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https://store.steampowered.com/app/3376080/The_Leviathans_fantasy/

Recently, we have been in continuous communication with Steam Support regarding the duration of our game’s free promotion. The support team has also walked us through the potential drawbacks, advantages, and disadvantages of the free offering. Additionally, they assisted us in enabling the free access permission this past Monday morning; however, this free version remains hidden—as we still need to confirm the official launch time, it is currently not visible on the store page. […] It seems even the Steam team was unaware that, with the hidden free version active and the paid version not yet fully removed, users could still claim the free version directly via their Steam Wishlist. I only discovered this issue today myself. Immediately after learning about it, I sent a follow-up email to Steam Support to inform them of this situation and requested that they process refunds for players who purchased the game recently (after the unintended free access became available).

To clarify: The original purpose of our free promotion is to ensure that players who have already purchased the game can continue to access the game’s ongoing updates. There are no hidden agendas or “conspiracy” behind this decision. We simply hope new players can enjoy the game, and existing players can benefit from sustained support.

They are not refuting you. They are talking about how it is on Bluesky, as a point of reference. They are not talking about the fediverse.

I personally like it a lot more than Satisfactory currently, but that’s because my life is pretty stressful right now, and managing the conveyor belt spaghetti and machine connections is too tiresome for me at the moment.

With The Planet Crafter you are striving to unlock buildings by raising your Terraformation Index, which is comprised of pressure, oxygen, heat and biomass. You do that by crafting and placing down various machines and buildings, but none of them are feeding each other like in Satisfactory. Instead you are out exploring, finding ores in the wild, in old bases, scattered crates, and raiding old, abandoned, crashed spaceships for resources and parts. There are no enemies in the game, so no combat and no weapons. Instead the challenge is to manage your oxygen, hunger, thirst, and various environmental hazards like meteors and weather events.

As you raise your Terraformation Index you’ll start seeing your planet change in flora and atmosphere, which is such a cool experience! New areas will be unlocked by you heating up the planet, which will introduce new resources. I just can’t recommend this game enough. I think it’s definitely worth the full price, but based on previous sales, my guess is that it’ll go on sale again within a month, around 40% off, if they stick to the pattern. I also really appreciate their pricing structure for DLC, which is just a new planet to start out on (Base game has 2 different planets to choose from as your starter), at 8 euros. I ended up getting it, since only the player hosting the save file, needs to own it, in order for everyone in multiplayer to join in.

Well, I’ll be. I decided to check your pixelfed one more time through my Fedia account, and now I’m seeing your posts! They show up as Microblogs, and I can see one you posted about an hour ago about FF7. Guess I just had to be patient and let it federate. I can see the posts both through Fedia.io on desktop and the Interstellar app, so that’s awesome.

Gonna see if I can leave comments over there too, and if you can see them. I would assume so :)

The Planet Crafter. I can’t believe how much fun my girlfriend, my friend and I are having with that game. When we first picked it up, I expected we might play it for a couple days, maybe enjoy it for a couple of weekends. But it has really turned into one of those obsessions that you get from games like Satisfactory, No Man’s Sky, Favtorio, etc., where the whole world just disappears around you, and a 7 hour session feels like 3 hours at most. This game has just perfectly straddled the line between challenging and relaxing for me.

I can’t believe this is the first I’m hearing of 24-hour analogue clocks! That’s so cool. But yeah, I see your point about it now allowing for very much precision at a glance.

Agreed. From reading OPs replies to my questions, it seems they have different definitions for “albums” and “Albums”. But as their claim slanted their entire comment for you, I would also say that our whole exchange sets the rest of their comment in a different light for me.

Me not agreeing with you is not arguing against you. I’m only talking from my own experience, and not insisting that what I’m experiencing is the absolute objective truth. At no point did I say you were wrong or that what you’re saying doesn’t exist. Just that I can’t make sense of your viewpoint. Anyway, this is it for me. Have a good one.

EDIT: Punctuation.

I really can’t see where you’re coming from. I’m discovering and listening to loads of new albums every couple of months. Spotify is even pushing albums with their “pre-save” feature, where artists start a countdown for their album that’s about to drop, and you ‘pre-save’ it to your library, so you get a notification and have instant access, once the album drops.

Your specific point about Hayley Williams also doesn’t make sense to me. I haven’t listened to much of her music, since it wasn’t really my cup of tea, but I have family members who love her music, and look forward to every album of hers.

I agree that singles are more important than ever in a marketing sense, and that there are probably some artists that focus more on putting those out, than creating albums. But to say that albums are incredible rare is just straight up untrue in my experience. Plenty of artists are still making thematic albums and/or albums that tell a story.

I don’t really have my finger on the pulse of most of this, so I don’t have anything to add to everything you said. But I am curious about your statement regarding albums:

It is incredibly rare to see an Album anymore because people don’t listen to music as albums. They listen to them as singles in a playlist.

What genre are you listening to, where artists used to come out with albums but aren’t anymore? As a listener of all kinds of music, like rock, metal, blues, kpop, reggaeton, EDM, country and many other genres, that has not been my experience at all.

I just tried with my lemmy.world account too, but it was the same result. So I guess pixelfed just doesn’t federate with lemmy and mbin in that way. Looks like it’s more akin to mastodon. I need a phone app and a desktop solution, where I can just plug in all my fediverse accounts and then have the option of seeing all content from all of them in one place.

I really enjoy these posts of yours. I take it your Pixelfed account is at @MyNameIsAtticus@pixelfed.social? Linking it here, so I can hopefully just click the link and follow through my fedia.io account.

EDIT: Aw, man. I can follow, but not actually see anything through fedia.io or through the Interstellar app.

This is accurate, OP. If you scroll down and look at Thorpe’s acting credits, you can see that she was in the show for 12 episodes between 2000 and 2002. The show started in 1973, but it’s still airing new episodes to this day.

And seeing as it’s his grandkid, he can even just say, “Ask your parents.”, if he wants to be a real coward about it.

smh, why does it have to be everyone else’s problem that people don’t want to talk to their (grand)kids?

I’ll never forget when my girlfriend introduced me to Lao Gan Ma crispy chili in oil. Honestly salivating a little just by thinking of it right now. I ate it just about every day for a week, after first trying it. And the smell! Absolutely divine. I do need to keep it wrapped in 3 bags though, for it not to smell up the entire fridge, haha.

I feel that. I never leave home without my earplugs.

I would recommend https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ for reaching out directly to your country’s representatives.

I used it today to make a template, that I could then edit to fit my writing style, and send from my own email provider really easily, because the site also let’s you copy the email addresses of your representatives in one click.
But the site will also let you send a pre-made message with no effort really needed from you. I just had some time and energy today, so went the extra mile.

I also really like how it tracks the stance of your representative, and you can read their response to the issue. Most of my country’s representatives are currently on vacation, but I did get an answer back from one of them, which was pretty cool (Very informally written, with an included “Sent from my iPhone” signature, hahaha).

Denmark could sent you our former franchise owner, Bjartmar Þrastarson. He managed to fuck it up here quite spectacularly. Even refused to shut down the stores, when HQ ordered him to.

Basically, if I translate and summarize the articles that I linked: It came out that the locations in Denmark used a practice of re-labeling defrosted chicken with new dates to extend its shelf life. It was a widespread and routine procedure referred to by employees as “extending” the chicken. Evidence, including internal chat messages from multiple locations, showed this practice to be common over several years.

Graphic showing some of the messages here.
They’re in English, because some of the workers at the locations aren’t fluent in Danish.

- Galadriel, when she doesn’t pass the test.

Is it on purpose that your account has the bot tag on? Made me do a double take, when I saw your comment, haha.