But still with NSFW content blocked because it’s not served through the API, even if you pay.

Holy shit. That’s actually pretty huge. I have a feeling a lot of companies are going to realize how hostile reddit can be and stop officially supporting the subreddits. How much longer will /r/DestinyTheGame be supported? Ninja Kiwi only posts the full patch notes for BTD6 on the /r/BTD6 subreddit, will that go away?

Mods. I know that’s not really helpful, but it really is how many of us continue to enjoy it. That said, there are still things you can do to spice up your gameplay on vanilla. The biggest one is this- try a different playstyle. Archery is incredibly effective, so try making a character who absolutely refuses to use one because his whole family was slaughtered by a rogue sentient bow that laughed at him while it did it. Recruit different companions and try to keep them alive in different situations. Be an absolutely evil sonofabitch and kill everyone the game allows you to. Try Oblivion, for a similar, but distinctly different (and in my opinion, slightly superior, despite Skyrim’s many advantages) experience. Or, most simply, stop trying to get blood from a stone, and put the game down until the itch actually returns, not until you feel like it should’ve. Best of luck to you.

They didn’t, and for attention.

Every new account isn’t a bot, though. We don’t have real numbers to work with yet.

He’d been in and out of the legal system for violence both before and after the Murphy trial. As for where he is now, I have no clue.

Well, he was acquitted after five hours of deliberation, so it must have been pretty convincing. As for how they responded to that specific quote, I’m not sure, as that- while a true quote- didn’t occur in the courtroom. I looked into it further and the first mention I can see of it is in the San Bernardino County Sun on Friday, June 5th, 1970, and he said it to reporters.

Audie Murphy is without a doubt one of the greatest men to ever live. Here’s a full list of his awards:

• Medal of Honor
• Distinguished Service Cross
• Silver Star w/ cluster (two awards)
• Legion of Merit
• Bronze Star w/ V Device & cluster (heroism instead of distinguished service, two awards)
• Purple Heart w/ two clusters (three awards)
• Presidential Unit Citation w/ cluster (two awards)
• Army Outstanding Civilian Service Medal
• Good Conduct Medal
• American Campaign Medal
• European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal w/ silver star, four bronze stars, one bronze arrowhead (nine campaigns in European theater)
• WWII Victory Medal
• Army of Occupation Medal w/ Germany clasp
• Armed Forces Reserve Medal
• Combat Infantryman Badge
• Marksman Badge w/ Rifle Component Bar
• Expert Badge w/ Bayonet Component Bar
• French Legion of Honor- Grade of Chevalier (Knight)
• French Croix de Guerre w/ Silver Star
• French Croix de Guerre w/ Palm
• French Liberation Medal
• Belgian Croix de Guerre w/ 1940 Palm
• French Fourragere in Colors of the Croix de Guerre
• Texas Legislative Medal of Honor

The Distinguished Service Cross, the second highest honor available after the Medal of Honor, was awarded for his actions in Anzio. After killing two Germans with his carbine, Murphy ran out of ammo. He retreated back down the hill, took a light machine gun from a soldier unwilling to advance, and used that to destroy multiple German machine gun crews, along with his best friend, Lattie Tipton. Tipton was killed when a German machine gunner pretended to surrender. Now alone, Audie killed the gunner, the rest of the gunners crew, then pretty much everything else on the hill unlucky enough to be wearing the wrong uniform. When the rest of the platoon finally caught up, Audie was sitting guard over Tipton’s body.

Here is his full Medal of Honor Citation. Keep in mind as you read that Audie had malaria for the entire duration of the war:

Rank and organization: Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, Company B 15th Infantry, 3rd Infantry Division.

Place and date: Near Holtzwihr France, January 26, 1945.

Entered service at: Dallas, Texas. Birth: Hunt County, near Kingston, Texas, G.O. No. 65, August 9, 1944.

Citation: Second Lt. Murphy commanded Company B, which was attacked by six tanks and waves of infantry. 2d Lt. Murphy ordered his men to withdraw to a prepared position in a woods, while he remained forward at his command post and continued to give fire directions to the artillery by telephone. Behind him, to his right, one of our tank destroyers received a direct hit and began to burn. Its crew withdrew to the woods. 2d Lt. Murphy continued to direct artillery fire, which killed large numbers of the advancing enemy infantry. With the enemy tanks abreast of his position, 2d Lt. Murphy climbed on the burning tank destroyer, which was in danger of blowing up at any moment, and employed its .50 caliber machine gun against the enemy. He was alone and exposed to German fire from three sides, but his deadly fire killed dozens of Germans and caused their infantry attack to waver. The enemy tanks, losing infantry support, began to fall back. For an hour the Germans tried every available weapon to eliminate 2d Lt. Murphy, but he continued to hold his position and wiped out a squad that was trying to creep up unnoticed on his right flank. Germans reached as close as 10 yards, only to be mowed down by his fire. He received a leg wound, but ignored it and continued his single-handed fight until his ammunition was exhausted. He then made his way back to his company, refused medical attention, and organized the company in a counterattack, which forced the Germans to withdraw. His directing of artillery fire wiped out many of the enemy; he killed or wounded about 50. 2d Lt. Murphy’s indomitable courage and his refusal to give an inch of ground saved his company from possible encirclement and destruction, and enabled it to hold the woods which had been the enemy’s objective.

During the event that earned him his Medal of Honor, an officer asked Audie over the radio how close the Germans were. He responded, “Hold on and I’ll let you talk to one.” After returning from the war, Audie Murphy suffered heavily from PTSD and got addicted to pills, at which point he locked himself in a hotel room for a week until he got over it. He became an actor after writing his autobiography, To Hell and Back, and starred as himself in a film adaptation of the same in 1955, which remained the highest grossing film up until Jaws. He downplayed significant elements of the Medal of Honor citation event in the film because he thought people would accuse him of making it up. When he was shooting a film in Vietnam in the fifties, he was so horrified by the conditions there that he emptied most of his earnings into an orphanage in Saigon. He became involved in the drug war when he visited an addict’s home with a policeman friend and saw the addict’s two young daughters playing on a dirty floor. He helped bring about more than twenty convictions. In 1970, he was tried for attempted murder after getting into a fight with a 6’3" man who had abused a dog belonging to Murphy’s female friend, and who had also sexually harassed the friend. The man claimed Murphy had fired a gun at him after a scuffle, Murphy’s response to which was, and this is a direct quote, “I think it is injurious to my reputation to think that I could fire a shot at a target as large as Mr. Gofstein and miss.” He was acquitted after the rest of his defense boiled down to, “If I had wanted to kill you, Mr. Gofstein, you would not be here now.”

If I could spend one hour with anyone, alive or dead, it would be Audie Murphy.

I really hope this leads to actual change. Subreddits are becoming meaningless to visit and frustrating for normal users, so hopefully they just stop using reddit altogether.

Nah, there are still a lot protesting, they just know that if they don’t do things a certain way they’ll be replaced with bootlickers. Pics, gifs, aww, interestingasfuck, iOS, wellthatsucks- all are bringing attention to the admin’s bullshit while technically doing as admins asked.

What a fucking crazy shit show. Thanks for sharing the non-reddit link.

For general mastery tracking: https://warframe-foundry.app/

For what relics have what and where to find them: https://wf.xuerian.net/#welcome

The addiction rate among pain patients is low, but those patients may still be over prescribed and sell the excess. That said, I hate how controlled they are. I don’t abuse or sell and it’s a constant fight with my doctors to prescribe anything for kidney stone pain, which I get several of a year.

I don’t plan to use reddit anymore if I can help it, other than to find specific answers to things. I’ll no longer just browse. That said, up until now I exclusively used RiF. I refuse to touch the official app, and use old.reddit and ad blockers.

There is actually an advantage to being part of a larger instance if you want to browse everything, actually. An instance is federated with another when a user from Instance A subscribes to a community from Instance B. The more users in an instance, the more people to subscribe to other instances, federating that instance with more instances for all users.

It’s a protest. It’s meant to be inconvenient. Be mad at the people causing the protest, not the protesters.

Reddit, obviously. Way more content and activity. If you’re just finding out about both, you don’t know about the API kerfuffle and the UI isn’t so terrible that someone who’s just getting exposed to it would care because they have no frame of reference. There’s no way the average person would choose Kbin over reddit if they really are just learning about both at the same time.

Yes, but reddit can undo it. A little while back, /r/KotakuInAction was nuked by the head mod, who had not been an active moderator for years. He deleted all content and set the subreddit to private. However, since his actions were malicious and the rest of the mods could only watch since he was above them in the mod order, reddit admins removed him from the mod list and restored the subreddit to before the mod went crazy. This is likely the same logic they’ll use to reopen the subs, only it doesn’t work since it’s not the work of one rogue mod, but the mod team as a whole.

It’s not a silly question at all, and it’s one of the most unintuitive parts of the Fediverse. The most straightforward way is to go to the community you want to subscribe to (you can see a fairly comprehensive list at browse.feddit.de). Copy the URL from that community. Go back to Kbin and paste that URL into the search bar. If it doesn’t show up immediately, wait a few seconds then refresh, and it should.

There is some shorthand to how you can search- for example, searching “!(community name)@(instance home URL)” works as well, but Kbin in particular is a bit odd because it uses an @ for both community and instance, instead of the rest of Lemmy which uses the !. Like I said, the most straightforward way is just to copy the URL itself and figure out the shortcuts later.

You’re very welcome, I’m glad it was helpful. I’m still learning about all this myself.