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Somehow neither of my top two posts of the past year were from 2023.

I think if Trump isn't interested in getting out of their way then the Republicans can't get past him this easily. They would need him to either actually get behind whoever they put forward (unlikely) or be completely silenced in a way that they can pull off pretending that he would be behind their guy.

It's irrelevant to you, but a community doesn't have to be massive for it to be important to it's users, it just has to be big enough for people to get something out of it regularly to keep the existing userbase engaged. Lemmy pre-migration is a great example. But if enough people leave in a short timespan it's really hard to keep the remaining userbase engaged after that drop-off. XMPP is a good example of this actually happening, I had a bunch of friends on there for years. When google pulled the rug, a lot of users lost a lot of their reasons for sticking around. It's a shell of itself now.

One of mine likes chewing on wires to electrical devices. He used to do it only occasionally, but at some point he got the hint that I'm shooing him away when he does it and now he'll start whenever I'm at the computer and he's upset I'm not giving him adequate attention. He stops by and stands up against the chair to let me know he wants attention, and if I explain to him that I'm working on something and you'll need to wait, he'll immediately move to chewing at the wires.

This along with the fact that he's more interested in me the second I start talking on my phone means I have to leave the room absolutely any time I want to answer or make a phone call.

I love him and he might have the happiest disposition of any cat I've met, but he's really an asshole sometimes. He pounces me when I'm sleeping sometimes too which can really hurt if his nails get me.

There are a lot of awful things here but to focus on just one, holy shit monthly rent could go over the asset cap in a few years.

I know I'm not making a helpful contribution here, but I've been wondering about this stuff for a while myself and this thread has some great answers. Thanks for asking this OP.

This is kind of tangential, but I don't think I ever would have known that "poof" was an anti-gay slur in Britain if I hadn't played Pokemon White. I wanted to.use that as a nickname and had to look up online why the game was preventing me.

Eastward? I actually learned about this game on lemmy a year or two ago.

I thought the pixel graphics were incredible, gave the game such a beautifully creepy atmosphere when it needed it. Even though I was really disappointed that the game just ended without tying any of the story together, I did think the story was great before I finished it. At times the game was unsettling and eerie and at other times it was heartwarming, and the dialogue throughout seemed very well-written.

Just their early stuff - self-titled debut, Velvet Darkness They Fear, A Rose for the Dead, Aegis. The stuff afterwards isn't bad, but it's not the same genre.

Their first two albums are my favorites, just amazing music.

Lemmy turned into another reddit overnight when reddit killed third-party apps. On the one hand it makes it easier to ditch reddit entirely, but I do really miss what the community was in the years before that happened.

Around this time of year one of my best conversation starters is "What's your least favorite Christmas song?". Everyone (at least here in the US) has at least one Christmas song that annoys the shit out of them, but you'll get tons of different answers.