversation is still engaging and keeps everything moving.
I would also advise checking with the Writing community on Beehaw (!writing@beehaw.org) for more advice.
For the users who run custom ROMs: do you typically run them on your device fresh out of the box, or do you typically wait until OS updates are no longer supported and swap then?
Basically you can only view content from instances your home instance (in this case Beehaw) federates with.
Unfortunately, a few weeks ago, Beehaw had to defederate from Lemmy.world and Shitjustworks due to a lack of moderation tools.
This means you will not be able to view any Lemmy.world content with your Beehaw account until Beehaw refederates.
You may still see old content from Lemmy.world from before the defederation, but no new content will show up.
My personal recommendation if you want to see Lemmy.world content would be to use the Lift-off app for Lemmy; which can combine multiple accounts' feeds into a single feed. Then you can use a Lemmy.world account to view their content and your Beehaw account to view their content at the same time.
I hope this helps.
It's very interesting to see console games moving to mobile more and more (especially as phones get more powerful). I am curious if more game devs will plan on that as they design a game from the ground up, especially since designing for the Switch means the processing power is already limited somewhat (though the control scheme would certainly be an issue to a degree).
Bugsnax is a fun and engaging game that doesn't (to my recollection) have a ton of fast paced elements, so a mobile port would be quite at home (even with mobile controls), though I suppose I would've preferred to see the resources going into this port go into a new game from Young Horses since I really enjoyed Bugsnax.
I just finished watching the movie and I thought the pacing of the movie was pretty rough. By the end of the second act I could not wait for it to end; but the Archimedes Ear section was easily my favorite, even though it was after I felt the movie had overstayed its welcome (especially with how repetitive the chase sequences started to feel).
The de-aging left a lot to be desired and I wish Hollywood would go back to casting younger actors that can pull off the mannerisms instead of populating movies and TV with PS3 characters because they're afraid audiences won't connect to new actors.
Overall, it was an enjoyable enough movie, but I probably wouldn't make a point of seeing it again. Having said all that, it is still in my top 5 Indiana Jones movies.
Honestly, I'm not surprised that GQ removed the article; but I am disappointed. I would hope that publications would stand behind their authors even with the indirect ownership; though I suppose not standing behind authors is becoming what Warner Brothers Discovery is known for...
One of the rules I liked from the /r/games community was one of the rules you mentioned here: "Use the same titles as the article itself." I think all the rules you mentioned here are definitely good ground rules as well.
Personally, I would also like to see people adopting the body portion of Lemmy posts to summarize the article, or quote a meaty part of the article; but that could also be used for misleading purposes, so I'm not sure if that's a good idea without some level of oversight.
My understanding is the lack of tools are systemic to Lemmy as a whole (and would apply to all instances).
I remember when the defederation happened, the admins suggested users could help the Lemmy GitHub to help develop the mod tools if they wanted to help rectify the situation, but the admins may have changed their stance since then.
Personally, from what I've heard about the Lemmy code, I don't think modding tools are a high priority to the Devs; so if you really want to see Lemmy.world content, I'd recommend making a second account and combining your feeds using Lift-off.