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[–] neshura 4 points 15 hours ago
[–] neshura 3 points 15 hours ago

Not sure but imo whether or not it has been done doesn't really matter. If any one of the Dunkelfelger women up and just did it I don't think anyone would dare to question it, so it might as well be established fact.

[–] neshura 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Regarding their next 'actual' rank I still think they would evaluate a bit lower than where Alexandria should be simply because Rozemyne's library strategy will take some time to take effect but once it does they could feasibly reach #1 and stay there. Alexandria as is simply is not focusing on anything that produces immediate tangible "duchy points" so to speak. Education and knowledge are abstract concepts that seemingly don't influence the rankings nearly as much as hard achievements do. Though the latter is just a consequence of the former.

Not that anyone will complain about the Divine Avatar not dominating the rankings, which will just be another behind the scenes factor. Rozemyne very clearly can't be bothered about her duchy's rank and I imagine Ferdinand would like to avoid the hassle that comes with it as well for a good while. Up until some fool mocks his wife or their adoptive daughter for it, then the gloves come off, in the latter case whoever did it better run because they're in for a divine crushing.

[–] neshura 3 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Hannelore escaping ditter is, let me check, yup certainly not an option. She'll get dragged into it whether she likes to or not, this is still Dunkelfelger after all.

On Alexandria's ranking I have heavy suspicions a certain scheming Gremlin handler has advised the Zent and the Gremlin to suppress Alexandria's ranking for a while in light of the rather close connection between Aub Alexandria and Zent Eglantine. The country just survived an invasion/coup, keeping the other nobles content is a higher priority than accurately ranking the duchies.

[–] neshura 3 points 1 day ago

It would appear someone (not me, certainly not /s) forgot to hand Mestionora the updated list of bookworm content after appending Hannelore's story to the list... oops

[–] neshura 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Someone in the decision making process wants to finally make Portugal officially Eastern Europe

[–] neshura 2 points 1 week ago

Well I guess we'll find out how many accidental problems I managed to cram into that RFC soon

[–] neshura 3 points 1 week ago

The key problem why "Runs on SteamDeck" exists is not the raw power of the SteamDeck (or lack thereof) but the compatibility with Linux. Unless someone decides to utterly cripple a handheld for the sake of battery efficiency any game labeled with SteamDeck support will also run on any other handheld running SteamOS.

The problem with the SteamMachines ultimately was the lack of game support. The hardware confusion was just the cherry on top. You could even argue that the lack of supported games back then meant a limited number of customers would be interested which in turn led to companies releasing underpowered hardware. By that logic one can even claim the failure of SteamMachines is entirely down to the piss poor Linux support then.

[–] neshura 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I cannot for the life of me imagine this launching with any significant amount of content. Pretty much all the good stuff is already licensed to English publishers and getting a license for digital redistribution under a subscription model is not likely to look like a very good deal to most of them.

I still hope this turns out decent because more legal options are always appreciated but I fear they might just try to Sony-monopoly their way into a successful platform here.

[–] neshura 2 points 1 week ago

Well it can't possibly go worse than the last time they tried right? right?

[–] neshura 23 points 3 weeks ago

LibreOffice anstatt OpenOffice, letzteres wird seit Jahren nicht mehr wirklich entwickelt und ersteres ist die Community Fork die entstand als OpenOffice gekauft wurde

[–] neshura 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

well .ml is special, most probaboy don't have a problem there but if you do you really do (ask me why the anime community on lemmy.ml is practically dead)

.world is just suffering from success, they regularly have federation troubles with other instances because they are by far the largest one and hence run into scaling troubles. Other than that it's the most reddit like moderation wise also due to being so big. It's courtesy to steer people away from .world simply to prevent the scaling problems from getting worse

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[META] Survey Results (self.metadiscussions)
submitted 4 months ago by neshura to c/metadiscussions
 

I've let the survey run for long enough now I suppose (at least I'm not getting any new responses) so I'm making this post with the "results". If anyone is interested in the raw data I'll post it but for now I'll just focus on the conclusion I've drawn from it.

For the most part responses only varied slightly but most of the questions were only there to help make a decision about the core question: What do you want to happen with this instance now?. The responses to which varied a lot compared to the other questions.

There were some votes against opening up the instance to other series discussions but I myself and the majority of votes are in favor so that's what will happen. However I really dislike seeing empty discussion threads so there will be some rules in place so this doesn't end up like a spam machine. As is with all things in life these are subject to change.

#1: There must be at least 3 users interested in regular discussions for a series to create a community for it here. There should be some regular volume of discussion for the series and 3 core users should facilitate that.

Note: If there already are discussion or fan art posts for a series on the Fediverse feel free to provide some of them to show that the newly created community would not just rot in a corner.

#2: If the series does not have weekly chapters there should be some form of plan for how to structure this so there is regular activity.

There is little sense in using a community only for volume discussions and nothing else those could just as well take place in !lightnovels@ani.social. As such there should at least be some discussion in between volumes (discussions about characters, fan art, whatever really)

Note: If the series does not release on J-Novel Club please be aware that @Mestionora@bookwormstory.social will be unable to automatically create posts for it. In those cases threads need to be manually created every week.

If anyone is interested in a series and thinks they can meet these 2 rules please message me either here or via Matrix (@neshura:neshweb.chat) so we can discuss the details.

Additionally I'll post a list of links to any volume or chapter/part discussion threads to the weekly thread over at !lightnovels@ani.social. It's something I should have done with the PrePub discussions for Ascendance of a Bookworm as well but I didn't think of it until now.

 

Got this little gem today so might as well share it with you all. I really like how they did her hair, that's some 10/10 work right there imo.

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submitted 5 months ago by neshura to c/aobprepub
 

cross-posted from: https://bookwormstory.social/post/2360045

Before I get into this I apologize for giving you all a heart attack. Actually no, I know what I am doing with that title, suffer!

Unfortunately the main story of Ascendance of a Bookworm released its last Pre-Pub chapter last week and with it a stop to the very regular weekly discussion threads. Obviously we will have Side Stories to look forward to, however those won't provide nearly the same regularity as the main story did.

Up until now the Pre-Pub threads have been the main driver behind activity on the instance and the closure of the story then opens the question of what will happen to this place going forward. First of all this instance will likely not be disappearing. I have my only active lemmy account on here and since I have 0 real hosting costs I have no problem keeping this going indefinitely, I also think it might be an opportunity to change things up a bit. However first and foremost this is a place for you all, not for me alone, so your opinion about what should or should not happen to this instance weigh a bit more than my own. As such I (with input from ludrol, btw thanks for always being there for me to push decisions onto) have compiled a survey about that topic. Do feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments as well though.

With that out of the way I'd like to express a sincere thanks for all the fun discussions we've had here so far, I genuinely enjoyed every moment of them and look forward to more of them.

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[META] Future of the Instance (self.metadiscussions)
submitted 5 months ago by neshura to c/metadiscussions
 

Before I get into this I apologize for giving you all a heart attack. Actually no, I know what I am doing with that title, suffer!

Unfortunately the main story of Ascendance of a Bookworm released its last Pre-Pub chapter last week and with it a stop to the very regular weekly discussion threads. Obviously we will have Side Stories to look forward to, however those won't provide nearly the same regularity as the main story did.

Up until now the Pre-Pub threads have been the main driver behind activity on the instance and the closure of the story then opens the question of what will happen to this place going forward. First of all this instance will likely not be disappearing. I have my only active lemmy account on here and since I have 0 real hosting costs I have no problem keeping this going indefinitely, I also think it might be an opportunity to change things up a bit. However first and foremost this is a place for you all, not for me alone, so your opinion about what should or should not happen to this instance weigh a bit more than my own. As such I (with input from ludrol, btw thanks for always being there for me to push decisions onto) have compiled a survey about that topic. Do feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments as well though.

With that out of the way I'd like to express a sincere thanks for all the fun discussions we've had here so far, I genuinely enjoyed every moment of them and look forward to more of them.

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submitted 5 months ago by neshura to c/aoblightnovel
 

Ascendance of a Bookworm Illustration from the JNC Nina booth at Animagic.

Trivia for anyone interested: they announced German licensing for Spice and Wolf as well as my Quiet Life as a Blacksmith (1st Parts alrewdy available)

 

Check the modlog for proof, a discussion post about moving this instance to an instance that shan't be named now got removed for "linking to instance featuring pedo content".

Ironically that exact possibility was reason for the discussion in the first place so seeing it happen this quickly is a bit funny.

Not sure how best to go about linking to said instance since it seems to get your content removed. DM's would be the only solution I guess but not sure if those are checked as well.

 

The initial hiccups with Federation seem to be resolved with 0.19.1-rc.1. Since I also managed to test the new Version of the Mestionora Bot (it should now actually post Part 2 and Part 3 Manga discussions in parallel instead of only Part 3, hooray) I will update the instance after PrePub discussions die down a bit.

Expected Timeframe is Wednesday 16:00 UTC - Wednesday 18:00 UTC.

During the Update changes to the expected downtime can be checked on status.bookwormstory.social.

If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask away.

 

cross-posted from: https://bookwormstory.social/post/678217

Warning: TO Books, Studio WIT and the official Ascendance of Bookworm ~~X~~ Twitter Accounts contain Spoilers beyond what has been translated in the Novel Pre-Pubs

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