Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

So I wrote a long post about my thoughts on Bsky being where the party atmosphere is right now, then stowed it because it condenses to this:

Modeling your entire online existence around a single website is terrible, no matter how good the vibes are today. While the vibes in a new places are high, we should carry them with us to smaller communities. And when they sour, we should become comfortable with being digital nomads. That way, when Bsky follows the trajectory of Twitter (or certain Masto instances go dark, etc etc), we can continue to exist and thrive.

Also, let's never repeat the era in which Twitter was too big to fail but no alternatives readily existed. That really fucking sucked.

Folks at the time specifically harped on Nintendo for its online perspective being naive and outdated, and to be fair, it was!

But in a world in which an always-on internet connection with vendor software updates means ever more elaborate ways to sneak in ads, rent you your own data, and exfiltrate your data to soulless content farms, a device with community updates, simple tools, the ability to post, and the ability to stay fully offline is the absolute best thing.

So far, my antidote to commercial software trying to sell me on increasingly more dubious AI has been to go back to creative software I enjoyed a decade ago. Which specifically means I've been spending a lot more time on my 2DS XL messing around with Colors! 3D and Pokemon Art Academy again. (I also plan to mess with Flipnote again at some point.)

I'm also very amused that Pretendo Miiverse is absolutely thriving, including and especially around the community for Splatoon 1.

@CoyoteTraveller The thing about SoT is: yes there are Xbox tryhards on there, but most folks are either just playing the game for fun or being chaos gremlins. And chaos gremlining is half the fun.

@gardevoir Anyway, I've done a lot of Bandit and took Warrior and Mystic to 11, and I agree that the RPG side needs... something.

My touchstone is, oddly, One Step from Eden/Duelists of Eden. That tells me that if there were a better rhythm to attacks and parries, and themes that were more clear to build towards, it'd be much easier to digest and play with the RPG pieces on offer.

@gardevoir Personally, I've found that the weapon masteries and utility spells give a lot of mileage, but the direct damage spells... not as much yet?

For example: Sturdy and Rage are strong enough to build just about anything around as a Fighter, especially a weapon mastery. 8s of invulnerability paired with huge damage is very, very good.

Bandit gets mobility and stabby pieces, which build nicely. Mystic gets... a lot of spells with unimplemented elemental mechanics?

@CoyoteTraveller Ehhhhhh... as someone who has played 'em all, the EO games stopped fairly short of giving good or complete furry options. They kinda started in EOIV with an unlockable race, had some options in V, but it was all super limited and only vaguely furry bait. Nexus then smushed it all into fewer options for sake of their compilation game.

Pretty sure you can do better. :p