Stuff like this is the strongest argument for a decentralized payment option. Hopefully some day crypto will not be so much a tool of monetary speculation and we can use it for that without having to have the same experience as the guy who bought a pizza with Bitcoin.
What kills me is in most cases you have to pay for the game, then you have to download the game, then install it and finally play it. It’s not.like the game is going to one day pop into your computer and then force you to play it.
Bottom line. If the game bothers ornoffends you just move on.
I used to love Mabinogi. It’s a bit different then most MMORPGs but it had some real cool features. My favorite is any character could learn any skill in the game. It also has a coherent story with some surprising plot twists. On to of that, you character ages and will even get fat if they eat too much. Haven’t played it in years, as well as any MMORPG for that matter, but this is one of the ones I have the fondest memories of.
Now you got me nostalgic for pre-internet days of BBSs and local chat boards. I used to belong to one where we would meet once a month in a Cafe. It was almost like a secret society where you knew everyone.
All I have to say is I hope this catches on with other browsers.
While I am no fan of Reagan, I believe this administration is lightyears worse. At least Reagan followed some rules.
I give it 5-10 years, if that, before Brazil flips to China. Especially since Trump is trying to tell them how to run the country and China is proposing a transcontinental railroad.
What most of these people don’t get is if they didn’t get so invasive with those ads, people would not have to resort to ad blockers. Be it tho shut up the ads every few seconds on YouTube or having to play whack-a-mole every time I read an article, eventually you run out of patience and say “enough!”
What got me upset with reddit is how sensitive its algorithm is falsely flagging stuff inciting violence. And then you appeal and nothing happens. I even got banned once for saying the Second Ammendment applies to the left too. It’s like you are in a bad relationship, walking on eggshels.
Agreed. The triteness of a song is what gives it away for me. For example, if a goth song keeps hammering out about vampires and cemeteries I skip right over it and assume it’s AI. Real lyrics are a lot more nuanced.
I’ve been noticing a ton of thosebon YouTube. Especially for goth music. I don’t mind if they use AI for images as not all independent bands have money to produce a video. However, using it to make the song is pretty vile. Especially because the lyrics are trite to the point of screaming.
It’s going to a rough world without coffee and chocolate too.
Trump is about to find out how wonderfully petty Brazil can be. Elon Musk found out earlier. They are also the 9th largest economy in the world, 5th largest country, the world leader in alternative fuels, and leader on the global south in food security. Also thanks to new agreements with China and EU they really need the US.
They also are the largest producers of sugar, beef, coffee and chocolate.
It’s not just Delta. What we really need is tougher regulations to prevent this. Of course there is a snowballs chance in hell this will happen in this administration.
I don’t need a lot of features others don’t have. I started using it before it used chromium as a base and kind of just stuck with it. I do like the built in ad blocking and VPN, even though I have a stand alone vpn.
I don’t see how open-source can be authoritarian. I mess with generative AI as a hobby, mainly image creation. While closed source models like Runway and Klink are impressive open-source ones like Wan2.1 are just so much more flexible. Mostly thanks to Loras and controlnets developed by hobbyists or 3rd parties. Not only that, but the fact you can generate locally till little hearts content for free is so much more enjoyable then getting nickel and dimed by some AI company.
It’s a combination of having used it forever and it has all the features I want. Part might also be that subversive little me likes using something not everyone knows exist.
Don’t look at me, I’ve been an Opera fan for more years than I care to admit.
I also saw a video where the players were complaining that he would not leave the stage so they could celebrate. It took some doing to push him to the back.
A wise someone once said that if you can’t own anything, you can’t pirate anything.
Hoist the Jolly Roger!