You can create your own server and disable signups whenever you want.

I’m still trying to wrap my head around it.

I just realized there’s no legal way to earn money without getting fucked or fucking others over.

It would be nice if they did that, or something similar involving Linux on phones.

I don’t think they have anywhere near the resources, unfortunately.

I’ve been using an addon for that for awhile: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-youtube-shorts/

Right. It can and has been done before while still turning a profit. People can, did, and still do use self-hosting as a way to play things for free. It has never been the reason for why a game failed financially, though. Most people just don’t have the knowledge or the interest to go through the extra steps required to play for free. A lot of them buy things because they genuinely wanted to support the developers.

The abuse is the point. The people in charge spend every day figuring out more ways to take power away from people and give it to the corporation. It’s an art and a science at this point.

Money and control. There is no technical reason, and in fact it would be easier to just let people host their own servers.

Allowing self-hosting used to be the norm for online games. Businesses realized a long time ago that gamers stopped having standards and would accept any abuse to not be left out of the hype.

Anyone who dissects superheroes like that seems like an insufferable loser. I would just ignore them and move on.

My concern would be federation. I don’t think the fediverse is set up so you can run the same service on the clearnet and dark net.

I read this as the USI would have to pay Iran.

This could result in more employees for businesses that don’t do Israel’s bidding.

I don’t ever have breakage due to systemd.

Games aren’t the same, but gaming is still alive and well for those in the know.

I just avoid hype and modern consumerist nonsense and found the good games never left us; we just left them.

Agreed. The writing is top-notch in the older GTAs and we really don’t see much that’s comparable in the modern age.

I’m not too excited for GTA6 and 5 isn’t as good as what came before.

The games that put it on the map, though, are timeless. Try playing one and see for yourself, we just don’t get games like that anymore.

Hopefully this will start normalizing wearing masks in public.

Really goes to show how much our rulers recognize the importance of energy. It’s not so that we can drive our cars or power our computers; it’s so their civilization can progress faster than other civilizations.

No, bitcoin is shit for people who aren’t paying attention.

Should be charging Monero.

Godspeed. Maybe some of the people that can afford vacations like cruises will have to postpone their next one so that people who have less can have more.

What if gave money to the IDF?