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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • We don’t even split things. Our money goes into the same accounts. And from that we pay our bills and other expenses.

    We have agreements to not go buying things we don’t need, and to not pay for superfluous services. And a softish budget we adhere to.

    Splitting it sounds way too painful.



  • it’s a bit of a straw man from your side to act like the discussion is about multiplayer

    The top of this thread:

    If a multiplayer-only game turns down official servers, and you can’t self-host within the game, they should owe players a separate server binary they can run, or a partial refund for breaking the game. It should not be hard, especially if it’s a known constraint when they develop the game.

    Emphasis mine.



  • You’re cool with it until you realize that they only want to do this to personally gain from it. And guaranteed will protect their own IP, and the IP of every large corporation.

    It’s just that you yourself and small businesses will no longer have the benefit of intellectual property. Megacorps can steal whatever they want with impunity since they are the only true holders of intellectual property.

    That sounds good on paper until you look at the long history of these people and how everything they do is entirely focused on their own benefit over that of others. They gain something to win here, guaranteed they aren’t going to let themselves lose on anything either.

    It’s the same sort of situation as AI regulation. Sam Altman and openai want the United States to crack down and make it extremely difficult to develop new models. Why? So that they don’t have any competition. They already got their foot in the door they want to close the door for anyone else.

    This is very likely the same sort of situation.



  • No it isn’t this is a crazy ignorant comment that just hand waves the problem I presented away because it’s not convenient enough for your stance.

    If you’re going to comment don’t comment in bad faith, that’s not the kind of discussions we need on lemmy.

    The problem begets the solution. And damn near every modern MMO has a significant set of challenges that they have built technological solutions for which drive more complicated infrastructure.


  • TBF, it’s bound to happen.

    Guaranteed almost.

    Lemmy has minimal controls for protecting against spam and bot spam. It’s built to handle the internet 5 to 10 years ago, not the internet today.

    I can only hope that this changes because as soon as the platform becomes popular enough (which it is slowly). Then the rate of bot spam and other sorts of spam will just go through the roof, and there’s very little that admins can do to combat it without it becoming a full-time job.








  • This isn’t necessarily going to affect the ultra rich who count on crashes like this to buy up real estate and assets in mass.

    It’s practically a guaranteed win, a cheat code even .

    If you’re ultra rich and wanna be ultra ultra rich, just setup a market collapse by acquiring power. And now you’re ultra-ultranrich, and the next one is even easier.

    The undereducated masses are so easy to mislead they might as well not be a factor. It’s trivial to get the masses to fight amongst themselves by stirring the culture war pot with the near monopoly on media you and your buddies have bought. While you carry on class warfare unopposed