And a concrete lid so Sadako can’t escape!

Reddit has a long tail of small communities you really can’t find elsewhere. Some of the ones I frequent tried to move to Lemmy but it really didn’t work out. Ended up moving to Discord, which is far worse than Reddit.

Not sure what you mean by exodus. I “left” Reddit for Lemmy, but Lemmy doesn’t do what I want, so it doesn’t replace Reddit. I went back to Reddit. Now I’m on both, for different reasons.

I don’t have any issues with bots on Reddit, but all the subs I’m on have very small numbers of users. The “equivalent” Lemmy communities are ghost towns where people haven’t made a single post in 2 years.

Watch out for La-Mulana, especially the original Windows version. That game has some insane moon logic puzzles! And it’s an absolutely sprawling Metroidvania with an Indiana Jones theme! Love it!

I’m glad you enjoyed them! I have AM2R but I haven’t played it yet. My favourite game in the series is Metroid 2, followed by Super, and then the original Metroid for NES.

It’s funny how you mention getting lost. I love getting lost in games and trying to find my way out. I love that the first 2 games in the series don’t have a map. A lot of people really seem to hate that though.

They were the movies I grew up with! Watch a movie like The Goonies or Raiders of the Lost Ark. There’s nothing like that these days!

I don’t write them off, I’m just not interested in watching actors in front of a green screen anymore. It doesn’t matter to me how hard CGI artists work because the medium itself has lost appeal for me.

I’m interested in traditional filmmaking techniques: shooting on film, a focus on story and acting, practical effects, matte painting, traditional darkroom and traditional editing (cutting and splicing) etc.

This is why I mostly watch 20th century movies now.

Thank you, friend! I saved that one for later!

But how about home made burritos that can be microwaved at work for a quick lunch? 😺

I still need to find some really good, simple burrito filling recipes.

That is so cool! Anyway thanks for the technique! I want to try these soon!

Wow that’s very interesting. The cast iron pan acts like a heat battery?

Wow those oven fries look gorgeous! What’s your fry making technique?

These things are pretty cheap though. I think the trend is towards grabbing different handhelds for different systems, rather than trying to find The One Handheld to Rule Them All.

The way you put all that is extremely gross. The same kind of reasoning could be applied to displacing indigenous peoples of North America from their land and forcing them to live in a modern city with a basic income.

Utopia for you isn’t Utopia for everyone. People should have a right to self determination. If people want to farm when replicators are available, I think it’s wrong to tell them not to farm.

The Maquis didn’t start the war with the Cardassians. They had nothing to do with the Federation’s treaty negotiations. The Federation traded away their planets without even giving them a seat at the table.

Yes, not only vegetarian and veganism, but also simply having vegetarian meals more often without giving up meat entirely. Sometimes I think folks “let the perfect be the enemy of the good” and insist on going cold turkey full vegan or bust and then busting out. They’d have much more success eating less meat by just trying some vegetarian Indian dishes and seeing how nice it can be to have a delicious, savoury, hearty, filling, and satisfying Indian meal, and even forget that they aren’t eating meat!

Some of my favourites include Rajma, dal makhani, a very spicy masala dosa with 3 chutneys and a bowl of sambar, and Lahore style chole.

Indian cuisine has got to be #1 in the world for flavour at a low price. It’s pretty amazing. Back in the early colonial days it must’ve been crazy expensive for all the spices but now you can stock up at a local Indian grocery and get amazing spices in bulk for quite cheap.

Do you use a masala dabba?

The big map is misleading. The vast majority of us live within 100 miles of the US border.

I’m not really a question poster though, I’m a question answerer. I think most people are like me, which is why tiny communities (but non-zero) don’t have any discussions: there aren’t enough question posters, just a lot of question answerers waiting around like kids at the school dance.

I joined Lemmy like a lot of others, when Reddit shut down the API. I soon went back to Reddit but also stayed on Lemmy.

The big problem for me with Lemmy is it’s still way too small to use it the way I use Reddit. I’ve subscribed to a whole bunch of communities equivalent to the subreddits I read and comment on. On Reddit those subreddits have a few hundred people active on a daily basis, whereas on Lemmy they’re lucky to see 1 post and 2 comments a week.

Small communities and real discussions were always what I liked about Reddit, never the big subreddits with millions of users. For now, anyway, Lemmy’s communities are just too small to foster those discussions (on the topics I’m still on Reddit for, anyway; there’s plenty of politics here obviously).

The thing that got me to really like spiders is when I learned that spiders are actually tiny mechs! Their legs are powered by hydraulics, rather than directly moved by muscles! I just thought that was so adorable!