Lol I figured it out by reading lexicon defs in the bluesky-social/atproto repo when the FT got access; I don't know if the social team was given more info but in general it doesn't seem like there's much out there explaining it to users.

Standard account. For trusted verifiers, the only thing you need to do to verify an account is create a app.bsky.graph.verification record. This would be a simple manager, maybe with some tools to validate the status of a verif (e.g. if a user changed their display name and needs a new record)

Cool, thx! 💚

Yes, I'm mainly thinking of newsrooms but also given the influx of government accounts it would be helpful if e.g. the UK parliament account was a trusted verifier and could verify MPs.

(To clarify, I use gamepad for all driving/flying and m+k for everything on-foot. You can definitely do on-foot with gamepad but I find my accuracy aiming with one is abysmal)

I mostly play ED on a gamepad, it works surprisingly well. I recommend mouse and keyboard if you do the (totally optional) on-foot combat missions in ED: Odyssey (PC-only expansion adding FPS mission types) but you can definitely play it gamepad-only.

I will say, I wish there were more storytelling elements in ED, however. The locations are very dry and the only even slightly memorable characters are the engineers. It's my biggest complaint about ED tbh.

I love NMS but totally agreed about the combat and base building. It's much more compelling as an exploration game than a space combat sim. A big part of why I started gravitating towards ED was wanting a more hard sci-fi space experience, both in terms of storytelling and world building.

Tbh you can be dangerous in any ship if you know how to fly it, the engineering upgrades you can grind for really help but aren't wholly necessary.

At any rate I've never found the multiplayer aspects particularly frustrating, despite being a fairly new player.

It has a "solo" mode where your actions can impact things but you don't encounter human players (e.g., if you buy all of a station's commodities they won't be available to someone playing the "open" mode), I mostly play that. There's also an area restricted to early pilots where you start the game.

The default flight mode is sort of airplane-like but you can toggle flight assist mode to off for a more authentic space flight experience (also makes you extremely deadly at combat because you can do things like thrust forward and then spin around to fire backwards).

I haven't played I-War but if you want devilishly difficult hard-sf-lite space corvette action with Newtonian physics, Elite Dangerous might be your jam. I got back into it the other month and have clocked a disturbing number of hours since then.

Truly; I really needed something genuinely uplifting like that after last week's media diet of gloom and despair. Also the soundtrack really slaps.

I often wonder if I'd be further along if the world wasn't so awful, if I had more time to just breathe between panicking about everything. But at least my dysphoria bucket isn't also filled with regret from having hidden the last five years; I feel I sometimes discount how heavy that rock would be.

💚💚 Fwiw it made me super happy to see you come out, it really made me feel less alone. So thank you as well!

I definitely hear that re: dysphoria, though I find my Dysphoria Bucket shifts in weight quite frequently. A lot of the remaining dysphoria gets magnified by how heavy the other bucket is.