To be fair, and whilst I am poking fun at the article with the description, unfortunately there are bound to be at least a couple of crackpots that would try and incite violence, regardless of the fact that the vast majority of Reddit staff likely don’t agree with what’s been going on either.

It looks like it’s get enough From design philosophy from the last decade that it will feel familiar to people that haven’t played any Armored Cores, whilst hopefully still feeling like AC. I’ve only played Gen 1 and 2 myself, but seen a fair bit of footage from Gen’s 4 & 5. It looks like it’s sitting somewhere nicely between the early ACs and the later in terms of combat pace, feeling fast, but still deliberate, if that makes sense.
The fact that there’s not only hints of the Souls-likes, but also Sekiro has me very excited.
I hope it doesn’t stray too much from the classic AC formula that it no longer appeals to long time series veterans but I’m personally really, really, pumped for this one.

@watchdog Is there really anything wrong with ‘users’? Especially when half the point of federated instances is that you’re going to be interacting with people that aren’t on a server called the same thing as yours, nevermind even using the same backend. E.g. fedia.io is called fedia.io, but it’s still using kbin. Do they want to be called ‘kbinauts’? No one using a Lemmy-based instance is going to refer to themselves as a ‘kbinaut’.

We’ve all missed the memo, I just found out it’s officially the kawaii boys international network.

Interesting, I thought it was just an abbreviation of the original Polish site, karab.in (which would also explain why ‘subreddits’ are called magazines, karabin = rifle). Either way, that’s pretty seamless inspiration.

Slightly off topic, but why are we saying 'kee’binetters? Where is the ‘kee’ in kbin?

Hear hear!
I never really contributed much to reddit, as usually you had the people that perpetually watched twitter / news sources / new reddit posts getting in first, to the point where there wasn’t a whole lot of point getting involved outside of voting, because someone else has already said whatever you were about to.
Here though, I’m itching to contribute and get the ball rolling on magazines. Just a shame the performance issues are hampering that, haha!

Hopefully someone can create something like this for kbin instances. I would say all federated ‘groups’ but I’m currently not sure how that would work with things like Mastodon.
I imagine in the future, we’ll etiher have better built-in discoverability or a site that includes the whole of whatever ends up being the biggest aggregator platforms.

Thanks for the link!