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Haven't checked the news itself, but been following the hardware surveys from Valve for some years now, and on average, Linux is on a slow but constant growth. Also, been checking US's official analytics site every now and then for some months now, and there, Linux oscilates between 3 and 6% of users per system.

Final Fantasy XII is pretty high up there for me.

Bestiary entries are vast, almost a book in game format, and most add to lot of worldbuilding even if not needed for the main plot itself.

Also bosses, sidequests, enviromental cues seldom aren't at least hinted by a few NPCs often dozens of hours before they're relevant.

Overall details are often explained when you look in the right corners of the game. Even some weird weather cycles seem to have some logic applied. And in a single case, it felt inspired by a real-world element, one even Mad Max 4 used a cut in the beginning.

And I wonder if the sky-gazing kid in one of the airships that says she saw something in the sky was referring to Deathgaze or the continent from Revenant Wings....

One detail that held to me the strongest is the characters' talking patterns. It feels like dialogues were written in another language and then converted to English. The strongest example I think was the lady that gives the Knight flowers for delivering, which also is added to, iirc, being at least implied she is one of the oldest creatures in Hallownest.

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But thanks! Been a while since I used a Motorola. I'll keep it in mind, if I turn picture taking into a proper hobby.

Beautiful contrast. What camera was used, if you don't mind?

When I think a regional community could be good:

If the user doesn't speak English, or if neither the one recommending nor the one interested know at all what the latter wants.

And in the second case, a generalist instance like Lemmy.World or Mastodon.Social would be better, I think.

If the user likes none of the regional instances he/she knows of, should the user recommend things he/she doesn't like?

Similarly, some instances have more clear-cut niches. If the user finds such an instance to be a good recommendation to someone interested in the fediverse, should he/she avoid it if it's too far physically from the interested user?

Other than that, and in line with the question, I second !meta@ibbit.at.

Lemmy.World federates to potentially any platforms as long as they also use ActivityPub and are not defederated/defederating. However, compatibility may vary, and some rather sporadic cases from some tests I did outright wouldn't work.

And to my knowledge, it's not possible to connect accounts for them to behave like one. What is is having your accounts in different services follow each other.

Mbin, Peertube, Misskey and Mastodon allow that from my experience. I would presume other microblogging and video platfroms allow that too, though still have to test them.

And just in case, to clarify, Mbin (software) tries to act as a mix of threads (like Reddit) and microblogging (like Twitter and Facebook). The/Brain/Bin (my main instance) runs on Mbin software. Lemmy is focused as a threads platform, but you can't follow users directly there.

Plus, in the possibility you don't want to stick around and just came here to ask for help, I would insist otherwise: the protocol's proposal makes for the environment as a whole to be hard to be taken down or to be taken over. And even if a given community, user base or instance is not of your liking, alternatives are already starting to pop up while still in the overall environment.

If the platform doesn't want you, I wouldn't think it's healthy to still chase after it. If it's something you want to post in other platforms, maybe see if there's a section of your liking in other forums or microblogs? I remember coming across a few those past few years, like AtariAge, Retropie, Fuwanovel, Twitter if you must, Bluesky or any of its forks, etc.

Maybe for edits? Transparent backgrounds allow putting the image on top of another without completely covering it, e.g. the image attached.

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