atomicpoet

I'm leveraging Piefed for something incredibly neat.

You might notice that I'm tagging my photography posts with usernames. In fact, those are not usernames -- they are #Piefed communities.

And to get the full effect of what I'm doing, it's important to visit each individual community for the full aesthetic impact. So here's the links:

1. @[email protected]: https://piefed.social/c/dustbloom
2. @[email protected]: https://piefed.social/c/blue
3. @[email protected]: https://piefed.social/c/lumoura
4. @[email protected]: https://piefed.social/c/sizz
5. @[email protected]: https://piefed.social/c/recordpics

More important is how I'm submitting content to those Piefed communities. From pixelfed.social and atomicpoet.org, I'm uploading photos from those two servers: pixelfed.social is my own artwork; atomicpoet.org is interesting art I stumble upon. After I upload a photo, I give it a description in a post, then tag it with the community "username" I want it to submit it towards.

Once the post is live, the originating server sends the post over to Piefed, and Piefed reposts it to the community I tag.

Voila! I now have submitted my post to an aesthetic and curated community, for which anyone can collaborate with me on.

Within a day, we got lots of activity here -- and several people are already interacting with photos posted there.

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I'm about to play Back 4 Blood, the "spiritual successor" to Left 4 Dead.

This game has mixed reviews. And based on comments, it looks like the online co-op and PvP is dead.

Now whenever I see blowback on games like this, I wonder if it's because Back 4 Blood is simply not exactly like Left 4 Dead even though it was made by the same developers. It's what I like to call the Yooka-Laylee Phenomenon.

Or is this more like the Mighty No. 9 Phenomenon where, it's not so much the spiritual successor isn't exactly like the original, but nowhere near as good as the original?

Hard to say without playing.

I do notice that, for whatever reason, Steam reviewers tend to privilege indie releases over AAA titles. So that might be something to do with it too.

I don't know. This is all conjecture from someone who's yet to play it yet. However, last Steam sale, I bought this for C$3.99 -- which was 95% off. So how bad can it really be?

Well, you know what they say -- YOLO!

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