CoolBeance

At some point you're just so tired that comfort and time is much less of a factor, I mean I feel like I can fall asleep anyti

I rage-clicked, rage-chuckled, and rage-upvoted. God dammit

Should we start having villages on boats?

This is an interesting question actually. In my head, "staying true to the games" initially referred to how the game operates like the other commenter said e.g.

• How different bodily needs are met. To quench my thirst, do I boil the dirty water and just take some RadAway? How much radiation does this InstaMash have? If a character in the show drinks from an irradiated lake and somehow isn't affected by the next plot device, how "true to the game" is that? If I do that in any of the Fallout games, I'd be running into Deathclaws with only a fraction of my max HP.

• VATS. Will time be stopped or slowed down while the characters are selecting and terminating their targets? There's a lot that can go well here especially since it's an opportunity to inject slow-mo Hollywood-style shooting scenes, but can you imagine if they don't put any slow-mo at all? In my opinion that would show a huge lack of understanding of the games.

• To your point, decisions. Unfortunately I think making decisions for the audience is unavoidable here unless the show becomes something like Netflix's interactive specials. However, some good ideas might include reproducing quests similar to the ones from the games and then making decisions based on data they may have gathered from game quests. Take the Megaton Bomb quest for example. Maybe the show will force a character into deciding between blowing up a city or not at the twilight of a story arc. In the end, they decide to blow it up. Then, during the credit roll, they show that most people in the games who did the Megaton quest actually blew up the city. I don't actually know what the real stats are, but I think it would be a good idea for the show's characters -- to a certain reasonable extent, because if we blew everything up like in my last playthrough it wouldn't be a very good show -- to follow the patterns of most decisions made by the playerbase in the games. I'd see that as an attempt to reconcile the disconnect between playing a game(lots of control) vs. watching a show(no control).

I probably wouldn't have but if there are errors as big as those and they're trying to slide it by me, that's pretty slimy.

Why must you hurt me with the truth? Counterpoint though: Almost heaven

Well this is already taking points off for sure. But let's see if the show is good. If they stay true to the games and create a truly unique show, maybe it will be worthwhile.

A Toyota Pixis Mega/Honda N Van as a daily and a toy on the side, that's ideal for me and maybe it should be for Americans too. But I'm biased because I love driving

I feel like there should be a Lemmy version of everything now

Damn that's just over 1 and a half pints

Here's my attempt at making it as simple as possible. (Sorry to anyone who has seen me repost this in several different communities, just trying to make it easier for people to engage and this seems to have good feedback)

The Fediverse

• The Fediverse -- Federation + Universe -- is a space on the internet that hosts several social media-like platforms. Lemmy is like Reddit, Mastodon is like Twitter, PeerTube is like YouTube, etc.

• The main difference -- in terms of ownership and influence -- is that these platforms aren't owned by a single entity in the same way Google owns YouTube, Elon Musk with Twitter, Meta with Facebook, etc. In contrast, the Fediverse and its platforms are decentralized meaning no one wholly owns it and a person can't just make a decision for the entire Fediverse/platform.

• As a relevant example, no one can just arbitrarily decide to make you pay $20 million per year for accessing a platform's backend stuff. The Fediverse avoids the advertising, algorithms, and other unpleasantries that plague many social networks.

• As well, different platforms within the Fediverse can communicate with each other, like how a Gmail user can email a Yahoo Mail user. Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube can't do that.

Lemmy

• Going back to trying to ELI5 Lemmy... Lemmy the platform, within the Fediverse, is one planet. Like planet Earth in the universe

• “Instances” like lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc. are like the different countries on Earth

• When someone signs up, the user picks one instance to be a part of, like how an Earthling becomes a citizen of a country

• If you register at lemmy.world, that means your home instance / “home country” is lemmy.world, but you can “travel” to lemmy.ml, another instance / “country”, to check out and subscribe to their community

• When you subscribe to a different instance that’s not your home instance, you can still participate in their content, and other people will be able to see which instance / “country” you’re from

• Each instance can have its own version of the same community / “subreddit”, so you can have a c/Memes in your home instance that is different from a c/Memes in another instance. But you can subscribe to both separately

• c/[community name] is the naming convention used here I think like r/[subreddit name] on Reddit. If talking about a community in a different instance, it's c/[community name]@[instance name] so like c/memes@lemmy.ml

Someone please correct any of this if any of it is wrong, I’ll happily edit