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Entropy, do scifi w Thoughts on Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes?

I was a little all over the place, but I enjoyed it none the less. I would have liked to see more of the day to day lives of the apes under Proximus’ rule too, but I get that it was a very personal story without much room for that.

I’d give it a solid 6.5, decent, but not nearly as good as dawn/rise/war.

Also Raka was my favorite character. There was an orangutan noise that played after the credits finished rolling that sounded like him, so I’m hoping that means he’s still alive and will be in the sequel.

any1th3r3, do games w What are some eras of gaming that you've stopped feeling nostalgic for?

Most handhelds tbh.
I didn’t really grow up with “traditional” (home) consoles, but I always had handhelds (and a PC).
I have trouble going back to most handheld games pre-Vita nowadays, even if I remember the PSP (and GBA to a certain extent) fondly, between the controls, smaller screen and cut versions of games vs their home console counterparts, it’s hard to go back. Emulation makes it somewhat nicer for me, but still.
And let’s not begin with GB or GG games, they have a certain charm, but I usually can’t stand them for more than 5 mins nowadays.

iAmTheTot, do games w What are some eras of gaming that you've stopped feeling nostalgic for?
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I certainly feel like people tend to be more nostalgic of the 16 bit era than the 8 bit.

Drummyralf,

I think because the 16-bit astethic (when done right) still looks amazing today, where 8-bit is just a bit too limiting.

testing, do kbinDevlog w unofficial kbin guide shutting down
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@unofficial_kbin_guide
this is sad! i liked the unofficial guide!

originalucifer, do kbinMeta w Error 50x when looking for Nijimiss.moe profiles
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

works from my mbin site.. must be specific to the kbin.social instance.

the no europe thing smells like gdpr avoidance. something of a red flag

e. actually, that might be the main issue. i think kbin.social is out of germany, so might be blocked from your no-euro server

Auster,

You mean Nijimiss? I'm running the searches for that within Kbin Social, and not the opposite, and tinkering with the VPN, Kbin doesn't seem to have problems with EU IPs (isn't it from Poland? I have the impression I read something on that previously).

originalucifer,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

yes, i mean the Nijimiss site is actively blocking european IPs, which would include requests coming from kbin.social, and might be the root of your 500 errors. i noticed lemmy.world (finland) also cant make those requests to nijimiss.moe successfully.

my instance is not in europe, so it seems like it can make those requests without error.

Auster,

Ah, I see.

I'm concerned about Nijimiss now too.

shazbot, do kbinMeta w Could blocked magazines no longer appear in Random Post and Random Thread sidebars?

A few suggestions that may or may not be satisfactory for you:

Using KES, enable General > Hide sidebar elements > Random threads, Random mags, Random posts. The randomly populated sidebar is fundamentally flawed; I suggest disabling its content altogether.

Next, enable General > Filter advertisements. This second feature is by no means foolproof, but will reduce a lot of noise, and is periodically updated on a rolling basis.

sxan, do kbinMeta w Could blocked magazines no longer appear in Random Post and Random Thread sidebars?
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Most of the content being federated to my instance from kbin appears to be mostly adverts for websites selling pharmaceuticals - usually advertising controlled substances.

After a couple from the same magazine(? kbin’s term?) I just block the community. But it’s pretty non-stop. I guess it’s not yet considered to be worth defederating, but yowsa.

Hegar,

Yep, Magazine = Community.

Kbin got the same rexodus boost as lemmy but since then has many more atrophied communities and far fewer moderaters to do anything about it, hence spamalot.

I've only seen 1 or 2 pieces of spam in my feed and that was months back - interesting that you seem to be seeing more of it on a federated server. I only started blocking those magazines when I noticed the spam on desktop sidebars.

sxan,
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I just saw another one in random(@kbin.social), so I jumped in and scrolled back; there were only a couple in the past two days, but three days ago there was a series of several posts in a row (6? 8? Something like that).

I an not subscribed to any kbin magazines, so I don’t see them in my curated feed; they mostly show up in the uncurated “World.”

FWIW; you expressed curiosity, so I followed up with an example.

bluGill,

Unforcunately the admin\creator of kbin has personal issues and is missing. We need to leave, but that means migrating manually which is annoying. Too bad, there are some good idas here.

shazbot,

If your main goal is exporting your magazine subscriptions between accounts across instances, may I suggest trying EXIT tool. If you are looking for more complex export settings (friends/favorites?), unfortunately, only subscriptions are supported at this time.

lath, do scifi w Happy May the Fourth to all who celebrate!

Caved in and bought the Kotors. Nostalgia boomed.

aniki, do scifi w Happy May the Fourth to all who celebrate!

Same thing I do every year – Make fun of Star Bores: A Children’s Tale

III, do scifi w What's your Sci-Fi unpopular opinion? Part II

My unpopular opinion is that I don’t like space operas.

I would argue against you here but I have seen Farscape so I can only view you as a reasonable person with a valid opinion.

bramkaandorp,

As a big fan of Farscape, your opinion is invalid.

Kidding aside, I realise it’s an acquired taste.

ikidd, do scifi w What's your Sci-Fi unpopular opinion? Part II
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Three Body Problem is probably the worst trash to ever win a Hugo. And that’s saying a lot when Redshirts won it as well.

niucllos, do scifi w What's your Sci-Fi unpopular opinion? Part II

2001: A Space Odyssey is a fantastic Asimovesque sci-fi exploration of what happens when an entity that believes itself infallible discoveres a flaw in itself, sandwiched in the middle of a fever dream with little relevance to the story itself.

Hand waving the precise how of advanced technology is better than drafting full mechanisms unless you have extensive practical knowledge and don’t mind dating your work

Kid4today, do scifi w What's your Sci-Fi unpopular opinion? Part II
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Damn, all three of those opinions hurt me. Why you gotta be this way?

My takes; I didn’t enjoy Hyperion or Red Mars.

HowManyNimons, do scifi w What's your Sci-Fi unpopular opinion? Part II

It’s time for a reboot of Lexx.

Apeman42,
@Apeman42@lemmy.world avatar

Who could possibly play a loser well enough to replace Brian Downey as Stanley? David Cross, maybe?

And is Misha Collins too old to play Kai?

bayaz, do kbinMeta w Banning spam accounts

FYI, I tried the process you mentioned, I'm not sure it's as simple as your post implies (if that process could be called "simple" anyway). I've tried a few different orders of "report, delete, ban", and clicked the "ban" button in at least two spots (one that was directly in the feed and another that comes up under Reports in the magazine panel). No matter what I do, it always shows up as "unban" in the mod log. However, there is a list of bans under the magazine panel, and that does show the accounts as banned.

So, I'm really not sure what is going on here. Maybe it's just a problem with the log and not with the banning itself?

Anyway, thanks again for pointing this out. Hopefully someone can figure out what is going on.

testing,
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@bayaz Thank you! This is even worse than I thought! I will try some things out in the near future in order to find a stable way for banning accs.

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