You can create your own server and disable signups whenever you want.

As I get older, I can’t imagine being that old.

I’m still trying to wrap my head around it.

I just realized there’s no legal way to earn money without getting fucked or fucking others over.

It would be nice if they did that, or something similar involving Linux on phones.

I don’t think they have anywhere near the resources, unfortunately.

Who are you going to vote for instead?

Right. It can and has been done before while still turning a profit. People can, did, and still do use self-hosting as a way to play things for free. It has never been the reason for why a game failed financially, though. Most people just don’t have the knowledge or the interest to go through the extra steps required to play for free. A lot of them buy things because they genuinely wanted to support the developers.

The abuse is the point. The people in charge spend every day figuring out more ways to take power away from people and give it to the corporation. It’s an art and a science at this point.

Money and control. There is no technical reason, and in fact it would be easier to just let people host their own servers.

Allowing self-hosting used to be the norm for online games. Businesses realized a long time ago that gamers stopped having standards and would accept any abuse to not be left out of the hype.

Anyone who dissects superheroes like that seems like an insufferable loser. I would just ignore them and move on.

My concern would be federation. I don’t think the fediverse is set up so you can run the same service on the clearnet and dark net.

It’s not propaganda and nor is it limited to Israel’s Bitches. Around the world, young people have much more respect for China than the USI.

You should leave your bubble every once and awhile so you’re not as ignorant about everything outside of it.

I read this as the USI would have to pay Iran.

I hope we never find out who it is and whoever did it knows they have our support.

This could result in more employees for businesses that don’t do Israel’s bidding.

Anything, anything but pass the cost onto the people who can actually afford it: the ruling class.

I don’t ever have breakage due to systemd.

Gotta keep prices artificially high so the little people never see how much they’re getting fucked.

Games aren’t the same, but gaming is still alive and well for those in the know.

I just avoid hype and modern consumerist nonsense and found the good games never left us; we just left them.

Agreed. The writing is top-notch in the older GTAs and we really don’t see much that’s comparable in the modern age.

I’m not too excited for GTA6 and 5 isn’t as good as what came before.

The games that put it on the map, though, are timeless. Try playing one and see for yourself, we just don’t get games like that anymore.

Hopefully this will start normalizing wearing masks in public.