Goronmon @ Goronmon @lemmy.world

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That or they just don't like the content of the post?

I haven't upvoted the post because I'm not a huge fan of the "I'm not like other gamers/posters" style of content and don't really want to encourage it.

I wouldn't say its that bad. Various forms of collectibles/cards have been around for a long time. Asking for gametime for a game like WoW isn't exactly a new phenomenon.

I think it's just that there are a few specific examples that stand out. Some aspects of Roblox can be pretty concerning.

But if a kid just wants some money for a skin for Fornite, or to buy a specific world setup for Minecraft, I don't necessarily see that as some scary new thing.

Super Mario Bros 3 is probably the first game that comes to mind as I was finally old enough to really get excited for specific games, and that one was hugely anticipated at the time. The whole game blew my 7 year old mind (think thats the math at least). Up until that point it was mostly grabbing games based on their box art at the rental place, or based on what looked cool in those displays in Toys R Us. And you played those whether they were good or not. That wasn't the case with SMB3 though.

Super Mario World is probably the next example, for similar reason as above but even bigger and better. Then into the Donkey Kong Country games. Final Fantasy VI was another game that blew me away when I first saw it. That intro was crazy when you still considered the SNES a new platform. Pokemon Blue for the Pocket I got specifically to play it.

Played lots of the original Diablo, though I was terrible at it back then. Actually didn't like Diablo 2 that much when it was first released, but got into it again years later. Baldur's Gate 2 was fun for a while, but never beat it (and didn't play the first until much later). Lords of Magic was a game I played the crap out of but was terrible at the game as well.

If we are just talking about time played then games like Baseball Stars, Excitebike, Track and Field with the Power Pad, etc. You just played the shit out of every game you owned back then. Because you only got them once or twice a year.

That's what sites like https://aftermath.site/ are trying to do, but we'll see if any of them are actually successful.

We refuse to let our 7-year-old play Roblox, but she's definitely complained that she has classmates that do. It's an endless battle for sure.

The show is actually pretty good, so it's a bit of a bummer when they create a throwaway game like this. I just hope neither of my kids notice it exists.

You might think Epic is a terrible corporation. But their ability to affect meaningful change on your daily life is effectively non-existent. Unless you are making a living being a Steam evangelist or something.

But Google has a massive amount of control over the internet. Between search, Android, Maps, ads, Gmail, etc. The level of "terribleness" they can approach vastly overshadows even the most evil stances Epic could take.

So, this "both sides are bad" take is a bit ridiculous.

I've never had those free text numbers work for me when used this way. For any services.

How thoroughly was this tested? Because you can summarize a lot of these types of timing differences with one word.

Caching.

And from my experience people tend to overlook this when running casual tests like this.

Who is maintaining all these "unused" devices that you will want working pretty consistently? Who is responsible for replacing hardware when it dies? Who is looking into it when someone stops receiving messages? What happens when the person hosting thousands of users just stops wanting to do it? Who migrates these accounts?

Frankly, your argument sounds more like wishful thinking than anything practical. You've basically described the plan as "Magically some devices in someone's basement will suddenly start running a messaging service, maintenance free, from now until the end of time".

How does does decentralization avoid the costs that Signal laid out in the blog posts?

I think I might have to get back into PlanetSide for a bit. I actually enjoyed playing on my PlayStation a while back.

You'll probably be waiting a while.

Decentralization is expensive too judging by some of the sentiment I've seen around running Mastodon and Lemmy/Kbin instances.

I seriously doubt it.

I wasn't the one judging someone for posting complaints on the internet, while posting a complaint on the internet.

We're all here "wasting time".

And they’re still wrong because not everyone is motivated by money.

How many working people are doing it not because of the money but solely because they enjoy the work?

And that’s when he learned that Netflix only supports 720p in the browser.

I believe on Windows you can use Edge to get better than HD.

Or literally doing anything else

Such as whinging about someone's blog post apparently.

I think for that title to accurately reflect the overall complaint it would be something more like "I Don’t Really Understand What This New Movie Release Was About, And It Wasn’t Good, But I Didn’t Hate It" or to use the lower level comment's example "You Can Finally Fall for Your Favorite Character In This Dating Sim Based on a Popular Recent Release".

Where the title is intentionally vague so that you need to read it to even understand what they are talking about. The original titles could be easily summarized as "Opinions on Five Nights At Freddy's movie" or "Dating Sim based on character from Armored Core 6" just based on the title alone. So if you are aren't interested in either of those topics, you can easily skip reading.