I've been compelled to make a full blown fediverse conversion mod for Stellaris, and I don't know what it is that's compelling me, but I will not stop until it is complete. I want as many instances represented as possible, @ me your ideas.
this will be the highest effort shitpost of my entire fediverse career
it is slowly dawning on me that this mod will take weeks of work. maybe even months. However, I have the rest of quarantine to go, this is my job now.
so far I've got
- a mastodon logo for .social
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- a snout (for snouts.online)
- the yiff.life hex
- the goat of hellsite.site
- the radtown 
- pawprint for whomst.dog
- selontheweb as representative symbol of godforsaken.website
- a mate gourd for myasstodon
- an efdn.club logo
I need more symbols! @ me a symbol if your instance isn't yet represented and I'll get it in there
emojis work well for this, so if your instance has an emoji you think represents it, do @ me it
note to self: change the language file such that the "Leave Federation" button says "Defederate" instead
I take that back. I went for Fleeting, Nomadic, and Rapid Breeders
if I had a dataset of fursona names I could make a namelist
If I was REALLY talented, I could make Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit into respective endgame crisis
Reddit would be the scourge, for obvious reasons. and Twitter would be the robot uprising, because algorithm. Facebook or Google would be the interdimensional invasion.
it would be too easy to make a jamelist (jorts namelist)
it's been like 12 hours and I'm still going, but I need MORE. send me your emojis, send me your ideas and your huddled masses.
I've got 22 instances represented so far. In total I'd like to have like, at least 50 by the end of this. But, it's time to get some gameplay done, look for some bugs.
so far witches.live is the only fanatical purifier in the galaxy
ah yes, the eternal art art of hours upon hours of bughunting and troubleshooting. This circus is the closest I'll ever get to actual hacking, so I better try to enjoy it.
what is Stellaris but a series of text documents interwoven by code spaghetti
what if I literally replaced all of the AI personalities with various fedifolk tropes, and all of their dialogue with actual assorted mastodon posts
@starwall that's perfect :D
@starwall shadow council, i love it
@starwall fucking shadow council
@starwall What's a huddled mass, anyway?
@starwall Wait, a "huddle" was a football thing, right?
So a huddled mass is, like, a football player?
@starwall have Pleroma be the Unbidden
@starwall in it, voted 5, went hog wild
@starwall Starwall you are a genius, this mod might bring me back into this game
@starwall Jellaris
@starwall What civics does botsin.space have
@jordyd warbots and driven assimilator
@starwall Perfect 👌
@starwall technically hacking is bughunting just with a different goal in mind
@starwall thats ck2 and eu4, stellaris doesnt even get spaghetti :\
@starwall I hate to say it but gab, liberdon, societal, briteon, half the Pleroma instances could be added to that list alongside witches.
(they/he)
@starwall honey.town should be easy 🐝 if u wanna include weird tiny instances ;)
@bee I would be delighted to!
@starwall I can't wait to see what you do with EFDN
@starwall this is amazing... I own the game but have never played it, I think it's time
@starwall holy crap this is amazing
@starwall I'm cryin so much this is so good and cute lmao
@starwall Wow. This is so cool!
@starwall not in it, voted one
@starwall holy shit
@starwall these are actually interesting imho.
also.. as a yerba mate drinker -
cheers! ;)
a question with #emojies, #federated #networks and #inclusion in mind:
any idea whether there are ways to make emojies for blind people? (not just visually impaired..)
@ahanon I am not smart enough to say if that's even possible
a bbc - show from last summer re emoji and blind/visually impaired.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0006sp2
a mac tool (emoji voicing)
https://abilitynet.org.uk/news-blogs/easy-emojis-blind-free-mac-utility-rocket-0
https://wearesocial.com/uk/blog/2019/07/world-emoji-day-making-emojis-more-accessible
https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/07/17/rnib-aims-to-redesign-emojis-for-visually-impaired-users/
The Power Of #Inclusion (#TPOI). #Justhanks @ahanon!
can't really think of any traits for mastodon.socialites besides repugnant.