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‘i think that’s valid, but it does have kind of “straight couple trying to save their marriage” vibes’

grumpy

@jdp23 i don't think limiting signatures to a single instance should be necessary in most cases—instead i’d probably go with a design like

• sign in with your masto account as mentioned. the app shouldn't need any privileges beyond basic auth to start

• signatures can be anonymized (just the instance) or public (instance and handle)

• each petition lists (a) total number of signatures, (b) number of signatures per instance, and (c) list of public signatures

it’s relevant to instance admins what users on instances they federate with think, and this still exposes to them the number of users on their instance which think a thing too. and this could be useful for other kinds of petitioning (e·g of mastodon development)

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

« Mickey’s parentage is irrelevant. He is a godlike figure who answers to no one. »

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

https://blog.ladys.computer/2023-12-17/programming_resolutions_24/

#prrgrrmmng

@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