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the new pokémon games are definitely better for what TPC is leaning into currently, which is competitive play and event-based social dynamics, but there are other ways to ensure people keep playing and talking about your game

you could instead have a game which is really, really replayable, like they used to have

old pokémon games: you can only use a TM once and many movesets are difficult to obtain and take a lot of care to bring about, so there’s strong incentive to play the game multiple times and experiment with lots of different teams. at the end of the game there are challenges which reward you for putting the time in and raising your mon well

new pokémon games: you can get every pokémon with pretty much any moveset trivially. also there are lots of events you can only really do if you have already beat the game. there is absolutely nothing else to work towards

ironic that newer games have both less postgame and much worse replay value

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i for one welcome the days when people no longer believe that computers can be trusted to adequately perform the social tasks of categorizing and making discoverable meaningful information

which of course is where this is all headed, if you consider that the a·i generating noise is always going to be at least as sophisticated as the one trying to filter it

it's nice when a group of humans who are passionate about a thing get together and make a proper art about it

it's unfortunately rare to see on any kind of scale but it's nice

i feel the same way about the animated hobbit feature by rankin-bass but this is more contentious

say what you will about fantasy and fandom, but a world without the lord of the rings movies would be a much shittier world

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@wallhackio if you want better type detection (not dependent on instanceof), most builtins have methods which will throw if not called on an instance and you can use those as a brand check

i think assuming that people haven't done weird things with inheritance is a fine limitation tho

@jdp23 you have no guarantees about whether the content gets there. it can’t be FETCHED or VERIFIED by the receiving server if your server has them blocked; this comment by claire implies that this also takes effect for individual blocks <https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18345#issuecomment-1120176872>.

mastodon does not appear to include the contents of boosted posts in boosts, so this is enough to prevent them from federating from a Mastodon server. however, other ActivityPub implementations could conceivably include the contents of the post being boosted. in this case, the content would be leaked, and just not verifiable.

on mastodon, every post is verified to protect against other instances lying about things that you said. this means: if you have AUTHORIZED_FETCH and a server is blocked, and it gets word of a status by you, then it will check to see if you actually posted that status. it won’t be able to confirm that, so it does the reasonable thing and assumes it may have been deleted. consequently, it does not record the status or show it to its users.

however, there is always the possibility that (a) a different ActivityPub implementation includes the full contents of your post when it boosts it, and (b) Threads accepts this content as true, even though it can’t verify it. there is nothing technologically which can be done about this sort of information leak, aside from not federating with instances which might fall into the category of (a).

i don't know but i haven't hit the limit yet

@aschmitz wait i cam get your posts from here? since when?!

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