Coelacanth

That was in my OP though, that most games can be thought of as puzzle games with extra steps.

I just don’t get where you’re getting “most games” from. If you would have phrased it like “many games can be viewed as puzzle games if you really think about it” you would have maybe had more people agree with you.

I understand your reductive approach - it’s just that there are so many games it doesn’t apply to that I can never agree with “most games”.

If you have 2 minutes to solve a puzzle, is it no longer a puzzle game?

Yes, clearly. It still behaves the way a puzzle - or puzzle game - would: knowledge of the solution trivialises the content. It’s just a puzzle game with a timer.

If moving certain colored pieces requires a button combo or sequence, instead of a simple action, is this no longer a puzzle game?

Depends on how the combo works. Is there an element of skill involved? If it’s like a rhythm game I would just call it a puzzle/rhythm game. Otherwise it’s just a puzzle game with extra steps.

For me, if the main challenge of the game is figuring out the puzzle, then it’s mainly a puzzle game. If a measure of skill is required in the actual execution of beating the game it is no longer a pure puzzle game - but it can still contain puzzle elements of course.

EDIT: I would agree that Tetris is not a puzzle game.

Knowing the optimal thing to do can be seen as but a higher order puzzle.

But knowing the right strategy and item build in DotA or LoL means fuck all if you can’t mechanically execute your hero properly, which - in my opinion - disqualifies them as “puzzle games”.

I think your definition of puzzle games is pretty flawed, to be honest. A puzzle does not provide additional difficulty once you’ve identified how the pieces go together, consequently a game should behave similarly to qualify as a puzzle game. The dichotomy is between conceptualisation versus execution.

Puzzle games can be solved or “won” by identifying the solution. Not-puzzle games require execution.

Guitar Hero and OSU! are not puzzle games. Games like RTSes and MOBAs can be argued to have puzzle elements in terms of strategy and meta, but knowing the optimal thing to do will still not give you victory which imo disqualifies them as outright puzzle games.

I did enjoy LivestreamFail on the other site being Northernlion-only for a day as April Fools this year. However, harmless, fun and wholesome April Fool’s are so few and far between.

We struggle with misinformation in our society already, and on a smaller, more personal scale I always found April Fools to be an extremely mean-spirited tradition purely existing to promote and encourage having fun at the expense of others. I never enjoyed humiliating others, and I don’t enjoy being pointed and laughed at either.

I think I’ll pass.

It’s been years since I felt any satisfaction using a search engine, personally. Between the ocean of sponsored results and the ever-growing mountain of AI-generated Search Engine Optimisation-filled garbage it’s so much harder to find stuff than a decade ago.

God I love Cyanide and Happiness.

Oh god it was! I just remember her as Mulva!

Fellow Disco Elysium enjoyer?

No, that’s not how it works. Instances absolutely interact, that’s the whole idea of federation. It can get more complicated than that if you want to get into the details of how it works, but that knowledge isn’t in any way necessary to just use the platform.

Loving these development updates and it looks like you’re making good progress, I really appreciate all the work that you guys do. ❤️

I had a look at the join-lemmy redesign too, and it looks slick, much better than before.

There is also the concept of the American Dream being sold to the people, with everyone being convinced they can “make it” if they just try hard enough and after they do they want to reap the rewards the rich are awarded. John Oliver summed the line of thinking up almost a decade ago: “yes, I can clearly see this game is rigged, which is gonna make it so sweet when I win this thing!” ^[1](https://youtu.be/LfgSEwjAeno)

Completely agree. I can think of many examples of an instance whose content I don’t want on my frontpage (foreign language instances for example) but whose users I still want to interact with in communities on other instances.

Dedicated users posting is the best way to slowly grow communities like that. It’s much less likely others will post if it seems like a ghost town, but if someone is posting others are much more likely to join in. And at the very least there’ll be content to engage with when new people find it.

This would be a great setting, especially if the toggle is easily accessible in the UI. I personally want to change between Top/New comments fairly frequently.

If you want a combination of following people and communities, that’s basically the premise of Kbin, if I understand right. Not sure they support hashtags, though.

It’s tricky because Lemmy doesn’t support following people directly.

I think you can @ people on Mastodon/Misskey/Firefish by @user@instance.tld and they will see it, and I assume if you reply to a post or comment made by them (since they can post/comment here) they can interact with it normally.

No idea if using hashtags on Lemmy will populate people’s Mastodon feed with those posts, but I assume… not?

Feddit.nu upgraded to 0.18.3 and I can confirm Hot seems to be working now.

Top 6 Hours and New Comments are still both useful sorts, though.

The Hot algorithm seems to be working properly after the new update, even on a smaller instance. Feddit.nu just updated to 0.18.3 and I’m no longer seeing months-old posts on the frontpage when sorting by Hot!

And the database improvements are incredibly impressive, thanks for all the continuous great work!

There seems to be two bugs with the calculation. First of all the count doesn’t sum properly, secondly it resets to 0 when you delete a comment.

It’s also worth adding that Karma calculation on Lemmy - at least currently - is even more meaningless since it doesn’t work properly. Not only does it fail to calculate your score well [1], deleting a comment resets your total comment score to 0. [2]

[1] Lemmy GitHub issue #3393

[2] Voyager GitHub issue #312