Omg, I’d just written a whole reply and hit cancel by mistake and it’s gone 😭

Ouch…

I don’t remember much of my early days in Sky, but I recall finishing the game the next day or so after taking the screenshot. But holy cow, the ending hit me hard, past me didn’t know something like that was possible in a game!? From that day I kept on logging in regularly, although I feel you, I still avoided Wasteland and Eden like the plague for weeks after that. "I ain’t dying a second time, nuh uh! I’ll be over here playing with the fishies"😆

and it very quickly became my “special interest” (how NT’s like to call things those of us who are autistic get really in to lol).

Ahahaha well here’s to many more special interests and memories then!

TGC: *laughs and looks at upcoming Days of Mischief, Days of Style and probably expensive rare TS*

Jokes aside, 600 is a massive amount of candles, good on ya🤑

@talou@jlai.lu Of course a big thanks to you as well! I’d be royally screwed without your consistent Sky news posts as I don’t have Reddit anymore :P

I don’t know why but I’m laughing my ass off at your screenshot, it perfectly captured the spirit of a veteran adopting a moth 😂 I also loved the backstory, very wholesome…I want more! To ping back, here’s the oldest screenshot of my Sky beginnings that I could find:

I only remember that I had picked up the game for the second time and had just reached Valley of Triumph. I couldn’t convince my friends to join me for this second attempt, but I had decided that I was finally going to see the top of that mountain, dammit! Between us, I clearly had no clue what this game was all about, but I must have been so motivated that I took a screenshot to remind myself of what I wanted to accomplish 😆

Btw, thank you for posting in this community! Even though I love talking about stuff that interests me and I make a conscious effort to engage with stuff on Lemmy, I’m more of a lurker and I can’t help it…so I’m really glad that you’re sharing your thoughts and opinions. For what it’s worth, I really enjoy reading them!

I also dropped the game pretty quickly the first time, why didn’t that work for me as well?? (╯° □°） ╯︵ ┻━┻

Atleast all that overthinking has an upside! Although I now have a pretty good deterrent too for when the next IAP items drop, it being that while I love Sky, I dislike TGC’s attitude even more and it’d be weird for me to fund that.

The items that I regret buying are:

• Starter Pack (the money is better spent on a season pass)
• TGC office cape (I don’t need to explain why😅)
• Season of Aurora cape (the concerts are all just eerily empty)
• Season of the Nine-Colored Deer cape (seems to be a common regret judging by the YouTube comments)

It’s of course all subjective, I’ve bought 10 IAP’s in total (incl. season passes) if that means anything.

U guys also have some “crippling depression after an expensive item wasn’t worth it” on your side?🥺👉👈

I like your conclusion!

I can’t change the fact that I’ve given TGC money in the past, but I’ll use this one “bug fix” (one of frankly many player-hostile decisions that came before it) now to never buy anything TGC related again, unless they change course.

I’m just tired of them nerfing or straight up eliminating ways to collect candles that are simply different, be that through glitching, solo-candlerunning, or sitting at a campfire, without even giving a hint of a reason or data as to why that truly protects the gaming experience.

I realize that there are good and bad exploits. However, I also realize that there are good reasons and just straight up greed. Until TGC picks a side I’ll assume that it’s the latter. I’m a free-to-play player from here on out and hell, my wallet will even thank me for it :P

It is a bit better than your average free-to-play, mobile, daily rewards kind of game, because there is a hard cap of in-game currency you can earn by playing, which can be earned in 1-2 hours. After that, there isn’t any incentive to grind for in-game currency anymore.

Personally I think what really gets ya is the FOMO: Sure, you only need to play 1-2 hours day, but the problem is that soon you’ll feel the urge to do that everyday, even if it’s midnight, your legs hurt and deep down you just want to go to sleep. See, unless you’ve played for a few years, you’ll never have enough time or candles to get all the cosmetics that are currently in rotation (unless you pay with real money). And who knows when they’ll return, they’re only ever available for a limited time. And you reeeeally want those cosmetics, your entire friend group is saving up for it and think of how cool you’ll all look! So in essence: There’s a daily limit, but there’s a daily limit. Meaning that if you want something, you need to methodically start playing days before the drop to ensure you’ve saved up enough, you can’t just start playing whenever you want. Thus, you can see how it can quickly become a routine and, ultimately, devolve into an addiction (and this is by design, TGC aren’t saints, these tactics are widely used in the industry and their effects on the player are well known).

So while I love this game, I’d say treat it like any other game because in my personal experience it can get addicting in the wrong hands (e.g. mine😅). But this shouldn’t hold you off from atleast playing through Sky’s story once, the campaign is absolutely worth it and truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I don’t say that lightly.

HONK

That sounds very tedious, but in some way every failed solution narrows down the list of possibile causes :P

Do keep us updated, if you want. And you might help the peeps on GitHub by trying out different mobile devices or sync methods, if you really really really want to do something in the meantime. It does seem to be neither your Joplin version nor your encryption setup!

Three things I’d try:

1. Mobile client > Configuration > Tools > Sync Status > If there are errors, press on “Retry all” (unlikely, see n.2).
2. If your desktop works correctly, have you tried re-uploading your notes? For that, make sure your desktop is fully synced (and I’d backup your notes if you haven’t already automatically). Then go to Tools > Options > Synchronization > Show Advanced Settings > Re-upload local data to sync target.
3. If you want to try something else, you could try using an older build of Joplin on F-Droid and see if it works there.

P.s. I think you should input an encryption master password only after having done a full sync on the device and then entering it in the orange prompt that appears. So your problem might stem from a badly configured E2EE. In that case, if the things above don’t work, I’d suggest turning off E2EE, synching all your notes to your devices and then turning it back on. Hang in there!

Edit: Three things :)

That actually never crossed my mind, I’m pretty sure they just see a floating skykid that forgot gravity existed :P

Maybe the real party was the party of friends we made along the way?🎆

Well, that makes two of us :/ Though I swear skykids arrive the moment I setup the disco ball…

However, for those curious enough, there is another way to always carry a portable disco that everyone can see💃🕺

I think his heart’s in the right place. I don’t think a tech-centered host should have any reservations or prejudices about trying out new stuff, but he’s also someone that covers 20+ tech stories each week. I don’t blame him for thinking the fediverse is just another R1 Rabbit. Nevertheless, he’s surely not oblivious to how he came across in this podcast and might be more open next time. Just in case, here’s the perfect 1-minute intro: What is the Fediverse?

Jakob, on the other hand, is a real Lemmineer. Or…Lemming…Lemur? Whatever 🤝

The solution: Something something, be the change you want to see in the world.

Personally, I think it doesn’t matter if he joins the fediverse now or in 10 years or ever. It doesn’t matter if the fediverse grows, dies or stays like this. He has the choice, now, to be part of a better internet, regardless of whether it will completely change the internet landscape as we know it or not. There’s always going to be moments where a decision has no material benefit over the other and can sometimes even be more inconvenient. The only reason is: “That’s what I believe in”. What happens in the future is out of his control. He can simply pick his side.

This way, regardless of whether the culture on these closed-off platforms forever stays on there, he knows that his contributions to culture, may that be an upvote, a comment (yay!), a podcast or a post, is a contribution to all and therefore truly becomes part of culture.

🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️LEMMY MENTIONED🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

No but seriously, such an interesting episode.

On one end there’s Riley, wanting to turn back the clock to an age where there were forums and communities freely searchable on the internet, and lamenting centralization.

• “I don’t want to do that [joining the fediverse]. I really just want the internet to be fixed”.

On the other end there’s Jakob, making a case that the clock can’t simply be rewinded back, and that the solution for a modern internet without centralization is…a modern internet without centralization.

• “You’re like: ‘Hm, my issue is all of these different places are closing off themselves and there’s all this information and stuff on the internet that’s becoming centralized, gated’ - decentralization is what the fediverse is!”

As for Riley’s point about “If I join the fediverse, and no-one’s there, I’m cutting myself off from culture”: This is exactly why these platforms are closing themselves off. They’re seeing that even if people want something different (and Riley has expressed this desire throughout the entire podcast), the fear of not being able to keep our things can be a strong incentive to never improve one’s situation. And there’s no better proof than his own statement. It works.

Damn…even without the screenshot that still sounds pretty convincing and this seems to be solved, thanks for the follow-up and the “research”!

After your initial post I got curious and did an informal experiment as well: I joined the tournament with three old accounts of mine. The first one got assigned to the blue team, the second to yellow and the third to green. So, if the sorting is unbalanced, then atleast it isn’t blatantly unbalanced. Sample size: 3 accounts😆

Well, your theory isn’t at all hard to believe, so the bar isn’t that high 😂

Straight through my heart💀

But true, black would be a much better fit for the fifth team! Now that I think of it, it was weird from the start that forest got the colour blue…

Anyways, one thing’s for sure, for the rest of the tournament you won’t see me blink during the results screen👁️👄👁️

Conspiracy theorists unite!

I gotta say, I do have some difficulties believing this conspiracy though, and this is coming from someone that believes the true intent behind Sky is to create the perfect money-making scheme that exploits the ultimate human addiction: friendships.👽

For example: If they planned for a 5th team, why was the cape a different shade of blue instead of let’s say purple (Isle of Dawn, LTP area/vault)? Knowing that this is their first competitive event, why would they not reassign the “purple” team members to each team equally, knowing full well that a team comprised of two team is so obviously unbalanced? We need a motive!

On the other hand, it is really weird that the blue team is winning by a lot, considering that the player doesn’t have much impact on its own and the teams are assigned at random…👽