@theogrin@chaosfem.tw @videogames@piefed.social I’m still seeing the original Puzzle Quest on Steam. Has it been de-listed in your country?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/12500/PuzzleQuest_Challenge_of_the_Warlords/

@shovemedia @videogames I didn’t leave anything out. I kept the list to 10. Centipede is good but I don’t think it was more impactful than anything on this list.

@holdenweb@freeradical.zone @videogames@piefed.social When I play FPS games, I don’t think “I want to murder someone.” I think “I’m playing something creative and meaningful.”

That isn’t unique to me. Millions of people play shooters every day without it ever translating into real-world violence. If games were truly the cause, we’d see epidemic levels of violence everywhere they’re popular—yet countries with high gaming rates often have lower gun violence than the U.S.

It’s also no different than playing Clue, where you literally act out a murder mystery. Further, FPS games are less grisly than slasher movies like Saw or Texas Chainsaw Massacre, both of which portray violence with far more graphic realism.

And even if we wanted to, we can’t sit around monitoring everyone’s psychology to see who’s playing what or feeling what. That’s neither realistic nor effective.

What we can do is focus on what the evidence actually shows drives gun violence: easy access to real firearms. Research is consistent and unambiguous—gun availability correlates directly with gun deaths.

So pixelated guns? They’re a scapegoat. Actual guns are the problem.

@holdenweb@freeradical.zone @videogames@piefed.social Decades of research say the same thing: video games do not cause gun violence. The APA itself states there’s no causal link:

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/03/violent-video-games-behavior

What does drive gun violence? Access to guns. A landmark meta-analysis shows firearm availability doubles the risk of homicide:

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M13-1301

So worry less about pixelated weapons. The danger isn’t on a screen—it’s in the real-world guns we’ve chosen to surround ourselves with.

@holdenweb @videogames I’ve been playing shooters all my life, yet I’m anti-gun. So what does that tell you?

@StevenSavage @videogames Glad you like the reviews. Hopefully, you found them accurate.

@AndyHat@anti-social.online @videogames@piefed.social The devs are fully aware of Bubsy’s reputation. 😆

@Christopher@mastodon.coffee @movies@piefed.social Did you actually read my review? Because that’s not the case at all. I love no budget movies. In fact, there’s a lot of great noir films out there with no budget.

The biggest problem is the plot. You don’t need a big budget to have a decent plot.

Hell, one of the actresses in this film, Dralla Aierken, made a zero budget film – clocked at 23 minutes – which was excellent. She understands how to write a script. The fellow who wrote this movie does not.

@jelle @sizz Not fiction.

@Feathercrown Actually, you can do that with any Fediverse service, not just Mastodon.

@Feathercrown@lemmy.world No, this account is specifically from Akkoma. I have also submitted posts from my Pixelfed account.

I can submit a post to Lemmy by mentioning the community handle in my post. Such is the magic of the Fediverse.

@jwcph@helvede.net @fediverse@lemmy.world @Coolmccool@mastodon.au I’ve explained how to use it: you submit to a group from Mastodon by tagging. In fact, you’re using it right now. Look at one of the accounts you’re mentioning.

Did you not read the original post?

@unknown1234_5@kbin.earth @pcgaming@lemmy.ca @fediverse@lemmy.world Already on the road map.

@regineheidorn @fediverse Yeah, people I know boosted her messages—which implies they may have given her money. The thing is, that grifter’s success is going to attract other grifters if this problem isn’t addressed.

@m3t00@mstdn.party @fediverse@lemmy.world Are you talking about hashtags or groups?

@jwcph@helvede.net @fediverse@lemmy.world @Coolmccool@mastodon.au To be blunt, “it’s like email” is probably good enough for 95% of casual users in terms of an explanation for how the Fediverse works.

It’s all just email. Mastodon, Pixelfed, and Lemmy are really all just email.

But the moment you ask, “Well, actually, how does it all work? How is it possible to use Lemmy with Mastodon?”

The answer is: actors.

And maybe that is abstract, but I assure you that’s the practical reason you’re able to do it. Once you understand that the Fediverse is made up of actors/activities, a whole new world of possibilities opens up—even for regular users. It’s why you’re participating on Lemmy right now, even though it still looks like “Mastodon” to you.

Now I’m sorry that you may perceive this as “beside the point,” but people ask how it works and I’m telling you. However, if this is too abstract, remember: it’s all “email”.

@jwcph @fediverse @Coolmccool No, those concepts aren’t for everyday users. It’s for developers. For the same reason a homeowner doesn’t need to know the ins and out of architecture, an everyday user does not need to know about the architecture of the Fediverse.

Nevertheless, it’s how ActivityPub works—and I will go more in depth in a future thread for those who want to know.

@LibertyForward1 @fediverse Not only can you follow, you can post to a Lemmy community from Mastodon by mentioning the Lemmy community. In fact, you just mentioned a Lemmy community, so your using Lemmy right now—but from you’re perspective, it looks like Mastodon.

@jwcph @fediverse @Coolmccool The best way to understand the Fediverse is not as a collection of servers but instead as actors that implement activities.

You are an actor. A Lemmy community is an actor. A bot is an actor. An app is an actor.

All these things do certain activities. One activity is to like a post. Another activity is to repost.

And all these apps like Mastodon are just presenting these actors/activities in a certain format.

Hope that explains things.

@m3t00 @fediverse Give me more context and what you specifically mean.