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I'm trying to push a jump in userbase for the tabletop hobby centric communities on LW. I had modded the 40k community for a while, and just took on the tabletop minis community. I post content from blogs I subscribe to and as much of my original content as I can make, but I'd really like to see more growth as an alternative Reddit like space online that isn't as totally captured by the Games Workshop financial ecosystem.

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The art share community has been growing which is great to see but still not as much traffic as it could have.

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I took over the dead Star Wars community and have tried to shape it as much as possible towards a place online that actually talks about Star Wars rather than infighting and complaining about other peoples' taste of Star Wars.

Other spaces here like the airsoft community are pretty dead, though I try as much as possible to post when I can.

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There is also the historical US Civil War community. I like history in general, and the U.S. Civil War has become a natural fit for me since in real life I often travel to places where I can go to related historical sites.

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The Fallout community has taken off more than most gaming communities but still is pretty niche

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SSTF @lemmy.world 8mo ago

"Yippie kay yay, MR FALCON." from Die Hard is pretty infamous.

SSTF @lemmy.world 8mo ago

Oh boy a Star Citizen thread.

SSTF @lemmy.world 8mo ago

I understanding removing the ability for publishing reasons. It is the apparently mandatory apology which I find a bit humorous and pointless. "We're sorry because of unforeseen player actions which were obviously not an intended part of design."

Perhaps I'm just so deadened to the hollow "We will do better." apologies belted out by companies and public personalities, where the apology reads the same regardless of the amount of actual fault.

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SSTF @lemmy.world 8mo ago

Sims type games have always had that kind of appeal to be able to go full sociopath in a harmless way. Drowning Sims in pools is a classic of gaming. The devs can do what they want with their game, but (unless this was something they had to do for publishing reasons) it strikes me as strange that they apologized for players being able to hit kids with cars in game, or abusing interactions to kidnap NPCs.

SSTF @lemmy.world 8mo ago

Who is "they"?

Users clawing at each other over anything, and mods power tripping has been an Internet trope since the BBS forum days in the 1990s, at least. Lemmy, or at least LW seems to have a lower than median amount although imperfect. Lemmy as a platform has the advantage that anyone willing to undertake it can spin up their own instance, preventing a 100% stranglehold on mod/admin powers.

SSTF @lemmy.world 8mo ago

I don't know, but I do know copyright and patent are two different kinds of protection, so it might be useful to look into how you think the shape would be protected.

Copyright would be for a creative work, and the enforcement by the right holder is allowed to be loose in selectively pursuing violators without losing protections.

Patent is for useful inventions or designs rather than expressive works. Skimming the Theodore G Brown soap, it seems much more involved than a simple shape and I can see why it was able to be patented.

SSTF @lemmy.world 8mo ago

The feeling of cheaply produced 80s and 90s cartoon productions. Clean, minimal lines with no or very little lineweight variation. Bright colors and distinct silhouettes. Facial structures somewhere between to 80s TV cartoon anime, which were themselves often inspired by American cartoons and not nearly as distinct as modern anime most often is, and American comic books as drawn by Jim Lee or JRJR. Big influence of technology designs from blocky designs like Transformers, and comics like Liefeld where guns or robots are just stuffed with nonsense greebles.

Or at least I'm trying.

SSTF @lemmy.world 8mo ago

Scary numbers.

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SSTF @lemmy.world 9mo ago

Ah yes, the elusive they.

SSTF @lemmy.world 9mo ago

Orks.

SSTF @lemmy.world 9mo ago

Sketchbook. On work trips, I always finish one drawing every night as a way to get out of a work headspace.

SSTF @lemmy.world 10mo ago

Oh yeah, I'm totally aware of that. I was more thought spinning a from the ground up redesigned remake taking advantage of knowing how far the tech and design knowledge has come. Change up the levels, mechanics, and weapons design with a profession game developer level of resources while still using a fairly retro engine and keeping the original spirit.

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SSTF @lemmy.world 10mo ago

It's a good thing to have the game faithfully remastered, though part of me does wonder what a more ambitious remake might have looked like.

Issues like the imprecise aiming seem like artifacts of having to work around the original game's limitations. I don't know how different the Jedi engine is to the Build engine, as they seem superficially similar. Seeing games like Ion Fury being made on the Build engine makes me curious how a from the ground up remake of Dark Forces on an improved Jedi or Build engine, with some unshackling in terms of redesigning game mechanics with lessons learned while still keeping the original atmosphere might have gone.

But I understand that's a lot of money and dev time that's way beyond the scope of these kinds of remasters.

SSTF @lemmy.world 11mo ago

Not fond of repeating myself, but:

Sometimes temp to hire works out, but in my experience only if the temp period is short as a probation period or if there is writing that after “x” time as a temp they either let you go or bring you on full time. Preferably both things.

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SSTF @lemmy.world 11mo ago

told by HR that maybe after 6 months they would consider bringing me on FT.

Oh honey.

You should talk to the manager about it, but I suspect they will hem and haw, and say something vaguely about looking into it without providing you with any specifics.

Companies hire temps and dangle the "well maybe we'll hire you some day" out there to string them along.

Sometimes temp to hire works out, but in my experience only if the temp period is short as a probation period or if there is writing that after "x" time as a temp they either let you go or bring you on full time. Preferably both things.

If I were you, I'd start tuning up your resume and sending it out now. If your current job comes through then nothing really lost, and if your job isn't actually interested in making you an employee then you should spend this employed time to look for a job without the stress of no income.