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solid sun
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I bought some cheese for 7€

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it had summer truffles in it, but it doesn't really taste like a 7€ cheese

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I expected a bit more from it

unborn mauve
peak folio
solid sun
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youtube links were fine to post here right?

zinc depot
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Happy valentines all, anyone get anything

solid sun
worldly ivy
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TWO WHOLE DOLLARS

humble parrot
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Is it even a bounty

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You could probably find more money on the floor

worldly ivy
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I could find more money digging in my couch cushions

humble parrot
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"Up to $2"

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Meaning not even $2

worldly ivy
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Jarvis, turn on the circus music

solid sun
zinc depot
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Working girl rates have sure gone down

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😂

humble parrot
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At that point, you're losing more money purely on the time of the services used than what you're getting of it.

solid sun
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it was to make AI even know the difference between certain objects

zinc depot
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Train an AI to daytrade

solid sun
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and some people thought that was real work/labour

humble parrot
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Slaves got food sometimes, at least

solid sun
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exactly

peak folio
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https://fixupx.com/teamspeak/status/2022753526783312054

TeamSpeak (@teamspeak)

With the incredible surge of new users joining TeamSpeak and subscribing to communities, current hosting capacity has been reached in many regions, especially in the United States. We're working on expanding availability across additional regions.
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︀︀Thank you for your patience as we scale to meet the growing demand! 🫡

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FixupX ·
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Seems every alternative is getting crushed by just a fraction of discordians scattering like roaches.

visual mirage
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  • TeamSpeak provides its server software to its users.
  • Discord hosts the servers themselves without you getting to control it.
teal iron
peak folio
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There’s public ones or you can pay for one.

solid sun
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I just posted the twitter one because kind of the irony of the post itself

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clearly showing some ripped off image in a tweet talking about bounty hunting that stuff

peak folio
solid sun
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hmm didn't they make it part of that tweet huh

sterile jolt
teal iron
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TWENTY TWO DOLLARS PER MONTH

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THAT'S TWICE AS MUCH AS NITRO

sterile jolt
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for a server that can host 8 people it's 3 bucks a month

teal iron
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THREE PER MONTH FOR 8 PEOPLE

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What if I have 9 people

sterile jolt
sterile jolt
teal iron
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FIFTEEN BUCKS

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What if I have 32 people

sterile jolt
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13 bucks for 50 people

teal iron
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Obscenely overpriced for basic communication

sacred mango
sterile jolt
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or you build a server and make your own

teal iron
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This is the price I expect to pay for like, a video game server for this many people

teal iron
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giving my IP to TALK TO PEOPLE GooDisgust

sterile jolt
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now self hosting is free BUT that's up to 32 people

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after that you need to buy a license

teal iron
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THE SELF HOSTING REQUIRES A LICENSE PAST AN ARBITRARY CAP

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How are these people in business????

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their entire model is praying discord says something stupid on social media or makes an annoying app redesign

sterile jolt
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55/year for groups up to 64 people

teal iron
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I mean like, ok
The other FOSS alternatives like element or stoat or whatever sound promising, if not for the fact that this ID verification stuff is coming for every social media soon, but teamspeak is for fools

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they're not suitable for any non-enterprise community

sterile jolt
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and of course self hosting will require hardware not a lot but it'll be there

peak folio
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fwiw

sterile jolt
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revolt\

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discordless says matrix but fails to point out that matrix is a protocol not a single server

peak folio
sterile jolt
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checking out fluffy

peak folio
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It notes experience (on Matrix) varies significantly by client.

sterile jolt
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an understatement

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you can make your own client or pick a client and use them

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actually thought of hosting my own matrix client but then realized that would mean I'd need to know how to code

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but if you're going to point out discord alternatives wouldn't hurt instead to point to the clients directly

glad needle
glad needle
teal iron
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Discord is "anyone else"
I said Not Teamspeak

glad needle
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You can also try Signal

sterile jolt
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I need VOIP and streaming

peak folio
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Signal needs your phone number, doesn’t it?

sterile jolt
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yes

glad needle
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Anyone looked at Steam chat?

sterile jolt
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time to time

glad needle
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As far as I know Matrix is the best option

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But, since I dont have a working PC rn, just a Steam Deck, Steam Chat is looking good

teal iron
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It worked alright

peak folio
zealous crow
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Imagine palworld gal gun.

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Think about it you both shoot and tame people and supernatural beings to quell the wild ones coming after you.

drifting fjord
peak folio
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Oh shi, Steve is laying it down

dim nymph
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I love the Flush song

simple aurora
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https://fixupx.com/i/status/2022838457425383622

Jamie Moran (@JamieMoranUK)

I’ve said it for YEARS
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︀︀Video Games should be cheaper & not go up on price, 2025 says it all
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︀︀Expedition 33 - $50
︀︀Oblivion - $50
︀︀Split Fiction - $50
︀︀Grounded 2 - $30
︀︀Mafia - $50
︀︀Helldivers 2 - $40
︀︀Silksong - $20
︀︀Arc Raiders - £40
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︀︀You sell more Good games at a decent price,

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FixupX ·
clever jungle
humble parrot
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No idea, it costs $40

barren sierra
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Sir those are pounds

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€ dis is euro

sick flame
prime agate
solid sun
solid sun
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Let me check again but I think so. The remake, the OG just uses their inhouse engine, the remake uses both engines together

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Yeah ue5, comes with all the ue5 downsides of poor performance and other bugs

zinc depot
clever jungle
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just makes everything a trailer

solid sun
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I just want to make it clear that I do not support bad ports

simple aurora
peak folio
sick flame
compact steeple
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well palworld be making group servers on other platforms for their fans who are leaving discord because of the upcoming age verification

peak folio
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But I wouldn’t hold my breath

peak folio
limpid vessel
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Indie games I feel should go to 30$ but I think triple AAA should go back down to 60$

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Remember platforms already takes 30% of all sales of games meaning for every game the company sells they only make 20$, currently at 20$ they only take home 13$ per sale. a minimum wage per worker at a indie company is 18$ a hour. Meaning currently it take 2 sales to match 1 HOUR of a game dev living expense

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And the sale of this game has to not only pay for the cost of the current game ot also has to fund the cost of their next game. It's almost unsubstantable

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Triple AAA companies and well known companies like Team cherry can eat that lower price because their games are so well known they have the reputation

peak folio
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The golden age was when the ceiling was $50 and it didn’t take seven years to make a game.

limpid vessel
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Sorry for the rant, just something I am passionate about

peak folio
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Though physical distribution wasn’t the most indie friendly thing

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But every medium dealt with that.

limpid vessel
peak folio
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There are reasons for it but it still blows everything up.

silver pewter
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My thought is simply: make a good game at a fair price point, and you won't have to worry about revenue.

limpid vessel
night plume
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I miss getting those magazines in the mail and that is how I knew new games were coming out xD

prisma owl
prisma owl
peak folio
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Not every dev is so lucky. croajirokek

sick flame
peak folio
limpid vessel
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Also ball x pit and terraira has marketing lmao

zinc depot
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I'm laughing hard at the Yaytseslav situation

mellow zinc
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I'm sick enough that I feel cold and gross but also sick enough that I feel kinda delirious. At least the deliciousness is kinda fun

hearty sonnet
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Let those intrusive thoughts win, it will make your day fun

silver pewter
humble parrot
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Yeah, remember when games came on cartridges that had to be manufactured, stored, transported and could break along the way?

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And now it's just digital downloads

hearty sonnet
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Cartridges 😊

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Little manuals in the game box 😊

humble parrot
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Yeah, they came with manuals that often had the game's lore and all the info about the game

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Those don't come anymore either

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Not even digital

hearty sonnet
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RIP

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I remember a switch game had a little booklet one time & I lost my freakin mind

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Like a real good one, a thicky

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It was a Rune Factory or Story of Seasons game I think

humble parrot
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Cartridges could even vary on the chips they had

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Like some games having the SuperFX Chip

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That's gone too

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But somehow, despite having a ton more costs (and features) before that don't exist anymore, that justifies games being $80 now I guess.

silver pewter
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'83 and '84 Famicom games were basic one-screen games (like Pacman or OG DK), but by about '85 NES games were getting Mapper chips to manage memory and other bespoke chips on the cartridges, to allow games to parallax scroll and stuff. SNES games got bespoke chips too, and by the end, games like Japan-Only Star Ocean were quite fancy.

hearty sonnet
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Since they are features now

zinc depot
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asda yesterday

silver pewter
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They were features as far back as 2011 Skyrim.... the giant hitting you, and you literally flying in the sky. I'll never forget when my buddy was with me and saw that on my PC.

zinc depot
prisma owl
# silver pewter '83 and '84 Famicom games were basic one-screen games (like Pacman or OG DK), bu...

That was an era where they were porting arcade games to home consoles as well. But during the PS2 and Gameboy Advance days, games were going for $30 - $50 bucks, and handheld games were sometimes cheaper than that.

I do like physical media, but even if it's blue ray, it's getting scratched over time. But digital media is worthless when games companies just want to nickel and dime you while only selling you a license to be able to have the privilege of playing their games.

peak folio
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Like only the initial wave had Ganon at the end with red blood.

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They turned it green later

prisma owl
peak folio
solid sun
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we generally do not pay to consume bugs

prisma owl
teal iron
# humble parrot But somehow, despite having a ton more costs (and features) before that don't ex...

You must understand mr dragon, our shareholders want triple the payout they wanted in 2003, and also made us hire a bunch of overpaid box tickers and doormen to make our business look 'professional' and also we have to pay Enterprise pricing for the most expensive development software on the planet because the shareholders said so, so we have to make the game eighty dollars to meet our profit targets for this quarter or else the shareholders will only maintain their unimaginable wealth!

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You're a dragon surely you understand that no amount of gold is a big enough hoard?
The line simply MUST go up!

zinc depot
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Flavoured bugs

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They do NOT process well in the body

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Roasted crickets

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Not great

solid sun
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hmm can't you handle the chitin armour?

barren sierra
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i stopped financing aaa slop a while ago, its on you, if you still buy it

zinc depot
barren sierra
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been voting with my wallet a while

solid sun
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I guess stomach acid can't melt insects

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just how jet fuel can't melt steel beams

zinc depot
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well you see, the thing is, the shells of insects are resistant to stomach acid

So one day, finished using the toilet and saw a bunch of insect carapaces in the toilet

teal iron
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Your votes and everyone else who feels that way are like
A rounding error on the spreadsheet

barren sierra
teal iron
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The "it's way too expensive and I don't think I care anymore anyway" crowd has wayyyy more influence

barren sierra
zinc depot
teal iron
zinc depot
solid sun
teal iron
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Almost everyone has to be picky, they're not "voting with their wallets" they're looking at $80 and saying "I cannot afford that"

zinc depot
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I'm not spending 80 dollars on a game, are they serious?

teal iron
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"is call of duty even worth that much?"
"I could buy 2 cheap knockoffs for that much, that's easier to get my friends onboard"
Etc etc

zinc depot
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call of duty is for teen squeakers

teal iron
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No one is turning away with this smug look like "yeah I'm voting with my wallet the power is in my hands. They're gonna feel this one"

zinc depot
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Won't feel a thing

sour mica
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i hope polytoria dosen't get sued by roblox 😭

humble parrot
teal iron
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Voting with your wallet requires an enormous swath of people to do the same, the casual indifferent consumer is the bulk of all spending and income and they do not care

solid sun
glad needle
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The most I ever spent on a good indie game was $60 for Baldur’s Gate 3

zinc depot
teal iron
barren sierra
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And now its gone

teal iron
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Is when the casual consumer had such a harsh economic situation and is actually disappointed enough that they stop buying the latest release

solid sun
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I did pay full price for a few games that I was really into, but it's rare, and I've been burnt a few times as well for something I really anticipated, but was really dissapointed being mislead by the way they described the game.

teal iron
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AAA lives and dies by the average Joe who has basically 0 social media presence, works a boring job in the US, and sees gaming as a convenient way to relax and entertain themselves after a long day at the boring job factory

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Anyone outside of this demographic is functionally irrelevant because their spending is nothing compared to the vast array of joes that don't care enough to seek the gems in the indie world

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AAA is $80 because such is the mind boggling depths of average joe's nonchalance in terms of video game spending

humble parrot
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I mean, if enough people say no, you get Ubisoft

solid sun
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nuclear no no

zinc depot
sick flame
peak folio
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Is there a single $80 game that came out besides Mario Kart World?

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-# And spare me the funny math with upsells or whatever

teal iron
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seventy, eighty, same difference

sick flame
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Every year they buy fewer and fewer games

teal iron
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Make big game cost lots money charge big number

sick flame
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Especially since Indie Games but some of them are with AI

teal iron
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Because AAA is run by shareholders, and as we know, investors LOVE gambling

sick flame
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The only thing is to buy old games

teal iron
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the higher the stakes the better!

sick flame
teal iron
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So did concord

peak folio
teal iron
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Average joe is the one who makes the bulk of their income so if they start confusing, angering, and generally displeasing the average joe they kinda lose their entire revenue stream
And like, AAA is generally slimy but ubisoft took it to another level

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maximized for cringe factor

sick flame
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Even if the AI ​​bubble is gone, it still won't be enough

teal iron
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well I mean
How they gonna make new AI if the bubble collapses

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how is the tech going to improve if there's no openAI running 6TW of compute clusters to make a new model

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-# Again it's pretty convenient that they designed a technology that explicitly requires someone with vast sums of capital in their palm in order to improve or advance

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but anyway, ubisoft and EA are like
They disregard what I said above about living and dying by the average joe

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no other demographic is both large enough to buy their games AND ignorant enough to buy their games

humble parrot
teal iron
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ubisoft made a lot of crap games that were appealing to like, nobody normal

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SKULL AND BONES
THE FIRST AAAA GAME
Remember that?

humble parrot
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All their games felt the same

teal iron
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It's quadruple A because that's the sound you make when you see how bad it is and how much they charge for it

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but yeah they lost the broad appeal with how immeasurably lame and uninteresting their games were
And I think they were just being immensely irresponsible financially

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overspending, making bad calls, etc

humble parrot
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They are all overspending

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And almost all of them made the same bad calls

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Nfts at the time

teal iron
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Ubisoft was not in the position to be so immensely stupid

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Like if activision does dumb stuff...who cares?
Call of duty fans certainly don't vonlaughter

glad needle
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Didnt Ubisoft try to make a game with NFTs?

humble parrot
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BF was also going that way until BF6 course corrected

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Like, sure, it won't take a single game, but a streak of failures gets you to where Ubisoft is

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All it takes for that is to fuck it up, or for a CEO to want a golden parachute

silver pewter
prisma owl
silver pewter
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But yeah, Gen 6 had $30 to $50 games, and there was plenty of GBC and GBA games that were "full games". Aka, easily 30 Hours.

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Right, it is case by case of course, but say... NES ports were lesser in at least the graphics, maybe not features or functionality. And SNES ports, stuff like SF2, sure, good enough, but lesser graphics and what not.

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Even though SNES SF2 was $70, it was going to easily save money within 2 to 4 months playing it, instead of going to the arcade with $10 Rolls of Quarters.

solid sun
# teal iron SKULL AND BONES THE FIRST AAAA GAME Remember that?

the best boating experience I've had so far was with Sea of Thieves, the waves were really great and the way the boat handles as well, but I got griefed so much right when I spawned into a map back to back by different people I just returned the game again.
I managed to get one treasure unburried after the tutorial and then my ship was attacked in the habour, and when I joined a different world it was attacked right as I spawned.

teal iron
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sea of thieves took like 20 years to understand what rust understood right away, that not everyone wants pvp

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And that letting people play how they want is how you retain players

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They chased a game full of those "memorable moments" like you see on youtube even though everyone knows most of those are staged

teal iron
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I can't use my own ship in a safer seas, and I have no meaningful progression

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so the only real way to play the game remains basically playing on open seas and spending 4 hours working on some grand quest only to lose it all in 2 minutes because some goblin happens to spend more time playing pvp than you spend breathing during a day

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but ironically the core game is actually incredibly well-made, at least on a ship

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when you do land combat...ehhhh, it's pretty shallow for the company that also made DK64, Banjo Kazooie, and also all those other games I don't care about

solid sun
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I just would want to go sailing with my friends vs some NPC Skeletons, that's all I really care personally, and if I wanted to, opt in for some pvp when I have like 50 hours and a clear understanding of how to even use my weapons properly

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instead of being blasted after 5 minutes being thrown into the wolfsden

zinc depot
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wild

worldly gate
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Also a lie.
They're sending notices that the government offers free freezing/storing of eggs/sperm so you can do that now and figure it out later.

zinc depot
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.....

teal iron
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. . .

zinc depot
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I don't think that will solve anything

worldly gate
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It actually helps.
Lets people focus on their careers/life right now, allowing them to settle down and stabilize before having kids.
That alone is huge in helping people have kids.

zinc depot
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Bit of a risk

worldly gate
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Everything is...

zinc depot
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The whole focusing on career is what created this mess lmao

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Threw the whole thing out of whack

worldly gate
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More the lack of wages keeping up with costs...
No one had issues having kids when you could afford a full family on a single income doing basic manual labor.
When you need 2-5 full time jobs to just afford rent? Forget kids.

zinc depot
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Even peasants throughout history had kids

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Hardships never stopped people, historically

worldly gate
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They also had farms... They could grow their own food.

zinc depot
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or were slaves to a lord

novel sun
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I'm pretty sure even now, birth rates in third world countries are significantly higher

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It's not really a matter of "it's undoable" in first world countries, it's moreso "we're not doing this because it'd make life harder"

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There's also the matter of children being used for work in some of the aforementioned third world countries

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So in a sense first world decisions are a mix of "avoiding additional hardship" and "I don't want to give a kid a rough life"

peak folio
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For the most part only third world countries have a positive birth rate rn

peak folio
simple aurora
deep idol
peak folio
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https://fixvx.com/discussingfilm/status/2023187181658148970

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

Warner Bros is considering restarting sales talks with Paramount after their latest offer.

(Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-15/warner-bros-weighs-reopening-sale-negotiations-with-paramount?taid=6992219292bc7f000143ba9a&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&embedded-checkout=true)

vxTwitter / fixvx ·
gusty marten
silver pewter
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Hmm... How often do y'all wash your Quilt/Comforter/Duvet?

zinc depot
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Once a week

drifting fjord
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I thought they were kidding when a commenter asked in the prev video I linked “now can you beat it without moving at all?”

He fucking did it

https://youtu.be/Mv6GyBmZ9TI?si=ZXbYaAKAze3dF9op

YouTube
Eliotex
Beating Minecraft without Moving AT ALL

This took way longer than I thought, but considering that I didnt even know whether this is possible or not, it's definitely a big win :D

Here's the seed, which I used to beat the game without moving:
-6971006161460989694

This may be the best one block challenge, because I did it on a real seed and not a custom world. It used to be an impossi...

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This is 6d chess-level thinking

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Not even galaxy brain at this point, this is universe brain

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No moving up or down, just…standing in the same spot and using increasingly niche game mechanics and bugs to get what you need

solid sun
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unless you listed your name as Squigsmasha in that signed NDA, I doubt they would know it is you who told us what your friend experienced

tranquil obsidian
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there are eyes everywhere

devout quiver
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ah yes, online 'legal advice'

solid sun
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is the NDA in a room with us right now?

devout quiver
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something something surveilence corporate state something Discord demanding ID/facescans something selling information

solid sun
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the game looks super generic, I don't know why they need an NDA for it.

solid sun
devout quiver
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yet

solid sun
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because we agreed on that

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as a team

devout quiver
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team on the internet.
you funny

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same with the 'we' bit on the internet

solid sun
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Kurva bliat, if I say we team, we team now go kill enemy.

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that's the russian on your team

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he would say that after flaming how poorly farmed you or or looks for some other excuse

devout quiver
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so you are admitting defeat via bullshitting

solid sun
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huh?

sterile jolt
# devout quiver yet

if what they're saying is true (benefit of the doubt) no adult will be giving their ID's and face scans

solid sun
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unless all you do is that stupid UwU speech

sterile jolt
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their statement is that they'll use existing data (when and how long you're online, how long you had an account, servers you're in, games played etc.) to make an educated guess if you're an adult or not

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so if your discord activity matches local school hours, your account is brand new, you're in "child-friendly servers" and you play kid games then they will likely mark you as a teen then you need to show an ID

devout quiver
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i hope you are aware that this is just the first inch they are taking

solid sun
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that's just so shallow tbh.
If someone is into less difficult games, or only into bright kiddy coloured games and joins servers for those to still get stratetgies or talk about those, vs the guy who's 16 and plays all the R18 rated shooters and horror games.

who will they think is the adult then, when both come from school/work at the same time cuz the adult only works half-day

devout quiver
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all that is required is for someone to be filing a lawsuit for age discrimination and bam
global policy, all accounts regardless of age need the ID/facescan.

it is also a very cheap way of getting there via court settlement.

solid sun
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like, I play bloons, at a rather high level, but bloons is by all accounts more kid themed.
What about terraria? adult kid game? it doesn't really have an 'age rating' in that sense, it's spooky, got horror themes in it, so it's not baby level.

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To me using what type of video game you play as a metric is super weak.

devout quiver
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Likewise, for now they only require one or the other, not both.
That will also change.

inch by inch people, it is a long game.

sterile jolt
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I'm more interested in OFcom VS 4chan which could result in all these companies telling the UK/Aus to screw off

solid sun
sterile jolt
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yepo

solid sun
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what did they do lol

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did 4chan leak stuff?

devout quiver
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ofcom wants to censor 4chan
4chan said ''i thought this was america''

sterile jolt
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4chan told Ofcom to screw off over their moderation policies mandate

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ofcom sued and 4chan sued back

solid sun
sterile jolt
solid sun
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well technically you can, but different context

devout quiver
solid sun
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yeah, that is the different context

devout quiver
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merica cares little about context

teal iron
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-# i don't think the US has any protections against discrimination based on age

solid sun
sterile jolt
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if 4chan wins their suit then that means that the UK and Aus even the EU's international regulations are just words and american companies only need to comply with US regulations (which for speech is practically nonexistent)

zinc depot
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which is the way it should be

solid sun
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also I may be thinking of something different when you said OFcom I just woke up

devout quiver
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the internet is not 'merica' though

solid sun
devout quiver
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this is just the opening phase of cutting the internet up into regions and from there it will be easier to censor and monitor communications

solid sun
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the internet has always been cut into regions lol

sterile jolt
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yeah every reigon is already starting their own "great firewall"

devout quiver
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the very intended operation of the internet is to always connect through one route or a another.
the people in power seek to remove that function and force it to operate by local laws

teal iron
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FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT

solid sun
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if they don't still do it League of Legends has you have a different account for every region.

Dota 2 has it's servers split into different regions to better accomodate every player

same for Age Of Empires 2, they have multiple server clusters all over the world to better even out the ping of both players.

teal iron
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They want to restrict the internet because they, too, live in fear of what they have created

devout quiver
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the first failure of the internet was the great paywalls on science and research

sterile jolt
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I mean web3 is supposed to be coming around

devout quiver
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they have said that since the 90s

teal iron
solid sun
teal iron
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It's a fake word made up to sell you bitcoins

sterile jolt
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matrix runs on web3

solid sun
devout quiver
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i should have bought IP addresses when i was 4 years old...

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silly me for not being smart enough at that age

solid sun
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buying a website domain is generally not just a one time purchase

devout quiver
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domains are subscriptions

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they are all owned already, and even if they arent someone can afford to say they own it and still fk you over

teal iron
#

Web1 was a disaster
Web2 is functionally awesome but is the worst thing you could possibly ask for in a neo-capitalist society (see: the western world)
Web3 is just not real

solid sun
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I wanna try and work on my own website next month and can hopefully bring it online.

teal iron
#

-# Maybe we need Society2 to be compatible with our advanced Web2
Or maybe I need to go to sleep and stop trying to reform all of society

devout quiver
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here is a thought experiment
Do you own your name or is it public domain?
Is it the same for everything?

zinc depot
#

Do I own my name

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🤔

sterile jolt
#

well IPFS exists, and a handful of sites already operate on the web3 concept it's just so niche that it's not widely used right now

devout quiver
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society will reform once we gone through the IT collapse (bronzeage collapse, Fall of rome)

solid sun
devout quiver
solid sun
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names especially last names go introduced when humans settled down and kept register of who lives in their towns, usually for the purpose of tax collection

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so mister Mason, was doing stone work related stuff.

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Smith was doing metal working.

devout quiver
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now id love to sit around and chat but my nose exploded cause this flue is fucking weird

teal iron
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There isn't really a web3, because there wasn't ever a day websites were "Web2" instead of "Web1"

solid sun
teal iron
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Web 1 is just how we describe the catastrophe that was the internet before there was any semblence of order
The wild west days where anyone and everyone was setting up an entire website and just throwing it onto the net and nothing was organized, sane, or trustworthy, really

sterile jolt
solid sun
sterile jolt
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that's like trying to claim you can own your skin color

teal iron
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Web 3 is just blockchain technology, which is kind of a dead end in and of itself

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At least, for now
There's not any practical use for the tech, and existing practical implementations are...
Well, calling them practical is being quite generous tbh

sterile jolt
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"I own the rights to all brown haired brown eyeed white people Everyone else must change their hair eyes and skin color to not infringe on my ownership"

solid sun
teal iron
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only a matter of time before someone finds a court willing to entertain the idea of patenting an actual skin pigment

sterile jolt
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Vantablack was copyrighted and then someone made a darker black and made it open source

solid sun
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it's pre-tanning

sterile jolt
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and it's not a regular color

teal iron
#

Well that's paint, isn't it

#

because computer and printer ink have specific limits to how dark they can be

sterile jolt
#

the pigmentation didn't exist till that one guy made it

teal iron
#

So you can argue that patenting a specific formula for a paint or ink is fair

solid sun
teal iron
#

But still
It's stupid

sterile jolt
#

pretty much and some guy recreated the color without the original formula and sold it without copyrights

solid sun
teal iron
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Patent and copyright law are incredibly stupid and just let anyone get away with basically anything

sterile jolt
#

point is to truly claim ownership it has to be really novel

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"Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined Garrett" could easily be trademarked

teal iron
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More and more I think that ownership, of technologies, is stupid

sterile jolt
#

John smith not so much

teal iron
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Maybe ownership of ideas in and of itself is stupid but you'd have to start spiking my drinks to get me to commit to that idea

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I don't really think you "own" your name, regardless, because owning is for like
Commodities

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You cannot give your name to someone else, you cannot have it stolen, you cannot sell it for a profit
Well, actually you can give it to the fae, they can steal it, you should sell it to me (totally not fae) and I can keep it safe SylveonHeartWink

sterile jolt
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ownership of ideas is dumb to a point, laws used to be that you only owned the idea up till your death then it went to public domain Then the disney corporation lobbied like fiends to demand that it should be 50 years then 95 years after death

teal iron
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Your name is more like a part of you
I mean, I guess you CAN remove your arm and sell it, but that's stupid and no doctor worth their degree will ever agree to that

sterile jolt
#

my name is pretty common

teal iron
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for practical intents and purposes the best you can do with your name or any physical part of yourself is alter it

sterile jolt
#

I could give you my full legal name and you'd still have no idea who I am because there's like 40 people with the exact same name

teal iron
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And in a sense you do "own" those things in that they are yours and just as it is illegal to kidnap someone and harvest their organs it is also illegal to use their name without their permission

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but like, you don't own it the same way you own a car, or your house, or even your very original and very creative deviantart OCs

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They're very well drawn and you should be very proud of yourself, by the way

sterile jolt
#

I love how people claim that art can be owned then make copies of other people's art

teal iron
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I can't speak on that I have no respect for other people's ownership of art

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Well, I dooooo until I want a cute pfp

sterile jolt
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like if you want to claim copying your art in their own style is bad then turn around and take starry night and throw in a tiny detail and claim it's original then you're a hypocrite

teal iron
devout quiver
#

i am returned feeling like my head is 2 kgs lighter.
I am unsure if i just emptied out my entire sinuses or if i litterally sneezed out my frontal lobe, i need a mortician to verify if i am alive or zombie.

sterile jolt
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that's why I got one of those nettie kettles

devout quiver
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ngl... the bathroom looked like a tarantino headshot scene

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i might be dead

sterile jolt
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when I got my wisdom teeth removed I got a nosebleed so bad it looked like a murder scene

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I woke up and my 1st sergeant and my PSG was standing over me asking if I was okay and I was still groggy from the sedation going "yah yah I'm fine."

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when I was lucid was wondering who smeared blood everywhere

devout quiver
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should have told him he just missed the hot vampiregirl

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urgh fk this i can feel slime moving around everywhere and seeping.
ima head back to the bathroom and cry until this is over or someone kills me

sterile jolt
#

well off to work I go, got 5 days 7 hours till I'm in the air for los angeles to see my GF again

drifting fjord
#

Damn you sneezed your brains out!

barren sierra
#

Stop Killing Games is before EU congress soon, and several key people have been invited

solid sun
#

not to be heard DURING the congress

maiden narwhal
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Hype upon HYPE!!! .hack lives again!! https://fixvx.com/cc2information/status/2023355425437921703?s=46&t=NG_RK-YGZh4cqAL8KwPTEw

CyberConnect2 Official (EN) (@cc2information)

Today, February 16, 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of CyberConnect2.

To commemorate, we will begin development of .hack//Z.E.R.O., a new original game. This title will be fully self-published by CyberConnect2, from planning to development to release.

#hackZERO #dothack

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tranquil obsidian
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nice

sick flame
tranquil obsidian
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not nice

maiden narwhal
#

Bloodstained was fun, played the first one. Cant remember if I beat it tho. Sad news…

night plume
#

Why are all these people dying young?

zinc depot
#

covid shots

peak folio
#

Cancer actually

night plume
barren sierra
peak folio
barren sierra
#

Its not conspiracy anymore, its spoilers at this point

peak folio
#

The files are spoilered

night plume
peak folio
#

-# But uh yeah, it’s bad

zinc depot
#

It's not much of a conspiracy since it was done openly

#

Those shot gave fit and healthy football stars heart attacks

peak folio
#

Bear in mind people know not everyone is going to go through millions of docs so they’ll just make stuff up about what’s in there and there are plenty who just trust it as it fits their world view.

barren sierra
#

And if you ocasionally add "mp4" at the end of url you get to see uncensored video files

zinc depot
#

It's not just that, it was the timescale

#

Take the vaccine developed by a soap company ina couple months

Did we have a great leap forward where something that normally takes decades, with a ton of trial and error, then testing, and sometimes results in failure anyway, suddenly johnson and johnson can knock that out in a few months, when their only experience were in making soap

peak folio
#

-# Ofc Discord’s “trusted partners” for age verification include at least one with direct ties to the strangely untouchable PDF file ring is hardly reassuring

zinc depot
#

I looked at who was making, it was ridiculous

barren sierra
#

Im not verifying anyways

peak folio
#

Yeah don’t submit that information

barren sierra
#

if its as is and they know my chat data, I should be auto tagged as an adult anyways

#

Also how many selfies have I sent here already, like..~50?

worldly gate
#

They pushed it off for now.

barren sierra
#

They aint getting more

worldly gate
#

Probably come back in 6-9 months with another attempt though.

barren sierra
peak folio
zinc depot
#

Your face pic will get leaked

#

You will be tracked down by autists

spare cradle
peak folio
barren sierra
#

Could be worse, they could be age grouping us like in fuckin roblox

spare cradle
#

At least less PDF files so that's one plus...the negative? Everyone else will get kneecaped cuz discord has a history full of data leaks ngl. Worst thing is, if constantly hardening this system distracts them from not checking unverified user security, the leaks will hit the children regardless.

peak folio
#

I don’t think it does anything about the PDFs, actually enforcing the rules would.

#

But hey, if you report somebody literally threatening to kill you to discord, their response is basically “lol, lmao even”

spare cradle
#

There really isn't a person in this world who doesn't hate him as much as we all hate...you know who.

zinc depot
#

Rick astley?

peak folio
spare cradle
# zinc depot Rick astley?

Wish...but in another reality cuz Rick here is actually a pretty cool ol' man. Here's a hint:
"_______ files"

peak folio
#

X Files

spare cradle
devout quiver
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imagine if social media just poofed out of existence one day and every goes outside to meet people instead.
But they are the same people they were on social media

zinc depot
#

no difference

peak folio
#

Big difference.

#

People acted very differently back when they were more frequently within fist range

spare cradle
devout quiver
#

people tend to act very differently when in 'fist range' you are very correct XD

barren sierra
#

Without warning, without question

devout quiver
#

i actually have a client that once unloaded a gem on me that broke my head

''Have you ever thought about if social media are the new insane asylums?''

spare cradle
peak folio
#

Social media has evolved into inverse asylums

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Where they lock up the sane people and all the psychos run rampant and warden-less.

devout quiver
#

you just described reddit

peak folio
#

And then it’s spilled into real life

peak folio
devout quiver
#

ngl my experience with reddit is that if you are coherent, non asskissing, moral and ethics having with the capacity of discipline.
You get banned

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and god forbid if you point out logical fallacies or ask a question because you do not know

peak folio
#

When even asking a question is bad, you know exactly what you’re dealing with.

spare cradle
prisma owl
#

I don't think it has anything to do with social media.

Little dick syndrome is rampant everywhere.

devout quiver
#

and people can no longer afford to buy giant Ford pickups to compensate

peak folio
spare cradle
#

Why hasn't reddit become a modern COD community-only platform by now?

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Not even general gamer-only

barren sierra
#

I've never used reddit in my life, I dont even have an acc

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All my memes from there come from youtube

peak folio
#

Ouch

prisma owl
prisma owl
prisma owl
# devout quiver and people can no longer afford to buy giant Ford pickups to compensate

Lmao. It's so weird to see the timeline in retrospect. Whenever I ask people "when's the first time the term "woke" came into your collective consciousness?" they say around 2016 or the me too movement.

But my middle school was already saying "woke" before Obama got elected, because of everyone in the Bush era buying lifted Ford pick-up trucks with flags on the back, using war as masculine statement.

peak folio
#

“Woke” has gone through like five definitions in the last ten years.

#

The way it’s used today is NOT the same as it was in years past.

silver pewter
peak folio
# silver pewter Well I mean, does the dude like 2D sidescrollers to begin with? Is the real ques...

Quoth the raven (so to speak):

At the top, the God of War and Twisted Metal creator stressed the premise is something he’s been looking for ‘forever.’ “This is the kind of game I’ve always wanted, in terms of 2.5D God of War. Super into it,” he said.

“But this to me, is not what I was talking about. I don’t like it, I don’t recommend it. What the f*** are they thinking? Its existence is offensive.”

silver pewter
#

Dunno, I guess we'll see, when it releases. To me, 80% Positive or higher on Steam is a "success".

peak folio
#

It released with the state of play.

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The biggest complaint I’ve been exposed to so far is the co-op mode is locked behind a full single player playthrough.

silver pewter
#

Ohhh, my bad, I was house sitting for 3 weeks and been busy. XD

peak folio
#

nbd

silver pewter
#

4.68/5 from 5,000 reviews on PlayStation Store. 🧐

peak folio
#

Probably helps it’s not $70

glad needle
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Ive never paid more than $60 for a game

#

What type of lunatic charges $70

cloud plover
#

People that want munny

mellow zinc
#

Anyone have Lunar New Years plans? It's the year of the Fire Horse so wear blues and earth tones

zinc depot
cloud plover
#

And yet, capitalism exists. Enough people are buying $70 games that they're still selling them.

peak folio
spare cradle
night plume
#

I can get some pretty pics from that spaceship, why pay extra to walk? XD

sick flame
humble parrot
#

"Why is it getting removed?"
"Because fuck you"

sick flame
barren sierra
zinc depot
dim nymph
#

This was early 2000s internet humor

#

Of course it is

cloud plover
#

Yes. Poop goes in the ass.

zinc depot
#

.......

mental summit
#

This was 25 years ago what the fuck are you expecting

visual mirage
visual mirage
peak folio
#

Yeah there’s restrictions

visual mirage
peak folio
#

It’s a really primitive model but they’re still around ig

barren sierra
#

Itd be just Snow_010.Ass

visual mirage
#

I still can, if you count using a VM just to play the game.

#

If anyone is wondering, the answer is that I still have the physical CD-ROM of the game.

barren sierra
#

weird Hot pursuit 2 works fine for me under xp compatibility

visual mirage
#

For Win11?

barren sierra
#

Im not using win 11 harapeko

#

Ltsc has updates till 2030 why switch from 10

visual mirage
#

Of course I don't have upload permissions to this channel.

barren sierra
#

Nobody has

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Gotta link pictures rather than post them harapeko

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Do note tho. I also installed it using win xp compability on the installer

peak folio
visual mirage
#
  • Age of Empires II ("Gold Edition" AKA base game + TC + a few goodies on expansion's disc)
  • Baldur's Gate (base game + TofSC)
  • Baldur's Gate II (base game + ToB)
  • Civilization II
  • Command & Conquer: Generals (Demo)
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 (base game + YR)
  • Command & Conquer: Renegade
  • Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun (base game + FS)
  • Diablo (only base game; came bunded with the next entry)
  • Diablo II (base game + LoD)
  • FreeSpace 2 Colossus (Demo that came with a Logitech flight stick)
  • James Bond 007 Nightfire
  • LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Triology
  • Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • NASCAR Revolution (Demo)
  • NASCAR Road Racing
  • Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
  • Neverwinter Nights ("Diamond" AKA base game + SoU + HotU + Kingmaker* + ShadowGuard* Witch's Wake*)
  • Neverwinter Nights 2 ("Platnium" AKA base game + MotB+ SoZ + *exclusive downloadable content"*)
  • StarCraft (base game + BW)
  • Warcraft II (base game + TFT)

Entries marked with an asterisk (*) are not accessible due to the servers no longer existing.

#

Whoops! forgot some entries

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Hopefully that's everythingt.

barren sierra
#

Nvn 1 does have servers mannaged by the community

visual mirage
barren sierra
#

I dont have issues connecting, I usually play on the star wars rp servers

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nvn 2 tho was never good for multiplayer, good riddance its gone harapeko

visual mirage
#

AKA "Premium Modules"

#

Modified the output of tree.exe:

C:\...\Games
├───Age of Empires II
├───Baldur's Gate
├───Baldur's Gate II
├───Command & Conquer Generals Demo
├───Command & Conquer Red Alert 2
├───Command & Conquer Renegade
├───Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun
├───Diablo
├───Diablo II
├───FreeSpace 2 Colossus Demo
├───James Bond 007 Nightfire
├───LEGO Star Wars II
├───LOTR The Return of the King
├───NASCAR Revolution Demo
├───NASCAR Road Racing
├───Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2
├───Neverwinter Nights
│   └───BioWare Premium Modules
├───Neverwinter Nights 2
│   ├───Mask of the Betrayer
│   ├───Storm of Zehir
│   └───Web Links
├───Sid Meier's Civilization II
├───Star Wars JK II Jedi Outcast
├───Starcraft
├───Warcraft III
├───zz0Tools
│   ├───MPQ Editor
│   ├───Shared Internet Components
│   └───XCC
└───zz1StockXPGames
barren sierra
#

The order of install and cd key applications

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Then gotta use direct connect to get into servers

#

Might have to do registry crap for witch's wake stuff

visual mirage
#

The CD keys I still have were only for the base game and expansions, not for the Bioware Premium Modules. I should still have the manuals too.

barren sierra
#

Its probably not adding keys to the registry so servers to connect to doesnt exactly check them for "unique"

visual mirage
#

Heck, I still have the tech tree fold-outs for Age of Empires II and StarCraft.

#

Before anyone asks why no Half-Life / etc. ...
I don't own them on CD.

hearty sonnet
visual mirage
#

It is a Windodws XP VM. I just removed the background for readability sake.

hearty sonnet
#

Looks like my desktop when I was a wee lad

barren sierra
#

Half life never had a disc with the game outside ps2 versions

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It was always a "steam download" harapeko

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Back when everyone and their mother hated steam

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And lets be honest, the ps2 version sucked

visual mirage
#

So... HL was only on floppy disks for PC users?

barren sierra
#

you just get an installer that has a key connected and it downloads off steam servers

visual mirage
#

Remember, this is the days BEFORE the Internet was cheap & quick...

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We are talking dial-up speeds.

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Like 14.4 kbit/s or slower for most

barren sierra
peak folio
barren sierra
#

And has a steam installer on its ass

peak folio
#

The “Orange Box” came later

barren sierra
#

Im telling you the color as I remember it cause its worn as fuck

peak folio
#

The original predates all the GOTY awards obviously

barren sierra
#

It came with one of those "register cards" iprinted in german

visual mirage
#

The original Half-Life came out in 1998. Steam's initial release was in 2003.

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2002 as a beta release.

barren sierra
peak folio
#

Even HL2 initially had a disc but that one was more vestigial

visual mirage
#

I still got a few free passes for WoW ... but I highly doubt they work anymore.

barren sierra
#

Never could find a hl2 disc for sale here so I cant say I know

peak folio
#

And there was a black box that cane with an XL t-shirt

barren sierra
#

My version came with a gpu purchase so it was already a steam code

peak folio
#

The retail launch HL2 made you use Steam.

barren sierra
peak folio
#

The download was smaller at least since you could still install from the disc

barren sierra
#

found a online pic, I somehow recalled the color orange

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Guess it was the edge of the box

visual mirage
#

All the games I have on CD-ROM / DVD-ROM literally never needed online connectivity to install nor play.

peak folio
#

And on dial-up that’s important

peak folio
#

Servers had issues launch day too so it was a hot mess.

visual mirage
#

HL2 and HL1 are different games that were originally released in different times.

peak folio
#

HL1 and Unreal 1 came out the same year.

visual mirage
#

Though one time I fiddled with the following file (back when I used Linux on one of my laptops):

<NFS:HP2>\AI\racetune.ini
peak folio
#

Unreal 1 had better graphic but HL1 had unmatched game design for the time

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So it ended up overshadowing Unreal

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-# Real time skeletal animation was dope too

barren sierra
#

I recall playing unreal 1 but I also recall not finishing it

peak folio
#

Never escaped the planet, rip

visual mirage
#

This was recorded on that laptop... and back then, "good enough" recording software on Linux wasn't easy to come by.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GeA_MI4cOQ

YouTube
like2omg / CtrlAltCuteness
NFS:HP2 - custom ini edit (no sound)

Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (2002)

EDIT (2016.07.01): Added some randomness with Annotations and changed a few other basic information.
EDIT (2025.03.13): Of course those overlaid annotations are long gone.

Simple description:
This was a simple (for me) ini file edit that I did just hoping that they would actually zoom in front, then zoom be...

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barren sierra
#

I know the last boss was a multi arm nali queen or somnething

visual mirage
#

It's on a channel of mine which I pretty much don't use anymore.

barren sierra
#

And I recall learning it from a friend cause i sucked at the game

visual mirage
#

The lag spike at the start was probably due to the hardware... however, I wasn't such a good driver at that time either.

barren sierra
#

Same dude later lured me into unreal tournament, which I also failed to finish, cause I couldn't beat Xan

visual mirage
#

I pretty much edited the "slowdown" to be negative while the speed up to be much higher, hence why the chaos... oh, and the AI drivers did in fact cause me to miss a shortcut, hence why I almost spun out at one point.

barren sierra
#

Which is weird given i mannaged to beat Xaero in quake 3 arena, and it had the same "space battle" dynamic

leaden nova
visual mirage
#

Also, most of them I don't even play (they are just installed so I don't have to worry about installing them later)

leaden nova
#

Ah that's fair. Hope you enjoy it if you get to play it

peak folio
#

Freespace was the pinnacle of space combat sims

zinc depot
#

Not part of the orange box?

visual mirage
#

For those unaware about the Warcraft games, here are some fun facts:

  • The Warcraft series started out as an RTS genre, not as an MMORPG.
  • The first StarCraft was originally going to be an expansion to Warcraft II.
  • Nearly every cutscene in Warcraft III is rendered in real time inside the game engine.
  • Both the base game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and its expansion Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne have two ending credits each, and all of them are maps.
  • The bonus credits of the expansion has a song called Power of the Horde by Tenth Level Elite Tauren Chiefton (their name at the time). https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Power_of_the_Horde
barren sierra
#

Reforged didn't change much of it, just made it look worse

visual mirage
#

I did poke through the files of the original game and indeed found the song. Let me see if I can locate which MPQ and where within it.

barren sierra
#

Its quicker to extract from wow

visual mirage
#

But is it the same exact file data?

barren sierra
#

Better, Flac over wav

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Meaning its the source file

#

Trying to find deepspace gameplay vids, is it Descend freespace

visual mirage
barren sierra
#

Tryina find Freespace gameplay to see what it was like

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Freespace: The Great War is what I find

visual mirage
#

War3x.mpq within WC3's install directory after installation of the expansion.
Location, within the file, when using an appropriate "list file", is at:
Sound\Music\mp3Music\PH1.mp3

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ugh... seemed to not send... I guess due to being seen as spam.

visual mirage
#

(the message that didn't send... probably because of checksums)

barren sierra
#

Idk I had access to a 80 GB drive when my neighbours couldn't go over 20, and when people were joyriding a 80 GB drive I was already on 320

#

I didn't have issues getting parts, importing games was ass

#

More than Half my 90s discs are in GERMAN

#

I didn't know how english games sound till post 2005 pepehands

visual mirage
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And why would they alter an bonus credits ending music?

barren sierra
#

Nah the song didn't change, just the shitty translate dialogue

#

When you play the english patch after, you realize how much different the localization is, ends up worse than craftopia

visual mirage
#

So the bonus credits... it starts off with voice lines that are NOT in English?

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Storm, Earth and Fire, heed my call!

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The link I posted also has the audio in it...

barren sierra
#

Yeah the "Storm earth and fire heed my call" is in German

visual mirage
#

And this is ... which game you are pulling it from?

#

WC3:TFT, WC3:Reforged, or WoW?

barren sierra
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Tft 1.21 is the last "german" patch I have, wow version is in english

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I dont have reforged, refunded day 2

visual mirage
#

I do know that the last patch for the expansion should have included an official, no-CD patch with it.

barren sierra
#

So just the first few words are in German, rest plays in English

visual mirage
#

Shame...

visual mirage
solid sun
#

isn't there only 1 warcraft 3 now still?

visual mirage
#

It feels like they put a whole single-player RPG into an RTS title.

barren sierra
#

to buy, yeah cant get wc3 "Classic" anymore unless you snatch a cd key somewhere online

#

On that regard all 3 I have are banned so I cant help you harapeko

solid sun
#

I don't think you can even install the OG warcraft 3 either

barren sierra
#

Yeah you can

solid sun
#

since it online updates to the new one

visual mirage
barren sierra
#

You can use the patch discs or websites like scrolls.de to get old patches up to ~1.30 tft

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Or just dont be a pansy and use the hiveworkshop wc3 client instead it asks for your keys anyways

solid sun
#

didn't know there was a different client for it

barren sierra
#

The Hive client exists for years at this point

visual mirage
#

Well actually two...

Do disable any ad blockers / etc. for these so you can have the best experience. The web browser called Brave still messes with pages, even if you tell it not to.

solid sun
barren sierra
#

Works fine on Brave harapeko

visual mirage
#

For the latter, look for Mac OS 9.0 in the recommended list. (Click on any sticky note then File -> Quit)

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The first two Warcraft games are at the bottom of the Games folder (at the time of this message)

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Yet I did make a userscript for Tampermonkey to make the "CD-ROMs" and "Macintosh Garden" usable without issues.

barren sierra
#

Im still playing sc2 cause its okay

solid sun
#

I would not mind if the old warcraft 3 tft stuff was still accessible

#

can't really find the hiveworkshop client you talk about on the website really

visual mirage
#

Check the exact Mac I mentioned... has a bunch of games already available (OS X is very laggy though, so I don't recommend it)

solid sun
#

I have windows 10

visual mirage
#

I got a gaming laptop... even it couldn't handle OS X on the website

barren sierra
solid sun
#

I would have to go to the attic and find the disc cases

barren sierra
#

-# Its okay you can use any cd key you find online till you get it, its just for online play requiring unique keys croajirokek

#

You can use key changers after to prevent it

peak folio
barren sierra
#

But if you are runing XP this wont work beyond 1.29

#

So you will need vista or higher for 1.31

solid sun
#

do I need to run it on a virtual machine?

visual mirage
cloud plover
#

Now do radio free zerg

visual mirage
#

The good old days when they provided extras for free

barren sierra
#

Im runing fine on both my 10 and 7 machines out of the box so you should be good, cant confirm on 11

visual mirage
barren sierra
#

If you want the 2 extra founding of Durotar campaigns those were in game after 1.24

#

So just kinda grab the latest one you can find

visual mirage
#

I have the very latest WC3:TFT patch to avoid having to connect my optical drive to my laptop.

barren sierra
#

Im using 5.25 no usb shennanigans

cloud plover
#

I hate that we'll never get a Warcraft 4

barren sierra
#

Dont say never, as they fall apart they eventually have to start making good games, my only concern with "wc4" is the lore setting

#

wow is moving forwards, what exactly would you have as lore

visual mirage
peak folio
#

WC4 would basically have to retcon everything WoW related

solid sun
#

so I run the 1.21b frozen throne installer? or do I also have to run the reign of chaos one?

barren sierra
#

Or just run unexplored lore prior

peak folio
#

But instead WoW retconned everything WC related

barren sierra
#

wc4 could just be wc1 and 2 in 3d

peak folio
#

Boo

barren sierra
#

With somewhat better graphics (Im not expecting much after reforged)

barren sierra
visual mirage
#

Only a few D2 / D2R maps are actually unable to be predicted by this method.
I'll mention that the latest link I posted is NOT a map hack. It is just a guide on how to understand the various maps / areas in the game.

solid sun
#

I would love to be able to play some of my favorite wc3 ORPGs again

barren sierra
#

My adopted "e-daughter" has already asked me to revisit diablo 2, pass on using battle net launcher for anything

visual mirage
barren sierra
#

Oh I understand how diablo 2 maps are built , I made so many mods back in the day during median XL days

#

There is always a core road you can follow from spawn

visual mirage
#

Not really many modifications though... Only the free respec and larger stash sizes are a requirement for me.

#

Stepping away for lunch

barren sierra
#

Types in "cult" on steam

#

Result: Doom64

visual mirage
barren sierra
#

Its reporting only up to 16 in the config

visual mirage
#

Would that be overall RAM or the amount associated with the "undo" feature?

barren sierra
#

Hell if i know, its not photoshop so it rarely eats over 12

#

But im bothered by a cap I cant do anything over

visual mirage
barren sierra
#

its supposedly hardcoded

#

For efficiency, nobody expects super detailed nonsense in paint.net

visual mirage
barren sierra
#

Apparently im not the first to ask that out of curiosity

#

But im not sure if im comfy with having 4 gigs of ram extra to work around with, what if i open 2 projects at the same time cat_sad

visual mirage
barren sierra
#

Its weird cause the log registers full ram, but only shows 16 in the program

visual mirage
#

Ah, found the repo (a forum admin linked to it). However, I cannot see directly where it would be.

#

... The linked to repo only contained a README.md file.

barren sierra
#

its reading the full 32 gigs of VM memory I gave it

visual mirage
barren sierra
#

Still claims 16 gigs system ram when logging

#

I think this might just be a VM thing

visual mirage
#

There is a difference between a program using RAM only for itself, and sharing RAM via. common DLLs with other programs.

visual mirage
barren sierra
#

Built in diagnostics

visual mirage
#

Are you 100% certain that the numbers provided are specifically for Paint.NET ?

#

I can see a total "handles" count of 2376... which I doubt is only the program when nothing is open

visual mirage
barren sierra
#

PAint net has built in diagnostics, unrelated to procesess its starting

visual mirage
#

Like why would it care if battery saver is enabled?

barren sierra
#

Its just not registering 16 Gigs left over for some reason, but does claim it sees 32

visual mirage
#

Do you have Process Explorer (Sysinternals) installed into the VM?

#

If not, I can provide a link to your DMs

barren sierra
#

I dont really care enough to look to much into it

visual mirage
#

(I'll remove the redirect itself since it is a Microsoft thing)

barren sierra
#

I've switched programs before, this is a minor issue for me

visual mirage
#

Sysinternals is a suite of various administrative tools. In the hands of a dumb person, it can cause severe issues to the system, and possibly the hardware as well.

#

By the way, the suite helped me reclaim some storage on my SSD when Windows never stored any information about a Microsoft Store entry being downloaded, not even PowerShell's special commands told me.

#

(It was downloaded, but not registered as installed nor downloaded)

barren sierra
#

I dont have storage issues, where reclaiming a few houndreds of gigs is a important matter

visual mirage
#

It was a HD pack for a game I don't have...

barren sierra
#

36 TB space out of which 8 is ssd storage harapeko

visual mirage
#

The SSD was pushing into the red zone within "This PC" far too often during that time.

#

WinDirStat helped me find the offender... some Google-fu, one Sysiternals program, and my existing cmd.exe knowledge later and I reclaimed those several GB worth of space.

barren sierra
#

Only storage pushing red for me is in my NAS

#

That thing is always bordering 90% full

visual mirage
#

Speaking of network storage... I already purged OneDrive (only its installer sits on the device because I have no idea if removing that executable will cause any harm)

#

I don't want my documents nor desktop to be synced with some cloud service that would be unable to hold the size of the contents I have in them.

#

TIL: Copying chord.wav to my desktop modified the hidden system file named desktop.ini (it for some reason had to add a localized filename for the file)

peak folio
humble parrot
#

💀

worldly ivy
#

I’d count this as desecrating a person’s remains

deep idol
teal iron
#

keep in mind this is also the company that invested several billion with a b dollars into the VR/AR metaverse that would replace conventional social media and in-person work long before ChatGPT even launched

#

. . .

#

gestures at the lack of this metaverse

deep idol
prime agate
#

I am a good Bartender.

#

I served a lot of drinks there.

#

Very much a lot, that one dude was on the verge of passing out on alcoholism.

peak folio
glad needle
#

Anyone have an estimate on when we’ll be able to buy PCs again?

wild mountain
worldly ivy
full mountain
prime agate
#

Terraria Skyblock finished

unborn mauve
sick flame
peak folio
spring ginkgo
peak folio
spring ginkgo
#

Or the AI Darth Vader in fortnite

barren sierra
native kiln
#

everytime they release a update on steam i get excited and then i go sad after seeing its not 1.0

#

😃

prime agate
zinc depot
sick flame
zinc depot
sick flame
zinc depot
#

That any good?

dim nymph
zinc depot
#

No need, enter the wheelchair division

sick flame
glad needle
#

Alright, I just got on X, what’s the best page to follow for accurate news of PC affordability

night plume
#

That is some desperation creating a Twitter account xD

glad needle
#

All Im getting on Youtube are doomer videos and leftists shitting on capitalism

hearty sonnet
#

That's all YouTube is now

night plume
peak folio
glad needle
#

And we all know leftists have nothing constructive to say

peak folio
#

But uh, hmm

#

You’d probably like Lunduke Journal but he can get out there too

night plume
#

What about that bushy long haired guy that tests and talks about comp parts?

glad needle
glad needle
peak folio
#

Gamers Nexus?

night plume
#

Idk, someone in this chat will know from the description xD

peak folio
#

All of his videos are like eight hours long

peak folio
night plume
#

Yeah, that guy

peak folio
#

Yeah that’s steve

#

Not the other steve

night plume
#

My partner watches them, I just recognize him as the bushy haired tech guy

peak folio
#

He used to be really neutral

#

At some point down the line he evidently just had enough. croajirokek

sick flame
#

https://fixupx.com/indiefanfest/status/2023775148550083068
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peak folio
zinc depot
#

Slop

#

Never liked procedurally generated stuff

#

Lacks talented creativity

#

Can ai be creative or will it be slop

#

Cant wait to see what the Internet does with the prompts

#

"Make a game that is the haindmaiden's tale set in the mad max film universe"

glad needle
zinc depot
#

Make the protagonist skibidi biden

peak folio
#

Please don’t confuse procedural generation with generative AI

teal iron
#

"Here at Unity Technologies, we have heard the people's voices"
"We know that getting horrible motion sickness and vomiting on the floor has been, until now, exclusive to VR gamers."
"But with our new, advanced ai algorithm, anyone can make a mind numbing vomit inducing acid trip, for free, with just a prompt. No headset required"

glad needle
#

Who tf wants to vomit on the floor

teal iron
#

According to unity a lot of people

#

Because that's what ai games are good for
The ignorance of the laws of space and overall surrealism can probably cause some significant degree of motion sickness or similar effect

mental summit
mellow zinc
#

Happy Lunar New Year! Tomorrow begins the year of the horse!

zinc depot
#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSKHHEzS__E

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peak folio
#

Hm, don’t imagine they’ll chase that for long.

worldly ivy
#

Diablo and Mystery Dungeon are some of my favorite game series and they did it with none of this slop.

bitter agate
maiden narwhal
sick flame
maiden narwhal
#

Worked fine for me. Huh thinkthonk someone in ps5 chat asked if ours was down, then I watched this sick Luigi player SMASH the number 1 melee player in the world. That set was HAWT

compact igloo
#

Hullo!

Is there a Craftopia English channel?

#

Thanks!!!

#

And, like Palworld's categories

#

I'd like to do server ads, if allowed

#

For Craftopia rn

#

I mostly see

Bugs

and

Modding

#

I don't see ad channels or anything similar to Palworld

#

And if it is the same as "Palworld - en" category

#

I can't read those characters xP

peak folio
#

Pick your roles in the Channels & Roles section

maiden narwhal
#

The first result for Craftopia is for English popcat

compact igloo
#

Yeah. It wasn't when I joined xP

#

So, I just fixed it for that. Tyvm both of ye

#

✌️

maiden narwhal
peak folio
compact igloo
#

kyran, heh :3
close to usernames and irl names ik xP

peak folio
#

😇

hexed sentinel
prime agate
compact igloo
drifting fjord
#

Is anyone else getting "message hidden from likely spammer?" Is that intentional from you lmao

prime agate
#

Same.

drifting fjord
#

Idk if it's just discord seeing spam meat pfp and thinking "that's a spammer"
Idk maybe spammers use that kind of pfp a lot? No idea

barren sierra
simple aurora
sacred mango
#

what in

prisma owl
simple aurora
pastel burrow
zinc depot
#

I call bs, that's just a fat tummy on a soyface guy

simple aurora
zinc depot
#

Effective but weird

prime agate
#

Bartending Episode 2

zinc depot
#

what is the pixelated thing behind the blue drink?

#

What's sitting on the couch to the left of the human?

prime agate
#

And no idea.

#

There were already instances of people with avatar crashers.

#

Look at this boi chugging.

peak folio
compact igloo
#

Every server I'm on and will be on

#

womp womp

prime agate
#

Holy shit, it's Postal Dude.

maiden narwhal
#

He looks like he watched the Matrix one too many times

tall cedar
#

@maiden narwhalany chance you answer my question? 🙂

maiden narwhal
#

What question?

tall cedar
maiden narwhal
peak folio
maiden narwhal
#

Sheeesh. Folks can’t wait for that game to die, huh?

peak folio
#

Gamers are pretty deranged rn.

#

All kinds of conspiracy theories too cause Tencent funds games.

maiden narwhal
peak folio
#

“Focus M”

solid sun
#

why's the camera so god awful

#

that's the thing annoying me the most

peak folio
mental summit
solid sun
#

no that's not the original camera

mental summit
#

🤷‍♂️ I only played it on the 3ds so idk what original was like

solid sun
#

get educated! (joke)

peak folio
#

You’re the original camera

peak folio
#

Fan_flushed💦

night plume
#

Were they toxic? Or is the person lecturing them for PKing?

peak folio
#

At this point it’s neither here nor there.

#

What they’re arguing is kind of psychotic

night plume
#

If the person being berated was extremely toxic and threatening, I can understand the berating. A lot of people believe a screen should permit you to be an awful person.

If they were just playing the game and this person is mad about an in game function that the other player decided is fun for them, then yeah, mad person is insane and should not play multiplayer games.

sick flame
night plume
#

I forgot what game my cousins and I were playing, but I remember my aunt banning killing each other in the game. I think it was Smash Bros Melee 🤔

peak folio
bitter agate
#

Morning y'all!

peak folio
#

Rusty

bitter agate
#

Sup witchu?

peak folio
#

Wörk wörk

bitter agate
#

Yeah same... Got everything I was going to get done already... Now it's time to slack

bitter agate
peak folio
#

First one os correct

#

*is

night plume
#

Oh yeah, I'm supposed to be working o.o

peak folio
#

Gotta keep an optimal number of distractions to avoid zoning out on the job.

bitter agate
#

But nap time is the best thing for improving your work day

night plume
#

I plan to leave on time or early today so I can sleep early xD

#

And I am getting the Chinese food I was not able to get yesterday!

bitter agate
#

I ate too many tacos last night... My gut got anger

night plume
#

I was going to pick up Chinese but was held up eith things x.x

#

Ended up getting a fast food burger and have been trying to figure out why the fast food burger is more expensive than the better quality, faster service, larger burger combo from a diner

bitter agate
#

I can't stand fast food unless it's Mexican, they're the only take out that uses real ingredients

peak folio
#

The crapass burgers are criminally overpriced now, just go somewhere better. croajirokek

night plume