Some years ago the news that a new “Civilization” game was in development would have excited me to no end 🙂 I used to love “SimCity” and “Civilization” to no end and I think back in the day, I played every “Sim” game that I could get my had on … “SimEarth”, “SimLife”, “SimFarm”, “SimTown”, “SimCopter” … I think I played all of them … or at least got them and tried them …

But, I didn’t play “Civilization VI” and the new game brings me no excitement. I think I just can’t get excited by that kind of gameplay any longer. Sure, compared to the original “Civilization”, the graphics have come a long way and it looks gorgeous, but I just don’t have the time/energy for the game play.

Now if they come up with a new version of “Civilization: Beyond Earth” with a good storyline (not just the building and exploration), I might be up for that 🙂

#Games #Civilization
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@at To update you on the lists situation, well, the pruning did work in giving me a nice manageable hometimeline. There’s only like one third the notifications from overnight (of course, this is a weekend so the volume is lower) and I am able to make my way through the reduced timeline so much easier.

But … you were right about the lists 🙂 Akkoma appears to work the same as Mastodon in that you have to be following someone in order for their posts to show up in a list.

I did look this up for Mastodon and there’s an open feature request asking that either users be able to have lists without following people or be able to filter out people in lists from their home timeline but there doesn’t seem to be much movement on it.

So I think I’ll have to end up doing this client-side. Just filter out posts/boosts on the home timeline from people who are on my lists. This should be easy enough if you have source code to the client and that should theoretically allow you to have the functionality I wanted. I guess I’ll try that and see …

#silentsunday

In China there is a legend that if a carp is strong enough to swim upstream against strong currents, it can become a dragon.
#SwampSunday #ukiyoe #folklore #JapaneseArt @folklore
🎨'Carp' from an untitled series known as 'Large Fish' - Utagawa Hiroshige, 1842.

@qb As far as I know, there is no max posts per day setting 🙂 I did know about the setting from your screenshot but always assumed that that was only for the web frontend and I use a third-party client. But I should have verified …

Also, it’s possible to add some of the stuff that I want to third-party clients and I might actually have to end up doing it that way since somebody else mentioned that lists might not work for what I had in mind (at least on the Mastodon side) since lists only show posts if you follow an account ... I guess I’ll see after testing for a day or so …

@at I’ll know tomorrow morning since early morning is when the enormity of the timeline hits me 😛

I don’t know if Akkoma works in a different way with regards to lists since the list I set up is populated, but I set up the list before I unfollowed each of those people. So again I guess I’d have to wait a day and see if the list gets any new content or if it is only the old content from before I unfollowed.

I guess based on the Masto/Fedi philosophy of putting privacy first, having lists not be populated if you don’t follow the person makes sense. But the trouble is that if you mute a person then they are removed from both home timeline and lists. So that doesn’t help either.

I just want a way to have a manageable home timeline and then possibly a set of lists where I can put other interesting but high-volume people. Will let you know if I have any success 🙂

I had an amazingly successful #tidepool hunt yesterday. I saw five different species of #nudibranch.

#ocean #photography #NaturePhotography

The stunning Ceratina cobaltina, a small carpenter bee. Texas.

#NativeBees #Ceratina #Shiny #Nature #Insects #Photography

@qb That would be an awesome feature 🙂 Akkoma does seem to get developed at quite a brisk pace and so if you were to ask, they might actually implement it? Unless of course, you’ve already asked … 😛

On November 12, 1833, there was a meteor shower so intense that it was possible to see up to 100,000 meteors crossing the sky every hour. At the time, many thought it was the end of the world, so much so that it inspired this woodcut by Adolf Vollmy.

#stars #art
#sky #astro #Astronomy
#naturalscience #meteors

Mountain Hare.

I've not had the pleasure of spending a day in the company of mountain hares for a few years now, but today made up for it.

Wonderful weather, soft light, great clients and magical subjects. #bliss

Canon R7, RF100-500mm, 500mm, f/7.1, 1/1600th, ISO 800

#wildlife #mountainhare #hare #nature #ScottishHighlands #animal #photography

Word of the Day: MUBBLEFUBBLES (19th century, slang) — bad mood, low spirits.

when you're cute af but you still demand respect

@nicolaslemieux I assume the drifting city spaceship (a concept I’m partial to) and the sleuth and murders are in the novel you are writing and not in the free short story?

Is the short story set in the same universe as the novel? Are there any connections between the two? Just curious (and interested) 🙂

Hmm … “Diablo IV” beta is starting on March 24th. So the question now is, do we pre-order to get access to the beta or do we wait till the game is released in June?

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We (my wife and I) enjoyed playing Diablo III a lot. In fact, it’s probably the only game we’ve played again after we completed it 😛 We like playing the co-op mode in the game since it’s one of the few where you don’t have split-screen co-op (which confuses us since we always forget which screen is which) and where you don’t have to have a second console to play multiplayer.

We first played Diablo III way back in (probably) 2012 or 2013. So it’s good to get into a new game, but we don’t know yet whether the same multiplayer co-op mode will be there. I sure hope so, but maybe it’s time to do some research?

#DiabloIV #Gaming #PS5 #Multiplayer

There are so many interesting people here on Mastodon that my timeline is overflowing 😛 And my obsessive/compulsive nature won’t let me continue with anything till I’ve completed going through my home timeline in the morning …

Things are exacerbated by the fact that Akkoma will show you all replies by somebody you follow — not just replies to conversations you started with them. So it just piles up ...

So, I think I’m going to clean up my home timeline by moving some people who I really like following but who have massive output to a list and then unfollowing them. That way, my hometimeline will remain manageable and I can dip into the list whenever I have the time and still be able to see content from others that I really would have liked to have followed …

Seeems reasonable? I don’t know… Guess I’ll see how it goes 🙂

#Fediverse #Timelines #ManagingTime

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

Looking down at the lower falls from the skybridge. It's about a 110ft (36m) drop to the collecting pool from the bridge

#MultnomahFalls #Oregon

Kashkul (Sufi begging bowl) carved from a coco-de-mer nut, Iran, 18th century [2000 x 2559]
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https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/115ii51/kashkul_sufi_begging_bowl_carved_from_a_cocodemer/

Dark-Eyed Junco

This is a decent photo of a dark eyed junco. I catch them in a tree less often than on the ground. There are still some around, although I expect that they leave for the north soon.

"You can find Dark-eyed Juncos by walking around open, partially wooded areas with understory for cover. Keep your eyes on the ground and listen for their twittering call or their trilling song. If they are flushed from the ground, look for an overall gray or dark brown bird with obvious, white outer tail feathers." - allaboutbirds.org

#photo #photography #photographer #birds #birdwatching #photographylovers #birdsofmastodon #birdwatchingphotography #Darkeyedjunco

Hooded Merganser

I took this photo in Georgia, November 2022. There were hundreds of these birds in a small pond across from the hotel where we stayed.

"Hooded Mergansers find their prey underwater by sight. They can actually change the refractive properties of their eyes to improve their underwater vision. In addition, they have an extra eyelid, called a “nictitating membrane,” which is transparent and helps protect the eye during swimming, like a pair of goggles." - allaboutbirds.org

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #birds #birdwatching #birdsofmastodon #birdwatchingphotography