CarbonIceDragon

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[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 18 points 5 days ago (15 children)

Hydrogen cars aren't even something likely to catch on at this point anyway I'd think, despite Toyota's attempts to the contrary. Battery-electric cars have improved a lot of late making the advantage in range from using an energy dense chemical fuel less apparent, and hydrogen has to deal with both lower energy efficiency and the fact that hydrogen storage is rather difficult, while the infrastructure getting built has overwhelmingly been EV charging rather than hydrogen filling stations.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 16 points 5 days ago

It can be produced in a renewable manner even if it currently usually isn't (though it is a net consumer of energy to create it that way, so it's more like a sort of battery when used that way than an energy source), so if the downsides can be worked around and the economics worked out (a difficult proposition I expect given hydrogen is in a similar position and all the issues that one has) it has potential to work as a renewable vehicle fuel.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 4 points 5 days ago

I thought you were talking about my username for a second before looking at the context and was concerned x3

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 51 points 6 days ago (10 children)

tbf, a billionaire right in front of you isnt that scary even if thats what you're afraid of, its the abstracted effects of their power and actions. A billionaire right in front of you in the flesh is something you can physically harm with your own two fists alone, a widespread system is not.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm not really convinced that this would change their behavior much tbh, given that corporations are already prone to sacrificing their own financial future for short term profit increases, despite existing for nothing but financial gain.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

unlikely, as it has another reason for the name that is fairly fitting for the instance's niche (which is also why I just mentioned the name rather than directly link it, as it's theme is not something that most without a specific interest would want to randomly click a link to and see.)

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 33 points 1 week ago (18 children)

It wasn't a genre I enjoy, so I don't really know much about it beyond the stuff about how badly it sold. I have to wonder though, just how bad does a game have to be to sell this badly? Whenever I see people complain about something in gaming, I inevitably see people talking about how people should vote with their wallets, but then whatever the thing in question is seems to be quite profitable despite the complaints and calls for people to stop buying it. What was so wrong with this one that actually caused practically nobody to buy it?

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 36 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Funnily enough "gulp cafe" is name of the instance my Mastodon is hosted on, I wonder if they'll find that coincidence as moderately amusing as I have.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago

But what will happen when the Electrons join the fight?

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh I mean, yeah, anthro characters are probably older than civilization, but I meant the furry fandom as a specific subculture rather than specifically the subject it is centered around.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 27 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Furries aren't as recent as people tend to think either I might point out, the subculture has existed in some form since like the 80s to my understanding, it's just more popular and visible these days.

 

Possibly not the ideal instance for this, but Id rather not deal with alt accounts and like how this instance has been run thus far. Plus, theres gotta be some other furries that play this game right? seeing as it lets you make creatures...

 

Not entirely sure if this is the right place to ask this, but I figured it was the closest fit.

I've been thinking about creating one or possibly a few communities, mostly due to missing some that were on Reddit. Before creating any, I wanted to be sure of a few things:

  1. Do communities have to be created on the instance one logs in to (ie, does the fact my lemmy account is from pawb mean that communities I make have to be made here?) I kinda assume it would since going to another instance's page loads their site, which I obviously am not logged into, but given my second question I feel like I should ask if there's a way to make one elsewhere.
  2. Given pawb is a furry instance, do communities made here have to be furry related, or could one make, say, a community for some specific game for example that isn't explicitly a furry game?
  3. Would creating a fetish-related community for one that is popular with some furries be allowable, or should I go to a different instance for such things? I noticed one or two on pawb already but I was unsure if they got any special permission to be created or not.
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