Sounds great. Personally I find beyond the N64 and PS1 era to not really be retro anyway. At least for now. Once you get to the ps2 and GameCube we are in the era of racing towards realism graphics.
Is the N64 not 64 bit? They talk about retro handhelds trying to move towards playing consoles such as the Gamecube, but in my experience they are barely capable of playing the N64. Perhaps that has changed with the most recent retro handhelds from this year. On my Anbernic RG351MP it really struggles playing games such as Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time.
I can't know what will happen in the future so I signed up to a bunch. I only actually use one though. If this instance dies then I'll move onto the next.
Because the amount of resources required to raise the livestock required to support the free market of meat is unsustainable. Also the impact of all that livestock is a huge contributor to climate change. So besides the moral argument of it being wrong to eat another living beings there is a very real danger to ourselves in the future.
I get the impression that people are for some reason uncomfortable with the concept of FOSS (Free and Open Source Sofwatre). Like they are not getting inundated with ads or things constantly asking them to give them money while getting something of value for free. They need to start inventing ways to bring money into the system so they can be comfortable again.
Things are working just fine and there is nothing to worry about.
People don't need publicly shown gold stars to let everyone know they were a good person. You donate because you want to donate. At least on Lemmy.world they have made it known that they are doing just fine as far as donations go and if for some reason in the future they aren't meeting those donation targets they might start asking.
Reddit? revenue? Not everything is about money. It is better that it is intentionally not about money. If someone wants to post their content on Lemmy they can do it because they want to do it. If they need a financial incentive to do it then they should not do it.
Even worse than the idea of trying to bring some strange monetary thing to Lemmy is trying to direct thought by rewarding specific behavior. This is a messed up form of conditioning that can basically be thought as punishing dissenting modes of thought.
otherwise a lot of the Internet that is free will either go away or cost money.
It's unfortunate, but this would be a much better internet in the long run. There are other business models besides ads. Like Curiosity Stream and NebulaTV as alternatives to Youtube. People who make video content simply get paid to do it. With ads the type of content you primarily fund is outrage content and whatever gets the most clicks regardless of whether the creator cares about what they are making or not.
There would be some growing pains in an internet that isn't driven by ads, but it would be way better.
Ads are the epitome of the enshitification of the internet. It corrupts the incentives to make anything online.
At least they’re personalized now
This is a whole other can of worms that makes it so much worse. From data harvesting to selling your information to third parties etc.. It is a privacy nightmare and rather malicious in nature. This is one of the things that FOSS (Free and open-source software) tries to remedy.
I think one of the problem is all the influx of apps and webUIs that display "karma" also known as points as a total. Now people are starting to follow some kind of mental herd of saying the right thing to not get downvoted.
While I would never say never I really doubt it will happen any time in the foreseeable future. It has been tried numerous times and it never catches on. If I had to guess why it is because mainly no game that it gets tried with is simple enough to comprehend in its entirety by merely watching it. To the average person watching someone play a modern video game is just nonsense.
The second problem is that traditional sports are not easily accessible to play in a structured team format for everyone. Good luck getting a group of 10-20 people together to play some sport. There is also the physical barrier of entry as well as actual equipment and space required.
In comparison it is far easier to load up a computer game yourself and play it. Why watch someone else do it when you can do it yourself?
Sounds great. Personally I find beyond the N64 and PS1 era to not really be retro anyway. At least for now. Once you get to the ps2 and GameCube we are in the era of racing towards realism graphics.