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  • Oh, I wasn’t like being mad or anything. I was just trying to explain what was happening. I’m autistic, so not only have I already learned all these lessons the hard way, but I’m very familiar with being misunderstood and having to make extra effort to explain my jokes.

    Edit: And with the most common way of browsing lemmy, especially as a new user, being to have it set to /all, there are actually alot of instances of a random person showing up with a super unpopular hot take on something they don’t know about.




  • They did give her a lesser sentence.

    Most people don’t have those thoughts in their head in the first place, and thus don’t have to control themselves from posting them at an emotional time.

    Calling specific people to commit specific violent actions against specific targets is very much a crime. If it was just a vague “this thing was bad, I am sad” post, there wouldn’t have been a problem, even if one of her followers took it upon themselves to do something. But with her specifically saying exactly which buildings her followers should burn down, it’s a problem even if they don’t then do so.

    With all that, I don’t know if your post was serious or sarcastic, so hopefully I’m not getting whooshed. But very much, this is not a role model. Her serving a short prison sentence for what she did will be a better behaviour model to her kids than her getting away with that would have been. And hopefully it will help her work towards being a role model in the future.








  • Recently? Or early on? The slingshot controls got an accuracy rework and also the option to be aim direction instead of pullback direction if the player prefers.

    I think most of the control issues for new players unfamiliar with the genre is how precise you need to be to water crops and stuff. Those of us that have been playing farm sims(not farming simulations, totally different beast once you write both words in full like that, lol) for decades already probably don’t even remember a time when it was tough to manually align our tools to the grid. For a lot of people, stardew is their first one, and for a decent subset of them, it’s not just their first farming sim, but their first video game on a controller.

    There have also been grid aligning innovations in other farming sims for onboarding new players. Some games have a modifier key you can hold down that basically turn the analog into digital movement while holding it. Your character will move exactly one grid space at a time and keep facing the same direction. That sort of thing can help, but honestly, probably better to just make the game fun enough that people are willing to keep playing while they are bad at it, to eventually get good at it. Not every farm sim can accomplish that.