Dark Arc @ Dark_Arc @social.packetloss.gg

Hiker, software engineer (primarily C++, Java, and Python), Minecraft modde

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There's no gloating here. This was a preventable escalation, but people played a moronic game and now we all have to live with the consequences.

I really want to know what all those folks on Lemmy that didn't vote for Kamala because Biden wasn't doing enough for Gaza think of this. We warned you.

Yeah... Just looked over stuff and it's pretty cringe...

Yeah ... Brighter Shores is the true RuneScape successor, though the end game activities aren't implemented yet (i.e. procedurally generated dungeons and bossing and tons of other content).

This game seems nothing like RuneScape.

I don't know; it's one of those weird things where digital "cost to copy" being cheap really makes things problematic.

Unlike BitTorrent you were giving away your access to that item and possibly never getting it back; we don't really have a standard way of doing stuff like that in the digital era. The closest thing we have is very clunky, greedy, and intrusive DRM systems.

They also had subscriptions... And paywalls... You had to buy them from a newspaper stand or subscribe to have the paperboy deliver them...

Why have an account at all...?

Not really AFAIK. It's a hard thing to create because ... how do you stop people from just saying they have max levels and joining any other server with max levels (?)

You can do the private server thing but the federation of them is where things get messy because different operators could set different rates of gain on different materials and have different standards on what's considered cheating.

If you don't have that shared state... Arguably any game where you can host your own servers can be a federated mmo.

I'll make some specific comments.

The Atlantic does have two tiers of subscription, one is ad free, it's worth it for me, I wish there was a way to share those articles with everyone without them paying, but yeah 100% agree on the point about ads (didn't see your comment and made a very similar one).

This is a bad take.

Paywalls are the norm of traditional journalism. People got so used to a bunch of spammy, ad-fed, click bait journalism and now many are not willing to pay for good articles.

I wish there was a better way to discuss these kinds of articles. There are sometimes gift links which are best for smaller group discussions... But nobody's found a model that isn't the mess that is ads that also allows "free viewing."

Yeah, Florida is in for it... California also isn't going to be great but they do have a much stronger economy there.

Arguably Brighter Shores is a cozy game and it's got an appealing art style to my eyes

I don't think this is an "anymore" problem, I don't think it ever has been taught. The majority of people that voted for Trump were not young people fresh out of school.

Eh... Without examples, I don't know that this is a good warning.

Everyone gets into different technologies at their own pace. Even if it does bite OP in some abstract way because they eventually get to some complex use case, that's okay; it's all a learning experience.

Oh I agree, no doubt ... but teaching critical thinking is not easy

I think we need to do better than just say "get an education."

There are educated people that still vote for Trump. Making it sound like liberalism is some result of going to college is part of why so many colleges are under attack.

From their perspective I get it, many of the Trump voters didn't go, they hear that and they just assume brainwashing.

We need to find a way to teach people to sort out information, to put their immediate emotions on pause and search for information, etc, not just the kind of "education" where you regurgitate talking points from teachers, the TV, or the radio as if they're matter of a fact ... and the whole education system is pretty tuned around regurgitation, even at the college level. A lot of the culture of exploration surrounding college (outside of the classroom) is likely more where the liberal view points come from and we'd be ill advised to assume the right can't destroy that.

It's definitely still an early access game, but it's progressing nicely, incredibly stable, charming, backed by a passionate team, and well priced.

Come join !brightershores@lemmy.world and get away from this mess

Jagex is particularly guilty of this

I added that to my list, see also:

• https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/briefing/tiktok-ban-bill-congress.html
• https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.21.23.pdf
• https://www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-israel-gaza-hamas-war-a5dfa0ee
• https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/tiktok-bill-foreign-influence/677806/