Depending on where they are, it’s most likely not enough, and that’s if they can even qualify in the first place. Even people will well-documented disabilities struggle to get on assistance programs in some areas

My own personal experience over the past year with it has… Largely not lined up with that? The install process was easy, I do have gplay enabled but rarely use it, favoring fdroid, and it’s… Been fine? It’s felt mostly like stock android tbh

I’d say that it’s a bigger red flag when they start introducing cash shop fashion items that aren’t thematically appropriate, really. It happened with TERA shortly before it closed down.

Reason I say that is because I started playing FFXIV about a month ago, and it’s a fashion show early game xD They have released thematically inappropriate apparel, but they’re like… T-shirts that cost in-game money, I’m pretty sure TERA had a goddam little tikes car to drive around in.

Oh! And if it gets sold to Gamigo. That’s another massive red flag. Happens so gods damned much.

It’s about the same is what I was saying, yeah

I mean… American minimum wage comes out to $1256 monthly (assuming full-time, and that’s pre-tax). Community college comes in pretty cheap at $450 a month on average, but four year universities come up to $4,800 on average (assuming full-time enrollment for both). The cheapest MD programs I can find are still close to twice the minimum wage, and that’s assuming you get in-state tuition, since out of state is usually 2-3x more.

Oh, absolutely, I do very little to hide it online. Might start posting my RAADS-R score in profiles for fun xD

Ahh, fair. I generally see that as a justification for recommending it to the general public, sorry xD

Fair point. I’ll need to figure out which stick it is, and if it’s the old one hope they’re still in business

someone just told me I was willing to die on a hill for my opinion

Yeah I saw that one, that was… Weird as hell.

This may not be the case here, but idioms like this can sound particularly weird when they’re in a language that isn’t your first language

Or when you’re autistic, which is the case here, I’m a native English speaker xD

It is about steadfastly holding to an unpopular (…) opinion in the face of adversity.

Yeah, I frequently don’t share those opinions to avoid the adversity. Not all of them, hell if you sort by “Most controversial” on my profile there’s some good examples of me dying on a hill. More just the quiet beliefs that shape massive swathes of my worldview that I don’t talk about frequently for one of a number of reasons.

Think that one might be the root of why this thought occurred to me, tbh; the difference between the opinions I hold that I will actively argue in favor of, vs the ones I hold that I don’t really talk about in any context because, while they’re important to me, they’re not worth arguing over.

You said you have a few opinions you would be willing to die for. That’s probably a bit more extreme than this phrase is intended for.

Fair, yeah. I tend to overanalyze these things, it’s fun for me xD

By RPGMO, do you mean MMORPG?

No, RPG MO (forgot there was a space there) is an MMORPG. It’s also on Steam if you want to see videos/screenshots

Well, no, they’re not actually.That’d be basically AAA live service games.

I more meant as a genre. Everything gets more expensive when you get into the AAA world, but that’s more a matter of scale than genre. There are probably some single player games that have cost more than some MMOs have cost the devs over the life of the game :P

And also… I remember the early 00s. We had a bunch of fairly big, and also actually fairly novel and distinct kinds of MMOs coming out, fairly regularly.

Same! I kinda miss those days for MMOs. Some of those are still hanging around, but a lot of the ones I used to play are just shells of what they used to be. Perfect World, Conquer Online, FlyFF… Well, FlyFF was never that good. Damn lootboxes.

they’re allergic to MMOs, unless they make them insanely pay to win or gacha or something like that…

Yeah, it’s partly because most MMOs aren’t that profitable, at least without p2w/gacha mechanics. It’s due, at least in part, to the nature of MMOs.

Generally with theme park MMOs (Final Fantasy, Runescape, GW2, etc) there comes a point where the player runs out of content, or burns out. At that point they switch to doing something else, and stop paying you money, even if just for a while. Some will stick around, but most will move to another game, usually one with more money, and a larger dev team, that can release content faster. Through a few cycles of this, smaller studios are often choked out of resources, because while server costs go down during slow times, it’s not proportional to the amount of money lost. Each additional player is cheap, but the base dev+server costs aren’t, at least for a game that’s trying to compete with the big ones.

Email, Nebula, Dropout, Borgbase, a domain name.

I also have humble choice, but that’s a bit of a tossup. I’ve found some great games through it that I still play, but most months it still feels worth it to me

Edit: Forgot Mullvad VPN! Love that thing, 15/10 would recommend. Reddit doesn’t like it, but also I don’t like reddit so whatever

Wasn’t there one that was basically giving away cubes of tungsten for free?

Remember: Companies don’t learn lessons, they react to profits. They’re 100% gonna boil the frog here.

Yeah, the fact that so many things just automatically require 16gb of RAM is wild to me. Why does a web browser need 16gb of RAM??? Why did a calculator leak 32gb of RAM???

Yeah, at least one of my RAM sticks seems to be going out… Very not happy about it, but not much I can do about it rn

Oh, absolutely, it’s just the sheer amount of data they do use on people is wild when compared to the fact that they basically ignore the contents of emails xD

xD It’s one of my omg.lol domains, and everything fedi needs its own subdomain, so I gave it a random one from the diceware list

Yeah… I tend to keep my accounts here as a “Do I really need/want the UI, or can I just do it on my main account?” and judge from there. Like. It’s fair to me that Friendica, Mastodon, Hubzilla, and the *keys share a protocol. They’re all doing the same fundamental thing in a slightly different way: Blogging/microblogging. What the fediverse was built on, largely.

It is weird to me that Lemmy, Bookwyrm, Funkwhale, and to a lesser extent PeerTube are all on that same network. A community-based content aggregator, book reviewer, music hoster, and video hoster on that same network feels weird, and as a result I do have a Lemmy, and a Friendica account. I don’t care to have a Mastodon/GTS/*key account on top of it because they function near identically, but these are all fundamentally different pieces of software. You subscribe to one Lemmy community, and that’s your entire feed now. Bookwyrm functionally can’t use Mastodon posts, and you’re not going to Mastodon for that flavor of book review, etc.

About 3 years in, and same as it has been: Discovery’s kinda ass if you’re not on the big servers. This is both a positive and a negative. In most cases it leads to a lack of content directly, and for services like Lemmy, it leads to communities being more dispersed.

I think giving servers the option to run on a whitelist basis instead of a blacklist for other servers would be good. Federation is cool for a lot of reasons, but if your goal is to be a dick you can do that on a $5/mo server with a few cheap domains. Plus I’ve wanted to self-host some things that I don’t necessarily want federated, like Bookwyrm. I was looking at setting one up as a fanfic sharing thing, and a lot of fanfic authors don’t want their stuff on platforms like Goodreads for valid reasons, and I personally feel like having it federated would kinda defeat the purpose there. While I was typing this out I just had an idea that might have fixed that problem, actually, I’ll test that later

In the same vain, allowing servers to share their blocklists with other servers would help a lot as well. Yes you can see the block list publicly (though some servers do disable it), but manually copying it is a massive chore, and keeping it updated is even worse.

I mean, Mozilla themselves are calling it that, or at least were