BlameThePeacock @ BlameThePeacock @lemmy.ca

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Fair, but in this case, it's Raph Koster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raph_Koster

He was Creative Director for the original SWG, and then Chief Creative Officer under Sony once they bought it.

He also was a lead designer for Ultima Online before that, and did work on multiple other games (Including EQ2) afterwards.

Both a lot of information, and not a lot of information travels through those cables.

It's going to depend a lot on where you live.

If you're in North America, the vast majority of the services and websites you access will be hosted on the continent and will continue working just fine. Webpages for European companies may become inaccessible.

If you're in Australia, some local stuff will continue working, but a lot more things will die.

Services like Netflix almost always have local servers, it's not financially reasonable to push that much video between continents on a per user basis. They just use those links to sync their various servers as new content is released.

Most phone calls to foreign countries will fail. Almost all of it passes through the internet cables these days, rather than using dedicated phone lines undersea.

You didn't review your order before submitting, the fact that the customizations were missing was clearly visible before you agreed to purchase.

From a Customer Service perspective, they probably should have refunded(or remade) from the start, but you are not in the right here. You threatening legal action just makes you an ass.

That's not a scam, that's just a stupid computer system.

Scams are intentional.

Nothing stopping you from setting out on your own.

There is limited worlds, but they aren't static, the number of worlds (and which worlds) will change. The surface of the planets can (and will) also change. There's someone in alpha right now cutting down a mountain (literally). There's also a system for planets dying, and being restored.

Power efficiency will also matter for a home server to some extent. You don't want a 300 watt idle power draw 24/7 just to handle streaming a video for yourself once a day.

Most home devices won't use that at idle, but older PC's, or larger setups could.

They're going to negotiate again, he said this last time too. That's the game. Threaten, try to get something, repeat.

He's just a bully, and we should take our oil and energy and go play elsewhere.

I'm going to point out, for the technologically illiterate, that GPS satellites do not in any way track people.

GPS satellites go "beep" and by listening to the timing of those "beeps" from different satellites, a GPS receiver on earth can determine it's own location via triangulation. It's a bit more complicated than that, but that's the basic idea.

The only way you can be "tracked via gps" is if your GPS tracking device is also transmitting information using some other method (cell phone, radio signals, non-gps satellite connection, etc.)

The longest videos I watch on YouTube, and I enjoy every minute of them.

The bullet proof vest is hilarious too. This dude didn't kill a kid and the parent is gunning for him.

A professional assassin hired by wealthy CEOs wouldn't care.

Ha ha

I don't think most adults have that capacity, but doesn't mean they shouldn't be allowed to vote.

As George Carlin once said, imagine the average American, then realize half of them are stupider than that.

Is it beyond the authority of the king?

It's actually more an issue with the financial system we created rather than the physical system. If homes are supposed to be an investment, by definition they need to increase in price faster than inflation. If something increases faster than inflation, it will always eventually become unaffordable.

You're right about them not being willing to accept a 50% cut, but there is no possible way to preserve existing home values AND reach affordable housing, they're incompatible with each other. This is why political parties are not actually trying to make homes affordable though, they have chosen to side with existing home owners because they're a larger and more powerful voting group.

The banks aren't going to write off 50% of the mortgages they hold either... that level of default would literally bankrupt every single one of them.

That's not true at all.

The government could crash the house prices overnight if they wanted, for example they could implement a 20% yearly tax on home value. Prices would plummet instantly because owning a house would cost a lot more, the increase in yearly cost needs to then be offset by a drop in the fixed cost (selling price) to bring back equilibrium at the current supply level.

It also increases supply massively without building a single new house, because the bigger your home, the more tax you're going to pay and if you aren't using it you're likely going to sell and downsize immediately to save money.

The best way to do this would be then to take all that massive tax influx, and remove income taxes entirely or provide a UBI to everyone.

There are other ways to achieve similar price reductions overnight too. The problem is that it's political suicide to crash the housing prices, since home owners would be absolutely pissed if you just kill 50-75% of their home value overnight. That's hundreds of thousands of dollars for most owners, and 65% of residential properties in Canada are owned by the family that lives in them.

It's a fallacy that there isn't enough housing, there are already way more bedrooms in Canada than people, and on top of that a large portion of people share a bedroom with their significant other. The problem is the distribution of housing (both in terms of who owns it, and where it's located) not the total.

CEO bashing his own operations while trying to sell them.

That's good business sense right there.

It's currently political suicide to actually implement policies that would reduce house prices by 50%+ so the parties are just putting in those vague statements and making token gestures trying to stabilize house prices.

Unfortunately the majority of voters still own a home (older people more likely to own and more likely to vote) and it's going to be a hard time convincing those people to vote for losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in equity.

It's going to keep getting worse until that balance shifts, I'd estimate another 20-40 years, then we can start voting in policies to reduce housing prices.

The federal Conservatives are in bed with all sorts of hateful people, Mr. PP sat down for a 2 hour interview with Jordan Peterson just a month ago for fuck sake. The man who resigned from the University of Toronto complaining about DEI practices (and calling them DIE in his letter) and who actively campaigned against a government bill that banned discrimination for gender identity.

Peterson was literally stupid enough he started a meat only diet to be more Masculine and reduce his depression, a diet which he had such a bad reaction to that he ended up on Benzos, and got addicted for which he sought treatment in Russia because no western doctor would put him in an induced coma long enough to ride out the withdrawal symptoms.

When a leader of a party is setting up 2 hour interviews with "SMRT" people like that... I don't want them as my Prime Minister at all.

The Conservatives even had better choices in the leadership race, but no, they had to go with the guy who likes hate.

I'd just tell them your family is abusive and you have distanced yourself from them.

You have, right?