Employee at the Black Mesa research facility in New Mexico. Recently we’ve dealt with 2 aliens trying to steal snacks.

Moved from kbin.social, here’s my old account: https://kbin.social/u/Mars2k21

I moderate the AI community over there (infrequently).

Hope your day is going well.

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Cake day: June 16th, 2024

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  • A bit of a rant here.

    Recently joined the wider Lemmy community (coming from kbin.social, o7). I like it, but the constant negativity and fear mongering/bait in large communities keeps me from engaging more. I just kind of wish there were more relaxed communities like how niche subreddits can be. I’ve seen a lot more arguments here than the kbin-specific communities or even Reddit honestly.

    I’m going to continue using Lemmy at least for now, but I just hope this place can move past the negativity that plagues major social media platforms already. I get everybody has their views, but is it a requirement to share them every comment/post? It’s all jokes and no seriousness on Reddit to all seriousness here. Not very enjoyable. Feels like a lot of the users who created cool niche communities after the Reddit exodus got driven away by the negativity and frivolous downvoting.



  • Gen Z.

    This place is a lot older than I expected.

    Internet generation, progenitors of current online brainrot. Came too early to experience the 90s in all its glory, and too late for running console-quality games on a 6mm thick mobile device.

    At least we have the 2010s to claim for ourselves. Those were pretty cool.


  • Was super invested in it (was considering moderating multiple magazines), as I really like Kbin and the vision of it being an all-in-one microblogging and link aggregator platform in the Fediverse. With there being so many federated platforms serving the same purpose, I like how Kbin sort of went against the fragmentation. Had to leave it for Lemmy just the other day as well. I think that Ernest has created the best alternative to Reddit despite the struggles he’s faced with development and maintaining the instance alongside with personal issues.

    mbin looks great but I think I’ll just stay with the more stable option and community…being an early adopter was fun for a year though. I’m still a little iffy about mbin personally. If there’s a mbin/kbin API release I may reconsider.


  • I’m conflicted when it comes to mine so I’m just going to throw a few out. It’d take me forever to make a definite choice:

    • Code Geass: Ridiculous plot and Lelouch is such a well written character
    • Initial D: I love cars, the soundtrack, and the added dynamic of relationships on top of racing and dreams.
    • FLCL: Soundtrack, animation, and how it makes 0 sense as a plot device
    • Vinland Saga: Season 2 (and the Vinland Arc in the manga)
    • Samurai Champloo: I like hip-hop, cool samurai, and long journeys. The ending was one of my favorites in any anime because of how simple it was