!animepics@reddthat.com -- people mostly post fan art these days, but discussion of anything anime-adjacent (anime/manga/VN/hentai/etc.) is explicitly allowed too. In the past I've posted amusing/interesting stills from shows I was watching, custom image composites, screenshot comics, and things like that.
!anime_irl@ani.social -- "A community for sharing relatable real-life situations depicted in anime."
I'm not sure if I've ever fallen in love with a completely imaginary dream person, but I did dream about my ex once years and years after we broke up. I don't remember what I dreamed about exactly, but I do remember waking from it. The happiness fading as the realization set in that it was all a dream -- I was by myself in bed and none of it had been real. I'm usually pretty good at dealing with solitude, but that moment... that was the most intense loneliness I think I've ever felt.
I tried booting an old Surface off a USB stick with stock Ubuntu once -- probably either 20.04 or 22.04. (I tried this in June 2022 but didn't make a note of the versions in my journal, unfortunately.) I was able to get it to boot, but I couldn't get touch/pen controls working so I decided against replacing the OS. I didn't have enough enthusiasm to bother experimenting with it further -- I assume it probably needed the custom kernel.
kbin.social has been totally down for a while. I don't think your posts are actually federating when you post into a kbin.social magazine right now; the votes you are getting are probably from other lemmy.world users only.
[...] male-gazey content. I am 2) a woman extremely disinterested in that.
I feel some men might also not want to see content focused on games where a big goal is to romance a man as a woman, presented in a femgazey way or a way tailored to our desires even if not sexualized.
Fair enough. There are a lot of eroge where you play as a women that are absolutely, clearly intended to be played by men though; that part alone isn't likely to be off-putting, but I can see specific presentation and femgaze heavy works being just as off putting to some guys as malegaze heavy works are to some women. If the audience is mostly straight guys, posting fan art of something like an explicit BL work probably isn't going to get much positive response, I suppose. :-)
There's so little content posted regularly in the visualnovels community though that I feel like anyone actively trying to start discussions there on the subject of VNs would likely be welcomed, but I might be wrong about that. The most successful posts I've seen are generally notices about sales and some business news with people occasionally posting memes and such as well.
If that doesn't feel right to you though, I get it, and hopefully reviving the other community works out.
Is the issue that the posts will be frequently inaccessible?
I don't think your posts are federating out at all when kbin.social is down -- basically only people on your own instance can see it, if I understand how federation works correctly. If you check the view of the community from lemmy.world the last post visible is from a month ago, for example -- https://lemmy.world/c/Otomegames@kbin.social?dataType=Post&sort=New -- even though I can see on your instance that you've started several threads since then. I can't even load the community from reddthat since it was probably never requested and kbin.social is down currently; it just errors out.
Does Lemmy have a way to get inactive mods removed and replaced?
I don't know. Tagging @Blaze@reddthat.com for suggestions since they've been trying to grow the Fediverse for a while and may know how to go about it, if it's possible.
kbin.social's been down for a while, and having serious problems for months.
There is a general visual novel community at !visualnovels@lemmy.comfysnug.space which might be a better place to post to. It's not very active, but I know there are at least a few people around paying attention to it. I might chime in on some threads occasionally if you post there. My tastes are more in line with VNs aimed at the straight-male demographic, but I'm willing to try other VNs beyond that if there is a really good story or novel mechanics or some other non-sexual factor that makes it interesting.
If that community doesn't fit your needs, I think there is also !otome_games@lemmy.world -- but it seemed completely dead the last time I looked. You might be able to revive it though if you want to try.
I was curious, so I did some searches on this topic for you and found these pages:
The second link in particular notes:
The reason that things are much easier with all ASCII data is that practically every Unicode encoding in existence maps bytes 0x00..0x7f to the corresponding code points, so byte strings and Unicode strings that contain the same all-ASCII data are basically equivalent, even semantically. What usually trips people up with non-ASCII data is that the semantic meaning of bytes in the range 0x80..0xff changes from one encoding to another.
But, thinking like a systems programmer again, for many purposes the semantic meaning of bytes 0x80..0xff doesn’t matter. All that matters is that those bytes are preserved unchanged by whatever operations are done. Typical operations like tokenizing strings, looking for markers indicating particular types of data, etc. only need to care about the meaning of bytes in the range 0x00..0x7f; bytes in the range 0x80..0xff are just along for the ride.
So the trick for beating Python 3 strings into submission is to put in encoding and decoding calls where you need to, choosing a single-byte encoding that doesn’t mutate 0x80..0xff. There are many of these; most of the Latin-{1..6} sequence (aka ISO-8859-1..10) is has this property. What you do not want to do is pick utf-8 or any of the multibyte Asian encodings. Latin-1 will do fine; in fact it has an advantage over the others in memory consumption, which we’ll describe below.
Whether depending on this is actually correct or not is beyond me, but it seems like people have actually been using that pass-through behavior in practice and put it into things like Python2 -> 3 migration guides.
The first link suggests that the seemingly undefined ranges are valid as C0 and C1 control codes which may be why it doesn't throw errors.
Or is there a website where you can download OpenStreetMap as a PDF.
Have you taken a look at this wiki page yet?
Depending on what you need one of the suggestions there may be helpful.
There is also documentation about PBF files as used by OSM if you want to do something more unusual that needs custom coding.
IIRC, Mozilla doesn't ship Firefox with DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) enabled by default in most countries -- and I think it only does Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) if DoH is enabled.
From LibreWolf's website:
By default DoH is not enabled in LibreWolf.
I assume that also disables ECH by default.
Is this for game consoles only, or would stuff like experimenting with similar looking (low-poly) art techniques on modern computers be acceptable there as well?
Now imagine if to buy a car you had to tolerate cameras and other forms of tracking your telemetry just to get to work and feed yourself.
Sorry to be the bearer of depressing news, but that's basically already happening in new cars.
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/car-spying-insurance-surveillance-data/
Oh, I remember playing Iji! I think that was the first game I played that noticed and reacted if you tried to play as a pacifist. There was at least one unavoidable boss fight when I played it though, as I recall.
Digging back through my old disks, it looks like I actually still have my copy from 2008 (version 1.2, according to the manual.txt file) as well as a saved game from much later when I replayed it in February 2013. That was a while ago!