That’s like saying ungoogled Chromium is base Chrome. “Base Android” is what ships with Google’s Pixel phones, which comes with Google apps.

Yes.

I honestly could not really tell. The UI did not give me a whole lot of information there.

Are you seriously claiming Civ 6 does not have a cartoon art style…? And no, Civ V had a much better unit scale & diversity, especially with certain mods.

No, you got it backwards. I don’t play obnoxious eye cancer games that cause me migraines and look ridiculous. When you go from Civ V with diversified & smaller units that shows basically big armies, to some World of Warcraft-esque eye bleeding mobile game like art style that shows units as a single big cartoon unit, then that’s just not what I want from a game like this.

I’m a bit torn. On one hand it seems like a step back from the Civ 6 cartoon garbage. On the other hand the ground textures still look like blurry paint vomit. It’s kinda weird because the foliage and mountains / rocks seem to be in a higher resolution and much more detailed. I guess it might be WIP and a remnant from Civ 6. The unit sizes also seem gargantuan? I guess that part would not be as hard to fix via mods but that was already a compatibility nightmare before, especially when the mod authors quit.

So, graphically it might be a buyable Civ game again, but… Picking a new civ or mismatching leaders makes me worry though, because that sounds awfully familiar to another game that had a similar terrible feature. The Aztecs turning into France while being led by some Japanese dude just does not feel right.

The FOMO unlocks to bait you into signing up AND buying the cartoon shit are a hard pass for me though. Selling that as a “thank you” is nothing but insolent.

Noooooooooooooooooo! D: I guess no more news articles for me now.

Not that there’s a lack of Lemmy apps. I want more mbin apps for sure, especially Eternity would be great as that has a good compact mode.

Shit Americans Say. lol

Ah, yes. The two countries of the world. China, and the US.

How many of those 1.5 million are from China?

The majority of coverage I heard about it were about the scandals at the studio.

No one was talking about AOSP though?

Because people don’t normally just remove all of their projects and accounts from one day to another.

Then you’d have to also go after Cisco.

What?

when beehaw famously defederated from lemmy.world ages ago, as well as sh.itjust.works

They’ve been defederated from lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear for much longer though.

while the admin of lemm.ee has said, controversially for some of their users I believe, that they don’t really understand all of the fuss over hexbear.

I guess that explains the heavy Tankie presence on that instance, which I’ve negatively noticed as well.

I’m not sure what your point here regarding Beehaw is though.

Meanwhile, lemmy.ml tries to stay widely federated AFAICT, and from what I’ve gathered, the admins have even gotten in hot water with their lefty users for not defederating from more right-wing-ish instances earlier, and then are often criticised for their active moderation on their own instance.

And here you lost me completely. What right-wing-ish instances are we talking about? Because I have yet to see anything that even mildly steers into that direction. And what moderation? Banning non far left positions and those who talk back against far left disinformation? Just look at their news sub and how much mod abuse & disinformation there is. Tankies can freely insult people and the mods do absolutely nothing. Correct disinformation and you get banned. If that’s an issue for the admins, then they could actually do something about it, since they literally own that instance.

and don’t like what they perceive to be a culture of demanding open source users (which I’ve come to understand over time actually).

“Demanding open source users” is a nice way of framing community demands negatively. lol

It’s not, and it is actually cheap-ish. The Ukraine war obviously pushed the prices quite a bit but it is still far cheaper than something like argan oil.

Wait, since when is this a thing? I’m pretty sure I’ve tried that some months ago already.

That just shows all posts though, or all posts posted to a certain community or whatever. I don’t think there’s a place where I specifically just see the posts of accounts or even whole networks that I follow, like the subscribed feed for threads.

It’s mostly fully compatible to Lemmy. The only minor thing I noticed is that Lemmy edits are not getting federated properly (maybe that’s fixed by now, I just noticed it in some threads in the past).

Federation issues of course can occur, but that can also happen with Lemmy, or activitypub in general. I’ve been pretty happy with it as I prefer the UI just way more.