Yup, although the downside is that your posting style definitely shows off that you’re a Mastodon user.

Your use of the @ tag, the hashtag are all markers of a more Twitter-like user experience, and it makes you post stand out somewhat oddly for those using one of the lemmy instances. Either way, it’s really neat to be able to cross between those, since I vastly prefer the Lemmy UX as opposed to Mastodon’s, but I can still get a Mastodon’s content!

Brother, pretty much every single woman I know under the age of 40 plays, at the very minimum, Stardew Valley, Minecraft, and Terraria. Most of them also play other big games, like Dark Souls, Elden Ring, etc.

The genre that the mostly don’t play though are modern “arena” style shooters like Call of Duty, Halo, CSGO, Rainbow Six, etc. They’re far more likely to play something like Fortnite or Hunt or something where you can have a small squad to roll with. Typically because it means they don’t have to deal with anywhere near the same number of toxic random assholes.

No, I meant it in a completely serious way. The explosion might be been powerful enough to lift the decking of the bridge straight up and sheared a lot of connection points in the girder and headers, but depending oh how much force was directed perpendicularly, it might have just caused it to slam down on top of the caps and pillars and just sit there with a really bad weight distribution.

In terms of functionality, that sort of damage is better compared to maybe a cracked windshield, as an analogy? You can keep trucking along and maybe everything will be fine, but the overall structural integrity of the windshield is now in a much riskier state. Any further strikes could cause further destabilization radiating outward from the flaw or worse, the continued use could be causing the material to continually weaken as stress points are flexed over and over and over and over. Similar to how if you bend a stiff piece of metal back and forth, it gets looser and eventually snaps.

The photos Russia themselves published show levels of damage that would take, at minimum, days to weeks to fix back to perfect assuming you’re running everything as an emergency 24/7 rush job, and realistically more likely months since you’re not likely to have a super dense civilian engineering firm able to just instantly slide into place. The more likely case is that Ukraine caused damage that drastically weakened that section of the bridge, but didn’t hit it in such a way as to do much more reduce the weight load that can go over or it alternatively drastically shorten the lifespan of the bridge without major repair. That seems pretty consistent with what you’d expect out of a drone bomb blowing up under the bridge, rather than something coming in and hitting it from the side, like a missile or something impacting from the top down.

Russia is leaning on the thought that the patch job will hold longer than the state of hostilities and that they can do more long term repairs once things have cooled off some. But for now, supplies NEED to be run over that bridge, so fast patch and reduced weight and lifetime is the cost they pay.

Bridges are actually pretty difficult to take out if you can’t get in to hit specific weak points and if you’re willing to just keep running the risk of crossing over damaged bridges and maybe lose everything on it.

It’s exacerbated by the Black Sea being a relatively gentle body of water, so even if you pop the top, it might slam back down in such a way that’s it’s still usable and because there isn’t as much perpendicular pressure from the sea or wind, it’s easier for it to just kinda settle there and just slowly degrade away rather than collapse into utter non-functionality all at once.

Most FromSoftware games.

Absolutely love the lore and writing, love the environments and character designs and atmosphere. It’s a shame that I mostly find the games to be a boring slog to actually play.

So I watch Let’s Players and while they do the fighting, I can take the time to really enjoy how well-polished everything is and throw open the wiki and read through item flavor text or other bits of info.

If I spend more than 5 minutes trying to decide what to play, I use one of the Steam game pickers and just go with it.

The github seems to include all the instructions needed to try it. If you’ve got a NES and the time, why not go for it. Got nothing to lose after all.

Had been eyeballing it for a awhile already. Just needed a little bit of a push to make the jump and start actually taking the time to grok the concept.

I’ve done social community migrations probably 2 or 3 times though already (Usenet -> Forums -> Social Media), so this all feels pretty old hat to me. Unlike previous Reddit revolts, Lemmy strikes me as an actually useable alternative, especially since other Fediverse communities can help pad out content while the site still tries to build out its own legs and specializations.

For whatever it’s worth, I didn’t like The Witcher 3, but I really enjoyed Cyberpunk. Your mileage may vary. They’re very different games.

I could never get into The Witcher 3. I recognize that it’s purely a subjective thing, but it honestly feels like they handcrafted that game sitting there going “Well what would Action Bastard REALLY hate mechanically?”

Just absolutely nothing clicked for me aside from bits of the story, and even that wasn’t really holding my attention all that well since I’ve already had a lot of exposure to Eastern European mythology and folklore and just don’t really care about any of the main characters.

That said, some of the side quests were absolutely delightful in terms of being fun ideas. I just didn’t enjoy the minute to minute gameplay enough to be able to stick with it.

How is Honkai Star Rail? I was surprised when I tried Genshin Impact how playable it was. If I had been able to get any of my friends to play, I might have stuck with it for a bit.

For group play, me and my gang have mostly been playing Barotrauma. It’s been a lot of fun. Gives off similar vibes to Space Station 13 for any who ever played that at all.

For single player, been a mix of Age of Wonders 4, My Life as a Teenage Exocolonist, and finally got around to buying Cyberpunk and playing it, since I finally have a rig beefy enough to handle it and they’ve gotten the bulk of the bugs under control now.