AMillionNames @ AMillionNames @sh.itjust.works

Playing the world’s smallest violin in lieu of the admin listing of my leas

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Just in case anyone else might have gotten the wrong impression from the title,

“I was told that when they revealed Dragon Age: Dreadwolf in 2018, this is similar in terms of timeline. That was announced in 2018 and we’re not getting that game until maybe next year.

“So now do the math for that, and we’re talking 2029 for Mass Effect 5.”

So basically, no confirmation on Mass Effect 5, just numerology.

Grubb went on to claim that his sources told him the N7 Day teaser was created mainly to reassure fans that a game was in the works, rather than any sort of indication that it was coming any time soon.

.. and a dismissal of any claims that any new Mass Effect game is in the works.

COBOL is still used heavily in banking, it would be the ultimate abandonware if it wasn't still getting supported.

Simple, easy dumb way to transfer money from public federal funds to private contractors you are leeching off of.

Your money is in the bank, and banks, which a re for-profit, make a lot of their money on real state and mortgages. Not sure where you get making houses investments from, but for banks, it works out excellently, and when it doesn't, "Too big to fail" demands they (as in their CEO bonuses) get rescued anyway.

The problem with giving the homeless houses is that if you begin free houses to people you make the big banks and investors lose money. What makes it a problem? Well, where's your money at?

If only we could get governments and communities to back credit unions over banks.

Oh no, it has spread!

The problem with that is that you aren't going to comment the same thing across different instances of what's basically the same community, you generally want to engage with the most users. I recently got banned under false accusations, and it's pretty easy to see when it happened because the amount of upvotes and engagement dropped drastically between comments to the same instance - only the people from my instance were seeing it now.

The next step for lemmy might be the concept of mirrored communities where comments are automatically propagated across instances if they belong to the same owners and they have it enabled. Admins would control access/visibility for users of their instance, and the community owners would control the access/visibility of all instances they've reserved the community under. Admins could just decide to remove all the moderators/de-federate the community in the instance they control to sever the mirroring and create their own, but it might still help the smaller instances to get going.

I'm not sure how admins, specially the ones who are ok with lying to their users, would be ok with it, and it's meaningless if they just wield their charisma and taint those communities as well. So far, they are pretty blatant, yet admins either aren't bothering to check the evidence or they simply don't want to de-federate, which is just another way of condoning their behavior to avoid risking user engagement. Adding mirrored communities into the mix may just not solve it because the problem is still there: a divided user base who's getting treated like cattle without them knowing.

Blood for the blood gummy.

Don't even think about it. There's this international grocery chain near where I am that has gamefied grocery shopping to such an extent that if you aren't doing everything to get the cheapest 2x3 or 50% or free such and such for purchases over $50€ you are getting ripped off, they don't need ideas.

Now just imagine if it didn't have the "Holy land".

In the US there was a period of time where it was illegal to export encryption above a certain level, so in a way it has already happened. Dumb has never stopped governments before.

I mean, it is. They keep a list of all your conversations and they are extremely vague about giving a direct reply. Hopefully this does something because, like US congress has itself admitted, they cannot afford to let the same thing happen with advanced AIs that they've let happen with social networks. Transparency needs to be a thing, and not fake "oh yeah I'm all about transparency" then goes out of their way to hide shit under the carpet or gaslight with bullshit when they can't.

Spoken like a true someone who doesn't have secondary side-effects to headache medication.

So there's the deep web.

If they wanted to be optimistic about a more independent future, they shouldn't have thrown the seal of quality of their brand name for a quick buck.

Objectively, for such a third party store, their prices are just too expensively normal. If they dropped them instead of giving and paying for free copies of games to people who've shat on their store, they'd probably be in a better position.

A Netflix series that's more historical than the History Channel, and funny to boot.

Talk about blinding yourself with greed.

The world watching has never stopped him before.

Uh yeah, I paid for YouTube Premium, I purged my accounts on Facebook, they are not the same. It does make me happy when platforms that abuse their privilege like Facebook begin doing things that will bring them closer to their end.