Heisann!

Hope it's okay to post here, I'm glad to announce the third edition of Lemmyvision is now live. It's a song contest where I invite Lemmy communities to send a song in their language. I'm once again promoting the event and inviting you to participate if you'd like to!

Don't hesitate to check the main post announcement for all the details here : https://sopuli.xyz/post/43511533

TL;DR

• From right now and until May 3rd, discuss with your Lemmy instance or community about which song to send to the contest.
• Submit the song in the Lemmyvision community by making a new thread.
• On May 4th, voting will begin. You will rank your favourite songs in a form. Any song not submitted by this date will not be featured.
• On May 11th, results of everyone’s favourite songs will be published.
• You can use !lemmyvision@jlai.lu for any question, this will be the community for updates and results, make sure to subscribe if you’d like to stay in the loop.

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/35452508

Hely everyone!

Hope it's okay to post here, let me know if elsewhere is better. I'm glad to announce the third edition of Lemmyvision (the Lemmy song contest) is now live. I'm once again promoting the event and inviting communities of Lemmy to participate!

Don't hesitate to check the main post announcement for all the details here : https://lemmy.world/post/45063698

TL;DR

• From right now and until May 3rd, discuss with your Lemmy instance or community about which song to send to the contest.
• Submit the song in the Lemmyvision community by making a new thread.
• On May 4th, voting will begin. You will rank your favourite songs in a form. Any song not submitted by this date will not be featured.
• On May 11th, results of everyone’s favourite songs will be published.
• You can use !lemmyvision@jlai.lu for any question, this will be the community for updates and results, make sure to subscribe if you’d like to stay in the loop.

Hely everyone!

Hope it's okay to post here, let me know if elsewhere is better. I'm glad to announce the third edition of Lemmyvision (the Lemmy song contest) is now live. I'm once again promoting the event and inviting communities of Lemmy to participate!

Don't hesitate to check the main post announcement for all the details here : https://lemmy.world/post/45063698

TL;DR

• From right now and until May 3rd, discuss with your Lemmy instance or community about which song to send to the contest.
• Submit the song in the Lemmyvision community by making a new thread.
• On May 4th, voting will begin. You will rank your favourite songs in a form. Any song not submitted by this date will not be featured.
• On May 11th, results of everyone’s favourite songs will be published.
• You can use !lemmyvision@jlai.lu for any question, this will be the community for updates and results, make sure to subscribe if you’d like to stay in the loop.

Hello friends!

Hope it's okay to post here, let me know if elsewhere is better. Your instance participated for the first two editions of Lemmyvision, and I'm glad to announce the third is now live. I'm once again promoting the event and inviting you to participate, can't wait to see what y'all submit!

Don't hesitate to check the main post announcement for all the details here : https://lemmy.ca/post/62723163

TL;DR

• From right now and until May 3rd, discuss with your Lemmy instance or community about which song to send to the contest.
• Submit the song in the Lemmyvision community by making a new thread.
• On May 4th, voting will begin. You will rank your favourite songs in a form. Any song not submitted by this date will not be featured.
• On May 11th, results of everyone’s favourite songs will be published.
• You can use !lemmyvision@jlai.lu for any question, this will be the community for updates and results, make sure to subscribe if you’d like to stay in the loop.

Le militant tué à Lyon gravitait depuis plusieurs années dans les cercles néofascistes locaux. Des milliers de posts anonymes sur X retrouvés par « Mediapart » montrent l’étendue de sa pensée raciste et antisémite, construite autour d’une glorification du fascisme et une nostalgie du nazisme.

lIl y a d’abord eu les hommages, élogieux. « Quentin est un nouveau converti au catholicisme engagé pour le bien commun […] avec une noblesse d’âme impressionnante », décrivait son ami Baptiste Claudin le 16 février sur CNews.

Puis est arrivée la minute de silence à l’Assemblée nationale. À 15 heures, le lendemain, tout l’hémicycle s’est levé pour le « jeune Quentin » – les mots de la présidente Yaël Braun-Pivet. Le militant d’extrême droite venait d’être déclaré mort après avoir été passé à tabac par des militants antifascistes, en marge d’un affrontement entre deux bandes rivales. Allait suivre un débat national jetant notamment l’opprobre sur le mouvement de La France insoumise (LFI), accusé de proximité avec le mouvement antifasciste.

Enfin, les rares portraits étoffés sont apparus dans la presse conservatrice, décrivant Quentin Deranque à travers les témoignages de ses ami·es proches. « Quentin est devenu catholique pour des raisons identitaires : le patriotisme et l’amour de Dieu sont liés chez lui », a ainsi résumé Domitille Casarotto dans Le Figaro.

Le jeune « consacrait ses nuits à l’aide aux sans-abri et à la lecture », affirme encore l’avocat de sa famille Fabien Rajon, qui a dénoncé le 11 mars « le harcèlement de certains médias dont les prétendues “enquêtes” ne visent qu’à salir sa mémoire ». Contacté par Mediapart, il n’a pas répondu à nos sollicitations.

Un aspect de la personnalité du militant néofaciste, qui s’était porté volontaire pour faire partie d’un service d’ordre bénévole du groupe de fémonationalistes Némésis le 12 février, a pourtant jusqu’ici été complètement éclipsé. Un activisme en ligne d’une rare brutalité, qui laisse peu de doute sur les convictions néonazies qu’il avait développées.

Mediapart a identifié des milliers de posts que Quentin Deranque a publiés sous pseudonyme ces deux dernières années sur le réseau social X. Si elles confirment le portrait de fervent catholique et intellectuel appliqué que ses ami·es ont dressé, ces publications donnent aussi à voir l’étendue vertigineuse d’une pensée structurée autour d’un racisme et d’un antisémitisme décomplexés, ainsi qu’une glorification assumée du fascisme et de la nostalgie du nazisme.

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/33835364

Inside this spoiler: boring yapping that gives more context ↓

I've been playing demos from the Steam Next Fest religiously since it started (back then it was just called Steam Games Festival I think, it was around 2021).

(seen on the picture attached) I have one sheet of A5 paper per edition, around 60 to 90 demos played every time, and notes written on the back, I keep notes of the demos I play, and highlight those that are interesting enough, those that I wishlisted, those that aren't worth my time, etc. forgive the dirty mousepad lol

I never shared those, except to friends by just copy pasting links, but I thought it would be interesting to share a "top" 5 in multiple made up categories that I pay attention to, there's no specific ranking within this top 5, so it's more like the 5 best X I noticed in no particular order

I'm not done playing my list so this post may be incomplete, and I will update it throughout the weekend

5 Takeaways:

• This is the best edition yet, with a lot of diversity in genres and gameplay ideas (the worst two editions were in 2025 I believe, which had an overwhelming amount of survival crafting / farming games)
• AI and asset flips games are still rising, per https://nextfeststats.com/ when it launched, half of the ~3500 submitted games had disclosed generative AI usage, they later updated that number (it's down to 700 now)
• The most successful demos were those that saw marketing efforts being put in motion 1 to 2 months before the festival, and have their release planned within the next 3 months. The bigger games aren't necessarily the most interesting, I only base this on my pattern recognition, but more often than not, 20+ Gigs games were not that interesting, while "lighter" games had more creativity. I'm extremely biased because I favour indie games rather than AA+ productions.
• Prevalent genres : still a lot of balatro-likes and survivor-likes. The extraction shooter genre is on the rise too.
• More and more games are trying to be optimized for the Steam Deck, I saw two or three demos with a dedicated "Steam Deck" graphic options!

My 5 favourite demos:

• Whisk is incredible, so many movement options contained within the few mechanics available, great speedrun potential, great art
• The Magus Circle is Vampire Surivors but you draw your spells on the screen like Arx Fatalis, it's super creative in how it completely changes the gameplay, I'm not the audience for this genre, but I will play this one because of how unique it is
• Denshattack! is completely crazy and feels super good to play, I liked it more than Deadline Delivery in which driving felt off for me
• Enter The Chronosphere superb twist on Superhot-but-topdown, love the artstyle, love the introduction to the game mechanics, for me this is textbook perfect demo to present an upcoming game
• ...

5 Disappointments

• SpaceCraft was released too early imo, the build is incomplete, unstable, the demos doesn't properly show its gameplay appeal, I expected a better marketing cycle from Shiro Games, but I remember Wartales had the same problems
• People of Note I don't know how to explain it but it fails to be an interesting rhythm game, it works alright as a music themed turn by turn combat game but why not fully lean into the genre?
• Truckful A demo build existed prior to this festival (without participating in the October '25 edition), but the one available this time is much worse in terms of gameplay available (lots of back and forth), and doesn't introduce the game properly
• ...
• ...

Best Steam Capsules (irrelevant of game qualities, you'll notice I'm a sucker for high contrast and great typography):

• 1848 Ex Voto
• Bylina
• Deified
• How Many Dudes?
• Shanty Town

Best Art Direction:

• Cicadamata People might fight me on this but I absolutely love the underlying themes and user interface look
• Esoteric Ebb Really excited about a Disco Elysium-like, sidenote, I'm not sure the DnD system is a good fit for this kind of game, still, the dev handles it creatively
• Boost Vector EX Beautiful and fluid UI that lifts the rather generic artstyle
• ...
• ...

This weekend I'm going to go through games that had little to no visibility to try and find the "underperforming" demos (that people should pay attention to)!