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Hi, I’m four babies in a trenchcoat. My interests include grown-up things like businessing and adulting. I am definitely an adult. Ignore the first sentence.
Vincent Adultman :-)
Hi! I’m not just a Reddit refugee, but an everything refugee. Or at least, that’s how it feels. I’ve been online since the mid-80s, and I’ve seen platform after platform be acquired and burnt down under me. I’m pretty much used to it by this point.
That doesn’t mean I like it.
I’m an old-time geek. Huge bibliophile, particularly fond of old science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, children’s books, YA, classics, and humor. Oh, add graphic novels and manga to the list. I’m also a long time tabletop RPG player and GM. My system of choice is the Avalon Hill edition of RuneQuest 3; my RQ site might be the oldest one still existing. Of course I play other systems as well. I’m into deep role-playing, and would definitely like to find people who are interested in that sort of thing!
My primary activity over on Reddit was recommending books. I have a resource of nearly a thousand book recommendations that I have created over the years. Hoping to be able to make recommendations on Lemmy, too.
What else? I’m a pretty good public speaker, and was an invited program participant (i. e. panelist) at a regional New England science fiction convention for over 25 years. I’m an atheist, but I advocate tolerance and understanding between atheists and theists (and yes, I’ve done panels on that topic too; they were great).
I was a redhead when I had hair, with a redheaded son. I’m the single divorced father of a newly-adult son. I’m currently unattached. Oh, and I’m apparently demisexual.
I live in Massachusetts, USA. I like cats, cooking, walking, and well-written TV and movies. I’ve been refining my grilling techniques for about 35 years now, on a lifelong quest to make the perfect burger.
I’m yet another reddit refugee. Just wanted everyone to know that there’s a combination emoji for a bee wearing a cowboy hat:
I hope you know this emoji has made it to the Discord 🤭 Welcome to Beehaw!
Nice! Is there a public Discord server for Beehaw? I can’t seem to find a link to one.
i’ll DM you an invite to it; we just dropped it from the sidebar for now because we’re already a little thin with attention and don’t have discord mods yet who can specifically keep an eye on it.
We have a Discord but it’s private for the time being, I’m sure it will return to the front page sidebar as soon as things settle more with the instance itself.
Heya everyone. Found this place when I was looking for Reddit alternatives after getting the shut down message in Apollo. Checked the list of alternatives on a subreddit and was immediately grossed out by transphobic sites and fucking VOAT of all places being in the list, so randomly running into this place after that was very relieving.
Big into tabletop RPGs, started with Pathfinder 1st edition a long time ago but have mostly been playing D&D 5th edition with some sprinklings of OSR and PbtA-influenced games (well, game, singular. Blades in the Dark is super fun though!) Like most tabletop fans probably, I’m also into fantasy/sci-fi media.
Happy weekend!
voat’s been dead for years. it was a great place to troll the losers there though.
Blades in the Dark looks cool.
I just wrapped a multi year BitD campaign, highly recommend.
Looks like there are quite a few people into TTRPGs around here! Maybe we should have an LFG community?
Hey guys I made a post. This is my first post and will probably be making more posts if the vibe is right.
Hi, im a redditor. Probably won’t be for long though.
Im a c# and typescript developer, computer enthusiast, avid book and comic reader, and a fantasy and scifi fan. Im very introverted and agoraphobic, unskilled at social stuff, badly overweight and less-than-optimally-active, and just started on anti-depressants. Other than that im an utterly boring person.
Ahhhh I know the pain bud, I’ve struggled with that myself as well, in a better spot than I was though still a bit of derp. Felt like I was a complete snoozefest of a person and that I was pretty unlikeable, depression is a total bitch like that.
Don’t mean you’re a boring person though, like it seems you enjoy a nice mix of stuff and there ain’t no shortage of folk on here who dig things like programming, comics, etc as well on here and folk are pretty chill and welcoming from what I’ve seen so far too.
Credit where credit is due though, its a really difficult thing trying to live your life with depression hanging over you, but hey you’ve still gone and made a post and are starting on anti-depressants, these are some pretty awesome big steps even if they don’t particular feel like it right now :)
Hello there! I’m Smiley, lovely to meet you all. (✿◡‿◡)
Like a lot of new people here I’m a Reddit refugee. I’ve always been a lurker so making posts and commenting is rather daunting, though from what I’ve seen this community is really nice. :D
I look forward to posting my art, photography and cat pics! 🎨📸🐈💖Hi, I’m an architect and I eat too much mayonnaise. Used to be on reddit and forums and bbses and I found my way here. I love reading scifi but I wasn’t too active on reddit because of the enders game brownshirts. It’s nice being here
Please say more about the Ender’s Game brownshirts. I’m curious whether that’s related to the film adaptation or the personality of the author.
That’s just my impression of the mega fans of ender, but I can’t say if it’s anything to do with Card. Obviously I’m not a fan as a grown ass man.
Here from Reddit (Apollo user).
I am a HS Biology teacher with a previous career in game development. Very involved in gamification and VR in education (creating in VR, the apps that can be used in a classroom are lacking at the moment).
If it dates me, I had a Digg account back in the day and have spent more time on MySpace than Facebook.
Fellow HS teacher here. Definitely interested in your thoughts on VR–I imagine you’re imagining things like visualizing parts of cells?
Sure! Gallery walk experiences of anything that can be represented with a 3D model is a fairly straightforward first step for VR in the classroom. This last year I had students use the “nanome” app to look at receptor proteins and the compounds they interact with and they can attempt to see where they think the active site might be as a 3D puzzle exercise.
For a while, Labster was doing interesting work in the VR space with immersive Biotech labs (they gambled on Google’s VR hardware and software platform and pivoted to remote learning apps when Google dropped support). I liked how they made it safe/memorable to mess up a lab. For instance, there was a chemistry lab where it would tell you to wear goggles but would continue the experience if you didn’t actually do the goggles step. At a later stage, if you mixed compounds wrong, the reaction explodes and if you hadn’t worn goggles, you go “blind” (game over / restart level). Students talk about such moments amongst themselves as if they’re discovered an Easter egg, and when you instruct them to wear goggles during a real lab they are a little faster to comply. :)
Yo!
Software developer and gamer. Started on the Commodore 64 with both and never stopped.
Having been through several tech enshittification cycles, I’ve long been wondering when Reddit would be too “meh” for me. That happened earlier this week, when I decided that Lemmy was more the tech and community I was looking for. Planned to leave gracefully during June.
Then I saw the AMA and… That set off my “Fuck This Shit with a Vengeance” so currently coding up a script to make my Reddit account die very ungracefully.
I too started on C64! Though in my case it was as late as '92 when a seven year young kid got an already old C64 with cassette player, a manual, and no games. Sometimes one gotta make ones own fun, literally.
Hey everyone! Thought I’d add to the ever growing pile of Reddit refugees. In all seriousness I have been watching in horror at how reddit has been declining over the last few years and the 3rd party app debacle has finally forced me out into what seems a much healthier and happier community. Can’t wait to get to chat to you all!
Hi, I’m Omni. Older cis het white dude. Likes math. Not as dipshitty as the previous two sentences imply, I hope.
In a previous life, I wrote a moderately successful indie game. Currently, working part time in R&D for a small nuclear engineering company, and spending the rest of my time in independent study. Currently working on group theory.
Hello I’m a nonbinary/masc leaning lil guy. I work with high risk populations at a non profit in the pnw. Feels weird to not be a programmer or something, seems that’s what all the bee-hawers and fediverse users are into these days. Um, I’m autistic and have adhd, in my mid 30s, like to ride my bike, play pikmin bloom, garden, and take up hobbies quickly and then leave them for like 3 years. Oh I am also a really yuge music nerd, like, actually. Mmmmmmmyeap
Hello, I’m green_witch!
I’m a travel-weary drifter from the festering ruins of “that place”, where I spent most of my time lurking.
I enjoy herbalism, mycology, bushcraft, botany, nature, and consider myself a student therein. I’m unfortunately pretty timid, and my grasp on language is tenuous at best, but I’m trying to open up more and (hopefully) be a part of a community.
I hope we can all treat each other well and make something neat together.
Hi! I’m a trans woman who likes for the most part gaming stuff and programming(said every Redditor trans woman ever!)
I also like:
- Music (Mostly metal and progressive rock, with some pop on the side). I’m also learning to play the guitar.
- Animals, especially cats and dogs, in that order 😼
- Transformers, been an important part of my early childhood.
- Reading, though I haven’t been able to really get into that hobby yet
- Watching TV, for the most part animation, Star Wars, and some others. Favorite series, in no order: Gravity Falls, The Owl House, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Transformers Prime, Clone Wars
- Movies are cool too. From the top of my head I like Nobody, the first Monty Python(haven’t watched the others), Lord of the Rings(recently watched Two Towers for the first time, gonna watch Return of the King soon), Into/Across The Spiderverse, all Star Wars movies except sequels and most of the Disney Rennaisance stuff. I used to like Marvel movies but I got burnt out.
- Favorite videogames of all time include: Titanfall 2, Portal 2, Kirby Superstar Ultra, Kirby and the Amazing Mirror, Sonic Mania, Earthbound, Mother 3, Super Mario Galaxy, Celeste, Mega Man X, and some others I may have forgotten.
