It serves the key purpose of Mumble, in that it provides a reliable way to get in a voice chat with people. The other features (text chat, video calls, screen sharing, “servers” that let people aggregate for a dedicated purpose/community) come together to make a legitimately good product that’s hard to replace.

Is there a peer to peer equivalent to Discord? That feels like it would be the best option, since it wouldn’t rely on a centralized company that could enshittify the product.

It is a bit baffling. I think it’s more ethical than the alternative though: pay gating useful functionality. Offering paid pallete swaps doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, someone who would never pay for that, but it does at least mean I can just ignore it. If they were to, say, restrict voice calls to a paid subscription, suddenly I’m in a position where either I’m paying for the service or ditching it entirely.

I want to see how that works too!

I doubt the deposits were for the full cost, right?

“several X users claim”, they say for sources. Christ Almighty.

Not sure I want to tell all my friends to get simplex with me.

I think that’s the joke, Clyde!

The problem as I see it is that there is an upper limit on how good any game can look graphically. You can’t make a game that looks more realistic than literal reality, so any improvement is going to just approach that limit. (Barring direct brain interfacing that gives better info than the optical nerve)

Before, we started from a point that was so far removed from reality than practically anything would be an improvement. Like say “reality” is 10,000. Early games started at 10, then when we switched to 3D it was 1,000. That an enormous relative improvement, even if it’s far from the max. But now your improvements are going from 8,000 to 8,500 and while it’s still a big absolute improvement, it’s relatively minor – and you’re never going to get a perfect 10,000 so the amount you can improve by gets smaller and smaller.

All that to say, the days of huge graphical leaps are over, but the marketing for video games acts like that’s not the case. Hence all the buzzwords around new tech without much to show for it.

Hell yeah, I’m glad it’s worked for you! I capitulated because I wanted to do VR gaming and I couldn’t figure out a way to make that work.

Qubes! Holy hell, that’s a blast from my past. I didn’t contribute or anything, to be clear, but I did use it and enjoy it while I did. It’s a really interesting way to handle security.

The current government of Israel is committing genocide against Palestinian people. I don’t know that “Zionist” is the right word to describe a person that supports the Israeli government’s actions, but they are absolutely comparable to the Nazis in the same way that Hamas and its supporters are unambiguously terrorists.

For your information: https://youtu.be/pJ9PKQbkJv8?si=qzfZ4eJ8vPFqFeH8

Obviously I’m generalizing.

You’re generalizing about an ethnic group that has historically been and currently often is the target of discrimination and violent harassment. The citizens of Israel are largely against their government and their actions, as are the Palestinian people against Hamas and their actions.

You generalizing to say the Jews are to blame is perpetuating a serious problem.

I highly recommend you watch this segment from John Oliver on the topic to understand what I mean. https://youtu.be/pJ9PKQbkJv8?si=rtyoNQuMmVPV9B9F

Where they went Tim?

This should read “Where did they go, Tim?”, for your information. Great meme either way.

I actually just finished playing Dredge. It was a lot of fun, though not as horrifying as I had hoped.

, will you be

OP’s parents, presumably.

Cadence of Hyrule, for sure. So damn good.

https://youtu.be/SnpaNEj4aCU?si=GrBpxcq1EN96Nv9D

Nice.

Do you happen to have a link? I’d be interested in reading more.