Mildred is actually a sick ass name. I hope she's rocking it

So when it comes to copyright music can actually be divided into two things: the song itself (the lyrics and melodies) and the performance of a song (the recording). I don't know the entire situation but I'm guessing Taylor Swift owns the rights of the songs themselves, but not the rights to the recordings of the songs that were made, so she's in her right to make her own recordings of the songs and then she would have full ownership of those. (Sidenote: I study composing for media and though copyright is part of my study, I'm not an expert)

Mark Rutte has been our prime minister for 13 years and I hate him with every fibre of my body. I really hope we will finally get someone new (better) in charge.

Really? I thought the loudness wars peaked around the mid 2000's/2010's. I feel like it's become less prominent in the last few years

Wait reddit has chat groups? I didn't even know that was a think
I've never used anything other than old.reddit though so maybe that's why

Can confirm, am dutch. I'm not even surprised anymore whenever this happens. Our government is a mess.

I don't know if it's insensitive but it does seem unintuitive. Yeah "LGBTQ+" doesn't include everything in it's name but it's a short acronym that's easy to remember and say. If I'm in the middle of a conversation I probably can't remember 2SLGBTQQIA+. At the end of the day it's just language to communicate ideas, and I think LGBTQ+ gets the point across clearly. Alternatively you can just say Queer.

Some of my favourites:

• NieR Automata
• Katamari Damacy
• Chrono Trigger
• DOOM 2016
• Celeste
• Sonic Adventure 2

Oof~ yeah that would be worse... I would genuinely be scared of the future here if that were to happen

Yeah agreed. It was kinda funny 10 years ago, but I thought we would've grown past it by now. Feels like needless gatekeeping

Oh yeah definitely. In a way Rutte is just a symbol of what I hate about our government, but he's only a part of it of course

They do! :p

Sorry but that looks ugly- not a fan of the look
I didn't expect Windows 12 to be announced for another few years, didn't 11 only come out last year?

It's very nostalgic to me, I remember watching it a ton as kid on VHS. It's not GOOD but I think of it fondly

That looks nice! I played the demo a bit and it feels a bit clunky still but that makes sense if it's in early access, but with some more polish it seems really cool! c:

Yes! NieR Automata is one of my favourite OSTs ever

Yeah! I saw The Room for the first time last month in an art house theatre it was great

Haha always

Yeah every so often. Sometimes I get reminded of people I used to people very close to and wonder how they're doing. I guess it's just a fear of "We already lost contact before, what if I connect with them and then just lose contact again?" Idk maybe I should just do it sometime just to get the thought out of my head, but the idea makes me very anxious

I think I joined Mastodon around September or October 2022? But I hadn't heard of Kbin until a few weeks ago :p
Actually I wasn't familiar with the fediverse at all outside of Mastodon before then

Yeah I feel similarly. I created a magazine and was excited about moderating it even, but I'm not very much of a poster, more a lurker and commenter. But yeah it has a few subscribers now so I should probably just make some posts as a start at least

That looks nice!

Yeah i heard of Lemmy first, but when I found out about the developers being tankies I switched to Kbin. I actually prefer Kbin a lot now! It's obviously still earlier in development but I think it shows more promise.

Oh fair! I've never actually played that one, only Katamari Damacy and Beautiful Katamari, I should check it out sometime

Hey! I'm a 23 year old trans woman. Mostly here for talking about videogames, game dev, music and being queer. :)

I play Splatoon but I usually feel out of place in Splatoon communities because I'm really really casual
But if there's a magazine for it I would definitely join

Maybe it has infinite holes?