Hey! Right on! Glad you were able to sort that out. :)

You were 100% right! They were basically all gone and the few that were left didn’t seem to be interested in me at all. What a pro tip this was! Thank you for your help! :)

I see what you mean. Personally I’m gonna side with the folks that need the block functionality as a defense against stalking/harassment though.

The lead eater can ban anyone they want but that doesn’t stop others from posting direct challenges to the lead eater’s rhetoric elsewhere. I think its better to help those in need than to leave them vulnerable with less than ideal tools to protect themselves.

The pear tree is on our property and I don’t want my neighbors to be uncomfortable due to the large amount of wasps hanging around. It’s just a matter of courtesy.

A block should also be able to prevent them from seeing your activity. That would not constitute silencing the blocked individual as they can still go anywhere and talk to/see anyone else on the fediverse, just not you.

Are they typically less aggressive at night?

Thanks for your feedback. I’m in Canada and as far as I know there are no laws or rules about this, but I don’t want my neighbors to be harassed by wasps, nor am I happy with how many of them harass me on my deck at the moment. I’m not looking to exterminate them, rather safely pick up the fruit and chuck it into a field next to my house so that they’re further away from us.

I just don’t want to risk being attacked by them if I try to move the fruit, y’know? I can’t safely run or even shoo them away right now due to the pain of my injuries.

Can’t beat them for games that require low latency input though. Just playing retro games on them is worth owning one.

What about all the people that breathed in that toxic cloud or injured themselves trying to run away from the chaos? Surely many of them ended up in hospital.

Asking the real questions.

Guitar mainly, but I can play any of the typical instruments associated with rock/metal.

My favourite thing about the guitar is all the expressive ways you can play a single note. There’s the spectrum of how hard you pick it along with what you use to pick - fingers or plectrum, what angle you attack the string with said pick, vibrato, bend up to the note or down from it, slide into or out of it, etc…

It’s such an expressive instrument. I love it. You can really hear someone’s personality come out in their playing. There truly are endless different ways to play a single song. It all just depends on the choices you make.

racing sims

oh I’m sorry I have a hobby that doesn’t require ongoing expenses

Sim racing is one of the most expensive video game related hobbies out there.

Ask me how I know.🤣 Jokes aside though, if you’re not competing in iRacing and you’re happy with a decent but entry-level/intermediate wheel its not so bad. It’s not hard to blow 10k real fast if you want to though!

People are allowed to ask honest questions and IMO this seems like one. If more people exercised self-reflection like this we might live in a better society.

Literally The Sims having sex.

I know what you mean, but they’re going to abandon it eventually, right? What matters is how they abandon it; what they leave behind. Currently, they leave nothing for the playerbase.

If they need to retire the live service to move forward, so be it. But if I wanna boot up a server for a night of gameplay with friends on some retired game I should be able to do so.

Allowing dedicated servers after said live service retirement is the fix.

Exactly this. It would obviously be disappointing to lose leaderboards or any other massively multiplayer elements like that, but just being able to fire up the game and have fun with friends after the live service has shut down is basically all that needs to happen.

“It’s a weird, challenging problem, though, because I think that at the same time, if we’re going to have any games that are sincere live services, it seems mutually exclusive to have something that’s going to be a living thing that can’t be allowed to die. I don’t know how to get around that.”

Dedicated servers. Let people host their own servers. How is this so fucking hard to understand? When the company is ready to move on and retire their official servers they can do so without invoking ire from the playerbase.

If you like beautiful music, you need to give Opeth a spin. ‘The Drapery Falls’ is my favourite song to introduce Opeth with. Stunningly beautiful and shows the full range of their craft. https://youtu.be/YeTNkPXRrVY

If you haven’t tried Cornell’s “Merlin” app, I highly recommend it.

Bird watching is peaceful. I love it.

100% I’d retire. I’d sell all my shit, buy a sailboat and cruise around the world for the rest of my life.