Resident Evil 1 and 2 were the games that I always went over to a friend's place to play, and when Resident Evil 3 came out I got my own copy, and it felt much more like "my game".
Those, plus the original Silent Hill games (1 and 2) really helped define my taste in games, and they've got something I feel even the more recent throwback Survival Horror games don't have, in that they, and the original Alone in the Dark, shared some DNA with the old Point and Click adventure games, like Monkey Island, and Myst. Puzzles based on collecting things, and combining or using things on or with other things, often in mind-bending, nonsensical ways.
The Spencer Mansion, RPD Station, Raccoon City, and Silent Hill were all big explorable areas that opened up as you progressed, and you really got to know them. Games these days feel like they're scared of being accused of "backtracking", so you never spend long enough in any one area to really get to know it.
Personally I'd like to see one of the parties come up with a plan that doesn't just funnel money into developers' pockets, and addresses other necessary solutions such as easing zoning restrictions (which is not the same as selling off protected forest and wetlands, Douggie), limiting or removing speculators, corporate ownership, and short term rentals that are preventing first time homebuyers from entering the market, public transit options to developing neighbourhoods to allow people who rely on it to move there, even (and this is a pipe dream) high speed rail between small towns and major cities so people could more easily spread out across the provinces without giving up jobs or doctors or their entire lives, etc.
There's so many ways to come at this, but all I ever see is people who think throwing more money at developers will fix the problem.
I mean, I want to be able to buy a house without having to quit my job or lose my doctors, and until the government does something about short term rentals, speculators, and zoning buying something in the city is impossible.
If moderation isn't federating from kbin, then reporting them does nothing to help non-kbin users. If the spam gets out of control and there's no other option, defederation is the only solution.
Given the nature of the internet, I feel that spam is a much bigger problem than a potential whistleblower being silenced, and wouldn't that kind of action show up in the logs anyways?
Yeah, if gaming@kbin is going to become a spam-filled cess-pit it's going to quickly become undesireable (even if dedicated kbin accounts don't see the spam).
If kbin being unmoderated on Federated servers is by design, is there a chance that it just gets defederated, same as lemmy.world?
Don't forget so many people moving away from long-term rentals to short term unregulated rentals like AirBNB.
Years ago I remember a whole new apartment building being built in Charlottetown, PEI, that was only greenlit on the condition that it wouldn't be used for short term rentals, because vacancy was under 1%, and about a week before it was ready for people to move in they changed their mind and decided to use it for short term rentals. A whole building.
Military spending is over a trillion, right? They could fund this with a rounding error.